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Republicans in Congress meet

to discuss gun controls and come up

with almost nothing.

The Florida school shooting may have

shifted the public opinion

nationwide but on Capitol Hill

resistance to new gun laws

is as strong as ever.

Donald Trump has proposed some

new ideas - including raising

the age limit for gun

purchases - but Republicans

say they aren't keen.

They couldn't even make

five hours in Syria -

the brief humanitarian pause to let

aid into East Ghouta

quickly collapsed.

Also on the programme...

In the innner circle

of the White House, Hope Hicks

knows more than most.

But how much of it is

she prepared to share

with a congressional committee?

Singing and sliding in the snow -

fun for some, but for others

the Arctic blast across Europe

is causing serious problems.

Get in touch with us

using the hashtag...

Hello and welcome.

I'm Katty Kay in Washington

and Christian Fraser is in London.

Students from Parkland, Florida,

want Congress to act.

Republicans in Congress made

it pretty clear today

they aren't interested.

On the issue of whether to add

new laws to restrict

the sale of guns in America,

the Republican leadership

is unlikely to take

up any new proposals.

But polling in the country does

show public opinion has

shifted on the issue -

even among Republican voters.

Take a look at this CBS survey.

In December last year,

29% of Republicans said

laws covering gun sales

should be stricter.

When they were asked the same

question again last week -

the percentage went up to 43%.

Or in this CNN poll -

asking the general public

if they favoured or opposed

stricter gun laws.

In October 2017 -

just after the mass

shooting in Las Vegas -

52% said they favoured them

versus 44% against.

Compare that to now -

and 70% of those asked were in

favour of stricter gun laws.

Whilst those against drops to 27%.

Those numbers seem to be out

of synch with House speaker

Paul Ryan, speaking earlier.

We shouldn't be banning guns

for law abiding citizens -

we should be focusing on making sure

that citizens who shouldn't get guns

in the first place don't get those

guns and that is why we see a big

breakdown in the system.

In this case there were

a lot of breakdowns.

A short while ago I spoke

to Democratic Representative,

Val Demings from Florida,

who previously headed

the Orlando Police Department.

Congresswoman, it seems pretty clear

from listening to Republicans after

they met on the issue of school

shootings today, they are not

prepared to do very much,

if anything at all, in terms of new

legislation around gun

control in the country.

Are you disappointed?

Did you expect the shooting

at Parkland might have changed their

minds?

What I do expect is that the young

people who are advocating for

change are not going away.

These students, most

of them not old enough

to vote yet,

have had the blood of their friends

and their classmates

splattered upon them.

They are not going to let it go.

I have been disappointed though

in the Republican's responds.

How many more shootings?

150,000 children in

this country have been

exposed to school shootings.

What I do know is

this group of young

people will not let it go.

This is the generation

we have taught

when things are wrong,

you work to make them right.

They are going to hold Republicans

and all of Congress accountable.

It does seem those

Floridians are asking

more than Congress is contemplating.

Let me ask you about

the issue of mental health.

This is something the president

has raised and your

Republican colleagues

are

raising as the primary issue behind

the school shootings.

You were a former

chief police in the

Orlando district.

Was there something under

Florida law that you

could have done to prevent somebody

like Nicholas Cruz from owning a

gun?

We need to work on our laws

because unless the person has made a

threat against a specific person,

then it is tough to consider that

a crime.

When I hear the president

and the Republican

party talk about mental

illness, it is just a distraction.

What we need to do is get serious

about legislation that will keep

guns out of the hands

of dangerous people,

those who are mentally ill,

criminals, terrorists and others.

We have got to work

on the legislation.

My understanding, Congresswoman,

is the bar for people who are in law

enforcement, a police officer

like you used to be,

to go into somebody's home

and take their weapons away

from them, even if they are

somebody who has been

reported as having mental

problems, the bar for

doing that is very high.

You may not have been able

as a police officer to take

Nicholas Cruz's

weapons away from him.

That is correct and that is why

we are pushing the gun violence

restraining order act.

It would have given

the sheriff's office and other

law enforcement over the country

the opportunity to go

in and temporarily remove weapons

from the home of

someone who had made statements,

someone who exhibited behaviour that

family members thought was a danger

to themselves or others.

Legislation like that

would have given law

enforcement the tools

they would have needed

to remove those weapons.

As a former police

officer, what do you

make of the President's idea

of arming teachers in schools?

