:00:00. > :00:00.This programme contains some strong language.
:00:07. > :00:09.Tonight, the strongest hurricane to hit the US for thirteen years.
:00:10. > :00:11.And it's also a test for their president.
:00:12. > :00:14.As thousands evacuate their homes amid rising floodwaters,
:00:15. > :00:19.Donald Trump makes landfall in Texas.
:00:20. > :00:25.Nobody's ever seen anything like this.
:00:26. > :00:31.Gabriel Gatehouse has followed one family -
:00:32. > :00:38.As they try to evacuate the most vulnerable from the middle of the
:00:39. > :00:41.floods. We were in evacuating patients for around three hours.
:00:42. > :00:44.And we ask the Texan National Guard what measures are being put in place
:00:45. > :00:48.The PM has defended her foreign secretary.
:00:49. > :00:54.I've spoken to one figure who said that working with Boris Johnson
:00:55. > :01:02.is like walking a few feet behind a horse shovelling its shit.
:01:03. > :01:05.As Japan awakes to nuclear sirens, we look at the country's complicated
:01:06. > :01:11.Will America rush to defend it now in its hour of need?
:01:12. > :01:14.The Japanese embassy's gates open in Washington after almost ten years
:01:15. > :01:17.and the key is handed to Mr Takeuchi and once again the flag
:01:18. > :01:20.of the rising sun flies as Japan re-enters the community
:01:21. > :01:27.And they call it whitewashing - white actors have been playing
:01:28. > :01:30.ethnically diverse roles to please Hollywood for a long time.
:01:31. > :01:45.But is it what the audiences really want?
:01:46. > :01:47.Response to natural disaster can make
:01:48. > :01:56.The shadow of Katrina in 2005 loomed large over the remaining years
:01:57. > :02:00.His slowness then spoke not just of incompetency - but of priority -
:02:01. > :02:02.a failure to help the poor and the black communities whose
:02:03. > :02:08.President Trump may or may not have studied the lessons of Katrina.
:02:09. > :02:12.But when he landed at Corpus Christie this evening,
:02:13. > :02:18.There was no talk of ratings, no attempt to re-live the electoral
:02:19. > :02:23.He sounded like a man who didn't want to speak too soon -
:02:24. > :02:35.We'll congratulate each other when it's all finished.
:02:36. > :02:40.The rising floodwater of Houston has left thirty thousand seeking
:02:41. > :02:42.emergency accommodation - another 40 centimetres of rainwater
:02:43. > :02:48.And the fear is that the risk of flood may now
:02:49. > :02:50.stretch to Louisiana - even Mississippi.
:02:51. > :03:02.Gabriel Gatehouse is in Texas for us - what's the latest?
:03:03. > :03:09.Emily, this is the sixth day in a row that Houston has been consumed
:03:10. > :03:13.by Harvey. The rain has abated a little bit but it is still spitting
:03:14. > :03:18.and raining hard elsewhere and as you can see behind me the rivers are
:03:19. > :03:23.still rising. We are expecting the rain to stay over Houston until
:03:24. > :03:28.tomorrow and then move on to Louisiana. This is a record for
:03:29. > :03:33.rainfall from a single cyclone in the continental United States ever.
:03:34. > :03:35.Some places already recorded 50 inches and they are expecting more.
:03:36. > :04:01.A Lebanese South West of Houston has been breached and
:04:02. > :04:02.residents were told to get out immediately and there have been
:04:03. > :04:05.other mandatory evacuations which have been made difficult by the
:04:06. > :04:07.conditions on the roads which we saw ourselves, they are often flooded.
:04:08. > :04:10.Texan authorities have said at least 13 people have been killed including
:04:11. > :04:12.a policeman who was killed while driving to work. The biggest
:04:13. > :04:14.challenge is the sheer number of people who need evacuating. We
:04:15. > :04:15.reached here last night and ever since then we have been watching
:04:16. > :04:19.those rescue operations in action. The rescue efforts continue day and
:04:20. > :04:23.night. The highways are a good place to be, out of the water. Out of the
:04:24. > :04:32.darkness, they bring another boatload of people. They are
:04:33. > :04:39.evacuating an old peoples home, just the last few elderly residents to go
:04:40. > :04:44.now and the rest of the staff. We are going to take you back off this
:04:45. > :04:49.thing and put you back on the ship. They have seen floods before, but
:04:50. > :04:54.not like this. These are some of the those fragile people, uprooted in
:04:55. > :04:59.the dead of night, in the cold and the wet. Still, this is Texas.
