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The biggest industrial headache in this country for many years.

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With no time to waste, an enormous decision to be taken

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I do not think that nationalisation is the solution because everybody

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would want a long-term viable solution. I am shocked, the Business

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Secretary's job is to ensure that jobs are maintained.

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And if not, is there life after steel?

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And ever since it has gone, it is like a ghost city.

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Thank God he has really large ears, the biggest ears I have ever seen.

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I would like to punch him in the face, I tell you.

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He has no shortage of insults for people

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But does Donald Trump have a problem with women?

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Is this the future of preserving ancient architecture?

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Britain has not been keen on industrial intervention -

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"It's throwing good money after bad," it's said.

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But that laid-back, laissez-faire approach

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is meeting its stiffest challenge ever.

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Are we really willing to do nothing and watch our steel

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Remember, when Britain let Rover go under, we already had a new car

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industry in place - but that's not where

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Needless to say, arguments for some kind of help are swirling around.

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We need a steel industry for defence.

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We shouldn't let others steal the market from us by

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And some say it's a temporary problem, not a permanent one -

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We will test some of these points later on, but the dilemma is stark -

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Let's start with our policy editor, Chris Cook.

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Today's bad news may be all about Port Talbot in south

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Wales, but you have to look further afield to see

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Tata Steel itself is based in Mumbai in India,

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and that is where the decision was made.

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But the country with the biggest impact on the global steel industry

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is China, and any attempts by the UK Government to support British Steel

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would be subject to review by the European

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Now, steel is an essential material for modern

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Behind me here is part of the giant Crossrail works.

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This is built using Tata steel, in this

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The problem isn't with demand so much, it is really with supply.

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China, once upon a time, imported steel. The same time it was building

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a domestic industry. Between 2012 and 2015, supplied meets demand and

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the price for steel products in China more than halved. There is new

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Chinese producers and they started to export. Chinese sales abroad

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rising as domestic prices fell so in a few short years, China swinging

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from a voracious customer to fierce competitor. This is not like the

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problems facing banks in 2000 and eight, when you are on the verge of

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having no big banks at all. Too many steelmakers in the world. Some argue

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we should save our own steelmakers. We should not be looking for charity

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or sentimental reasons for keeping this but there are clearly some

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benefits, not for every company, but with proximity, integration to the

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supply chain and if the car manufacturing base in the north-east

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was integrated to the metals manufacturing in the West Midlands,

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they can create real advantages over steel producers in China which

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cannot react to market demands and going forwards into flexible forms

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of production, having a base in the UK could be an advantage going

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forwards, if we can keep advisable in the short-term. There are also

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human costs to mass unemployment. You can see the trauma in many

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former mining times and bad experience suggest you cannot

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underestimate the potential fiscal costs either. Andrew, a left-wing

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economist, estimates it would have been cheaper to pay the costs of

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keeping 31 minds open in the 1990s and paying the bill for the miners

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but Britain would not be allowed to prop up Port Talbot. It is a

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founding principle of the EU that states should not be allowed to tilt

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the playing field in favour of the own companies by putting up or years

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to foreign companies or by offering subsidies. That last real, the state

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aid rules, could get in the way of helping a company like Tata Steel in

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Britain. There are limited exceptions to this rule is on

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subsidies. One relates to so-called rescue aid. It is permissible in

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tightly defined circumstances and has to be with a view to restoring

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the business to its long-term health and it is considered very much a

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temporary measure. Since the European Commission estimates Europe

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has 15% too much steel-making capacity, selling the rescue would

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be tough but the EU might be handy cover for Britain. The government is

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not keen to end up with a loss-making business on the balance

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sheet. I do not think that nationalisation is the solution

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because everyone would want a long-term, viable solution and if

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you look at Europe and elsewhere, nationalisation is rarely the

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answer, if you take into account the challenges the industry faces but

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there are solutions to this once we understand the situation better and

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we want to make sure we explored them. What might the ministers do?

