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Donald Trump gets good reviews

for his unifying tone in the state

of the union address.

But it's already clear that there's

a big difference between talking

unity and getting unity.

The President called for common

purpose in what he described

as a new moment for Americans

of all backgrounds.

This is your time and if you work

hard and believe in yourself, if you

believe in America then you can

dream anything.

Theresa May flies all the way

to Beijing to talk trade

but even here she has to answer

questions about Brexit.

Also on the programme.

UK politicians will be shown

the details of a study leaked

earlier this week which say Britain

will be worse off after

Brexit.

And for the first time in a hundred

and fifty years the world gets

to see a super blue blood moon.

Get in touch with us

using the hashtag

'Beyond-One-Hundred-Days'.

Hello and welcome -

I'm Katty Kay in Washington

and Christian Fraser is in London.

Donald Trump's calming words

of unity in his first state

of the union address have already

bumped against the harsh

reality of a deeply divided

American government.

Lawmakers on both sides today said

realistically the chances

of Democrats and Republicans working

together on big issues is minimal.

There was little sign of unity

either in Congress last night -

with one side of the aisle sitting

stony faced and the other rising

for multiple ovations.

But the public seems

to want compromise.

For a President with record low

approval ratings last night

was a high point with snap polls

after the speech suggesting American

voters liked Mr Trump's

more conciliatory tone.

This in fact is our new American

moment.

There has never been a better time

to start living the American Dream.

So to every citizen

watching at home tonight -

no matter where you've been,

or where you come from,

this is your time.

Well, we can talk now

to congressman Brendan Boyle -

a democrat from Pennsylvania.

Thank you for joining me. When you

hear the tone of the president and

the reaction to that town I imagine

Democrats might be thinking this is

someone who would be difficult for

us to run against in November.

Well

the reality is that one speech on

teleprompter does not make a

presidency. There's a difference

between Trump and Twitter Trump and

the Tramp you see on Twitter and you

see the other 99% of the time is who

he is. So for one night he can stick

to a script, but that all goes out

of the window the very next day. If

we look back on the past year, I

remember one year ago after his

State of the Union address when he

was given quite high marks. He stuck

to the script and within a few days

that was all gone and the rest of

the year looked very different from

that State of the Union address.

Although to be fair they have not

been any tweets of that nature

today. But look at the tone of the

speech and also the fact that the

economy is doing well and he can

point the stock market and said to

Americans things are getting along

well. I have cut regulations, done

the tax cuts and that is what people

really like.

We are in the eighth

year of an economic expansion that

began roughly when President Obama

took over, about six months into his

administration when the great

recession bottomed out. Job growth

is continuing at the pace of the

last five years although slightly

slower. So we are seeing just the

continuation and probably the tail

end of an economic expansion. He

might want to be a bit too careful

about putting all his eggs in the

basket of the economy for them

because we've never seen an economic

expansion that has

lasted 12 years. We've seen one that

has lasted eight or nine sofa now he

is able to claim some credit for the

economy but in reality he inherited

an economic expansion that was

already happening for seven and a

half years before he took office.

That's just what's the reaction in

the chamber about immigration stop

under the current broken system a

symbol -- a single immigrant can

bring in a virtually unlimited

numbers of relatives.

Under our plan

we focus on the immediate family by

limiting sponsorships to spouses and

minor children.

That is where some

of the difficulty is but looking at

the speech and the whole Congress,

things like prison reform, big

infrastructure projects, family

credits, things people want to see

where you could work with his

president and if you do not you

might look obstructionist.

Well

first when he addressed the family

reunification aspect of immigration

policy, we have something in common.

Neither here nor I would be here in

the either states the family

reunification were not a part of our

immigration policies. Both his

family and mine were helped by that

aspect in previous generations. The

second point I would make, I'm

someone who wants to work with the

White House when it comes to

infrastructure. I was excited last

year when he talked about

infrastructure, I wrote to the White

House with a group of Democratic

members saying we want to reach out

and work with you. A whole year has

gone by and not one bill has been

brought to the hill that would

address our infrastructure needs. So

I hope now this year he reaches out

to us not just in a speech but in

terms of policy and legislation

because if we're going to get a

meaningful Infrastructure Bill done

it needs to be bipartisan and there

needs to be a plan. He cited one and

half trillion dollars but where is

that coming from. He just had a tax

plan that blew a hole in the

deficit. So it remains to be seen

where this money will come from.