It is an idea I have

heard before but when it

comes out of the mouth

of the commander-in-chief,

I know of nothing

that has been proposed yet that is

more ridiculous than arming our

teachers and our head teachers.

I talked to several of them

in the district, they reminded me

as a law maker that they signed up

to educate

our children.

They did not sign up to get

in a gunfight with an active

shooter.

It is the most ridiculous thing

I have heard and I hope the

president and others

will abandon that idea.

Congresswoman, thank

you for joining me.

Thank you.

Clearly there are stiff headwind is

coming from Congress. I can see

where some of the Republicans are

coming from. They have primaries in

the spring and they are unlikely to

get into a row of second amendment

supporters at home. Which sort of

position as the president going to

adopt, that is not clear.

He has

been vague, talking about doing

something about mental health and

making it impossible for somebody to

get Gansu has a mental health

problem. In practical terms, it is

hard to get guns away from people.

The background checks might be

tightened up a little bit. I think

last week there was some perception

at looking at what is happening in

the united states and those students

who turned up in Florida that

something new with happen. That is

what I am sceptical about this week.

The energy in favour of tighter gun

laws has evaporated in the country

and people, even though the hearing

from Florida, we want more, I am

very surprised if they moved on with

that.

It is that standpoint, guns is

solved by more guns, it is not

understood on this site of the

continent.

Understandably.

Before we move on, can we just

revisit this meeting the President

had with the governors yesterday.

You might have seen

that he was confronted during that

meeting by the Washington State

governor Jay Inslee,

who doesn't like the idea

of arming teachers.

I have under stood you have

suggested this.

We recommend things

and then they do not look good

later. I suggest less tweeting and

more listening and let's take that

off of the table and move forward.

We are going to watch that again but

we are going to watch it with the

camera on president Trump. It is a

study in body language.

Watch this.

I suggest we need more listening and

let's take that off of the table and

move forward.

Thank you very much.

I

am going to move the microphone and

I know where I would like to put it.

Please can you shut up now? It is

fabulous. He did not love that, did

he?

No, I do not think the governor

is his cup of tea. You might lock

him up with Hillary Clinton.

He

might not get an invite back.

The first 'five hour' ceasefire

in the Syrian enclave

of Eastern Ghouta has

ended in failure.

The brief pause was ordered

by Syria's ally Russia, which said,

it would be repeated daily -

to allow civilians to leave.

An estimated 400 thousand people

are trapped in Eastern Ghouta

which is held by Syrian rebels,

and in the last week more than 560

people have been killed.

In the UK hundreds of schools have

been shut today. Yes, the weather

front from Russia has brought snow

and strong winds but it has put

vulnerable people at risk.

HE SINGS.

For some, it is an excuse

to pose a quirky video.

But for people, and animals,

it is hard getting around

right now in places such as Hungary.

It is dangerous, too.

The driver of this lorry

in Serbia was lucky.

He was left hanging in his cabin

for two hours before being rescued.

Even the island of Corsica,

more associated with sunny summer

holidays, woke to this.

In Brussels,

controversial measures to

get homeless people

off of the streets.

The authorities say if people

refuse to move, the police

will detain them and bring them

to shelters like this one.

They come here, says the volunteer.

They have a bed and paper sheets.

Ten people were detained

last night and slept

here, he says.

TRANSLATION: I realise that homeless

people really refuse to

move.

I worked with my colleague this

weekend to draft a decree to

force those people to

accept accommodation.

Rome is not itself either.

A fight not normally

witnessed at the Coliseum.

There hasn't been

snowed here for six

years.

Further east in cities like

Bucharest, schools have been closed.

There has been major disruption

for those travelling by road and by

rail.

Let's get more from Syria.

Women in Syria are being sexually

exploited by men who are delivering

aid on behalf of the United Nations.

The BBC has uncovered evidence that

aid workers have traded food

and transport for sexual favours.

There were warnings about this

abuse three years ago.

But it seems its continuing

in the south of the country.

Today the British foreign secretary

Boris Johnson said his government

would not fund any agency

or international charity that failed

to tackle the exploitation of women.

Our diplomatic correspondent

James Landale reports.

The fighting in Syria continues.

Here, in rebel-held

Eastern Ghouta and elsewhere.

And it has now emerged that some

refugees fleeing the conflict have

faced demands for sex from local

Syrian officials delivering aid on

behalf of international charities.

They were withholding the aid that

had been delivered and then

using these women for sex.

So, this was a range

of women, there were women

of different ages in the group.

Some had experienced it themselves.

Some were very distraught.

