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The US names 200 Russian officials

and oligarchs it says

are close to the Kremlin.

The list is in response

to allegations of Russian meddling

in the US elections but doesn't come

with new sanctions.

President Putin calls it

an 'unfriendly act' but says

there won't be retaliation for now.

The Republicans plan to release

a secret memo alleging the FBI

abused its power while investigating

links between President

Trump and Russia.

The CIA chief Mike Pompeo tells

the BBC he's concerned by China's

growing influence in Europe

and the United States.

The Chinese are very active.

We welcome them, they

are an important part

of the American fabric,

but we can watch very

focused efforts to steal

American information.

Also on the programme.....

More divided than united -

can the President bring America

together with his first State

of the Union address?

We'll look at what's at stake

for him - and the nation.

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Hello I am Christian Fraser

in London, Jane O'Brien

is in Washington.

The State of the Union address

is an opportunity for the President

to reset the agenda.

In 2018 President Trump

is predicting great

things for his country.

His tax reforms are behind him.

Now he wants bi-partisan action

on immigration and infrastructure.

But how easy will it be to get

Democrats and Republicans working

together when there's such mutual

mistrust over the handling

of the Russia Investigation.

Mr Trump has spent months

attacking his own Justice Department

and the FBI.

Yesterday the deputy FBI

director Andrew McCabe

was forced to stand down.

Republicans on the House

intelligence committee

say the bureau itself

should be investigated.

Meanwhile Mr Trump has refused

to impose sanctions on Russia.

How has this gone down in Russia.

From Russia, Steve Rosenberg.

The US list has got Russian

social media buzzing.

All kinds of views being expressed,

for example, the Russian opposition

activist Alexey Navalny,

he tweeted this morning that there

were lots of villains on this list.

A different view being expressed

from this pro-Kremlin blogger.

He says he has not seen anything

like this since the Cold War!

Their brains have stopped working,

he wrote, because of Russophobia.

We have also heard today

from Vladimir Putin.

I attended an event

where Vladimir Putin

was and to begin with,

President Putin tried to laugh

off the list and one

of his supporters said to him,

President, your name is the only

one not on that list,

probably because they could not

put it on.

And the Kremlin leader replied,

well, I am offended that

I am not on the list.

Which got a big laugh in the hall.

But then President

Putin got serious.

He said that the list

was an unfriendly act

which would complicate US

and Russian relations,

but he made it clear that for now,

Moscow would not be retaliating.

The dog barks, he said,

but the caravan moves on.

But I think that the people on that

caravan, in other words,

the Russian officials and Russian

tycoons who have been named on that

list, they may be a little worried

that somewhere down the road,

somewhere in the future,

they could be affected.

Buy a new round of US sanctions.

With me is former Prime Minister of

Russia, Mikhail Kasyanov who's now

Chair of the People's Freedom Party

- part of Russia's

democracy movement.

Welcome to the programme. There are

91 that billionaire is on this list,

some of them with close ties to the

President. What we see on this list

on what we are supposed to see is

that the ruling caste in Russia has

become one of the richest in the

world.

That is right. It was a good

signal, an important signal for all

those rushes -- Russians who are

supporting President Putin. That is

why they are worried. Some of them

are scared, especially those

bureaucrats and they had a very

nervous reaction. Scared, white?

There could be a real sanctions

soon, today, the sanctions by the

lease, there are people who could

potentially be understood,. If these

people continue to support President

Putin, contrary to international

law, and not resolving problems, as

Russia Trott it is a powerful signal

of the West and the United States in

particular to the team of President

Putin.

What do pro-democracy

activists actually expect from the

US? Do they worry about the things

that Nestor Trump says regarding Mr

Putin when he talks about respect

and liking for him as a leader?

--

Mr Trump. All those people on the

less, some of them involved, some of

them not, but it was a technical

report, on the basis of those, the

list was set up, but in the

decision-making process, it is clear

for all Russians and some of them

are responsible for implementing

that and they do not know how to

react on that, but as I said, it is

a clear signal and more and more

information, as it appears from the

likes of the Netherlands and Great

Britain that Russian authorities

interfered with the elections in the

United States, it is clear what

Congress and the US administration

wanted to achieve by publishing the

list. It is a signal to all of these

people.

Does President Putin care

about this list? He says there will

be no retaliation.

I think he will

care about that and his first

reaction, that there is some kind of

sanctions against all Russians

demonstrates that, it is not against

Russians, 200 people, 100 of them

who are close to him, but the other

100 quite not. It is a powerful

signal to all the ruling elite and

all the people who could potentially

be involved in some kind of

transactions with President Putin,

friends are supporting the

government.

We are about to hear

from the head of the CIA who has

spoken to the BBC and he said he has

not seen any drop in the activity of

the Russians interfering in the USA,

who do you think is directing it?