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Britain is against raising Europe-wide tariffs on Chinese

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steel, noting the pain it would cause to steel buyers. Labour has

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supported intervention and measures against Chinese steel. I went to

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meet the President of China to press on him but very demand. It seems to

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me that too many people are not prepared to say to the Chinese

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government, sorry, your behaviour is not right, not fair and not proper

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and not within the rules of the World Trade Organisation. If they

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are to avoid closing this chapter in steel-making history, what options

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have ministers got? They could cut energy costs or they could buy more

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British Steel or they could help finance a sale. But that needs

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someone to take the plant on. The killer question is- who might not be

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and what might they save? Chris Cook.

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You can read the history of the European steel industry over

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the last 50 years, and it comes across as one manifest crisis

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after another - a recession each decade, excess supply,

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attempts by Europe to manage things, thwarted by the desire of each

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country to keep its own plants open at any cost.

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It makes this a peculiarly difficult industry to manage.

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Sir Vince Cable is with us, Lib Dem and former Business Secretary

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If you were still in that job, what would you be doing tomorrow? I think

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that government intervention is involved whether we like it or not

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and were already intervening by providing compensation because of

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high energy costs and state aid clearance we have for that. The

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argument is we could be doing more of that. What we would have to do

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tomorrow is trying to bridge the very short-term objective which Tata

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Steel have said for getting out of the industry and the longer period

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which would be required to manage this sale in an orderly way without

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catastrophic consequences and the other area we have to look at

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closely is the issue of International Trade, I am not

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protectionist but under national -- International Trade la, if you get

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dumping in foreign markets at domestic prices, with the Chinese

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have allegedly been doing, then the EU is entitled are entitled to

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impose duties as it has done at relatively low levels. The British

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government voted against the higher tariff regime they could have gone

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for. Those are the issues. You use the word sale and were using the

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same word, up for sale, British Steel, but it is not up for sale,

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they would give it away. They would sell for ?1. They would pay someone

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to take it. There are not many buyers around on the issue of

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Scunthorpe came up, we had one man who is -- who expressed interest in

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asset stripping but there has been what seems to be a qualified seal to

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a buyer in Scotland, the Scottish government intervened and then

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nationalised this form a few seconds to allow that deal to take place so

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yes, it is a difficult environment. On nationalisation, would you

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support, you are not in favour of long-term nationalisation would you

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support short-term nationalisation if it meant the Exchequer would pay

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?1 million every week to keep this alive? I would approach this in a

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non-travelling, public ownership has a role in committed circumstances,

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but if it would help, I didn't think this is a question of throwing large

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amounts of taxpayer money at this, a rapid does orderly closure would

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impose large costs. Not just on the human cost, on the community, but a

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large fiscal cost as well. Clearly, the government must look at value

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for money, but as one of the requirements of the European Union

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rules. If there was value for money in a temporary period of public

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intervention, then we should do it. This does not get publicity in the

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coalition we had this problem at the last underground coal mines and

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there was a temporary finance provided. We will pick up on those

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strategic questions. Well, is there economic

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life after steel? In effect we find ourselves

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asking an old question - how as a country do we respond

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to the changing balance London is bursting with new jobs

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but doesn't have the housing to accommodate everyone,

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so it's no good expecting all of Britain to move

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there to find work. But can you move new

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jobs to South Wales? Do you pay jobs to go there,

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and if you do, is it better to simply pay an existing steel

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company to stay there? We sent Secunder Kermani not

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to Port Talbot today, but to Ebbw Vale, where the steel

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mill, once the largest in Europe, Ebbw Vale in south Wales

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was built on steel. At its peak, the works

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here provided around 15,000 But amidst many of the same market

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pressures still in place Like in Port Talbot,

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around an hour's drive away from here, steel

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was in the heart of the community But if you look at the site

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with the steelworks used to be, there is almost no sign

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of it left any more. If you want to know what happens

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when heavy industry leaves town, With the steelworks,

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I can go back a lot of years, and when you left school at 15,

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you got an apprenticeship, You could go from one job,

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you could leave a job on Friday and get a job on Monday,

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and ever since it's gone There is nothing to

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do in this valley at Both grandfathers were in the steel,

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in the mines, like. Yes, because there

