12/02/2018 Beyond 100 Days

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White House insists the president is

shocked by allegations of domestic

violence by a staff member, so why

did Donald Trump defend the accused

abuser is so vociferously? It's

another tumultuous day in the White

House. Mixed messages on North

Korea. The vice president says the

US is open to negotiations. The

deputy chief executive of Oxfam

resigns over the British charity's

handling of a prostitution scandal

in Haiti. A new exhibition

celebrates the decade that brought

us everything from pop art to

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social media. Hello. I'm Kitty Kay.

It is infrastructure day at the

White House. The president is

unveiling his multibillion-dollar

spending plan. The only problem is

no one is paying much attention

because that is yet another trump

administration scandal. The latest

episode concerns an aide accused of

beating his wife and chief of staff

who increasingly seems to be losing

his grip on power. General John

Kelly is accused of Miss handling

the case of Rob Porter and now there

are reports that he has threatened

to quit. Yesterday, the counter to

the president went on television to

explain Trump's position.

He has

full confidence in his current chief

of staff General John Kelly and he

is not actively searching for

replacements. He also has full

confidence in his communications

director and long serving eight.

When it comes to those two

individuals, the president has full

confidence in their performance.

Not

actively searching for replacements.

For more on this, I spoke with

General Kelly's friend Jay Johnson.

He served as the secretary of

Homeland Security during the

president Obama administration.

Somebody in the White House made an

error of judgment over a staffing

issue. John Kelly is the chief of

staff. Should he stand down?

As long

as Donald Trump is the president,

are country is best served if John

Kelly is the chief of staff. You're

correct. I think there were serious

errors in judgment about the

situation. It is a very serious

allegation. It may be more than an

allegation. And I find it very

difficult to believe, to work with

someone who has frankly hit his

wife. Even if... Rhodes scholarship

notwithstanding. I think there were

serious errors in judgment here.

And

yet somebody in the White House and

it may be John Kelly because it does

seem like he knew these allegations

even though he may not have known

about the full extent of them.

Somebody decided that Rob Porter's

public service was more important

than the fact that his wife says she

beat him.

Yes, and I think that is a

problem. Something like this should

come out in the security clearance

process almost immediately and

sometimes you get an interim

clearance and it just kind of sits

there without a final adjudication,

and so somebody made a judgment to

let Mr Porter have access to all

sorts of very sensitive documents

with an interim security clearance

without pushing it to a final

adjudication.

Would that have

happened in the Obama

administration, that somebody who

did not have permanent security

clearance would have had access to

the kind of documents that Mr Porter

had access to?

I am not aware of any

similar situation in the Obama

administration. Very definitely we

had people with interim security

clearances who were able to simply

get into the job with an interim

security clearance, but I'm

unfamiliar with the situation.

Could

you have somebody with interim

security clearance for a year? Is

that totally unheard of at does that

happen?

It is hard for me to say

from my vantage point, but it does

seem very unusual, yes.

Let me ask

you about Russia because obviously

it was during your time as head of

Homeland Security that the Russians

were hacking into and meddling with

the American electoral system. To

what extent were you aware when you

are running homeland security of

what the Russians were doing and to

a greater degree, did you miss

anything?

There was merging

intelligence throughout the summer

of 2016. By late summer, that

picture was clear. And then the

discussion turned to what we do

about it. A number of us felt very

strongly that we had to tell the

American people what we knew in an

ongoing presidential campaign that a

foreign power was attempting to put

his thumb on the scale of the

election result in multiple ways,

and so we were doing then with a

cross current of considerations.

One, the National security apparatus

rarely if ever becomes involved in a

political campaign, in an ongoing

campaign. Two, one of the

candidates, Mr Trump, was saying

that the outcome was good to be

raped, and rightly we did not want

to be perceived as ourselves putting

out on one still taking sides. --

was going to be reached. We had to

tell the American public what we

knew and we did.

Were you aware of

the full extent of it? How many

Americans were receiving information

on Facebook?

No. I am not sure we

are aware now of the full extent of

it. It continues to be a unfolding

picture and at this stage frankly I

am not anything would surprise me at

the extent of the influence campaign

from 2016, which we have to be

concerned about for our midterm

elections this year 's.

Thank you

very much for coming in.

Thank you.

The president refused to answer

questions about his staff issues

today. Instead, he announced $1.5

billion for an infrastructure plan,

saying it is time to spend money at

home and not abroad.