Vladimir Putin. He is in the circle

which is much more narrow than

before. It is mostly people of KGB

origin and they remember the Cold

War and they remember the Soviet

Union and the West and all this Cold

War fight. They know how to operate

the list and the now, it is

absolutely for them, a normal thing

to do. The economy is contracting

rapidly and for many Russians, very

soon problems inevitably would come,

the population will start demanding

and asking, looking for the right

questions to, those questions...

That is why I think Vladimir Putin

and his inner circle are worried, on

the one hand, they continue to have

a very tough policy, no compromise,

continued pressure, on the other

hand they understand their problems

could appear.

Very interesting to

hear from you. Thank you.

The head of the CIA,

Mike Pompeo said he has "every

expectation" that Russia

will try to interfere

in the American mid-term

elections this November.

But he's also concerned by the scale

of Chinese influence

in the United States and Europe.

He has been describing Chinese

attempts to infiltrate,

almost every part of American

society, in it's continuing quest

to become a super power.

Mr Pompeo gave his first

international interview

to our security correspondent

Gordon Corera.

I have not seen a significant

decrease in their activity. I have

every expectation that they will

continue to try and do that but I am

confident that America will be able

to have a free and fair election and

accomplish back in a way that is

robust and that the impact they have

on our election will not be great.

Do you ever find yourself having to

walk a fine line with a President

who has said that the talk about

Russian collusion is fake news and

an agency that said there were

attempts in 2016 to influence the

election?

I do not do fine line, I

do the truth. We deliver nearly

every day, personally, to the

President, the most exquisite truth

that we know from the CIA.

What is

he like during those meetings, is he

inquisitive?

Yes, lots of questions.

He is very focused, in the sense

that he is curious about the fact

that we present.

Reason big of which

I'm sure you are aware suggested

that the President not quite up to

it -- a recent book. What is your

response to that?

It is absurd. It

is absurd. I have not read the book

and I do not intend to. I have

things to read that are accurate and

truthful. The claim that the

President is not engaged and does

not have a grasp on these important

issues is dangerous and falls. It

saddens me that someone would have

taken the time to write this.

Is it

tricky for you when you have been in

these briefings and then you might

come out and there might be some

tweet about a foreign policy issue.

When the President talked about

rocket man, is there a danger that

it is rainy -- raising the tempter

with North Korea and it could lead

to some kind of escalation.

Kim

Jong-Un has never appreciated the

risk that he presents to the world

in the way that he does. So, when

you see this language that the

President chooses to use, and I can

share with your audience today, I

can assure you that Kim Jong-Un

understands the message that America

is serious about this.

Are there

options that are available, that are

assured of all out war? A lot of

people think that that option will

cause a massive loss of life.

They

are right about that. There is a set

of military tasks that might have to

be undertaken that would cause

enormous damage and are senior

leaders are mindful of that.

Do you

think it is possible to remove the

ability of Kim Jong Il into fire

those missiles, to either take him

out or take out the ability to

launch those missiles?

Many things

are possible and how much time do

you think there is, because in the

past people have talked about it

being an imminent threat. We talk

about him having the ability to

deliver nuclear weapons to the

United States in a matter of a

handful of months.

Do you feel that

China is

moving on North Korea? They are but

they can do more. We are watching

China do things that frankly one

year ago no one thought they would

do. In terms of relations with China

more broadly, do you have concerns

about Chinese influence?

We talk a

lot about Russian influence these

days, the Chinese are very active

and we welcome them, they are an

important part of the American

fabric, but we can watch, very

focused efforts to steal American

information, to infiltrate the

United States with spies, with

people who are going to work on the

half of the Chinese government

against America. We see it in our

schools, we see it in our hospitals

and medical systems, we see it

throughout corporate America. It is

also true in other parts of the

world. Including Europe and the UK?

Of course. The Chinese are working

diligently to put themselves in a

position where they are a

superpower.

Mike Pompeo talking

about the threat from China -

but still, Russia is dominating

the headlines here.

Which makes it all the more

surprising that the FBI is having

to defend itself from a committee

with which it shares intelligence.

Yesterday Republicans signed up

to a secret memorandum said

to accuse the justice department

and the bureau of

misusing their authority.

Republicans have invoked a power

never before used by the secretive

committee to effectively declassify

the memo that they had compiled.

The Republicans have denied

Democrats on the committee

an opportunity to publish a rebuttal

Let's pick up on some

of that with our North

America editor Jon Sopel.

It is an extremely state of affairs

that you have got Mike Pompeo

talking about the threat that the

United States faces from Russia and

yet the administration and the

supporters on the hill are going

after the FBI.

There has been this

long-standing campaign, about

releasing the memo at my timeline

has been full of people saying why

are you not reporting on this?