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was a lot more jobs There was hundreds

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and hundreds of jobs. It was a lot easier in the '70s,

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'80s, '90s than what it is now. Many of those who lost

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their jobs either retired, became

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self-employed or left town. I moved to Swindon, been

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in Swindon for 14 years. Every family would have had someone

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that worked at the works, and if you look at the signage

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around, even today, The union rep at the time

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the steelworks closed is Dai Davies. He says workers were let down

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by government after government. They've all neglected

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the valley communities. I've said many times that the valley

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communities built the world, so iron, steel and coal production,

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we built the world, and yet we are now left with basically empty

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valleys, empty shells The local council bought

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the site of the steelworks. One of its rolling machines,

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too heavy to move, still They build a hospital,

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leisure centre in schools Part of a regeneration,

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an attempt to lead people Richard Crook has led

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the project, and sees better education as the best

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replacement for the lost jobs. We certainly took the opportunity

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that because the works were closing, Had the works not closed,

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then potentially we may have continued on in that same

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process, which at some point in the future would have led

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to us to have to make the same decision, so yes, it is easy

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to become wedded to what is there, and it is understandable,

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because it is providing good quality employment

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and spreading the growth into the supply chain,

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so why change? Sometimes you need that jolt

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to force the change, and to move on into a 21st-century

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economy, and that is No, but you have to take

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it as an opportunity, because if it has

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happened, what do you do? But many have greeted

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the new developments with cynicism. They say there is no

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compensation for the This is the archive section

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I set up on leaving He began documenting the changes

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to the town with a video camera, bought with

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his redundancy money. It is not bringing jobs

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to Ebbw Vale, and that is the one It is a nice town now,

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clean town, nice But as far as the people

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are concerned, it's not, because in the 60s and 70s,

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everybody had work, despite the fact that they were living

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in perhaps poor conditions, There are still factories here,

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and TVR is due to set But many lament the demise of steel,

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and warn Port Talbot will, too. Well, joining me now to discuss

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whether steel has a future and whether government should be

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intervening in markets like this at all are Professor

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Mariana Mazzucato, author of The Entrepreneurial State

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and Professor at Sussex University, Allister Heath, Deputy Editor

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of the Daily Telegraph, and Sir Vince Cable

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is still with us. Do you find this case, when you look

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at what happened in Ebbw Vale, it is a challenge to the view that the

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Government should let industry work itself out? I find all cases with

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big job losses and huge impact on community is very difficult, but

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nevertheless the future of this country is to embrace globalisation,

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free trade, new industries that are viable in the modern economy, and I

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think we have done really well overall as a country. There are

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problems in certain areas, old coal mining and steel mining areas, but

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overall as a country we have embraced these new service

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industries and high-tech manufacturing. No one is going to

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say Britain doesn't have jobs, not always the best paid, but we have

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jobs. But what you do with the valleys in your point of view? Due

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basically say to people, the jobs are not there, you have to move? Or

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do you bribe other companies to move jobs there? How do you connect the

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new economy, a lot of which is in hubs around London and the

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south-east, and the bits that haven't got these? That is the great

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challenge in how you in Jenny this great challenge. There is a set of

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answers, you need to create enterprise zones, give fiscal

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incentives, zero copies in tax, no national insurance in those areas,

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so a set of policies like that to try to change those areas, but I

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think resisting change, saying we are going to stick with 20th century

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industries, 19th century industries, that is not the solution. These

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industries have declined for 20 or 30 years, and this is just the

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acceleration of a long-running process. The other two of you I

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think are more interventionist, I think. You believe Government has a

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bigger role, what you say to him? There is a static dichotomy that has

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been depicted, either nationalisation or being laid-back,

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the term embracing industry. The term embracing industry comes from a

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co-investment between public and private sectors, and some of the

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great champions in this country, Rolls-Royce, jaguar, other sectors,

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have been fruits of those kind of public interventions which are not

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just about subsidies, incentives through different types of tax cuts,

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but again, investment. And so I really think that this is a

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question, and if you look at the US or Belgium, what they have actually

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done is to transform and modernise the steel industry, to recover, the

