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The French President

arrives in Britain -

he offers the gift of a tapestry

and takes away millions of pounds.

At the high profile summit,

the Prime Minister

agrees to increase funding

for border controls in Calais.

Mr Macron is given a taste

of British life - lunch in the pub

and a suitably rainy day.

But there's some criticism that he's

got too much out of this visit.

We will reinforce the security

infrastructure with extra CCTV,

fencing and infrared technology at

Calais and other border points.

TRANSLATION: Brexit will never

prevent the high level of

cooperation between our countries.

It could bring about uncertainties

in the short term.

Countdown to shutdown.

We know America is hard to govern

these days but can it

at least keep the Government

up and running?

Also on the programme: We hear

from the lawyer who investigated

Bill Clinton leading

to his impeachment -

what's Ken Starr's take

on this administration?

A rapturous welcome for the newest

Royal couple in Cardiff as Harry

and Meghan make their mark,

ahead of their wedding in May.

Get in touch with us

using the hashtag Beyond 100 Days.

Hello and welcome -

I'm Katty Kay in Washington

and Christian Fraser is in London.

Britain has agreed

to pay £44.5 million,

$61 million, to beef up

border security in France.

The money will go on CCTV cameras,

fencing and relocating migrants

at Calais and other ports.

The extra cash is a win

for French President Macron

as he arrived in Britain for

a summit with the Prime Minister.

The two sides say this

is the start of a new chapter

in the entente cordiale.

But who has the upper hand?

Mr Macron has loaned Britain

the famous Bayeux tapestry -

it has never before left France,

symbolically it is quite a gesture.

Some say the UK is paying too match

for improvements at Calais.

A short time ago both

leaders held a joint press

conference in Sandhurst.

Let's take a listen.

TRANSLATION: Row # TRANSLATION: The

mandate will be discussed in March

at the next European Council, but

these discussions should not in any

way impact the quality of the

relationship between our two

countries. Brexit will never prevent

their high level of cooperation

between our two countries.

Today we

have agreed additional measures that

will work in the best interests of

both France and the UK, increasing

the effectiveness of our

cooperation. We will reinforce

infrastructure with extra CCTV,

fencing, at Calais and other border

points. In 2016 more than 56,000

attempts by clandestinely to cross

the Channel were stopped by the

juxtaposed border controls, the

further investment to date will make

the borders even more secure.

The BBC's Chief Political

Correspondent Vicki Young

was in the joint press

conference in Sandhurst.

It does look like President Macron

has got a good deal.

Yes but when

you put that to British ministers

their argument is that we have

effectively muted British border to

Calais and we were not dealing with

the issues Der BVB dealing with it

in the south-east of England, so

they would argue that this is

cooperation and it shows the

importance and having a secure

border. -- dealing with -- they

would say they are dealing with it

in the south-east of England. The

other thing is the Sandhurst treaty

that the two sites have signed. It

talks about a smoother process for

unaccompanied children in Calais,

reducing the time they had two meat

from six months to just 25 days,

both sides see this as a bilateral

agreement. -- reducing the time they

had to wheat from six months to just

25 bees.

There was a rainbow arcing over the

military academy and some say there

was a pot of gold at the end of the

rainbow but in the context of Brexit

it is may be worth handing over?

Yes, we did not appreciate the

rainbow because we were all soaking

wet, the heavens literally opened

that they stepped out of their car

but it ceremony to date was

important. We are at this

world-renowned training academy for

officers. It was picturesque. It was

not quite rolling out the red carpet

but it was showing areas where we

can cooperate and that is what they

were both emphasising in that press

conference, it is about security, it

is not all about Brexit, he said

that was not the main part of the

discussion. A lot of this is Britain

saying to the European union and

France that we still have a lot to

offer, intelligence, the joint fight

against terrorism as well, all of

that. Theresa May saying we are

leaving the EU but we are not

leaving Europe, BC France needs as,

they want to work with us, we can be

powerful nations when it comes to

the military. You can see from their

cars behind, this is a lot of the

members of the British Cabinet is

leaving, the first year with their

French counterparts, it was a big

and impressive event, trying to show

how in the future Britain will have

these bilateral kind of

relationships with countries. It is

a sign of how things in the future

might go, but President Macron gets

the prize for the sound bite saying

that the two sides will make a

tapestry together.

Sir Peter Ricketts

was the UK's Ambassador

to France until last year.

