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Trump takes over Davos.

The populist president meets

the global elite and promises

peace and prosperity.

They might now like what he says

and how he says it but business

leaders are very happy

with his economic policies.

Mr Trump gives the Prime Minister

a boost anticipating a tremendous

increase in trade between the UK

and the US after Brexit

He warns that US aid could be taken

away from the Palestinians

if they aren't prepared to negotiate

a peace deal.

He has famously sparred

with the White House

but Republican Senator Bob Corker

credits the president

for the economy and tells me what he

wants to hear from Donald Trump.

I hope that when he comes

and speaks tomorrow,

that he does so in a manner

to re-establish, or at least build

back some of the trust

that our nation has had.

Also on the programme:

The President says he will sit down

with Robert Mueller under oath.

But once again questions

the integrity of the FBI.

And Davos is one of the most

expensive places to be

in the world right now,

we'll look at what's it's

like if you're not one

of the global elite's

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Hello and welcome.

I'm Katty Kay in Davos

and Christian Fraser is in London.

Donald Trump has

taken Davos by storm.

You might think that the global

crowd gathered in Switzerland has

nothing but antipathy for the US

President.

Well think again.

International business leaders

gathered here may mutter

in disapproval at Mr Trump's tone

but they are very happy

with the economic boom fueled

by his tax cuts and deregulation.

It's a strange paradox

and one the disruptor

in chief may well relish.

Administration officials

say they are heartened

that the reception at

the World Economic Forum has been

as positive as it has been.

So now the question is does the US

President reach out a hand of global

friendship in his speech tomorrow

or a stern reminder that he's

putting America first.

I've been speaking to Republican

Senator Bob Corker, chairman

of the Foreign Relations Committee,

who's been critical

of the President's behaviour

suggesting he needs supervision.

I asked him if he thinks

Donald Trump is doing a good

job on the world stage.

I think from the very beginning,

I have criticised things I thought

needed to be criticised.

But I have also applauded those

things that needed to be applauded

and you and I were just talking

before we came on here,

the economic situation around

the world is very different

than what people thought at this

time and I think what he has done

in our country is release

the animal spirits.

I don't think there is any question,

with the deregulation,

tax reform that's taken place,

it's not only affecting us,

but it's affecting other

countries that trade with us,

which is most of them.

So I think again, support those

things you think are good

for the country and the world

and sometimes, some of the comments

I wish were made in a different way.

All the things you deal

with from a national

security point of view,

whether it is North Korea

or the Middle East, Russia or China,

all of those in security still exist

insecurities still exist

in the world.

You've accused the president

of inching the world

towards World War III,

has that gone away now?

It seems to me that we are

moderating some of our policies

and I think understanding

what our role in the world is.

We will continue to press for that.

But again, I think when you have

this, this incredible growth

that's taking place,

you should applaud that.

Yet, you are right, we still have

all these intractable issues.

I've been on panels this

week relative to Russia,

relative to China's growth.

We still have tremendous issues

to deal with in the nation.

OK, let's talk about China

and North Korea, because of course

the president came here

and announced sanctions against some

South Korean, tariffs on some

South Korean products.

Is this a wise time to be doing

things that might alienate a key

ally when it comes to dealing

with North Korea?

Well, at one point they were

looking at moving out

of the South Korean trade agreement.

So I think what has happened has

ended up being far smaller

than what people expected.

But why do anything to alienate

South Korea at this particular

junction when things are so fragile

with North Korea?

I think that again, he is following

through on the things

he said he would do,

but not in the sort of manner

that is as punishing

as people had once thought.

I am glad of that, the pushback

against the solar panels was really

not as bad as it could have been.

So look, he's demonstrating,

or at least attempting

to demonstrate he will pushback

on inequalities and trade,

but at the same time,

we haven't seen the things that can

so many people that are here,

just wanting to do away

with trade agreements.