As of a couple

of months ago, we have spent $7

trillion in the Middle East, $7

trillion. What a mistake. It is what

it is. When I took over. And we are

trying to build roads and bridges

and fixed bridges that are falling

down. And we have a hard time

getting the money. It's crazy.

He

has a point. America's

infrastructure is in a very sorry

state. With me as former adviser to

George W Bush, Ron Christie. I guess

this didn't happen very much during

Mr Bush's White House. Six days.

People are talking about a staffing

issue up bout somebody who is

accused of beating his wife. Why has

the White House let this go on for

so long?

It is a shame. In the Bush

administration and I believe also in

the Obama administration, this would

have been a one-day story. You have

a supper who is accused, rightly or

not, of committing a very horrible

crime, domestic violence, they would

be gone. There is no place for that

in the White House. We have been

talking about this for six days and

it is a testament to the fact that

the president likes some of the guys

who are around him and doesn't want

to get rid of them.

OK, so there is

a political invitation to this,

beyond whether General Kelly stays

or goes, as we were discussing, and

that is what women voters think of

this and there is some evidence that

female voters are turning against

him. There is a new Washington poll

that has come out saying that

President Trump's approval has

followed. A year ago, he had a 40%

approval rating among white,

college-educated women. Those Arab

women that about a lot. That has

tumbled to 27%. I will take a wild

guess and say that the kind of

things we are hearing from the White

House are not particularly helping

them with the no. -- those are women

who vote.

These are the people who

got Mr Trump elected. Those college

educated white women. Those people

are wondering what operation his

staff are running and so

unfortunately in politics perception

is reality and there is a perception

right now that the president wants

to defend some of these staffers who

have been accused of some really bad

things and where is the President's

statement? We heard it from Mike

pence but not from the president

himself.

It is women who tend to

decide elections in America so I am

sure that the president is watching

those numbers very carefully.

Christian is of competing in the

Olympics at the moment, as we talked

about last week. America may or may

not be planning to speak to North

Korea. Mike pence to that the

president always believes in talking

but don't expect any rewards in

return. He first floated the idea of

negotiations on his way back from

the Winter Olympics when he came

under some criticism for choosing

not to stand when the joint Korean

team entered the stadium. He was

objecting to the presence of North

Korean athletes and to the presence

of Kim Jong Un's sister. She is 30

years old and studied in Switzerland

and then became director of

propaganda, tasks with protecting

her brother's image. South Korean's

media has said that it is not Kim

Jong Un often seeks advice. It is

not there that the comparisons with

the US ends. In 2017, she was

blacklisted by the US over North

Korea's alleged human rights abuses.

Let's speak more about this with big

the Michael Richardson -- with Bill

Richardson who has travelled to

Korea and knows it well. If the US

on the same bed at the moment as

South Korea when it comes to what to

do about North Korea, and

specifically how to handle

negotiations or otherwise with

Pyongyang?

Well, we are not on the

same page. South Korea basically

boxed the US in by announcing a

potential summit with North Korea by

the joint efforts of the Olympics

working together, but you have got

to recognise the South Koreans are

the first line of attack. 25

million. If there is a North Korean

attack. So the South Koreans are

playing their politics and the US is

kind of isolated here, but I think

developments are positive. They are

moving in the right direction.

Instead of talking about military

options and pre-emptive strikes and

a bloody nose, the administration,

even though they are contradicting

each other, are talking about

preconditions of talks, no

preconditions. It is confusing, but

they think we are all moving in the

right direction, but I am an

optimist.

I am glad you are

confused, because I am too. How did

the vice president handle all the

pics diplomacy this weekend when it

came to South Korea?

Well, if I were

him in his shoes, I would have just

shot a glance at Kim Jong Un's

sister and smiled. But there is

diplomacy involved. You're not

supposed to shake hands or a show

friendship with a country that you

have aggressive relations with. That

is diplomacy. But I would have done

something in between. President

Obama was very good at this. At the

UN, you would shake the hands of the

Venezuelans, the North Koreans, he

would engage the Iranians. But I

don't fault him terribly. I like

what he said on the aeroplane, that

we are open to talks without

preconditions. That is where the

administration should have been

policy wise a long time ago. He has

been contradicted a little bit, not

totally, by the Secretary of State.

They have got to sort this out and I

think the best step forward is let

there be a good stomach between

North and South Korea, which is

possible. And then let's have a

discussion with North Korea on

denuclearisation. So I think things

are going a little better, but I am

confused because of the mixed

message that has happened within a

few hours today by US policy.