:05:00. > :05:08.People are strong and mostly cheerful. We waiting long? I am one
:05:09. > :05:13.of the nurses, we were evacuating patients for three hours. It sounds
:05:14. > :05:16.scary. It is fine, we were coordinated and got the patience out
:05:17. > :05:23.and now we are safe and everyone is fine. Daybreak reveals more deluged
:05:24. > :05:27.neighbourhoods. Thousands of people had already fled their homes before
:05:28. > :05:31.the waters rose, but many stayed put. What was it like watching the
:05:32. > :05:40.waters rise? It was the scariest thing we have ever seen. Just, there
:05:41. > :05:45.are no words for it. This is just devastating for everyone, it is so
:05:46. > :05:54.sad for everybody. You know. You going to be all right now? Yeah. And
:05:55. > :05:59.all the family is OK. Yes, sir. So, an amateur flotilla has come to get
:06:00. > :06:04.them. Boat owners from across Texas and beyond. Some have been called
:06:05. > :06:10.out on a specific mission. Where are you going? We are trying to get some
:06:11. > :06:14.elderly men who cannot walk. We're trying to get to him. Is he a
:06:15. > :06:21.personal family member? My daughter is a schoolteacher. It is the family
:06:22. > :06:25.of one of her students. It seems that the water is still rising. So
:06:26. > :06:31.many people have to get out and I hope everyone is listening. It is
:06:32. > :06:37.not one -- weather, your property is not worth it, your family is the
:06:38. > :06:44.only thing that is worth it. Others are working as very men. Get ready
:06:45. > :06:46.to hop on. Spending hours in the water taking complete strangers
:06:47. > :06:55.across particularly deep and treacherous stretches. It is further
:06:56. > :06:59.up. It is difficult work with hidden debris submerged beneath street
:07:00. > :07:04.turned into torrents. The rain is carrying on, the water levels are
:07:05. > :07:07.rising and these streets have now got crazy Cross currents that we
:07:08. > :07:13.have to speed across in order not to get swept sideways. As the waters
:07:14. > :07:19.continue to rise, the authorities have been swamped by calls for help,
:07:20. > :07:20.hence the community effort, with all manner of craft, jet skis,
:07:21. > :07:37.inflatables, even a paddle boards. Hurricane Hardy reveals Texans are
:07:38. > :07:40.the most resilient. This man in his kayak not fleeing home, just off to
:07:41. > :07:48.do some shopping. You're going to get gas and then going back? Yes. We
:07:49. > :07:53.need gas. Brave business. You don't want to evacuate? No, we need gas
:07:54. > :07:58.and some more but -- food. Even as the waters advance, it is not easy
:07:59. > :08:05.to leave your home. We heard some people screaming, from our
:08:06. > :08:09.neighbourhood. We were woken up by the screams of people who were
:08:10. > :08:13.trying to get out because they got stuck. His street may have turned
:08:14. > :08:21.into a river, but this man will take his chances for now. We did not know
:08:22. > :08:27.if they were going to open the dam, but I am not sure and then we
:08:28. > :08:30.thought the water was going to come into the house and I don't know, we
:08:31. > :08:37.woke up and we saw the water was down a little and we were happy. In
:08:38. > :08:41.these politically turbulent times, America can seem desperately
:08:42. > :08:45.divided. The disunited States. But it does not they like that here in
:08:46. > :08:53.Houston, as people help each other through this crisis. Let us go back
:08:54. > :08:56.to Gabriel. It is hard to tell on the individual level, but does it
:08:57. > :09:07.feel like crisis on the same sort of scale as Katrina? Not at the moment.
