0:00:12 > 0:00:17You are watching Beyond 100 Days. Buckle up, it is a roller-coaster
0:00:17 > 0:00:23ride on global stock markets. The Dow Jones was up and down today
0:00:23 > 0:00:28after a massive fall yesterday. It seems Wall Street is nervous because
0:00:28 > 0:00:33Main Street is doing better and that has implications for investors
0:00:33 > 0:00:39around the world. The White House is wondering whether to declassify MMO
0:00:39 > 0:00:44on intelligence about Trump and Russia. Also, last week Donald Trump
0:00:44 > 0:00:47was extending the figleaf to Democrats but now he has accused
0:00:47 > 0:00:53them of treason for failing to applaud his speech.An American.
0:00:53 > 0:01:03Someone said treasonous. Why not? , Colak treason?Why not? In 1918,
0:01:03 > 0:01:10women in the UK won the right to vote, why aren't there more women
0:01:10 > 0:01:15now in politics worldwide? You can get in touch with us.
0:01:25 > 0:01:31How low. If you ever needed proof that Wall Street is not Main Street,
0:01:31 > 0:01:36look at financial markets today. The US stock market has recorded huge
0:01:36 > 0:01:40losses recently and all because the real economy is actually doing
0:01:40 > 0:01:45better. After yo-yoing Alde, the Dow Jones is still trading and it is
0:01:45 > 0:01:53down slightly. The main European markets took a hit, the FTSE100
0:01:53 > 0:01:59closed down by 2.6%, its lowest level since last April. Do the
0:01:59 > 0:02:07numbers matter? What do they tell us about the global economy? If you own
0:02:07 > 0:02:14the highs, do you own the lows? Let us get the thoughts of a former
0:02:14 > 0:02:30adviser to George W Bush. We are glad you're here with us in London.
0:02:30 > 0:02:36That is how it goes in politics. Presidents like to talk the fact
0:02:36 > 0:02:40that the stock market is doing well but when it isn't, you have to say,
0:02:40 > 0:02:43I have to reassure the American people and give people confidence
0:02:43 > 0:02:49that there are highs and lows. It is cyclical. If you're that worried,
0:02:49 > 0:03:01you should not be in the stock market to begin with.You say that.
0:03:01 > 0:03:08All sorry if I don't remember any of them saying -- being quite so keen
0:03:08 > 0:03:18to tout any stock markets.President Bush had an eye on the long ball. I
0:03:18 > 0:03:23am here to be the economic steward of the American economy, I am here
0:03:23 > 0:03:29to help Congress find laws to work better for business. This is
0:03:29 > 0:03:40something that Donald Trump might
0:03:56 > 0:04:01regret
0:04:06 > 0:04:11you have to be careful of taking too much credit, taking a victory lap
0:04:11 > 0:04:15when economic conditions could change ever so quickly.Knowing
0:04:15 > 0:04:19President Trump as you do, would you expect him to turn around when the
0:04:19 > 0:04:25market has had a bad couple of days, as the market sellers continue and
0:04:25 > 0:04:30go to the American people as you have suggested and reassure them?
0:04:30 > 0:04:34No, I do not. The soul that he was saying in Cincinnati, he was talking
0:04:34 > 0:04:38about Democrats and the state of the union, I don't think he will, he
0:04:38 > 0:04:41will take credit when things are good and not speak to the American
0:04:41 > 0:04:47people when things go down a little bit.You're going to stay with us.
0:04:47 > 0:04:53It will be good to have you on. The last time I was with him on the
0:04:53 > 0:04:59show, the fire alarms off -- went off and the entire studio nearly
0:04:59 > 0:05:03burned down. Democrats have prepared a memo in response to the one that
0:05:03 > 0:05:07the Republicans release criticising the FBI and justice department over
0:05:07 > 0:05:11surveillance rules. The intelligence committee has authorised the release
0:05:11 > 0:05:15of the Democrats version and has sent to the President who will
0:05:15 > 0:05:18decide whether it should be declassified, they say the public
0:05:18 > 0:05:22must be able to see both sides of this argument in order to make up
0:05:22 > 0:05:26their own judgments.We think this will help inform the public of the
0:05:26 > 0:05:30many distortions and inaccuracies in the majority memo. We have also
0:05:30 > 0:05:37asked as of our transmittal to the White House that unlike the process
0:05:37 > 0:05:43that was used, that the Department of Justice and the FBI be consulted,
0:05:43 > 0:05:46that they have the opportunity to that any information that they may
0:05:46 > 0:05:50be concerned about in our memo in terms of sources and methods, we
0:05:50 > 0:05:54want to make sure that those who are in the best position to bet that
0:05:54 > 0:06:01have the opportunity to do so.That was the Democrat there. He is on the
0:06:01 > 0:06:10intelligence committee. As we look at the whole discussion of
0:06:10 > 0:06:13Republican memos and Democratic members, I wonder if you can remind
0:06:13 > 0:06:17me, what it is that the intelligence committee in the house, your
0:06:17 > 0:06:23committee is actually investigating? That is a great question. A lot of
0:06:23 > 0:06:29the talk about the memos, the memo issue itself is a distraction about
0:06:29 > 0:06:32the real purpose of the investigation which is to get to the
0:06:32 > 0:06:37bottom of how Russia interfered with the 2016 presidential election in
0:06:37 > 0:06:42the United States and also whether any Americans help them to
0:06:42 > 0:06:45accomplish their goals. All of this last few weeks in particular has
0:06:45 > 0:06:52been a real sideshow to the main investigation.It has been a
0:06:52 > 0:06:58sideshow which has not improved relations between Republicans and
0:06:58 > 0:07:00Democrats, the Republicans have their memo wide and now the
0:07:00 > 0:07:04Democrats have there is out, can you investigate something as important
0:07:04 > 0:07:08as Russia interfering in the American election if you and your
0:07:08 > 0:07:14colleagues are such odds with each other?You are right, it makes it
0:07:14 > 0:07:18very difficult. Historically the intelligence committee and the House
0:07:18 > 0:07:22of Representatives has been one of the more bipartisan committee is it
0:07:22 > 0:07:25all on whether armed services for example as opposed to other
0:07:25 > 0:07:28committees like the Judiciary Committee and this has made it
0:07:28 > 0:07:31tougher, but we have a responsibility to the American
0:07:31 > 0:07:36people to see this investigation through and to complete it.From the
0:07:36 > 0:07:41point of view of the Democrats, the rebuttal is important. One week ago
0:07:41 > 0:07:46the committee voted to block it, what has changed since, do you
0:07:46 > 0:07:49think?I think a big part of the reason that Republicans voted
0:07:49 > 0:07:53yesterday to release the memo, the Democratic memo but did not release
0:07:53 > 0:07:59it before is because they wanted to release the new memo first and get
0:07:59 > 0:08:03about four or five new cycles were only their side of the story was out
0:08:03 > 0:08:15and after that happened, they were willing to release
0:08:16 > 0:08:18the Democratic memo second.I think that it was basically a media spin.
0:08:18 > 0:08:21Now it is on the desk of the President, if he were not to release
0:08:21 > 0:08:24it, and he might even redact some of it, taking out some of the key
0:08:24 > 0:08:27parts, what would happen them?My fear is that he may do that, this
0:08:27 > 0:08:31President on many issues is beyond shame. His sense of fairness is
0:08:31 > 0:08:36gone. It would not surprise me if he either does not release the memo or
0:08:36 > 0:08:39redact is so much of it that it makes it really impossible to fully
0:08:39 > 0:08:44understand for the American people. You have a vote to get to, we will
0:08:44 > 0:08:51let you go, thank you for joining us.Thank you for having me.You may
0:08:51 > 0:08:54recall Mr Trump advocating in his State of the union address I knew
0:08:54 > 0:09:00bipartisan approach but that does not appear to have lasted long.