The other issue I hear concern

about from European diplomats

and I'm sure you hear it

when you speak to Europeans

is the issue of Iran

and a sense of unpredictability

about the administration.

We lurch from deadline to deadline

and it's only 24 hours before

the next deadline that we know

what the White House

is going to do in terms

of recertifying the Iran deal,

or continuing the

waiver on sanctions.

Does that lack of clarity hamper

the long-term future

of the Iran nuclear deal?

The concern people have

about what he's actually going to do

has actually stimulated discussions,

that otherwise would not have taken

place if they knew he was not

going to do anything relative

to the agreement, he was

going to do it in place.

We wouldn't be having

the conversations we are having.

On the other hand, no doubt you have

seen the trust factor around

the world and the view

of the United States.

No doubt many of the statements

that have been made,

some of the actions,

many of the actions have

caused people to wonder

whether we are liable allies,

a reliable friend.

I hope that when he comes and speaks

tomorrow that he does so in a manner

to re-establish or at least build

back some of the trust

that our nation has had.

The most critical thing you have

said about this president is a tweet

you sent out famously in October

in which you called the White House

an adult daycare centre

and that it was lacking adult

supervision, somebody had

missed their shift.

Do you stand by that tweet?

Look, I say what is on my mind

at the time and you know,

I do so with thoughtfulness

when I do it.

I have moved on, we have

continued to work with them.

We work every day actually,

with the administration trying

to make sure good policies

are put in place.

I will say that the administration

has a top-notch group of people

involved in foreign policy that

I have tremendous amounts of respect

for and we work with them nonstop

to try to ensure the policies that

are put forward are

good for the nation.

What about the president himself,

do you still believe

he need adult supervision?

he needs adult supervision?

The president is an unusual person

in that all of those people who work

around him really don't know

what the outcome is going to be,

the decision is going to be.

So they will work for months

sometimes, sometimes it's weeks,

to try and shape a policy point.

You know, it is an unusual decision

process that takes place.

But it is where we are and let's

face it, again on the economic

peice, on the deregulation piece,

a lot of good things have

happened as a result of it.

Another straight shooter? Yes, being

careful to say things have got

better, we have moved

careful to say things have got

better, we have moved on in the

relationship. It did get bad when he

sent out the tweet about the White

House being an adult daycare centre.

But Senator Bob Corker like the

leaders gathered here in Davos

realise they have to deal with the

United States and deal with this

very unusual presidency. Watching

world leaders here this week as

President Trump comes in and takes

over the show in Davos. For all we

talk about America retreating, it is

a reminder that the White House,

President Trump, the United States

of America, when it wants to can

throw its weight around and make its

presence felt and that is what he is

doing in Davos at the moment.

Through the cause of the day I have

seen him waving, smiling and talking

about peace and prosperity. This is

the global elite he bashed up in the

campaign?

I bet if you polled them

on a personal level and speak to

business leaders, they aren't

impressed with some of the things

the president stands for, his

policies on immigration and he does

talk about imposing more tariffs and

he is disrupting the free trade

order. Some of the things he says,

the way he has talked about African

nations in the last few weeks. They

don't like any of that, but they do

like the economy and be revelling in

the fact they are doing so well.

There is a schizophrenic reaction to

Donald Trump in Davos. Some

officials a couple of hours ago said

we are happy with the way things are

going.

BATE are the biggest show in

town. They have been making

headlines already.

President Trump has been meeting

today with the Israeli Prime

Minister Benjamin Netenyahu.

And during that meeting he

questioned whether the peace talks

with the Palestinians can resume.

When they disrespected us a week ago

by not allowing our vice president

to see them and we give them

hundreds and millions of dollars in

aid and support, tremendous numbers.

Numbers that liberty understands.

That money is on the table and that

money is not going to them unless

they sit down and negotiate peace.

Because I can tell you that Israel

does want to make peace and they

have to want to make peace or we

will have nothing to do with it any

longer.