Thank you very much for joining us.

I'm joined in the studio

by Jim Gilmore who's a republican

and former Governor of Virginia.

Thank you for coming in. On this

issue of immigration, there have

already been cries of outrage from

some people on the more conservative

wing of the President's base who say

we do not like the idea of the kind

of deal the White House is proposing

because they say it would give

amnesty to young people brought to

America illegally by their parents.

This is going to be very hard,

whatever the President says about

bipartisan solutions, there are real

differences.

And I would love to

return back to the economy -- the

economic thing but on your point of

immigration, there are people in the

United States that do not think

there should be any amnesty for

illegal immigration. In this

instance we have young people who

really do not know any other country

than the United States and I think

there is sympathy for that. At the

same time the American left has got

to tell us what their immigration

policy is. Is that the policy that

anyone young or old who can get to

the United States gets to be a

citizen. If you have a complete

amnesty for people and then they

bring in, because they are innocent

and their parents bought them, then

you're bringing in for sedition ship

the very people who broke the law in

the first place. So we are all

sympathetic and accommodating for

young people but at the same time we

are entitled to know where this

immigration is headed.

You're out of

politics now so you can at this a

little bit more dispassionately. Do

you think what the president said

last night in any way reflects what

might happen in this country, that

the two sides could come together

and work on these issues?

I do not

see it happening. Well the anger

expression of the minority party in

Congress last night was troubling

and really not good.

But you had

that with Republicans when Barack

Obama was president.

Maybe so but if

people are looking for working

together that was not a good message

last night from the Democrats. An

angry type of expression. But the

president offered a conservatory

comprehensive plan on immigration

last night, the first we've seen in

a long time. So now let's see if

everyone can come together and do

something productive.

Well of course

he promised to keep open Guantanamo

Bay, 800 people in Guantanamo Bay at

its peak and now just 41. But this

was the reaction in the chamber.

I just signed an order

directing Secretary Mattis

to reexamine our military detention

policy, and to keep open

the detention facilities

at Guantanamo Bay.

What kind of deterrent is that if

you just have 41 people in

Guantanamo Bay Bay now. It is seen

as a stain on the American

reputation around the world and

intelligence agencies would say of

recruitment tool for terrorism.

Well

you need to look at the big picture,

this is about sending a message to

people who are adversaries of the

United States. In fact murderers

worldwide, terrorists worldwide who

want to use force to victimise

civilians, that there will be a

penalty and that penalty will be a

strong American foreign policy. I

think the American foreign policy

when you think about career has been

generally pretty conciliatory. Using

diplomacy rather than force. But the

Guantanamo Bay message is that we

will not be tolerant of this kind of

attacks on Americans and their

allies across the world.

Thank you

very much. Interesting that this

president gets good polling figures

for sticking to the teleprompter!

Lets talk about how it went down.

We have some CBS polling

here, which they carried

out after the speech.

Three out of four people liked it.

Two thirds said it made them feel

proud to be American.

A third said it made

them feel safer.

And here's the numbers

on the economy: 54 percent

of the audience give him the credit

for the current state

of the economy, up from 51

percent before the speech.

Those approval ratings

on the economy growing all the time.

And those are the numbers that will

concern Democrats and the fact that

in those people who were polled

after the State of the Union it

showed independent voters also liked

what they heard last night. The

message seems to be from voters and

we hear this from the president was

made based as well, we like what

he's doing but not always like the

way he says that. So if he were able

in contrast to this time last year

to refrain perhaps from some of the

tweeting and antagonistic language

then perhaps the poll numbers would

keep on picking up. Because that was

my take from that, if they liked

what they heard last night, that is

not what they get all of the time.

British beef is about to go back

on the menu in China,

for the first since the BSE crisis

in the 1980's.

On her visit to Beijing,

the Prime Minister Theresa May said

she is determined the two sides

will find other markets

where barriers can be removed.

But take a look at

the huge imbalance.

In 2016, UK imports from China

were £42.3 billion.

Whereas UK exports to China

were worth £16.8 billion.

That's a trade deficit

of £25.4 billion.

And as it stands -

China accounts for only 3

per cent of all UK exports.

Post Brexit, that

will have to change.

China is pushing for

something in return.

They want UK support

for President Xi's flagship Belt

and Road initiative.

China wants to return

to its ancient trading routes.

The plan is to plough hundreds

of billions of dollars

into new investment; new ports,

new pipelines, new railways -

all of it designed to bring

the world closer to China.