OK,

stay with us. I want to ask you

about another area of the world that

you are interested in. For months,

the Rohinga minority has been

attacked in Myanmar. Reuters has

published an extensive reporting to

the killing of ten Rohinga men in

September which included this

photograph and eyewitness accounts.

While working on the story, two of

the agency's journalists were

arrested and now face up to 14 years

in prison. Ambassador Richardson,

you resigned earlier this year from

an international panel set up by

Myanmar to advise on the Rohinga

races. You called it a whitewash and

easy to suggest that Aung San Suu

Kyi, who has long been a friend of

yours, has let Howard go to her

head. What happened and why did you

set down?

Well, I stepped down

because I felt that this commission

was good to be a whitewash. When I I

said with the specific journalists,

why are they being detained? They

were doing their job. They have

discovered possibly some mass

graves. She exploded at me. She was

not willing to listen to Frank

advice, even from her friends. We go

back 30 years. And the situation is

getting worse. There are 1 million

refugees in Bangladesh that want to

go home, but the repatriation

process is not working. There are

killings and rapes and massive

degradation of human rights. This is

an international crisis that the

international community needs to

respond to.

Why do you think Aung

San Suu Kyi, given all of history,

all of those years under house

arrest herself, all of those years

of oppression by the Government

itself, why do then she has failed?

Letting it is fair to say failed to

take this story seriously and to do

something about it.

Well, she has

become a human... She has gone from

being a human rights Europe to a

politician. The military is

committing these atrocities from

Myanmar. And she does not want to

take them on. She wants to get

re-elected. So she is not exercising

moral authority and saying to her

own military, we have got to stop

this and make sure these refugees

are treated properly. She has

changed. Politicians change. They

get all of this power, they then get

a lot of advice from people that

they want to hear, they don't like

frank advice. They get in a bubble.

I think that is what has happened to

my friend. Well, I don't think she

considers me a friend any more. But

it is bad. It is not good.

Governor

Richardson, that is the truism of

the day. Thank you very much for

joining us. Politicians do change.

It is a story that is truly

shocking. Allegations that the

charity Oxfam tried to cover up the

full details of a sex scandal in

involving its aid workers. The

allegations have led to the

resignation of its chief executive.

The Government is threatening to cut

millions of pounds in funding to the

charity. Our correspondent has the

details. Haiti's red light district.

Prostitution is illegal here, but

that didn't stop some of Oxfam's

staff. The charity now admitting it

knew about concerns about its team

and prostitutes not just in Haiti

but also in Chad. And nothing was

done. This man worked in human

resources in Haiti four years. She

says she flagged concerns and was

ignored.

There were a lot of rumours

on the ground about management and

leaders exploiting the locals.

Sexually and in other ways. To get

jobs and to have good standing. So

these were ongoing rumours that

would come to me through the drivers

and other employees. So on many

occasions, I would share those

rumours with my boss.

Now, Oxfam's

Deputy Chief Executive has resigned.

Penny Lawrence was programme

director when the prosecution

allegations were made and ignored.

She said, "I am ashamed that this

happened on my watch and I take full

responsibility." The actions of

senior Oxfam employee in Haiti were

never properly dealt with.

At that

time, when he used the prostitutes,

it was not explicitly contrary to

Oxfam's code of conduct. Bringing

fun into disrepute in any way and

abusing people who may have been

beneficiaries of course was. So

there was an exploration of how

should the organisation respond, but

we didn't act on it, and more

significantly we then allowed him

because there were not formal

complaint, we allowed him to move

onto another post, and that was our

failing.

Oxfam's bosses were called

in to meet ministers this morning,

with questions about the £32 million

the charity receives from the

Government. Ministers here at the

Department International development

no British charities do good work

overseas, but with Oxfam only

telling half the story about what

happened with its staff in Haiti, it

has now put pressure on the entire

charity sector. Oxfam says it

investigated 87 allegations of

sexual abuse or exploitation last

year. Save the Children said it

looked into 31 cases of sexual

misconduct where half the people

were fired. Christian Aid said it

had two cases. One was reported to

the Charity commission.

I don't

think anybody can say in good faith

operating in an environment like

ours that we can eliminate all risk

as a matter of 100% certainty. What

we can do is put in 100% best effort

to keep these people out of our

organisation.

The Charity commission

says it receives reports about 1000

incident involving safeguarding from

charities every year. But a culture

of cover-up is not the image

charities want. Sadly does nothing

to help build a case for

international aid upon which so many

people around the world of course

depend. A quick look at other news

from around the world. The wife of

Donald Trump Junior Vanessa has been

taken to hospital after she opened a

letter containing a white powder.