Because we have not seen what it is.

Republicans are desperate to get it

out. It is not a memo that is

written by an independent analyst,

it is written by the Republican

chair of the house intelligence

committee and what it apparently

shows, none of us have seen it, but

it is said to show that the molar

investigation is corrupted, that

there is bias, that there is

something wrong with what is going

on. That is what it is alleged to

show and of course Republicans, who

want to help the President are

desperate to get this out there,

because if you do so, you muddy the

water and maybe, if Mueller comes up

with a conclusion that Donald Trump

finds this obliging, the water will

have been so muddied that people

will say I am so sick of all of

this, I do not believe a word. The

Democrats have tried to put out

their own rebuttal document but that

was voted down. C when it comes out,

if it is the bombshell that everyone

says it is. This is all about the

toxic nature of party politics in

Washington.

It is quite a

high-stakes gamble for the

Republicans. It could be seen to go

either way. How do you think people

are viewing this at the moment? Are

the Republicans winning at this

point?

I think... There is the

Mueller investigation, we know the

President is irritated by the

investigation, he says there was no

collusion with the Russians, this is

all a hoax and fake news, there is

nothing there to see. Why doesn't

Mueller just get on with it and

reaches conclusions? A lot of

American people are not as concerned

about the Russian investigation as

they are about jobs and tax cuts and

health care and education. That is

normal. I think what is happening

the sense that there are people that

as this investigation gets closer to

the White House and we were

reporting last week that the

Attorney General, the first member

of the Cabinet had been interviewed

by Mueller, as it gets closer to the

President, I think you're seeing

more chaff being put into the air to

divert attention and I think that

maybe there were things wrong with

the FBI investigation but at the

moment, we still have not seen what

this memo is.

Always good to get

your thoughts. Thank you. I wonder

what the mood must be like among the

field agents, they did not know that

Andrew McCabe was going to stand

down as quickly as he did. They

share intelligence with the house

intelligence committee and what we

are hearing there is that the

Republicans on the committee have

selectively chosen that intelligence

to put together this level. More

than that, they are not allowing the

Democrats to publish their rebuttal

and I do not see how the President

benefits from

this, because it is a selective

interpretation of the intelligence

that we cannot see.

That is right

and at the end of the day it is all

about trust. Can the intelligence

communities trust lawmakers with

this sort of information? Can

lawmakers trust what they perceive

to be a biased bureau to investigate

their President and more

importantly, can the public trust

any of them and I think these are

the long-term implications of the

toxic atmosphere, the toxic

partisanship that John was talking

about earlier. We still do not know

why Andrew McCabe took his decision

to stand down yesterday.

We don't know why Andrew McCabe,

the deputy director of the FBI,

took his decision to

stand down yesterday.

Though he has reportedly told

friends he felt pressure to go.

It should be said,

the Inspector General is due

to publish a report into the FBI's

conduct during the 2016 election -

and who knows maybe there

are implications in that

report for McCabe.

Some think he should

have recused himself

from the Clinton investigation,

given that his wife was running

for the Virginia Senate in 2016,

with support from a Clinton backer.

Nonetheless he's the second

high profile casualty

in the Russia investigation.

His boss James Comey was sacked

as director last May.

The deputy Attorney

General Rod Rosenstein

who is overseeing the investigation

for the Justice Department

is now in the crosshairs.

And then of course there's

the special councel Bob Mueller.

Jonathan Turley is a

professor of law at George

Washington University.

Thank you for coming in. As we were

saying, there are so many threads to

this investigation. It is difficult

to know where to start. Taken as a

whole, what impact is it having on

the Russian investigation itself?

I

expected the Russian investigation

proceeding with less difficulty than

the rest of us are having. The

investigators stay focused on what

they are investigating. It is a very

large team of investigators and

prosecutors are assembled by

Mueller. He is not the type of

person to get

edgy or jumpy, he knows that his

position is pretty safe. There is

talk about Trump firing Mueller but

most of us think it is unlikely. It

hasn't been made clear to the

President that if they did it, it

would be a poison pill moment that

would doom him and his

administration. Just a case that

learning curve after James Comey was

not long enough. The interesting

thing about the resignation of

Andrew McCabe came earlier than

expected. There is a lot of talk

that director Ray who is viewed as a

political had gone to the hill and

read that memo. He was also briefed

on the internal investigation by the

Inspector General and he was almost

immediately after that that

reportedly he asked Andrew McCabe to

step down and take leave and then

retire. There is a lot of discussion

about what is in that report on what

is in the memo that might have

motivated Ray himself to say, I

think you need to go.

If the FBI is

found to have been complicit in any

wrongdoing or overstepping the mark,

would that actually scupper the

Russian investigation entirely?