He joins us now in the studio.

We have talked about the agreement.

You would see it is money well

spent?

Yes, if you think about it

from the French point of view,

hundreds of police keeping migrants

in Calais, all the disadvantages of

that, people who want to go to the

UK, the French would prefer that

they did go to the UK, but they and

we have accepted that this border is

their way to show you cannot get to

the UK illegally through Calais. It

is a good deal. They are protecting

Britain's border at Calais and what

we have got from this summit, yes,

we had to pay some money, but we

have rebooted the treaty. President

Macron when he was campaigning was

talking about

really negotiating or thinking again

about that treaty, this additional

bit of treaty gives it a new life

and reconfirms it politically in

France.

New French presidents do

tend to see Babel tear it up and

then they look at it and see it is

perhaps better that the signal is

sent to say that you cannot get

across the border so easily. We are

sending Chinook helicopters and

there is a team going to Estonia in

2019, these are two nuclear powers

that must work together.

There is

more going on, cooperation between

the two Armed Forces, the joint pool

of forces trained and ready to fight

together if necessary. We have the

defence industrial cooperation,

building a big new future drawn

together, and the nuclear

cooperation, and all that has been

pushed forward at this summit. The

most visible sign as we are helping

the French in Sahel and the French

are coming through new to reinforce

in Eastern Europe, it is a balanced

package.

There is some sense here in

Washington that the centre of

gravity is shifting in Europe, from

America's point of view, from

London, to Paris, and onto Pearland,

and I am wondering if for some

extent President Macron sees Brexit

as an opportunity?

Ewood Park there

did not happen, he said if you want

to come back we would be delighted.

But President Macron is in the

strongest position amongst European

leaders, recently elected, all that

energy and enthusiasm, Angela Merkel

is preoccupied with her cooperation,

Theresa May is preoccupied with

Brexit, the Italians have got

elections going on, President Macron

is in a position to speak for you

and take action and initiatives and

try and help in world crises. Today

has shown that fans understand they

cannot do that alone particularly

when it comes to defence and

security, they need Britain, that is

not affected by Brexit, but there is

an important message.

Thank you. Interesting, you have

pointed out the rainbow. It is like

he cannot do anything wrong. But you

watch President Macron, going around

the world with a certain panache, he

went to China, he took with him this

racehorse. He is good at gift

giving. That impresses the Chinese,

who like this symbolism. Then he

comes to Britain and he brings with

him at the offer of that Bayeaux

tapestry, which has not left France

for 950 years.

Is it just gets that

he is good at giving? I think he

understands the power of objects.

People stand in front of these

things and BC France and France is

projected onto the world stage, and

be like that. They can examine it.

He is projecting France into the

world stage in the see me that he

does. Do you remember after the

terrible events at Manchester Arena

he walked out of the Elysium Palace,

what is to the British Embassy,

unprecedented, but as the touch of

humanity that he has. He is very

clever at this soft power. There is

a little-known index on soft power

that I saw which is published every

year and France has moved from fifth

in the top 30, two first, above the

United States, UK and Germany. He is

using this soft power to great

effect.

The Macron effect. Tomorrow,

different style of Government.

Tomorrow the US Government

might shut down.

If Democrats and Republicans can't

agree on a budget before

tomorrow night's deadline,

almost a million federal workers

will be told to stay home.

It's really a sign that

the Government isn't

functioning properly.

So what actually happens

during a Government shutdown?

Well - it doesn't actually mean that

every Government service closes -

but staff in non-essential

departments will have to stop work

until an agreement is found

without knowing payment dates.

Non-essential services -

would include the fun stuff -

so, no Government funded parks,

zoos or museums would be open.

The last time the US Government

shut down was October 2013 -

it took them 16 days

to restore funding.

Speaking a short time

ago in Pennsylvania,

President Trump warned it will be

the Armed Forces that

will suffer the most

if a shutdown is not avoided.

If the country shuts down, which

could very well be, the budget

should be handled a lot differently

than it has been handled over the

last long period of time, many

years. But for any reason that shuts

down, the worst thing is what

happens to our militarily. We are

rebuilding our military. We are

bringing it to a level that that has

never been at. The worst thing is

for our military.

We do not want

that to happen. If the Government

shuts down it will be probably

around the issue of immigration.

Is General John Kelly

is the dog house?

The President is said to be unhappy

with remarks his chief of staff made

to a group of Democratic lawmakers.

