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Hundred Days.

Russia blinks, just a little,

in Syria, allowing a brief daily

truce to get humanitarian aid

in East Ghouta.

From tomorrow, for 5

hours, there will be

a humanitarian pause -

but today the bombing continued

and more civilians were killed.

The United Nations pressured

Moscow to allow some

relief after 500 people,

including children, were killed

in the area last week.

Brexit will mean Brexit -

says the government -

but the opposition is less resolute

- today the Labour party

in

laid out its vision

with closer ties to the EU.

Also on the programme.

From gun control reform to Brexit -

as politics becomes ever more

polarised on both sides

of the Atlantic we go looking

for the common ground.

Six months on from surviving

for the common ground.

Hurricane Harvey we meet the Houston

residents trying to rebuild

their homes and their lives.

Get in touch with us

using the hashtag

'Beyond-One-Hundred-Days'.

Hello and welcome -

I'm Katty Kay in Washington

and Christian Fraser is in London.

For five short hours tomorrow,

the thousands of people trapped

in East Ghouta will be able

to leave their underground

shelters and seek relief.

Aid will go in, the wounded will get

treatment and people

will be allowed to leave.

The pause will continue daily.

This small reprieve comes

because Russia has given

in to pressure from an international

community horrified by the images

of suffering we have seen

in the rebel held enclave.

It's an important concession given

the ongoing bombardment

of the rebel-held enclave.

Reports suggest more than 500 people

were killed last week alone.

For more on how things

are playing out on the ground,

we can speak to Linda Tom

from the UN's Office

for the Coordination

of Humanitarian Affairs.

She joins us now from Damascus.

on.

The reasonable conditions have

to be in place for aid workers to go

on, do you think five hours is a big

enough window?

We welcome the UN

resolution for this sensation of

facilities which should last at

least 30 days. We are calling to see

that resolution implemented now. It

is critical we can reach people in

need and our UN and had --

humanitarian partners can get to

people in need. We are ready to do

that now in order to help people.

You have the people who are ready to

go in and you have the need?

That is

correct. We came here to Syria along

with our partners and we are working

together in order to respond to the

needs of people. But we need the

access. The supplies are ready. The

teams are ready on the ground. As

soon as conditions allow, we are

ready to provide aid.

The last time

aid got him was two weeks ago and

the situation has deteriorated since

then. His five hours enough to give

people assistance?

The needs in

Eastern Ghouta are enormous. There

are 400,000 people there. Some of

those areas have been besieged for

many years. That means that people

are not only deprived of humanity

mean access but they cannot go in

and out. It means that is a lack of

food, nutrition supplies, lack of

medicine. And the hospitals are

working on a shoestring. Some of

their equipment is no longer

functioning because of the lack of

electricity or damaged by the

fighting.

Do you trust the Syrian

government to stick by this brief

humanitarian window everyday?

Of

course we are hopeful. The UN team

is here and our partners are here.

We hope to deliver humanitarian

assistance. In the last 48 hours, we

have received reports of military

operations, resulting in the death

of at least 30 people which includes

women and children. In the meantime,

attacks on Damascus from Eastern

Ghouta have also continued.

You said

you welcome the security council

decision, can I put you what the

chairman of the medical cheer of

relief said, I am embarrassed for

the UN Security

how do you react to that?

We would

have to say this situation is

horrendous. Hospitals in Eastern

Ghouta were impacted with the

shelling. The hospitals have had to

go out of service. We have not had

access and the February 14. Even

then we were only able to bring in a

small amount of aid, not enough for

what was needed. Prior to that it

was over 70 days since we had been

able to reach Eastern Ghouta.

Thank

you very much for joining us from

Damascus.

Joining me now is our North America

correspondent, Nick Bryant.

You were at the United Nations last

week when they were debating this

resolution. This is a Russian

dictator to humanitarian resolution

were looking at?

Yes, this is not

Russia adhering to the ceasefire

solution. The Russian Ambassador

raised his hand in support of it on

Saturday but this is a Russian

initiative. The humanitarian

resolution was a call for a 30 days

of cessation of hostilities. The

Russians are calling for a five

hours on Tuesday. So a convoy

contriving get some medical

evacuation in place. This is not

abiding by the resolution but this

is the Russians showing they are in

charge. They are the most

significant presence on the ground

and we will decide what happens, not

the UN.