0:09:00 > 0:09:02Yesterday he was attacking Democrats for the way that they responded to
0:09:02 > 0:09:11his speech.An American. Someone said treasonous. Why not? Can we
0:09:11 > 0:09:20call it treason? Why not?Joining us now is Jonathan, a national
0:09:20 > 0:09:29political reporter. It is unusual to hear a President accuse the other
0:09:29 > 0:09:34side of treason, we know that, President Trump does things that are
0:09:34 > 0:09:38different but you have reported that he has the capacity to sway public
0:09:38 > 0:09:42opinion. Is there a risk that there is a serious consequence and people
0:09:42 > 0:09:50start to believe that Democrats are treasonous?There is a capacity that
0:09:50 > 0:09:53we have almost never seem to sway public opinion, which is between 30
0:09:53 > 0:09:57and 40% of Republican voters. He has turned a party that was staunchly in
0:09:57 > 0:10:01favour of law and order to being pretty sceptical if not downright
0:10:01 > 0:10:07hostile towards the FBI. He has turned public opinion particularly
0:10:07 > 0:10:10among Republican reporters towards the NFL and to use words like
0:10:10 > 0:10:16treason towards the Democratic party, it escalates rhetoric, if
0:10:16 > 0:10:20someone is unstable.It is dangerous. You spend an awful lot of
0:10:20 > 0:10:23time talking to people in the White House, perhaps even more time then
0:10:23 > 0:10:28you would like, 18 hours a day, either concerns amongst any people
0:10:28 > 0:10:33around the President that this kind of language is not helpful to his
0:10:33 > 0:10:39presidency or diminishing his presidency?I have covered Trump for
0:10:39 > 0:10:43more than two years and what you need to understand about these
0:10:43 > 0:10:47people, particularly people who have worked with him for a long time,
0:10:47 > 0:10:54they are so inoculated, this is just another day in the life of. While we
0:10:54 > 0:11:00have fresh outrages in the media, almost every day, it takes something
0:11:00 > 0:11:03like Charlottesville to release which some of these people on. Most
0:11:03 > 0:11:08of them just roll their eyes, move on, they may grumble and if you
0:11:08 > 0:11:12press them on that, they would say I think it is inappropriate but I do
0:11:12 > 0:11:18not see a lot of hand-wringing internally at this point.The White
0:11:18 > 0:11:21House has said today that he was joking and he is quite flippant in
0:11:21 > 0:11:26the way that he does that in his speech. I will cut him some slack,
0:11:26 > 0:11:30what is crucially more important is what is coming down the line in
0:11:30 > 0:11:34terms of the legislation, whether they can find this bipartisan
0:11:34 > 0:11:37agreement. You have got the government spending which is right
0:11:37 > 0:11:44around the corner, there is a bill coming forward. What really matters
0:11:44 > 0:11:47here is whether he can get the parties working together on the
0:11:47 > 0:11:54legislation?The reality is, if the two parties to come together and
0:11:54 > 0:11:59hash out a deal, it is not going to be because of Donald Trump. He does
0:11:59 > 0:12:03not have the capacity to sway a large enough proportion of Congress
0:12:03 > 0:12:08to get the deal happening. If you look even objectively at the
0:12:08 > 0:12:11Republican conference in the house and Senate, most of these members do
0:12:11 > 0:12:17not feel it is an advantage to be close to Donald Trump, the people
0:12:17 > 0:12:22who have courted him, a very small segment of the conference. What we
0:12:22 > 0:12:26saw for the last negotiation is at the last minute Donald Trump pulling
0:12:26 > 0:12:29back and having very little to do with the negotiations and I expect
0:12:29 > 0:12:33that if they do come to a deal, it might be along similar lines.OK,
0:12:33 > 0:12:41Jonathan Swan, thank you for coming in to join us. One other bit of news
0:12:41 > 0:12:45coming out of Washington, the New York Times reporting that there is a
0:12:45 > 0:12:48debate amongst the President's advisers and lawyers are bad whether
0:12:48 > 0:12:51he should sit down with their special counsel, the President has
0:12:51 > 0:12:57said that he would like to do so, apparently some of his advisers and
0:12:57 > 0:13:00lawyers are more cautious because the President has a tendency to go
0:13:00 > 0:13:04backwards and forwards on particular issues and stories and how things
0:13:04 > 0:13:09actually occurred. We will see how that pans out. Let us go back to the
0:13:09 > 0:13:14top story and the financial markets. The President has not been shy about
0:13:14 > 0:13:19taking credit for a booming economy, he has treated more than 60 times
0:13:19 > 0:13:23about the stock market. Last August he said that business was looking
0:13:23 > 0:13:27better than ever, stock market at an all-time high, that does not just
0:13:27 > 0:13:32happen. How about this? This is from January, President Trump is not
0:13:32 > 0:13:42getting the credit he deserves for the economy, tax cut bonuses for
0:13:42 > 0:13:44more than 2 million workers, most explosive stock-market rally that we
0:13:44 > 0:13:49have seen in modern times. Yes. It has now come down a little bit. Let
0:13:49 > 0:13:55us explain what is going on. The chief economist at Grant Thornton
0:13:55 > 0:14:01joins us now from Chicago. Thank you for joining us. I was in Davos a
0:14:01 > 0:14:06couple of weeks ago and financial types and economic types there were
0:14:06 > 0:14:10a giddy with excitement, there was not a cloud on the horizon apart
0:14:10 > 0:14:13from the odd storm and snow cloud. They were convinced this was a
0:14:13 > 0:14:19market that was going to run and run, what has happened?I am sorry,
0:14:19 > 0:14:24I lost you for a second but I think there was an extraordinary amount of
0:14:24 > 0:14:28complacency about this market and you really saw that in the sense
0:14:28 > 0:14:32that people were driving without a seat belt as well, they were not
0:14:32 > 0:14:35hedging the downsides, the risk that the market could go down. There was
0:14:35 > 0:14:39a feeling it will continue to go up and there was a reality check that
0:14:39 > 0:14:44we saw set in last week and it was three series of events, what
0:14:44 > 0:14:50happened in Davos was interesting because it confirmed what we knew,
0:14:50 > 0:14:53we are in a world growth situation where economies around the world are
0:14:53 > 0:14:56doing much better than they had been doing. We have got central banks no
0:14:56 > 0:15:00longer feeding that growth, the only support that and some of them have
0:15:00 > 0:15:03not only ease their foot from the pedal but are hitting the brakes and
0:15:03 > 0:15:09we had some good economic news in the US, overstated of it, wages,
0:15:09 > 0:15:14reigniting the debate about how many Fed hikes we had, a change in guard
0:15:14 > 0:15:26at the Federal Reserve and the sense that
0:15:33 > 0:15:36on top of it, the tax cuts we had but have to be paid for, the
0:15:36 > 0:15:39Treasury issued a warning and they will have to issue more Treasury
0:15:39 > 0:15:41bonds than initially thought. All those things together it gave us a
0:15:41 > 0:15:43reality check that the markers were priced to war was unrealistic.