According to people in the meeting

Mr Kelly said Trump's positions

on the border wall as a candidate

had been uninformed.

Mr Kelly then went on Fox news and

basically confirmed those reports.

He has adjusted the wiki has looked

at the south Asia strategy,

Afghanistan. He has changed his

attitude, and even the wall, he has

evolved the way he has looked at

things. Campaign and Government, he

is flexible in the realm of the

possible.

This was one of three tweets.

Let's get more on this

from Haley Barbour, the former

governor of Mississippi and former

chairman of the Republican

National Committee.

I want to get to the prospect of a

shuts down. It is like having a

snowstorm when there is a Government

shutdown. Let us start with the

comments of General Kelly, do you

agree that President Trump is not

fully informed about the border

wall?

Look at the context. The

tweets that the president put out

about the wall, and he accurately

said in some places the wall is not

the best thing because of the

2-lane, mountains.

That is not what

he said as a candidate.

I cannot

vouch what he did or did not see as

a candidate but the most effective

way to secure a border is not in

every place to build a 30 foot tall

wall.

As a candidate he said we

would have a big beautiful wall that

will stretch the entire length of

the border and Mexico will pay for

it.

One of the shrewdest and most

accurate things about the election,

right after the election, came from

a friend of Donald Trump, he said

the difference is that the press

took Donald Trump literally but not

seriously, while the voters took him

seriously but not literally.

I think

there is a lot to that. We are a day

away from the prospect of the

American Government shutting down.

It did the same in 2013. Is it good

to do it and how much of a blow

visits to politics?

Hopefully it

will not. We have had many years

where the budget was not finished on

time but only three times has been a

significant shutdown, 1995, 1996,

2013, in those cases which are by

for a couple of weeks. Most of the

Government continued to operate. The

essential part of the Government

continued to operate. The important

thing to me is Government needs to

work better. We have got a situation

here where the three times the

Government shutdown, the Republicans

were hurt politically. Now the

Democrats all of a sudden do not

want to vote to keep the Government

open, BVB cos they think it will

hurt the Republicans politically and

we are in the beginning of an

important election year in the

United States.

Part of this

Government budget bill has been tied

up with immigration which is as big

an issue in the United States as it

is here in Europe. The problem is

that he has not put a fork onto the

floor to vote on because he does not

know what is in the mind of the

president. Last week he said bring a

bipartisan bill, that is what he

did, then he blew it up.

You are

right about immigration being a big

issue here. The previous president

after saying he did not have the

authority to do it, but they

executive order into effect and said

we will not deport these people,

Trump came back and said that was

right that he will not stop this to

be, he will give Congress six months

and keep doing just like what was

done under the previous executive

order, now that is one month from

running out and the Democrats say it

has got to be exactly what they want

even though they are in the

minority, it has to be exactly what

they want or they will cause the

Government down. Immigration is

important, but on this issue there

is too much agreement that the

Government ought to be closed down

because the Democrats don't think

that the bill is perfect.

Thank you

very much. There is division and the

Democratic party also on this issue,

closing down the Government they are

worried that they will be the party

this time around that there is

blamed. Democrats running in

elections this year and conservative

States. I have spoken to one of

them, she is up for re-election, she

is worried that if she plays too

much with the peace and criticises

the Government admits her chances of

getting re-elected is difficult.

We

do not talk about the Democrats base

as much as the base of Donald Trump

BR rest of also and they want a line

drawn in the sand. There are women's

matches this Saturday and perhaps

Democrat leaders are looking at this

and wondering what is the best way

forward. Shutdown is not what they

are elected for.

No, but that might

happen tomorrow.

We've been taking a trip

down memory lane.

Right back to the 1990s

and the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal.

That was the last time a US

President was impeached and the last

time a President was interviewed

by an independent investigation.

As Donald Trump faces the prospect

of an interview with special counsel

Robert Mueller in the Russia probe,

there's much to learn

from those days.

The man who investigated

President Clinton

was prosecutor Ken Starr.

His pursuit of Clinton began in 1994

with an investigation

into property investments.

But, famously, it led to the door of

Monica Lewinsky and a sex scandal.

Eventually Clinton was impeached

on grounds of perjury.

Ken Starr joined us from Dallas,

Texas a short time ago.

You know from investigating

President Clinton that these

investigations can't take unexpected

courses. You started with a fraud

and financial dealings investigation

and ended up with Monica Lewinsky.