Our diplomatic correspondent

James Landale is here with us now.

This is Donald Trump the businessmen

rather than Donald Trump the

diplomat? Yes, he thinks he is

involved in something like a

business deal and you can threaten

the withholding of money, UN money

that does a lot of work for the

Palestinians. His aim is to say, we

want you to consider peace talks, as

he calls them, by threatening to

withhold the money. At the moment,

the Palestinians are not playing

ball. There is an outright refusal

to agree to this. They are saying as

a result of this, these threats,

Donald Trump to recognise Jerusalem

as the capital, they don't see the

US as they have in the past.

He is

saying Jerusalem is off the table

and president about as saying if

Jerusalem is off the table than

America is off the table as the

negotiator?

>> guest-macro: The Palestinians

don't accept that. Everyone is

waiting on the great new

announcement that the White House we

think are going to make potentially

sometime this year, which is their

plans for the middle east issue.

Jared Kushner, the President's

son-in-law is working on that. But

when you ask where are they going,

where are they heading? You don't

get much detail.

James Ireland the

stand you are a genius and you

arrived in the studio and you would

be talking about the special

relationship, so how much when you

speak to European allies, do you

hear that the issue of Jerusalem is

causing disquiet amongst them and

the decision to recognise Jerusalem

as the capital of Israel or have

they decided it is something

President Trump always said he was

going to do and we will have to live

with it?

On one level, they factored

it in because they were expecting it

at some stage. Some of them, when

they talk to European leaders and

politicians, they are relieved the

scale of potential violence and

disruption it could have caused in

the region as a result of that

announcement has been quite muted.

There hasn't been the potential

outrage and it hasn't been matched

by any physical response. I think

their concern is this, is that the

wider shift of President Trump

saying we will support the Israelis

on Israel. President Trump saying we

will support the Saudi Arabians in

putting more pressure on Iran.

Particularly the threat still

outstanding of whether or not the

United States will give up its

support for the Iran nuclear deal.

That is something that is at the

heart of a lot of policymakers,

their concerns within Europe. They

are thinking long and hard about

what impact that will have in the

long term.

You see come he just

moved seamlessly from the special

relationship into Israeli,

Palestinian policies. James

Langdale, thank you.

President Trump also met of course

with the British Prime

Minister, Theresa May.

The first time the two have met

since Mrs May criticised him

for retweeting those videos posted

by the far right

group Britain First.

President Trump has cancelled

a scheduled visit to London

to open the new US Embassy.

But today Mr Trump promised

a "tremendous increase" in trade

between the US and Britain.

Mrs May said the meeting reaffirmed

the special relationship

between the two countries.

She is under pressure to prove that

Britain will benefit from new trade

deals when it leaves the EU.

We have had great discussion today

and there is a special relationship

between the UK and the United

States, standings 's shoulder to

shoulder against the challenges

across the world. Alongside back,

working for a good trade

relationship in the future which

will benefit both of us. So the UK

and the US both do well out of this

and it has been great to see each

other.

It is great to see you. One

thing that will be taking place over

a number of years is trade, trade

will increase many times and we look

forward to that. The trade concept

and discussions, they will be taking

place and they are going to lead to

tremendous increases in trade

between our two countries. Which is

great for both in terms of jobs and

we look forward to that. We are

starting the process pretty much as

we speak. Thank you all very much

for being here. Thank you.

The president has just treated

saying he has had a productive

meeting with the Prime Minister.

Laura Kuennsburg says, Theresa May

trying to get as many words in as

she can be for Trump speaks after

stories that he does all the

talking.

I know you are the expert

on body language, what did you think

about that?

She cut away, and it

looks like he squeezed her hand to

type, but he does that with

everybody so he cannot read too much

into that.

Look at that handshake

with President Macron, it went on

for ever and ever.

I did ask if the UK would be let off

some of the stringent requirements

there might be in a trade deal, how

long was going to take? I was met

with a certain amount of scepticism

and told they will have to stick to

the rules and it will take some

time.

