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A new International Development
Secretary with the same Brexit | 0:00:05 | 0:00:07 | |
views as the old one. | 0:00:07 | 0:00:08 | |
A Brexiteer Foreign Secretary
safe despite careless, | 0:00:08 | 0:00:12 | |
dangerous talk that might have
doubled a British woman's | 0:00:12 | 0:00:14 | |
prison sentence in Iran. | 0:00:14 | 0:00:16 | |
Is Theresa May's grip on government
seen too much through a Brexit lens? | 0:00:16 | 0:00:20 | |
We'll hear the view of Britain
from Paris and ask the former | 0:00:20 | 0:00:23 | |
Deputy Chairman of the Tory Party
where they go from here. | 0:00:23 | 0:00:30 | |
It was one of the most toxic
relationships ever in politics. | 0:00:30 | 0:00:33 | |
But in an interview
to mark his memoirs, | 0:00:33 | 0:00:35 | |
Gordon Brown insists their rows
were all about policy | 0:00:35 | 0:00:38 | |
and had nothing to do
with personal ambition. | 0:00:38 | 0:00:39 | |
I agreed that I would take
control of economic policy, | 0:00:39 | 0:00:44 | |
and he said he would step down
in the second term. | 0:00:44 | 0:00:47 | |
It's as simple as that,
and that of course didn't happen. | 0:00:47 | 0:00:49 | |
Tilting at Donald Trump. | 0:00:49 | 0:00:50 | |
As the President keeps his promise | 0:00:50 | 0:00:52 | |
to blow away environmental
restraint, the US states | 0:00:52 | 0:00:54 | |
which are fighting back. | 0:00:54 | 0:00:57 | |
The outcome of this contest
will determine what the world's | 0:00:57 | 0:00:59 | |
going to look like over the next 10,
20 and 30 years. | 0:00:59 | 0:01:07 | |
And the set awaits Russia Today's
new television star, | 0:01:07 | 0:01:09 | |
the former First Minister
of Scotland, Alex Salmond. | 0:01:09 | 0:01:12 | |
I'll be asking him if Vladimir Putin
will be calling the shots. | 0:01:12 | 0:01:22 | |
Good evening. | 0:01:25 | 0:01:28 | |
The Prime Minister may
have her game face on | 0:01:28 | 0:01:30 | |
and a new waxwork projecting resolve
at Madame Tussauds. | 0:01:30 | 0:01:32 | |
But is she in danger of having
to take literally every decision | 0:01:32 | 0:01:35 | |
while looking through the foggy
lens of Brexit? | 0:01:35 | 0:01:39 | |
In Brussels today, where Brexit
negotiations resumed, | 0:01:39 | 0:01:41 | |
the view was yes -
everything in Britain | 0:01:41 | 0:01:43 | |
is about Brexit. | 0:01:43 | 0:01:45 | |
The fact that Theresa May has made
a simple reshuffle and parachuted | 0:01:45 | 0:01:49 | |
Brexiteer Penny Mordaunt | 0:01:49 | 0:01:51 | |
into the space left by Brexiteer
Priti Patel is not apparently | 0:01:51 | 0:01:55 | |
being seen as "firm or decisive" | 0:01:55 | 0:01:57 | |
or any of the adjectives associated
with command of government. | 0:01:57 | 0:02:01 | |
So is everything being seen
through the lens of Brexit? | 0:02:01 | 0:02:04 | |
Is the Foreign Secretary, | 0:02:04 | 0:02:05 | |
Boris Johnson, whose foot in mouth
remarks and equally stumbling | 0:02:05 | 0:02:08 | |
retraction over Nazanin
Zaghari-Ratcliffe, which may | 0:02:08 | 0:02:12 | |
lengthen her jail sentence,
safer than he would be otherwise? | 0:02:12 | 0:02:15 | |
To lose another big Brexiteer
and three Cabinet ministers | 0:02:15 | 0:02:22 | |
in the space of a week might haul
Theresa May's government | 0:02:22 | 0:02:25 | |
below the waterline. | 0:02:25 | 0:02:26 | |
Here's Nick Watt. | 0:02:26 | 0:02:29 | |
A great partnership... | 0:02:29 | 0:02:32 | |
Whichever way you look
in British politics today, | 0:02:32 | 0:02:33 | |
Brexit looks back at
you from every angle. | 0:02:33 | 0:02:43 | |
A Brexit-supporting cabinet minister
resigns, and so a Brexit-supporting | 0:02:45 | 0:02:47 | |
replacement is called up. | 0:02:47 | 0:02:48 | |
Theresa May has been
adopting a cautious | 0:02:48 | 0:02:54 | |
approach in her many and
enforced reshuffles, | 0:02:54 | 0:02:55 | |
ensuring that she does not upset | 0:02:55 | 0:02:57 | |
the delicate balance
between Brexiteers and | 0:02:57 | 0:03:00 | |
Remainers around the Cabinet
table because overall, | 0:03:00 | 0:03:03 | |
she is performing a delicate
balancing act in holding | 0:03:03 | 0:03:06 | |
her divided party together. | 0:03:06 | 0:03:06 | |
Friends of Priti Patel
told me, for example, | 0:03:06 | 0:03:08 | |
that the Prime Minister took her
time in firing the former cabinet | 0:03:08 | 0:03:11 | |
minister because she did not want
to upset such a prominent Brexit | 0:03:11 | 0:03:14 | |
supporter. | 0:03:14 | 0:03:15 | |
So Theresa May knows that
from the handling of her ministers | 0:03:15 | 0:03:23 | |