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purpose, reuse, suggested the US, that is worth $8 billion. One of

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your industrial policies, you have said on this programme many times

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that industry needs patient finance, financiers who are not here today,

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gone tomorrow. Steele has had patient finance, Tata is the epitome

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of a good, well-run company that gives its divisions time to sort

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themselves out, but it given up. But we shouldn't just be part of another

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country's industrial policy which isn't necessarily went to the UK

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steel industry, and as changes occur to commodity prices, we just go with

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the wind. One of the questions is, what kind of deals also can be

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struck with these foreign sources of patient finance, and you are right

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to look at them as a source of patient finance. When Fiat went to

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the US and joined with Chrysler, Obama insisted that they look at

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hybrid engines. In the same in Italy, you don't strike if you want

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to biotic deals with the private sector, because if you want

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incentive to be business friendly, this terrible word that we keep

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repeating, because business itself doesn't then effect from

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friendliness, it benefits from having a strategic innovation

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policy, and we need better deals. A lot of the stuff that Alastair was

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talking about is going to have to happen anyway, because even in the

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best case scenario, there will be a lot of redundancies, so that kind of

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sport -- support is whether some intervention is required to hold it

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from complete collapse. This isn't just standardised products, we

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talking high-value products, high-value technology, and Tata

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believed passionately until recently in Port Tolbert, they invested in a

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new blast furnace, so I think what we have to distinguish is the

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long-term competitiveness issues which are tricky but can be

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overcome, and this global glut problem. And the question to ask, is

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the global glut problem temporary, as we deal with the Chinese import

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issue, or is it a permanent or semipermanent problem, in which case

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there isn't a great deal we can do except of vast cost.

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But your view is the global glut is temporary? It to do with the Chinese

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adjustment to a more balanced economy. They are producing 800

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million tonnes, we are producing 12 million tonnes, we are barely a

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decimal point on the production, they only have to move a little bit

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and we are blown over. You think there is a viable portion? I can't

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predict the future, none of us can. But there is also the question of

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the unstable policies that both the last government and this government

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having committed around energy, this stop and start, so given that energy

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costs are a big fact for steel, they need certainty, not just the

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investors... If we had a fair energy price and a level playing field, do

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you think there would still be overcapacity in the world steel

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market, and should Britain be trying to keep it a bit in the market? When

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you are using the word steel, you're taking a snapshot, this static thing

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called steel. In any sector, we can modernise, we can have innovation

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policy which transforms the steel industry, and instead, ironically,

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it is precisely because we have had these laissez faire policies that we

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have a decaying sector. There is massive overcapacity in the global

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steel industry, but these are long-term problems. 320,000 people

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were avoiding the steel in 1970, now there are 30,000, so a 90%

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reduction. The answer is not to hark back to those days. You are agreeing

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with Marianna there. And looking at Jaguar Land Rover, they depend on

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buying cheaper steel, so we need to make the overall economy as

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competitive as possible in the global market, not saddling

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ourselves with overpriced steel and expensive energy. Other industries

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benefit from dumped Chinese steel. Yes, they have bought in in these

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companies. So more than half of the market is imported. Would you

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happily see those companies lose jobs or pay more for their steel?

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There is always creative destruction, so would we have

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tariffs? Would you have tariffs? It is not about do you want them or

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not. I think we should have free trade, that should be the solution.

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Which try to police trade and make sure that people don't abuse the

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system, but by and large we should enter free trade. I actually don't

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think we're getting to the core of the problem. I would like to hear

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Tata talk about this, when they close down some recent project in

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the UK, what they said was there was no vision in this country, in that

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particular case were green. I would bet that Mr Tata would not be

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closing down the plant here if he thought it was a hub of new thinking

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around steel, exactly in how you are talking about it, which is not just

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steel as a static sector but transformative and affecting the way

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other sectors operate. We don't have any industrial innovation. I want to

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ask you one more question, Vince. Do you recognise a case for keeping

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steel as a strategic industry in the case that a country the size of ours

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needs steel to build the defence and other purposes? The key strategic