BATE are saying in the last

few minutes, the visit of Donald

Trump will be back on in the second

half of the year but they are not

saying if it is a state visit. Let's

look at some of the other news.

The president of Michigan State

University has resigned over

the scandal surrounding years

of abuse by the former USA

Gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar.

Nassar, who used to work

at the university, has just been

sentenced to 175 years in prison

for sexually molesting

young athletes.

The new leader of South Africa's

governing African National Congress

party, Cyril Ramaphosa,

has told the BBC that

the country has been badly

affected by corruption.

He said the state had been

captured, as he put it,

by people purporting to be close

to President Jacob Zuma.

He said allegations

against the president

and others were being handled

by a judicial inquiry.

Hindu hardliners have ransacked

shops, burnt vehicles and clashed

with police in parts of northern

India during protests

against a Bollywood

film."Padmaavat" is a period drama

about a relationship between a Hindu

queen and a Muslim ruler.

Hindu extremist groups say

the film distorts history.

Before leaving for Davos

the President gave an impromptu

press conference to White House

reporters, in which he said

he was willing and eager to be

interviewed by Robert Mueller

the special counsel under oath.

I am looking forward to it. There

has been no collusion whatsoever,

there is no obstruction whatsoever

and I am looking forward to it.

The President is convinced

the Russia investigation

is a political witch-hunt

to undermine his election victory.

And his anger is fuelled

by the allegations and conspiracy

theories that are

swirling around the FBI.

The latest drama involves

a secret four page memo that has

been written by the chairman

of the House Intelligence

Committee, Devin Nunes.

We still don't know what's in that

memo because the House intelligence

committee won't release it,

not even to the FBI

or the Justice Department.

But senior Republicans have seen it

and are commenting on it publicly.

The baseline allegation appears

to be that the Obama administration

approved secret surveillance

to target members of the Trump

campaign and that this

Russia investigation

is politically motivated.

The Republicans have also have

seized on an anti-Trump text message

referencing a "secret society" that

an FBI lawyer, Lisa Page,

sent to senior FBI agent

Peter Strzok, who was working

on the Russia investigation...

"Are you even going to give

out your calendars?"

She wrote.

"Seems kind of depressing.

Maybe it should just be the first

meeting of the secret society."

It later emerged that further texts

Strzok and Page exchanged

between December and May last

year, had disappeared.

The FBI had blamed

a programming glitch.

But the President last night

compared it to Watergate

and the 18.5 minute gap in a crucial

tape, deleted by Nixon's then

secretary Rosemary Woods.

I am very disturbed, as is the

general, as is everybody else who is

intelligent. When you look at five

months, this is the great Rosemary

Woods, right? This is a large-scale

version. That was 18 minutes, this

is five. They say it is 50,000 text

messages and it is prime time. That

is disturbing.

This isn't the first

time the president has made

comparisons with Watergate.

However, in the last hour

the Justice Department Inspector

General said his office has

"succeeded in using forensic tools

to recover text messages

from FBI devices".

I have been putting some

of this story to the

Virginia Democrat Don Beyer

The president said he is eager to

sit down with Robert Mueller and the

investigation, is this nearing the

end? Is it leading somewhere?

It is

leading somewhere. Whitewater went

on for ever and Benghazi, which was

about nothing, went on for years. I

think Mueller will act more quickly.

He doesn't have a political agenda.

I think what most Americans want is

just for the truth to come out,

whatever it is.

What do you make of

the criticism of the FBI at the

moment and it seems to have heated

up in the last few days that the FBI

is bias, there is some kind of

secret society in the Federal bureau

of investigation, which is trying to

undermine the president?

Ridiculous.

The FBI are famous for their

professionalism and we often see

them as very conservative and much

more Republican leaning. If anything

they will be leaning towards

protecting the president. They have

a deep commitment to uncovering what

the truth is because that is their

responsibility. Missing text

messages about when we are going to

dinner is silly.