We live in a Darwinian

universe. If our body continues to

be dysfunctional, eventually

governments are going to look at the

Security Council and see it is not

effective?

The French ambassador

said that very starkly last week

ahead of the vote. He said this is a

moment of truth for the Security

Council to show it has credibility.

He even said if it failed to act, it

could sound the death knell of the

United Nations itself. You have

people like Linda Thom who are on

the ground, UN professional staff

who are ready to go, just waiting

for the green light from the UN

Security Council and that has been

blocked repeatedly on Syria by

Russia. Now the green light but

Russia still says they cannot take

action because we do not think the

conditions are right for a

ceasefire. We will decide if it

happens or not. It does make the UN

but irrelevant but you feel sorry

for UN professional staffers who are

ready to go in there and deliver aid

but are being hamstrung by their

Security Council and mainly by

Russia.

Thank you very much.

That is no guarantee that outside of

the five hours that the attacks will

not carry on. Five hours does not

give anyone a lot of time.

There are no tariffs on goods

or services that move

between the United Kingdom

and the EU.

The Customs Union that binds

all EU member states,

ensures frictionless trade

across internal borders -

and it also sets a common tarrif

on imports that come into Europe

from non EU members.

The quid pro quo is that Brussels

negotiates the external trade deals

on behalf of its 28 members.

Post Brexit, that may change,

the British Prime Minister

says the UK will be leaving

the customs union and taking back

control of its own trade deals.

Today the opposition Labour party

attempted to set a clear dividing

line between their position -

and the one Theresa May will seek

to establish on Friday.

Mr Corbyn's been speaking to our UK

Political Editor, Laura Kuenssberg.

All of the noises from

the European Union on this have been

that if we want to have a customs

arrangement with them,

they set the rules.

There would be 27 countries

against us, we wouldn't have a say.

They have interests in this country,

we have interests in Europe.

There is an interest all around

in not sending this country off

into a sort of Donald Trump style

of Transatlantic Trade

and Investment Partnership

economy dominated by tax

cuts and deregulation.

We're not going to do that.

Chris Morris from the BBC's

Reality Check is with us.

A lot of concern in Britain at the

moment because we do not know what

the government plan is. How did it

relate to business and the customs

union?

Yes, it is a big issue for

many companies based in the UK

because they have become used to

having, as you described, this

tariff free access for the whole of

the European market. When she bought

goods, you can move them across

borders without any other payment of

tariffs. A lot of companies rely on

that with what they called

just-in-time manufacturing. I have

been looking in particular at the

car industry.

This is the BMW factory in Oxford

mentioned by Mr Corbyn where they

make the Mini.

Its components cross EU

borders multiple times.

A crankshaft cast in

France crosses to a

plant in Warwickshire

to be finished.

And then goes back to Austria to be

built into an engine

which then comes back to Oxford

to be put in a completed car.

Half the cars built

in Oxford are then

exported back to the EU

and it is all tariff free.

The government argues the problem

with a customs union is you cannot

negotiate during trade

deals around the world.

A key part of taking back control.

It is true you are constrained,

you cannot alter tariffs on goods.

You can still do goods and services.

And on harmonising

regulations with other

countries.

Labour says it still wants to be

involved alongside the

EU, negotiating any trade deal

in the national interest.

Is it trying to have

its cake and eat it?

Business leaders are

still looking for more

clarity.

Being in the customs union

is a hassle-free solution.

There are different

types of customs union.

What we heard Jeremy Corbyn saying,

is not all of the details, we need

to get more before business know.

Every time I think I understand

Brexit something happens and I

confused again. Just to clarify for

me, what is the difference between

Labour's position that the

government?

The government is

talking about a customs arrangement

which does not mean much, he can be

anything. A customs union is a

technical term in the world of trade

talks. What the Labour party is

saying is that we will stay in a

customs union, otherwise businesses

will suffer. The government says you

then cannot do deals around the

world. That is not quite true

because you can do some trade deals.

What you cannot do is deal in goods

because you cannot change that

tariff rate which is set by being in

the customs union. You can still do

deals and services and with third

countries which harmonise

regulations so there are some things

you can do but it makes it more

difficult.

Thank you very much

indeed. That is probably a majority

in parliament in favour of a customs

union but for the government to be

beaten on it and move towards

Labour's position that would have to

be enough Tory rebels to move

towards Jeremy Corbyn's position

which he set out today. The simple

arithmetic is that unless the DUP,

if they move or if enough Tory

rebels move then that could happen

but it is very unlikely. It is

likely when it comes to vote that

the government will set up as a

confidence motion and will -- and

the rebels will have cold feet.

