06/02/2018 Beyond 100 Days

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Buckle up, it is a roller-coaster

ride on global stock markets. The

Dow Jones was up and down today

after a massive fall yesterday. It

seems Wall Street is nervous because

Main Street is doing better and that

has implications for investors

around the world. The White House is

wondering whether to declassify MMO

on intelligence about Trump and

Russia. Also, last week Donald Trump

was extending the figleaf to

Democrats but now he has accused

them of treason for failing to

applaud his speech.

An American.

Someone said treasonous. Why not? ,

Colak treason?

Why not? In 1918,

women in the UK won the right to

vote, why aren't there more women

now in politics worldwide? You can

get in touch with us.

How low. If you ever needed proof

that Wall Street is not Main Street,

look at financial markets today. The

US stock market has recorded huge

losses recently and all because the

real economy is actually doing

better. After yo-yoing Alde, the Dow

Jones is still trading and it is

down slightly. The main European

markets took a hit, the FTSE100

closed down by 2.6%, its lowest

level since last April. Do the

numbers matter? What do they tell us

about the global economy? If you own

the highs, do you own the lows? Let

us get the thoughts of a former

adviser to George W Bush. We are

glad you're here with us in London.

That is how it goes in politics.

Presidents like to talk the fact

that the stock market is doing well

but when it isn't, you have to say,

I have to reassure the American

people and give people confidence

that there are highs and lows. It is

cyclical. If you're that worried,

you should not be in the stock

market to begin with.

You say that.

All sorry if I don't remember any of

them saying -- being quite so keen

to tout any stock markets.

President

Bush had an eye on the long ball. I

am here to be the economic steward

of the American economy, I am here

to help Congress find laws to work

better for business. This is

something that Donald Trump might

regret

you have to be careful of taking too

much credit, taking a victory lap

when economic conditions could

change ever so quickly.

Knowing

President Trump as you do, would you

expect him to turn around when the

market has had a bad couple of days,

as the market sellers continue and

go to the American people as you

have suggested and reassure them?

No, I do not. The soul that he was

saying in Cincinnati, he was talking

about Democrats and the state of the

union, I don't think he will, he

will take credit when things are

good and not speak to the American

people when things go down a little

bit.

You're going to stay with us.

It will be good to have you on. The

last time I was with him on the

show, the fire alarms off -- went

off and the entire studio nearly

burned down. Democrats have prepared

a memo in response to the one that

the Republicans release criticising

the FBI and justice department over

surveillance rules. The intelligence

committee has authorised the release

of the Democrats version and has

sent to the President who will

decide whether it should be

declassified, they say the public

must be able to see both sides of

this argument in order to make up

their own judgments.

We think this

will help inform the public of the

many distortions and inaccuracies in

the majority memo. We have also

asked as of our transmittal to the

White House that unlike the process

that was used, that the Department

of Justice and the FBI be consulted,

that they have the opportunity to

that any information that they may

be concerned about in our memo in

terms of sources and methods, we

want to make sure that those who are

in the best position to bet that

have the opportunity to do so.

That

was the Democrat there. He is on the

intelligence committee. As we look

at the whole discussion of

Republican memos and Democratic

members, I wonder if you can remind

me, what it is that the intelligence

committee in the house, your

committee is actually investigating?

That is a great question. A lot of

the talk about the memos, the memo

issue itself is a distraction about

the real purpose of the

investigation which is to get to the

bottom of how Russia interfered with

the 2016 presidential election in

the United States and also whether

any Americans help them to

accomplish their goals. All of this

last few weeks in particular has

been a real sideshow to the main

investigation.

It has been a

sideshow which has not improved

relations between Republicans and

Democrats, the Republicans have

their memo wide and now the

Democrats have there is out, can you

investigate something as important

as Russia interfering in the

American election if you and your

colleagues are such odds with each

other?

You are right, it makes it

very difficult. Historically the

intelligence committee and the House

of Representatives has been one of

the more bipartisan committee is it

all on whether armed services for

example as opposed to other

committees like the Judiciary

Committee and this has made it

tougher, but we have a

responsibility to the American

people to see this investigation

through and to complete it.

From the

point of view of the Democrats, the

rebuttal is important. One week ago

the committee voted to block it,

what has changed since, do you

think?

I think a big part of the

reason that Republicans voted

yesterday to release the memo, the

Democratic memo but did not release

it before is because they wanted to

release the new memo first and get

about four or five new cycles were

only their side of the story was out

and after that happened, they were

willing to release

the Democratic memo second.

I think

that it was basically a media spin.

Now it is on the desk of the

President, if he were not to release

it, and he might even redact some of

it, taking out some of the key

parts, what would happen them?