Where does this

come from why would groups want to

criticise the FBI like this, where

is it leading?

If there is illegal

and improper and Donald Trump's

behaviour, one of the things that

comes up again, what is the source

of his money for his real estate,

what does that do to connect Russia?

I don't know. So I think they want

to undermine the FBI's credibility

now before it comes out.

You think

it is about the integrity of the

Russian investigation not about the

integrity of the FBI itself?

It is

harder to attack the Russian

investigation, although they do it

pretty good, but if you can

undermine the FBI, you try to make

the problem go away.

Are you

surprised how positive European

business leaders are about the state

of the world economy and how much

credit they will give Donald Trump

and are prepared to give Donald

Trump? I think the reaction Donald

Trump is getting here is not what

you might expect from the so-called

global elite?

The US is essentially

at full employment we have all these

years in a row of positive growth.

But the rest of the world is growing

as well. He put that with

significant tax decreases the public

corporations and people are feeling

good about the future.

Donald Trump

can do a deserved victory lap, is

that what you're saying?

They will

get the blame, they will get the

credit. I'd prefer to look at how

Obama inherited an economy in 2009

and headed to 15% unemployment and

then we went to remarkable growth,

which is sustained so

congratulations to Donald Trump

keeping it growing.

What is your

reputation with Donald Trump with

these people tomorrow?

His speech is

important, it is synonymous with

Douglas. We are working together on

poverty, hunger and the fourth

industrial revolution. All the

things not part of the Trump agenda.

We will see how he aligns those put

them together tomorrow.

Thank you

for joining me.

Somebody has overlooked night

invitation to join the global elite.

Some have to be left behind.

I have

devised a little quiz and I want

answers to where you fit in the

Davos hierarchy. Did you arrive by

car, train or helicopter?

Car.

OK,

does your accommodation look like

this?

Yes, absolutely that is where

I am staying in a large suite and

thank you so much for the offer of

paying the bill, it is on the way to

you.

That is on the 100 days charge

codes. What list of party were you

at last night?

I wasn't at any, I

spent most of the time trying to

stuff myself with medicine, which is

why I am wearing a woolly hat and

apparently I look like a bank

robber. I was in the infirmary.

You

are more Detroit than Davos. What

are you wearing on your feet, snow

boots like the Prime Minister or

throwaway crampons?

Wet socks. She

will be happy because she will say

get your dry shoes on especially

when you have a cold.

You're no

good, I am next year.

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Taking a stand as the US did the

other day on washing machines and

solar panels, he said, should not be

considered protectionist. Their

trade is part of the debate that is

going on here at Davos, but what

exactly is it, and how does the

world redistribute the wealth that

is being created.

Free trade is the

best way to optimise wealth creation

around the world. But, an economic

system has got to be doing two

things, it has got to generate

wealth and distribute it. If you

fail to distribute it in a fair way,

you get political unrest, and that

is not good for an economic system

among other things. One of the

things that Mr Trump has tapped

into, is a feeling that the

distribution has not worked out

well. The economic system has not

worked. Some of that take space with

wage inequality within the country,

but some of that is the effect of

trade amongst countries.

So, what

our business leaders going to do

about this. A short time ago, we

caught up with our economic editor.

Iron I think that the business

leaders, here, do understand that

there is a risk to, some might say,

their very existence, if economies

can't work, so that everyone feels

that they can gain a little

prosperity. Frankly, people are

going to respond to that by reacting

against businesses, by reacting

against governments, by reacting

against the global elites. I think

there is a genuine sense here, but

many other people, that although

there is growth, it is not both

everybody. There have been talking

about this trade issue. It's not

about protectionism, he is saying,

it is about asymmetric trade, so

that America gets you less out of

the free trade deals and the other

side of the free trade deal, and I

think that there is a real

understanding Thomas Acquier be

president companies actually onto

something, here. -- maybe Donald

Trump is onto something here.