Thank you very much for that

explanation. I think we have done it

for today until the next one.

President Trump today met Governors

at the White House to talk

about the Florida school shooting.

Over the weekend several

US companies reduced

their ties to the NRA -

America's powerful gun lobby group.

In the long televised

meeting Mr Trump once again

criticised law enforcement officers

for the way they handled

the shooting - and suggested

he would have been braver

than the armed guard who failed

to confront the killer.

I got to watch some deputy sheriffs

performing this weekend.

They were not exactly

medal of honour winners.

The way they performed

was frankly disgusting.

I really believe you don't know

until you are tested.

But I really believe

I would run in there,

even if I didn't have

a weapon and I think

most of the people in

this

room would have done that too.

The gun debate has been

ferocious this past week -

with one side attacking the other

ever since the Parkland shooting.

It has revealed the extent of tribal

loyalty in the country

on this divisive issue.

President Trump today

stressed mental health

concerns over gun control.

The two issues have almost become

shorthand for which side

you are on in the US -

and compromise seems

further away than ever.

According to a new book

it is just one area of growing

separation in the US.

The author, Amy Chua, joins us now.

Thank you for coming in. Is

gun-control symbolic of what you

call political tribalism gone right

in the US?

It is a perfect example.

Human beings are all tribal but the

problem is that tribalism has taken

over the American political system.

When you are tribal, you see

everything through the lens of your

tribe and facts don't matter. Logic

does not matter. You take the

position of whatever your tribe says

and this prevents us from having

important discussions and

gun-control is this. People in the

country divided into two camps,

hurling horrible freezes at each

other. Literally, in this political

tribalism, the other side is

immoral, the enemy. A motive

language. You want children to die.

It is not just gun-control but every

issue in the United States,

immigration, climate change. Has the

internet exacerbated this?

Definitely, internet, social media.

There are studies I described that

people actually get physical

pleasure from seeing the other side

suffer. This is terrible. It takes

effort to get a lot of clicks, if

you start annoying the other people

and scapegoating the other side.

Even in countries like Iraq, it is

the same dynamic, you can whip up a

lot of sentiment by tapping into

these primal instincts.

In colonial

times, Britain used this idea to its

advantage. It used to pick out the

smaller tribes in particular

countries and put them in power and

of course they stayed loyal because

they were fearful of the bigger

tribes. How does that relate to

foreign policy today? Does the

United States understand the tribal

conflict -- condition of every

country on the planet?

Absolutely. I

specifically compare the United

States to Britain, Great Britain was

a master of divide and rule. They

know about the different tribes and

religions for us strategic ends. The

US, because of our unusual history

of successful assimilation has been

the opposite. We tend to be blind to

the group identities that matter

most to people on the ground. You

have Germans, Hungarians, Japanese,

they all become Americans in one

generation. We think that democracy

is the panacea. We think if we bring

elections, that will smooth out

problems but in fact, democracy has

exacerbated the conflict over and

over.

If you look at women, white

woman in America, the majority of

them voted for Donald Trump ahead of

Hillary Clinton and yet there are

plenty of white women across America

who hate Donald Trump.

I think there

are sound bites out there which are

confusing what is happening in

America. While of course that is a

lot of coding, Trump is coming back

and saying let us go back to the

America we used to know. But there

is another piece of those which is

white on white resentment. It is

mostly educational difference which

has split the white majority in

America. The rhetoric and resentment

between the coastal elite, whites in

the cosmopolitan cities, well

educated and whites in the

heartland, men and women, you will

see it is like two Americas.

So

fascinating. We could talk about

this for a long time but we have to

leave it there. Come back and join

us again.

Thank you so much for

having me.

Six months ago we

watched as a massive

storm hit Houston, Texas.

It took a couple of days

for the full scale of

the devastation to emerge.

Hurricane Harvey killed 68 people.

40,000 more had to

flee from their homes

as the water poured in.

The devastating floods

sparked questions

about the city's preparedness -

it is not, after all,

the first time Houston,

which sits on the Gulf of Mexico,

has suffered a disaster like this.

Laura Trevelyan reported the story

for us in August and has

returned for this report.

Houston underwater.

This was the catastrophic flooding

caused by Hurricane Harvey.