My

fear is that he may do that, this

President on many issues is beyond

shame. His sense of fairness is

gone. It would not surprise me if he

either does not release the memo or

redact is so much of it that it

makes it really impossible to fully

understand for the American people.

You have a vote to get to, we will

let you go, thank you for joining

us.

Thank you for having me.

You may

recall Mr Trump advocating in his

State of the union address I knew

bipartisan approach but that does

not appear to have lasted long.

Yesterday he was attacking Democrats

for the way that they responded to

his speech.

An American. Someone

said treasonous. Why not? Can we

call it treason? Why not?

Joining us

now is Jonathan, a national

political reporter. It is unusual to

hear a President accuse the other

side of treason, we know that,

President Trump does things that are

different but you have reported that

he has the capacity to sway public

opinion. Is there a risk that there

is a serious consequence and people

start to believe that Democrats are

treasonous?

There is a capacity that

we have almost never seem to sway

public opinion, which is between 30

and 40% of Republican voters. He has

turned a party that was staunchly in

favour of law and order to being

pretty sceptical if not downright

hostile towards the FBI. He has

turned public opinion particularly

among Republican reporters towards

the NFL and to use words like

treason towards the Democratic

party, it escalates rhetoric, if

someone is unstable.

It is

dangerous. You spend an awful lot of

time talking to people in the White

House, perhaps even more time then

you would like, 18 hours a day,

either concerns amongst any people

around the President that this kind

of language is not helpful to his

presidency or diminishing his

presidency?

I have covered Trump for

more than two years and what you

need to understand about these

people, particularly people who have

worked with him for a long time,

they are so inoculated, this is just

another day in the life of. While we

have fresh outrages in the media,

almost every day, it takes something

like Charlottesville to release

which some of these people on. Most

of them just roll their eyes, move

on, they may grumble and if you

press them on that, they would say I

think it is inappropriate but I do

not see a lot of hand-wringing

internally at this point.

The White

House has said today that he was

joking and he is quite flippant in

the way that he does that in his

speech. I will cut him some slack,

what is crucially more important is

what is coming down the line in

terms of the legislation, whether

they can find this bipartisan

agreement. You have got the

government spending which is right

around the corner, there is a bill

coming forward. What really matters

here is whether he can get the

parties working together on the

legislation?

The reality is, if the

two parties to come together and

hash out a deal, it is not going to

be because of Donald Trump. He does

not have the capacity to sway a

large enough proportion of Congress

to get the deal happening. If you

look even objectively at the

Republican conference in the house

and Senate, most of these members do

not feel it is an advantage to be

close to Donald Trump, the people

who have courted him, a very small

segment of the conference. What we

saw for the last negotiation is at

the last minute Donald Trump pulling

back and having very little to do

with the negotiations and I expect

that if they do come to a deal, it

might be along similar lines.

OK,

Jonathan Swan, thank you for coming

in to join us. One other bit of news

coming out of Washington, the New

York Times reporting that there is a

debate amongst the President's

advisers and lawyers are bad whether

he should sit down with their

special counsel, the President has

said that he would like to do so,

apparently some of his advisers and

lawyers are more cautious because

the President has a tendency to go

backwards and forwards on particular

issues and stories and how things

actually occurred. We will see how

that pans out. Let us go back to the

top story and the financial markets.

The President has not been shy about

taking credit for a booming economy,

he has treated more than 60 times

about the stock market. Last August

he said that business was looking

better than ever, stock market at an

all-time high, that does not just

happen. How about this? This is from

January, President Trump is not

getting the credit he deserves for

the economy, tax cut bonuses for

more than 2 million workers, most

explosive stock-market rally that we

have seen in modern times. Yes. It

has now come down a little bit. Let

us explain what is going on. The

chief economist at Grant Thornton

joins us now from Chicago. Thank you

for joining us. I was in Davos a

couple of weeks ago and financial

types and economic types there were

a giddy with excitement, there was

not a cloud on the horizon apart

from the odd storm and snow cloud.

They were convinced this was a

market that was going to run and

run, what has happened?

I am sorry,

I lost you for a second but I think

there was an extraordinary amount of

complacency about this market and

you really saw that in the sense

that people were driving without a

seat belt as well, they were not

hedging the downsides, the risk that

the market could go down. There was

a feeling it will continue to go up

and there was a reality check that

we saw set in last week and it was

three series of events, what

happened in Davos was interesting

because it confirmed what we knew,

we are in a world growth situation

where economies around the world are

doing much better than they had been

doing. We have got central banks no

longer feeding that growth, the only

support that and some of them have

not only ease their foot from the

pedal but are hitting the brakes and

we had some good economic news in

the US, overstated of it, wages,

reigniting the debate about how many

Fed hikes we had, a change in guard

at the Federal Reserve and the sense

that

on top of it, the tax cuts we had

but have to be paid for, the

Treasury issued a warning and they

will have to issue more Treasury

bonds than initially thought. All

those things together it gave us a

reality check that the markers were

priced to war was unrealistic.

