01/03/2018 Beyond 100 Days

You are watching Beyond 100 Days,

the real beast from the east,

Vladimir Putin announces an arsenal

of missiles he said is invincible.

He boasts his new weapons can blast

through any defences. Why is he

telling the world about it now?

At his annual State of the nation

address, Putin says the world had

listened to Russia, but now it will.

From cold water trade war, President

Trump announces big tariffs on steel

and aluminium imports with important

implications for America's global

relationships.

Also on the programme, near miss,

the moment a bus slips and slides

its way around a car as the bitterly

cold arctic blast beds in across the

UK and Europe.

And up for an Oscar, the profoundly

deaf six-year-old, who is heading to

LA.

Get in touch with us.

I'm Katty Kay in Washington,

Christian Fraser is in London.

Nothing subtle about Vlad Putin's

militaristic speech today. He now

has the weapons of war he claims to

make Russia a full to be reckoned

with, Mr Putin said the new missile

system can fly at 20 times the speed

of sound, which makes it invincible.

Surrounded by high-tech video

animations of missiles flying across

the Atlantic Hotel the president

said it was the inevitable response

to missile defence is the United

States, it its Western allies have

installed in Europe and South Korea.

The Pentagon said it knew about

these weapons, but Mr Putin's

defiant tone ahead of the election

later this month is raising

concerns.

This was a state of the nation

speech like no other by President

Putin.

Ide voted much of it to announcing

Russia had been developing an array

of sophisticated new strategic

weapons.

In response, he said, to the United

States gilding part of its missile

defence system around the Russian

Federation.

And adding to the drama, the

president came equipped with videos

and graphics of some of the new

weapons.

This, apparently, a nuclear powered

underwater drone, which it claimed

could carry a nuclear warhead and

cannot be stopped.

It is designed to attack enemy

warships and coastal defences.

And then there are claims Russia has

been developing a new generation of

intercontinental ballistic missile

is like this one. Capable of

carrying multiple warheads and

penetrating all missile defence

systems. If it's true, Russia will

soon be able to bypass Nato defence

systems. It would be a game changer.

But in Washington today, defence

officials were sceptical about Mr

Putin's claims.

These weapons have

been in developed mode a very long

time. So, no. Our nuclear posture

review takes all of this into

account.

There's no doubt the Kremlin has

been pawing me into its Armed Forces

for years now, creating a much more

sophisticated military, including

viz stealth warplanes, recently

transferred to Syria.

And with these latest announcements,

Mr Putin has upped the ante with the

west. It's perhaps no coincidence,

though, it comes just a few weeks

before the country holds a

presidential election.

Let's talk to the vice president.

These at the core Dieng down and for

International peace, working on

Russian affairs for President

senior and the Clinton

administrations. Thanks for coming

in. That point that Russia is upping

the anti-, the Pentagon says it knew

about the weapons systems already,

but the tone President Putin today,

the world will now listen to us,

there must be some concern about

that defiance.

President Putin loves

to be talked about. Having this

attention and the world stage has

been something he craves and seems

to always have a knack for

attracting. The reality is what your

correspondent said at the end of his

report, he is coming into an

election in March on the 18th, which

has been the lifeless. Campaign, and

is losing attention from the people

he needs to turn out on March the

18th. It is showing Russia is back

and we have great literary ability,

doing things that will rattle the

United States, that is one of the

only things he has now to sing a

late interest in the election, which

has been a sleeper.

Is the rest of

the world not paying enough

attention?

We have today launched a

project that looks at what we are

calling the return of global Russia.

Without making the Russians look ten

feet tall, we are seeing the

Russians aren't very sustained.

Since 2012, they have pushed

themselves into parts of the world

where they want to take the US down

a peg or they want to see some of

the vat use that Donald Trump has

created. We are seeing that pattern

across the Middle East, even to

South Africa and Latin America.

That is the point, people have asked

today if we are at the beginning of

a new Cold War, a new arms race.

What is similar to the Cold War is

the big powers, and you can factor

China into that now, of trying to

reframe the world, bring countries

into their sphere. The Russians have

made quite an advanced in the last

few years.

Yes and no. The Russians do not have

a lot of allies, and they do not

have a big cheque-book. China has

partners and a big cheque-book.

Really, at the moment, they are

aiming at the ways to make the US

less dominant, and on the cheap make

themselves look relevant. They have

been doing this with extraordinary

effectiveness, in terms of

undermining Western institutions,

creating problems inside the Nato

alliance, inside the European Union,

and by all the campaign of

interference with elections. They

have found a toolkit and are honing

that toolkit, but it doesn't

necessarily make Russia the actor

that's going to solve problems.

China is in a slightly different

agenda here with trying to change

the way the world is run, and take

for themselves significant was once

ability.