Danielle Spencer's

an experienced aid worker.

She heard these stories from women

who had fled to Jordan

and they told her that many refused

to go to distribution centres

because people would assume they had

offered their bodies for aid.

Two charities, Care and

the International Rescue Committee,

warned about this abuse three years

ago and tightened

up their procedures.

But a report from the UN

Population Fund late last

year confirmed that sex

was still being traded for aid.

Sexual exploitation and abuse

of women and girls has been ignored.

It's been known about and it's been

ignored for seven years.

This war is seven years old.

The UN and the system,

as it currently stands,

have chosen for women's bodies

to be sacrificed.

The Department for International

Development said it was not aware

of any cases like this involving UK

aid, and if there were,

the Foreign Secretary said

the funding would be stopped.

Obviously, we have talked a great

deal about this in the last few

weeks since the whole business broke

with Oxfam and so on,

and Penny Mordaunt and I are

absolutely committed

to a zero tolerance approach.

Can it be stopped?

Well, we will not support

agencies that engage

in that kind of activity.

UN agencies and charities said

they had zero tolerance

of exploitation, but were not aware

of any cases of abuse

by their own partner organisations,

and one UN spokesman played down

the reports, saying

they were incomplete,

fragmented and unsubstantiated.

James Landale, BBC News.

The BBC's Diplomatic Correspondent,

James Landale reporting there -

and he's with us now.

It is not as if the UN has not faced

this problem before. I was saying

last week that 13 years ago I did a

similar story. You said there were

reports about this two or three

years ago and have not taken action.

We did take some action. In 2015,

two eight agencies heard about this.

The brought it to a meeting at the

headquarters. The mood of that

meeting was we need to find out more

about this. Some then carried out

more research, others said, we are

going to tighter our procedures,

improved training. Clearly, others

did not take as much action because

all the evidence is, from a report

by the United Nations itself, says

it is still going on.

James, can I

ask you about the ceasefire, or at

the meant to be ceasefire that seems

to be broken and the reports seems

to be that both sides are

complaining that the other side did

not live up to the truce on what are

you hearing and what are the chances

this can be resumed tomorrow and

later dates?

I think there is very

little expectation that any kind of

ceasefire, whatever kind of language

you want to use, is going to happen.

The problem is you have got an

illustration of the power struggles

that are going on. You have the

international community is saying,

we want a 30 day ceasefire. You have

the Russians saying, we want a five

hour pause each day. It is possible

to get humanitarian aid in. You have

the Syrian regime are doing their

own thing. What we are seeing is

there are limits on how much

external actors can control what is

going on in the ground.

Thank you

very much for coming in.

Few people are closer

to Donald Trump than Hope Hicks

who has spent today in the company

of the House Intelligence Committee

that's investigating

Russian meddling.

This is pretty much as close

to the President as this

investigation can get.

So what do we know

about Hope Hicks?

As communications director

she is one of the most influential

figures in the inner circle -

and only 29 years old.

Her family are well

known in the PR world -

she started work in 2012

with a PR firm in New York,

and later went on to represent

Ivanka Trump's fashion brand.

She was a political novice but very

soon was drafted into help

on the Trump campaign.

She has been there,

right from the beginning.

Through the transition.

And is now a key figure

in the Oval Office.

Which is why she is of such interest

to Robert Mueller's team.

She was interviewed

by him in December -

and this is her first appearance

before the House

Intelligence Committee.

Specifically they want to know

about a flight on Airforce one

last summer during which Mr Trump

dictated a statement

about the rationale for a campaign

meeting between Trump's son Don

and a Russian operative.

Hope Hicks was on that flight.

The are going to grill her on that

element of the investigation. The

real question is how forthcoming she

is going to be.

There were mixed

reports about this as she came out

of the enquiry today. You had some

lawmakers saying it was boring and

no news came out of it, others was

saying she was and swearing

questions. Others said she was not

and drink the questions. It is hard

to explain how close she is to

Donald Trump. Imagine her as your

favourite niece, someone you see as

your prodigy and the president has

kept hope Hicks very close to him

during the campaign and during the

White House. That is why

investigators are keen to talk to

her. She knows pretty much

everything. She has been in the

meetings and heard what Donald Trump

has said.

She was sitting on that

plane when they were working out the

strategy to deal with the story that

was breaking about the meeting in

Trump Tower. The others, Steve

Bannon and Jeff Sessions, they have

invoked executive privilege. If she

does that again today, there is a

problem for Congress, isn't there?