Well Professor Steve Tsang is with

us, welcome back to the studio.

Going back to those figures, the

Prime Minister talked about a golden

era in China - UK relations. It does

not look golden looking at those

figures.

Not looking golden against

the projection of the golden era.

The trade imbalance is not just

going to go away.

That is the point

that President Trump made last week

in Davos, free trade means fair

trade. And wherever you look around

the west at the moment, America,

France, Germany, everyone has a huge

trade imbalance with China.

I think

the issue in terms of fairness is

whether there is reciprocity for

access to markets and investments

and companies to operate. In general

terms countries like the United

Kingdom or the US or most EU

countries are fairly open to Chinese

companies and investments. China is

much more restrictive in terms of

how companies can operate in China.

And I think that is the issue that

needs to be addressed.

Theresa May

seems to be adopting something of a

Donald Trump approach to relations

with China which is one that is very

transactional, she will say to the

Chinese that the UK is natural

partner in the belt and road

expansion even if it should meet

international standards and they

would say OK we will consider

opening markets and investing in UK.

Is that the size of it? I think

there is more to it. The belt and

road initiative is fairly

complicated, there is the issue of

whether it is transparent and

whether it is going to be official

to get other countries involved.

Also the issue that the Chinese

ambassador to the UK had openly said

he would ask the British Foreign

Minister to officially endorse the

belt and road initiative before she

even set foot in China. That is a

difficult thing because Prime

Ministers of independent countries

do not do what ambassadors instruct

them to do.

On the belt and road

initiative, why are Western

governments loathe to give backing

to it?

Well in general terms it is

the uncertainty of how the belt and

road initiative will pan out. The

Chinese government is projecting in

terms of a modern version of a

Marshall plan but there are issues

of one the loans mature, what will

then happen. Most of the countries

that in the short term are

beneficiaries of the infrastructure

investments do not have the money to

pay for them. The Chinese have lent

them the money, provided industrial

capacity to build them but when

they're finished, when the gnome has

matured, what will happen then.

Always good to see you. -- when the

loan has matured. Just looking at

some figures about this belt and

road initiative, it on percent of

contracts for Beijing backed

infrastructure projects in Europe

and Asia go to Chinese companies.

The Germans and the French have

spoken about this, it could be a

driver for global growth but how

much will be shared. And I think

also looking at what the Prime

Minister saying in China matches

under some pressure from Donald

Trump to hold the line. And aside

from trying to get better relations

with China she is also trying to do

a trade deal with the United States.

And that puts in a tricky position

so is she prepared to kind of goal

against Germany, France and the

United States with this rather

curious language of natural partner

but needing international standards

around belt and road to try to get

the trade deal that she needs even

though it is a small amount of

British trade, she still needs those

trade deals after Brexit. That is

the deal she's having to make with

herself and with the Chinese at the

moment.

Tricky on all sides for

Theresa May. Let's look at some

other news.

A train carrying Republican

lawmakers to a retreat

in West Virginia has collided

with a truck.

One person was killed

in the incident while another

was seriously injured.

Although no one aboard the train

is believed to have been

significantly injured.

After 13 years of fighting

the Taliban in Afghanistan -

the BBC has found the militant group

is growing in strength.

Our research suggests the Taliban

is openly active in 70

per cent of the country.

More than 15 million people live

in areas which are either controlled

by the Taliban or suffer attacks.

Formula One racing is to end

the use of 'Grid Girls'

from the start of the 2018

World Championship season.

It says the decades-old custom

of using promotional models

in the Grand Prix is inappropriate

and at odds with the modern

vision for the sport.

The UK government says it

will release an economic study that

suggests the British economy will be

worse off after Brexit,

whatever type of deal it

reaches with the EU.

The research document

was leaked earlier this week.

But will it make difference

to the way people feel.

New polling from the think take UK

in a Changing Europe

shows a pretty even split

between those who think it was right

for Britain to vote to leave

and those who think it was wrong.

Britain is still just

as divided as it was in 2016.

But the data show that voters

on both sides are becoming

increasingly frustrated

with the governments progress.

The Director of UK in

a Changing Europe Professor

Anand Menon is with us.

I know you have had a big day

setting out some figures. The one

that surprised me is one in eight

people in the UK feel European. I

would have thought it would have

been more evenly split reflecting

the referendum.