And on the issue of the arms race,

the Pentagon is telling people today

that it knew about these weapons,

how does he react? They have been

looking at nuclear weapons, new age

in Korea where is, what sort of

things can they do?

We are in a

feedback loop, if you go back to the

days of the George Bush 43 admits

written, the United States ended

what was the antiballistic Missile

Treaty, signed in the early 1970s.

It set worries inside the Russian

military that something was being

built by the United States that

would basically negate their

strategic deterrent. For them, right

now, they have had a decade plus to

get ready for this moment, where

they tried to show the United States

that they can remain potent. The

nuclear posture review, the National

security strategy, they all included

phrasings about Russia as an

important as the Sarri for the

United States, and we are setting in

motion slowly but surely an arms

race dynamic between the United

States and Russia. How far it goes

and what it means for nuclear

weapons and other key weapons

systems is something that needs to

be worked out.

Thank you for joining

us. We have been so focused on North

Korea, Christian, on this programme,

and the imminent attack from North

Korea, something the United States

is taking seriously as well, but

with the strategic review coming out

of the Pentagon a few weeks ago, it

is clear that Russia is something as

they had to look at, as if there

weren't enough things the US had to

weigh around the world at a time

when the United States under Donald

Trump is pulling back from global

engagement come it is the dichotomy

we are in.

That is true. The big Nato powers,

Germany, Britain, America, they are

distracted at the moment. Angela

Merkel has her own problems with the

Coalition in Germany, and of course,

Britain is focused on Brexit. I

wonder if there are mixed messages

in the United States when it comes

specifically to Russia. We heard

from Adam Rogers speaking to

Congress the other day. He said the

president directed him to retaliate,

so I wonder if the Pentagon thinks,

what are we supposed to do when we

see these Russian threats?

Yeah,

there are plenty of people on

Capitol Hill, especially Democrats

and Republicans, too, that would

argue the United States has already

been under attack from Russia, not

in a conventional sense, but through

cyber during the cause of the

election, and the president hasn't

nearly been tough enough in his

rhetoric, at least, towards Vladimir

Putin because of that.

Since the end of the Second World

War, free trade has been linked to

global prosperity and peace. Today,

Donald Trump said he did not believe

in the Islington and took a

protectionist step in a new

direction for America. The president

announced the US will impose stiff

tariffs on steel and aluminium

imports from other countries.

The people that feared Mr Trump

would start a global trade war, this

is the first series indication that

he might do so. For the President's

supporters, it was an important

campaign commitment. He says he will

sign off on the financial penalties

next week.

We'll be imposing tariffs

on steel imports and tariffs

on aluminium imports.

And you're going to see a lot

of good things happen.

You're going to see

expansions of the companies,

what's been allowed

to go on for decades is disgraceful.

Since the announcement of that, the

Dow is down 500 points. With us is

Nick Bryant, this is something the

president said he would do during

the cause of the campaign. He held

off for a year, was this inevitable,

even though people in the White

House desperately didn't want him to

do so? What he has done is a Cold

War provision in a way that could

provoke a 20th century trade war.

Ironically, it was supposed to

liberalise trade, it led to GATT

agreement in the late 60s, but there

was a provision of that which

allowed American presidents to say

we can impose tariffs if we believe

national security is under threat.

That alludes to steal if the cost of

steel makes it more expensive to

build tanks and guns. He has invoked

that provision. It is the first time

America has done it since the early

1980s, it is the first time it has

been invoked since the creation of

the World Trade Organisation in

1995. It is a massive turnaround for

US policy. We have waited for this

for a long time from Donald Trump.

He didn't do it in the first year of

his presidency, but now, this major

protectionist move, which he says

will help the US aluminium and steel

industry.

The instinct would be, Nick, that

this is going to impact China. But

of course, Canada exports most steel

into America, and it will affect

European countries as well. The EU

said that if he did something like

this, they were taking to the World

Trade Organisation.

That is one of

the reasons they have evoked the

trade expansion act. It allows you,

theoretically, to circumvent the

WTO. One thing we will at is whether

is new tariffs have exemptions,

whether countries are exempt from

that. As you say, European trade

ministers have already said,

pre-empting this announcement, that

they would take retaliatory measures

themselves. But of course, one of

the key players here is China. So

much of Donald Trump Bos rhetoric

when it came to steal during the

campaign in the bust belt states

that won in the presidency, it was

directed against China. How they

were flooding the market with cheap

steel. How will Xi Jinping despond

dithers? What will be the diplomatic

repercussions as well? That is one

of the argument is James Mattis the

Defence Secretary has been making

lobbying for the president not to

impose these tariffs. It makes

diplomacy on the Korean peninsula

more difficult, because while you

try to bid pressure on North Korea,

one of the key elements of that,

obviously, is getting Beijing to

apply pressure as well.

Nick Bryant, thank you very much. We

talked about global power shifts a

moment a go, make no mistake, trade

and trade alliances are an important

part of power shifts as well and can

cause obligations.