0:15:43 > 0:15:45Anyone with more of the memory will start thinking about 2008 and it
0:15:45 > 0:15:48made me nervous about where we might be headed. If the fundamentals of
0:15:48 > 0:15:52the world economy, not just the US economy are good, are we in a
0:15:52 > 0:15:56quantified Lee different situation from the one we were in in 2000 and
0:15:56 > 0:16:02a woman started seen big sell-offs in the market?Absolutely. That is
0:16:02 > 0:16:05the most important thing. I was worried about the asset price bubble
0:16:05 > 0:16:13we were in. Letting out of the air in some of those is welcome news to
0:16:13 > 0:16:18the Federal Reserve. If it went too far, they would not be able to raise
0:16:18 > 0:16:22rates and the irony is, they would not be able to do that. If this was
0:16:22 > 0:16:26a real market crash like we had in 2008, they do not have the tools to
0:16:26 > 0:16:30deal with it but I do not think that is what we are facing, it is nowhere
0:16:30 > 0:16:40near that. They have got to euphoric. The 21st century economy
0:16:40 > 0:16:44may have 4.1% on the unemployment rate but not as many people on the
0:16:44 > 0:16:49Dazzler as it was.Let us show people the Dow Jones which shows you
0:16:49 > 0:16:59the volatility. It is about two o'clock, just after two o'clock in
0:16:59 > 0:17:04New York at the moment. It went up, covered some of its losses from
0:17:04 > 0:17:08yesterday and then fell back down. One of the things that markets are
0:17:08 > 0:17:12waking up to is the fact that central banks are starting to take a
0:17:12 > 0:17:16different approach, there is not easy money around, are we going to
0:17:16 > 0:17:20see more volatility like that as they wake up to that fact.The
0:17:20 > 0:17:24volatility we have seen in the last couple of days has been extreme, we
0:17:24 > 0:17:29went from none to extreme volatility. That is in part due to
0:17:29 > 0:17:32automated trading. I do think we are in store for more volatility because
0:17:32 > 0:17:37that is what we should have, it is not normal to have no volatility and
0:17:37 > 0:17:48as the economy goes through that
0:17:53 > 0:17:55shifting of the phases, where Wall Street gets to hand off the baton
0:17:55 > 0:17:58and spread the games more evenly to wages in particular, you're going to
0:17:58 > 0:18:00have more volatility on Wall Street. There are reports starting to circle
0:18:00 > 0:18:02that the plunge was triggered by robots. That the automated trading
0:18:02 > 0:18:05systems, they pick up a trend and they go with it and that is what
0:18:05 > 0:18:08drives the market down, is that true?That is one of the speculation
0:18:08 > 0:18:11is out there and that is that the automated trading that went on did
0:18:11 > 0:18:14exacerbate this and we have seen this more than once and it gets to
0:18:14 > 0:18:20the issue, there is human nature which is a panic and turns out
0:18:20 > 0:18:24technology is even faster and people who were trying to buy could not buy
0:18:24 > 0:18:28as the marker was plunging because of these self-fulfilling sale orders
0:18:28 > 0:18:34and we have to take into account that technology, certainly in 2008
0:18:34 > 0:18:38made things more rapid, but they can also make these everyday moves more
0:18:38 > 0:18:44rapid and we have to put our seat belt sign and keep a grip as it
0:18:44 > 0:18:51happens.Fascinating. Thank you very much. I used to drink with a bond
0:18:51 > 0:18:55trader in Paris and he was programming for one of these things
0:18:55 > 0:18:58and sometimes it started to follow the trend and he had to put his pipe
0:18:58 > 0:19:02down and run back to the office to try and stop it. It fascinates me
0:19:02 > 0:19:08that sort of thing. Time to put your fiver under the mattress, Christian.
0:19:08 > 0:19:11Julian Assange has lost his application to have his arrest
0:19:11 > 0:19:15warrant lifted by a court in London, he breached his bail five years ago
0:19:15 > 0:19:25and has since been confined to the Ecuadorian Embassy. Media outlets in
0:19:25 > 0:19:27Taiwan have shown photographs of a hotel that has partially collapse
0:19:27 > 0:19:33following an earthquake on these closed. Two people are dead and more
0:19:33 > 0:19:36than 100 reported injured in the quake which centred on the town of
0:19:36 > 0:19:41Ireland. There were nearly two dozen smaller tremors on Tuesday and one
0:19:41 > 0:19:47expert described it as an earthquake swarm. John Mahoney best known for
0:19:47 > 0:19:51playing Marty Crane in Frasier has died at the age of 77. He was being
0:19:51 > 0:19:56treated in a hospice in Chicago, he was born in Lancashire and he
0:19:56 > 0:20:00starred in Frasier for 11 years playing the grumpy retired policeman
0:20:00 > 0:20:06who often outwitted his too pretentious sons. He was from
0:20:06 > 0:20:12Blackpool. I nearly grew up. 100 years ago today, the rather dull
0:20:12 > 0:20:15sounding representation of the people act was passed in Britain.
0:20:15 > 0:20:18There was anything but boring to the women who have sacrificed so much,
0:20:18 > 0:20:22it gives some of them the right to vote for the first time, but only if
0:20:22 > 0:20:28they were over 30 and married or owned property. It was not until
0:20:28 > 0:20:311928 that the right to cast a ballot was extended to all women. The women
0:20:31 > 0:20:40who fought for change were known as suffragettes because they wanted
0:20:40 > 0:20:43universal suffrage.Here are some of those women in their own words. In
0:20:43 > 0:20:45those days I was extremely annoyed at the difference between the
0:20:45 > 0:20:55advantages of men had and boys had and the ones girls had. When one
0:20:55 > 0:21:00grew up and saw the differences and the opportunities that men had and
0:21:00 > 0:21:12women had, then it just increased. No women solicitors allowed. That
0:21:12 > 0:21:22woman stood in a court alone. In Amman's world. And she got man's
0:21:22 > 0:21:33sense of justice -- in a man's world.I mean if a woman went to
0:21:33 > 0:21:37work there, he could come outside of the factory and take her money as
0:21:37 > 0:21:45she earned it, go and spend it and she could not do anything.They said
0:21:45 > 0:21:49it would ruin the country and give us a very bad standing with other
0:21:49 > 0:21:58nations. It was ridiculous.We lived like animals to a degree, the
0:21:58 > 0:22:00parasite, there was people with money but there was a very big gap.