to almost every policy
decision she makes, | 0:03:23 | 0:03:25 | |
Brexit hangs over everything. | 0:03:25 | 0:03:29 | |
And add in a dose of bad luck. | 0:03:29 | 0:03:33 | |
Who could have seen the butterfly
effect from the other side | 0:03:33 | 0:03:35 | |
of the Atlantic | 0:03:35 | 0:03:40 | |
of the Harvey Weinstein allegations
here in Westminster? | 0:03:40 | 0:03:46 | |
And this fundamental
question arises - | 0:03:46 | 0:03:47 | |
is Theresa May a member of that
select group of prime ministers | 0:03:47 | 0:03:50 | |
who find
themselves controlled by events | 0:03:50 | 0:03:51 | |
rather than actually shaping events? | 0:03:51 | 0:03:53 | |
Top of the list is Anthony Eden,
who was broken by the Suez crisis. | 0:03:53 | 0:03:56 | |
Like me or loathe me,
don't bind my hands. | 0:03:56 | 0:04:00 | |
Four decades later, John Major
was paralysed by Europe. | 0:04:00 | 0:04:03 | |
Nothing has changed. | 0:04:03 | 0:04:04 | |
Nothing has changed. | 0:04:05 | 0:04:07 | |
And then there is Theresa May,
who commanded the political | 0:04:07 | 0:04:10 | |
landscape until that election. | 0:04:10 | 0:04:13 | |
A critic of Theresa
May believes there | 0:04:13 | 0:04:16 | |
is scope for her to
set her own agenda. | 0:04:16 | 0:04:19 | |
I don't think it needs to be quite
as paralysed as it appears to be. | 0:04:19 | 0:04:24 | |
I think there are things
that need to be done. | 0:04:24 | 0:04:28 | |
I think there is an
opportunity in the housing field | 0:04:28 | 0:04:31 | |
which requires action. | 0:04:31 | 0:04:34 | |
I think the question
of an industrial strategy, | 0:04:34 | 0:04:37 | |
on which I have just
produced a pamphlet, | 0:04:37 | 0:04:39 | |
gives very considerable
opportunities to meet urgent demands | 0:04:39 | 0:04:43 | |
of self interest for this country, | 0:04:43 | 0:04:45 | |
and it is particularly important
in the Brexit context to have an | 0:04:45 | 0:04:48 | |
industrial strategy. | 0:04:48 | 0:04:50 | |
Ultimately, Lord Heseltine fears
the Prime Minister may be | 0:04:50 | 0:04:55 | |
unable to secure a Brexit
deal acceptable to his wing of | 0:04:55 | 0:04:57 | |
the party. | 0:04:57 | 0:04:59 | |
And the man who made his name
attacking socialism... | 0:04:59 | 0:05:02 | |
The red flag has never
flown throughout these | 0:05:02 | 0:05:04 | |
islands yet, nor for
a thousand years... | 0:05:04 | 0:05:07 | |
..Believes his supporters may face
a painful dilemma about how to | 0:05:07 | 0:05:10 | |
vote at the next general election. | 0:05:10 | 0:05:14 | |
I don't have a vote,
which is a copout I accepted once, | 0:05:14 | 0:05:20 | |
but I know friends of mine
who certainly are Conservative | 0:05:20 | 0:05:22 | |
voters who are agonising over
exactly that dilemma. | 0:05:22 | 0:05:29 | |
And it is an irony. | 0:05:29 | 0:05:31 | |
You made your name in the 1970s
campaigning against everything | 0:05:31 | 0:05:36 | |
Jeremy Corbyn believes in,
and yet he may, on this | 0:05:36 | 0:05:39 | |
fundamental question
of Britain's future, | 0:05:39 | 0:05:40 | |
embody your views more
than your party. | 0:05:40 | 0:05:41 | |
That's a pretty horrific thought. | 0:05:41 | 0:05:47 | |
A horrific thought,
but an accurate, sensible thought? | 0:05:47 | 0:05:57 | |
There is no doubt at all that
a scenario that if, as I think, | 0:06:00 | 0:06:03 | |
the public opinion will move
and the Labour Party moves, | 0:06:03 | 0:06:06 | |
there could be a situation
where the only people left in favour | 0:06:06 | 0:06:09 | |
of Brexit are the right wing
of the Conservative Party. | 0:06:09 | 0:06:11 | |
And that will produce very
difficult, traumatic | 0:06:11 | 0:06:13 | |
challenges for voters
in a general election. | 0:06:13 | 0:06:15 | |
One loyalist says, don't write off
this Prime Minister. | 0:06:15 | 0:06:19 | |
I would say the government
are holding together well. | 0:06:19 | 0:06:22 | |
No votes have been lost in the House
of Commons on primary legislation. | 0:06:22 | 0:06:25 | |
Nobody thought that was possible. | 0:06:25 | 0:06:26 | |
Jeremy Corbyn was scampering around
back in June and July | 0:06:26 | 0:06:30 | |
and August, preparing
for an autumn general election. | 0:06:30 | 0:06:32 | |
Well, it's very clear there's not
going to be a general | 0:06:32 | 0:06:35 | |
election this autumn,
there's not going to be | 0:06:35 | 0:06:37 | |
a general election until 2022. | 0:06:37 | 0:06:38 | |
So the Prime Minister has done
a great job steadying the ship | 0:06:38 | 0:06:41 | |
in difficult circumstances, | 0:06:41 | 0:06:42 | |