Anyone with more of the memory will

start thinking about 2008 and it

made me nervous about where we might

be headed. If the fundamentals of

the world economy, not just the US

economy are good, are we in a

quantified Lee different situation

from the one we were in in 2000 and

a woman started seen big sell-offs

in the market?

Absolutely. That is

the most important thing. I was

worried about the asset price bubble

we were in. Letting out of the air

in some of those is welcome news to

the Federal Reserve. If it went too

far, they would not be able to raise

rates and the irony is, they would

not be able to do that. If this was

a real market crash like we had in

2008, they do not have the tools to

deal with it but I do not think that

is what we are facing, it is nowhere

near that. They have got to

euphoric. The 21st century economy

may have 4.1% on the unemployment

rate but not as many people on the

Dazzler as it was.

Let us show

people the Dow Jones which shows you

the volatility. It is about two

o'clock, just after two o'clock in

New York at the moment. It went up,

covered some of its losses from

yesterday and then fell back down.

One of the things that markets are

waking up to is the fact that

central banks are starting to take a

different approach, there is not

easy money around, are we going to

see more volatility like that as

they wake up to that fact.

The

volatility we have seen in the last

couple of days has been extreme, we

went from none to extreme

volatility. That is in part due to

automated trading. I do think we are

in store for more volatility because

that is what we should have, it is

not normal to have no volatility and

as the economy goes through that

shifting of the phases, where Wall

Street gets to hand off the baton

and spread the games more evenly to

wages in particular, you're going to

have more volatility on Wall Street.

There are reports starting to circle

that the plunge was triggered by

robots. That the automated trading

systems, they pick up a trend and

they go with it and that is what

drives the market down, is that

true?

That is one of the speculation

is out there and that is that the

automated trading that went on did

exacerbate this and we have seen

this more than once and it gets to

the issue, there is human nature

which is a panic and turns out

technology is even faster and people

who were trying to buy could not buy

as the marker was plunging because

of these self-fulfilling sale orders

and we have to take into account

that technology, certainly in 2008

made things more rapid, but they can

also make these everyday moves more

rapid and we have to put our seat

belt sign and keep a grip as it

happens.

Fascinating. Thank you very

much. I used to drink with a bond

trader in Paris and he was

programming for one of these things

and sometimes it started to follow

the trend and he had to put his pipe

down and run back to the office to

try and stop it. It fascinates me

that sort of thing. Time to put your

fiver under the mattress, Christian.

Julian Assange has lost his

application to have his arrest

warrant lifted by a court in London,

he breached his bail five years ago

and has since been confined to the

Ecuadorian Embassy. Media outlets in

Taiwan have shown photographs of a

hotel that has partially collapse

following an earthquake on these

closed. Two people are dead and more

than 100 reported injured in the

quake which centred on the town of

Ireland. There were nearly two dozen

smaller tremors on Tuesday and one

expert described it as an earthquake

swarm. John Mahoney best known for

playing Marty Crane in Frasier has

died at the age of 77. He was being

treated in a hospice in Chicago, he

was born in Lancashire and he

starred in Frasier for 11 years

playing the grumpy retired policeman

who often outwitted his too

pretentious sons. He was from

Blackpool. I nearly grew up. 100

years ago today, the rather dull

sounding representation of the

people act was passed in Britain.

There was anything but boring to the

women who have sacrificed so much,

it gives some of them the right to

vote for the first time, but only if

they were over 30 and married or

owned property. It was not until

1928 that the right to cast a ballot

was extended to all women. The women

who fought for change were known as

suffragettes because they wanted

universal suffrage.

Here are some of

those women in their own words. In

those days I was extremely annoyed

at the difference between the

advantages of men had and boys had

and the ones girls had. When one

grew up and saw the differences and

the opportunities that men had and

women had, then it just increased.

No women solicitors allowed. That

woman stood in a court alone. In

Amman's world. And she got man's

sense of justice -- in a man's

world.

I mean if a woman went to

work there, he could come outside of

the factory and take her money as

she earned it, go and spend it and

she could not do anything.

They said

it would ruin the country and give

us a very bad standing with other

nations. It was ridiculous.

We lived

like animals to a degree, the

parasite, there was people with

money but there was a very big gap.

Those that had and those that really

were like church mice, before the

suffragettes started. That will

curse up. Until then, we were fast

asleep.

-- dad woke us up. To mark

the centenary, Theresa May went to

Manchester. She was one of only 113

female Conservative MPs when she was

first elected, today she had some

advice for aspiring female

politician -- she was one of only 13

female Conservative MPs.