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industries these days are electronic scum IT and so on, steel because we

:24:36.:24:45.

need dreadnoughts and so on, but I don't think we should be cavalier

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about accepting that we are the first major country not to make

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basic steel, I would worry about that. Thank you all very much, and

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I'm sorry we didn't have a member of the government here to make their

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point, they didn't offer anybody to us this evening. Let's move onto

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Donald Trump. He may describe himself as winning,

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but he's not a winner Almost half of Republican women say

:25:07.:25:09.

they could not imagine themselves supporting Mr Trump

:25:10.:25:13.

in a presidential election. Last week, or was it the week

:25:14.:25:15.

before, he was abusing His campaign manager has been

:25:16.:25:17.

charged with battery for grabbing And today he made some comments

:25:18.:25:22.

about abortion that have been Do you believe in

:25:23.:25:26.

punishment for abortion? The answer is that there has to be

:25:27.:25:30.

some form of punishment. As it happens, that line was dragged

:25:31.:25:35.

out of him by the interviewer - he had seemed reluctant to go

:25:36.:25:46.

that far, and he has Let's take stock of his appeal -

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or lack thereof - to women voters. I'm joined by Molly Ball,

:25:50.:25:54.

who is covering the US Presidential Something of a muddle in his line on

:25:55.:26:09.

abortion tonight. How do you think he will play it? Donald Trump has

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been all over the map on abortion and a lot of different issues, he

:26:15.:26:19.

tends to do this, taking contradictory stands, sometimes even

:26:20.:26:22.

in the same breath, and I think this allows people who like in to see

:26:23.:26:27.

whatever they want to see in him. In this case, after making the

:26:28.:26:29.

statement you just played on the tape, he then issued a statement

:26:30.:26:34.

later saying the exact opposite, that in the case, the hypothetical

:26:35.:26:38.

case that abortion were to be Bandini knighted States, it ought to

:26:39.:26:41.

be the people performing the abortions who would be prosecuted

:26:42.:26:45.

for that illegal act, not the women, who he described as the victims in

:26:46.:26:48.

this scenario along with the life in the womb. Donald Trump has a history

:26:49.:26:54.

of being pro-choice, meaning in favour of abortion rights, and he

:26:55.:26:59.

has claimed that he had an epiphany sometime between then and when he

:27:00.:27:03.

decided to run as Republican candidate for president, you really

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can't be a Republican candidate and be in favour of abortion rights, but

:27:07.:27:11.

he says he has the same position as Ronald Reagan, which is pro-life

:27:12.:27:14.

with exceptions, he would make exceptions to allow abortions in

:27:15.:27:17.

cases of rape and incest and when the life of the mother is in danger.

:27:18.:27:22.

I'm assuming his views on abortion are not really what is driving these

:27:23.:27:26.

rather poor polling ratings for him, because Republican women are keener

:27:27.:27:37.

on Cruz that they are on Trump. What are women not liking? You mention

:27:38.:27:43.

some of his greatest hits in terms of insulting women, but there is a

:27:44.:27:47.

litany of statements. He has been feuding with the Fox News anchor

:27:48.:27:50.

Megan Kelly, one of the stars of Conservative media, since the very

:27:51.:27:55.

first debate back in August, when she asked him about his offensive

:27:56.:28:02.

remarks about women. -- Megyn Kelly. He then went on television after

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that debate and insulted her, and they have continued to feud in the

:28:07.:28:10.

ensuing months. He frequently describes women in terms of their

:28:11.:28:13.

appearance and derides the based on their appearance. I think a lot of

:28:14.:28:18.

women feel that that is not just insulting to those individual women,

:28:19.:28:21.

but to women as a whole, that he sees them as objects, and he doesn't

:28:22.:28:27.

take them seriously as people. So you mentioned that half of

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Republican women don't like him, but it is about three quarters of women

:28:32.:28:36.

in the general electorate, and in presidential elections, women vote

:28:37.:28:39.

at higher rates than men do, they are the majority of the electorate.