Never before have we seen executive

privilege used in this kind of way.

Yes, it would be a problem. We have

not heard she has done that, by the

way. It would get them in the

position we are the White House is

stonewalling. You have to leave it

up to Bob Miller how he is going to

respond to that and push to make

sure these people answer questions.

He wants them to answer. Let's look

at some other news that has come in

from around the world.

In a landmark ruling,

a federal court in Germany has

decided that cities can ban some

diesel cars in order

to tackle air pollution.

Environmental groups had brought

the case against two German cities -

Stuttgart and Dusseldorf,

but it will apply nationwide.

The measures could affect more

than nine million vehicles

which fail to meet EU environmental

standards.

The biggest cable TV operator

in the United States has made

a thirty-one billion dollar bid

to buy the British broadcaster, Sky.

The offer from Comcast - which owns

NBC and Universal Pictures -

is higher than an existing one

from Rupert Murdoch's

21st Century Fox.

Fox already owns 39%

of Sky and has offered

to buy the remainder --

but that's been opposed by Britain's

competition watchdog.

The film director Lewis Gilbert -

the British director of Alfie,

Educating Rita and three James Bond

films - has died at the age of 97.

He directed more than 40 films

during his long career -

and our Arts Correspondent David

Silito looks back at his life.

That's it, it's fine.

When Lewis Gilbert took

on Bond in You Only

Live Twice, he was already a

director with 20 films to his name.

He had directed Orson Welles Dirk

Bogart, but 007 with its

seemingly unlimited

budget was new territory.

I have made 25 films and I've never

been on one where this doesn't

ever come up.

If I said today, I want 5000

people flown in from

Tokyo, I'm sure they

would be flown in.

In the '50s, Lewis Gilbert had

made his name with a string of tales

of stiff upper lip

wartime British valour.

And then in the '60s, a film that

helped define a very different

era - Alfie.

My understanding of woman

only goes as far as the

pleasure.

When it comes to the pain,

I'm like every other bloke.

I don't want to know.

No, no, no, Michael,

we are going right.

On set, he was easy-going,

charming, unflappable.

A child of musical performance, he

had spent his life in show business.

And 17 years after Alfie, he was

reunited with Michael Caine in

Educating Rita.

I thought it was something serious.

After that, another

Willie Rosol adaptation -

Shirley Valentine.

-- Willy Russell.

Lewis Gilbert, providing some

of James Bond's greatest moments.

Lewis Gilbert who's

died at the age of 97.

You only live twice. Moon break with

Roger Moore. That was one of my

favourite movies.

Who is your

favourite James Bond? I love Roger

mirror because he used to take the

Mickey out of the genre. -- Roger

mirror. It has to be Sean Connery.

He could have no pictures at all and

listened to him all day.

Do you

think you grow up with a James Bond?

Mine is Daniel Craig.

We all have a

crush on Daniel Craig. I have a

crush on Daniel Craig as well, we

can be honest about this. He doesn't

own stunts and he has the greedy

atmosphere, you do not know what he

is thinking. -- moody atmosphere. I

must've seen his films 15 times. One

of the best films ever. Goldeneye is

fantastic.

Diamonds are forever. I

liked that film. I do like Sean

Connery. They are in black and

white, some of them.

Can you do it

for us?

Surely not...

No, I cannot.

OK. My very favourite Sean Connery

movie... This is my advice to you,

we are talking about the weather,

this is what people can be doing. I

know it is a nightmare when your

children cannot go to school. We get

snowflakes in Washington and all the

schools are shut. When you are stuck

at home with your kids, hunt for red

October. The advantages of the beast

from the east. That is not Sean

Connery, by the way.

This is Beyond 100

Days from the BBC.

Coming up for viewers on the BBC

News Channel and BBC World News -

what these photographs tell us

about modern day slavery,

on a main street near you.

You will be surprised.

And Usain Bolt's turns his

attention to football -

which club's he signed with...

And why?

We will tell you.

That's still to come.

First came the cold and then the

snow. Most of us have had snow. More

snow on the horizon. This picture

from Kent. On the menu, further

heavy snow showers in places. More

travel disruption. The wind chill

becomes more of an issue as well. In

the short-term, the end to the flow

of cold air coming in from Siberia.

You can see the extent of the cold

across Europe. Any snow showers will

produce accumulation. It runs from

east to west in the UK. Drier and

clearer across western parts. The

focus of the showers, into

north-east Scotland into the night.

Minus eight Celsius in some places.