The letter was addressed to Donald

Trump Junior and sent to their

apartment in New York. She and two

others were decontaminated by

firefighters as a precaution. It has

since been found that the powder was

not hazardous. Tributes have been

paid to three British tourists who

died in a helicopter crash in the

Grand Canyon on Saturday. Stewart

and Jason Hill and Becky Dobson were

among seven people in the aircraft.

Three other British nationals and

the pilot are being treated in

hospital in Las Vegas. Theresa May

is in Belfast for talks with Irish

counterpart, aiming to persuade

local parties to restore Ireland's

devolved Government. Brexit has been

on the agenda with the Irish Prime

Minister repeating his commitment

for a broader deal after the UK

leads the EU.

We both prefer the

option by which we can avoid a hard

border in Ireland and that is

through a competence of free trade

and customs agreement involving

Britain and Ireland, and that's the

best way we can avoid any new

barriers.

London City Airport has

been closed all day on Monday after

an unexploded German World War II

bomb was found close to the runway.

All flights in and out of the

airport were cancelled affecting

some 16,000 passengers. Police they

work to remove the bomb will take

until Tuesday. We live in busy

times. Try the 1960s. They had

everything. Civil war

demonstrations, free love and drugs.

Now a new exhibition at Philadelphia

brings together the art and culture

from the decade of political and

social upheaval. Revolution, war,

social upheaval and assassinations

mark the 1960s. But on the front

lines of culture, everything was

groovy, baby. Designers and artists

experimented with new forms, new

materials, and a new, more mobile

age.

Consumer culture in the 1960s

was really a driving force of

innovation and experimentation. The

new use of materials like plastic

allowed for furniture and design

objects to be mass produced or

miniaturised, and this goes along

with the rise of the jet age, so

people are flying all over the world

and that is part of consumer

culture.

I know small was supposed

to be beautiful in the 60s, but this

TV isn't really practical, is it?

Yes, and the screen is curved to the

image might be a bit distorted, but

it is bright and colourful and fun

and it is portable so you can take

it anywhere with that keen on top.

And what about the furniture,

because that looks uncomfortable.

I

see that, but the curves of the

Silver give you something to lean

into and there is some cushioning to

give you some support.

I suppose all

that is missing is the lava lamp.

Yes, design team 9063.

It would fit

perfectly. This was the jet age and

also the space age. Designers

responded with equal baldness,

unapologetic colour, and an

exuberance that matched the soaring

ambitions of the age.

These are two

textiles that were created in

anticipation and to commemorate the

lunar landing in 1969, in the summer

of 1969. Trippi, I pay?

They are

fabulous. But what would you do with

them?

I think Eddie Squires on the

top would make an interesting

bedspread.

Not a dress.

I don't

think I would be walking around with

rockets or astronauts on my clothes,

but that's just me. Even in the

1960s.

But there was a dark side to

the pub.

President Kennedy died at

1pm, Central standard Time.

Andy

Warhol reappropriated the singular

grief of Jackie Kennedy for mass

consumption as Americans looked for

a way to publicly express their

feelings. That collective emotion

was further enhanced by television,

the way most people experience the

funeral of Martin Luther King a few

years later. At a time when rigid

norms were breaking down, artists

played openly with people's

perceptions. The result, as this

exhibition demonstrates, was far

out. OK. The 1960s were seriously

cool, right? We missed out?

Groovy,

man! I was born in the summer of 69.

Summer of love, man!

What a groovy

exhibition. My parents still have

some of that stuff in the house.

Must be worth a fortune. I can't

believe there is the coolest up and

she is worried about whether the

silver is comfortable. That wasn't

the point.

It is like look how cool

I am. We have do see if she has some

bell-bottoms.

I want to see if she

comes back with that astronaut

outfit. It was an enormous political

change. We think we are busy today.

That was really p. Yellow you had

the assassination of Bobby Kennedy

and Martin Luther King. So much

people going on in the country that

here in America we still the

remnants of that. And you know who

missed it all, Christian Fraser,

because he is just too young, was

born after the swinging sixties.

That is why he is not as cool as we

are. Get with the programme.

Lets

hope he comes back with a medal from

the Olympics. OK, this is Aung San

Suu Kyi proroguing -- BBC News.

Jacob Zuma meets with his own party.

We will have an update from

Pretoria. Prince Harry and Meghan

Markle have more details from their

wedding and that is all still to

come here on the programme.