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But he really doesn't seem to try, that is amazing. He carries on, he

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has this form, this history, you think you might have looked at the

:28:49.:28:50.

ratings and come up with something nice to say to women, but he doesn't

:28:51.:28:55.

try. What is going on in his head? Is he just too sure of himself? Or

:28:56.:29:01.

does he think, I keep winning by breaking rules, so I will keep

:29:02.:29:04.

breaking the rules in the hope that this will pay dividends later. Fabio

:29:05.:29:08.

Petroni to try to psychoanalyse Donald Trump, I do think anyone

:29:09.:29:12.

knows what is going on inside his brain. -- far be it from me. But he

:29:13.:29:20.

has this willingness to say what other people won't say, he is not

:29:21.:29:24.

bound by political correctness, and a lot of people, particularly men,

:29:25.:29:28.

feel emasculated by feminism and by the increasing equality of women,

:29:29.:29:34.

and feel that in this day and age, you can't even tell a woman that she

:29:35.:29:37.

looks pretty without having people all over you, so it is a sort of

:29:38.:29:42.

white male identity politics that Donald Trump is speaking to, but as

:29:43.:29:46.

you mention, he hasn't made any effort to broaden his appeal or

:29:47.:29:50.

build bridges to people who are not in that segment. You have 12 seconds

:29:51.:29:55.

to answer the question, will women vote Hillary Clinton? Does she grab

:29:56.:29:59.

women? Are they all right laying around behind her? That is a big

:30:00.:30:07.

question, but she has not managed to rally women to herself in the

:30:08.:30:13.

Democratic primary. In 2008, she ran as a sexless candidate, but she has

:30:14.:30:17.

run more aggressively this time, wanting to be the first woman

:30:18.:30:21.

president, and in her primary against Bernie Sanders, young women

:30:22.:30:24.

have not flocked to have as a result. Molly, thank you very much

:30:25.:30:26.

indeed. The President of Afghanistan,

:30:27.:30:52.

Ahshraf Ghani, has been in office for 18 months now, never attracting

:30:53.:30:55.

quite as much attention in the West It may be good news that the world

:30:56.:30:58.

is paying less attention to Afghanistan, but there

:30:59.:31:02.

is a continued outflow of the country's citizens keen

:31:03.:31:04.

to escape to richer nations. A quarter of the Mediterranean Sea

:31:05.:31:06.

arrivals so far this year have been The BBC's Yalda Hakim managed to get

:31:07.:31:09.

an interview with Ashraf Ghani about the migrant problem,

:31:10.:31:13.

and began by asking him why there has been an exodus

:31:14.:31:16.

of people from his country. This is one of the most

:31:17.:31:18.

connected societies on earth. Because it became

:31:19.:31:20.

a country of refugees. In Europe, in the United States,

:31:21.:31:22.

in North America, Australia. We have at least a million

:31:23.:31:25.

people who have settled. They have a million ties that bind

:31:26.:31:27.

them with others so they pull. We're very proud of our Afghans,

:31:28.:31:30.

they are now hyphenated Afghans. Particularly the social model

:31:31.:31:34.

in Europe, the social welfare model, the welfare state, has

:31:35.:31:39.

done well by Afghans. In Germany, for instance,

:31:40.:31:43.

they have done extraordinary things. The push factors are,

:31:44.:31:49.

a war has been imposed upon us. The departure of not just

:31:50.:31:53.

international troops but the contractors took away

:31:54.:31:58.

a million upper middle-class people This is a country where,

:31:59.:32:01.

for 15 years, a lot of blood and treasure has gone in to create

:32:02.:32:10.

a stable society. Sure, but it has also created one

:32:11.:32:13.

of the most corrupt sets The inheritance of that is 41%

:32:14.:32:17.

of people living below poverty. Yes, it is a country that has become

:32:18.:32:26.

the platform for a regional We are at war but we're

:32:27.:32:31.

not at civil war. The war between Afghans is a very

:32:32.:32:40.

small component of a regional Al-Qaeda, unfortunately,

:32:41.:32:43.

has gone deep and dark, Daesh is active here,

:32:44.:32:53.

as it has done atrocious things. When I warned about the fear

:32:54.:33:01.