0:22:00 > 0:22:09Those that had and those that really were like church mice, before the
0:22:09 > 0:22:13suffragettes started. That will curse up. Until then, we were fast
0:22:13 > 0:22:24asleep.-- dad woke us up. To mark the centenary, Theresa May went to
0:22:24 > 0:22:29Manchester. She was one of only 113 female Conservative MPs when she was
0:22:29 > 0:22:33first elected, today she had some advice for aspiring female
0:22:33 > 0:22:40politician -- she was one of only 13 female Conservative MPs.That does
0:22:40 > 0:22:45not mean it is not just as good and it is just as good. I would say, be
0:22:45 > 0:22:50yourself, don't feel you have to be a stereotypical man in order to get
0:22:50 > 0:22:55on in politics. Be yourself and believe in what you are doing.So,
0:22:55 > 0:23:01some women got the vote in 1918, 1920 was when women in America got
0:23:01 > 0:23:06the vote. The 19th Amendment gave all women in America the vote. I
0:23:06 > 0:23:11have been busy putting together a map and I will show you how women
0:23:11 > 0:23:15are involved in politics. These are percentages in the lower houses of
0:23:15 > 0:23:21Parliament around the world. I will explain this. The highest in the
0:23:21 > 0:23:26world is Rwanda, 61.3% in the middle of Africa. The one to the left of
0:23:26 > 0:23:30that in Latin America, that is Bolivia and we will talk about that
0:23:30 > 0:23:34in a second. The interesting statistic for me, you can see the
0:23:34 > 0:23:36Nordic countries and the Scandinavian countries do
0:23:36 > 0:23:42particularly well but the interesting one, Saudi Arabia, 19.9%
0:23:42 > 0:23:47women in the lower House and look at America, 19.4%. China and Saudi
0:23:47 > 0:23:52Arabia have more women in the Lower House than the United States. What
0:23:52 > 0:23:56is interesting about those countries, Rwanda, Bolivia and Saudi
0:23:56 > 0:24:01Arabia is changes in legislation. That is what has produced higher
0:24:01 > 0:24:08numbers of women in representation, Rwanda has always been an anomaly,
0:24:08 > 0:24:11after the genocide, men were targeted more and they decided they
0:24:11 > 0:24:17wanted more women in politics. Bolivia is really interesting. In
0:24:17 > 0:24:222000 there were as 12% of women in Parliament and they changed the law
0:24:22 > 0:24:27in 2010 and now we are above 50%. That is a remarkable change, the
0:24:27 > 0:24:31kind of change most companies would die for it if they could get that
0:24:31 > 0:24:34change in female representation in such a short period of time and it
0:24:34 > 0:24:37is just changing the law, you mandate more women running for
0:24:37 > 0:24:43office and politics and it happens. Do we obsess too much about women in
0:24:43 > 0:24:47politics, women in the boardroom at the expense of women who were lower
0:24:47 > 0:24:51down the ladder, who were suffering from low pay, are disproportionately
0:24:51 > 0:24:56involved in low-paying jobs. No, it is women in politics he will change
0:24:56 > 0:25:00legislation for women who are working in less well-paid positions.
0:25:00 > 0:25:04You start to see movement in countries where you have more
0:25:04 > 0:25:08politics, women in politics, you start to see more female friendly
0:25:08 > 0:25:11kind of policies and policies that benefit working women. You do need
0:25:11 > 0:25:15to have those women running for office and have a more
0:25:15 > 0:25:20representation otherwise you do not get change for the other women. It
0:25:20 > 0:25:24is interesting. When you look at Britain, we have come so far in
0:25:24 > 0:25:28terms of women at the top, you have a woman Prime Minister, the Home
0:25:28 > 0:25:32Secretary is a woman, the head of the Metropolitan Police and the
0:25:32 > 0:25:36National Crime Agency but it is representation in politics, still
0:25:36 > 0:25:40less than a third of MPs. It is not enough to have them at the top, you
0:25:40 > 0:25:45need to have them the whole way through. This is Beyond 100 Days
0:25:45 > 0:25:49from the BBC. Coming up for viewers on the news channel and worldviews,
0:25:49 > 0:25:53100 years after some women won the right to vote, what more should be
0:25:53 > 0:25:58done to encourage women in politics? And the other rocket man, Elon musk
0:25:58 > 0:26:04to take off with high winds delaying the launch of his most powerful
0:26:04 > 0:26:06rocket. All still to come.
0:26:10 > 0:26:16Good evening, the wintry theme continues. Today most are a bit of
0:26:16 > 0:26:19steel, not too disruptive but it did make for some lovely scenes in the
0:26:19 > 0:26:23north-east of thing led to finish the day. The sun setting their
0:26:23 > 0:26:26behind the hills, but as sky is clear in its wake, we will see a
0:26:26 > 0:26:31widespread frost across the country and where you have seen snow, even
0:26:31 > 0:26:34rain today, an increasing risk of eyes. There is high pressure
0:26:34 > 0:26:47building on behind this weather front, so clearing skies, we
0:26:50 > 0:26:52still have not seen still, you might do tonight. Across Norfolk and
0:26:52 > 0:26:55Suffolk, we could get two or three centimetres of snow. A few wintry
0:26:55 > 0:26:57showers in Cornwall, a few in Scotland, but for most under clear
0:26:57 > 0:27:00skies, these are the temperatures in the towns and cities, just about all
0:27:00 > 0:27:04below freezing. Almost all of the UK in blue, with rural areas anywhere
0:27:04 > 0:27:08between -5 and -11 to take us into tomorrow morning. Should be a lovely
0:27:08 > 0:27:12crisp start for many, still wintry showers to begin with, a real risk
0:27:12 > 0:27:17of ice during the morning rush-hour, just about anywhere across the
0:27:17 > 0:27:29country and why most. The sunshine, already starting to see changes in
0:27:29 > 0:27:31the north-west of the UK. If you look around during the rush hour,
0:27:31 > 0:27:33increasing cloud in Scotland, eastern areas under sunshine. I see
0:27:33 > 0:27:35in Northern Ireland, but cloud increasing, much of England and
0:27:35 > 0:27:39Wales, early cloud, those wintry showers down across the far west of
0:27:39 > 0:27:41Wales into Cornwall giving a slight dusting and could be a slight
0:27:41 > 0:27:45dusting of snow thanks to the weather front there in the
0:27:45 > 0:27:48south-east corner. That will fade away but the weather front in the
0:27:48 > 0:27:53north-west will continue to push through wet and stay. Stormy across
0:27:53 > 0:27:57Scotland and Northern Ireland, cloudy, a bit of snow on higher
0:27:57 > 0:28:00ground, between five and ten centimetres of snow. Turning to
0:28:00 > 0:28:14reign as temperature is left, and mild end to the day in the Hebrides
0:28:37 > 0:28:40but for cloud increases from the North and West, a dry and sunny but
0:28:40 > 0:28:42cold day. Whether tonight into Thursday, about whether from will
0:28:42 > 0:28:44fragment. Never reaching the selfies until we go into Thursday, a frosty
0:28:44 > 0:28:46start, a motor started Thursday. Lots of cloud, brighter conditions
0:28:46 > 0:28:48across Scotland and Northern Ireland. Rain pushing into the West
0:28:48 > 0:28:52of England and Wales. Goodbye for now.
0:30:09 > 0:30:11This is Beyond 100 Days, with me, Katty Kay, in Washington.
0:30:11 > 0:30:13Christian Fraser's in London.
0:30:13 > 0:30:15Our top stories...
0:30:15 > 0:30:16Volatile markets.
0:30:16 > 0:30:19There's been more frantic trading on Wall Street after yesterday's
0:30:19 > 0:30:20dramatic fall sparked a global sell-off.
0:30:20 > 0:30:22A diplomatic challenge for State Secretary Tillerson,
0:30:22 > 0:30:27as seven out of ten posts at his department are unfilled.
0:30:27 > 0:30:30Coming up in the next half-hour:
0:30:30 > 0:30:33100 years after some women won the right to vote,
0:30:33 > 0:30:36Theresa May says one of the reasons so few women enter Parliament
0:30:36 > 0:30:44is down to the online abuse they suffer.
0:30:44 > 0:30:49High winds are delaying the launch of the world's most powerful rocket.
0:30:49 > 0:30:54On-board is Elon Musk's old Tesla roadster, which will be propelled
0:30:54 > 0:30:56into orbit around the sun.
0:30:56 > 0:30:58Let us know your thoughts by using the hashtag #Beyond100Days.
0:31:01 > 0:31:03They say it's lonely at the top.
0:31:03 > 0:31:05And when your job comes with a lot of responsibility,
0:31:05 > 0:31:08like confronting a nuclear North Korea, it must be very lonely.
0:31:08 > 0:31:10Rex Tillerson is not quite a one-man-band,
0:31:10 > 0:31:12but he leads a US State Department where many senior management
0:31:12 > 0:31:15and diplomatic positions still have not been filled more than a year
0:31:15 > 0:31:19into the administration.