We've always lagged

behind Europe and be near the bottom

of that league table when it comes

to feeling as if you are European.

We always had a transactional view

of membership. Other member states,

some parts of the population at

least have bought into the idea of

not just being in the EU but being

European. We have seen this more as

the transactional thing, in it for

economic gain.

We have always lagged

behind the others. Looking at that

graph, it is pretty stark. There has

been a bit of movement either way

but the economic analysis, the

reports from either side, the

reassurances of the Brexit-lite,

nothing really changes where people

said.

A lot has changed in the

background, looking at some other

questions, far more people now than

last year think Brexit will be bad

for the UK economy for dog for more

people now than last year.

But with

that change their mind?

That is the

rub, people are more negative about

Brexit and government handling of

Brexit but that is not feeding

through in any mass of way into the

figures on whether you voted the

right way or not.

And during the

referendum there was Project Fear

and they still voted for Brexit.

Yes

and people distrust the figures they

are given by the other side. We know

the political science behind that. I

just wonder if you think the UK is

edging towards what we have in the

United States, not just policies the

abiding people Cabaye but tribal,

people living in different areas

from the opposite political

persuasion, they have different

media, the go to different schools

and distrust each other is

patriotism. I wonder if this could

be starting to happen in the UK.

Well the big difference I think

between us and the United States is

the BBC. That is something you do

not have in the United States.

We

did not pay him to say that!

There

it is NBC or fox so even your

day-to-day news viewing is slightly

echo chamber like. One of the things

that came from this referendum, we

always have this culture divide in

our country but there has been no

way to express it because

essentially the big parties are in

roughly the same place. What Brexit

did was give an opportunity to

people who are in social

conservatives if you like rather

than social liberals to voice their

discontent and all evidence shows

that has become a major division in

our society alongside the

traditional political one. So there

is a chance that this could disrupt

politics.

We are out of time. But

some interesting things on the

website. Thank you.

Millions of people across the world

have been treated to a rare

celestial convergence,

known a "super blood blue moon".

A combination of a lunar eclipse,

a blood moon and a super moon.

We have got a timelapse

of the eclipse.

This is from the Griffin

Observatory in Los Angeles -

three and a half hours reduced

to just sixteen seconds.

It's the first time in more than 150

years it has been seen

in the western hemisphere.

Let's speak to the BBC's global

science correspondent,

Victoria Gill, who is at

Bayfordbury Observatory here

in the south of England for us.

And we can see it behind you. It has

been a lot bigger earlier in the

evening.

We got an absolutely

stunning moonrise here in

Hertfordshire. We are at the

observatory so we have many space

scientists around so we were treated

to a beautiful moonrise with this

supermoon looking huge and stunning

but also an hour after that the

International Space Station came

over so it has been quite a

celestial treat. We did not have the

Eclipse but we had quite a show

tonight with this big bright moon.

So will show some pictures of the

moon in London. One from Waterloo

Bridge looking over at St Paul's.

You give us the science as to what

is going on.

So when it comes to

that Moon close to the horizon that

is an optical illusion, scientists

do not know why it looks so much

bigger closer to the horizon but it

tricks the eye perhaps because it is

closer to objects in the landscape

and you get that sense of scale. The

reason it is slightly bigger, around

10% bigger than average tonight is

because it has an ellipse shaped

orbit around the earth. It is about

50,000 kilometres further away than

its nearest point. And because the

nearest point coincides with the

second full moon of the month of the

UK we're getting this blue

supermoon. On the other side of the

globe where we had those spectacular

pictures of it turning blood red,

that whole event is combining in the

triple celestial show of the

eclipse.

Amazing, thank you very

much.

Christian was dying to give that

explanation! Let's move on.

This is Beyond 100

Days from the BBC.

Coming up for viewers on the BBC

News Channel and BBC World News -

As Theresa May travels to China

to drum up trade we'll hear from one

of China's biggest banks.

And the tale of the talking whale

that can mimic human speech.

That's still to come.

That's still to come.

Much colder air has spread south

across the UK and is here for the

foreseeable. Many of us have wintry

showers and also we have some good

spells of sunshine in the next few

days. Clear spells overnight so you

could catch a glimpse of that blue

supermoon. But also some snow to

lower levels for a time. But

elsewhere we have ice on untreated

surfaces and temperatures are close

to freezing. The wind could also be

close to severe gale force in parts

of Scotland overnight. Eight o'clock

in the morning, further wintry

showers in parts of northern

Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales

and the West Midlands and South West

of England. Sleet and snow tending

to be to the higher ground going

through the day. But away from these

areas you're likely to see good

spells of sunshine. Again we have

this cold wind and temperatures just

above freezing to begin the day.