As record rainfall saturated

the city, deluging neighbourhoods

and turning lives upside down.

You know you're home?

Yeah, we're home, baby.

It's an emotional moment for Gloria,

clutching Snoopy as she shows us

where she was rescued

from while the floodwaters rose.

It was devastating.

I just couldn't believe it.

I am still looking at it

and it's still hard.

Gloria's home of nearly 20 years

was uninhabitable and she did not

have flood insurance,

like thousands of others in Houston.

Now Gloria is living

in a hotel paid for by

the Federal Emergency Management

Agency.

But she does not feel safe.

The other night I have to barricade

myself in here every night

because that is so much

going on out there.

Prostitution every night.

Guys are driving by one night,

they shot about eight times

towards this hotel and I had to get

on the floor.

Volunteers from a Houston charity

are helping rebuild Gloria's home.

Hopefully she can return in March.

Federal officials are trying to help

the 4500 Houston families

like Gloria's's get back home.

People do expect someone to fix it.

Fema's role is not that,

we want to help everybody,

every way we can as quickly

as we can.

But in doing that we also have to be

mindful of the taxpayer dollars

that we are spending.

Here is how this well-to-do suburb

west of Houston looked

when I was here in August.

The neighbourhood was deliberately

submerged as officials let water out

of the nearby reservoir

to stop it overflowing.

Dan and Virginia Reid did not have

flood insurance and they are

still trying to rebuild.

Six months on, we are

still not home yet.

We vacillate between wondering do

we want to be in this house or do

we just want to start

over somewhere else?

As Houston recovers from the impact

of Harvey, the next hurricane season

is only four months away.

This is a sprawling coastal city

with bayous like this

which are vulnerable to flooding.

So is anything being done to defend

Houston against future hurricanes?

It's important for the city

to take steps to mitigate

the risk of flooding,

which means if they are living close

to a bayou, the bayou

needs to be expanded.

Or there needs to be more detention

basins put in place.

Hurricane Harvey destroyed

homes and lives.

Though Houston is rebounding,

the road to recovery is a long one.

Of course there are questions about

whether or not enough is being done

in Huston but when you compare what

is happening in Puerto Rico where

they still do not have electricity

and access to basic services, the

devastation was far worse. There are

a lot of people there are saying

what about us? We have been

forgotten because we are less

politically important to the White

House.

You can actually juxtapose

these, Florida, Huston, Puerto Rico.

Who got the most help? Yes. Shall we

move on. Let us talk about the most

important issue of the day.

Now it's only 4 weeks

to go until Easter.

There's a warning today

that the traditional Hot Cross Bun

may be in short supply -

or at the very least not

contain as many raisin

and sultanas this year.

It's all down to world shortages.

The wholesale price

of dried fruit has been pushed up

this year by the wildfires

we reported on in California

in October and November.

Which means we are more

reliant here in the UK

on the sultanas from Turkey.

And when there is a shortage

of supply of course, prices go up.

40 per cent since September.

In the unintended consequences of

globalisation, when we reported on

those fires, we never projected

forward and thought this would have

an impact on hot cross buns. Yes,

these are supposed to be eaten on

Good Friday. For those who do not

know, it is a spicy barn and they

are traditionally eaten on Good

Friday. In our household, the air in

the bread then all the time. The

stock food for our children.

They

were invented in the 14th century by

a monk, how did that monk get his

reasons? Not from California ISM.

I

think I might have a ransom. Do you

know the difference between reasons,

sultanas and currents?

You are such

an know it all. Sultanas are dried

white grapes. Reasons are dried

black rapes. I would presume the

monks grew their own grapes.

This is Beyond 100

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and BBC World News -

when you're the president's senior

advisor and daughter,

where do you draw the line

between family and business?

Very cold weather and it has been

well talked about, now it

Very cold weather and it has been

well talked about, now it is here.

Already some of us have had snow

showers or snow flurries. Bitterly

cold day from Siberia running across

much of Europe and the UK. This

pressure from the south will come

into the cold air and make it more

widespread. The first part of the

night, snow showers to the east. Two

things to notice, this line inside

East Anglia and this area is now

running north-east up to Yorkshire

and into the Midlands and into at

least in Scotland as well. These

areas most likely to see disruptive

snow going into the morning. The Met

Office Hazzard amber warning in

Forss versus looks, and the London

area. Another amber warning for

parts of Yorkshire, north-east

England's, perhaps ten centimetres

of snow, wet snow as well so

accumulating rather than blowing

around like powdery snow. Disruption

as possible in some spots. Some snow

in parts of Wales. Further snow

showers on Tuesday. Some sunny

spells around, some in the West. The

showers will stay dry. It will feel

colder than the temperatures

suggest. Ahead to Wednesday, this

area of concern is moving north.