Noel

and firing Mueller would not have

done that, what is clear, the one

thing you can take to the bank is

that this investigation will run to

the ground all the information it is

seeking and it is going to reach its

own conclusion, even if you were to

take out Mueller, he would be

replaced by someone who would be

neutral, otherwise Congress would

proceed, very aggressively towards

the President. That investigation is

going to proceed. The question is

whether there is going to be

increased pressure for an

investigation into some other

issues. There are embarrassing

e-mails about FBI agent showing

great hostility towards the

President and it is one of those

things, where if you put on the

light, there are a lot of things

that no agency wants people to see

and that is certainly the case here.

When we talk about Christopher Ray

at the approach he has taken to

Andrew McCabe, he said when he was

pressed, reportedly, by the

President, that he would have to go

if he was being forced to sack

Andrew McCabe. In that sense, it is

worth re-emphasising, that maybe

there was something and he should

have accused himself in 2016, if his

wife was receiving money from the

Clinton backer, should he have had

the foresight to step aside from the

Clinton investigation?

I think it

would have been wise for him to do

so. There are problems with the

Clinton investigation, some of us

who are viewed as neutral thought

that the Clinton staff got a great

deal of deference by the FBI, things

like negotiating over getting back

government material on computers

which usually you do not have. We

have a knock

on the door and they say give me

back the computer and that went on

for months. There were a lot of

questions about special treatment

and possible bias, but not anything

amounting to a crime but there is

talk about whether these internal

investigations have revealed some

problems. It may be that the

President is partially right, it

does not mean he is right in how he

is reacting but at this point we are

past the fail-safe point and I think

that most Americans feel, all these

investigations have to run to grab

what they are looking at and there

has to be a lot of disclosure. In

the United States, I have never seen

the trust in government so low and

it will only be regained if everyone

feels they're getting raw

information without all of the

manipulation of both parties.

Jonathan Turley, thank you very much

for joining us. The good point that

he makes, you have to accept that

the committee is getting

intelligence from week to week from

the FBI so there is no trust between

the FBI and they are frustrated by

the leaks, you want to what the

long-term damage could be.

Indeed

and that is what we are waiting to

find out.

Ireland will hold a referendum

on whether to liberalise

its strict abortion laws.

The Irish Cabinet has agreed to hold

a vote at the end of May,

giving voters the first opportunity

in 35 years to overhaul some

of the world's strictest laws.

The Irish Prime Minister said

there must be an end to women having

to travel abroad for a termination.

Saudi authorities say

an anti-corruption campaign

has raised more than

a hundred billion dollars.

The total amount includes property,

securities, cash and other assets.

All but about sixty of those

detained in an five star hotel

in Riyadh have now been released.

They were arrested on the orders

of the Saudi crown prince,

Mohammed bin Salman,

after he set up a new

anti-corruption body.

The head of the UN agency

which provides aid to Palestinian

refugees has criticised the US

decision to cut its funding...

Saying it's likely to create more

instability in the Middle East.

The United States is historically

the agency's biggest donor.

Washington will hand over 60 million

dollars of a planned payment

to the UN Relief and Works Agency

but keep back a further

65 million dollars until it

carries out "reforms".

There is a deep cafe in Tokyo with a

new still knows how you feel. This

is Japan's first robot cafe. No

traditional waiters or baristas,

instead the entire operation rests

in the hands or the clause of the

robot who can reportedly serve up to

five cups of coffee in one movement.

I like the idea.

You're not a coffee

person. No, it sends me bonkers, I

am a tea drinker but I can say that

over here in America, I would

welcome a robot, because Americans

do not seem to know how to make tea.

I know I will get made -- get

pilloried about that.

I like talking

to a barista in the morning. I enjoy

are talk and I am not sure how I

would feel about a robot. If he

expresses himself well, that would

be OK.

This is Beyond 100 Days from the

BBC. Coming up for viewers

on the BBC News Channel and BBC

World News - In the wake

of the Larry Nassar trial we look

at moves to make sure those working

with children in sport are legally

required to report suspected sex

abuse within 24 hours.

And the row over the leaked report

which claims everyone in Britain

will be worse off after Brexit.

.That's still to come.

Hello. Temperatures have taken a dip

but they are about to go lower over

the next 24 hours. The weather front

is moving south without brakes of

rain overnight and into the morning

and here is the proper cold air.

Stronger wind into bed and stay as

well. Rain for Scotland and Northern

Ireland pushing south into England

and Wales and for South England, are

less cold night compared to last

night, but behind the rain as the

temperatures dip in Scotland and

Northern Ireland, plenty of wintry

showers and the temperatures are

dropping, so icy conditions on

Wednesday morning. Rain, sleet,

snow, hell, so wintry feel in

Scotland and Northern Ireland for

Wednesday, but be aware, you could

find more of these showers but icy

conditions are risk everywhere on

untreated services in the morning.