That does

not mean it is not just as good and

it is just as good. I would say, be

yourself, don't feel you have to be

a stereotypical man in order to get

on in politics. Be yourself and

believe in what you are doing.

So,

some women got the vote in 1918,

1920 was when women in America got

the vote. The 19th Amendment gave

all women in America the vote. I

have been busy putting together a

map and I will show you how women

are involved in politics. These are

percentages in the lower houses of

Parliament around the world. I will

explain this. The highest in the

world is Rwanda, 61.3% in the middle

of Africa. The one to the left of

that in Latin America, that is

Bolivia and we will talk about that

in a second. The interesting

statistic for me, you can see the

Nordic countries and the

Scandinavian countries do

particularly well but the

interesting one, Saudi Arabia, 19.9%

women in the lower House and look at

America, 19.4%. China and Saudi

Arabia have more women in the Lower

House than the United States. What

is interesting about those

countries, Rwanda, Bolivia and Saudi

Arabia is changes in legislation.

That is what has produced higher

numbers of women in representation,

Rwanda has always been an anomaly,

after the genocide, men were

targeted more and they decided they

wanted more women in politics.

Bolivia is really interesting. In

2000 there were as 12% of women in

Parliament and they changed the law

in 2010 and now we are above 50%.

That is a remarkable change, the

kind of change most companies would

die for it if they could get that

change in female representation in

such a short period of time and it

is just changing the law, you

mandate more women running for

office and politics and it happens.

Do we obsess too much about women in

politics, women in the boardroom at

the expense of women who were lower

down the ladder, who were suffering

from low pay, are disproportionately

involved in low-paying jobs. No, it

is women in politics he will change

legislation for women who are

working in less well-paid positions.

You start to see movement in

countries where you have more

politics, women in politics, you

start to see more female friendly

kind of policies and policies that

benefit working women. You do need

to have those women running for

office and have a more

representation otherwise you do not

get change for the other women. It

is interesting. When you look at

Britain, we have come so far in

terms of women at the top, you have

a woman Prime Minister, the Home

Secretary is a woman, the head of

the Metropolitan Police and the

National Crime Agency but it is

representation in politics, still

less than a third of MPs. It is not

enough to have them at the top, you

need to have them the whole way

through. This is Beyond 100 Days

from the BBC. Coming up for viewers

on the news channel and worldviews,

100 years after some women won the

right to vote, what more should be

done to encourage women in politics?

And the other rocket man, Elon musk

to take off with high winds delaying

the launch of his most powerful

rocket. All still to come.

Good evening, the wintry theme

continues. Today most are a bit of

steel, not too disruptive but it did

make for some lovely scenes in the

north-east of thing led to finish

the day. The sun setting their

behind the hills, but as sky is

clear in its wake, we will see a

widespread frost across the country

and where you have seen snow, even

rain today, an increasing risk of

eyes. There is high pressure

building on behind this weather

front, so clearing skies, we

still have not seen still, you might

do tonight. Across Norfolk and

Suffolk, we could get two or three

centimetres of snow. A few wintry

showers in Cornwall, a few in

Scotland, but for most under clear

skies, these are the temperatures in

the towns and cities, just about all

below freezing. Almost all of the UK

in blue, with rural areas anywhere

between -5 and -11 to take us into

tomorrow morning. Should be a lovely

crisp start for many, still wintry

showers to begin with, a real risk

of ice during the morning rush-hour,

just about anywhere across the

country and why most. The sunshine,

already starting to see changes in

the north-west of the UK. If you

look around during the rush hour,

increasing cloud in Scotland,

eastern areas under sunshine. I see

in Northern Ireland, but cloud

increasing, much of England and

Wales, early cloud, those wintry

showers down across the far west of

Wales into Cornwall giving a slight

dusting and could be a slight

dusting of snow thanks to the

weather front there in the

south-east corner. That will fade

away but the weather front in the

north-west will continue to push

through wet and stay. Stormy across

Scotland and Northern Ireland,

cloudy, a bit of snow on higher

ground, between five and ten

centimetres of snow. Turning to

reign as temperature is left, and

mild end to the day in the Hebrides

but for cloud increases from the

North and West, a dry and sunny but

cold day. Whether tonight into

Thursday, about whether from will

fragment. Never reaching the selfies

until we go into Thursday, a frosty

start, a motor started Thursday.

Lots of cloud, brighter conditions

across Scotland and Northern

Ireland. Rain pushing into the West

of England and Wales. Goodbye for

now.

This is Beyond 100 Days, with me,

Katty Kay, in Washington.

Christian Fraser's in London.

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They say it's lonely at the top.

And when your job comes

with a lot of responsibility,

like confronting a nuclear

North Korea, it must be very lonely.