We are concerned about these no

piling up. An amber Met Office

weather warning to be prepared.

Nasty travel conditions for parts of

the Central Belt in Scotland as we

go from Wednesday to Thursday, due

to the frequency and intensity of

the snow showers. Some spots will

get a heavy snow shower after

another. Scattered snow showers

around on Wednesday. These are the

top temperatures. The chilly night

but by day these are the

temperatures. This is what it feels

like in the wind, minus figures. The

easterly wind picks up a little bit.

This area of low pressure comes in

from the south, feeding moisture

into the cold air across the UK.

Snow showers continued Thursday and

we are going to see a spell of snow

in northern parts and blizzards and

icy conditions building up into

Friday across southern parts of the

UK. Still running into north-east

England and parts of Scotland. We

minted in amber warnings into first

date -- we maintain. This is going

into Thursday, heavy and disruptive

snow and another bitterly cold day.

This is Beyond 100 Days,

with me Katty Kay in Washington -

Christian Fraser's in London.

Our top stories -

As Republicans in Congress meet

to discuss gun controls

after the Parkland school shooting -

one Florida congresswoman and former

Orlando police chief gives

us her view on arming teachers.

I know of nothing that has been

proposed yet that is more ridiculous

than arming our teachers

and our principles.

In Syria, a temporary humanitarian

ceasefire in the rebel-held

territory of Eastern Ghouta

collapses on its first day.

Coming up in the next half hour:

The decades old dispute over

the name, Macedonia,

and why it could be an obstacle

to its future membership of the EU -

we hear from the Prime Minister.

The powerful pictures

highlighting modern day slavery

in cities across the world.

Let us know your thoughts

by using the hashtag...

It's not just Syria where Russia

is making it's influence

felt in the Middle East.

On Monday, Moscow vetoed a bid

at the United Nations to criticise

Iran for allowing its weapons to end

up in the hands of

Yemen's Houthi rebels.

For the past three years the Houthis

have been waging war

against the government -

backed by a Saudi led coalition.

10,000 people have dead and millions

have been forced from their homes.

Joining us now is the former US

Ambassador to Yemen -

Stephen Seche.

Thank you for coming in here. The

finger is pointed at Iran. To what

extent do you think Iran is

manipulating the situation in Yemen?

That is the case. A lot of it had to

do when Saudi Arabia ended with its

coalition and it was an invitation

for Iran to deepen its involvement.

What we have seen is clear evidence

they have been transporting missiles

into Yemen for use by the Houthi's.

It poses an enormous risk of

escalation.

In conversations I have

had with Saudi officials, what they

are saying is this is an existential

issue and they are resolute that

they will make sure there is never

has blah on the border. Is that what

you are hearing?

The pressures for

them or they are vulnerable to

ballistic missiles and incursions.

That is why they entered the region.

Is differential -- similar to the

war in Syria. If the US is going to

engage in Yemen, it has to

understand what the Houthi's want.

I

hope we are trying to back channel

information and there was an

opportunity when one of the Houthi

negotiators went to Iran where they

had abducted and were releasing. He

sat there with the intention of

being available to international

western diplomats to discuss this

issue.

Work there the sun watching

who talk

issue.

Work there the sun watching

who talk about the hypocrisy of the

United States in the UK. We have had

a former government minister who is

the only British pollen --

politician who has been to Yemen. He

said we are dangerously in danger of

becoming complicit in the Saudi

policy towards Yemen. We are arming

the Saudis.

The American government

is in the same position. It is

difficult to do so is the assaults

from the impact the air campaign has

over Yemen and the humanitarian

toll. It makes us less than an

honest broker when we try to speak

to other parties in the conflict.

We

have the White House talking about

the prospect of increasing its

military ties with the Saudi

government and they are proud they

are doing so and saying this is a

great opportunity for them. Is there

any concern that the Trump

administration could be tainted by

the Saudi's actions in Yemen and the

damage this is causing to civilians

in the country?

I do detect

concerned in their White House. We

need to do more and we have been

reticent to mix it up and insist

they need to do something. They

don't understand how deep the whole

is that they have dug for themselves

and they need to stop digging

immediately.

We will see if they

listen. Thank you very much for

coming in.

Slavery has many modern forms.

There are children who work

as domestic servants,

farm hands and factory workers,

bonded labourers who are tied

to ever-mounting debts,

victims of sex trafficking

who endure some horrific abuse.

The business of exploiting these

people is a global industry worth

150 billion dollars a year.

Perhaps as many as 40 million people

globally are trapped

in this modern slavery.

