05/02/2018 Beyond 100 Days

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Mr Trump

weighs in on healthcare,

Britain's health care,

and gets an angry response.

It is of course not the first time

the American President has tweeted

something that has

annoyed his British ally.

Mr Trump said

the British system was broken

after a demonstration in London

called for more funding for the NHS.

Democrats push for the

release of intelligence

to counter claims the FBI is biased

against Mr Trump

Also on the programme...

The EU's chief negotiator

arrives in London to tell

Britain it faces 'unavoidable'

trade barriers if it leaves

the customs union after Brexit.

And "One of these nights" -

The Eagles finally have the silver.

Superbowl 52

belongs to Philadelphia.

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Hello and welcome -

I'm Katty Kay in Washington

and Christian Fraser is in London.

President Trump is developing

a habit of criticising

one of America's closest allies.

He did it again today when he took

on Britain's popular

national health service -

and drew a swift, fierce

reaction from angry Brits.

The health minister,

Jeremy Hunt was not happy

when Mr Trump suggested the famed

NHS is broken.

As America struggles to develop

a satisfactory private

health care system of its own,

the UK model of public health care

for everybody is often held up

as a counter example.

Many Americans find it hard

to believe that Brits

of all political persuasions

will defend the public health system

- just as Brits find it hard

to believe Americans would tolerate

having so many people

with no health insurance.

It's another sign of the tensions in

the so-called special relationship.

Our political

correspondent Alex Forsyth

is in Westminster for us.

Mr Trump has done it again. How much

concern has he caused amongst

America's closest ally?

Not the

first time he has commented on

something to do with the British

government policy on social media.

There was something of a backlash.

You had people uniting from across

the political spectrum to defend the

NHS in light of President Trump's

comments. Jeremy Corbyn, the

opposition leader said Mr Trump was

wrong to treat his opposition to the

NHS. Many people made the point that

the demonstrators were supporting

the NHS and calling for more funding

for it. Jeremy Hunt the health

minister responded with a critique

of US health policy. Unity from the

UK criticising Donald Trump's

intervention. The Prime Minister

Theresa May was asked about this

today and made the point that there

is a good relationship between the

US and the UK, nonetheless it is

fair to say that Donald Trump is

testing diplomatic relationships.

He

has fundamentally misunderstood that

across the political spectrum, they

like the system. They don't want to

get rid of the NHS, they want more

funding. He is right that there is a

funding debate but they don't want

it replaced.

Quite right. Every

political party in the UK has been

Claire about its commitment to the

NHS. There is no doubt about that.

It is a celebrated part of the UK

Government policy. The origin of the

tweet is that Nigel Farage, a former

leader of Ukip, he appeared on US

television shortly before President

Trump sent this to eat and was

talking about the NHS. In

particular, the pressure it's under

as a result of immigration. Shortly

after, we have this tweet from

Donald Trump. We can't say for sure

that he was influenced by the

appearance of Nigel Farage on US

television but some people are

attributing that to this tweet. He

seems to be missing the point about

the NHS when it comes to British

policy because every party is wholly

supported of it despite the

differences over whether there is

enough funding and how it should be

run. There is cross-party support

for it and we saw exactly that in

the response to Donald Trump's

tweet.

We know that the president

likes to watch Fox and friends and

there is more evidence of it there.

They were marching to protect the

NHS on Saturday, not to replace it

with a privatised system.

Let's just take a look

at some of the stats.

According to the World

Health Organisation -

the UK ranks number 18 out of 191

countries when it comes to health

system performance -

termed here as 'efficiency'.

Compare that to the US -

and they are lower down the list,

weighing in at number 37.

This graph is from the Commonwealth

fund showing health-care spending as

a percentage of GDP. That's most of

the European countries on the

bottom. Canada and Australia might

be there as well. The one on the

top, showing the gap in spending is

the United States. This is a very

interesting debate that Donald Trump

has weighed in on. Whenever you

raise the prospect of having

something like the British system in

America, people cry fear of

socialism and that they could never

possibly do this. They like to

protect their privatised health care

system. But when you look at those

rankings particularly on the quality

of care, the United States comes up

one place behind Costa Rica and one

above Cuba. I'm not sure how many

Americans realise how badly their

health care system ranks compared to

other countries. How badly their

health care system ranks compared to

other countries. Hammy times can

Donald Trump criticise the United

Kingdom whether it is over the

Manchester bombings, the Britain

first videos and other things before

the Prime Minister can say that the

special relationship has been

affected. The bottom line is don't

involve yourself in other country's

political problems. I don't suppose

it will be the last time he does it.