Good evening. Some of us are going

to see some snow over the next 24

hours and that could actually be

destructive in places.

We have

already had a covering to start the

week. For some, as you can see from

the view from space, this cloud

coming in from the Atlantic, that is

going to bring some outbreaks of

rain from the south. In northern

areas and especially over high

ground but even to lower levels at

times we will see some snow fall.

Ahead of that frontal system, some

strong and gusty wind. 50-60- 70 mph

gusts in the South West. And the

South West. And temperatures pretty

mild down towards the south-west,

but cold further north for some eyes

as well as the snow. Into tomorrow

morning and a bit more detail at

8am, you can see the snow falling

across large parts of Scotland over

high ground may be up to ten

centimetres, but three centimetres

through the central belt. Could

cause some issues for the Tuesday

morning commute. Some snow into

Northern Ireland and parts of

north-west England and North Wales.

So with that snow and ice and also

further south in wind and rain,

there is the potential for some

travel disruption tomorrow morning.

Your BBC local radio station will

keep you up-to-date. As we go on

through the day, we take this band

of rain and snow and we slide it

further east and behind the Skype

will begin to Brighton. We will see

some spells of sunshine and wintry

showers coming into words the West.

Most of these will be following as

snow on what will be a cold day. Top

temperature of 4-7dC. As we move out

of Tuesday into Wednesday, we push

that first run away to the east but

here comes another system from the

Atlantic. Ahead of it again some

strong winds, possibly bail in

places and we could see some

snowfall. At this stage, the snow

will increasingly become confined to

high ground as we get onto Wednesday

because we will start to drag in

some slightly milder air from the

south-west. Double digit

temperatures are Plymouth and

Cardiff and Belfast as we head

towards the end of Wednesday. Then

as we move towards the end of the

week, low pressure remains in charge

of the scene. It will remain cold

enough snow showers at times,

particularly in the north but

further south signs of something a

little bit milder. Then more

generally to do weekend and into

next week things should begin to

settle down as high pressure builds

from the south.

This is Beyond 100 Days, I am Katty

Kay in Washington. Our top story,

another staffing scandal in White

House, Donald Trump says he is

standing by his chief of staff John

Kelly. A member of Oxfam's team

resigns. And coming up in the next

half-hour comedy desperate measures

the young Italians take to find

work, Italy prepares for a general

election. The banners are back in

Washington for good, at least the

portraits are. Portraits of the

former president and first lady are

unveiled. The Obamas are back in

Washington. The future of South

Africa's President Jacob Zuma is

being decided right now. The ANC

have been meeting to discuss him

stepping down. The 75 old has

resisted pressure to quit since

December when the ANC's replaced him

as party leader. Jacob Zuma has

survived lots of attempts to get rid

of him, is he going to survive this

one as well? It looks like this is

going to be hard for him to push

back. Because here in this hotel

where I am standing, just behind

here, his own comrades are deciding

his fate. Essentially, as far as we

know, they have come here to decide

to recall him as the president,

which they had sent. So that the guy

has a proportional representation

system in terms of its electoral

system. When they vote in a general

election here, people vote for a

party. The party then sends it only

candidate to be president. They are

meeting here, about 90 of the ANC I

meeting to decide to recall

President Zuma. Once they have

decided that and announced it, it

looks like he has no other option.

Thank you. We will follow that

story. Oxfam has spent a day in

emergency talks with the Government

to try to protect their funding

following allegations some Oxfam

staff were involved with prostitutes

in Haiti after the 2010 earthquake

in what seems a gross abuse of

power. Our next guest knows

something about that. At 13, she was

trafficked from her home to France

and sold into prostitution. She runs

an organisation teaching girls to

coat to keep them out of property

and exploitation. Thank you for

joining us. I want to hear your

story and I want to talk about

whether aid agencies are doing

enough to help girls. You were

trafficked from Senegal to Paris at

the age of 13 to become a

prostitute. Who sold you? Why were

you sent?

A very difficult childhood

I had. I am totally familiar with

the issues that young girls are

facing today. I was very traumatised

and angry this morning when I heard

these stories. I have been there.

The UK is my home now, but I was

taken away from my country when I

was a very young girl.

Where there

are no adults along the way who

stood up to protect you?

Know. That

is why we need to talk about these

issues. It is not about the NGOs, it

is about the young women and young

girls who are being neglected today,

totally neglected, abandoned as

young women and young girls across

the world. A lot have been taken

away from my country to Paris.