:09:08. > :09:12.Even though an anniversary just past of Katrina in 2005, I think this
:09:13. > :09:18.feels different. For one thing, we have only had 13 people killed,
:09:19. > :09:21.reportedly so far, Katrina had over 1800. Whether that was something to
:09:22. > :09:26.do with infrastructure or to do with the fact that the authorities have
:09:27. > :09:29.learned from it. There was some criticism that the mayor of Houston
:09:30. > :09:33.did not order a more general evacuation and I think people have
:09:34. > :09:37.pushed back from that and what we are seeing is that this has been
:09:38. > :09:41.quite well dealt with by the authorities, as we can see from the
:09:42. > :09:45.relatively low numbers of casualties. Obviously, still very
:09:46. > :09:49.big, but relatively low compared to Katrina. Then there is the political
:09:50. > :09:54.element. You mentioned Donald Trump being very restrained and guarded in
:09:55. > :10:06.what he said. He said when he came to Corpus
:10:07. > :10:10.Christi where Hurricane Harvey first made landfall, he said we want to do
:10:11. > :10:13.this better than before and this suggest that he has Katrina in his
:10:14. > :10:15.mind and he wants to do a better job. We should say that hurricanes
:10:16. > :10:17.are unpredictable, this is early days, this President is also
:10:18. > :10:25.unpredictable, so let's watch him. Thank you. We are joined now by
:10:26. > :10:30.Colonel Steven Metze from the Texan National Guard. It sounds like
:10:31. > :10:36.things are getting harder now, not easier, is that your assessment and
:10:37. > :10:40.how are you coping? We are definitely seeing the situation
:10:41. > :10:44.changed so much that that is one of our biggest issues right now. I
:10:45. > :10:48.talked to some people, some of our troops on the streets right now and
:10:49. > :10:52.they said you can literally drive down a street that is fine and come
:10:53. > :10:58.back one hour later and it is under six feet of water. The fact that it
:10:59. > :11:03.keeps changing, we are far from out of danger. We still have people who
:11:04. > :11:10.need to be rescued and I think we still have a long way to go. What
:11:11. > :11:16.would help but now in concrete terms aside from the elements? The biggest
:11:17. > :11:22.thing, we are here to support state, local and federal agencies where
:11:23. > :11:27.they need us. If people are in imminent danger, that they call 9-11
:11:28. > :11:34.and that is life limo or eyesight, if they otherwise go to one of the
:11:35. > :11:38.other sites that put you in the other cute, and you don't call the
:11:39. > :11:43.National Guard directly, we are taking our cues from them. As long
:11:44. > :11:45.as people continue to communicate their needs through the right
:11:46. > :11:49.channels then we will get the message the right way and be able to
:11:50. > :11:53.prioritise where we move people. There was a lot of discussion about
:11:54. > :11:57.whether mandatory evacuation would make things easier or more
:11:58. > :12:01.difficult, do you think the choices made fee like the right one or do
:12:02. > :12:05.you think more should have been done earlier? That is a complicated
:12:06. > :12:10.decision, made by the local authorities. Our focus is the Texas
:12:11. > :12:14.military Department is what we can do now. Our number one security is
:12:15. > :12:22.safety, security and protection of life. Texas I know has a large
:12:23. > :12:27.number of people who are clinically obese, has that had an impact on how
:12:28. > :12:34.fast you and the rescue workers can work? I have not heard anything on
:12:35. > :12:38.that issue in particular, I know that we are rescuing people with
:12:39. > :12:42.health issues and that is where a lot of our focus is, people who
:12:43. > :12:46.cannot get to shelters on their own for whatever reason. I do not know
:12:47. > :12:50.how much of it is that issue or others, I have heard about diabetics
:12:51. > :12:55.with that the medicine and people with broken legs, elderly people,
:12:56. > :12:58.people on rooftops, from my point of view, we are hearing that a lot of
:12:59. > :13:03.people need to be rescued because they cannot move on their own, but I
:13:04. > :13:06.do not know how many people have that issue. In Louisiana, they are
:13:07. > :13:12.telling people Tuesday in their homes, does that feel like the right
:13:13. > :13:15.call to you now? If the local authorities have not said to
:13:16. > :13:21.evacuate, then staying in the home is the thing to do until you proceed
:13:22. > :13:24.a threat to your life, limbs or eyesight. Going out into waters
:13:25. > :13:30.where you do not know where the danger spots are, whether Mike the
:13:31. > :13:35.electrical lines or other dangers, put you and your family at risk.
:13:36. > :13:40.Take your cues from the local responders, they know the area and
:13:41. > :13:45.they know where it is safe to go. We were talking about President Trump
:13:46. > :13:51.landing in your state earlier, what is the most helpful thing that he
:13:52. > :13:55.can say or do right now for you? I think, what we have seen across the
:13:56. > :14:01.board is an incredible amount of support for our chain of command.
:14:02. > :14:06.Everyone has been supportive, everything... We are seeing a
:14:07. > :14:13.constant influx of people and equipment, we are seeing it from
:14:14. > :14:17.local agencies, Red Cross, other agencies, all of them are all
:14:18. > :14:20.working together right now and the level of cooperation that we have
:14:21. > :14:23.seen and the level of support from our chain of command has been
:14:24. > :14:28.amazing across the board. I appreciate your time, thank you.
:14:29. > :14:30.The Prime Minister has had to defend her Foreign Secretary
:14:31. > :14:33.today after scathing criticism - albeit some anonymous -
:14:34. > :14:34.declaring him a national and international joke.
:14:35. > :14:37.Asked if Theresa May had full confidence in Boris Johnson,
:14:38. > :14:40.But the briefings around his competency, his commitment
:14:41. > :14:44.and his trustworthiness have been rumbling all summer.
:14:45. > :14:46.Could today's devastating column in the Times -
:14:47. > :14:51.or any of the other voices joining the chorus - embolden the PM
:14:52. > :14:54.to sack a man she is known to have little time for?
:14:55. > :15:09.Here - with some bad language - is our political editor, Nick Watt.