One in four victims are children.

Here is the story of a Nigerian man,

who came to Britain searching

a better life but soon ran out

of money and ended

up on the streets.

My name is tippee and I am from

Nigeria. 28 years old from Nigeria.

I was the victim of Modern Slavery

Bill. When I got to the UK, I have

some money. Before my money ran out,

I ran out of cash and I was on the

streets. I felt the only people who

could be of help to me were people

from Nigeria. I met this lady in a

salon and some of them were

Nigerians. They said they were going

to arrange for me to meet their boss

and told me what I was going to do

and that if I am very loyal to him,

he will sort me out. Every night, I

got to the club and they would go to

the toilet and when they came out,

you would give them some aftershave

and some spray and they were

dropping a pound or two macro

pounds. They would hand it over to

the boss and they took everything.

We were just living our lives for

this man. They never allowed me to

use my phone and they never allowed

me to make friends. Some signs --

sometimes they would hit you and use

swear words on you but I couldn't go

to the police because they kept

lingering and kept echoing saying if

you go to the police, you will be in

trouble. That scared me, that I

couldn't even go to the police.

There is currently an exhibition

'Invisible People'

which is touring the UK.

The Photographer Rory Carniegie has

recreated the lives of people

who are known to have been

trafficked into the UK.

And we'll take a look at some

of those images as we go.

But with me in the studio,

is the retired Court of Appeal judge

Baroness Butler-Sloss,

who now sits as the Co-Chair

of the All Party Parliamentary Group

on Human trafficking and

Anti-Slavery.

There is great awareness now around

the world about this scourge of

human travertine and I was listening

to a senator in Congress the other

day saying that what we need to do

is apply best practice across the

West to do with the problem. Where

do you think we can put more effort?

We have an extremely good Modern

Slavery Bill act passed in 2015, but

it has only been partially

implemented and if we can get the

government to get this tragedy

together and start to implement

parts of the Modern Slavery Bill

act, we will have made progress.

It

is that prosecution of people

perpetrating the crime that is the

problem. In 2016, there are 9000

convictions worldwide which is

extraordinary when you think of the

number of people being trafficked.

The trouble is the people who are

trafficked for a variety of reasons

don't want to give evidence. Also we

are not looking after them in

England and Wales to a degree that

makes them want to come forward and

give evidence and stop speaking as a

former lawyer, if you don't have

that good evidence, it is difficult

to get a conviction from the jury.

To what extent do all of us every

day as we are going about our lives

encounter or come across people that

are in slavery without us realising

it?

They walk down the street, we

don't know. One of the problems is

the lack of awareness among ordinary

people. The churches are beginning

to do some good work, particularly

the Pope and the Vatican who is

mobilising is people across the

world to look for this. The Church

of England, the Roman Catholic

Church in England are doing good

work but we do not know enough about

them. Even the police don't yet know

enough about it.

It is an industry

that is now making something like

$150 billion a year. Who is that

money going to?

It is at least

that's because trafficking of people

across the world, it is the second

most valuable illegal trade in the

world. It is going to those who wore

enslaving people. They are

traffickers right across the world

will stop a great many eastern

Europe, a great many the Far East.

Vietnamese boys are in fact brought

to England and are asked to work in

cannabis farms which are rented

accommodation. They are enslaved by

being locked in.

One of the things

you said is you need people to come

forward and to talk about their

experience in slavery. One of the

problems in this country and I

suppose it is common in the US, is

when they come forward, sometimes

they are returned to their home

countries. If they have taken great

risk to get here in the first place

and put themselves in the hands of

these human traffickers, they are

not likely to come forward if they

think they are going to be returned.

We are not generous to those that

have been found positively

identified as having been enslaved.

We ought to be much more generous

that they have no right to remain in

this country. It is one of the

things we are battling in our

Parliamentary group to try and get

at least a few months for people to

be allowed to stay, to find out

whether or not it is safe to let

them go back to their own country.

It is a pleasure to have you in the

studio, thank you very much.

We are

not generous, that sums up the

frustration of people trying to

combat this. You try and encourage

people to come forward and without

them, it is difficult to crack down

on the gangs and the groups and

rings perpetrating this slavery.

When they do come forwards, they

face the prospect of being deported.

There is some action in the US will

stop the head of the foreign

relations committee has pushed this

issue vigorously and went to Asia in

2014 and came back and were shocked

by what he saw. He has managed to

raise several millions of dollars

for this but whether that is going

to manage to break this legal logjam

is hard to see.