Do you think the same could happen

with Donald Trump and that Robert

Mueller investigation, that we start

with collusion and end that

somewhere totally different?

It is

conceivable but not slightly and one

of the reasons is there is greater

controlled by the Justice Department

over the course of this

investigation, whereas the entire

idea the statute under which I

served was the investigation was

independent. The Justice Department

had certain and in terms of the

Monica Lewinsky fees, that was

specifically requested. But --

Monica Lewinsky phase.

I still

remember where I was the day that

the report was released on Monica

Lewinsky. You were at the time

attacked by Democrats. It became

part of what was known as a right

wing conspiracy. Robert Mueller is

being attacked at the moment by

Republicans, he is being called

bias, but it is part of the witch

and, as he biased?

I do not think

so. I have great regard for Robert

Mueller but I do have concerns about

some of the agents at the FBI who

were on the investigation, and two

of them are known of. But also

concerns have been raised about

eight senior lawyer who was a very

avid Hillary Clinton divorcee. --

devotee. But in our tradition the

prosecutor comes from the opposite

political party. Selected for that

reason among others, you do not want

somebody from the President's all

party investigating the President.

That makes perfect sense. The

President's council said today that

the president is eager to speak to

Robert Mueller, last week the

president said that because there

was no collusion he did not see the

point of an interview, who calls the

shots gesture Mac it will be Robert

Mueller.

He has the authority of the

Department to require the presidents

to testify. What Ty Cobb is saying

is that the White House is

cooperating with the Robert Mueller

investigation. The president will

make his policy and political points

but the lawyers are guiding the

president in the right way, which is

that you should cooperate in the

investigation and under the rule of

law you do not have a choice, and

she wanted confrontation, and I

doubt that the president really want

that.

I read the other day that you

sat down with Bill Clinton in the

White House for nine hours

interviewing the president. At that

time did you know what you wanted it

to a certain extent a fishing

exercise?

No. By the time you are

ready to interview the president,

whether that is an informal

interview, fact gathering, or, as

was the case in 1998 during the

Monica Lewinsky phase, you know

precisely what you are looking for.

Thank you for joining us.

We pre-recorded that interview and

you were late, I think you got lost

in the building. Anyway, we were

chatting before you join us and one

of the things Ken Starr said as he

thinks this investigation, the

Russian investigation by Robert

Mueller, is still in its early

stages. The White House says they

hope it is about to wrap up, not

according to Ken Starr.

Know we have some incredible

pictures from Australia where two

teenage boys have become the first

to be rescued by a thrown.

Lifeguards were able to drop an

inflatable. Lifeguards have been

training to familiarise themselves

with this equipment when they

noticed these boys stuck out there

in the sea. It was a trial run and

they received them.

That is amazing.

Hundreds of people have greeted

Prince Harry and his fiancee

Meghan Markle at Cardiff Castle

on their first official

visit to Wales.

The Royal couple arrived to huge

cheers, an hour late

after their train from London

to Cardiff was delayed.

After meeting members of the public,

they joined a festival celebrating

Welsh culture inside the castle.

The couple - who are

due to marry in May -

are on a tour of UK cities

to introduce Meghan to her new home.

And Prince Harry's brother,

Prince William, also

stepped out today -

visiting a children's

hospital in London.

Keen royal watchers will note

something different about the future

King of England, who's sporting

a new look.

He has a new hair do -

a shift away from the longer

locks we've been used to.

This has become the Royal segment of

the programme. I think it suits him.

I do not know whether you should

talk about the haircut of the future

king, but there you are.

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Coming up for viewers on the BBC

News Channel and BBC World News -

what happens to Britons living

in Europe when Brexit's complete?

We hear from one man who wants

to know now, taking his case

to Europe's highest court.

And he's been president for a year,

winning the White House due

to manufacturing

states like Michigan.

After 12 months, what do Trump

voters think of their president now?

After 12 months, what do Trump

voters think of their president now?

Another day when weather is making

news.

There has been some relative

tranquillity. Not the entire story

of course because some of us have

seen further sleet and snow showers

today as this cold wind continues to

blow right across the UK. Western

parts of the UK see the most

frequent showers, particularly

running overnight into Northern

Ireland and Western Scotland.

Further sleet and snow showers.