:15:10. > :15:18.Boris Johnson, a showman for the cameras, although usually with mixed
:15:19. > :15:21.results. Our Foreign Secretary's habit of ending up in scrapes his
:15:22. > :15:27.prompting questions about how long he can last. But is Boris Johnson a
:15:28. > :15:34.hopeless buffoon or is he actually a statesman of the New World order who
:15:35. > :15:39.axed and communicates in a way befitting these times? We are now
:15:40. > :15:45.able to fly the Union Flag once again. And perhaps that new style is
:15:46. > :15:49.all too much for diplomatic grandees from the past, most of whom can
:15:50. > :15:56.never forgive his role in taking the UK out of the EU. One withering
:15:57. > :15:59.assessment was penned last week. The intervention by the former head of
:16:00. > :16:14.the Foreign Office unleashed a flurry of criticism.
:16:15. > :16:20.Over in Brussels, they have long memories of the man they remember is
:16:21. > :16:27.the Daily Telegraph's troublemaking correspondent. It is always
:16:28. > :16:33.wonderful to talk to him and he is a very intelligent man, we like in
:16:34. > :16:38.Germany his Churchill biography. But we are not very clear that we can
:16:39. > :16:48.really rely on what he will do next day. He sometimes has in Europe the
:16:49. > :16:55.image of a gambler. And that he is taking this question sometimes not
:16:56. > :17:00.so seriously. When we note that in a discussion about the referendum and
:17:01. > :17:07.after David Cameron's negotiations in Brussels that nobody was sure,
:17:08. > :17:12.probably he himself, if he would be for Brexit or against Brexit. Boris
:17:13. > :17:16.Johnson inspires mixed emotions here at the Foreign Office, he does have
:17:17. > :17:20.a fan base among some officials who love having a star as Foreign
:17:21. > :17:24.Secretary who is instantly recognised in chancelleries across
:17:25. > :17:27.the world. Detractors say those counterparts lightning got for his
:17:28. > :17:32.autograph do not taken seriously and in fact snigger behind his back --
:17:33. > :17:38.lining up for his autograph. That is not all. There are some in the
:17:39. > :17:43.Foreign Office who say Boris Johnson is a liability as Foreign Secretary.
:17:44. > :17:46.I have spoken to one figure you said that working with Boris Johnson is
:17:47. > :17:52.like walking a few feet behind a horse shovelling its shit. No doubt
:17:53. > :17:58.that arresting metaphor will register with a thoroughbred
:17:59. > :18:04.wordsmith like Boris Johnson. All eyes are Boris Johnson blame Remain
:18:05. > :18:07.supporters in government for seeking to undermine the Foreign Secretary I
:18:08. > :18:13.leaking highly damaging and what they regard as erroneous stories
:18:14. > :18:17.that he cannot be trusted with intelligence. One old friend insists
:18:18. > :18:22.that criticisms are wholly without foundation. The reality is if you
:18:23. > :18:31.talk to the Iraqi Prime Minister, the Kurdish Prime Minister, the
:18:32. > :18:33.Libyan politicians, South America, Asian politicians, they are all
:18:34. > :18:37.ambassadors around the world to say he is one of the finest Foreign
:18:38. > :18:40.Secretary is we have had. I have worked with him closely in the
:18:41. > :18:47.Middle East, he can master a brief literally in half an hour and get
:18:48. > :18:51.off a flight and engage with our friends and partners and allies in a
:18:52. > :18:54.very constructive way and, when making them feel really good. One
:18:55. > :18:56.great thing Boris can do is make people feel good and he has done
:18:57. > :19:09.that on the world stage, I think. As a politician who sees himself as
:19:10. > :19:13.a fine figure of a statesman, Boris Johnson will continue to bestride
:19:14. > :19:17.the world in his own unique manner. Others are braced for incessant
:19:18. > :19:33.clearing up operations. Their Scottish Labour leader Kezia
:19:34. > :19:38.Dugdale has just announced her resignation, a bit of a surprise.
:19:39. > :19:41.Yes, one of the youngest party leaders to resign, Kezia Dugdale in
:19:42. > :19:46.her mid-30s and she has announced she is going to be resigning with
:19:47. > :19:53.immediate effect to pass on the bat on to another generation. This is an
:19:54. > :19:57.interview she has done with BBC Scotland, Brian Taylor. This is a
:19:58. > :20:02.shock, Kezia Dugdale is symbolic of that new generation, that new way of
:20:03. > :20:06.communicating in Scotland, Ruth Davidson the leader of the Scottish
:20:07. > :20:10.Tories and Nicholas Torry June the SNP leader, they tease on Twitter.