0:31:19 > 0:31:22Just over 150 positions at State need Congressional approval -
0:31:22 > 0:31:26but so far, fewer than half of the positions have been filled.
0:31:26 > 0:31:30Soon, seven of the top ten jobs at the State department will be
0:31:30 > 0:31:32empty - including positions with responsibility for arms
0:31:32 > 0:31:38control, democracy, human rights, and the agency's role
0:31:38 > 0:31:39control, democracy, human rights, and the agency's
0:31:39 > 0:31:40role in trade policy.
0:31:40 > 0:31:43And it's a similar picture in US embassies around the world.
0:31:43 > 0:31:45Right now, there are 41 vacant Ambassador posts -
0:31:45 > 0:31:47including to important partners like South Korea, Saudi
0:31:47 > 0:31:50Arabia, Turkey, Egypt.
0:31:50 > 0:31:53Joining us now to look at the impact these vacancies are having
0:31:53 > 0:31:57across the board is Linda Thomas-Greenfield.
0:31:57 > 0:32:00She has 35 years of foreign service under her belt,
0:32:00 > 0:32:02and most recently served as Assistant Secretary
0:32:02 > 0:32:09for African Affairs.
0:32:09 > 0:32:12-- African-American affairs. Thank you for coming in. Seven out of ten
0:32:12 > 0:32:16of the top posts are filled. How damaging is that to the ability of
0:32:16 > 0:32:20the State Department to do its job around the world?I think it sends a
0:32:20 > 0:32:25very strong message to our partners around the world that we are not
0:32:25 > 0:32:31prepared as we have been in the past to deal with the foreign policy and
0:32:31 > 0:32:36other challenges that our government needs to deal with. And the
0:32:36 > 0:32:42secretary cannot do this alone. He needs his top leaders and advisers
0:32:42 > 0:32:46to support him in this effort.So, do you think this is just the
0:32:46 > 0:32:50teething pains of trying to reform a department that some had said was
0:32:50 > 0:32:54bloated and had too many people in it? Or is this a deliberate effort
0:32:54 > 0:32:58by a White House to undermine the presence of American diplomacy
0:32:58 > 0:33:03around the world?I think it's probably more of the latter than the
0:33:03 > 0:33:11former. Most of us foreign service careerists never saw a bloated state
0:33:11 > 0:33:16Department. We were always understaffed. I can particularly say
0:33:16 > 0:33:18that from my position as the assistant Secretary for Africa that
0:33:18 > 0:33:24we never had enough staff to do the job. So, there was no gloating that
0:33:24 > 0:33:26any of us ever experienced, and the Department has always been
0:33:26 > 0:33:32underfunded when you compare our diplomacy to our defence budgets, we
0:33:32 > 0:33:39have not been able to keep up with the demand.One of the problems, it
0:33:39 > 0:33:44seems to me, for the administration, is that their nominees, they've not
0:33:44 > 0:33:49done the due diligence themselves. They've not properly vetted them.
0:33:49 > 0:33:51You've got, for instance, the nominee to the position of
0:33:51 > 0:33:55ambassador in Barbados, who is now accused of spreading some bizarre
0:33:55 > 0:34:00conspiracy theories on Twitter. His nomination is being held up. You
0:34:00 > 0:34:02sort of wonder why they've not gone on this deep dive into the
0:34:02 > 0:34:06background of some of the people they've put forward.You know, I
0:34:06 > 0:34:11think it's partially a lack of experience in the offices that are
0:34:11 > 0:34:16dealing with the vetting that's required. Because that kind of
0:34:16 > 0:34:20vetting is always done, and having gone through the vetting process
0:34:20 > 0:34:25myself, no stone has ever been left uncovered. I've found out things
0:34:25 > 0:34:29about myself that I didn't know, from the vetting process! So, to
0:34:29 > 0:34:35have this kind of information come out so far into this nominee's
0:34:35 > 0:34:38process is a bit surprising.I understand that within the State
0:34:38 > 0:34:45Department, it's bit like the Pentagon, it's a star system, the
0:34:45 > 0:34:48more senior you get, the higher you go, if the top brass within the
0:34:48 > 0:34:53State Department, if you will, are leaving the department, how easy, or
0:34:53 > 0:34:57how difficult, is it to replace them once President Trump has gone? Are
0:34:57 > 0:35:02we talking about long-term damage to the department here?I think we are.
0:35:02 > 0:35:07And I think it's going to take probably a decade to get back to the
0:35:07 > 0:35:13capacity that we had before this happened. A lot of the senior
0:35:13 > 0:35:18positions in the Department are filled by careerists, who, like
0:35:18 > 0:35:24myself, have decades of experience and decades of service, and if you
0:35:24 > 0:35:28are not filling those positions, you're not bringing in new blood,
0:35:28 > 0:35:31and people are leaving, you're going to have a difficult time finding the
0:35:31 > 0:35:36right people in the future. That said, there are some very capable
0:35:36 > 0:35:39people still left in the State Department who are in acting
0:35:39 > 0:35:43positions who are filling some of the senior slots now, and hopefully
0:35:43 > 0:35:48they will be able to maintain a commitment to fulfil those positions
0:35:48 > 0:35:55in the future.OK, ambassador, thank you very much for coming in. You
0:35:55 > 0:36:00know, we talk a lot about political divisions in this town, Christian.
0:36:00 > 0:36:03Some people would say it's not really a question any more in
0:36:03 > 0:36:06politics of whether you are a Republican or a Democrat, it is a
0:36:06 > 0:36:09question of whether you are a nationalist or globalist. Diplomats
0:36:09 > 0:36:13tend by their nature to be more globalist, and this administration
0:36:13 > 0:36:17has made it clear that it is more nationalist in its inclinations, and
0:36:17 > 0:36:24perhaps more and friendly to globalist so who might be inhabiting
0:36:24 > 0:36:27the State Department. I have heard that are at the State Department is
0:36:27 > 0:36:32not great at the moment. -- that morale at the State Department.
0:36:32 > 0:36:35In 100 years since women have had the vote in the UK,
0:36:35 > 0:36:37the country has seen two female Prime Ministers.
0:36:37 > 0:36:39But less than a third of Members of Parliament are women.
0:36:39 > 0:36:42One of the reasons for that, said the Theresa May today,
0:36:42 > 0:36:44is the amount of bullying, intimidation and harassment
0:36:44 > 0:36:45in our political debate.
0:36:45 > 0:36:47Speaking in Manchester, which was the birthplace
0:36:47 > 0:36:49of the suffragette movement, she blamed social media,
0:36:49 > 0:36:50which is being exploited and abused, often anonymously.
0:36:50 > 0:36:53The Home Secretary, Amber Rudd, even says she has to put up
0:36:53 > 0:36:55with the hate-filled messages she receives because "female voices
0:36:56 > 0:36:57matter in politics and in life".
0:36:57 > 0:37:00We're joined by the Labour MP Stella Creasy, who's in Westminster.
0:37:00 > 0:37:01And Melissa Richmond from the campaign group
0:37:01 > 0:37:08Running Start, which aims to bring more women into politics in the US.