of Daesh, it was not heeded, They said that this country

:33:02.:33:04.

would become a graveyard for Daesh. But we also have the greatest

:33:05.:33:11.

medium-term threat. Massive numbers of Pakistani Taliban

:33:12.:33:19.

are being transposed Why, then, are Europeans

:33:20.:33:22.

sending Afghans back, saying that they are economic

:33:23.:33:27.

migrants, that they only come to Europe because of

:33:28.:33:29.

poverty and not war? The social contract in Europe

:33:30.:33:33.

vis-a-vis refugees was articulated In a period of liberalism's heyday

:33:34.:33:44.

and welfare strength. That model, unfortunately,

:33:45.:33:51.

is being re-negotiated. But there are also people

:33:52.:33:55.

fleeing persecution. 11,000 people were

:33:56.:33:57.

killed in this country. Did you ask the people of the UK

:33:58.:34:00.

when Hitler was in the ascent Please understand, we have

:34:01.:34:09.

to make a commitment. 549 young men and women graduated

:34:10.:34:18.

from the military academy. They are making a commitment

:34:19.:34:24.

to defend this country. Others on whom we have spent

:34:25.:34:37.

hundreds of millions of dollars who want to leave under

:34:38.:34:39.

the slightest pressure. If you want to have a country,

:34:40.:34:41.

you need to have the will. It is not the slightest

:34:42.:34:47.

pressure, though. In the last year we have

:34:48.:34:49.

seen the worst violence. They are making that

:34:50.:34:51.

dangerous journey. They are impoverishing

:34:52.:35:00.

their families in order Because that journey was based

:35:01.:35:10.

on false assumptions. Do we stand up for our right

:35:11.:35:14.

to breathe and our right to live Countries do not survive

:35:15.:35:23.

by their best attempting to flee. My goal is to make sure

:35:24.:35:36.

that my people live If we don't stand up in the face

:35:37.:35:42.

of the threat, and the threats are very real, my life

:35:43.:35:52.

is threatened everyday. I go to different

:35:53.:35:56.

parts of Afghanistan. But you have the protection that

:35:57.:36:00.

other Afghans don't. You think when rockets

:36:01.:36:02.

are fired at you, you have When bombs are thrown at you,

:36:03.:36:04.

you have protection against it? If I had that sense,

:36:05.:36:08.

I would surround myself Genuine is always better

:36:09.:36:10.

than fake, but is fake better A topic discussed in many

:36:11.:36:30.

different areas of life, The technology of 3D printing drawn

:36:31.:36:34.

from multiple photographs means we have the power to create detailed

:36:35.:36:40.

replicas more easily This, in fact, is a replica

:36:41.:36:43.

in the making - a monumental scale reconstruction of the Triumphal Arch

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from Palmyra's Temple of Bel. The real arch was destroyed by Isis

:36:48.:36:49.

when they occupied the ancient city. This one, built in blocks, will be

:36:50.:36:52.

installed on Trafalgar Square, then it goes to New York

:36:53.:36:55.

and then Palmyra itself. So how far can replica substitute

:36:56.:37:02.

for a destroyed past? Should you even contemplate putting

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replicas on the sites Joining me now in the studio

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is Dr Alexy Karenowska, the director of technology

:37:08.:37:12.

at the Institute of And from Edinburgh is author

:37:13.:37:14.

James Crawford, whose book Fallen Glory tells the story of some

:37:15.:37:19.

of the world's greatest Tell us about your group. How well

:37:20.:37:29.

can you make a replica? How realistic? Very realistic indeed,

:37:30.:37:36.

our processes or a combination of architectural 3D printing and 3D

:37:37.:37:41.

machine work can reproduce objects to the level of sub millimetre

:37:42.:37:47.

precision. There are a series of surface techniques we can use to

:37:48.:37:51.

reproduce the effects of weathering and ageing and the general

:37:52.:37:56.

appearance. And the material, not plastic, what is it? We are working

:37:57.:38:04.

on technology which combines real stone, the arch in Trafalgar Square

:38:05.:38:09.

will be marble and Geo composite materials, artificial stones from 3D

:38:10.:38:19.

printing. What is the purpose? There are many, in the context of

:38:20.:38:23.

large-scale reconstruction, what we're doing is exploring

:38:24.:38:26.

technologies that we believe can make a real difference

:38:27.:38:29.

reconstructing regions like Syria which have been badly damaged and

:38:30.:38:35.

these technologies open the door for producing a way of producing and

:38:36.:38:43.

preserving the cultural heritage, the tangible and intangible aspects

:38:44.:38:47.

of that. And really keeping the living history of these areas alive.