Into eastern England and Northern

Shortland, # northern Scotland. You

can see the showers moving in as we

go through Wednesday. Some spread

all the way from east to west across

the UK, reaching parts of Northern

Ireland. Feeling cold and in these

temperatures suggest when you factor

in the winter. It feels well below

freezing and the wind gets even

stronger. This area of low pressure

is coming into the cold air from the

size. There is a risk of heavy

disruptive snow spreading north,

making blizzards as well.

This is Beyond 100 Days,

with me Katty Kay in Washington -

Christian Fraser's in London.

Our top stories.

Vladimir Putin, a key ally

of the Syrian regime orders a daily

humanitarian pause in the fighting

to allow civilians to leave.

Nigeria deploys extra troops

and planes to search for 110

schoolgirls believed to have been

abducted by Boko Haram last week.

Coming up in the next half hour.

The UK's Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn

sets out key details

of his party's Brexit policy -

he wants the UK to negotiate

a new customs union with the EU.

Braving the beast from the East -

Europe shivers as the Siberian blast

hits - how long will it last?

Let us know your thoughts by using

the hashtag Beyond 100 Days.

The Nigerian airforce is scouring

the north East of the country

looking for 110 girls

who were kidnapped from

a school last Monday.

Four years after Boko Haram took

more than 270 girls in Chibok -

this latest kidnapping got very

little global attention.

And yet the same Islamist militant

group is thought to be responsible.

So let's remind you

what Boko Haram is.

It's been around since 2002.

They follow a strict

interpretation of the Koran,

opposing Western style education.

The military operations began

in 2009, and they've been focused

on the north-eastern part

of the country.

The US has listed it

as a terrorist organisation.

Of the 276 schoolgirls the group

took from Chibok in 2014,

100 of them are still missing.

That same year, copying the tactics

of the Islamic State,

they set up their own caliphate

in areas under Boko Haram's control.

A regional coalition -

made up of troops from Nigeria,

Cameroon, Chad and Niger -

has recaptured most

of the besieged region.

But Boko Haram militants

continue to operate

and with some effectiveness

in the country's north.

Let's get the thoughts

of Linda Thomas-Greenfield,

who was assistant secretary of state

for African affairs.

She joins me in the studio.

Why did he get so much attention on

the previous group of girls that

disappeared and this story has

almost passed us by?

It is a

difficult question. This kind of

terrorism in Africa does not get the

same attention that terrorism gets

elsewhere.

Chibok was shocking. I

was under the impression that the

Nigerian Government had been

effective against Boko Haram. What

does it say about the organisation

that it can still do this?

The

organisation has made every attempt

to let the world know that they are

still out there and they are still

having an impact in Nigeria. It is

important that the Nigerian

Government continues its efforts to

go after Boko Haram and stop the

carnage they are causing in northern

Nigeria.

When you talk about the group IDC

does not have the same focus as

Islamic State. In 2015 it was cited

as the most deadly organisation in

the world, why has the United States

not got to grips with this group?

It

is not the United States. You cannot

blame the US for this terrorist

activity. There are a lot of

terrorist organisations that are

demanding attention and the world is

focused on Syria, and is not focus

on Africa. The Nigerian Government

and the press in particular needs to

make sure that you get the news out

that this is still happening in

Africa and it is having a major

impact.

I know that it was a focus

after 2014, and it has affected a

huge area of Western Africa. This is

a very big group across an awful lot

of countries.

Can you hear me?

No, I

lost you.

We have had a

communications failure. One of the

critical issues in Africa is trying

to get more girls into education, as

there a knock-on impact in families

been reluctance to send their

children to school?

That is my

biggest worry, in an area where

girls education is not given the

attention it should get and girls

are not being sent to school, and

girls are now being sent to school,

to have them televised sends a very

negative message. My biggest concern

is that parents will start having

second thoughts about sending their

girls to school. We have to work

with the Nigerians to address this

issue because the education of girls

is extremely important.

We were getting mixed messages from

the Nigerian Government. This is

behind some of the fact that the

story has not been reported earlier.