I won -- I watched

one of the hearings are countries

that identified as not doing enough

to tackle human trafficking, they

were let off the hook because

America didn't want to Paris them.

The other thing I was going to say

was that is different practices even

here in the UK. Scotland bringing in

a 90 day period after these people

come forward to say they have been

trafficked, they were going to care

for 90 days which gives them more

time. One of the real problems at

the moment is people who have been

victims of trafficking are

trafficked because they are either

put back on the street or put back

in the hands of these traffickers.

That is one of the things she was

recommending.

There is best practice

out there which needs to be shared

more liberally.

The Irish broadcaster has said a

draft legal task about the EU will

see Northern Ireland may be

considered part of EU customs

territory after Brexit. This text

will put into legal terms the

agreement between the UK which will

be reached last December. Some said

it was a fudge and we didn't have

the details and they didn't know how

they would avoid this hard border

between Northern Ireland and the

Irish Republic. They will print this

document tomorrow. 120 pages. There

are several things in there and it

will be dense.

The European Union's chief Brexit

negotiator, Michel Barnier,

says there are still significant

points of disagreement with the UK

over Britain's withdrawal

from the EU.

It doesn't mean that this is to be

no border between the north and

south and the border will be putting

the Irish Sea. It is there as a

backstop. Is saying they will have

the solution if they can't find

another way to get forward on the

Irish issue.

I was going to ask

whether this settled the question

but I think you have and sedate.

Prosecutors in South Korea

are seeking a 30-year jail

sentence for their former President.

Park Geun-hye, who is standing trial

on charges including

bribery and abuse of power,

was ousted last year

after being impeached over

a corruption scandal.

She's been held in custody

for almost a year.

A village in the Southern Germany

has decided to keep a Nazi-era bell

hanging in a local church.

The bell bears the engraving

"All for the Fatherland -

Adolf Hitler" above a large

swastika.

After months of dispute,

the church's parish council has

now decided to keep it,

and put up a plaque explaining

the bell's history.

Donald Trump has picked

one of his political

strategists as campaign manager

for his 2020 re-election campaign.

The Trump Organization hired

Brad Parscale in 2011

as a digital media guru.

He was asked in 2015 to create

a website for Mr Trump's

exploratory White House bid,

and a year later became

the campaign's digital director.

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the mystery football club

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Heavy snow and freezing temperatures

have caused disruption

and treacherous driving conditions

across much of the UK.

In Lincolnshire, there were 20

accidents in three hours.

In one crash, three

people were killed.

Forecasters have warned of worse

weather conditions to come.

The East Coast had time to prepare.

Travellers had a taste of what this

week has in store. Lincolnshire

Police dealt with 20 accidents in a

three-hour period. Three people died

in a collision on A15 Edgbaston and

a school bus veered off the road are

deepening Saint James. In Essex, a

car passenger filmed 17 damaged or

abandoned vehicles alongside the

A120 close to Colchester. In Kent

where the county council had

declared a snow emergency, Grifters

worked flat out to cover as many

roads as possible but like traffic

overnight meant salt couldn't do its

work and by the time the morning

commute began, accidents and ice had

closed a series of routes. Drivers

posted video images of the M20 where

traffic was brought to a halt north

of Maidstone and The Weald. Up to

ten centimetres of snow fell across

Kent, Surrey and East Sussex where

farmers helped to keep minor roads

open. More than 300 schools were

closed. The village of Leeds was

completely is cut off a time as ice

and compacted snow was stranded cars

and lorries. Across the eastern

counties, traffic crawled and

travellers waited for news on

cancelled rail services. Operators

have run empty trains through the

night to keep the tracks open but

for a while, this snow defeated

them. Temperatures falling again.

Travelling will remain unpredictable

and hazardous in the coming days.

This week the European Commission

President Jean-Claude Junker has

been visiting the new prospective

members of the EU.

He's been on a whirlwind tour

of the western Balkan countries

The Republic of Macedonia,

Albania, Serbia, Montenegro,

Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo.

It's an area of Europe that has seen

more than its fair share of war -

and not so long ago.

The trip said Mr Junker's staff

is intended to serve

as an encouraging gesture

to these counties.

And one country that certainly

thinks it can benefit from EU

membership is Macedonia.

One of the things that stands in

their places their name. Greeks have

argued that the name, Macedonia,

represents a territorial claim of

Greece's northern province which is

also named Macedonia. I have been

speaking to the Prime Minister and I

put it to him that Greece is not

likely to budge on the issue of the

name.