Rex Tillerson is not

quite a one-man-band,

but he leads a US State Department

where many senior management

and diplomatic positions still have

not been filled more than a year

into the administration.

Just over 150 positions at State

need Congressional approval -

but so far, fewer than half

of the positions have been filled.

Soon, seven of the top ten jobs

at the State department will be

empty - including positions

with responsibility for arms

control, democracy, human rights,

and the agency's role

control, democracy, human

rights, and the agency's

role in trade policy.

And it's a similar picture in US

embassies around the world.

Right now, there are 41

vacant Ambassador posts -

including to important partners

like South Korea, Saudi

Arabia, Turkey, Egypt.

Joining us now to look at the impact

these vacancies are having

across the board is Linda

Thomas-Greenfield.

She has 35 years of foreign

service under her belt,

and most recently served

as Assistant Secretary

for African Affairs.

-- African-American affairs. Thank

you for coming in. Seven out of ten

of the top posts are filled. How

damaging is that to the ability of

the State Department to do its job

around the world?

I think it sends a

very strong message to our partners

around the world that we are not

prepared as we have been in the past

to deal with the foreign policy and

other challenges that our government

needs to deal with. And the

secretary cannot do this alone. He

needs his top leaders and advisers

to support him in this effort.

So,

do you think this is just the

teething pains of trying to reform a

department that some had said was

bloated and had too many people in

it? Or is this a deliberate effort

by a White House to undermine the

presence of American diplomacy

around the world?

I think it's

probably more of the latter than the

former. Most of us foreign service

careerists never saw a bloated state

Department. We were always

understaffed. I can particularly say

that from my position as the

assistant Secretary for Africa that

we never had enough staff to do the

job. So, there was no gloating that

any of us ever experienced, and the

Department has always been

underfunded when you compare our

diplomacy to our defence budgets, we

have not been able to keep up with

the demand.

One of the problems, it

seems to me, for the administration,

is that their nominees, they've not

done the due diligence themselves.

They've not properly vetted them.

You've got, for instance, the

nominee to the position of

ambassador in Barbados, who is now

accused of spreading some bizarre

conspiracy theories on Twitter. His

nomination is being held up. You

sort of wonder why they've not gone

on this deep dive into the

background of some of the people

they've put forward.

You know, I

think it's partially a lack of

experience in the offices that are

dealing with the vetting that's

required. Because that kind of

vetting is always done, and having

gone through the vetting process

myself, no stone has ever been left

uncovered. I've found out things

about myself that I didn't know,

from the vetting process! So, to

have this kind of information come

out so far into this nominee's

process is a bit surprising.

I

understand that within the State

Department, it's bit like the

Pentagon, it's a star system, the

more senior you get, the higher you

go, if the top brass within the

State Department, if you will, are

leaving the department, how easy, or

how difficult, is it to replace them

once President Trump has gone? Are

we talking about long-term damage to

the department here?

I think we are.

And I think it's going to take

probably a decade to get back to the

capacity that we had before this

happened. A lot of the senior

positions in the Department are

filled by careerists, who, like

myself, have decades of experience

and decades of service, and if you

are not filling those positions,

you're not bringing in new blood,

and people are leaving, you're going

to have a difficult time finding the

right people in the future. That

said, there are some very capable

people still left in the State

Department who are in acting

positions who are filling some of

the senior slots now, and hopefully

they will be able to maintain a

commitment to fulfil those positions

in the future.

OK, ambassador, thank

you very much for coming in. You

know, we talk a lot about political

divisions in this town, Christian.

Some people would say it's not

really a question any more in

politics of whether you are a

Republican or a Democrat, it is a

question of whether you are a

nationalist or globalist. Diplomats

tend by their nature to be more

globalist, and this administration

has made it clear that it is more

nationalist in its inclinations, and

perhaps more and friendly to

globalist so who might be inhabiting

the State Department. I have heard

that are at the State Department is

not great at the moment. -- that

morale at the State Department.

In 100 years since women have

had the vote in the UK,

the country has seen two female

Prime Ministers.

But less than a third of Members

of Parliament are women.

One of the reasons for that,

said the Theresa May today,

is the amount of bullying,

intimidation and harassment

in our political debate.

Speaking in Manchester,

which was the birthplace

of the suffragette movement,

she blamed social media,

which is being exploited

and abused, often anonymously.

The Home Secretary, Amber Rudd,

even says she has to put up

with the hate-filled messages

she receives because "female voices

matter in politics and in life".

We're joined by the Labour MP

Stella Creasy, who's in Westminster.

And Melissa Richmond

from the campaign group

Running Start, which aims to bring

more women into politics in the US.

Stella, let me start with you. Your

party adopted a policy of all women

short lists, and it was

controversial at the time, but we

have shown people by map of how

women are involved in lower Houses

of Parliament are the world, and

it's still a pretty poor picture. Is

all women short lists the answer?