Continued scattering showers on

through the day in some areas. Out

of the chilly wind and in some

sunshine it may not feel too bad.

Factoring in the wind however for

some it will feel very close to

freezing if not a degree or so

below. Still some showers arrived on

Thursday night and into Friday

morning. Frost setting in as the

wind eases. Still a brisk wind along

North Sea coast on Friday with

mostly rain showers. Most other

places have a dry day with a lighter

wind and sunshine. It could be quite

pleasant on Friday. But no holding

back, I have to show you the weekend

and here comes a weather system from

the Atlantic. This is moisture into

cold air. Some of us will have waned

but there is an increasing threat as

it moves further eased critically

across the northern part of the UK

to get some sleet and snow perhaps

not just in the hills. Any rain,

sleet and snow fizzling out during

Sunday and it will be another cold

day.

This is Beyond 100 Days, I'm Katty

Kay in Washington, Kristian Fraser

is in London.

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And the FBI is not happy about the

release of the Republican memo that

deals with the surveillance of a

member of the complexion campaign

team. In an unusual statement, the

Bureau says it has grave concerns

about releasing the memo. The

statement puts the FBI at odds with

the Republican head of the house

intelligence community, who wants to

release the memo to show the FBI was

biased against Donald Trump.

The FBI

has been over increasing pressure --

under increasing pressure over the

Russia investigation. Intelligence

experts are concerned that the memo

gives an incomplete account of why a

Trump campaign aide was surveyed. It

is also worried it could expose the

Bureau's methods. We will now speak

to a former US representative of the

Democratic party. Thank you for

joining us, Congresswoman. To what

extent does the FBI putting out a

statement saying it has grave

concerns about the release of an

intelligence memo that the White

House appears on the point of

releasing seem unusual?

I served as

the ranking Democrat, the senior

Democrat on the house intelligence

committee for four years after 911,

and other we have differences, we

worked together as one committee.

The committee is now fractured.

There is no, it seems to me, the

relationship between the Democrats

and Republicans. The FBI being

worried about this memo tells me

that its release could reveal

sources and methods, how we get

warrants, and how collect

information on targets, and

basically what our toolkit is. I

haven't seen the memo, I don't know

the back-up, but it is also

surprising, so I hear, that the

chairman of the committee who is

pushing for the police has not even

read the back-up material. When I

was in a position like his, I assure

you I would never have done anything

like this without reading it.

But of

course, Congresswoman, you will know

that the president does want to

release. He was asked about it after

he came out of the chamber after his

speech last night.

Don't worry. One

of percent. Could you imagine?

--

100%. Of course he is good to

release it, but many Democrats will

say he is putting his personal

interests above the national

interest.

There is also a bottle

memo prepared by the Democratic

staff, as I understand that, on the

house intelligence committee. I

spoke to a member of Congress

yesterday who said that he had read

both memos, and I think there is a

work-out that would have members of

Congress are going to a classified

space and with both memos. -- a

rebuttal memo. But it seems to me

pretty lopsided to put out a memo

against...

Why don't the Democrats

lose it out from the floor? They

could do that. -- read it out from

the floor.

Given the floor

privileges, they could do that. Why

is that a good idea? It is the same

problem, revealing passively, again

I haven't read it, revealing sources

and teaching our enemy our tool box.

These are dangerous times of the

president said, and I strongly agree

with him. We need the best tools and

the best morale and our intelligence

committee, and the FBI director as

far as I know, was recently

confronted by Congress, but is

highly regarded.

You were the

ranking Democrat on the house

intelligence committee, which is the

committee in question here. Have you

ever seen a time in modern American

history in which the FBI and

intelligence agencies have been

under such consistent pressure from

an administration? Because I can't

remember a time recently where the

FBI has been the target of so much

pushed back from an administration

as it is at the moment.