:20:11. > :20:14.They communicate in a new way. The Labour Party in Scotland had a much
:20:15. > :20:18.better expected result in the general election and came back from
:20:19. > :20:22.nowhere to get 11, 12 seats and they could be on their way to another
:20:23. > :20:26.bounce back. You could say Kezia Dugdale surely has had a success at
:20:27. > :20:30.some supporters of Jeremy Corbyn have said, you are incredibly
:20:31. > :20:33.critical of Jeremy Corbyn and that election result we had in June, that
:20:34. > :20:39.was downed Jeremy Corbyn and not you. Do you think that is what this
:20:40. > :20:43.is about, a falling out, or is it more subtle? I think there is
:20:44. > :20:48.interesting politics going on, there is an assumption her successor will
:20:49. > :20:54.be Neil Finn Lay, who is more on the left, although Allan Smith won the
:20:55. > :20:57.Labour leadership contest in Scotland against Jeremy Corbyn.
:20:58. > :21:03.Kezia Dugdale recently announced she is in a relationship with an SNP
:21:04. > :21:05.member and they have been on a trip to the United States and they fell
:21:06. > :21:15.in love and it was really touching. But there has been under the scenes
:21:16. > :21:20.criticism at Holyrood from Labour SNP is saying, you want to be
:21:21. > :21:25.candidate for First Minister, Labour First Minister? And some people in
:21:26. > :21:29.the Scottish Labour Party are saying that Kezia Dugdale has faced quite a
:21:30. > :21:36.lot of pressure even though people were delighted about the romantic
:21:37. > :21:37.story. Nick, thank you very much indeed.
:21:38. > :21:40.Well, Japan may have other things on its mind this week
:21:41. > :21:44.beyond the minutiae of a possible trade deal with the UK.
:21:45. > :21:47.Residents in the northern island of Hokkaido were awoken this morning
:21:48. > :21:56.by sirens warning of a ballistic missile launch from North Korea.
:21:57. > :22:00.The first to fly over Japan since 2009.
:22:01. > :22:02.Within three minutes of the weapon being fired,
:22:03. > :22:04.Prime Minister Shinzo Abe had gathered his officials.
:22:05. > :22:06.Six minutes later, the missile - travelling at around
:22:07. > :22:08.7,500 miles an hour - had hurtled beyond
:22:09. > :22:12.Japan is, of course, no stranger to nuclear assault.
:22:13. > :22:15.So what effect will today's test flight have on Japan's
:22:16. > :22:25.own militarisation, and its ability to depend on others to protect her?
:22:26. > :22:28.It was in August 1945 that the US changed the history
:22:29. > :22:33.The two atomic bombs dropped on the Japanese cities
:22:34. > :22:39.of Hiroshima and Nagasaki killed an estimated 150,000 people.
:22:40. > :22:41.Japan had no choice but to surrender.
:22:42. > :22:47.A pacifist constitution was drafted, as punishment
:22:48. > :22:51.It prevented Japan from having a military, even after it
:22:52. > :23:01.Over the years, Japan's self-defence forces have grown, as the perception
:23:02. > :23:08.The end of the Cold War and rising tensions with China in particular
:23:09. > :23:11.mean that Tokyo now finds itself amongst the world's
:23:12. > :23:26.In May, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe set a target to modify
:23:27. > :23:28.the constitution's so-called 'peace clause' by 2020.
:23:29. > :23:31.Moves away from pacifism, though, are not accepted lightly.
:23:32. > :23:34.Two years ago, when Mr Abe pushed through a law that would allow
:23:35. > :23:36.Japanese troops to fight overseas for the first time since
:23:37. > :23:39.the Second World War, it drew mass protests on the streets
:23:40. > :23:44.Nevertheless, Japan is the only country to have
:23:45. > :23:47.suffered a nuclear attack - one that went deep into
:23:48. > :23:52.In 2016, Barack Obama became the first serving US
:23:53. > :23:58.Controversially, he offered no apology, but said the memory
:23:59. > :24:07.But at 6am local time, a missile was fired over Japan
:24:08. > :24:15.from near the North Korean capital, Pyongyang.
:24:16. > :24:17.It flew over the Japanese island of Hokkaido, before
:24:18. > :24:23.For the Japanese, this may be a game-changer.
:24:24. > :24:25.The last time North Korea did anything like this
:24:26. > :24:32.Then, it stymied any rapprochement with Pyongyang.
:24:33. > :24:36.This time round, the sound of sirens in Hokkaido will embolden
:24:37. > :24:41.military hawks in Japan, and Donald Trump's refusal to play
:24:42. > :24:51.the role of world policeman may leave Tokyo no choice but to listen.
:24:52. > :24:57.The UK's former Ambassador to Japan, Sir David Warren.