Well, as somebody elected on all

women short list and trout to have

been chosen on an all woman short

list. All women short lists are not

about the women standing, they are

about the people making the choices

and trying to change some of those

long held an unconscious bias about

what leadership looks like. If

anybody thinks it was easy to get

elected onto an all woman short

list, they didn't meet all of the

other fantastic women who went for

the constituency of Walthamstow when

I did. We'd like to see that

extended to other parts of election

system that the moment, particularly

with metro-mayors in the UK. When

you don't make the effort to try and

change people's perceptions about

what leadership looks like, people

tend to elect white men of a certain

age.

Melissa, the picture in the

United States is even worse. Is that

because you have a primary system in

America, very different to our

system here in the UK, where parties

choose their candidates? Is that

part of the problem in America?

In

the United States and do think the

primary system presented a challenge

for women, particularly on them I

can side of the aisle. Once women

reach the general election, they are

both so might just as likely as men

to get elected. But the deadly

Republican women face a challenge

getting to the primaries.

--

particularly republican women. You

poll women and do a lot of research

at Running Start on this. What are

the hurdles that women face running

for political office that men do not

face?

The biggest hurdle relates

back to a lot of work on confidence.

Women tend to undervalue their own

qualifications and lose confidence

in their ability to run for office

at a really critical age, in high

school and college. And so a woman

my age would think that her

qualifications are only half as good

as a man with the exact same

resonate. There are a variety of

other external barriers, but I think

the internal barrier, lack of

confidence, is the biggest hurdle

that women have to overcome.

Stella,

you clearly had the confidence to

run, and to win. They have a saying

in the United States that a man

looks in the mirror and

automatically sees a senator, and a

woman would never quite be so

presumptuous. You ever came that

hurdle and went for office. But then

you face the issue of the kind of

online bullying that the Prime

Minister has spoken about. It is

different online, I know, I am

online as well and I face that. The

tone is different for women and four

men.

One of the things about these

debates that I really want to

change, we talk a lot about the

women and we talk a lot about

anti-Semitism and Islamophobia or

racism online, we don't always talk

about the people doing it, and

recognising that when you are

challenging power in Barrow back

imbalances, when you are a woman

speaking up, you are challenging the

old patriarchal order, of course

that power pushes back. That is what

we see, it is the backlash against

people. One of the things we have to

do is to stop wondering whether

women should put up with this and

start talking about who is doing

this and how we can stop them doing

it. It's not OK, it's not

acceptable. I often get told, oh,

don't feed the trolls, don't react

to this

stuff. I think, how much should I

soak up in silence in the mistaken

belief that somehow if I'm soaking

it up there not going to do it to

other people? We have to change the

way we think about this, we are

missing out on the voices of a range

of people in our public life, not

just in parliament but across the

world, if we let that kind of anger

and abuse and aggression come in the

public domain. It is not free speech

when 50% of the conversation feels

intimidated, bullied and silenced.

It also comes down to attitude to

women, doesn't it, Stella? We were

reporting on this programme a few

weeks ago about the president of a

charity event where women were

treated like objects. -- by

President'sclub charity event. We

mark 100 years on, that was a

seismic moment for women in 1918.

Maybe right now we are approaching a

seismic moment for women in the

modern age.

It is worth reflecting

on the fact that the suffragettes

themselves received hate mail and

trawling and abuse at the time. It

is not the time that we live in,

it's the people who are back lashing

against the idea of equality. I

would love to believe that we are at

another seismic moment. I see that

we are at the start still trying to

get an equal, more prosperous

society stop one of the messages I

would love to give to the men

watching this programme tonight is

that actually we are fighting for

you, too. Equality is good for

everyone. We are not asking people

to share scarce resources, we are

asking to increase the resources,

increased prosperity, being more

equal, that is what the evidence

tells us.

Melissa, what are the

things that women change when they

do run for political office? What

changes in societies that have

higher proportions of female

representation?

So, I have to say

that the UK is doing much better

than the United States. You ranked

number 39 and the United States

ranks 99th worldwide. I think a lot

of countries use a quota system, it

ranked choice voting system, a

multimember district system. You

tend to see higher numbers of women

in office in those systems. In the

US, we generally don't have those

things in place, we have a much

smaller proportion of women. Just

one in four of our elected leaders

are women.

OK, Melissa and Stella,

thank you very much for joining us.

A North Korean spy who blew up

a Korean Airlines aircraft just

months before the Seoul Olympics

in 1988 has issued a warning ahead

of South Korea's Winter Games.

Kim Hyon says the regime that

recruited her and trained her

to murder 115 South Koreans

has not changed.

She's been recounting

her extraordinary story

to our Seoul Correspondent,

Laura Bicker.