For England and Wales, here we will

take the overnight outbreaks of rain

in two parts of south-east England,

clearing away by the end of the

morning and following on from that,

we will find sunnier skies coming in

but there will be a few showers. A

windy day, pretty windy across the

board for Wednesday, coastal gales

on the north-west, most of the

wintry showers, maybe some thunder

into Scotland and Northern Ireland

pushing into the north-west of

England, a few showers dotted around

southern parts, but there are some

sunny spells to be had. These are

the temperatures by mid to late

afternoon, between three and 7

degrees, without window will feel

colder than that. It we will

continue with the wintry showers do

Wednesday night and into Thursday

morning, severe gales possible in

the north-east of Scotland and the

Northern Isles going into Thursday,

more of a northerly component of the

wind on Thursday, sunny spells

around but it will be cold. Still

some wintry showers to be had but

some of these will be fading into

the afternoon, leading to widespread

frost on Friday morning. Single

finger temperatures dropping away

quickly, under clear skies and easy

winds there is denied into Friday

morning. Some sunshine, then you

will see another weather system

poised to come in from the Atlantic

and timed for the start of the

weekend. As this pushes east into

Saturday, there could be sleet and

snow particularly across the

northern half of the UK.

snow particularly across the

northern half of the UK.

This is Beyond One Hundred Days,

with me Christian Fraser in London

and Jane O'Brien's in Washington.

Our top stories.

A leaked government report says

Britain will be worse off

after Brexit but Ministers play it

down saying it doesn't take

into account the opportunities

of leaving the EU.

The US names 200 Russian officials

and oligarchs it says

are close to the Kremlin -

but stops short of sanctions.

Coming up in the next half hour.

After the Larry Nassar scandal moves

to make sure claims of sexual abuse

in sport are reported within 24

hours.

After a year of intense infighting

at the White House can

the President's State of the Union

speech reach out beyond the base?

Let us know your thoughts

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The second phase

of Brexit is upon us.

And the British government is still

to decide what model it prefers.

How close it will stay

to the European Union

or whether to diverge.

Today that debate has taken a turn,

with the leak of sensitive

government data that concludes no

matter what form Brexit takes,

the UK economy will be WORSE off

outside the European Union.

The government has responded,

it says the analysis is incomplete

and does not assess its preferred

option of a bespoke free trade deal.

Our political correspondent

Eleanor Garnier joins

us from Westminster.

The politics of this worth looking

at because senior ministers have

been brought into the Cabinet to

look at this leaked report. Not

allowed to take a copy with and of

course the Brexit camp saying you

see, there is politics in trying to

leak damaging information.

I think

the reason this has become

acrimonious is because of the

accusations that this paper has been

leaked deliberately to undermine

Brexit and there are some leaves

supporting politicians who are

suggesting that perhaps those with

similar views to the Chancellor

Philip Hammond for people who share

his approach to Brexit might have

been behind this. Just last week the

Chancellor said the UK should only

move very modestly apart from the EU

after Brexit. I think the concern

for some Brexiteers is Theresa May

is moving towards the point of view

of Mr Hammond, his approach to

Brexit and they worry that the UK

might end up with Brexit in name

only. That has been tagged here as

we know but it means we would still

leave the EU but they would be very

few changes. I think it comes to

something and shows the seriousness

of the tensions of the top of the

government that even ministers are

throwing around accusations about

why this paper was leaked.

The

article is a selective

interpretation of a preliminary

analysis, it is an attempt to

undermine our exit from the EU.

The

government is resisting calls for

this analysis to be published, it

says it would harm the national

interest. Labour though I say it

needs to be published as soon as

possible.

It is the right of the

public to know about the livelihoods

and their future and for the

government not to publish this is

deeply responsible and dishonest.

The government is adamant it will

not be publishing this analysis, it

says it is unfinished and not yet

complete is a piece of work. At the

moment Labour saying that that

simply is not good enough. I think

this will not be the last we hear

about this particular document.

Theresa May is off to China, is this

an unusual moment to leave the

country?

I think this trip has been

planned for some time, probably it

gives the sense of business as usual

and perhaps only sort of because

this infighting in the Conservative

Party, the splits in the Cabinet,

that is also becoming a bit normal

to a certain extent. I think we

should remember the backdrop to this

latest row over Brexit and also the

backdrop to her trip to China. There

is discomfort and concern if you

like amongst Conservative MPs not

just about Theresa May and

leadership when it comes to Brexit

but the domestic agenda as well. I

think if they were to be a bad set

of results in the local elections

coming up later this year, a crisis

of leadership in Number Ten, if

there was a big wobble if you like

them I think Theresa May really

could find yourself in some trouble.