Democrats are pushing

to release their version of how

the FBI investigated the Trump

campaign's ties to Russia.

It's the latest move in

a tit for tat over intelligence.

Here's how we got here.

On Friday, Republicans released

a memo accusing the FBI

of bias in its investigations

into Donald Trump's

presidential campaign.

Mr Trump reacted to

the document on Saturday,

tweeting: This memo totally

vindicates "Trump" in probe.

But the Russian Witch

Hunt goes on and on.

Their was no Collusion

and there was no Obstruction

But then on Sunday, one

of the Republican authors

who helped draft the memo appeared

to contradict Mr Trump -

saying its release has no impact

on the Russia probe.

I am on record as saying

I support Bob Mueller 100%.

I think you would have a Russian...

Look, Russia tried to interfere

with our election in 2016.

With or without a dossier.

You need an investigation

into Russia.

Here to help us make sense

of the whole saga is

the Washington Post's Intelligence

and national security

correspondent, Shane Harris.

The next stage in this row is the

democratic rebuttal to this memo and

the president must decide within

five days whether he is happy for

the house committee to release it.

It will be difficult for him if they

can't release it. What will the

justification for that be? The

Republicans released over very vocal

objections from the FBI and the

intelligence community within Donald

Trump's administration. He would be

in a pickle if he tried to block the

Democrats from releasing the memo.

The Republicans have released their

memo, assuming the Democrats will,

do you think the concept of either

will have changed a single mind in

the United States about whether the

FBI was biased in favour of Donald

Trump or not?

I don't think so.

People have pretty firm opinions on

that question before this Republican

memo came out. It probably

reinforced many people's thoughts

who already thought the FBI was

somehow biased and for those who saw

no bias, it will reinforce that was

right. It didn't offer any new

information or compelling evidence.

I don't know what the Democrat memo

will do to persuade people either. I

don't see people thinking that the

FBI is against Donald Trump will

change their mind.

The baseline for

Devin Nunes is that the dossier

spurred the investigation.

It

explicitly confirms what has been

reported before. George Papadopoulos

was the spark that hit the fire. I

don't know if it shows anything in

the way of how the investigation was

conducted. It reveals how deeply

split the house intelligence

omitting is in its partisan camps

over this investigation which has

threatened to derail this

investigation. This isn't the first

time that he has tried to do that.

Shane Harris at the Washington Post,

thank you very much.

Let's check in with

Peter Ahearn on this -

he served as Special Agent

for the FBI for almost thirty years

and joins me now in the studio.

His there any upside in terms of

intelligence gathering in releasing

little bits of intelligence in this

way that the Republicans have

already and the Democrats want to

do?

First of all, there was no

reason they should have released

classified material. That in itself

is a problem. In this case, some of

this information is out. It's only a

very small part of the total picture

of the information and any

information that gets out can be

damaging, our adversarial, the

Russians in particular are laughing

at this. They can't wait to see what

comes out of this to help them

understand how the FBI collect

intelligence. This isn't a criminal

investigation. It is a huge

difference.

This process of

criticising the FBI that we have

witnessed over the last few weeks in

particular, how damaging is it, not

just to the organisation not to

American security?

The Americans

have to have the confidence that the

FBI will do its job and it is

definitely still there. The one

thing about being independent, both

sides hate your guts. In this case,

you're dealing with an issue where

you can't win. I could tell you

right now that the director would be

briefing the president if something

happened and doing the job that he

was appointed to do as well as every

other member of the FBI but it does

get old, it can wear you down but

not stopping them from doing their

job. Robert Mueller's job has not

ended.

If you're not getting it from

both sides if you're supposed to be

in the middle, you are in trouble.

The committee meet in private,

classified information is shared

between them or has been in the

past. That sometimes doesn't suit

the FBI. Will they now be more loath

to share things that they probably

should share with the committee.

That's correct but it won't stop

them if that's what they are told to

do. You are sharing some very

classified information with members

of Congress. Also, you have to think

about the members of staff, who

pretty much wrote this memo and

getting to look into certain things,

there is concern about sharing

information and links that can be

derived from that. It is not the FBI

only. The CIA, the NSA, the other

members of the intelligence

community are concerned that when

they are briefing things, is that

information going to get out? Is it

going to compromise the sources and

methods of United States

intelligence agencies that they used

to get the information?

That is key.

It is a pretty clear rule of thumb

that the people who look for

something the more likely it is to

get laid.