It doesn't help

the Nafta negotiations.

Both big exporters of steel into the

night of states.

Yeah, and the

Mexican president cancelled a visit

to the White House, so that doesn't

look like it is going well at the

moment either. Watch Nafta, I'm not

sure it will last.

In just over a year, the White House

has got through four communications

directors, they now need a fifth.

Hope Hicks joined the Trump

Organization in 2014. She was with

him through the campaign and is one

of his most trusted aides. The

announcement she is leaving came the

day after the 29-year-old gave a

nine-hour testimony in front of the

panel investigating alleged Russian

meddling in the US election.

Hicks admitted to the panel that she

occasionally told what a -- amounted

to white lies on behalf of Donald

Trump. She was the longest serving

communications director, clocking up

196 days in the job following

Anthony Scaramucci, who lasted less

than two weeks. Mary Jordan has

profiled Hope Hicks for the

Washington Post, and we can speak to

her now. She was a close confidant

and had been there from the

beginning of the campaign. It might

start to feel a bit lonely for the

president in the Oval Office.

I think we can't underestimate the

loss of Hope Hicks for him. Her

office was literally outside the

Oval Office. She was there and as

improbable as it was, this

29-year-old was his longest serving

and most trusted aide outside of the

family. Trump has a very small

circle of people that he keeps

around him, that he goes to for

advice and trust hope was front and

centre. She predated the campaign

because she worked in his business

in New York.

There is always the

question of whether she walked or

was pushed. There was this nine-hour

congressional hearing earlier in the

week, which she said she told white

lies for the president. And if you

go back further, she was wrapped up

in the Rockport crisis because she

was romantically involved with him

and gave the initial response from

the White House.

I think everything

we're hearing is that she left.

She's exhausted, she's had a

horrible few weeks. She's the only

quite one in a very, very noisy

White House. Here she was, the

communications director, but you

never saw her on TV. You would see

glamorous shots of her, because she

is a former model. This White House,

by the way, has more formal models,

including the first lady, then any

White House we have had. But she

didn't speak. But lately, she was in

the news, and we're hearing that

this made her uncomfortable. She was

really upset that her boyfriend

this made her uncomfortable. She was

really upset that her boyfriend, it

came out that his former wives that

there was domestic abuse. She said

that was a shock to her, which she

didn't get over. And nine hours, a

pretty nine-year old, no matter how

old you are, nine hours of grilling

-- a 29-year-old. And she called it

quits.

Stay with us, because that is not

the only White House drama going on

at the moment. The New York Times is

reporting today that Jared Kushner

Bos family business got half $1

billion in loans from business

groups last year. That was after

meetings he held with them inside

the White House. Including two legal

experts, it isn't illegal, but it

raises questions about conflict of

interest, doesn't it, Mary?

It is

all people talk about now. The

son-in-law is extremely close to

Donald Trump. Since the day he

arrived here, people said, how is he

going to separate his business from

being the man who Trump put in

charge of everything. In charge of

the relationship with Mexico, Middle

East peace literally, his portfolio

was everywhere. And now we find out

that he have clearance for that,

that the Washington Post is

reporting that other countries are

looking into his business deals to

see how they could use that to

blackmail him, and have leveraged

with the White House. And as a

conflict of interests keep rising,

such as the shocking amount of loan

money, half $1 billion, and

supposedly talks about wanting a

White House job, and his family is

benefiting. The swell of conflict of

interest is so hot right now in

Washington that many people wonder

if Kushner is on his way to maybe

relieving himself of some of his

White House official duties.

Mary

Jordan, really good to have you with

us, thank you for sparing your time.

There was this power play between

Jared Kushner and the chief of

staff, Kelly. When you look at what

has happened to Jared Kushner, his

security clearance being downgraded

and you look at Hope Hicks going in

a few weeks' time, he's got two in

one week.

You're not suggesting, argue, that

there is personal chaos in the White

House by any chance? It's kind of

stunning the amount of drama coming

out of this White House around the

issues of personnel. And there was

John Kelly, brought in, the general,

to sort it out and make it calm and

smooth. He himself has become part

of the drama. He spoke about that

earlier today. At least he has a

sense of humour. Let's listen.

I miss everyone of you every day...

LAUGHTER

Truly, six months,

the last thing I wanted to do

was walk away from one of

the great honours of my life,

being the Secretary

of Homeland Security.

But I did something wrong,

and God punished me, I guess.

God punished him by sending him to

work in the White House, and

absolutely impossible job. Trying to

be communications director when

Donald Trump is basically his own

communications director. That is

clearly difficult, clearly why Hope

Hicks is leaving. Family members in

the White House document for power,

using their links to try to further

their businesses, I mean, wow.

Meanwhile, you have all that going

on and this unbelievable spat with

the Attorney General Jeff Sessions,

who he calls the goo. It is

tantamount to bullying. He keeps

going.