0:37:08 > 0:37:14Stella, let me start with you. Your party adopted a policy of all women
0:37:14 > 0:37:17short lists, and it was controversial at the time, but we
0:37:17 > 0:37:20have shown people by map of how women are involved in lower Houses
0:37:20 > 0:37:25of Parliament are the world, and it's still a pretty poor picture. Is
0:37:25 > 0:37:30all women short lists the answer? Well, as somebody elected on all
0:37:30 > 0:37:33women short list and trout to have been chosen on an all woman short
0:37:33 > 0:37:37list. All women short lists are not about the women standing, they are
0:37:37 > 0:37:42about the people making the choices and trying to change some of those
0:37:42 > 0:37:46long held an unconscious bias about what leadership looks like. If
0:37:46 > 0:37:50anybody thinks it was easy to get elected onto an all woman short
0:37:50 > 0:37:54list, they didn't meet all of the other fantastic women who went for
0:37:54 > 0:37:57the constituency of Walthamstow when I did. We'd like to see that
0:37:57 > 0:38:01extended to other parts of election system that the moment, particularly
0:38:01 > 0:38:05with metro-mayors in the UK. When you don't make the effort to try and
0:38:05 > 0:38:09change people's perceptions about what leadership looks like, people
0:38:09 > 0:38:13tend to elect white men of a certain age.Melissa, the picture in the
0:38:13 > 0:38:17United States is even worse. Is that because you have a primary system in
0:38:17 > 0:38:21America, very different to our system here in the UK, where parties
0:38:21 > 0:38:28choose their candidates? Is that part of the problem in America?In
0:38:28 > 0:38:32the United States and do think the primary system presented a challenge
0:38:32 > 0:38:35for women, particularly on them I can side of the aisle. Once women
0:38:35 > 0:38:39reach the general election, they are both so might just as likely as men
0:38:39 > 0:38:42to get elected. But the deadly Republican women face a challenge
0:38:42 > 0:38:47getting to the primaries.-- particularly republican women. You
0:38:47 > 0:38:54poll women and do a lot of research at Running Start on this. What are
0:38:54 > 0:38:57the hurdles that women face running for political office that men do not
0:38:57 > 0:39:03face?The biggest hurdle relates back to a lot of work on confidence.
0:39:03 > 0:39:06Women tend to undervalue their own qualifications and lose confidence
0:39:06 > 0:39:10in their ability to run for office at a really critical age, in high
0:39:10 > 0:39:14school and college. And so a woman my age would think that her
0:39:14 > 0:39:17qualifications are only half as good as a man with the exact same
0:39:17 > 0:39:22resonate. There are a variety of other external barriers, but I think
0:39:22 > 0:39:25the internal barrier, lack of confidence, is the biggest hurdle
0:39:25 > 0:39:37that women have to overcome.Stella, you clearly had the confidence to
0:39:37 > 0:39:40run, and to win. They have a saying in the United States that a man
0:39:40 > 0:39:42looks in the mirror and automatically sees a senator, and a
0:39:42 > 0:39:44woman would never quite be so presumptuous. You ever came that
0:39:44 > 0:39:47hurdle and went for office. But then you face the issue of the kind of
0:39:47 > 0:39:49online bullying that the Prime Minister has spoken about. It is
0:39:49 > 0:39:52different online, I know, I am online as well and I face that. The
0:39:52 > 0:39:56tone is different for women and four men.One of the things about these
0:39:56 > 0:39:59debates that I really want to change, we talk a lot about the
0:39:59 > 0:40:03women and we talk a lot about anti-Semitism and Islamophobia or
0:40:03 > 0:40:06racism online, we don't always talk about the people doing it, and
0:40:06 > 0:40:09recognising that when you are challenging power in Barrow back
0:40:09 > 0:40:14imbalances, when you are a woman speaking up, you are challenging the
0:40:14 > 0:40:17old patriarchal order, of course that power pushes back. That is what
0:40:17 > 0:40:21we see, it is the backlash against people. One of the things we have to
0:40:21 > 0:40:24do is to stop wondering whether women should put up with this and
0:40:24 > 0:40:27start talking about who is doing this and how we can stop them doing
0:40:27 > 0:40:32it. It's not OK, it's not acceptable. I often get told, oh,
0:40:32 > 0:40:45don't feed the trolls, don't react to this
0:40:47 > 0:40:50stuff. I think, how much should I soak up in silence in the mistaken
0:40:50 > 0:40:53belief that somehow if I'm soaking it up there not going to do it to
0:40:53 > 0:40:56other people? We have to change the way we think about this, we are
0:40:56 > 0:40:59missing out on the voices of a range of people in our public life, not
0:40:59 > 0:41:01just in parliament but across the world, if we let that kind of anger
0:41:01 > 0:41:04and abuse and aggression come in the public domain. It is not free speech
0:41:04 > 0:41:06when 50% of the conversation feels intimidated, bullied and silenced.
0:41:06 > 0:41:09It also comes down to attitude to women, doesn't it, Stella? We were
0:41:09 > 0:41:11reporting on this programme a few weeks ago about the president of a
0:41:11 > 0:41:15charity event where women were treated like objects. -- by
0:41:15 > 0:41:19President'sclub charity event. We mark 100 years on, that was a
0:41:19 > 0:41:23seismic moment for women in 1918. Maybe right now we are approaching a
0:41:23 > 0:41:26seismic moment for women in the modern age.It is worth reflecting
0:41:26 > 0:41:30on the fact that the suffragettes themselves received hate mail and
0:41:30 > 0:41:33trawling and abuse at the time. It is not the time that we live in,
0:41:33 > 0:41:36it's the people who are back lashing against the idea of equality. I
0:41:36 > 0:41:41would love to believe that we are at another seismic moment. I see that
0:41:41 > 0:41:45we are at the start still trying to get an equal, more prosperous
0:41:45 > 0:41:48society stop one of the messages I would love to give to the men
0:41:48 > 0:41:51watching this programme tonight is that actually we are fighting for
0:41:51 > 0:41:55you, too. Equality is good for everyone. We are not asking people
0:41:55 > 0:42:00to share scarce resources, we are asking to increase the resources,
0:42:00 > 0:42:03increased prosperity, being more equal, that is what the evidence
0:42:03 > 0:42:16tells us.Melissa, what are the things that women change when they
0:42:16 > 0:42:18do run for political office? What changes in societies that have
0:42:18 > 0:42:20higher proportions of female representation?So, I have to say
0:42:20 > 0:42:23that the UK is doing much better than the United States. You ranked
0:42:23 > 0:42:25number 39 and the United States ranks 99th worldwide. I think a lot
0:42:25 > 0:42:29of countries use a quota system, it ranked choice voting system, a
0:42:29 > 0:42:33multimember district system. You tend to see higher numbers of women
0:42:33 > 0:42:36in office in those systems. In the US, we generally don't have those
0:42:36 > 0:42:40things in place, we have a much smaller proportion of women. Just
0:42:40 > 0:42:45one in four of our elected leaders are women.OK, Melissa and Stella,
0:42:45 > 0:42:47thank you very much for joining us.
0:42:47 > 0:42:50A North Korean spy who blew up a Korean Airlines aircraft just
0:42:50 > 0:42:53months before the Seoul Olympics in 1988 has issued a warning ahead
0:42:53 > 0:42:54of South Korea's Winter Games.
0:42:54 > 0:42:57Kim Hyon says the regime that recruited her and trained her
0:42:57 > 0:42:59to murder 115 South Koreans has not changed.
0:42:59 > 0:43:00She's been recounting her extraordinary story
0:43:00 > 0:43:03to our Seoul Correspondent, Laura Bicker.
0:43:07 > 0:43:09She was under heavy sedation, with her mouth covered
0:43:09 > 0:43:13with adhesive tape.
0:43:15 > 0:43:18TRANSLATION:I was told that I was on the front
0:43:18 > 0:43:19line to unify Korea.
0:43:19 > 0:43:23That I would be freeing South Korea, like a revolutionary hero.
0:43:23 > 0:43:27I was full of pride and dignity.