A year and a half after

the Brexit referendum,

Britain needs to decide

what it wants in its future

relationship with Europe -

that was the verdict today

of the EU's chief

negotiator, Michel Barnier.

The choice is whether Britain

will share rules and tariffs

with the EU once it has left -

or go its own way.

There have been concerns among those

who voted for Brexit,

that a promise to the leave the EU,

is being diluted by those ministers

who voted to Remain.

But last night the government made

it clear, that it was not UK policy

to stay in ANY customs

union with the EU.

So, what is the policy?

Our political editor

Laura Kuenssberg reports.

In a hurry.

Not just to catch the 1056

from Brussels to London.

We have not a minute

to lose, because

we want to achieve a deal.

But the EU's chief negotiator

wants to press on.

It is time for bargaining he says

as the next round of Brexit

talks loom.

The first priority for him

and his host David Davis

is to agree what happens

straight after Brexit.

Do you know what the British

government wants?

In the two years or so time frame

not much will change

but the real posturing

is about the longer term.

Theresa May popped in for a drink

after reminding her

party that she wants out

of the single market free trade area

and the current customs union.

But she knows, along

with these two, there

might be mishaps along the way.

Our negotiating team

is starting straightaway,

tomorrow certainly on an intensive

period of negotiation

and we can get that agreement.

Yet while this might

sound elegant in a

French accent it is still a warning.

Without the customs union, outside

the single market, barriers to trade

and goods and services

are unavoidable.

Time has come to make a choice.

In other words, Foreign Secretary

and others, make your mind up.

The EU's has consistently said

we can't keep the best bits of the

EU without losing somewhere.

But that has always been

rejected by Brexiteers.

What my side wants,

what most of the country

wants is a good deal.

The way to get a good deal is to be

very clear that we are leaving,

we are leaving the single

market, leaving the customs union.

The fear of others in the Tory party

and the government is that the

Eurosceptics are too close to No 10.

This week

the Prime Minister hopes to get

the Cabinet to find a compromise.

What is more important, sticking

close to the EU or

making the most of freedom outside?

We've heard a lot of,

we are not going to do this,

we are not going to do that.

What are we going to do?

That is what we're waiting

to hear, that is what

the 27 countries the UK's

negotiating with waiting to hear.

In the meantime

this uncertainty is really,

really bad for business.

No 10 has to make

bargains within its

party as well as

with the EU outside.

Today's talks were about the EU

in the UK plugging back in

before the next charge

round of negotiations really gets

going but arguably for there to be

meaningful

progress any time soon the UK

ministers have to speed up their

decisions about their

overall approach.

None of the questions are easy

but after months of squabbling

time to discuss becomes

time to decide.

Laura Kuenssberg,

BBC News, Westminster.

The former US gymnastics

doctor, Larry Nassar,

has been sentenced to

an additional 40 to 125 years

in prison.

The sentence relates

to the sexual abuse

of young female athletes.

Nassar carried out the abuse

over two decades under the guise

of medical treatment.

The sole surviving suspect

of the Paris attacks in 2015

has gone on trial in Belgium

in a separate case linked

to his arrest in Brussels.

29-year-old Salah Abdeslam

is accused of attempting to murder

police officers during a gun battle,

four months after the Paris attacks.

If you know the story

of Rocky Balboa you will know that

Philadelphia is a sucker

for a good underdog story.

Last night it was their own football

team that overcame all the odds.

The Eagles beat the New England

Patriots to win the trophy

for the first time.

And with a back-up quarterback who

nearly gave up the game entirely.

Nick Foles got his

chance in December

when the regular quarterback

sustained a season-ending injury.

On Sunday night,

facing the Patriots' Tom Brady,

one of the greatest quarterbacks

of all time, Foles came of age.

Throwing three touchdowns

and even running one in himself.

Voted the most valuable

player on the field.

Fairytale stuff.

Jane O'Brien is in Philly.

Lucky you. What a party they had

last night.

They certainly did.

Today is officially won they I don't

know if it is going to be a state

annual holiday but it is hilarious

here because this city is suffering

from a monumental collective

hangover. Pretty much everybody I

has spoken to was out until the

early hours just partying. Luigi at

the pizza shop on the corner said

that normally he sells 200 wings and

night. Last night it was 2000. He

said it was out of control. They are

preparing for the victory parade

that will take place on Thursday and

I'm being assured that it will be

the biggest parade that Philadelphia

has ever seen. That is a passing

fan. Another fan gave me this.

Apparently I'm in the wrong colours.