rising to meet the challenge
of the times and dealing | 0:06:42 | 0:06:45 | |
with it all in a very calm,
professional manner. | 0:06:45 | 0:06:52 | |
Europe, the ever-dominant issue
in our national life, will define | 0:06:52 | 0:06:55 | |
Theresa May's premiership. | 0:06:55 | 0:06:56 | |
She will be hoping she
is not drowned by it. | 0:06:56 | 0:07:01 | |
Nick Watt is with me. | 0:07:01 | 0:07:06 | |
You have more news on Brexit? Yes,
there is an interesting intervention | 0:07:06 | 0:07:11 | |
tomorrow by Lord Coe, the former
head of the Foreign Office who is | 0:07:11 | 0:07:14 | |
the official who wrote Article 50,
the process to take is outside the | 0:07:14 | 0:07:17 | |
EU. He says this can be revoked by
the UK at any point within the | 0:07:17 | 0:07:26 | |
two-year time frame. He is saying it
was a voluntary agreement to give | 0:07:26 | 0:07:29 | |
member states the confidence that
they could leave. Therefore, if we | 0:07:29 | 0:07:34 | |
want to revoke it, we could. He is
going to say we are not required to | 0:07:34 | 0:07:38 | |
withdraw just because Mrs May sent a
letter. We can change our mind at | 0:07:38 | 0:07:41 | |
any stage during the process. He is
effectively saying the government is | 0:07:41 | 0:07:45 | |
misleading people by saying that we
can't revoke it. He says that is a | 0:07:45 | 0:07:49 | |
political decision, not a legal
decision. And interestingly, this | 0:07:49 | 0:07:54 | |
comes as the Prime Minister writes a
piece in tomorrow's Daily Telegraph | 0:07:54 | 0:07:58 | |
saying she will write onto the face
of the Brexit build the date of | 0:07:58 | 0:08:02 | |
withdrawal, the 29th of March, 2019,
and in a message to the likes of | 0:08:02 | 0:08:07 | |
Lord Kerr, she says, we will not
tolerate any attempts to slow down | 0:08:07 | 0:08:11 | |
or stop our departure from the EU.
How are negotiations going? I am | 0:08:11 | 0:08:16 | |
told there will be a chilly
atmosphere tomorrow when David Davis | 0:08:16 | 0:08:19 | |
meets Michel Barnier for the latest
round of negotiations in Brussels. | 0:08:19 | 0:08:24 | |
Essentially, the Brexit secretary
will say that the Prime Minister | 0:08:24 | 0:08:27 | |
made a big gesture in Florence on
the money and citizens' rights. You | 0:08:27 | 0:08:31 | |
haven't moved, and unless you show
some sort of gesture, it is going to | 0:08:31 | 0:08:37 | |
be difficult, because he will say
the UK ain't keeling over. Thank you | 0:08:37 | 0:08:40 | |
very much. | 0:08:40 | 0:08:41 | |
Joining me from Paris is writer
and commentator Christine Ockrent. | 0:08:41 | 0:08:48 | |
From where you sit, how do European
politicians view Theresa May's | 0:08:48 | 0:08:51 | |
government? Well, frankly, with a
mix of compassion and surprise, | 0:08:51 | 0:09:07 | |
because this is a very weak Prime
Minister and it's not new. It seems | 0:09:07 | 0:09:14 | |
that she has a very hard time with
her own government, not only because | 0:09:14 | 0:09:23 | |
two government members had to quit.
It seems she is very secretive too | 0:09:23 | 0:09:29 | |
in her way of handling her own
Cabinet, and that has shown since | 0:09:29 | 0:09:36 | |
the start of the negotiations on
Brexit. So there is a great deal of | 0:09:36 | 0:09:46 | |
surprise at the weakness of this
Prime Minister and her team. As Nick | 0:09:46 | 0:09:55 | |
Watt was saying, when Theresa May
went to Florence, she made the | 0:09:55 | 0:09:58 | |
gesture on money and the gesture on
people. Do you think that following | 0:09:58 | 0:10:04 | |
that, there are just some EU
politicians who are intent on | 0:10:04 | 0:10:07 | |
humiliating her? No, I don't think
there is an intention to humiliate | 0:10:07 | 0:10:13 | |
her. Mind you, Florence was just a
speech. If politics were made only | 0:10:13 | 0:10:23 | |
of speeches, I think the French
would be the kings of the world. | 0:10:23 | 0:10:27 | |
It's not only a matter of making a
speech. In that speech, the content | 0:10:27 | 0:10:34 | |
was deemed insufficient by the
European negotiators. As you have | 0:10:34 | 0:10:45 | |
said, the discussions will resume
tomorrow. There are rumours that | 0:10:45 | 0:10:52 | |
will be progress on the figures at
the British government would be | 0:10:52 | 0:10:56 | |
willing to pay for the divorce car
but I think there is always that | 0:10:56 | 0:11:01 | |
extraordinary misunderstanding, in
London at any rate. There is | 0:11:01 | 0:11:09 | |
confusion between, let's get the
horse, but let's think of the house | 0:11:09 | 0:11:15 | |
we will build together afterwards.