Nevertheless we should also remember

that there is a fear amongst

Conservative MPs of a leadership

election, they fear it could rip the

party apart and could lead to the

opposition leader here Jeremy Corbyn

in Number Ten. There also is no

single name coming forward, no

candidate who is being pushed

forward to succeed Theresa May. So

there is not really someone waiting

in the wings. Nevertheless I'm sure

Theresa May heading off to China

with a slightly heavy heart and

concern about what will be going on

back at home while she is away.

It

all seems to come down to elections

these days. Thank you very much.

President Trump has spent

the weekend honing his state

of the union address.

And by all accounts he has

been heavily involved

in this speech, scripting

and re-scripting key sections.

We are told he spent his Sunday

rehearsing in the Map Room

of the White House.

So what will be in it?

Well - large parts of it of course

will focus on the economy.

And why not, there is

a good story to tell.

The stock market is booming,

there's renewed growth,

big companies are investing.

BUT if he is to achieve

everything he has set out to,

then the President will need

the Democrats on immigration

and infrastructure.

And that is why the tone will be

different to what we got

this time last year.

Make America great again. The time

has come for a new programme of

national rebuilding.

I'm going to bring back millions of

jobs, protecting workers also means

reforming our system of legal

immigration.

We will soon begin the construction

of a great great Wall along our

southern border.

We will provide massive tax relief

for the middle class.

One of the largest increases in

National defence spending in

American history.

I believe strongly in free trade.

But it also has to be fairer trade.

The time for trivial fights is

behind us.

To get the view from

Capitol Hill I've been speaking

to Republican congressman

Scott Taylor from Virginia.

Thank you for joining me. Who do you

think the president most needs to

reach out to tonight?

I think the

president can and should speak to

all Americans. I think we have many

things in common, whether

infrastructure, defeating Isis and

things like that that Republicans

and Democrats can agree on. He needs

to speak to those who see themselves

as independents, which is the

fastest-growing population

politically. It is important that he

speaks out to all Americans.

Looking

at this from the outside it seems to

be very divided at the moment, do

you think there is any chance that

all sides can come together on these

big issues like immigration. That is

just provoking a shutdown?

Yes I do,

when you look at the economy, the

improving economy and people having

more money in their pocket, I think

that is a bipartisan issue and one

thing he can talk about and then

talk about immigration. I think the

public to want to see more security

and at the same time they want to

deal with the population. And the

president has expressed a

willingness to do that which is good

for all Americans and I think we can

come together on that. The Democrats

shut the government down over this,

funding for troops, all those things

so it would be disingenuous to them

if they did not come to the table

now the president has a serious

proposal. I think we can come

together and solve the immigration

problem.

How important is his tone

going to be?

Town is extremely

important. As I said when you're

speaking to independence, to the

other side, how we can come together

on the things that we do have in

common, and how to move forward on

that, the tone is important. I think

the president will do well to have a

conciliatory tone.

This is your

first State of the Union as well,

you've been there for one year, what

has surprised you the most about

working in Washington, is that the

gridlock, the lack of

bipartisanship?

Well I tried to have

no expectations so I would not be

let down but what I will say is I am

surprised at the division in the

country right now. I come from

Virginia and in Virginia we have the

Virginia way where we find common

ground and move that forward. I'm

military guy into the military you

do not care about colour, gender,

rich or poor, you hold hands and you

get things done. That is what I

would like to see more of in

Washington.

Thank you very much.

Chicago was a city that went

overwhelmingly for Clinton in 2016

but they are not all Democrats.

One man who has a finger

on the pulse is the chat

show host Maze Jackson,

we talked to him a year

ago on 100 Days.

And if I remember correctly Maze

some of President Trump's ideas

were not a million miles

from your own.

So a year on how do

you think he is getting on?

I think if the president did not

have a Twitter account he would be

doing great. I think his Twitter

account is what has done him in. But

thinking about some of the things he

has accomplished, getting his

Supreme Court nominee in and getting

his tax plan done, is doing pretty

well. But again the temperament he

has not been able to manage the

tone.

That is an important point

that many people make reference to.

Scott Taylor said he is surprised by

the division and many others would

be surprised given the health of the

American economy.

I'm not surprised

by the division, we saw that playing

out during the term of President

Obama and they have continued. What

we have seen in the last election,

the liberal kind of Democrats got

their turn and now we're seeing the

same thing happening on the other

side.

Here in Washington we tend to

focus on the bubble, the Russian

enquiry, immigration, the lack of

bipartisanship. What do people

really want to see coming from

Washington, what do they want from

the president in this speech?