It is the the Eagles flag. It has

clearly seen some action. It smells

of beer. Won't be coming back in the

car with ours. Save to say, fly,

Eagles, fly!

The green! The green!

I've got my green tie on, as well.

We wish you were there.

And for more on the big game

last night we can turn

now to Tommy Smyth -

who after decades covering

the football Europeans know and love

has turned his sights

to the American game.

Great to have you back on. I had no

idea that you were an American

football fan. I feel slightly

betrayed because I have spoken to so

many times about soccer. Did you

enjoy the game?

It was an incredible

game. I'm speaking as someone who

has seen every one of the Super

Bowls. It was as good a game as I've

seen. A typical Philadelphia story.

Philadelphia fans are meat and

potatoes, they don't want it fancy,

they just want to win and they

certainly did last night.

Tell

others about Nick Foles, the young

quarterback, young by Tom Brady's

standards, and yours and mine, he

had a great game.

He had a

believable game. The difference was

when the coach called that place

where Nick Foles went into the end

zone and caught a pass himself. Ten

minutes before that, Tom Brady tried

the same thing and it didn't

succeed. That was the changing of

the guard right there. And then that

Hail Mary at the end. Those are

something that the Patriots have

become accustomed to getting

something out of but there was

nothing last night.

Glad that you

are wearing your Eagles green tie,

like I am. There will be producers

in Hollywood queueing up for the

Nick Foles story. He was thinking

about quitting the game. He was in

the background as the number two

quarterback. He was booed in the

regular season and now he comes to

prominence facing Tom Brady, the God

of Super Bowl.

It doesn't get any

better. You couldn't write a

Hollywood story that was like this.

People would say you are crazy. It

just went right for him at the right

time. He won't be the first

quarterback next year. Philadelphia

will go back to the number one. Even

though he won the Super Bowl, he

could be out of a job next year. But

a lot of managers would love to have

him. It was a real Rocky story.

Fabulous stuff. Deep into the fourth

quarter, because of the game,

because of the stature of Tom Brady,

it could have gone to the Patriots

right at the death.

You are watching

and watching because we have become

so accustomed to the Patriots

partying out. In life, nothing lasts

forever but tonight the Eagles were

the ones.

Sylvester Stallone put

something up on Instagram. Young,

Eagles! In my best Rocky Balboa

voice. What does it mean for the

franchise?

An awful out of money.

Plus, when you look at this team,

this team is basically going to come

back next year with a different

quarterback. They are not going to

lose any of their players. They are

set up now. They could become a

dynasty. They could become the

Patriots. They could come the

Patriots of the future. They have a

really good-looking team. The

defence is coming back. They will be

back again.

They will love to hear

that in Philadelphia. Last night was

my first time I actually watched the

film Super Bowl game. My son explain

the game to me. Luckily he

understands it. I could actually see

that people were watching it for the

game. After a year in which the NFL

has come in for so criticism for

many reasons, it was good to see

that the football was what people

were talking about and not the

politics and not incidents of abuse

in the game.

If the NFL had written

the story that this was the way they

wanted to end the season, this would

have been it. It took all that other

stuff out and still focused on the

game. With seconds left on the

clock, the game was up for grabs.

You were waiting to see where the

ball went. If grand cat -- Grant

caught the ball, the Patriots would

have got it. It was a real shot in

the arm for the game.

Thank you,

Tommy. Christine, deduced a band

watch the game? You know that I fell

asleep on the sofa in the first

quarter and my wife had to come down

to kick me off the sofa to go to

bed. It was a poor show. I saw the

first field goal and I saw the

Patriots get down the other end and

that was it. So, I missed it.

Useless. No good at all.

This is Beyond 100

Days from the BBC.

Coming up for viewers

on the BBC News Channel

and BBC World News -

we ask are there enough safeguards

in place to protect those who work

in the so called gig economy?

And the British man accused

of hacking into American

government computers wins

against being extradited

to the United States.

That's still to come.

The next couple of nights are going

to be very cold indeed. Tomorrow

night will be even colder. Tonight,

some snow on the way. Let's see

where. First of all, in Northern

Ireland and parts of Scotland a

light covering is possible. One or

two centimetres. In the early hours

of Tuesday, it reaches the north of

England and merges into Wales and

the north-west of England. I had of

that, towards the east and south,

partly cloudy skies and a harsh

frost. Temperatures down to -3 or 4

degrees. By 8am, the weather front

has gone through and we are in a

cold air mass. Wintry showers will

follow. The weather front coming

through Newcastle to York and

Manchester, Northern Wales, the West

Midlands and nudging into

Birmingham. The very far south-west,

the tip of Cornwall it is probably

going to be rainfall. A covering of

snow, one or two centimetres, over

the hills it could be five or ten.