:24:58. > :25:00.And in Washington, from Shihoko Goto, who is a senior associate
:25:01. > :25:06.Shihoko, does Japan still enjoy being a pacifist country?
:25:07. > :25:18.Well, there is certainly a disconnect between what the Prime
:25:19. > :25:22.Minister of Japan once and what the public wants. The Japanese Prime
:25:23. > :25:27.Ministers Shinzo Abe has been pressing for changes in the
:25:28. > :25:32.constitution so Japan can play offence, especially in light of the
:25:33. > :25:37.new development in North Korea which will only strengthen it. But there
:25:38. > :25:42.is a lot of public hostility, even today, about Japan increasing its
:25:43. > :25:45.military capabilities. You said Japan has suffered a nuclear strike,
:25:46. > :25:51.the only country to come and a nuclear attack not just once, but
:25:52. > :25:56.twice. And Japan is also unique in the world insofar as its forces have
:25:57. > :26:03.never faced any casualties since the end of World War II, so no body bags
:26:04. > :26:06.in Japan since 1945 and a lot of Japanese want to keep that.
:26:07. > :26:13.Extraordinary legacy for a country to have that. So do you think Shinzo
:26:14. > :26:19.Abe will now succeed in changing the constitution bluntly, do you believe
:26:20. > :26:24.that Japan is on track to go nuclear, what is your sense? There
:26:25. > :26:31.is two issues. The nuclear issue is a highly unlikely issue because
:26:32. > :26:36.under several international treaties, Japan is unable to nuclear
:26:37. > :26:40.race. But in terms of increasing its military spending even further,
:26:41. > :26:45.increasing its ability to operate overseas and perhaps even strike
:26:46. > :26:48.down North Korea's missiles going overhead, that is certainly
:26:49. > :26:54.something that will be entertained. The problem is that Abe's and
:26:55. > :26:59.support domestically has weakened rapidly over the last few months and
:27:00. > :27:02.so even though as he has said he wants to make changes in the
:27:03. > :27:07.constitution over the next few years, that is going to face a lot
:27:08. > :27:11.of difficulty. I say that because changing the constitution requires
:27:12. > :27:15.the approval not only of the upper house and the lower house, two
:27:16. > :27:21.thirds majority, but it also requires a public referendum and the
:27:22. > :27:25.majority of Japanese need to support that. As we know from the British
:27:26. > :27:31.experience, public referendums are often difficult to gauge. David,
:27:32. > :27:38.Japan, if it chooses to remain pacifist, relies on other countries
:27:39. > :27:46.to come to its defence. As America, in your opinion is the one of those?
:27:47. > :27:50.I believe that it is, I believe with Shihoko Goto this may embolden hawks
:27:51. > :27:57.in Japan who like Shinzo Abe want to see Japan's self defence forces
:27:58. > :28:00.become more militarily -- defensive. There is not a groundswell of
:28:01. > :28:05.popular support in Japan for that move. When you hear Donald Trump
:28:06. > :28:10.memorably talk about America first, how he did not want to be the
:28:11. > :28:14.world's policeman was quite critical of Japan on the election trail, is
:28:15. > :28:20.he really now going to come to defend Japan in its hour of need? I
:28:21. > :28:24.think Prime Minister Abe has positioned Japan skilfully with
:28:25. > :28:28.President Trump, both as crucial to the President's economic agenda
:28:29. > :28:32.because Japan is a major investor in America and crucial to its security
:28:33. > :28:36.agenda in terms of maintaining stability in North East Asia. The
:28:37. > :28:40.worry about President Trump is he is volatile and unpredictable and his
:28:41. > :28:45.tweets and public statements inspire as much concern and fear as they do
:28:46. > :28:50.reassurance. But I do not think Japan has many options but to double
:28:51. > :28:55.down on the Alliance. Is that right, do you sense America is still the
:28:56. > :29:06.glue that keeps this region in its place, away from war? Whether or not
:29:07. > :29:12.the United States and its commitment to that role remains strong and
:29:13. > :29:17.Trump remains to be seen. But certainly, expectations from Asia
:29:18. > :29:22.and in Japan as well as in Korea, that remains very strong. British
:29:23. > :29:29.eyes very much on Japan now, with the arrival of Theresa May who is
:29:30. > :29:34.looking for presumably affirmation that there is a world outside of the
:29:35. > :29:39.EU for trade, will she finds that, will she be received well with that
:29:40. > :29:42.in Japan? She will be received well by the Japanese because our
:29:43. > :29:47.relations with Japan warm and close. Japan is a major trading partner for
:29:48. > :29:51.Britain, we export ?10 billion worth of goods and services a year and an
:29:52. > :29:55.even more important provider of investment in the UK with hundreds
:29:56. > :29:58.of thousands of jobs depended on Japanese companies. What the
:29:59. > :30:02.Japanese will be looking for from Theresa May is reassurance we will
:30:03. > :30:07.not fall off a cliff edge over Brexit and that these Japanese
:30:08. > :30:10.companies in the UK will continue to enjoy the same frictionless access
:30:11. > :30:16.to the single market and the customs union that they do at the moment.