Let's not even talk about the | 0:11:15 | 0:11:19 | |
divorce, because we have just heard
that Lord Kerr, who drafted Article | 0:11:19 | 0:11:24 | |
50, is now saying that that is
revoke a ball -- revocable and that | 0:11:24 | 0:11:30 | |
is until you are divorced, you are
still together and it is not a legal | 0:11:30 | 0:11:35 | |
document, it is a political
document. Do you think there will be | 0:11:35 | 0:11:38 | |
some European leaders heartened to
hear that and indeed banking on it? | 0:11:38 | 0:11:42 | |
Well, I believe Lord Kerr has long
proved he is one of the finest minds | 0:11:42 | 0:11:47 | |
on European affairs and I think many
of his friends on the continent will | 0:11:47 | 0:11:53 | |
not be surprised to hear of his
latest declaration. He knows what | 0:11:53 | 0:11:59 | |
he's talking about, because he wrote
Article 50. Remember, President | 0:11:59 | 0:12:09 | |
Macron, who has made Europe one of
his main arguments for his mandate, | 0:12:09 | 0:12:16 | |
about a month ago he made an
important speech on Europe at the | 0:12:16 | 0:12:20 | |
Sorbonne. And I was interested to
hear him say that the door was still | 0:12:20 | 0:12:29 | |
open. Christine Ockrent, thank you. | 0:12:29 | 0:12:30 | |
I'm now joined by the former
Deputy Chairman | 0:12:30 | 0:12:32 | |
of the Conservative Party,
Robert Halfon, - now the Chair | 0:12:32 | 0:12:35 | |
of the Education Select Committee. | 0:12:35 | 0:12:42 | |
As you look at your government, what
do you make of the mess it appears | 0:12:42 | 0:12:45 | |
to be in? Well, government is like a
supertanker travelling down the | 0:12:45 | 0:12:49 | |
ocean. Sometimes you get buffeted by
storms. Yes, we have been buffeted | 0:12:49 | 0:12:55 | |
by storm is pretty hard over the
past couple of weeks. But the | 0:12:55 | 0:13:00 | |
important thing is, can we set the
direction of travel and is very | 0:13:00 | 0:13:02 | |
destination? That is what we need to
be clearer about. You are suggesting | 0:13:02 | 0:13:08 | |
that the destination is not about
Brexit, it is about the position of | 0:13:08 | 0:13:12 | |
the party, about policy and a
different kind of party. We will | 0:13:12 | 0:13:17 | |
always have Brexit, there is nothing
we can do about that. But we need to | 0:13:17 | 0:13:21 | |
focus on the issues that matter to
the British people. But there is no | 0:13:21 | 0:13:25 | |
question of that at the moment cos
Theresa May is not in a strong | 0:13:25 | 0:13:29 | |
enough position to do that. Any
Prime Minister can focus on the | 0:13:29 | 0:13:33 | |
things that matter. Do you think she
has the bandwidth? Yes. One of the | 0:13:33 | 0:13:39 | |
most important thing is facing our
nation is skills. We are way behind | 0:13:39 | 0:13:44 | |
other countries. Housing, the cost
of living, the role of the National | 0:13:44 | 0:13:48 | |
Health Service. We have to show that
we are the real party of the | 0:13:48 | 0:13:51 | |
workers. Maybe you have to go into
opposition to regroup and do that. | 0:13:51 | 0:13:56 | |
That would be a disaster given what
the Labour Party under Jeremy Corbyn | 0:13:56 | 0:14:00 | |
represent. This is the Labour Party
of the far left. But it might be one | 0:14:00 | 0:14:05 | |
that Michael Heseltine have to make
common cause with. He said he had to | 0:14:05 | 0:14:11 | |
make calls with some of those people
who want to stop Brexit, but Jeremy | 0:14:11 | 0:14:15 | |
Corbyn at one time was a Brexiteer. | 0:14:15 | 0:14:20 | |
Let's look at the travails of the
Cabinet, first Michael Palin and | 0:14:20 | 0:14:25 | |
then Priti Patel, and a situation
where she had to make a | 0:14:25 | 0:14:30 | |
like-for-like replacement Brexit --
Michael Fallon. And you see how | 0:14:30 | 0:14:38 | |
Iranian news reports are discussing
Boris Johnson's remarks and indeed | 0:14:38 | 0:14:44 | |
careless talk could cost lives,
about opening Dario Ragna Debats -- | 0:14:44 | 0:14:54 | |
about Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's
politician, what do you make of | 0:14:54 | 0:14:58 | |
that? I like Boris but he has made a
mistake and is acknowledged and | 0:14:58 | 0:15:03 | |
apologised. He apologised in the
housing cons he made a mistake. I | 0:15:03 | 0:15:08 | |
think Boris provide something very
important for our party, some sunny | 0:15:08 | 0:15:12 | |
optimism and he needs to work
alongside the seriousness, | 0:15:12 | 0:15:18 | |
no-nonsense Prime Minister character
and offer us something but he also | 0:15:18 | 0:15:20 | |
has to have his Henry V moment, he
has to showed he has a serious side | 0:15:20 | 0:15:26 | |
as well. It's a bit late, he has
been kicking around government for a | 0:15:26 | 0:15:30 | |
long time and been the Mayor of
London and the point was that it was | 0:15:30 | 0:15:34 | |
arrogance, he just kind of tossed
off that remark and he did not care | 0:15:34 | 0:15:38 | |
enough. He has made a mistake and
apologised. He hasn't actually | 0:15:38 | 0:15:42 | |
apologised properly. I think he has
and we are in danger of forgetting | 0:15:42 | 0:15:47 | |
that the Iranian regime is not a
benign regime but pretty nasty and | 0:15:47 | 0:15:52 | |
it promotes terror around the world.