She was under heavy sedation,

with her mouth covered

with adhesive tape.

TRANSLATION:

I was told

that I was on the front

line to unify Korea.

That I would be freeing South Korea,

like a revolutionary hero.

I was full of pride and dignity.

But I realised it was murder,

killing my own people.

Innocent, everyday people.

It was a Japanese radio,

a small radio, and that's

where I put the detonator.

Next to it was the liquid

explosives in a liquid bottle,

in a plastic bag, which I placed

on the shelf in the plane.

In the North, we are

taught that the South

is a colony of America.

Poor and corrupt.

That the US is an aggressor.

We are told they are the arch

enemy, and we cannot

live under the same sky.

In a blaze of publicity this

morning, the South Koreans paraded

the woman they claimed

was a North Korean agent.

Kim Hyon-hui apparently told

intelligence officers she'd blown up

the South Korean airliner to disrupt

the Olympic Games.

Do you think right now

all of this is fake?

Do you think the run-up

to the Olympics, the overtures

of peace coming from Kim Jong-un,

do you think it's fake?

TRANSLATION:

Of course it is fake.

The ultimate goal of North Korea is

to complete its nuclear programme.

They have nothing on their minds

but nuclear weapons.

North Korea will not

change through dialogue.

North Korea cannot be

changed by soft words.

I believe only pressure

will work on North Korea.

So, you have life,

you have love, and now,

I believe, you have children.

Do they know what you did?

TRANSLATION:

My children are not

old enough to know the story,

and I haven't tried to tell them

the details yet.

But these days, with

internet readily available,

and my interviews in the media,

I suspect they must know something.

My son is quiet,

but I think he knows.

As the bomber, I have a lifelong

work of atonement.

It is my cross to bear

for the rest of my life.

And that is getting an awful lot of

attention as we run up to the Winter

Olympics.

This is Beyond 100 Days.

Still to come:

The launch of the world's most

powerful rocket has been delayed by

high winds. We will find out what

the chances are of a liftoff today.

Former executives at the failed

construction and services giant

Carillion have apologised

for the company's collapse.

But they denied claims

by MPs that they were

"asleep at the wheel".

The firm, which employed

20,000 people in the UK,

went into liquidation last month.

Today, the company's former

directors faced a committee of MPs

to explain what they'd known

about its financial position.

Our Business Editor,

Simon Jack, reports.

Summoned to Westminster,

Carillion's top brass.

Philip Green was chairman

of the board when the company

collapsed, and he started

with an apology.

I would say I'm deeply sorry

for the impact that the collapse

of the company had on employees,

pensioners, customers,

suppliers and all stakeholders.

So, what went wrong?

Zafar Khan was Finance Director.

He said hundreds of millions

was owed by Middle East customers,

projects hit trouble,

and then new business dried up.

Here in King's Cross,

there are a few old signs still up.

Carillion has been

replaced on this project.

Today we saw a mixture of regret,

of shock, and a bit of anger at how

a company passed fit

in its own annual statement last

March suffered a crippling profit

warning four months later,

and six months after

that was liquidated.

Were the bosses rewarded

for these failures?

Former Chief Executive

Richard Howson was paid

£1.5 million in salary,

perks and bonuses in 2016.

Do you feel comfortable

with the level of bonus you received

in the year before the company that

you ran collapsed?

Yes, I do, for the attributes

that I earned it for.

Half of that bonus is deferred

and half of it was paid in cash.

There will be heated moments

to come in this postmortem.

And there will be awkward ones.

Large numbers of people

aren't going to get paid

for their contracts.

Other people have lost their jobs.

And you're still all right.

All of you.

Aren't you?

Simon Jack, BBC News.

OK, time for Christian's favourite

story of the day, I think he wants

to be on this rocket! No, we want

you here on Earth, Christian,

honestly!

SpaceX, the company founded

by Elon Musk, is due

to launch the world's most

powerful operational rocket.

The lift-off was delayed

because of winds in Florida,

but the Falcon Heavy should now lift

off on its first un-crewed

flight in half an hour.

With twice the lifting capacity

of any other commercial rocket,

it has 27 engines, which gives it

the thrust of 18 jumbo-jets.

If successful, it would be capable

of carrying humans to the Moon

or Mars and for a fraction

of the price.

The payload today, however,

is a car - Elon Musk's

old cherry-red Tesla,

which will be sent on an elliptical

orbit around the sun -

carrying three cameras,

which have been fitted on board.

Quite an image there

from SpaceX's promotional video.

Will it become a reality?

Let's speak to Victoria Gill.

That's not me strapped into that

car! So, tell me how they built this

rocket? It is fascinating. The

brilliant thing by Elon must's

Brockers is they come back to --

Elon Musk's rockets is that they

come back to Earth, if it goes well.