Everybody seems very happy with the

global state of the economy, so

where are they -- what are they

going to do about this idea that

they have to look out for those

people who have not benefited from

the surge in wealth?

Every since the

financial crisis, there have been

one big trend which businesses

really need to think about. The

returns to capital, to assets have

been far higher than the returns to

income, to Labour. And, around the

world, particularly in developed

countries, there has been as incomes

grieves, and writers have been

rising faster than wages.

Must ask

you about the meeting with the Prime

Minister, Theresa May. He has

treated in the last hour or so about

the special relationship, which is

very much a British time, call me a

cynic. Somebody has Odyssey told him

that it is important to him --

obviously told him that it is

important to the British side.

I

think you are at salute the right,

that. If you think about what

Britain is about to embark on, it is

and extraction from the European

Union. The last thing that Theresa

May wants is frankly a war on two

fronts on trade, a battle with the

Americans on trade, and also this

divorce from the European Union in,

leaving the single market, and

leaving the customs union. Many

people forget that America is the

second-largest destination for UK

exports, behind the whole of the EU,

so there is already a big and

important relationship between the

two Mac countries, but of course, as

you suggest, the proportion of

exports from Britain going to

America is far larger than the

proportion of experts from America

back to Britain. So, yes, more

important from Britain and for

America, but, I think there was a

some genuine warm words, here. But

one word to not mean a free-trade

eel. What will be substance like I?

We won't know that for many years.

He has been to Germany, Italy, and

France and the Middle East, he still

has not been here. The manual macro

-- Emmanuel Macron makes the first

visit.

A bit like our relationship,

right, Christian, it doesn't look

very special... OK, let's move on.

Is work! It worked!

It does. And

come and visit one day.

I have been getting reaction to this

comment from a member of the US

administration.

We have every reason

to think that the Turks will think

through their long-term relationship

with the unit rates, and will take

that into consideration. That they

will de-escalates tensions.

So,

would likely tag at this point to

pull back from the actions that they

are taking against the Kurds.

We

would like that.

The talking to them

about integrals Machan we are. But

what is the response was Magellan

Mac I will let them handle that.

Talk about counterterrorism efforts.

The focus is now on rebuilding the

US military, does that mean that

from a military perspective, the US

is thinking that the war against

Isis is over, and that there is a

lead of -- less of a focus on

America. Tenner we have got to be a

just and recalibrate based on the

start of the enemy, and there is no

question that Isis has been

decimated. What we can't do, is take

our eye off remaining forces. There

has an Isis hasn't, and in Al-Qaeda

presence.

We have seen a pattern in

the past where Al-Qaeda have been

defeated only to re-merge. Defeat

and long-term defeat are different.

People get a little too excited

about the reduction in control to

physical light and space. At the

moment, we have a large Isis

presents across the globe, but in

Syria, we have to make sure that we

defeat them completely.

The White

House's representative speaking to

me earlier. I spoke to her about the

conflict, there, and about Europe's

reliance on America, and how it is

changing.

So, we have to keep in

mind that this escalation hast to

stop.

Are you asking the Turkish

Government to de-escalates?

Everybody is asking them. Even if

security Council, this is correct,

because there is no military

solution at the permanent conflict,

over there. This brings to be me

larger question of Syria. If you

look at different powers acting in

their interests, there is only one

solution, and this will be a

negotiating solution under the roof

of the United Nations, because we

have so many interests in the

region, and none of them will be

able to bring peace to that area.

The arms we were talking about have

been delivered jointly as 2006 to

2013, so this is way back. But,...

We have a very clear regime in

Germany. This is a decision of the

whole Government, that has to be

discussed.

Presidents Donald Trump

is in Davos. Do you agree with

Angela Merkel that the moment has

come where Europe can no longer rely

on the American security umbrella in

the way that it has done since the

end of the Second World War?