We can pick any one of these

stories, and in any other

administration, Christian, it would

dominate the news for a week.

Possibly even longer. We get three

or four stories like this in the

course of one day. That's an

indication to everyone of how

unusual this White House is and how

it's being run in a way that doesn't

seem particularly professional,

perhaps not even very efficient,

certainly very different from other

White House models.

A quick look at other news coming

in. News from Catalonia, the

Catalans but as leader Carles

Puigdemont says he is withdrawing as

president in favour of Jordi

Sanchez, a Delta act as -- a jailed

activist.

Collars Puigdemont is

Drifting snow and dangerous

blizzards have brought large part of

the UK and Europe to a standstill

with part of England, Scotland and

Wales on the highest weather alert

possible.

The British military has been

deployed to help emergency services.

There is even a warning that the UK

gas supply could run dry.

Take a look at this, the roads are

treacherous, too.

That is terrifying. A bus in

Edinburgh almost slams into that

car. Remarkably, though, it slips

around it and avoid a crash will

stop across the image can all,

whether is wreaking havoc.

Paris freezes over,

tourists tread carefully.

It's so cold.

In Croatia, this waterfall

has been silenced.

There are pockets of warmth.

In Poland, coal burners

steam on the street.

But there's no beating

this ice blast.

In the grip of a Siberian weather

system, Europe is seeing some

of the coldest temperatures

for several years.

Today's recorded low,

minus 41.8 Celsius in Norway.

It brings danger as this lorry

driver in Bulgaria discovered.

In Scotland, around 1000

vehicles were stranded

on a major motorway overnight.

In the East of England,

the shovels are out.

I tried to get home, I phoned

into work to say I can't make

it because I'm stuck in a drift.

Trains have been cancelled,

airports closed.

Meanwhile, dozens of people,

many of them homeless,

are reported to have died

across the continent.

This weather event has

several names across Europe,

the Siberian Bear, the Snow Cannon,

the Beast from the East.

Different names,

but similar stories.

Forecasters predict the extreme

weather will continue to grip

Europe into the weekend.

Jessica Parker, BBC News.

Now, time for my favourite story of

the week. Stars of the big screen

will convene for the Oscars on

Sunday, and among them will be

Maisie, a profoundly deaf six Rob,

cast in the lead role British, The

Silent Child.

The film highlights how Sinai which

can change lives, but in Maisie's

case, take you from a town in

England to Ollie Wood.

"Hello, I'm Maisie.

I'm in Hollywood for the Oscars."

It's a story so happy it could be

the plot of a Hollywood film.

Maisie Sly had never even acted

before her parents were told

about film-makers looking

for a profoundly deaf girl to star

in their film, The Silent Child.

And now, here are the nominees

for Best Live Action Short Film.

This is the moment in January

when the team gathered to find out

if they had been nominated

for an Oscar.

My Nephew Emmett.

The Silent Child.

CHEERING

YES!

And so, this week,

they reunited at Heathrow...

Hello, welcome on board.

And headed to Los Angeles.

Most people prepare for the Oscars

by meeting stylists and planning

acceptance speeches.

Maisie's schedule has

been rather different.

"My favourite thing this week

was Kidspace and the zoo."

"Yep, that's my favourite

thing this week."

Welcome to Hollywood!

Although she is having to get used

to people recognising her.

I saw her on television,

just last week.

They say she's nominated.

Do you think she'll be able

to get a job one day?

Rachel Shenton wrote and stars

in The Silent Child.

She learned sign language after

her own father lost his hearing.

The nomination means

that ultimately, now,

we are in over 600 cinemas

in the US, which is huge

for us as a short film.

And it's really important

for the subject, which is obviously

deafness, and shining a much-needed

light on access to education

for deaf children.

There's Meryl Streep.

Her former Hollyoaks co-star

Chris Overton directed the film and,

at a lunch for all the nominees,

they got to meet one of his heroes.

Steven Spielberg was

in between me and Rachel.

And the person taking the photo

said, oh, can we move,

because the light's not good.

So we were ordering

Spielberg around!

Oh, an Oscar!

Now all that remains is

to find out if there will be

a Hollywood happy ending.

On Sunday night, Maisie could get

her hands on a real one of these.

Colin Paterson, BBC

News, Los Angeles.

By the way, like any girl, Maisie is

worried about what she's going to

wear. She has already picked out a

pretty green dress.

I have been looking, she would be

the youngest to get an Oscar.

Shirley Temple was 30 days younger,

she won a juvenile world in 1935.

Amazing, good for her.

She is in

good company.

This is Beyond 100 Days from the

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Coming up for B was on the BBC News

Channel, Italy prepares to go to the

polls in just three days the country

will elect a new government.