Adding to what we have got in

places. Icy weather. Wintry showers

continue overnight as temperatures

head close to freezing whenever you

are. Showers continue to go into

Western Scotland and northern

Ireland. Inland sleet and snow not

just in the hills but at lower

levels also, the possibility of

tricky travelling. I is risk on

untreated surfaces. Icy in places.

More showers coming in. Central and

Eastern parts of England and

Scotland is fine. Some early

sunshine after a frosty start.

Wattel changes through the day. East

Anglia, north-east England, some

sunshine. Sleet and snow thread is

in Northern Ireland and north-west

Scotland and northern England.

Tricky problems with Berber snow

showers coming in, then there is a

change going into the weekend. --

with foreigners snow showers. There

may be sweet. Elsewhere quieter day

on Saturday. Wet weather pushing

north across the UK. Some of us will

see more sleet and snow. Away from

rain and sleet Saturday is mainly

dry. Wetter and windier weather by

Sunday.

You.

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at Shand Hurst the French President

hold talks with Theresa May as the

UK agrees to pay £44 million for

channel border security. President

Trump dismisses suggestion that his

views on building a wall on the

Mexican border has changed,

contradicting his Chief of Staff.

Still to come in the next half-hour.

The state that helped swing the

presidency Donald Trump's way. We

return to Michigan where his

supporters are standing with him and

blasting the critics.

If I thought

he was a racist I would tell you,

you know what the guy is a turd. I

don't feel that. I don't feel that

he's racist.

The airline stewards

married mid-air over Chile by Pope

Francis himself. Let us know your

thoughts...

It was a key part of the pusle that

helped Donald Trump win the White

House we are talking the state of

Michigan he won over the workers

there along with women.

A year since

he took the oath of office, we

returned to the city of Detroit. She

met up with two supporters and a

group of women behind the President

from the start.

The economic decline

in de-Troy, America's et mo o city,

symbolised an America voters felt

had been left behind. When I came

here two years ago, Donald Trump

wasn't even the Republican

candidate. But it was his win in the

Michigan primary that propelled him

to the White House. Back then when I

came here I met a man named Rich

Ashby. A union member who was signed

up to the Trump train early on. How

are you?

I'm doing wonderful

How

does he feel a year into the

presidency?

I'm happy because of the

results so far. With the economy,

not to say he's the total reason why

things have been turning around at

least in our region of the country,

but he's played a part in it.

If

somebody is doing the job I want

them to do, I don't care how mouthy

they are.

As long as they are doing

the job.

The language he used the

other day was highly offensive and

some people deemed it racist.

That I

don't agree with. It doesn't have

anything to do with the colour of

their skin or where they are from.

If I thought he was a racist I would

tell you, you know what, the guy is

a turd. I don't feel that. I don't

feel he's racist.

How many of you

would vote for Donald Trump again?

This group of women are setting

their sights on re-electing Donald

Trump for a second term.

When I

supported President Trump it had

nothing to do with is he a m I would

want to date my daughter. He

promised to drain the swamp. That is

what he is doing. We are not

expecting him to be perfect.

Should

he be more care envelope how he says

things?

I do. I don't think it helps

his image at all. He said what half

of this country thinks.

I met Ben

after Donald Trump won the election

in 2016 he was building houses on

this street. He's still working

here. Hello.

Come on in.

We have

come to find out what he thinks of

his first year as President. Your

hat says - make America great again?

Has President Trump fulfilled that

promise yet?

He's on his way to

fulfilling it. He will keep moving

forward. If you don't agree with the

guy, you have got to respect him

because he's not afraid to speak his

mind. You know where he's coming

from.

I spoke to supporters across

the American who share a sentiment

to those I met here in Detroit. They

might not like his tweets, language

or style of governing, as long as

the economy is doing well and there

is money in their pockets, then they

are going to continue to stick with

him.

So interesting. A year of Trump

gives us a lot to discuss. We can do

that with our political analyst Ron

Ron Christie. You have written a

piece on the BBC website that I

would recommend people to read.

Where why are you channelling your

inner Clint Eastwood?

There are has

been so much that good that come.

Unemployment rate has dropped for

African-Americans. We have seen the

economy of war. Consumer and

business confidence is up. You get

to the bad. The bad is we have the

lafrjest governing majority since

1929. Republicans don't act as if

they know how to govern. The youing

rein the Oval Office that took place

or didn't about certain countries.