:30:17. > :30:24.Talk us through how the language will work. Make to something? The
:30:25. > :30:29.Japanese government produced a detailed paper where they set out
:30:30. > :30:33.clearly what they wanted to see in the negotiations and they have
:30:34. > :30:37.pressed for transparency and cleared -- clarity since then. They are
:30:38. > :30:43.worried about the principle of Brexit if it means that Britain does
:30:44. > :30:48.not have access to the single marker without friction. They are too
:30:49. > :30:53.polite to say so publicly, they are puzzled to why we have taken what
:30:54. > :30:58.they see as a result -- and action of self harm. Theresa May may want
:30:59. > :31:01.to pursue a free-trade agreement with Japan when Britain is able to
:31:02. > :31:06.do so when we leave the European Union. But Japan I think has higher
:31:07. > :31:12.priorities in that area, in terms of pushing the EU Japan free trade
:31:13. > :31:16.agreement over the line and salvaging as much as they can from
:31:17. > :31:17.the Pacific free-trade agreement that President Trump has pulled out
:31:18. > :31:19.of. Thank you. Critics call it 'whitewashing' -
:31:20. > :31:21.the Hollywood practice of casting white actors in roles of characters
:31:22. > :31:24.of a different ethnicity. Today, the British actor Ed Skrein
:31:25. > :31:26.announced he was leaving a remake of Hellboy,
:31:27. > :31:28.after his appointment sparked fury it should have
:31:29. > :31:30.gone to an Asian actor. He bowed out, saying he didn't
:31:31. > :31:33.want to continue a worrying tendency of obscuring ethnic minority stories
:31:34. > :31:37.and voices in the Arts. And that seems pretty
:31:38. > :31:40.easy to understand. And yet, if we welcome
:31:41. > :31:44.the new female Doctor Who, or a black James Bond,
:31:45. > :31:46.or a woman playing Shakespeare's Kings,
:31:47. > :31:48.then shouldn't - purists argue - we move past the confines
:31:49. > :32:41.of character and cast who we want? I'm now joined from LA by comedian
:32:42. > :32:43.and actress Jenny Yang. And with me in the studio
:32:44. > :32:55.is Metro's Chief Film Critic Very nice to have you both. Jenny,
:32:56. > :33:00.Ed Skrein dropped out of this, was at the right thing to do?
:33:01. > :33:05.Definitely. Ed Skrein finally made the move we have all been waiting
:33:06. > :33:10.for. Someone got a high-profile part that originally was a character for
:33:11. > :33:14.an Asian character or a non-white character and a white person was
:33:15. > :33:18.cast and they finally said, I am not going to take this role because
:33:19. > :33:22.representation matters. He could have checked it on Google before he
:33:23. > :33:36.accepted the role. It would not have been hard to
:33:37. > :33:40.find out. Probably not. At this point when no one else has ever done
:33:41. > :33:42.this, when it came to recent history of Asian characters, we will
:33:43. > :33:45.appreciate Ed Skrein for what he did and I hope you set an example for
:33:46. > :33:48.the rest of Hollywood, both on the front end when you are making the
:33:49. > :33:50.deals and going through the casting process and also in the final
:33:51. > :33:53.moments when you are saying, yes, I will take this role. Jenny, before I
:33:54. > :33:55.finish this, do you think there is a problem specifically with Asian
:33:56. > :33:59.characters in Hollywood, rather than black characters, do you think
:34:00. > :34:01.Hollywood has a particular Asian problem if I can put it like that?
:34:02. > :34:15.You know what, I would say that Hollywood like many
:34:16. > :34:18.other institutions of power has a lot of problems when it comes to
:34:19. > :34:20.representing bodies that are not typically able white male or
:34:21. > :34:22.straight. Asians tend to be more invisible sometimes than you think.