Look at the global attention on

Chibok, and some of those girls were

recovered.

The president put out each week the

other day saying it was a national

disaster, perhaps that explains why

they are doubling their efforts at

the moment.

The British Government is seeking

to reassure the devolved governments

that taking backing control of power

from Brussels does not

amount to a Westminster power grab.

David Liddington who is

Theresa May's number two, says

the nations of the United Kingdom

need to work as one

to secure the best possible

trade deals post Brexit.

The Cabinet Office Minister has

promised to strengthen

and enhance powers for Wales,

Scotland and Northern Ireland.

The vast majority of powers

returning from Brussels he says

will be returned to the devolved

nations and he explained why

he believed that would work well

for the whole of the UK.

Our new proposal reflects the

seriousness of our desire to strike

agreements with devolved

governments, our seriousness about

delivering more powers to Scotland,

Wales, Northern Ireland, while at

the same time making sure there are

no new barriers for people across

the nations of the United Kingdom so

families can continue to buy and

sell freely, businesses will not

face extra bureaucracy and higher

costs, so people face minimal

disruption and maximum certainty

that things can carry on as normal.

Stephen Gethins is the SNP's

spokesperson on matters

to do with the Europe.

We caught up with him

a short time ago.

I asked him if they believe when and

if the UK gets freedom to negotiate

trade deals Westminster will act in

the interests of the entire UK.

On

the point of the Prime Minister

talking about leaving the customs

union and single market we know from

the Government's order analysis that

that would be devastating for jobs

and the economy in each and every

part of the UK. Although it would

not be good for our partners

elsewhere in Europe and further

afield that would be even worse for

businesses and the economy in the

United Kingdom, including Scotland.

What we think is that those areas

that are devolved to the Scottish

Parliament should remain the

responsibility of the devolved

administrationss and that is

something that was promised to us by

the UK Government during the EU

referendum.

What David Luddington

has said today is that to protect

the UK internal market and to meet

international obligations there

should be one set of common rules

that would apply to these trade

deals and he is saying that if you

devolve some of the crucial things

that are up for negotiation in the

trade deal you make it more

complicated, and you undermine the

entire UK economy.

I am not sure why

he is making the case in that way,

does not make sense. The Scottish

Government has ready said on some

issues, issues that were the

responsibility of the EU, like food

labelling, maybe it makes sense to

have a go at this at a pan UK level,

but the Scottish Parliament has got

a clear set of responsibilities, and

if you look at the Tory party's

economic mismanagement and a

disastrous is taking us down, I

trust the Scottish Parliament is

more with the Scottish economy and

making sense on the economy for the

entire UK, than I trust the UK

Government at the moment. We were

promised that we would be given all

the powers that we have got, they

would be a powers bonanza for

Scotland, therefore I want to see a

dual where the Scottish economy can

thrive, or at least the least worst

option, that includes keeping the

powers we have got, although there

will be some areas from work with

the United Kingdom, but also other

areas where we were promised powers,

such as over immigration. Scotland

needs immigration, freedom of

movement is a good thing, that is

yet another broken promise from the

Conservative Party Government and

they break their promises this

crucial areas cable break.

Says on

other areas. And editors, in your

words a power grab, then what?

If it

is a power grab the Scottish

Parliament should have responsible

to you over these areas and in terms

of what happens in the future of the

Scottish Parliament is preparing

legislation. Also there has to be a

legislative consent motion that goes

through the Scottish Parliament

because the Westminster Parliament

is not able to legislate over areas

that are the responsibility of the

Scottish Parliament. Not just from

the SNP but the other parties in the

Scottish Parliament, we know that

the plant as they stand are not

acceptable to the Scottish

Parliament and different that

legislative consent motion would not

be given.

Very good to talk to you.

Thank you for being with us.

Divisions within the fabric of the

UK, the Government has got quite a

challenge.

Censors in China are erasing online

criticism of the announcement

that the president, Xi Jinping,

could stay in power indefinitely.

The phrase "two term

limit" has been blocked.

As has "Winnie the Pooh" -

the lovable British bear character

Xi is often compared to.

This comes after the Communist Party

proposed removing presidential

conditions, which limits

presidencies to two five-year terms.

Let's get more on this

with the author Yukon Huang who's

from the Carnegie Endowment

for International Peace.