Not the best night to be out and

about, disruptive and, in places,

dangerous wintry weather continues,

so much so that the Met office has

issued a red weather warning across

parts of south-west England and

South Wales. Heavy snow, strong wind

as well, giving blizzard conditions,

this is the radar picture from early

on. The snow has been spreading up

from the south, particularly setting

in across the south-west and

southern half of Wales. Snow showers

continue further north and east as

well. There is still a Met Office

amber be prepared warning for part

of north-east Scotland, down into

north-east England. Also a warning

in force for South Northern Ireland.

It is the south-western corner where

we will have the most disruptive

weather overnight. Widely and amber

warning, parts of East Devon,

Somerset and into East Wales,

covered by the red warning. A lot of

snow piling up. Sunspots seek 15-20

centimetres, maybe 40-50 over high

ground here. Some of the snow

spreading into parts of Northern

Ireland. As we go through the night,

we keep snow showers in northern and

eastern Scotland, the far north-east

of England. These areas,

particularly at risk of disruption

overnight. Across the far

south-west, it may be that the snow

turns back to rain in places. If

that happens, the rain is likely to

fall on very cold surfaces, and that

brings a significant ice risk to

take us into tomorrow morning.

Travel disruption is very likely

indeed. A dry spell, perhaps, for

the south-west and Wales through the

first part of tomorrow. Then it

looks like snow will return from the

South, heavy snow at that. Could be

snow in other southern areas as

well. A lot to play for without one.

Uncertainty in the forecast, no

showers into eastern areas, largely

fine weather with Sunshine in

between. When we consider the

strength of the wind, this is what

it will feel like through tomorrow

afternoon, subzero in many areas.

But a slight change in the feel of

the weather through the next few

days. It does look like we will

bring something slightly, slightly

less cold up from the south,

particularly into southern areas.

What we can say for the weekend is

that for many it will remain cold.

But less cold awards the South, and

there is still the risk of some

snow.

This is beyond 100 days. I'm Katty

Kay in Washington. Christian Fraser

is in London.

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From Syria to cyber war to the

American presidency to energy

supply, if you think the Russian

presidential election doesn't have

an impact on our lives, think again.

In a race where at least one

contender, the opposition leader,

has been barred from participating,

why would anyone risk all to

challenge Vladimir Putin?

Gabriel

gatehouse from the BBC's news that

programme followed one candidate, a

former Russian socialite turned up

opposition candidate in a country

where nothing is as it seems.

Russian democracy is a strange

and sometimes dangerous beast.

It's a fake election.

I'm always telling that.

So I'm taking part in the election

not to win, I have no

illusions about that.

I'm taking part to be heard.

Her father, one of the

founders of Russia's new

democracy, became Mayor

of Saint Petersburg.

He would later die in uncertain

circumstances while his former

deputy, a once unknown KGB officer

would become the most powerful man

in Russia.

The coming today is still a place of

uncertainty. Of rival factions.

--The Kremlin today is still a place

of rival factions to

threaten their power

is to take a terrible risk.

The passengers on the trolley bus

know all about her family ties. And

I paid a visit to her campaign

headquarters to meet one of her top

advisers, a woman well versed in the

darker parts of Russian politics.

She should be, she used to work for

printing himself. Two for Vladimir

Putin himself.

Just to be clear, this is to say

Sobchak a's own adviser sangria

playing the Kremlin's game. Hundred

miles south of Moscow, Ksenia

Sobchak is on the campaign trail.

The biggest problem in Russia is not

freedom of speech. Unfortunately,

for many people, it is poverty.

How

do you feel like people reacted to

you coming as you do from quite a

privileged background?

You know, I

don't try to be like I am one of you

because, well, it is not true. If I

wear red lipstick in my everyday

time, why should I go without makeup

to them? It is not true. I am not a

populist. So, yes, I come in a good

car and in good close, but I owned

this money. I didn't steal that.

I've spoken to a senior Russian

official and I can quote them by

name. I said what is the point of

having an election when everyone

acknowledges that only one person

can win? They said, look, this is a

Western invention that you have. We

don't have a classical democracy in

Russia. We have what they called a

developing democracy. The truth is,

Russian democracy has stopped

development. It is frozen, paralysed

by two certain facts. Just as surely

as Vladimir Putin will win the next

election, he will also not be around

forever. I'm pleased to see the

Gabriel gatehouse who's reporting

there is with me in the studio. I

have seen the long version of this,

which will go out on the weekend.

Some great stuff in it. One thing

that really struck me is that when

she went to see Vladimir Putin, he

obviously was a little bit shocked

that he was going to stay tonight

that she was going to stand against

him, but they saw her as a bit of a

Barbie figure, a doll, and the

criminal menacing look at which you

created, a Frankenstein figure.

The

thing is the Kremlin, as we went to

college, is not a monolith. There

are also two different groups there

and they're all trying out various

different things. Some of these

people are saying let's give this

person a go and see what happens.