There could be delays on Tuesday

morning. The weather front gets

stuck across the Midlands and the

south and it is just cloud. Not much

snow to come. Tomorrow night,

Tuesday night Interwetten stay, it

turns really cold. Snow showers here

and there but the temperature will

be the story. It could be easily -5

Celsius. Negative double digits

expected widely in Scotland. Outside

of city centres. Wednesday not

looking too bad. Another front

approaching but ahead of it a cold

and frosty start. Clear skies, a

beautiful crisp winter's day. Then

another weather front moves in and

within this area of cloud, rain and

drizzle, maybe a bit of snow in the

North, milder air heading our way.

By the time we get to Thursday, it

will turn milder. Temperatures

recovering to rant about six. Maybe

even 10 degrees in the far

south-west. Goodbye.

This is Beyond 100 Days. Christian

Fraser is in London. Our top

stories: Theresa May defends the

British health care is system after

President Trump treats that it is

broke and not working. Coming up in

the next half-hour: Democrats push

for their right to reply to a

Republican memo accusing the FBI of

bias in its investigation of top's

ties with Russia. A British hacker

accused of hacking into US

computers, with his battle against

extradition. Let us know your

thoughts.

Are there enough safeguard ins place

for people who work in the so-called

gig economy. That is the term used

to describe companies such as the

about, for whom self-employed

drivers are matched with jobs or

gates. This man was one of these

self-employed workers. He was also

diabetic. Last year, he collapsed

twice at the real of his ban, but

because he -- wheel of his van, but

because he faced a penalty, he

started missing medical

appointments. In late December,

having worked through Christmas to

meet the rush, he collapsed and

died. His wife spoke trust. She

explains that things started to get

harder for, as he took out a

franchise with the company?

It

sounded an amazing, amazing

opportunity. And, you get the

contracts, I believe, back then it

was a five-year contract. But, now

it is a format you want. And part of

the contract, I'm afraid, there are

clauses, and if you don't agree with

them, you don't get your franchise.

One of those causes is -- clauses is

a ridiculously unfair fine, charge

of £150. Something that nobody wants

to fork out for. If anything, if you

don't work that day, you don't own

anything. That is fine enough, but

to charge on top of not only for

that day of £150, awful. That is

some people's weekly wage, you know.

A lot of money. Not fair.

I presume,

that on those days when he woke up

and did not feel well, it is not so

easy, if it's to find a basement

driver at the drop of a hat? Was

that part of the problem, that he

could not find a placement is

macular Matt Jess. You've got to be

trained. You can't get anybody to

drive the van. They have tuna had

used the hand held computers.

It

works out the roots and tells you

what time you finish your work.

Never had dinner breaks. They would

eat on the go. The last few days,

before New Year's Eve when I lost

him, he wasn't feeling good. He had,

I thought... It was a sickness bug.

Towards the end, he was saying, I've

was bringing up a bit of blood. He

was a lovely man. He would have

loved him. Bubbly, vivacious, fun

loving. Always had a lovely smile.

He was just my best friend, and now

I have lost my soul mate, and I'm so

lost. I wish I could worry about the

time. I wish I could have made him

go to hospital appointments. I just

wish I had worried at the time. I

miss him so much, you would have

loved him, obviously. A hard worker,

dedicated and a lovely father to our

son, Jordan. A lovely man.

We wished

he could have made those

appointments to. Thank you for

talking to us. I know that this is

really difficult.

Thank you it is a

pleasure.

Well, we do have a

statement from DPD.

The Depot did not charge Don.

Well, let's speak to Kate Bell, who

was head of economic policy at the

trades unions Congress. Good to see

you. Really hard to watch Ruth's

interview, and a difficult time for

her. Let's talk about the Taylor

review on the modern working

practices, which the Government

commissioned Matthew Taylor's

report. Due to bring out its

findings this week. I want to read

you one bit. They say that eight MRC

should take responsibility for

forcing the basic set of poor

deployment of rights that apply to

all workers. National minimum wage,

sick pay, and holiday pay for the

lowest paid workers.