:34:23. > :34:25.Because of the power of Hollywood in our global culture, I think it is so
:34:26. > :34:30.important that we really advocate for the kind of roles that will
:34:31. > :34:33.represent Asian-Americans or bodies as whole people. Hollywood does this
:34:34. > :34:37.presumably because they think that is what audiences want, do they? I
:34:38. > :34:41.think we are realising that they do not want this. You have to look at
:34:42. > :34:43.the people making these films, Hollywood is run by old white guys
:34:44. > :35:08.and they think that what everyone wants
:35:09. > :35:10.to what is them representing themselves and the audience,
:35:11. > :35:13.everyone always said, the only people who watch films are white
:35:14. > :35:15.guys between 18 and 30 and that is because the films they been shown is
:35:16. > :35:18.like that. You have a film like wonder woman becoming a smash hit
:35:19. > :35:20.and it is finally giving women and little girls what they want. They
:35:21. > :35:23.want to see super-heroine. How far would you push this? The question I
:35:24. > :35:26.raised before, if we now accept that Doctor Who can be a female or James
:35:27. > :35:29.Bond can be black or Fiona Shaw can play Richard the second, then don't
:35:30. > :35:33.you say, this is about a character? It is not about ethnicity race or
:35:34. > :35:37.gender? I take that on and I think lots of actors would agree but
:35:38. > :35:42.ethnic actors do not have the luxury of choice. There are very few parts
:35:43. > :35:53.available for them so them getting taken away by white actors, when
:35:54. > :35:59.they are supposed to be in place of equality, it is not equal. A
:36:00. > :36:04.reminder of that phrase that Samuel L Jackson used when he criticised a
:36:05. > :36:09.British black actor for playing a black American cop. Where does that
:36:10. > :36:14.end up when you are saying, you have to have the right race and colour
:36:15. > :36:19.and are white men allowed to play straight men, they are actors,
:36:20. > :36:24.right? Let us be real. There is no one high Council of people deciding
:36:25. > :36:29.what is OK when it comes to diversity casting. A lot of this is
:36:30. > :36:34.very negotiable. This is culture and art, some of the soft stuff we argue
:36:35. > :36:38.over and I would say, because of the rise of technology and Twitter and
:36:39. > :36:42.Facebook and YouTube, we have a greater say, beyond the traditional
:36:43. > :36:57.gatekeepers to say we will not accept white folks only been
:36:58. > :37:01.all of the characters. Let's have some more colour or invoices or
:37:02. > :37:03.nuance and I think to argue over whether or not a British black actor
:37:04. > :37:05.can play an American black character, we are talking about
:37:06. > :37:08.crumbs here. What is the bigger picture? It is about more diversity
:37:09. > :37:11.in our stories, more actors getting more roles. It is the bigger picture
:37:12. > :37:15.it that you have to do this around the back of Hollywood, I am thinking
:37:16. > :37:19.of something like big little lies where Nicole Kidman and Reese
:37:20. > :37:22.Witherspoon, from what I understand, got together and made that script
:37:23. > :37:27.themselves, because they wanted the Pirates, is that the answer? There's
:37:28. > :37:31.a difference between people making their own films and you see this in
:37:32. > :37:35.Hollywood with older female actresses like those actresses who
:37:36. > :37:39.have now got that credibility setting up their own companies and
:37:40. > :37:42.that will be the big change when you have black and ethnic minority
:37:43. > :37:49.actors making films, not just starring in them. Does that actually
:37:50. > :37:56.shot Hollywood out of the picture or are we a long way from that? Let us
:37:57. > :38:02.be real. Just because Ed Skrein said I am not going to take this Asian
:38:03. > :38:05.character part, it is not a radical move, he has just been a decent guy
:38:06. > :38:11.who says I think representation matters. Above all of this, we have
:38:12. > :38:16.a whole movement of Asian American creators, disable creators, queer
:38:17. > :38:22.creators and we are making our own work and hopefully someday, the rise
:38:23. > :38:26.in the tide of our creativity will affect Hollywood property --
:38:27. > :38:31.properly. Great to speak to. Thank you for coming in. The Guardian
:38:32. > :38:34.tomorrow has weaker pupils dumped by top grammar. Schools accused of
:38:35. > :38:38.unlawfully throwing out sixth formers who did not get the required
:38:39. > :38:42.grades and AS-level is to improve their results. It has got a picture
:38:43. > :38:46.of Milan near Trump in those shoes that no one on social media can take
:38:47. > :38:51.their eyes from. Apparently she did change their high heels before she
:38:52. > :39:00.landed. The daily Terror that, but in steering at Michel Barnier, the
:39:01. > :39:03.EU negotiator tells EU to behave -- the Daily Telegraph. The Times
:39:04. > :39:07.follows up on the story from yesterday, the judge ruling that the
:39:08. > :39:12.child must leave unless foster home the paper says it has been praised
:39:13. > :39:16.for exposing the tower Hamlets council failure.
:39:17. > :39:19.Until recently, the country of Georgia remained one of the last
:39:20. > :39:21.nations where drone pilots could fly in relatively unregulated skies.
:39:22. > :39:24.In a few days, they will adopt European-style flight restrictions,
:39:25. > :39:26.so photographer Amos Chapple took advantage of the final frontier
:39:27. > :39:29.of photography and took these images of the country.