We are the Republic of Macedonia. We

understand our good friends in

Greece. They have another part of

the country called Macedonia. Now

the problem is how to distinguish

between our country and the regional

Macedonia in the Greek side. We try

to understand completely and because

of that, we are in sight of

negotiations with the Prime Minister

in Greece. We are positive in our

way to find a solution. We are

prepared to accept geographical

distinction in our new name and what

will be used for every country. We

try to find a way how we will

protect the interests of our country

but the interests of Greece. We must

take care of each other because we

can agree on anything but our

institutions must vote for that and

give support for that.

The group

promised has made encouraging noises

but his Defence Secretary has been

adamant Macedonia cannot be part of

your name if you want to be a member

of the European Union.

They have

done that all this year. Nothing

moves. We have positive

recommendation since 2009 to start

negotiations. We have an open

invitation from Nato since 2008 and

we didn't become a member of Nato

and we participate in all nations in

Afghanistan and everywhere in the

world. There is a consensus of

decisions in Nato and the European

Union and we try to encourage Greece

that they accept.

You saying

Macedonia must be in the name

somewhere.

It is in our country and

Greece. The bigger party. We accept

it is a fact.

With countries like

yours that are trying to get up to

the European average, the best

talent in the country leaves for the

biggest western economies. We have

seen it with Bulgaria and Romania.

Are you worried that might happen

with Macedonia?

We have expectations

when to become a member of the

European Union. It is an open market

now. We believe in the values and

these values will be more guaranteed

for you to remain in our country. We

hope to improve our economy and

standard because we attract a lot of

foreign investors. They push the

economy and increase salaries.

The

Prime Minister that of Macedonia. It

would mean a lot to country. The

unemployment rate in Macedonia is

22% and they have been meeting

Finance yeas here in London and one

of them the European development

bank, says it will take them 60

years to get up to the EU GDP

average per person in Macedonia.

That is how far they are behind. It

is a long road for these countries

because they have to get their

courts in order, freedom of the

press, political unity in the

country. There is a lot to do. The

point that Jean-Claude Juncker is

making us why do we want a country

like that as member of the European

Union was to mark this as part of

the European neighbourhood and it is

not so long ago that we have war in

the Western Balkans and the best way

to avoid that is for them to set

aside political differences and

become part of the European family.

Their chances or have they improved

or not with Britain leaving the

European Union? Is there a desire of

things they have to do to get their

governments in order? Is there more

of a desire from the European

Commission to have new members?

They

would say they are already solving

the European problems. I have been

on the border between Greece and

Macedonia years ago when migrants

were flowing through the Western

Balkans into Europe. You want us to

be part of the solution to the

migrant issue but you don't want us

to be part of the European Union.

They would say they are an integral

part of the Security solution within

the European Union and that is why

they should be fast tracked.

And

taking the consequences of the

position they are in. This is my

favourite story of the day.

Usain Bolt who has always

harboured an ambition to be

a professional footballer,

posted a rather mischevious

tweet the other day.

He said he was signing

for a new football team.

Which got tongues wagging.

Today we learn that he will make

his footballing debut

at the Theatre of Dream,

Old Trafford in a charity Soccer Aid

match on the tenth June.

Yes the eight-time Olympic gold

medallist will captain a team

of international celebrities.

He is a massive

Manchester United fan.

His team will take

on Robbie Williams team to raise

money for Unicef.

Here's the promo.

A brand-new captain for this soccer

aid world 11.

Robbie, let me

entertain you. You can run but you

can't hide. Stick to singing and

leave the football for me.

Robbie

Williams looks like he is in good

health at the moment. Usain Bolt

looks a little bit alive. It will be

interesting to see how they move

around the pitch.

Are you saying

Robbie Williams looks fitter than

Usain Bolt?

Quite the reverse.

I

thought your eyes need testing

again.

I would wonder how you would

mark someone like Usain Bolt. Give

him 30 yards and see if you can

catch him.

Would you even go on the

pitch if you knew Usain Bolt was on

there.

I am a distance runner.

He's

one of the most charming characters.

That would be set alight. It is for

a good cause, Unicef. He is playing

at Manchester United and he is a big

Manchester United fan.

You made a

good stab at Sean Connery. Give us

the lightning bolts. You can do it.

I have no reputation left. Coming up

on the programme, we will have the

latest headlines from Carole Walker.

I will be back with some more

impressions tomorrow. Thanks very

much for watching.