We do think

that would be a good step in the

right direction. There are too many

bad employers. We hear from too many

people who are missing out on is

sick pay, whether that is because

they have been pushed into forced

self-employment, or because they do

not qualify for that. It is great to

see that the Government wants to

enforce the rights that we do have,

but too many people do not qualify

for sick people, at all. We had from

zero I was contracts, where one in

eight said they were getting any

sick pay. That would be a start, but

there is a lot more to do.

There was

a report specifically on the UK

delivery sector, and he said that in

the working day of a career, delays

are commensurate with lower

earnings.

Don's case is absolutely

tragic, but unfortunately we do hear

from people across sectors, and it

is not just from carriers, we have

from care workers, constantly under

pressure to meet targets. We hear

from people in the hospitality

industry, not getting their rights

and protections. This report, the

Government is response will for this

report, really is an opportunity for

the Government to say, we are

listening to these people's stories

and we are hearing them, and we want

to do something about it.

As more

and more people start to be employed

in the gig economy, is there going

to be in a sense a situation where

these companies, rubella, whatever

it is, say, luck. If you do not like

terms and conditions, and they are

going to take them. The protections

that come with it are going to be

quantified be different as well. We

just have not had that conversation

about whether that is what we want.

I think that we are pretty sceptical

that this is a quantified the

different way of working. This looks

like some old expedition dustup

anderson new technology platforms.

We saw the case with Uber this year.

I think we have got to be a bit more

ambitious and say, because of new

ways of workers, -- working, people

do not qualify for the minimum wage.

We do need a conversation about

that. I think that most people would

conclude that that is not

acceptable.

Kate, here in the US, of

course there have been stories about

a lift driver for example, who went

into labour while she was driving a

client, and then drove that guide to

the hospital. It is held up by Left,

look at the fantastic employee! But,

that undermines the argument in

favour of these protections.

I don't

think so. I think most people would

be pretty concerned, when they say

that this person is being forced to

work to take me to wherever I am

going. Most people want the people

they work with to say, I know this

person is getting the right health

and safety protections. I know that

they are being paid the minimum

wage...

But what I responsibilities

as a consumer, though. I'm not

picking on Amazon. But Amazon, John

Lewis, Marks & Spencer. They all

send them through DPD. They want it

as quick as possible, and they want

it quick. Should they have a

responsible teacher put higher those

who will put best practice... Tenner

there is irresponsible to four

Government here to say we have some

minimum standards. This just is not

OK.

It is harder for consumers to

find out the information. We know

that there are great ways that

people can take action. People get

up and say, this is not OK and we

will fight for our rights, but we do

need Government to step into. -- in,

too.

US market are down again today

after sustaining losses last week.

On Friday, the three main US stock

markets suffered their biggest fall

in three years. Investors are

nervous that a strengthening job

market could mean a hike in interest

rates. Today is also the day that

former investment banker was sworn

in as...

Be used chief negotiator,

Michel Barnier, has warned the

Government that trade barriers will

happen. Speaking after talks with

the Brexit secretary, David Davis,

Mr Barnier said that the time had

come. For the UK to make a choice.

There has been days of public

squalor bowing -- squabbling. Does

it look more like we are moving to

what might be called a hard Brexit

rather than a soft Brexit? Have the

Brexiteers got the upper hand?

Well,

what the Government confirmed today,

is that its policy, set out the

Lancaster house speech, that this

country is leaving the single market

and the customs union, and I think

there will be huge economic

opportunities that the UK when that

does happen.

You are a former

Secretary of State for Ireland. What

are staying in the customs union

mean for the Irish border, it's

complicated isn't it?

The UK

Government set out some incredible

plans as to how we might deal with

the practicalities of a border to

keep... To keep it as free-flowing

as possible. Whatever the customs

relationship is between the UK and

the EU. I think it is perfectly

possible to do that. One of the

advantages of leaving the EU is to

take back control over our trade

policy, and I believe that the

Government is right to confirm, once

again, that we will be leaving the

customs union, so that we can strike

those trade deals with many

important markets around the world.

To get the sort of deal that people

want, a civil service is going to

have to work doubly hard. Are you

one of those politicians that think

the civil service is biased against

Brexit, or is it guilty of...

I

wouldn't describe the civil service

in that way. I think it is important

that they have firm direction from

the top. I think, the Prime Minister

has given that direction on the

customs union, today. I think it

will be important in the coming

days, as crucial decisions are made

about what the Government was the

end state to look like. That they

give firm leadership on that to

their civil servants. We have got

some excellent officials working on

this issue. I am sure that they are

doing their very best to ensure that

we have a smooth departure from the

EU. It is important that the

Government provide a lead to all of

their civil servants.