There was quite a backlash against

this announcement with people online

in China saying they would be

compared to North Korea, this is

what the neighbours are doing, it is

too much like an authoritarian

regime will are you surprised by the

backlash and surprised by the

crackdown on social media?

Not

surprise. Those who put their faith

on the fact that China is moving

forward with stable political

evolution, including term limits for

the presidency, are disappointed.

Those who are still hoping for

progress and social and economic

objectives, it remains to be seen

whether this will help or hurt that

process.

It does look like Xi

Jinping is amassing considerable

power in the country and he wants to

keep it.

Ybor City but in a

particular way, the presidency as

itself does not have power. -- he

wants to keep it in a particular

way. What does that mean that he

wants the title of president for

more than the term, he wants to make

the Constitution paramount in

guiding China in the future.

I

suppose when he looks at the

instability in the West, in

so-called stable countries, Brexit,

Mr Trump, the rise of the far right,

his focus on continuity and

stability, you can understand why

you might want to fix himself in

position in some time.

This has made

it easier. He points to the West,

disorder, divided and Parliament,

inability to move forward, the

vision for the last three - five

years, more prosperous, more

powerful on a global sense, this

aggregation of power gives both time

and authority to meet these kind

long-term objectives.

What does it

mean in geopolitical terms, how does

it affect relationships across the

globe of years there for the long

term?

Jonah's advantage in terms of

foreign policy making is that they

can think in terms of decades

whereas the West is often driven by

election cycles. The advantage of

China in terms of foreign policy.

That's probably strengthens his

hand. Thank you for joining us.

I've while ago we talked about Xi

Jinping wanting to seize this moment

because they saw Donald Trump as an

opportunity, while the world was

distracted, they could move forward

with amassing a certain amount of

power and expanding global outreach.

That is also the point that was just

me dear, you get Democrat and

Republican governments and there is

flip-flop in international

relations, he is there for the long

term, that is a long path ahead, and

that will make China more

competitive on the world stage.

Unless there is a backlash against

this consolidation of power that he

is doing.

The UK's was senior counterterrorism

officer has revealed that for attack

plots were foiled last year. He

described the threat from far right

terrorism as organised and

significant and said he wanted to

highlight the recent growth of

right-wing terrorism.

We have always

had right-wing groups who organise

protests and hate crime and a degree

of criminality. Occasionally in the

past we have had lawn actors

committing right-wing terrorism but

what we have no is a degree of

organisation. 18 months ago the Home

Secretary declarant National Action

a terrorist organisation. They are

home-grown white supremacist

terrorist organisation, that has to

be a matter of concern that we have

that degree of organisation here,

and that reflects in number of

arrests and the fact we are now

announcing a combination of

organised and individuals acting

that has led to four plots being

foiled last year.

A mother and her three children have

narrowly escaped a fire in Houston.

Dramatic pictures show how

firefighters managed to get them out

after their apartment caught fire.

Officials say no one was hurt

and everyone accounted for.

Germany has moved a step

closer to ending months

of political deadlock.

Chancellor Merkel's Christian

Democrats have approved

a planned coalition.

But their proposed partners,

the Social Democrats,

still need the deal cleared

by their membership.

Several senior European Union

politicians have condemned

the killing of a Slovak

investigative journalist.

Jan Kuciak recently reported

on alleged tax fraud involving

a luxury property development,

with links to Slovakia's

interior minister.

Both the minister and

developer deny wrongdoing.

If one thing is certain

about Mr Trump it's that he likes

to surround himself with his family.

People like Jared Kushner, his son

and in law, and Ivanka Trump,

his daughter and senior

White House advisor.

But what happens when

lines are blurred?

Can there ever really be

a distinction between personal

and professional relationships

when your father is President

of the United States?

Here's Ivanka talking to NBC's

Peter Alexander in South Korea.

Do you believe your father's

accusers? That is an appropriate --

that is not an appropriate question

to ask. He has stated there is no

truth to it. That is not a question

you would ask many other daughters.

I believe my father. I know my

father.

The problem is that many other

daughters do not also have what is

basically a political position in

the White House as an adviser to the

president of the United States and I

am not sure you could have it both

ways, have that title, access to

information and state secrets,

because she went to South Korea, to

talk about new sanctions against

North Korea, that suggests high

level of access, and then to say

that the question cannot be asked.

He has got to make an appointment to

the Civil Aviation Authority.

The

federal aviation authority.