We can't allow... OK computer was a | 0:15:52 | 0:15:57 | |
mistake... Hang on, saying
erroneously that she was not on | 0:15:57 | 0:16:04 | |
holiday and was teaching journalism,
you would have thought actually that | 0:16:04 | 0:16:08 | |
alarm bells would go and I would
suggest that in any other time | 0:16:08 | 0:16:13 | |
rather than these fraught times,
that might be enough to move Boris | 0:16:13 | 0:16:16 | |
Johnson. He made a mistake and
apologised and has a lot to offer | 0:16:16 | 0:16:21 | |
the Tory party. At the same time we
did not excuse a regime that locks | 0:16:21 | 0:16:25 | |
up British citizens for no reason.
You talk about rebuilding, but | 0:16:25 | 0:16:31 | |
before that, what do you make of
Lord Kerr's intervention tomorrow | 0:16:31 | 0:16:38 | |
which said that Article 50 is a
political document and not a legal | 0:16:38 | 0:16:41 | |
one and it can be revoked? I voted
Remain because I thought Britain | 0:16:41 | 0:16:46 | |
should be part of analyte of
democracies but the British people | 0:16:46 | 0:16:50 | |
voted to leave, my constituency did
by 68%. It is an interesting | 0:16:50 | 0:16:55 | |
intellectual argument but if we
reverse is leaving the EU, don't | 0:16:55 | 0:16:59 | |
forget that Parliament has voted for
Article 50, you seriously undermine | 0:16:59 | 0:17:03 | |
faith in our democracy and that
would be a terrible thing. The | 0:17:03 | 0:17:06 | |
public voted for it, either we have
a democracy or not. We believe in | 0:17:06 | 0:17:10 | |
democracy. His view is expressed
tomorrow is that once people are | 0:17:10 | 0:17:16 | |
more in tune with the facts because
a lot of people felt we did not know | 0:17:16 | 0:17:19 | |
the facts beforehand, they are
entitled to change their minds. You | 0:17:19 | 0:17:23 | |
might as will say that about any
political position, you can change | 0:17:23 | 0:17:26 | |
an election result because people
would vote for another party. Either | 0:17:26 | 0:17:29 | |
we believe in our democracy and the
decisions made by the British people | 0:17:29 | 0:17:34 | |
or we don't and we would undermine
faith in our democracy if we went | 0:17:34 | 0:17:38 | |
back on what has been voted for and
buy a big majority in parliament. | 0:17:38 | 0:17:42 | |
Thank you for joining us. | 0:17:42 | 0:17:45 | |
The First Minister of Wales today
responded to criticisms | 0:17:45 | 0:17:47 | |
of the handling of misconduct
allegations against Carl Sargeant, | 0:17:47 | 0:17:50 | |
the Welsh Labour Assembly
Communities Minister who, | 0:17:50 | 0:17:53 | |
after he was suspended,
is believed to have taken his | 0:17:53 | 0:17:55 | |
own life on Tuesday. | 0:17:55 | 0:17:57 | |
Mr Sargeant was facing allegations
of "unwanted attention, | 0:17:57 | 0:18:01 | |
inappropriate touching and groping,"
and Carwyn James said he had acted | 0:18:01 | 0:18:04 | |
by the book and had no alternative
but to sack his minister. | 0:18:04 | 0:18:07 | |
Whatever the truth of
the allegations, Carl Sargeant's | 0:18:07 | 0:18:09 | |
death has created shockwaves
in the Labour Party and the country. | 0:18:09 | 0:18:12 | |
David Grossman spent
the day in Cardiff. | 0:18:12 | 0:18:17 | |
Today was the first chance
for Labour Assembly members | 0:18:17 | 0:18:21 | |
to gather and reflect on the death
of their colleague and sign | 0:18:21 | 0:18:25 | |
a book of condolence. | 0:18:25 | 0:18:27 | |
Since devolution, this assembly has
been subject to its share | 0:18:27 | 0:18:30 | |
of intrigue and crisis but there has
never been anything like this. | 0:18:30 | 0:18:33 | |
Just down this corridor
on the right-hand side, | 0:18:33 | 0:18:35 | |
Carwyn Jones, the Welsh First
Minister, is having, | 0:18:35 | 0:18:37 | |
I think it's safe to say,
the most difficult political meeting | 0:18:37 | 0:18:39 | |
of his career. | 0:18:39 | 0:18:42 | |
He's having to explain
to his colleagues and answer | 0:18:42 | 0:18:45 | |
questions from them about this
matter, why he took | 0:18:45 | 0:18:47 | |
the decisions that he did. | 0:18:47 | 0:18:50 | |
The immediate timeline
of this tragedy begins | 0:18:50 | 0:18:52 | |
last Friday at 12.50pm. | 0:18:52 | 0:18:55 | |
Carl Sargeant tweeted
that he was standing | 0:18:55 | 0:18:57 | |
down as a minister. | 0:18:57 | 0:18:59 | |
But 40 minutes later
the Welsh First Minister, | 0:19:03 | 0:19:06 | |
Carwyn Jones, began a reshuffle
of his team and a spokesman | 0:19:06 | 0:19:08 | |
for Mr Jones told the BBC that
Mr Sargeant had not resigned but had | 0:19:08 | 0:19:12 | |
in fact been sacked. | 0:19:12 | 0:19:14 | |
Ten minutes later Mr Sargeant
received an e-mail from | 0:19:14 | 0:19:16 | |