In doing their

very best, they come up with reports

say that in any scenario, Brexit

will damage the economy. I am afraid

--

I am afraid that the economic

forecasts are very often proven to

be incorrect. After all, the

Government and the Remain campaign

did produce forecasts saying that

there would be some immediate

economic shock if the country voted

to leave. Actually, we've got record

investment, the lowest an

appointment rate for 40 years, and

the economy has... The fundamentals

of the economy are strong. So, what

ever the Treasury is come up with by

way of forecast, I view with a pinch

of salt, because so often, it is to

be incorrect.

Thank you very much

for joining us from Westminster. A

32-year-old man has won his

challenge against ex-addition to the

United States. Lauri Love who has

Asperger's syndrome is alleged to

have carried out a series of cyber

attacks it to US companies and

agencies, including Nasa and the US

Army.

Lawyers argued that he was at

risk of killing himself if he was

sent to the United States. Judges

here in the UK said that it would be

oppressive to sent him to trial in

America. Daniela Ralph was there.

Larry Love described it as annoying

away on his soul. The reason I have

gone through this ordeal is not just

to save myself from being kidnapped

and locked up from a country I never

visited, but it is to set a

precedent whereby this will not

happen to other people in the

future. The Appeal Court judges

ruled that Lauri Love was

vulnerable. Crucially, for his

well-being, he needed to be close to

his parents, here, in Britain. The

relief for Lauri Love, his family

and his supporters is obvious here

at court. They believe that this

decision is just and humane. In a

spate of online attacks in 2012, and

2013, Lauri Love is alleged to have

hacked into the computer systems of

several US Government agencies. They

include the FBI, and the Department

of defence. The Federal reserve,

America was accidental bank and the

space agency, Nasa. He was chased by

a remaining e-mail address and a

PayPal account. He has been

interviewed here by Britain's

National Crime Agency, but as yet

has not been charged. Today's

judgment did not rule out a

prosecution here in the UK.

Something that his family and his

supporters are perpetual. How do you

feel about the prospect of a trial

here in the UK and the possible jail

time?

I do trust a trial in the UK.

The chances of me ever being on

child there were very slim. In the

UK we don't pressure people into

facilitating their own prosecutions.

This case has been a strain on the

his whole family.

There is a

consensus of agreement of the things

that really matter. About decency,

justice and fairness. I always have

believed that you live on these

islands is to win the lottery of

life, and what makes Britain great

is not about power or might, but the

fact that it is a great place to

live.

The United States now has two

Mac weeks to lodge a request for an

appeal here at the UK Supreme Court.

The crowd prosecution service will

also decide whether to bring

charges. But, despite the remaining

uncertainty, this was a day to

celebrate for Lauri Love. He needs

to focus -- he wants to focus now on

his electoral engineering degree,

and is planning to pursue a career

in cyber security.

He was facing 99

years if he was convicted in an

American jail. He said today that he

wanted to set a precedent - a

president to protect people with

autism and Asperger's, which is that

are not fully understood, and some

people applaud him for that, but the

other side say, is that people who

hacked into Nasa, or the CIA need to

face justice in the United States.

They will be worried that the

precedent that has been set here,

says something dangerous to other

countries, like those in China,

Russia, the Americans tried to get

hold of the crimes that they have

committed. YTS. And I guess if you

spoke to people here, who were

critical about the court's ruling,

they would say, well, how would you

feel if it was somebody who had

hacked out of Moscow all Beijing.

It

comes down to this issue of how much

weight to give to the mental health

of somebody, if that mental health

is proven to be beyond the spectrum

that might affect average people who

were in this situation. That is the

humane case that the court clearly

ruled on in favour of the UK, but I

do not think there will be very much

sympathy for Lauri Love here in the

US. As you say, this is a dangerous

precedent that will be watched in

Beijing and in Moscow. But the

likelihood of those people coming to

trial is quite low. This is Beyond

100 Days, and still to come. And all

women team complete the crossing of

Antarctica. They hope that it will

inspire others to do the same.

A

white supremacist who planned to

carry out a machete attack has been

convicted of an act of terrorism --

planning an act of terrorism.

Ethan

Stables...

Ethan Stables,

self-confessed neo Nazi.

For more than six months he planned

to carry out an attack.

He had been homeless in Barrow,

and eventually moved into a small

dilapidated flat in the town.

Behind his front door last June,

he spoke online about how

he hated gay people.

He began to amass weapons.

And recorded this shocking video.

It's just like gay people,

much nicer when they're on fire.