I

think people want to see how they

will continue to grow the economy,

we will continue to make... America

is booming right now and the biggest

challenge will be how to deal with

this issue of immigration reform. We

heard a lot about the dreamers but I

think the president will be in a

situation where people will want to

know what are we going to do next to

keep our government going.

So what

is going to change, what has to

change?

I think the tone, I think

when you look at President Trump he

has been very devices for a lot of

the liberal groups but he is going

to need them if he wants to be able

to accomplish its goal of getting

the wall done and comprehensive

immigration reform. So really you

will have to reach across the line

which I think he's willing to do.

I

wonder how likely it is that he can

appeal to bipartisan action after

everything that has happened, you

know in the Virginia election, and

the tweets as you say, is it

possible to reach across the aisle

with all that water onto the bridge?

I think it is possible and everyone

has something they want. So the

president wants this wall, if you

get that he will have pretty much

everything he told people he was

going to do. And Democrats want to

keep the dreamers, so I think that

there is some middle ground. We've

seen indications from the White

House and heard from Democrats that

they think the plan could be

workable. So I think there will be

an opportunity here but I think the

Republicans will continue to hold

strong.

Always good to talk to you,

thank you.

An important point made our guests,

that the president perhaps realises

that the midterms are around the

corner and he has got to find a

broader base than the Conservatives.

That is the logical thing to do but

we also keep hearing from our guests

is it is all about the tone. Just as

much as about substance. Then of

course listening to the State of the

Union address tonight, he may say

something but then later on he might

tweak and everything he said is

undermined by Twitter. So I think it

is difficult to know which President

you're listening to and who he is

trying to appeal to next.

Some of

the other news of the day.

More than 100 child health experts

have called Facebook to withdraw

an app that is aimed at children

under the age of thirteen.

In an open letter to Facebook

boss Mark Zuckerberg,

the experts called Messenger Kids

an "irresponsible" attempt

to encourage young children

to use social media.

Facebook says the app was designed

to help parents control how

children use social media.

Hundreds of football fans,

staff and players have turned out

for the funeral of former West Brom

and England forward, Cyrille Regis.

His funeral cortege was greeted

with applause as it arrived

at the West Bromich Albion club

stadium for a private service.

Regis died earlier this month

and tributes since for a man

described as a hero,

and a trailblazer for

young black footballers.

He was 59.

Britain's Prince William and his

wife, the Duchess of Cambridge,

have begun their four-day visit

to Sweden and Norway,

with a turn on the ice in Stockholm.

The royal couple have

been playing "Bandy"-

which is similar to ice hockey

but involves a ball rather

than a puck and it has slightly

larger pitches and goals.

The Royal couple then

went on to meet members

of the Swedish royal family.

Governing bodies for amateur

athletics could soon be required

by law to promptly report

sexual abuse claims.

It follows the case of Larry Nassar,

the former US gymnastics doctor,

who was sentenced last week to 175

years in prison for

the decades-long abuse of more

than 150 women and girls.

The case prompted lawmakers to speed

up the passage of legislation

to protect young people.

On Monday, the House passed the bill

with an overwhelming

majority of 406 to 3.

It was sponsored by Democratic

senator Dianne Feinstein.

Earlier today she appeared with some

of the gymnasts on Capitol Hill

and our North America correspondent,

Rajini Vaidyanathan who has covered

the Nassar trial for us was there.

What do they feel they have achieved

by this law?

This law has been in

the works way before the sentencing

hearing last week, it is been in the

works for up to a year. The main

thing is they're happy with, the

gymnasts, is the fact that if anyone

reports abuse to an amateur

athletics Association on this law it

would mean they would have to go,

the athletics Association, would

have to go to law enforcement within

24 hours. So for the gymnasts means

there is accountability and also a

culture where young women are

believed and their complaints taken

seriously. This bill would also

extend the statute of limitations

because often in these cases the

gymnasts were often too young to be

aware that they're actually being

sexually abused and it was only when

got older when they look back at the

horrific experience and understood

what had happened to them. Now the

bill will change the statute of

limitations to begin with a women

have come of age and are aware of

what happened to them. And limit the

interactions that people have with

adults on their own because of

course Larry Nassar treated many of

these women on their own. Now I

spoke last week to Jamie Dempster, a

bronze medal Olympian and I asked

her what she thought they had

achieved. It was interesting when

you hear what you said that she felt

happy about her Olympic achievements

because of the abuse that she was

subjected to.

I have never been able

to even be proud of my elite career

and never been able to even speak

the truth about how hard and how

intense and how abusive it was.

Because no one would listen. And so

to speak up and finally have not

only one person listen but have so

many people supporting us and on our

side and I finally feel proud.

One

of the things I'm curious about, a

week ago we were hearing the most

powerful, emotional testimony from

these young women. Do you get any

sense that one week later they are

in any way of getting back to normal

life whatever that is after this

restaurant judging by the three

women we saw there, there still

being activists in a way, they've no

idea when they decided to testify

that it was going to be an

outpouring of testimony, it started

something like 90 and became 156.