0:43:32 > 0:43:35But I realised it was murder, killing my own people.
0:43:35 > 0:43:38Innocent, everyday people.
0:43:46 > 0:43:50It was a Japanese radio, a small radio, and that's
0:43:50 > 0:43:54where I put the detonator.
0:43:54 > 0:43:57Next to it was the liquid explosives in a liquid bottle,
0:43:57 > 0:44:01in a plastic bag, which I placed on the shelf in the plane.
0:44:01 > 0:44:03In the North, we are taught that the South
0:44:03 > 0:44:06is a colony of America.
0:44:06 > 0:44:07Poor and corrupt.
0:44:07 > 0:44:10That the US is an aggressor.
0:44:10 > 0:44:14We are told they are the arch enemy, and we cannot
0:44:14 > 0:44:17live under the same sky.
0:44:31 > 0:44:34In a blaze of publicity this morning, the South Koreans paraded
0:44:34 > 0:44:39the woman they claimed was a North Korean agent.
0:44:39 > 0:44:42Kim Hyon-hui apparently told intelligence officers she'd blown up
0:44:42 > 0:44:44the South Korean airliner to disrupt the Olympic Games.
0:44:44 > 0:44:47Do you think right now all of this is fake?
0:44:47 > 0:44:49Do you think the run-up to the Olympics, the overtures
0:44:49 > 0:44:56of peace coming from Kim Jong-un, do you think it's fake?
0:44:56 > 0:44:59TRANSLATION:Of course it is fake.
0:44:59 > 0:45:03The ultimate goal of North Korea is to complete its nuclear programme.
0:45:03 > 0:45:07They have nothing on their minds but nuclear weapons.
0:45:07 > 0:45:12North Korea will not change through dialogue.
0:45:12 > 0:45:14North Korea cannot be changed by soft words.
0:45:14 > 0:45:19I believe only pressure will work on North Korea.
0:45:35 > 0:45:38So, you have life, you have love, and now,
0:45:38 > 0:45:40I believe, you have children.
0:45:40 > 0:45:45Do they know what you did?
0:45:45 > 0:45:51TRANSLATION:My children are not old enough to know the story,
0:45:51 > 0:45:54and I haven't tried to tell them the details yet.
0:45:54 > 0:45:58But these days, with internet readily available,
0:45:58 > 0:46:03and my interviews in the media, I suspect they must know something.
0:46:03 > 0:46:08My son is quiet, but I think he knows.
0:46:09 > 0:46:13As the bomber, I have a lifelong work of atonement.
0:46:13 > 0:46:17It is my cross to bear for the rest of my life.
0:46:24 > 0:46:28And that is getting an awful lot of attention as we run up to the Winter
0:46:28 > 0:46:29Olympics.
0:46:30 > 0:46:33This is Beyond 100 Days.
0:46:33 > 0:46:35Still to come:
0:46:35 > 0:46:39The launch of the world's most powerful rocket has been delayed by
0:46:39 > 0:46:44high winds. We will find out what the chances are of a liftoff today.
0:46:44 > 0:46:46Former executives at the failed construction and services giant
0:46:46 > 0:46:47Carillion have apologised for the company's collapse.
0:46:47 > 0:46:50But they denied claims by MPs that they were
0:46:50 > 0:46:51"asleep at the wheel".
0:46:51 > 0:46:53The firm, which employed 20,000 people in the UK,
0:46:53 > 0:46:54went into liquidation last month.
0:46:54 > 0:46:56Today, the company's former directors faced a committee of MPs
0:46:56 > 0:46:59to explain what they'd known about its financial position.
0:46:59 > 0:47:03Our Business Editor, Simon Jack, reports.
0:47:03 > 0:47:05Summoned to Westminster, Carillion's top brass.
0:47:05 > 0:47:07Philip Green was chairman of the board when the company
0:47:07 > 0:47:11collapsed, and he started with an apology.
0:47:11 > 0:47:14I would say I'm deeply sorry for the impact that the collapse
0:47:14 > 0:47:23of the company had on employees, pensioners, customers,
0:47:23 > 0:47:24suppliers and all stakeholders.
0:47:24 > 0:47:25So, what went wrong?
0:47:25 > 0:47:26Zafar Khan was Finance Director.
0:47:26 > 0:47:31He said hundreds of millions was owed by Middle East customers,
0:47:31 > 0:47:33projects hit trouble, and then new business dried up.
0:47:33 > 0:47:36Here in King's Cross, there are a few old signs still up.
0:47:36 > 0:47:38Carillion has been replaced on this project.
0:47:38 > 0:47:42Today we saw a mixture of regret, of shock, and a bit of anger at how
0:47:42 > 0:47:45a company passed fit in its own annual statement last
0:47:45 > 0:47:47March suffered a crippling profit warning four months later,
0:47:47 > 0:47:52and six months after that was liquidated.
0:47:52 > 0:47:54Were the bosses rewarded for these failures?
0:47:54 > 0:47:55Former Chief Executive Richard Howson was paid
0:47:55 > 0:48:00£1.5 million in salary, perks and bonuses in 2016.
0:48:00 > 0:48:04Do you feel comfortable with the level of bonus you received
0:48:04 > 0:48:07in the year before the company that you ran collapsed?
0:48:07 > 0:48:12Yes, I do, for the attributes that I earned it for.
0:48:12 > 0:48:17Half of that bonus is deferred and half of it was paid in cash.
0:48:17 > 0:48:21There will be heated moments to come in this postmortem.
0:48:21 > 0:48:23And there will be awkward ones.
0:48:23 > 0:48:26Large numbers of people aren't going to get paid
0:48:26 > 0:48:27for their contracts.
0:48:27 > 0:48:29Other people have lost their jobs.
0:48:29 > 0:48:33And you're still all right.
0:48:33 > 0:48:35All of you.
0:48:35 > 0:48:38Aren't you?
0:48:38 > 0:48:41Simon Jack, BBC News.
0:48:53 > 0:48:57OK, time for Christian's favourite story of the day, I think he wants
0:48:57 > 0:49:08to be on this rocket! No, we want you here on Earth, Christian,
0:49:08 > 0:49:09honestly!
0:49:09 > 0:49:11SpaceX, the company founded by Elon Musk, is due
0:49:11 > 0:49:13to launch the world's most powerful operational rocket.
0:49:13 > 0:49:15The lift-off was delayed because of winds in Florida,
0:49:15 > 0:49:18but the Falcon Heavy should now lift off on its first un-crewed
0:49:18 > 0:49:19flight in half an hour.
0:49:19 > 0:49:21With twice the lifting capacity of any other commercial rocket,
0:49:21 > 0:49:24it has 27 engines, which gives it the thrust of 18 jumbo-jets.
0:49:24 > 0:49:27If successful, it would be capable of carrying humans to the Moon
0:49:27 > 0:49:31or Mars and for a fraction of the price.
0:49:31 > 0:49:35The payload today, however, is a car - Elon Musk's
0:49:35 > 0:49:38old cherry-red Tesla, which will be sent on an elliptical
0:49:38 > 0:49:45orbit around the sun - carrying three cameras,
0:49:45 > 0:49:46which have been fitted on board.
0:49:46 > 0:49:50Quite an image there from SpaceX's promotional video.
0:49:50 > 0:49:52Will it become a reality?
0:49:52 > 0:49:57Let's speak to Victoria Gill.