Well, not in

this way. There were two huge

intelligence failures earlier this

century. One was 9/11, where we had

pieces of the plot but did not put

them together. In the second was on

the intelligence estimate that there

were weapons of mass destruction in

Iraq, which also turned out to be

false. After that, we did a complete

reform of our intelligence

committee. In 2004, was one of the

principal authors. And that is when

we set up the directorate of

National intelligence. And since

then, until now, although there have

been criticisms of little things,

nothing like this. And what worries

me is not only that we are

politicising people, but also we are

undermining the morale of folks who

have spent years, decades, carefully

warning their trade, they are the

tip of the spear, a loss of the

things we have been able to file are

only foiled because we got

intelligence, presumably through our

intelligence community, but it also

works in coordination with

intelligence committees around the

world.

Jane Harman, thank you very

much for joining us. I think that is

the point, we have seen the FBI

under criticism before, but not in

this way that has been politicised

and accused of bias. And you have to

wonder, and I remember when I was

speaking to a senator last week,

this is a deliberate attempt to

undermine the FBI in order to

undermine the results of any

investigation that, over Russia and

the Trump campaign. And that is what

is worrying to people who are in the

intelligence committee, and I have

heard people on the left and right

say this, they do have some concerns

about eroding trust in the

institution that is meant to protect

America.

But it stands to reason.

These warrants that go before a

judge, they are 50, 60 pages long.

If it was boiled down to four pages,

it stands to reason that it will be

selective. And as I was saying to

the Congresswoman there, the

Democrats could read out their

rebuttal on the house floor, but

then they, too, would be revealing

delicate information. It is a tricky

one for the Democrats.

Yeah, both

accuracy and national security, that

is what people are concerned about.

Theresa May's mission in China

is not only to convince

the Chinese Government that the UK

is open for business,

but also to offer reassurance

that the UK will be a reliable

partner post Brexit.

The Prime Minister says

we are in a Golden Era of UK China

relations but what does the UK

stand to gain?

Jinny Yan is a senior economist

with ICBS Standard Bank,

one of China's biggest,

which has a key role in China's

overseas investments,

including those in the UK.

Welcome to the programme. China says

it wants to be a global player, but

we have already shown on the

programme the huge imbalance in

trade between China and Britain.

When is China going to rectify that?

I think what China has really rest

recently, particularly, is that

China is trying to increase imports.

China has always been seen as an

economy that produces particularly

lower value goods. As China goes up

the curve, China not only seeks to

export more, to develop markets like

the UK, but also to import more. So

of course the UK has much to offer.

For those joining us now, let's see

those figures again. There is the

imbalance, over £25 billion. We are

a service driven economy here in the

UK, and there is huge potential in

China. Is the financial services

market going to open up more than it

does the moment?

There has already

been regulation regulatory reform

announced recently to allow in the

banking sector more foreign banking

associations and to the Chinese

market. So over 2018, will

definitely see more concrete

measures to allow more foreign

players, including British players,

and the financial markets.

I was

just wondering, we heard the Chinese

premier say today that China would

have to adjust to the reality of

Brexit in its relationship with

Britain, and I was wondering from

the standpoint of ICBC, your bank,

whether they see any status in --

any change in the status of London

as a financial centre because of

Brexit?

London remains in our view a

very important financial centre. It

has many of the advantages that

others do not, such as the Times and

the English language. It also has

probably the most concentrated

amount of expertise and experiences,

and also it is the British law that

has fundamentally driven the

advantage of London as a financial

centre. Recently, we have seen

London's critical role in terms of

the currency, and I think those

things will continue. And as we have

seen recently, some of the things

that have come out is that the

London stock exchange, for example,

will continue to push the bilateral

agreements to allow for training of

equities, for example, in both

markets.

Very good to see you, thank

you for coming in.

Thank you.

On a

day like this, it would've been good

to talk to Carrie Gracie, but she

stood down as the BBC's China in

protest at gender pay inequality.

She told MPs that this is damaging

the reputation of the corporation.

She said that the BBC added insult

to injury by suggesting she had been

paid less by male colleagues because

she had been in development. We will

hear from the director-general of

the BBC in a moment, but first,

let's wasn't what Carrie Gracie had

to say.

I have said I do not want

any more money, I am not a fiscal

liability to the BBC. Trying to sort

money at me to solve the problem,

this will not solve the problem. --

throw money. My problem will be

resolved by saying that my work was

of equal value to the men and I

worked alongside. An apology would

be nice. The BBC said it is very

grateful to men last week taking a

voluntary pay cut. I have never said

they are grateful to me for not

taking a pay rise at the time.