And speaking to them they are trying

to work out how to channel what they

achieved into something for the

greater good of all athletes.

This

is an extraordinary moment in sport

and we are seeing it in so many

different industries put up

including academia now, we're seeing

that whole area coming under the

spotlight in ways that would be

unimaginable just a few months ago.

I think you suddenly get a tipping

point and all these cases come

forward. Suddenly you have as is the

case in the US, people looking at

amateur sport, collegiate sport and

looking at safeguards to be put in

place. One thing that seems to

emerge for me from the Larry Nassar

case, is that people were left

unsupervised. You know with Larry

Nassar. If someone else had been in

the room they might have been able

to stop it. So guidelines being put

in place and good to see that

Congress seems to be rallying around

the calls.

This is Beyond One Hundred Days.

Still to come - they're one

of the most famous political

dynasties in the world -

we'll explain their connection

to the State of the union address.

The Costa Book of the Year has

just been announced,

at a ceremony in London.

The shortlist includes a first

novel, a biography, poetry,

fiction and a children's book.

Rebecca Jones is there for us.

Hello. Welcome to a very noisy

restaurant here in central London

where we have just heard that Helen

Dunmore is the winner of the Costa

Book of the Year for her final

collection of poetry written about

her own impending death. She wrote

Inside The Wave in the last weeks of

her life. She died of cancer last

June. At the age of 64. A lot of the

poetry discuss and talk about her

death and dying. I would not want to

give you the impression that it is

very maudlin collection, a miserable

collection because in fact many

poems celebrate life and they are

life affirming. There is a poem

about two girls hiding in a garden,

another about IKEA. Many other poems

about the sea. And Helen Dunmore,

her son Patrick and his sister and

their father went up on stage to

pick up the war. They said that they

were absolutely delighted and their

mother would have been so pleased

because poetry was her life. The

chair of the judges, novelist Wendy

Holden said it was a close decision

and took the judges and are perhaps

to reach the decision. But they said

all nine of the judges felt that

Inside The Wave was a classic. A

collection of polymers with a very

strong message and even though they

were written after Helen Dunmore

knew that she was dying, that they

were very life affirming and the

judges thought that they would

appeal to a wide range of people. So

there you have it, the winner of the

Costa Book of the Year is Helen

Dunmore for her final collection of

poetry, inside the way. -- Inside

The Wave.

After President Trump

makes his state of the union address

tonight there will be a special

moment for a young Democrat

to give his party's response.

And a name that will

need no introduction.

Congressman Joe Kennedy

III from Massachusetts

will take the podium.

Grandson of the late Bobbie Kennedy

assassinated in 1968.

And great nephew of the late

president JFK and Sen.

Ted Kennedy, who in 1982

gave the response to

President Reagan's State

of the Union.

Lets speak to our North American

reporter Anthony Zurcher.

We hear a lot about the State of the

Union for obvious reasons but how

important is the response?

Well it

is still a big audience that the

opposition party is talking to and a

chance to lay out their agenda as

well and to contrast with the

president. It is a challenge because

with all those people in the halls

of the Congress, the spectacle, it

is difficult to match that and go

toe to toe with that in response.

You've seen sometimes where a

responder has been overshadowed a

little bit. And then Marco Rubio who

was famous for taking a drink of

water in the middle of its response.

Some people think it is almost

cursed and that if people are

putting the spotlight they tend to

wilt. It can make or break a career.

It can and one of the things they to

highlight is rising stars, Marco

Rubio, Nikki Haley who is now the US

ambassador to the UN, she gave the

response to the final Barack Obama

stayed of the union address. Joe

Kennedy, I think the Democrats

wanted to put the younger face

forward but not to dispel these

domestic concerns after the

nomination of Hillary Clinton. But

this Kennedy is younger,

charismatic, and they're giving the

speech in a blue collar, working

class town in Massachusetts so

gearing towards a strong economic

message and setting the stage for

the midterms.

Quite a shop window.

But in a way it is to the younger

generation of Democrats. When at the

moment the congressional leadership

is dominated by the old guard.

Chuck

Schumer, older members of the house

and they have been knocked for that.

And even Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders,

their older and they feel no need to

refresh their message. The response

is usually an elder Senator or

member of Congress standing there

and usually somewhere in Washington

giving that response. I think there

has been a change of strategy and

old way of putting forward for the

party should look like. You could

tell the message is the Democrats

want to look younger.

Thank you very

much. And of course a long night for

you.

There will be much more

on President Trump's first state

of the union address on BBC World.

A special programme gets

underway at 0200 GMT.

Good to be with you this evening,