He told members of a private neo

Nazi Facebook group there were Pride

flags flying over a nearby pub

and it was time to turn

hate into action.

In a series of increasingly

frightening posts,

Stables revealed his plan.

"I'm going to war

tonight," he told them.

Some readers encouraged him, but one

replied, that's not right, Ethan.

He posted this reconnaissance

poster and signed off:

Barmaid Katy Bolger was setting up

for the night when armed officers,

tipped off by a Facebook

user, rushed in.

It frightened me.

I felt like a deer in

the headlights, they said there had

been a terrorist threat made

against the pub and this person

was going to come in while the event

was on and basically harm people.

I was so angry afterwards to think

someone would actually do something

like that to a peaceful place.

With the armed police over there,

the manhunt across Barrow continued

and shortly after 10pm Ethan Stables

was arrested on this road,

between his flat and the target.

The prosecutor said this

was his last act of reconnaissance

before he would have gone home

to get his weapons.

This is what police recorded finding

after they broke into his flat -

a swastika flag on the wall,

weapons including an axe

laid out and prepared,

evidence that Stables was trying

to make his own explosives.

It would have been a bloodbath,

no getting away from that.

I just wish it was taken

more seriously...

Lee Wicks runs the LGBT support

group that was the target and said

the far right are once more becoming

emboldened as they go unchallenged

on social media.

Personally I think Facebook should

have closed his account.

I was quite horrified

to see his main picture was him

looking very Aryan in front

of a swastika banner, flag,

and the literature was very

extreme Nazi propaganda.

Facebook has not commented on why

Stables remained online,

despite at least four

complaints against him.

During his defence he claimed

he never meant his words

and that he was in fact bisexual.

His conviction today for preparing

an act of terrorism means

he could face a life sentence.

Since the end of the Cold War, it

has been argued that the elected

Government have been those to cause

because it breakdowns. In the US, we

have seen a suspicion raised in the

institutions that underpinned the

states such as the FBI.

So, are we

witnessing a gradual undermining of

democracy, itself. Thanks very much

for coming on the programme. This is

very topical at the moment. Donald

Trump is criticised for attacking a

number of institutions in the United

States. Principally, the media, and

of course be caught, as well.

That

is right. It is part of a global way

that we are studying in this book.

Me and my co-writer examine this

round the world.

The argument in the

America though is that institutions

will protect institutions from

someone like Donald Trump is that

true?

Well yes. We generally see

America as a stable democracy. There

are many reasons to be optimistic

about the US. In particular, we see

a wrap Democratic Alliance vision of

the Republican party --

radicalisation of the Republican

party.

You could say that it was not

Donald Trump who started this. The

root of the sort of part of --

partisan ship that we have seen in

America came well before Donald

Trump?

Definitely, the problem is

deeper than Donald Trump. In the

early 1990s, there have been

increased polarisation of the

parties. They began to hate each

other. Evidence in the opinion

surveys as well as in everyday

politics. As Democratic opposition

focuses on Donald Trump, perhaps too

narrowly. There are problems as

well.

What we have seen in Eastern

Europe, is a few governments that

have been elected that had to be

from populist nationalist movements.

Would you say that what is happening

in the east of Europe is a

reflection of the fact that those

institutions are not as robust as

they might be in other Western

countries?

I think that is right.

The US has this system of checks and

balances. The US federal system also

played a role in constraining

authoritarian tendencies, so one

have a Parliamentary system... With

a majority, you could dramatically

revamped rules, like in Hungary, but

this is much harder to do in the

United States.

Do you think that the

US institutions that are under

attack at the moment are a direct

the damage, or after centuries of

existence, will they survive the

current onslaught?

We really think

that the US is in a much better

position. Because of the age of the

democracy, the vibrancy of civil

society, the national wealth... They

are more likely to survive

challenges and political crises. The

US is in a much better condition,

and in many ways... Although the

name of our book is how democracies

die, we do not think democracy is

dead in the US. There are these

ominous echoes, other countries in

around the world, Venezuela, Turkey,

where people come to power through

elections, and then once in power

tried to dismantle those elections.

Thank you so much for joining us

from Harvard. Very glad to hear that

democracy is not dead. Six women

from the British Army have become

the largest all-female group to ski

coast across Antarctica. The

so-called Ice Maiden team tackled

winds of up to 60 mph. They were

expected to take between 75 and 92

days. But, they managed to do it in

just 62 days. The PDB jelly to the

top short call -- the trip to the

south pole.

That is it from