More than that, I think the ugliness

is the insulting terms that the

President uses to characterise those

perceived or real political

opponents on Twitter. That is ugly

and beneath the dignity of the

office of President and I wish he

would stop doing it.

It's clear

talking to Trump supporters they

don't like what you are talking

about the tweeting but they love the

state of the economy. Does that mean

President Trump is setting himself

up for a better year this coming

year than the previous year if the

tax cuts start filtering through and

the economy keeps growing. His

support numbers could go up?

At the

end of the piece I think the next

365 days depend on Donald Trump. Can

he work with the government to keep

the government open? Can he find a

way to keep the economy humming

around. If he can, I think he will

be well poised for re-election in

2020. It's up to Trump. Can he get

along with Congress? Can he get

along with people in this town and

can he find a way, as he would say,

to make America great again.

Good to

see you, Ron. I want to get your

take on the offensive comments. You

sent me an email saying you had an

invite to the White House for the

Martin Luther King event and I'm not

going. Why did you decide not to go?

Good to see you. It was a tough

choice for me, the honour of being

invited to the White House and to be

with the President of the United

States is a serious one. I did not

like some of the things that were

coming from the White House and what

sealed the deal for me was this was

the day before the infamous - we

know what the President said in the

Oval Office, the "S" word day. On

the day the President was going to

sign a rock cloe mace to honour

Martin Luther King. I could not do

it. I didn't go.

Trump supporters

come on Twitter saying you don't

talk about his successes. We have

talked a lot about his successes we

talked about the Dow Jones going

through the 26,000. Fastest 1,000

points in history. We talked about

the tax cuts. If you were to look

back where you were 12 months ago

before the inauguration and where

you are now. How do you feel about

the United States of America?

I

think the United States of America

our government is humming along. Our

economy is humming along. I believe

that consumer and business

confidence is up. As much as I

travel I've got a lot of nervous

commentary from people abroad who

think America's standing is down. I

think we're as strong as ever. The

presidency does not define one

country. I think our country is

stronger than where we were before.

The Commander-in-Chief and the

President sets the tone. That is

something I've been very critical

for the last year to say that Donald

Trump could do a lot more to change

the tone and the way he goes about

governing our country.

Ron, thank

you for coming in. We will see you

over the course of this year, the

second year of the Trump presidency.

The New York Times is critical of Mr

Trump but they have offered a

platform to his fans to voice their

support. Here are just two of them.

Here is another...

That is really what we have been

getting from the base all week. I

watched Jon Sopel's piece on the BBC

yesterday. Everybody that he spoke

to likes what they are getting. With

Yes. If you look at the approval

ratings for the President they have

bounced around in the high 30s, low

40s for the course of the last year

consistently. He is where he was

when he started. That is with the

Russia investigation, with the

firing of Jim Comey, those things we

spent a lot of time talking about

and the tweets and comments about

countries around the world. His core

of support is pretty much exactly

the same as it was when he was

incompetent augurated a year ago.

The question for the President, I

think the question for his political

advisers is - does he need to grow

that core of support in order to win

in 2020? Can he go back to the

American electorate in two years'

time and say to them - vote for me

again if he hasn't expanded his base

of supporters? I think that's the

real question. OK. It's an issue

many countries are grappling around

the world. The Court of Appeal is to

consider whether term Ali ill

patients should be allowed to help

to dye. It granted permission to

Noel Conway to challenge the law

which forbids assisted suicide. He

is now too ill to attend court. The

issue of whether there is should be

a right-to-die promotes strong views

across the world.

Breast cancer has spread

to her spine and the treatment has

Sarah Jessiman from Warwickshire

knows her time left is limited.

Breast cancer has spread

to her spine and the treatment has

at times been extremely painful.

Sarah, who has an unrelated hearing

disorder, fears for the future.

The possibility that I'm

going to have a painful

and prolonged death,

and I'm scared.

I am very scared of the thought

of being bedbound in agony

for weeks or months.

Sarah wants a doctor to be allowed

to prescribe her a lethal dose

of drugs if her final months become

unbearable, but MPs

overwhelmingly rejected proposals

for a right to die in 2015.

I'd like the law changed so that

I can have a peaceful death

at the time I choose,

rather than the time that

cancer might have in mind for me.

Sarah, who recently celebrated her

20th wedding anniversary,

says people should have a choice

over how they die.

I don't want to have the kind

of death where my friends

and family say to my husband and to

each other, "Thank goodness

she is not suffering any more."