We

got something is wrong. I wish we

hadn't, but we did get something is

wrong, and I would like to be clear

about that. Perhaps I might also say

that I hold Carrie in the greatest

regard. I was lucky enough to spend

some time with her in Beijing when

she was editor. I think she is

absolutely first-rate editor and has

done first-rate work for the BBC,

and I do not want any way to

undermine the work she has done,

because I think she has been

extremely good. I'm joined now by

our correspondent. Carrie was asked

whether she thought the BBC was in

breach of equality pay laws and she

said emphatically, yes.

Absolutely.

This is about much more than just

Carrie Gracie's pay deal. But the

thing about this afternoon is, I

have watched a lot of select

committee hearings over my career.

This afternoon was quite

extraordinary viewing, because the

issue about pay and equality at the

BBC has been front-page news now for

months. And yesterday, we had a big

independent report saying there was

no gender bias in the way that the

BBC awards its pay. However, this

gave you a true inside track on the

emotional impact this actually has

on an individual. This will humanise

the story. I know Carrie Gracie

pretty well, she is a tough cookie,

and when you watch her, you realise

the sense of injustice and betrayal.

She had been promised, she said, she

would have absolute equality with

her male colleagues. And four years

down the line, she says there is a

50% gap. So that is what we are

seeing, the sense of incredulity,

what happened when the BBC was

forced to release those salaries.

There is a good story behind how

this happened, it was equal when

they made the promise, and then

things changed. But it gave you a

real sense of what the pay dispute

in the pay gap actually means in

personal terms.

Thanks for giving us

that quick synopsis of a very

interesting committee hearing

earlier today.

Officials at the US Federal Reserve

have left interest rates unchanged

after the first policy

meeting of 2018.

But it's expected inflation

will move up this year,

a possible signal of faster

rate increases ahead.

The US Central bank has forecast

three rate hikes -

the same as in 2017.

Moscow says it is organising

a competition for Russian athletes

who are barred from taking part

in the Winter Olympics.

President Putin apologised

for failing to shield them

from international action over

a doping scandal.

Nearly 170 Russians

are being allowed to compete

in South Korea under a neutral

Olympic flag.

Getting 10,000 steps

a day is something

plenty of people aim for.

But does it actually

do you any good?

The number comes from a marketing

campaign in Japan in the 1960s.

Now, new research has discovered

taking three brisk ten minute

walks a day provides

greater health benefits.

I'm sure you do both, Christian.

I

don't have a FitBit, but I do have a

wife who does this in bed at night

to get over the 10,000.

Too much

information, we don't need to know.

This is Beyond 100 Days, and still

to come...

Wikie the talking killer whale

is taught to say hello,

but why are we so keen

to talk to animals?

A judge has strongly

criticised the Police

and the Crown Prosecution Service

for "wholesale failures" --

after a human trafficking trial

collapsed last week when material

from mobile phones,

that was disclosed late,

cast doubt on the case.

Clive Coleman reports.

Cristina Bosoanca's story

shows the devastating

human effect that failure to

disclose evidence can have.

After 13 tough months

in prison she can

finally relax with

the son she bore there.

The girls were bullying me.

It was difficult when I saw them

going to the visits of...

The prosecution case

was based on the

evidence of a woman who claimed

Cristina trafficked her

into the country to

work as a prostitute.

She also alleged she was raped

by a client and became

pregnant as a result.

Christina's lawyers

repeatedly told the police

that there were phone messages

which undermined the woman's story.

It was only on the second day

of the trial that 65,000

phone messages were disclosed

to Cristina Bosoanca's team.

They fundamentally

undermined the woman's

account and medical evidence also

proved the woman was pregnant before

coming to the UK.

The case collapsed on Friday,

the judge demanding

police and prosecutors should come

to court today to explain.

In court, the judge

said there had been a

wholesale failure of disclosure,

and serious and repeated

errors by both the police

and the Crown Prosecution

Service.

The senior crown prosecutor

apologised and said a full review

was taking place and a report would

been sent to the Director of Public

Prosecutions.

Cristina Bosoanca's experience shows

disclosure failures go beyond recent

highly publicised rape cases

and there are likely to be more

examples, each one affecting the

lives of those charged, and their

families.

What Americans sitting at home make

of President Trump's first State of

the union address?

The BBC caught up

with a Trump photo in Washington

state and a Tremor in Florida.

President Trump's speech was

impressive. The state of our union

is strong.

I knew he would not talk

positively about the immigrant

community.

Crucially, our plan

closes the terrible loopholes

exploited by criminals and

terroristss to enter our country.