Louise Magee, general secretary
of the Welsh Labour Party, | 0:19:16 | 0:19:18 | |
informing him that he had been
suspended from the party. | 0:19:18 | 0:19:25 | |
According to a spokesman,
there was to be an investigation | 0:19:25 | 0:19:28 | |
into allegations received. | 0:19:28 | 0:19:31 | |
On Monday, Mr Sargeant's
solicitor, Hugh Bowden, | 0:19:31 | 0:19:33 | |
wrote to the Labour Party requesting
details of the allegations | 0:19:33 | 0:19:35 | |
made against him. | 0:19:35 | 0:19:39 | |
The letter makes it clear that
Mr Sargeant was aware | 0:19:39 | 0:19:42 | |
of the broad nature of these. | 0:19:42 | 0:19:49 | |
They concerned "unwanted attention,
inappropriate touching or grouping." | 0:19:49 | 0:19:54 | |
The letter also expressed
"the anxiety and distress | 0:19:54 | 0:19:56 | |
caused to our client,
particularly since he is yet | 0:19:56 | 0:19:58 | |
to receive any details
of the allegations." | 0:19:58 | 0:20:00 | |
Carwyn Jones then did
a series of interviews | 0:20:00 | 0:20:02 | |
discussing these allegations,
saying that a number had been made | 0:20:02 | 0:20:04 | |
against Mr Sargeant. | 0:20:04 | 0:20:08 | |
Mr Sargeant's solicitor then e-mails
the party again, complaining, | 0:20:08 | 0:20:15 | |
these comments were "clearly
prejudicing what is | 0:20:15 | 0:20:18 | |
allegedly an independent
inquiry by your office." | 0:20:18 | 0:20:20 | |
The next day, Carl
Sargeant was found dead. | 0:20:20 | 0:20:21 | |
It was a pale and visibly
upset First Minister | 0:20:21 | 0:20:24 | |
who arrived at a press
conference this afternoon. | 0:20:24 | 0:20:26 | |
Carl was my friend. | 0:20:26 | 0:20:29 | |
In all the years that I knew him,
I never had a cross word with him, | 0:20:29 | 0:20:33 | |
never argued with him. | 0:20:33 | 0:20:35 | |
For 14 years we worked together. | 0:20:35 | 0:20:38 | |
He was a great Chief Whip
and a minister who served his | 0:20:38 | 0:20:41 | |
country with distinction. | 0:20:41 | 0:20:44 | |
Here was the emotion and the tribute
that friends of Mr Sargeant say has | 0:20:44 | 0:20:48 | |
been so lacking in the official
response to his death | 0:20:48 | 0:20:50 | |
but Mr Jones was also firm
that he had acted correctly. | 0:20:50 | 0:20:55 | |
I properly did all that
I could to make sure that everything | 0:20:55 | 0:20:57 | |
was being done by the book. | 0:20:57 | 0:21:01 | |
I had no alternative but to take
the action that I did and I hope | 0:21:01 | 0:21:05 | |
that people will understand that. | 0:21:05 | 0:21:08 | |
Reporters present weren't given
the opportunity to ask any questions | 0:21:08 | 0:21:10 | |
and plenty of those remain. | 0:21:10 | 0:21:15 | |
One of Carl Sargeant's friends
and former ministerial colleagues | 0:21:15 | 0:21:18 | |
told me that Carwyn Jones knew that
Mr Sargeant was mentally fragile | 0:21:18 | 0:21:20 | |
before he sacked and suspended him. | 0:21:20 | 0:21:24 | |
I think it's fair to say
that the First Minister knew | 0:21:24 | 0:21:27 | |
how fragile Carl was. | 0:21:27 | 0:21:32 | |
There were occasions when I was
a minister in the government | 0:21:32 | 0:21:35 | |
when the First Minister said to me
he was worried about | 0:21:35 | 0:21:37 | |
Carl, how was he doing? | 0:21:37 | 0:21:38 | |
What did you take him
to mean by that? | 0:21:38 | 0:21:41 | |
Well, I think he was worried
about Carl's frame of mind. | 0:21:41 | 0:21:43 | |
He said that on a number
of times when Carl and I | 0:21:43 | 0:21:46 | |
were ministers together. | 0:21:46 | 0:21:47 | |
Really? | 0:21:47 | 0:21:48 | |
Yes. | 0:21:48 | 0:21:50 | |
I'm assuming he was making
judgments about what he | 0:21:50 | 0:21:53 | |
was hearing about Carl. | 0:21:53 | 0:21:54 | |
You know, there was no question
that Carl's resilience | 0:21:54 | 0:21:57 | |
was undermined during the previous
period of government. | 0:21:57 | 0:22:03 | |
And so was it incumbent
on the First Minister then to handle | 0:22:03 | 0:22:09 | |
any change in Carl's circumstances -
leaving ministerial office, being | 0:22:09 | 0:22:13 | |
suspended from the Labour Party -
particularly carefully do you think? | 0:22:13 | 0:22:16 | |
Of course it was. | 0:22:16 | 0:22:18 | |
The top floor of this building next
to the Welsh Assembly is where | 0:22:18 | 0:22:21 | |
the ministerial offices are. | 0:22:21 | 0:22:22 | |
Was the atmosphere as poison
is there as some suggest? | 0:22:22 | 0:22:24 | |
The questions about this
tragedy are now far wider | 0:22:24 | 0:22:27 | |
than one man's death. | 0:22:27 | 0:22:36 | |
The former Prime Minister Gordon
Brown has published his memoirs this | 0:22:38 | 0:22:41 | |
week and they do nothing to dispel