Why do I have to suffer

that indignity?

Juliet Marlow from Hampshire has had

rheumatoid arthritis

since she was five years old.

Her immune system

attacks her joints.

She's had both her knees

and hips replaced.

Juliet can no longer walk

and relies on carers.

Every joint in my body has

got arthritis in it.

I have a large amount

of pain, but I take

painkillers on a daily basis.

I take anti-inflammatories

and between them they

keep the pain at bay.

Juliet is opposed to

a change in the law.

She says allowing assisted suicide

would make many disabled people feel

even more vulnerable and scared.

We don't want society

to turn its back on us.

It would send a message to me

that my life wasn't worth living,

you know, because so many people

judge me on what I can't do

without focusing on what I can do.

And she says allowing doctors

to help people to die

would break the bond of trust.

The relationship between doctor

and patient, I believe,

will be fundamentally damaged

if we ask them to be our

executioners as well as our healers.

Noel Conway, who is fighting

for the right to an assisted death,

is becoming progressively weaker

and is thought to have little more

than six months left to live.

His legal team have asked the Court

of Appeal to hear his case

as soon as possible.

Fergus Walsh, BBC News.

Such difficult issues with strong

feelings on both sides. This is

Beyond Is00 Days. Still to come. The

exhibition setting the story

straight on American Indians.

Severe gales have been causing

disruption across much of the UK

with gusts around 80 miles per hour.

High winds brought down trees,

blocked transport links and damaged

homes. Robert Hall reports.

A warning of what was to come.

The vital cargo link

with the Channel Islands ploughing

through gales and high seas

as the latest weather

system barrelled in.

Ahead in Jersey, mountainous

seas breaking over

the island's lighthouse,

and more alerts warning

of coastal flooding.

In England, the wind

howled through the night,

with gusts of more than 80 mph

recorded in East Anglia.

Communities had been warned

to expect disruption,

if anything it was even more

widespread than had been expected.

This is the main rail line

between Ipswich and Norwich.

Falling trees brought down power

lines and blocked sections of track

causing major disruption.

The traffic ground to a halt mile

after mile. Local authorities were

at full stretch as they tried to

clear trees from roads and

pavements. Trees which all too often

left families and businesses without

power. More than 100,000 in the

Midlands and East Anglia. You

through last night and today the

repair crews have been moving from

call to call in the east of England

alone there are 300 of them at work

and by the time tomorrow morning

dawns they will have covered around

900 locations. In the north of

England and in Scotland, more snow

to compound the difficulties on

transport links. These pictures,

filmed in Northumberland, were

typical as police warned drivers not

to use the roads unless it was

absolutely necessary the gales may

have left us again, but winter has

us in a firm and often beautiful

grip.

A group of UK nationals

living in the Netherlands

are going to court to challenge

the right of the British Government

and the European Commission

to negotiate away their rights as EU

citizens in the Brexit talks.

The claimants argue

that their rights as EU

citizens are independent

of whether or not their

country is an EU member.

And they say that should

be defended in the EU

country in which they live,

and not in the UK.

The first court hearing was held

in Amsterdam, yesterday.

We're joined now by Stephen Hyton

one of those who's

taking this case to court.

Tell us why you care so much?

Well

there are two reasons. Firstly,

there is inevitably the emotional

reason that you've read and seen

throughout the media since the

Brexit vote. I came here to the

Netherlands in 1993, so some 24

years ago. At the time I came the

right of a country to leave the

European Union wasn't actually even

written into the treaty. That came

along later on. What irritates a lot

of my expat colleagues, not just in

the Netherlands, but elsewhere in

Europe, for many of us we were

denied a vote, the right to

participate in the referendum in

2016 because many of us have lived

outside the country for many years.

Once you have lived outside the UK

for more than 15 years you don't get

a vote in the UK elections. The UK

is one of the few countries that

denies its citizens that right. The

second reason, which is a practical

and more matter of fact reason, is

the question of fact. As I said, the

law, the treaties back in 1993

didn't provide for a country to

exit. It came about in the

subsequent Lisbon Treaty which

introduced an article 20 whichle

talked about the defined EU citizen.

The question therefore is whether

this is a tag along solely related

to your nationality or whether it

stands in isolation that you are an

EU citizen.

I have sympathy, like

you I've lived out of the UK for

more than 15 years I too was not

allowed to vote in the referendum.