0:49:57 > 0:50:01That's not me strapped into that car! So, tell me how they built this
0:50:01 > 0:50:04rocket? It is fascinating. The brilliant thing by Elon must's
0:50:04 > 0:50:12Brockers is they come back to -- Elon Musk's rockets is that they
0:50:12 > 0:50:17come back to Earth, if it goes well. I wouldn't recommend being on board
0:50:17 > 0:50:21on this particular nod, it is experimental. It is three of his
0:50:21 > 0:50:24Falcon 9 rockets, which he has successfully returned and three
0:50:24 > 0:50:29launched into space, strapped together. 39 engine rockets strapped
0:50:29 > 0:50:32together, the central core has had to be thoroughly strengthened. What
0:50:32 > 0:50:36they found out when they started to build this rocket it is not quite
0:50:36 > 0:50:42that temple, it was initially a announced in 2011, why not strap
0:50:42 > 0:50:46three of them together and we can make the biggest rocket in the
0:50:46 > 0:50:52world? It changes a lot of things, it is very, very risky and may not
0:50:52 > 0:50:57take off. He has had to strengthen that against all of the aerodynamics
0:50:57 > 0:51:02and vibrations that cocaine when the 27 engines although off at once. You
0:51:02 > 0:51:08have -- the vibrations that go in. You have ended up with three Falcon
0:51:08 > 0:51:129s strengthened and developed.The biggest payload in the world, you
0:51:12 > 0:51:17can put spice that alights on it, even a car if you want -- spy
0:51:17 > 0:51:22satellites. You have got a very wealthy man who is ahead of Nasa.
0:51:22 > 0:51:26They are building an equivalent to this, but far more expensive, and
0:51:26 > 0:51:29behind schedule.They have got a space launch system which was
0:51:29 > 0:51:34supposed to be in operation now, but has now been delayed until 2022.
0:51:34 > 0:51:38That is a big...Why don't they scrapped that and go with him was
0:51:38 > 0:51:41allowed there is a bit of speculation about that. Nasa are
0:51:41 > 0:51:45definitely going to be watching this launch very, veryclosely. They are
0:51:45 > 0:51:50one of SpaceX's customers already, they have already given them a
0:51:50 > 0:51:53contract to take stuff up to the International Space Station, and in
0:51:53 > 0:51:57the future to take astronauts as well. They will be keeping a close
0:51:57 > 0:52:02eye on this. Whereas the space launch system will cost about 1
0:52:02 > 0:52:06billion, this is £90 million. It is a fraction of the cost, and it is
0:52:06 > 0:52:10all in the reusable technology that really slashes the cost and makes
0:52:10 > 0:52:14this a game changer.So, Victoria, what I don't understand is why Elon
0:52:14 > 0:52:18Musk was basically suggesting that even, and by the way these are old
0:52:18 > 0:52:21pictures, they are not of course this particular launch, they are
0:52:21 > 0:52:27from January of last year. If this doesn't work, this launch today, if
0:52:27 > 0:52:37it's a failure, he seems to say that even that would be a success. Why?
0:52:37 > 0:52:39Well, basically because we are at such an experimental stage, Katty.
0:52:39 > 0:52:42Because this is a test launch, when they see what happens when the
0:52:42 > 0:52:45engines fire and when it blasts off, or if it blasts off, even, because
0:52:45 > 0:52:48what Elon Musk has said is that if it gets clear of the launch pad that
0:52:48 > 0:52:51will be considered a success, at every stage they will be watching to
0:52:51 > 0:52:55see how it holds together, how the engines perform, what happens to the
0:52:55 > 0:52:59vibrations, what happens when the frost is all cocaine, and at what
0:52:59 > 0:53:02stage if and when something goes wrong -- when the frost does kick
0:53:02 > 0:53:09in. That is something they can get fixed for the next test launch. It
0:53:09 > 0:53:11is literally rocket science, and that they are just going to be
0:53:11 > 0:53:14measuring and gathering information all along the way.What time do you
0:53:14 > 0:53:19think liftoff will be?Prelaunch activity has started, they have to
0:53:19 > 0:53:27load a propellant and go, but they are now saying 8:40pm GMT.I want to
0:53:27 > 0:53:31know what is going to happen to the Tesla in a few years' time, or
0:53:31 > 0:53:35perhaps in millions of years' time, some aliens may pick it up and say,
0:53:35 > 0:53:40this is a piece of old junk! I really don't want it!
0:53:40 > 0:53:43The US government is reported to have cancelled a huge contract
0:53:43 > 0:53:45to provide 30 million meals to hurricane victims in Puerto Rico
0:53:45 > 0:53:48last year after only 50,000 had been sent to people in need.
0:53:48 > 0:53:50The island was devastated by Hurricane Maria in September.
0:53:50 > 0:53:53In the storm's aftermath, The New York Times says the Federal
0:53:53 > 0:53:55Emergency Management Agency asked an entrepreneur named Tiffany Brown,
0:53:55 > 0:53:57who had no experience of overseeing disaster relief efforts,
0:53:57 > 0:53:58to deliver the food.
0:53:58 > 0:54:01Fema insists no Puerto Ricans missed a meal as a result
0:54:01 > 0:54:05of the failed agreement.
0:54:05 > 0:54:08One person has been killed in a pile-up in Missouri that
0:54:08 > 0:54:09involved over 100 vehicles.
0:54:09 > 0:54:11The crash happened on Sunday, but the drone footage, filmed
0:54:11 > 0:54:13by the Springfield Fire Department, has just been released.
0:54:13 > 0:54:15As you can see, the accident stretches several hundred
0:54:15 > 0:54:18metres, and involves cars, trucks and lorries.
0:54:18 > 0:54:21It's thought the icy conditions were the cause of the crash.
0:54:24 > 0:54:26We've just got time to tell you about some important
0:54:26 > 0:54:28new research from the World Economic Forum.
0:54:28 > 0:54:31They have discovered that children aged between four and six perform
0:54:31 > 0:54:33much better when dressed as Batman.
0:54:33 > 0:54:38No, this is not fake news!
0:54:38 > 0:54:46I'm serious! Is it adults or children, I don't know! Asking for a
0:54:46 > 0:54:46friend!
0:54:47 > 0:54:48Yes,
0:54:48 > 0:54:49they put 180 kids into three
0:54:49 > 0:54:50groups and gave them
0:54:50 > 0:54:51menial, boring tasks.
0:54:51 > 0:54:55One group was told they could use an iPad as soon as they got fed up.
0:54:55 > 0:54:58Another group was told to think of themselves in the third person.
0:54:58 > 0:54:59The final group dressed as their superheroes.
0:54:59 > 0:55:03No surprise that the iPad group spent 60% of their time on the iPad.
0:55:03 > 0:55:04Like my daughter!
0:55:04 > 0:55:06But those who thought of themselves as Batman performed like Batman.
0:55:06 > 0:55:09I guess the secret here is changing your persona
0:55:09 > 0:55:11to fit your environment.
0:55:11 > 0:55:14And it got me thinking, what outfit would get me
0:55:14 > 0:55:17through these long days with Katty Kay?!
0:55:22 > 0:55:27And I came up with this! In my mind... I might not wear it every
0:55:27 > 0:55:31day, but in my mind I'm going to be thinking of this! And you can pull
0:55:31 > 0:55:36the grill down!For when I get really annoyed, you will pull the
0:55:36 > 0:55:41grill down and go inside the costume!I will be going into Sir
0:55:41 > 0:55:45Christian, night of the realm mode! I will put my wonder woman costume
0:55:45 > 0:55:52on a build last you up into space in Elon Musk's Tesla if you ignored me
0:55:52 > 0:55:57inside that custom -- blast you up into space.And from California, I'm
0:55:57 > 0:56:01a superman died -- I'm from