Now look what happened. She goes on

state TV, she talks about crime me a

nice being Russian. This is illegal

in Russia. Some people in the

Kremlin are carrying -- talks about

how Crimea doesn't belong to Russia.

She's making a film about her

father, this figure who died, this

mentor to Vladimir Putin, and as

part of this film, she wanted to see

Vladimir Putin. She went to

interview him and at the end, she

told me, she didn't ask for

permission to run, she told him that

she was going to run and she then

said he was silent for a moment and

then he said, well, it's her

decision and it is your risk. I

said, what did you think he meant by

that? She kind of laughed and said I

don't think anything good. I would

suspect that he would hardly know

that she was planning to run because

they opened all the doors to heart.

Gabriel, I spoke to her a couple of

weeks ago when she was in New York

and she did say that she had got

quite a lot of harassment during the

course of this campaign. She was

pushing back against the idea that

she was just a puppet candidate. Has

she become more of a root candidate

than they perhaps expected?

I think

she is saying things that they

perhaps didn't expect her to say. I

mean, she acknowledges that this is

a big election campaign. She is only

running to be heard, to make

yourself heard, and DC is doing

that. She is saying things that are

basically taboo on Russian state

television. Her candidacy gives her

access to state TV, so she is naming

it, very senior people, in Putin's

circle. Ruttenberg, contango. People

who are on American sanctions list.

She's asking where people got their

money from. She sang the Putin

created a system that has allowed

these people to take money out of

the state. I said to her, are you

saying vulgar put-in is corrupt? She

just got back slightly from that

because there is some red line

tonight is she saying that Vladimir

Putin is corrupt?

You're saying that

he is a tree were for much

everything hands. Geez cannot hang

forever. What is going on in the

Kremlin for the next six years?

What

happened in six years' time? He will

have done for my kids. They believe,

and at the Vladimir Putin believes

that if he is taken out of the

equation, there will be a state

collapse and that is the big thing

that he fears and all of these

actions in the Kremlin. They have to

figure something out, either a way

of keeping him in power were getting

some kind of credible replacement.

That is kind of what this process is

all about.

Fascinating watches on

the weekend. Our world. Just wanted

to you about some reaction we're

getting into Europe from Jean-Claude

Junker, the European president that

Steele story we were telling you

about in the first half. Of course,

tariffs likely to be imposed on --

likely to be imposed on steel and

aluminium imported into the United

States. Took a Jean-Claude Junker

said they will react firmly to

defend their interests. The

commission will bring forward a

proposal for countermeasures against

the United States to rebalance the

situation was was saying earlier,

the EU said it would go to the WTA.

It is not just the EU, we had

reaction from Germany directly. We

had reaction from Canada, as well.

Of course, as we said earlier, the

Dow Jones Bolling on this news.

They're going to be repercussions

and people will not like this.

Let's

talk about elections because the

Europeans were well aware that the

junta Brexit Gilby published

yesterday would be unacceptable to

the British Prime Minister. Red

buses is piling on the pressure to

keep...

So far, Theresa May has

shown no sign that she is ready for

turning. Today, she met with Donald

Tusk to spell out some of the detail

that will be in her speech tomorrow.

The scope of her plan is greatly

anticipated in the final act in a

week in which both sides have dug

in.

Labour would seek to negotiate a

new, comprehensive, UK- uke customs

union to ensure there are no tariffs

with Europe and to help avoid any

need whatsoever for a harder border

in Northern Ireland.

A customs union

would remove the bulk of incentives

for other countries to enter into

comprehensive free-trade agreements

with the UK.

We as a country are at

a crossroad in our history. We face

a choice. It choice that represents

the difference between a prosperous,

pure nation, that is united at home

and stronger abroad and a poor

country divided at home and a weaker

player on the global stage.

Nobody

can truly know what the will of the

people may then be. So let

Parliament decide or put the issue

back to the people.

We've been

watching all the twists and turns

this week, as has Tony Connelly, he

is a correspondent... I was saying

yesterday that if this was an 800

metre race, D Bell has just gone and

there is lots of fighting going

around the first corner. Elbows out.

Some will fall by the wayside. He

really sent this week that something

is happening. -- you really sense of

this week.

This is quite a

reckoning, I think. It was always

going to come. We had something of a

phoney war over the past year and a

half since the referendum. There's

been a lots of the polite and

pragmatic dialogue between Dublin

and London over the Northern Irish

border issue, but once a political

agreement was reached rather

haphazardly, if you like, in

December, you remember, we spoke

about that back then, that deal was

going to have to be converted into a

legal form that in turn will be

embedded into the withdrawal Treaty,

the treaty that will effectively

guide Britain out of the European

Union. Once you convert stuff into

legal language, then, it looks a lot

more stark. It spells out phrases

that are obviously going to frighten

some people, phrases are in there

that are obviously... To the Bridges

government. The European Union and

the government will say that you

agree to this in December, so why

the big surprise?