I wouldn't recommend being on board

on this particular nod, it is

experimental. It is three of his

Falcon 9 rockets, which he has

successfully returned and three

launched into space, strapped

together. 39 engine rockets strapped

together, the central core has had

to be thoroughly strengthened. What

they found out when they started to

build this rocket it is not quite

that temple, it was initially a

announced in 2011, why not strap

three of them together and we can

make the biggest rocket in the

world? It changes a lot of things,

it is very, very risky and may not

take off. He has had to strengthen

that against all of the aerodynamics

and vibrations that cocaine when the

27 engines although off at once. You

have -- the vibrations that go in.

You have ended up with three Falcon

9s strengthened and developed.

The

biggest payload in the world, you

can put spice that alights on it,

even a car if you want -- spy

satellites. You have got a very

wealthy man who is ahead of Nasa.

They are building an equivalent to

this, but far more expensive, and

behind schedule.

They have got a

space launch system which was

supposed to be in operation now, but

has now been delayed until 2022.

That is a big...

Why don't they

scrapped that and go with him was

allowed there is a bit of

speculation about that. Nasa are

definitely going to be watching this

launch very, very

closely. They are

one of SpaceX's customers already,

they have already given them a

contract to take stuff up to the

International Space Station, and in

the future to take astronauts as

well. They will be keeping a close

eye on this. Whereas the space

launch system will cost about 1

billion, this is £90 million. It is

a fraction of the cost, and it is

all in the reusable technology that

really slashes the cost and makes

this a game changer.

So, Victoria,

what I don't understand is why Elon

Musk was basically suggesting that

even, and by the way these are old

pictures, they are not of course

this particular launch, they are

from January of last year. If this

doesn't work, this launch today, if

it's a failure, he seems to say that

even that would be a success. Why?

Well, basically because we are at

such an experimental stage, Katty.

Because this is a test launch, when

they see what happens when the

engines fire and when it blasts off,

or if it blasts off, even, because

what Elon Musk has said is that if

it gets clear of the launch pad that

will be considered a success, at

every stage they will be watching to

see how it holds together, how the

engines perform, what happens to the

vibrations, what happens when the

frost is all cocaine, and at what

stage if and when something goes

wrong -- when the frost does kick

in. That is something they can get

fixed for the next test launch. It

is literally rocket science, and

that they are just going to be

measuring and gathering information

all along the way.

What time do you

think liftoff will be?

Prelaunch

activity has started, they have to

load a propellant and go, but they

are now saying 8:40pm GMT.

I want to

know what is going to happen to the

Tesla in a few years' time, or

perhaps in millions of years' time,

some aliens may pick it up and say,

this is a piece of old junk! I

really don't want it!

The US government is reported

to have cancelled a huge contract

to provide 30 million meals

to hurricane victims in Puerto Rico

last year after only 50,000 had been

sent to people in need.

The island was devastated

by Hurricane Maria in September.

In the storm's aftermath,

The New York Times says the Federal

Emergency Management Agency asked

an entrepreneur named Tiffany Brown,

who had no experience of overseeing

disaster relief efforts,

to deliver the food.

Fema insists no Puerto Ricans

missed a meal as a result

of the failed agreement.

One person has been killed

in a pile-up in Missouri that

involved over 100 vehicles.

The crash happened on Sunday,

but the drone footage, filmed

by the Springfield Fire Department,

has just been released.

As you can see, the accident

stretches several hundred

metres, and involves cars,

trucks and lorries.

It's thought the icy conditions

were the cause of the crash.

We've just got time to tell

you about some important

new research from the World Economic

Forum.

They have discovered that children

aged between four and six perform

much better when dressed as Batman.

No, this is not fake news!

I'm serious! Is it adults or

children, I don't know! Asking for a

friend!

Yes,

they put 180 kids into three

groups and gave them

menial, boring tasks.

One group was told they could use

an iPad as soon as they got fed up.

Another group was told to think

of themselves in the third person.

The final group dressed

as their superheroes.

No surprise that the iPad group

spent 60% of their time on the iPad.

Like my daughter!

But those who thought of themselves

as Batman performed like Batman.

I guess the secret here

is changing your persona

to fit your environment.

And it got me thinking,

what outfit would get me

through these long days with Katty

Kay?!

And I came up with this! In my

mind... I might not wear it every

day, but in my mind I'm going to be

thinking of this! And you can pull

the grill down!

For when I get

really annoyed, you will pull the

grill down and go inside the

costume!

I will be going into Sir

Christian, night of the realm mode!

I will put my wonder woman costume

on a build last you up into space in

Elon Musk's Tesla if you ignored me

inside that custom -- blast you up

into space.

And from California, I'm

a superman died -- I'm from