Don't we have to accept the

referendum happened, the law changed

and in democracies things changed.

Whether you like the changes or

whether you don't, that's what

happened?

Well, that's true. You

can't deny that. The point being

though that generally in English

common law we have a situation in

which laws are not retrospective

when you've enjoyed something for a

period of time you get a right to

continue that enjoyment. Unless it's

a legal thing the law generally

isn't retrospective. In this case,

I'm having the right taken away from

me on a basis of a decision I wasn't

allowed to participate in the first

place.

OK. We have to leave it

there. Thank you very much for

joining us.

You're watching Beyond 100 Days.

The US is famously

a nation of immigrants -

I'm among them -

but the debate over who should be

allowed into the country

and who should stay has intensified.

So just who are Americans today?

A new exhibition here in Washington

addresses that issue through images

of the very first Americans to live

on the continent.

As Jane O'Brien has been finding

out, Indians have always been

an integral part of the nation's

complicated identity

and continue to define it today.

Indian imagery is all around us.

This exhibition asks why and seeks

to separate the myth from reality.

It takes stories we think we know

from the roots of thanks giving to

the battle of Little Big Horn and

invites visitors to rethink

America's tangled and conflicted

relationship with American Indians.

The problem we encountered is people

don't think it is to do with them,

it's located in the past. The look

is contemporary because we're trying

to say, none of this is over. This

is part of your life. This is part

of the American national identity.

It can be hard to believe that the

country was once imagined without

its native Americans. The Indian

removal act was a tragedy for the

tribes, but many details have been

forgotten. Did you know for instance

that more Indians were removed by

boat than by wagon. More than 300

died in 1837 when this steamship

capsized.

What a culture chooses to

think of itself is always evolving.

Very existence of this museum, the

fact that our Congress chose to

establish it is a signal, at least

we take it as a signal, that they

are ready, they ask us to tell these

stories in our way from our

perspective. I think that's actually

a very mature thing for our country

to do.

Is in the 20th Century

advertisers began exploiting

American Indian images as the US

transformed into a consumer economy.

The growthing myth of the American

west and the pioneer spirit that

Indians represented became a great

way to sell things. Listen to this

description of the chief. The chief

stands high, wild and handsome with

flaerd vendors. We are are talking

about a car.

It was detrimental it

throws American Indians in the past.

As you see around the gallery, you

are looking at images of 19th

Century Indians. This has had a

hugely harmful effect on American

Indians because then their

contemporary lives are not being

appreciated.

That's the ultimate aim

of this exhibition, that visitors

will leave with a better awareness

of the images that surround them and

a new way of seeing them.

A lot of questions at the moment

here about who is an American.

Pope Francis has married two flight

attendants aboard the Papal plane

taking him between two

Chilean cities.

This is the moment it happened.

The couple had told the Pope

they had been married in a civil

service because their church

was damaged in the country's

2010 earthquake.

They asked if he could

bless their marriage,

and he went one better -

performing the ceremony

in the front of the plane.

Something happened which has never

happened before on a papal plane is

that the Pope married a couple who

hadn't been married in church. You

just needed a witness. There are

publications, but it's legit and

everyone's happy.

I can't catch all

of that. I think he was saying they

were really, really happy, what did

you think.

They got a written note.

Not a proper marriage certificate.

If you get it from the top guy it

counts.

I think your case is pretty

solid.

Yes.

Good for them.

When he

land something happened. He was in a

tour driving down the road and as he

was driving down this road he went

behind a horse. Watch the horse as

he passes it. It starts to get

skittish. Then it throws the rider

off. Watch the reaction of the Pope.

Stop the car. So they stop the car.

He gets off. He goes down there. You

know we were talking earlier about

the human touch. We are talking

about Emmanuel Macron, he is another

man who has this human touch. Common

decency.

About that gesture of

getting off to check the woman is OK

and marrying the couple who were on

the plane, beau of them not focused

grouped help didn't run it past his

press people. He didn't say, how

will it go down, can I do this? In

both incidents his heart and

humanity won out. He did it on a

split second, like that.

Very

different to his predecessor. I

followed Pope Benedict XVI from my

time in Rome, charming one-on-one.

He didn't come across on camera.

This man is different. He does the

right thing timed and time. That is

what makes him popular.

In this age

of social media that clip goes

around and around the world. It's

great PR. I don't think it was done

as great PR either of those two

incidents. What a great week having

the Pope marry someone and