Is it that you in

Brussels that Theresa May is pretty

boxed in when it comes to her

latitude for negotiating, whether

over the issue of the Irish border

or because of the domestic politics

in her own party?

I think the

European Union has been very aware

of a Theresa May's plate since last

June. Direct flights. The European

Union is made up of officials and

progress and heads of government.

They are aware of the politics of

the UK at the moment. The rancour,

that bitterness, the division. They

know very well she is boxed in and

doesn't have much room for

manoeuvre. At the same time, they

would take the clock is ticking. We

are in a legal process that has to

emerge into a treaty that is going

to be a binding, international,

legal document. We cannot fudge this

any longer. We have to convert this

into a legal text. That text is

going to be negotiated but I really

don't think the UK will be able to

depart radically from that

particular part of the text which

relates to a harder border, hard to

avoid a harder border in Ireland.

Yes, there is a clamour for detail

from the British side. We will watch

the speech with interest or

tomorrow. Good to see you. Thank

you. Wherever you look in Europe at

the moment, the established order is

under pressure. In the last 12

months, we have been to the

Netherlands, to France, Germany,

Austria, Sweden, has an obvious

questions, there are Populist

parties, some of them, hard right.

Challenging, maybe not winning, but

increasing their share of the vote.

This weekend, we turn to Italy and

deleting the polls there, populist

5-star movement that in past years

has called for a referendum on in

vitro.

Also riding high, a man many

thought were long gone from Italian

politics. Silvio does Ghani is

barred from becoming Prime Minister

because of a tax issue until 2019.

Live now to run where we can speak

to our correspondent from the

Institute of international affairs.

Thank you very much indeed for being

with us. I'm glad it is not snowing

there in Rome today. Tell us a

little bit about what is driving

this vote. Is it all down to

migration and security?

Yes indeed.

Migration and security have been the

leading topic of this electoral

campaign. Actually, this electoral

campaign is being characterised by a

mounting xenophobic and also

anti-migratory narrative among

Italian political parties from the

far right to the far left. This also

led to some into mandatory acts

against refugees and migrants in...

-- led to some intimidating acts.

This is also impacted on the general

public debate. Let's say that

migration is increasingly connected

to security and is becoming the key

issue now in Italy.

You're going to

get a visitor because Steve Bannon,

of course, Donald Trump 's former

aide is on his way there and has

expressed support for the right

groups. The league in particular.

Leaders of those groups have made a

public appearance today, a slave

unity. Are they unified, these

various groups on the right? --

eight unity.

The centre-right

coalition has put together a comment

programme added this programme is

very much led by the ideas of the

leading party of the coalition. If

you read the programme of the

centre-right, you will not find the

extreme positions which had been

taken recently by the two extremist

parties in the centre-right

coalitions. For example, you can

hear from them strong stances

against migration, against the

European Union, against the

permanence of a delete within the

euro area, but she will not find

anything of these in the common

problem. They now the question is if

the centre-right coalition will get

the majority of the votes and will

be called to form a government which

will be the common framework of this

free -- three parties.

We will be

watching the selection on the BBC.

Thank you for joining us from Rome.

This is beyond 100 games. So too, on

the programme, which was the

question that angered the then

candidate chop so much he had this

journalist burn-outs? -- thrown out?

We will ask if life is alleging

under this presidency has changed.

A

little more on the heavy snow that

has continued to fall across the UK.

In Scotland, drivers have been left

stranded on roads, while people are

still waiting for flights out of

Glasgow. The airport was closed

again today. One Gordon reports.

Scotland's Road to nowhere. Hundreds

of drivers stuck in miles of the

stationary traffic and what is

usually one of the country's busiest

roads.

I left about eight o'clock

and I have been here since.

That is

a good 17 hours, maybe.

We moved

about 100 metres of the time.

Last

night, some boys came out with

biscuits and crisps and this morning

it was all the school kids that came

out so we are getting looked after.

The worst of circumstances bringing

out the best in people. Volunteers

bringing out food and water to those

stranded in their cars. This storm

was forecast well ahead of time but

despite the warnings, people didn't

still venture out. Now, after

waiting nearly 18 hours on this

stretch of motorway, it looks as if

finally, the traffic might just be

about to start moving again. Police

officers clearing the way I had, one

by one.

People have been coming up

and down the northbound carriageway

because of the vehicles stuck most

of the night.

Hard work. I see the

guy sticking out.

Very much so.

For

much of the time and changing areas

have been stuck and flights were

cancelled out of Edinburgh and

Glasgow, once again. There was fun

for some, but for the blizzards,

freezing temperatures and drifting

snow, there are serious concerns for

those out in these conditions, even

as those who could heeded the

warnings to stay at home.