It's just shows what kind of person

he is, trying to make is because of

we are all criminals.

The House in

Senate will be voting on an

immigration reform package. The

first pillar... The second pillar,

the third pillar...

The four pillars

appeared to me to be very fair, very

reasonable, to be something that we

as a country can support.

A practice

as is as an ship.

My favourite part

was the pathway to citizenship, to

1.8 million dreamers.

Army, Staff

Sergeant Justin Peck 's here

tonight.

The thing he did best was

to bring into his speech...

Corey

Adams is also with us tonight 's.

The ordinary American citizens who

have been involved for the past

year.

A job well done.

He really

missed on the opportunity and the

contributions we make to this

country.

The individual mandate is

now gone.

I don't care you can

afford it or not, if you do not buy

this health insurance, we are going

to penalise you? That is just

horrible.

There is a tremendous

disparity between the left wing, the

right wing, the Democrats. Which is

a shame. -- the Republicans, the

Democrats.

Two very different

perspectives from Americans on what

the resident had to say. Wilbur Mal

talk to the president of the village

of Thiensville in Wisconsin. We

talked to him about this time last

year. How do you think the president

is doing based on last night?

I

think he gave a great speech and had

a better year, and so I am pleased

with the speech and looking forward

to the New Year.

He spoke a lot

about the need of cooperation,

bipartisanship, the idea of unity.

Of course, with cooperation comes

compromise. Would you want

Republicans to compromise with

Democrats to get things done in the

country?

Yes, I do. He pointed to

things that people in both parties

are very happy with, expanding the

economy, unemployment, the

African-American community and the

Hispanic community. Now we have an

opportunity to work on some

bipartisan things, and readily

infrastructure packages something

the Democrats can embrace, and

Republicans as well. I think the

immigration reform ideas he put out

there, and is four pillars are very

good pillars. I think we can all

rally around those. He had

bipartisan consensus on the need to

make some better trade deals,

particularly, and I think that is

good for the American worker. And I

think that everybody is in favour of

a strong defence. So I think what he

has laid out are some bipartisan

ideas, and I expect there will be

progress.

When you look at how

President Trump is treated by the

rest of the world, particularly

Britain, let's talk about Britain,

do you think he gets enough credit?

I don't. You know, I think a lot of

the world economy is listed to

changes in the United States. I

think the opportunity for the United

States and the UK to cooperate even

in the future is even greater than

it is in the past. We do have a

special relationship, we are like

family. I think that the British

economy, and we are, I think... And

I'm not British, although I love

Britain, I have been there before. I

think they made the right decision

with Brexit, but I understand they

are torn twin looking to the West

and the open seas, and the

continent, and I think they made the

right decision. I think you should

embrace Trump and invite over the

state visit, invite him to the Royal

wedding, and he will behave well,

see what gifts he gives you, and I

think we have a good year ahead of

us.

If only I had the power to

invite to the Royal wedding.

Invite

all others! Van, you, me, we will

all be there together. -- all

others.

Katty, I would love to be

there.

If I can swing it, the you

would be my first invite. Thanks for

joining us again.

Only a handful of animals can

mimic human language.

Yet the idea of animals

communicating fascinates us.

Dr Doolittle, Mr Ed the talking

horse, Jonny Morris,

the zookeeper and BBC presenter

who always had that Animal Magic.

Can't I have some more?

In an hour

or so. It's all gone, C?

Oh, dear.

I wonder what he would

have made of this.

A killer whale who can mimic words

such as "hello" and "bye bye" -

the first of its kind

to copy human speech.

Hello!

Weekey is a 16-year-old female whale

who has learned to copy

a trainer at a marine

park in France.

Scientists say the ability to learn

new sounds is a sign of intelligence

and is very rare amongst mammals.

Let's have a listen.

One, two, three. One, two, three.

SQUELCH

I heard some hellos this morning.

I

cannot believe we have this on the

programme. I want YouTube addict

thief wail.

What I want to know is,

if this is a French well, why is it

not saying Bonjour? Fascinating.

Apparently, I should say, man next

to not mimic humans very well, but

some do, particularly those in

water. Dolphins, Wales, those are

the ones that seem able to mimic

human sounds.

Christian, stop, let's

move on to the moon. The one you

wanted to see out there, the super

blood blooming. Air -- blue on. That

is a nicer way to end the programme

than Christian going on about Wales.

I hope that is sped up,