:38:48.:38:52.

James, does this excite you? It does. The technology is fantastic,

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it is or inspiring in the true sense of that phrase and my concern is not

:39:01.:39:06.

what shall happen in Trafalgar Square and Times Square, and they

:39:07.:39:11.

will be visiting, it is the idea of reconstructing on the actual site of

:39:12.:39:15.

Palymyra itself. Tell me why you would not want this archway to go

:39:16.:39:20.

back to where it was before Isis destroyed it? One of the things that

:39:21.:39:26.

it brings to mind is the theory that comes from robotics and in the

:39:27.:39:32.

1970s, the uncanny Valley, that machines will get to the point where

:39:33.:39:37.

they were so close to humans, instead of us empathising, we

:39:38.:39:42.

respond to them with revulsion and there is a danger with this

:39:43.:39:44.

reconstruction of archaeology that we might respond to Palmyra in the

:39:45.:39:52.

same way, but it becomes uncanny and what a tragic end for this city, but

:39:53.:39:57.

when we visit it, we feel this sense of unease. Why would we feel that?

:39:58.:40:04.

You will see the arch in Palymyra, you will barely be able to tell that

:40:05.:40:08.

it was not the original, that has some subtle effect? Very much so,

:40:09.:40:14.

you will barely be able to tell and you might not realise it but as time

:40:15.:40:20.

goes by, that response, this concept of revulsion and that has happened

:40:21.:40:25.

before, in 1900, an English antiquarian bought up the site at

:40:26.:40:33.

Crete and brought this with -- rebuilt it with reinforced concrete

:40:34.:40:36.

and some people thought this was fantastic but even while, when he

:40:37.:40:39.

went on a Mediterranean cruise, and visited the site, he thought this

:40:40.:40:44.

was a place of oppressive wickedness so there is a danger when you engage

:40:45.:40:50.

in this process of reconstruction, it can have a negative impact. Is

:40:51.:40:56.

the plan to put the reconstructed arch back with the original was or

:40:57.:41:00.

to put it in a museum 500 metres away? Several things are important,

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the overall aim of this project is to move towards on-site

:41:08.:41:09.

reconstruction of the installation in Trafalgar Square and India work

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or a demonstration of this technology and in response to the

:41:16.:41:18.

point that were made, I would agree that it is extremely important that

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we understand that the reconstruction is not the original

:41:22.:41:25.

and it would be wrong to put objects on the site and claim that they are

:41:26.:41:29.

something they are not. But I think it is also important to realise that

:41:30.:41:34.

there is a huge tragedy in the complete loss of these physical

:41:35.:41:38.

objects and yet the physical objects themselves are not the only element

:41:39.:41:42.

of the cultural heritage they represent. I think that we have to

:41:43.:41:49.

balance here respect for the site but also making sure we do not get

:41:50.:41:54.

caught up too much in what we might describe as the romance of the

:41:55.:42:00.

Roman, it is important that we are not too attached to the physical

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objects. We can talk about this longer but we don't have the time.

:42:08.:42:12.

Thank you both very much. That is all we have time for, Kirsty will be

:42:13.:42:20.

here tomorrow. Good night. Temperatures falling out there under

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largely clear skies and a touch of frost first thing tomorrow, showers

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over south-east of Scotland and North East England and they could be

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heavy through the day with the few showers developing elsewhere. Some

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lively ones are parts of Northern Ireland staying dry with sunshine

:42:43.:42:46.

and reaching double figures, largely dry in northern Scotland and we will

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start the day before freezing

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