You're watching beyond 100 days. He

garnered international attention

after being thrown out of a 2015

Trump campaign event. For asking the

then candidate a question without a

being called on. Now the long-time

journalist is out with a new book.

The book is called a stranger and it

looks at what it means to be an

immigrant in today's reedited. Mr

Ramos came from Mexico to the United

States in 1983. His decades of

reporting has become a powerful

voice. He joins us now. They did for

joining us. How has life for you

changed under President? Is it that

life has changed, day-to-day life,

or attitudes and what it feels like

to be American is just?

Everything

has changed, not only for me

personally, but when the president

of the United States tells you to go

back to division and he means to go

to your country and when somebody

tells me to go back to my country,

IMO uses citizen. The number of hate

groups has increased. The number of

arrests and Ingrid has increased 30%

in comparison to the last presidency

of Barack Obama. He has helped

some...

A third of Hispanics voted

for President Trump will stop it was

a surprisingly high number given

what he had said about building a

wall with Mexico. Do you think the

president still has that degree of

support among the Hispanic

community? Has that changed?

I don't

think so, but I think he got about

30% of the Hispanic vote in part

because the Democrats didn't keep

their word. President Obama had

promised to introduce immigration

reform in his first year and did not

do that. As it is Obama supported

two and half million undocumented

immigrants. For many Latinos, they

decided to stay home. Only 13

million voted out of 27 possible

POTUS.

President Obama deported more

than any president. Would he think

the Republican Party is on disk was

like he did a different attitude of

the president?

I think the

Republicans are committing political

suicide at this point. There are 60

million Latinos. In less than 30

years, we will have 100 million

Latinos in this country. Without

Latinos, it would be impossible for

anyone to be elected to the White

House, to be governor, or to be part

of the House of Representatives and

the Senate. Republicans are in a

very difficult situation because if

they don't realise and correct, they

will lose election after election

after election.

You call the book

stranger and it is clearly had a

profound impact of your experience

of being in the United States and

that of many immigrants. Donald

Trump will be in office for four

years are potentially eaters. Is

this a permanent shift in the

country or will it be reversed

again? Will America become once

again the country that opens its

arms to immigrant?

This is not

normal. To have a president who

makes a racist remarks, it is not

normal. What will happen with Great

Britain if you're a minister with a

racist remarks? I don't think this

is going to last. These are the

numbers. In 2044, everyone is going

to be a minority in this country. We

will be the US, minority, majority

country. That is the major trend.

Trump is a tiny bit of politics

nowadays.

I don't think he would

like to hear that.

What is

interesting is just watching from

over here, talking about the

Parkland shooting, a lot of the

children who came on, some of them

were from Hispanic backgrounds, you.

They seem to have a very different

attitude to the older generation he

said, look, to quiet and don't make

waves. That is the best way to get

one. These children don't. They take

the politicians on.

Absolutely

right. But we're seeing right now is

the survivors of the school shooting

in Florida and the dreamers,

phrases, they have different

attitudes. The parents of the dream

decided to be silent, to be

invisible. The dreamers are doing

something different in the survivors

also. The ovarian people involved,

bold, brave. Doing something apart

and for gun control and immigration.

Thank you very much.

Researchers

have discovered the oldest

figurative tattoos in the world. In

two 5000 of mummies from Egypt. The

illustrations are of a wild bull and

a seat on the upper arm of a male

money and as shaped motifs on the

upper arms and shoulders of the

female. The discovery pushes back

evidence for the practise in Africa

by a thousand years. Do you have a

tattoo?

I do not have a tattoo. Do

you have a tattoo?

No, just my

eyebrows. No, I'm joking. No, I

don't.

I know you love your ties,

that's why I was asking, if you

wanted another adornment, but I

think you have rather... Should I

say conservative views on tattoos?

He did tell me you would be very

upset if your daughter got a tattoo.

She has fake ones, right?

Exactly.

It's only me that isn't tattooed as

far as I can see when I go to the

beach.

My daughter has a tattoo.

She's now 22 years old. Clementine

is ten. Isaac is to be 22, you can't

control her any more. There is my

daughter's tattoo. Very cool. That

is Galileo's depiction of the moon

around Jupiter. It was the first

evidence, apparently that the earth

is not the centre of the universe. I

said this in the programme before.

My is about to do a PhD in

astrophysics so it was fitting. I

have to say, I am very cool with

that. I am a cool mum.

Yeah, I like

it. That is cerebral. Can there be

plagiarism when it comes to tattoos?

I can get that. Apparently her

tattoo has to say something about

you, so I was about to have a

hundred days, but then it would than

a hundred days plus in that 100 days

beyond across my neck and then an

extra zero on when we get it beyond

a thousand days. That is why I don't

want to tattoo.

Do you really have

nothing important to can have a

tattoo about? Is that it?

Yeah.

You

are one sad person if you would have

a hundred is tattooed on your

shoulder.