The

equivalent of the Civil Aviation

Authority. He is proposing his own

personal pilot, someone who he has

known for years, to a position, you

could question whether he has the

know-how and experience to do a job

like that. That is not the first

time that a nominee that has the

bridge followed by Mr Trump was

questioned for his experience.

The

pilots in question, Donald Trump

used to sit on the runway, sometimes

the airline would be delayed, he

used to say, if only you had a pilot

running the authority you would not

have these delays. It is an

indication of how he likes to

surround himself once again with

people who come from his inner

circle.

This is Beyond 100 Days.

Still to come -

An icy-cold Colosseum -

Rome sees snow for the first time

in six years and other European

cities are bracing for more of it.

Five people are now known to have

died in a large explosion

in Leicester last night,

which destroyed a building

in the middle of a parade of shops.

Five others remain in hospital,

one is said to be in

a serious condition.

Emergency teams have been searching

through the wreckage,

as Sima Kotecha reports from

Leicester.

Plumes of smoke

billowing into the sky.

Last night an explosion.

A shop and the flat

above it were destroyed.

Flames shot up into the air.

Towering over the

surrounding buildings.

I heard a big bang.

The owner of the shop

was inside at the

time.

I didn't know what was that

and I found myself on the floor.

Eyes open.

Looking up.

Half of my body was

under the, how to say,

bricks and rubble.

How do you feel?

I don't know how to tell you.

Never I feel how I am now.

Well, the shop was a Polish

supermarket and had

only been operational since January.

Firefighters today spent hours

wading through rubble, trying to

find survivors.

Police have confirmed

that five people died

inside the building and several

are in hospital with injuries.

But there could be more.

We can't confirm exact numbers.

We are working on the possibility

there could be people

still within the building

and we will sweep

through with our teams

to

make sure that we have located

everybody that could be in there.

Investigators will start

looking for the cause

of the explosion, once

the

search and rescue effort ends

and the area is declared safe.

You're watching Beyond 100 Days.

Heavy snow is falling

in the UK and Europe as cold winds

from Siberia sweep

across the continent.

The so-called beast from the east

is bringing freezing temperatures

and disrupting transport -

forcing the cancellation of train

services and flights.

Rome has seen its first snow in six

years while other cities in Germany,

France, Sweden and Austria have

also been blanketed.

Authorities are warning more

freezing weather is on the way.

BBC Weather's Louise Lear joins me.

In the wind it is called, who

called?

It is going to get colder. In Russia

temperatures had fallen 2-40, it is

that called air coming from Siberia

that is affecting all of Europe. It

is a significant late winter

service.

You have got some graphics about the

beast from the East.

We have been forecasting this for

over one week. Most people should be

aware that is coming. It is called

air coming right out of Siberia. The

high pressure is sitting across

Scandinavia and that wins circulate

in a clockwise direction sucking

that called you in.

Normally we get it from the other

direction? When it is low pressure

at the go anticlockwise but we are

and the influence of that high.

At the moment we have significant

snow across the Ukraine, Bulgaria,

Romania. And you can see those snow

showers across Italy as well. But

look at what is happening in Iberia.

Portugal and Spain.

Is that snow? It is, across the

Pyrenees and into France. The

Portuguese met surface. Strong winds

and buzzards.

I am glad I did not have to look at

your leggings.

I have two as to what extent this is

an impact of climate change?

We are heading into March. The

diplomatic answer for that one is

that it is difficult to take one

specific set of events and apply

that to climate change. We have seen

some extreme weather that it has

actually been quite mild in new look

for part of the winter and across

into that unites States you will

have seen some extreme weather, it

has been bitterly cold, and in New

York one week ago I was talking

about a record-breaking heat for

February. They brought an 80 year

record with temperatures as high as

26 degrees.

It was like some of the other day.

We were all out in T-shirts. How

many of these extreme events do you

need in one season before you can

definitively say this is an impact

of climate change?

If I could predict that I would not

be sitting here doing this job, I

would be far higher up in the

echelons.

How long this is going to last in

Europe? At the moment the signs are

that it will be here for at least

one week and even into next week we

are still going to seek significant

calls but a little less calls.

Beginning of March, first week of

meteorological spring, it looks like

there is nothing particularly

springlike until the middle of next

week.

That beast from the East might be

suffering from a performance crisis,

it has to live up to the billing it

as hard, everybody is shivering and

looking at the forecasts, but it

could be pretty cool this week.

Just really glad he does not flash

your legs on television.