First

of all, the friendship between

Europe and the United States has a

very strong foundation, and we will

never forget that. So, there are

zillions of brilliant relationships

between Americans and Europeans.

I

am feeling a but coming on.

Not a

bad, but we as -- as lean as

Europeans, we have to take it on. Be

it in Ukraine or the middle east, we

have got to be able to solve them,

because nobody else. Then for us.

The German defence minister, there.

It is interesting when you talk

about the tensions that thereafter

at the moment with a key Nato ally

like Turkey, just how brittle some

of these relationships are,

particularly around the Middle East,

at the moment. You talk about the

Palestinians, a spat with the Turks,

and we all know what is going on

with the Iranians nuclear situation.

She was trying to put a positive

spin on the idea that America might

be retreating from something good in

those bats, and this compensated

world that we are living in, the

Middle East just to name one of

those areas, and what she was tied

to say, is that we don't really like

America first, but it has had the

upside of forcing us to address our

own security issues, and how we are

going to deal with these things.

Maybe it is forcing Europe's and

European countries to set up to be

paid a bit more, and not rely on

America the way that they have done

the last few years.

They echoed in

polite terms that they are part

depended on the United States. Much

more positive, but the same message.

I would like to choose an thing

rather touching that has happened in

British politics, today, Katty.

Baroness Tessa Jowell has been given

a standing ovation after delivering

a emotional speech about new cancer

treatments. She was diagnosed with a

severe form of brain cancer last

May.

I hope that this debate will

give hope to other cancer patients,

like me so that we can live well

together with cancer, not just die

of it. All of us, for longer. Thank

you.

APPLAUSE

It is something that many people

have not wanted to talk about all

show, do you think that Tessa Jowell

standing up like that lifts the veil

of secrecy on the treatment?

It is

interesting you say that. The

testimony from cancer sufferers

should be enough for MPs to know

what is needed in the NHS, but at

the moment, they have two very

prominent figures in politics, Nick

Bowles, the Conservative MP who has

had a real problem with cancer, and

he spoke very candidly about the

extra money that is needed in the

NHS, and many have had this, today

from Tessa Jowell, who of course is

a very big figure in the labour

movement. So, it is interesting. It

shouldn't need to be politician

sitting in the house suffering from

cancer that puts this in such terms,

it should be enough to get it from

ordinary patients,, but of course it

does help the argument with the

debate when they are sitting among

them.

And good for her, a brave

thing to do.

The idea is that a new network will

be set up, including restaurants,

shops and businesses, where you can

fill up your water bottle, rather

than buying a new one. Water UK, who

are behind the idea, say that this

could end disposable plastic --

people dispose of Artic bottles by

tens of millions year.

For this to really work it needs

to be on every high street,

in every shop and cafe.

You are watching, Beyond 100 Days.

The BBC has been hearing details

about how Saudi Arabia's

anti-corruption drive is being

conducted. It began last November,

with the rounding up and attention

of dozens of citizens, including

number is the Saudi royal family.

A

Canadian -based business Murnan has

been talking to Newsnight's Mark

Irving.

Earlier in November, dozens

of Saudi Arabia's richest men,

including Ambers of the raw family

were swept up and detained in

Riyadh, Ritz-Carlton hotel. It has

been called an anti-corruption

drive, but inmates were being

tortured and were required to sign

of their fortunes in order to be

released. Those facing ... With

state in EuroDisney and high profile

companies makes him Saudi Arabia's

richest businessman. But, his wealth

have also made him a rival to the

Crown Prince and architect of the

anti-corruption drive. On Monday,

the Arab digests website reported

that Canadian -based businessman,

Alan Bender, seen here to the right

had been flown to the kingdom, as it

but a case. Mr Bender was taken to a

site near the hotel. BBC Newsnight

managed to locate Mr Bender in

Toronto, he was able to confirm his

trip in December,...