Where

there are other girls as well who

were taken away? Was yours and

unusual case or is this happening

more often than most of us are aware

of?

It is happening all over the

place, that is why I created the

coding organisation. It is happening

everywhere. It is an epidemic from

Senegal to Brazil, human trafficking

is absolutely high. Young girls are

being marginalised, the eye facing

human trafficking, only manages and

they are facing abortions, children

that they don't want to have in your

country. They don't have a very

solid system in place. It is

happening everywhere and I think

it's time for us to forget about the

NGOs and start thinking about the

young women and girls being

traumatised. I am one of them and

that is why I am hurt nobody is

talking about the young women and

girls being traumatised. We're just

talking about the NGOs and who is

going to get away with this. It is

time for all of us as a society to

start thinking about these young

women who are being traumatised an

early age, until, I am now 44 years

old, I know what it means to go

through this.

You went to Paris at

the age of 13 and became a

prostitute, your childhood was taken

away from you, you didn't learn to

read right until you were eating

because you had no opportunity. I am

looking at you know, you are 44,

you're confident, outspoken, trying

to help other young women, how did

you do it? How did you get yourself

out of that situation when there was

nobody helping you?

The UK is my

home now, the UK gave me a safe

space. I think this is why I created

iamtheCODE, these young girls need

safe spaces. The Kent and his NGOs

to look after them. They can be

dignified young women and can be

protected. But we are failing to do

this. This is my home and the UK

gave me a safe space where I can

think, I can see psychologists, I

can get support that I need in this

country. But there are so many young

women across the world who don't

have this opportunity and they are

going from street to street, nobody

is looking after them. It's time for

us to look into what is our law, why

are we neglecting these young women

and what can we do to look into

sexual violence against young women?

They don't know what is happening.

They don't have any systems to

support them in the country, it is

time for us to support them.

I hope

they can turn to you and find

iamtheCODE and that can help them as

it has helped you. Marieme Jamme,

thank you for joining us. Whether it

is the FBI, the Justice Department

or Congress, we have spoken a lot

about how American institutions are

taking a beating, often led by

President Trump. What if this

erosion of trust is nothing new,

just a continuing trend were growing

distrust has led people to side with

their own political tribe? That is

the argument made by the National

editor of the political report,

joining me now to explain. Everybody

in America and around the world

thinks there was a sea change when

he was elected, but you are

suggesting he is just the

continuation of the trend.

If you

look back over the last 20 or 30

years in this country, institutions,

not just Congress of the media, but

even public schools in this country

or organised religion have lost the

faith of Americans, really if you

just let your after year that faith

disintegrates. Some of it is because

of their own bad behaviour and

scandals involving some of these

institutions. Some of it is an

acknowledgement by people in this

country that these institutions are

not living up to what they were

built to do. They simply red

adapting and changing for the

21st-century, they were built and

survived the 20th-century because

that's where the vet. We seem to be

trying to shove the 21st-century

reality into boxes that were created

for the 20th century. It has made it

really difficult for institutions to

do things and for people to trust

them.

There was a period when people

believed in institutions and the

respected their teachers and the

idea of the good old days. What is

it that change? What is it that

precipitated that breaks down,

almost not just to trust in

institutions but in the social

fabric?

There is a lot of good

research on this. Some people here

talk about Watergate, that was the

breaking point, what a gate and the

Vietnam War. That broke apart the

trust Americans had in the

presidency and Government, when they

find out the Government was lying to

them and the president, this was a

sense that something like this could

happen. When you see it over the

course of these last 30, 20 years,

what you are also seeing is the

correspondence of the rise in

technology. We don't need

institutions in the same week we did

before. I can put up Google and get

an answer to any question I want.

This is not partisan, this is not

that the Republicans have become

more tribal than Democrats. You are

seeing everybody is retreating to

the tribes.

Again, this is a lot of

social science, but human beings

want community. We don't want to be

isolated, technology helps us to

isolate ourselves, but we need to

find structure in our lives and what

helps us do that is this tribalism.

I might not trust my institutions

but I can look to my tribe to tell

me what is right, what is wrong,

what I should believe. We are

inundated with information

constantly, how do we sift through

it? If my site says it's good, it

must be good, if my site and it's

bad, it must be bad. There were

institutions that helped us to

understand those things, no they

don't.

This is so fascinating.

Kristian is going to want to talk

about this as well. In just under

three weeks, Italians will go to the

polls and youth unemployment is a

huge issue in the general election.

One in three young Italians cannot

find work and even a short-term

contracts are highly competitive.