the Robert Burns line that he spent | 0:22:41 | 0:22:44 | |
much of his time as Chancellor
"nursing his wrath to keep it warm." | 0:22:44 | 0:22:48 | |
He'd like to be known as the hero
of the financial crash, | 0:22:48 | 0:22:51 | |
but long before that, his toxic
relationship with Tony Blair | 0:22:51 | 0:22:54 | |
and his view that he reneged
on their deal induced a simmering | 0:22:54 | 0:22:57 | |
rage that some say coloured his
behaviour in office. | 0:22:57 | 0:23:01 | |
By the time he finally moved one
door along to Number Ten, | 0:23:01 | 0:23:04 | |
he realised that he was a man out
of kilter with the times, | 0:23:04 | 0:23:07 | |
a leader who could not
get his head round the need | 0:23:07 | 0:23:10 | |
for communicating his feelings
as well as his policies | 0:23:10 | 0:23:12 | |
to the electorate. | 0:23:12 | 0:23:13 | |
For Newsnight, he sat down
with the BBC's political | 0:23:13 | 0:23:15 | |
editor, Laura Kuennsberg. | 0:23:15 | 0:23:16 | |
First, she asked him
about his current take | 0:23:16 | 0:23:18 | |
on the Brexit negotiations. | 0:23:18 | 0:23:22 | |
What will happen is that we will
come to a crisis point next summer. | 0:23:22 | 0:23:28 | |
I can't tell you exactly how it
will work itself out, | 0:23:28 | 0:23:31 | |
but this is what will happen. | 0:23:31 | 0:23:32 | |
By next summer, the public
will have made up their mind | 0:23:32 | 0:23:37 | |
that the four red lines
that the government had | 0:23:37 | 0:23:39 | |
set in place are not
going to be achieved. | 0:23:39 | 0:23:41 | |
There are going to be crossed. | 0:23:41 | 0:23:43 | |
So we will not have proper control
borders or our money. | 0:23:43 | 0:23:45 | |
We will pay loads of money
to the European Union. | 0:23:45 | 0:23:48 | |
We will not have control
of our courts and law | 0:23:48 | 0:23:52 | |
because we will still be governed
by the European Court of Justice and | 0:23:52 | 0:23:56 | |
we will not have control of trade
because we will not have | 0:23:56 | 0:23:59 | |
individual trade
agreements for years. | 0:23:59 | 0:24:01 | |
So all of the propositions that
were made by the Leave camp | 0:24:01 | 0:24:04 | |
including 350 million
a week for the National | 0:24:04 | 0:24:06 | |
Health Service, they
are not being achieved. | 0:24:06 | 0:24:07 | |
So next summer, we have
to assess the position. | 0:24:07 | 0:24:10 | |
In my view, you cannot
go back to the | 0:24:10 | 0:24:12 | |
electorate and say, you were wrong. | 0:24:12 | 0:24:16 | |
People made the decision
which was right for them to see | 0:24:16 | 0:24:19 | |
that respected. | 0:24:19 | 0:24:20 | |
In a democracy, once a decision
is made, as it was made in | 0:24:20 | 0:24:23 | |
Scotland, you have to respect it. | 0:24:23 | 0:24:25 | |
But what you can say is,
is there a game changer? | 0:24:25 | 0:24:31 | |
Is there something we didn't get
right last time that | 0:24:31 | 0:24:34 | |
would persuade millions of Leave
voters to think it was worth going | 0:24:34 | 0:24:37 | |
for Remain? | 0:24:37 | 0:24:38 | |
To be clear, it sounds
like you are suggesting that the | 0:24:38 | 0:24:43 | |
Labour Party should be holding out
the possibility of people revisiting | 0:24:43 | 0:24:46 | |
the decision if things
change in the EU. | 0:24:46 | 0:24:48 | |
Yes. | 0:24:48 | 0:24:49 | |
At this point, I don't think
you should be saying, let's | 0:24:49 | 0:24:52 | |
another referendum,
because that is saying to people, | 0:24:52 | 0:24:54 | |
you made the wrong decision. | 0:24:54 | 0:25:01 | |
We should say, is there
any new evidence? | 0:25:01 | 0:25:03 | |
Is there something that is
different from what we have | 0:25:03 | 0:25:05 | |
learned about what is
happening in Europe | 0:25:05 | 0:25:07 | |
or what we are learning
about | 0:25:07 | 0:25:08 | |
what is happening in Britain
that we have to look at? | 0:25:08 | 0:25:11 | |
The right time to assess
that is when we have on the | 0:25:11 | 0:25:14 | |
table what I think will be
an inadequate agreement that | 0:25:14 | 0:25:16 | |
breaches the red lines
and doesn't give the Leave camp | 0:25:16 | 0:25:19 | |
the satisfaction it had. | 0:25:19 | 0:25:29 | |
Jeremy Corbyn is a phenomenon. But I
respect the fact that Andy is | 0:25:33 | 0:25:43 | |
expressing peoples anger about
Universal Credit, what happened at | 0:25:43 | 0:25:46 | |
Grenfell Tower, affordable housing,
inequality in the country and | 0:25:46 | 0:25:52 | |
tuition fees and he is articulating
that. Some people in the Labour | 0:25:52 | 0:25:55 | |
Party who are not fans of his plane,
to an extent, you and Tony Blair for | 0:25:55 | 0:26:01 | |
turning the success of new Labour
into bitterness. I worked with Tony | 0:26:01 | 0:26:08 | |