He was brought

in through the teleconference, and

he was sat down. We were looking at

each other, face-to-face.

Did he

look as if he was in some way being

ill treated, or was he just shocked

to see you?

I would say, he looked,

he didn't look comfortable. He was

unshaven. He didn't look in his best

condition. At all. He looked tired,

a lot of twitching during the

conversation, whilst I was reading

the script out to him.

The Saudi

authorities had prepared a script of

allegations for Mr Bender to read

out to him via video teleconference

link.

I would say that my presence

was... Details that they needed to

confront him, because I am probably

be any person who was involved in

personal and direct negotiations

with him. Related to a very personal

matter.

Those very personal matters

related to his separation from a

former long-time partner, who Mr

Bender represented in settlement

negotiations. The Saudi authorities,

it seems, want to use this to

pressure him to sign over his

foreign wealth.

These two know each

other very well, and the Saudis flew

in Alan Bender, and other bold

business -- old business adversaries

of him, to try and put pressure on

him, and try and crack him, and try

and make him do what the Crown

Prince once, and hand over his

foreign assets, and make video taped

confessions to all of his guilt, and

swear allegiance.

The Saudis have

announced that the hotel will soon

resume its normal role, but there is

evidence to think that they might

have been transferred to the

attention elsewhere, even in

December.

It looked more like

something related to a jail cell.

Even the sounds of the doors sliding

back and forth. It did not look like

he was...

Alan Bender's account is a

singular one. The Saudi authorities

have not yet responded to our

request for comment. But, it gives a

good idea of the length that the

kingdom's rulings were able to go to

humble a successful businessman.

Such an interesting story. Way back

in 1975, during the renovation of a

church in Basel in Switzerland, the

workmen made a unusual discovery.

Basel is a historic city, and has

extensive records of their match in

families, but on this occasion,

there was no information on who this

money had been.

However, they

finally know who she is. And their

results might well surprise you.

With me is a relative of Boris

Johnson.

Anyway, you must being

amazed. Most people only get a dusty

photograph, or a portrait.

We all

have monies. -- mummies. But this is

a special one. I am shocked. First

thing I knew about it was this

morning. This lady, yes of course I

knew that I had ancestors, and I

knew I had them. We all have them,

and I knew that I had them from

different parts of the world, but I

did not know that I had those

ancestors on my mother's side. I

knew that I had them on my father's

side, and my father's grandmother

was heartless. But, this is news to

me. It is at a good story, that they

took a sample of the DNA for her big

toe.

And they know that they -- they

know that she had...

Apparently she

had syphilis, because she was busy

treating the sick and poor and

wounded, and managed to catch it in

the course of that noble work.

We

should bring in Boris' tweet. But,

as you say, it was because she was

treating the sick. What you make of

this Katty?

Join the club. My

grandmother was less. But, we should

clarify that she died of mercury

poisoning, isn't that right?

She

did. And it is the Mercury poisoning

that cause being bombing affect on

the corpse. There it was, you feel a

little bit sorry for the lady,

because she was dug up once in 8043,

-- 18 43. And then re-dug up in

1975. You might have expected it,

that you were allowed to lie there

in peace, but what will happen to

her now? Will they send her back to

Britain? Was to be caught by the

immigration gritters? Who knows.

Well, she is 230 years owed, and she

is looking really good, I must say.

She marry someone from the church,

and India had a daughter who...

That

indeed was my grandmother's name.

When we were growing up,... Anyway,

Boris, has a middle name which is

the same name. The line goes down

fairly strongly. They are brilliant,

these Swiss people, they have got

she blames -- sheer brains. They

worked out that what they dug

around, and reckons that she must

have come from one of a fairly small

number of families, so then they did

some DNA testing, and worked up from

the lady, that this was possibly

related to the... And bearing in

mind that we are the only ones that

family left, they got us.

Right, you

up there tomorrow, Katty.

Yes, I was

going to tell you more about Davos,

but that was far too gripping. I