Our Rome correspondent has been

getting a sense of the desperate

measures people will take just to

get a job. It is hardly the best way

to spend the night before a job exam

but an overnight bus ride is these

job-seekers's best way of getting to

the test. They are travelling from

southern Italy to compete with

hundreds of others for a single

six-month contract.

I just want to

have more dignity, that I don't have

too go up and down the country like

this. I made a lot of sacrifices at

university, but always find myself

starting again from zero.

I am stuck

getting by on a short-term jobs. I

am living a day existence, that

makes it hard for me to plan a

future, to think about buying a home

and starting a family.

It is very

difficult for those of us from

southern Italy, the people that get

ahead idols that have connections.

There is no transparency.

This man

is a recent job seeker and decided

to lay on these cheap bus rides to

get candidates to job exams and

interviews.

This job was born out of

necessity -- this bus. Young people

need to travel to find work,

especially from south to north.

It

is now the middle of the night and

we are still battling through the

country. The candidates are having

to forget their anxiety, they are

trying to get what ever sleep they

can. At dawn, the bus arrives in the

central Italian town. This is the

rest of the competition. All for one

job which lasts just six months.

After the 45 minute test, they come

out.

I think it went well, but it

could have been better.

I am

relieved, I have a headache, but on

we go.

We will have to wait and see,

it is important not to lose hope.

Shattered, they get back onto the

bus. For years, Italy's political

parties have promised it young

people jobs without result. Leaving

this generation to head off on its

own in search of work. Another

election in Europe, we will be

watching that one. Benjamin

Netanyahu says its country will

defend itself against any attack

after carrying out its largest

strikes on site in Syria in decades.

They launched raids against a really

on target after seeing it had

intercepted and really enjoyed that

was crossing the Syria Israeli

border. Iran denies this. Did this

intervention marks the beginning of

a military investigation? I am

joined from Tel Aviv, he is the

joint director... Thanks for joining

us. Do you think there is a chance

that beyond this weekend this

military activity by Israel

escalates?

I am not sure, it is

definitely a possibility. In order

to understand what the situation is,

we need to try to understand the

overall context, if I may say a few

words about that.

Go ahead. I know

you are concerned about a power

vacuum emerging in Syria.

Exactly.

After almost seven years of civil

war, very devastating civil war in

Syria, we have a territory which is

disintegrating. It is a very chaotic

situation and we have known it in

Syria for some time now a big hole,

a total void, of responsibility,

accountability and any kind of

structure. Unfortunately, this void

has been filled gradually by

external forces that supposedly are

helping the Assad regime but are

furthering their own interests.

This

is interesting, here in the US, the

situation in Syria is largely being

celebrated as the recent success

story by American led coalition

forces against Islamic State. You

are much closer to Syria, being

there in the region, you are seeing

something else happening.

This is

part of the complex situation. What

the Americans are doing for some

time now and quite successfully is

to fight Isis and the eastern part

of the Syrian territory. But when

you look at Syria as a whole and

from our vantage point from the

west, you see quite a different

story. It is a totally disintegrated

system that has been filled with

foreign powers. We have his blood

coming from the west, we have

Iranians, the Turks coming from the

north, the Russians from the night

-- the north and all of them are

fighting each other basically for

their own turf.

What seems to be

needed the political settlement now.

Who could do that? I imagine you are

thinking the US needs to be more

engaged, beauty you see any

indication that want to be?

Absolutely. This is my idea, in

order to settle some of the problems

in the Syrian territory we will have

to have somebody, or what I call a

responsible adult, and the only one

that seems to be is the possibility

of the United States coming back,

Rex Tillerson is coming to the area,

he is engaged in some other

particular issues in Lebanon. It is

time for the US to wake up and

realise that we don't want to have a

major escalation, which would

involve quite a few of the

surrounding countries. I think that

a restructuring is needed fast.

Thank you very much for joining us

from Tel Aviv. A lot of people

watching Rex Tillerson's visit to

the region and wondering whether he

has the power in Washington to try

and do some diplomatic initiatives.

This is beyond 100 days, still to

come, flying high at 50, Boeing

celebrates a half-century of

service. Tourist flights from the UK

to Tunisia will resume tomorrow two

and a half years after 30 British

holiday-makers were killed in a

terrorist attack at a beach resort.

It travel ban was lifted last summer

and now Thomas Cook will resume

flights from Manchester to

Birmingham. Here is Frank Gardner.

Three years ago on the speech and

Isis gunmen shot dead 38 people, 30

of them British. Now Tunisia is

getting training from Royal Navy

instructors in maritime security,

well Met police detectives have been

training up hotel staff. At 40

airports, British aviation experts

have installed new screening

equipment. I asked the ambassador

how safe is no? No country is 100%

safe as we saw with the tragic

attacks in and Manchester.

It is

safer here than it was in 2015

because the Tunisians's capability

has improved.

In this resort town of

Thomas Cook is taking the first

returning British tourists, I asked

the hotel manager what precautions

he is taking.

We have around 60

cameras all around the hotel. The

exterior cameras are all monitored

24 hours behind the screens.

But

Tunisia sits in a dangerous

neighbourhood, across the sport

Libya is in chaos and Isis has

basis. The Manchester bomb are

trained in Libya and so did the

Tunisia gunmen. Back in the capital

Tunis, a raid yields results.

Suspects are arrested and will now

face trial. Tunisia has made huge

progress against terrorism, but if

its tourist industry is to recover

fully, it will need to stay

vigilant.

In a little over three months,

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle tie

the knot, but some of the finer

details of when and how have been a

mystery until now. Three months to

go and so much to do. Harry and

Megan are set to be involving

themselves closely in details of the

wedding arrangements. The venue will

be the magnificent setting of St

George's chapel inside Windsor

Chapel. Dating from the 15th century

and rich in history, the banners of

the Knights of the Garter are on

display above the choir stalls. It

will be the setting for a ceremony

which will be very much more a

family wedding and a state occasion.

We now know the timetable for the

day, at noon the wedding ceremony

will begin, well timed for American

breakfast television. At 1pm, the

carriage procession will begin. At

2pm, a wedding reception inside the

castle and then in the evening a

private dinner and reception for the

couple, their families and close

friends. In terms of the carriage

procession, this is the rate they

will at 1pm they will go down castle

hill and Windsor high Street and out

of the size of Windsor Alan King's

wrote before returning to the castle

along the long walk. A processional

route which will give people a

chance to feel part of this special

day. One problem which hasn't been

resolved is whether Prince William,

the president of the FAA, will be

able to get to the FA Cup final, due

to kick off at Wembley late that

afternoon. It could be tricky. The

problem would be getting blood and

back to the castle in time for the

family dinner in the evening. If the

cup final went into extra time, he

would have a problem. Windsor may

well win the day over Wembley. At

the centre of things at the big

match in Windsor will be these two,

a bride and groom becoming not

exactly a Mr and Mrs, more probably

a Royal duke and duchess. Kind of

thinking he is not going to be

taking the tube to get back to

Windsor.

Are you full of wedding

fever? I am, I love it. This is a

great story, the people over there I

so excited. An American princess now

going to be a British princess. I

have been travelling so much, I have

been in London, Ireland, San

Francisco, I thought the studio

looks so lonely without me sitting

here. I got to something. Here it

is. It is your own beer that you can

have sit right next to you and you

will know where it I am.

When I am

missing Ron and Kristian, this is

who I am going to have. I haven't

seen the film, have you? Apparently

is fantastic. This was my favourite

story as a child. Paddington, you

have to wait. We have to move onto

other news! Barack Obama and

Michelle Obama have attended... The

former President's portrait was

painted. Mr Obama described the

image as pretty sharp, and said

nobody in his family had ever had a

portrait done before. Mrs Obama's

portrait was done by a lady whose

work often addresses social justice.

It has been 50 years since the

Boeing 747 made its debut today

world in 1968, the BBC took one of

the first ever pilots to fly that

aircraft back to London Heathrow for

a check on how things have evolved.

Let's see if we can take a look.

This is a big change.

Flatbed seats.

You have no idea, for the first

landing, how high you are up on the

ground. It really was like landing a

block of flats.

This is what you

want to come and see.

This is all

screens, we had a clockwork

instruments.

We have got flight

plans, we can get weather divisions.

-- divergence.

Engine failure were

fairly routine. There were occasions

when it didn't work very well. We

always managed to get away, we

managed to get away first. I think

one heart aches for seeing any

machine it being broken up, but

especially the 747.

It is iconic, do

have a real affinity to it.

Turning

50, which makes it younger than I am

but older than Ron Ayres. Which is

kind of sad! From wrong, Paddington

and me, Christian isn't here, but

thank you for joining us. Great to

have you on the programme, coming up

next, we have got Outside Stories

and all the latest headlines for

those in the UK. Goodbye. See you

back here tomorrow.