for 24 years, we worked together on
all the difficult issues. We | 0:26:08 | 0:26:12 | |
refinanced the health service
massively and doubled its budget, | 0:26:12 | 0:26:17 | |
introduced tax credits that took 2
million pensioners out of poverty. | 0:26:17 | 0:26:21 | |
Of course there were also policy
disagreement and that is inevitable | 0:26:21 | 0:26:30 | |
in politics. But your disagreements
were about much more than policy. | 0:26:30 | 0:26:35 | |
They were mainly about policy. But
also about when he was going to | 0:26:35 | 0:26:39 | |
leave number ten and you write about
it in the book and the promises you | 0:26:39 | 0:26:42 | |
felt he made to you. I think the
section is about five pages of 500. | 0:26:42 | 0:26:50 | |
I tell the truth because if I did
not visit I would seem to be | 0:26:50 | 0:26:54 | |
evasive. What did he say? He wanted
to be leader, I did not want there | 0:26:54 | 0:26:59 | |
to be a division between us. I
agreed that I would take control of | 0:26:59 | 0:27:04 | |
economic policy and he said he would
step down in the second term, it's | 0:27:04 | 0:27:07 | |
as simple as that. And that of
course didn't happen. To be honest, | 0:27:07 | 0:27:14 | |
the issues in politics cannot be
reduced to personalities. This is | 0:27:14 | 0:27:18 | |
not about reducing it, this is a
question of when you would take over | 0:27:18 | 0:27:25 | |
as Prime Minister, the defining
relationship inside the government. | 0:27:25 | 0:27:27 | |
It is not just tittle tattle or five
pages in a book, this was a huge | 0:27:27 | 0:27:33 | |
conflict between the two of you that
dominated Labour politics for a long | 0:27:33 | 0:27:36 | |
time. I don't think it did actually.
I think the issues were more | 0:27:36 | 0:27:39 | |
important. Some people said to me
agree with what Tony wants on the | 0:27:39 | 0:27:45 | |
euro and he will lead and I would
not do that because I said the euro | 0:27:45 | 0:27:48 | |
was about the national interest and
we had to make the right decision. I | 0:27:48 | 0:27:51 | |
doubt that it was about
personalities and I think my book is | 0:27:51 | 0:27:55 | |
actually about the forces that have
driven British politics. And | 0:27:55 | 0:27:59 | |
finally, you had a big role in
persuading people in the Scottish | 0:27:59 | 0:28:03 | |
independence referendum. There is a
sense now after the general election | 0:28:03 | 0:28:07 | |
that the SNP moved backwards,
somehow the Scottish independence | 0:28:07 | 0:28:15 | |
debate is sealed and over. Do you
think that is true or is it | 0:28:15 | 0:28:17 | |
complacent -- complacent four
Unionists? Scotland is not stable | 0:28:17 | 0:28:23 | |
for the long-term. What we have got
is two groups caught in quite | 0:28:23 | 0:28:29 | |
extreme positions. We have the
Nationalists who want all out | 0:28:29 | 0:28:33 | |
independents and they are going for
the referendum whenever they can get | 0:28:33 | 0:28:36 | |
it and we now have a Tory party
which is the Leader of the | 0:28:36 | 0:28:40 | |
Opposition in Scotland and they want
absolute status quo. The status quo | 0:28:40 | 0:28:45 | |
cannot survive, nor is independent
of good viable option for Scotland. | 0:28:45 | 0:28:48 | |
There has to be a middle way. The
sadness is we have these two | 0:28:48 | 0:28:53 | |
extremes that almost enjoy the fact
they are on the extreme and they | 0:28:53 | 0:28:58 | |
don't talk to each other, they can't
communicate with each other, there | 0:28:58 | 0:29:02 | |
is no common ground. There has to be
a better base is building the | 0:29:02 | 0:29:05 | |
relationship between Scotland and
the UK and we never want to get into | 0:29:05 | 0:29:10 | |
a Catalonia situation where people
are at daggers drawn and it becomes | 0:29:10 | 0:29:13 | |
is usually bitter constitutional
issue again. Can you see something | 0:29:13 | 0:29:18 | |
like that? I see Scotland stuck in a
but if we don't watch. | 0:29:18 | 0:29:21 | |
Many former politicians have turned
themselves into broadcasters, | 0:29:21 | 0:29:25 | |
but the new role for the former
First Minister of Scotland | 0:29:25 | 0:29:28 | |
trumps them all. | 0:29:28 | 0:29:31 | |
Alex Salmond is to host his own chat
show on Russia Today. | 0:29:31 | 0:29:34 | |
The Kremlin-backed TV
station is seen by many | 0:29:34 | 0:29:36 | |
as Russian propaganda. | 0:29:36 | 0:29:40 | |
It's nothing if not controversial -
when Putin sent troops into Crimea, | 0:29:40 | 0:29:47 | |
it broadcast the assertion that no
occupation had occurred | 0:29:47 | 0:29:50 | |
and pro-Russian locals had
got their hands on Russian uniforms. | 0:29:50 | 0:29:52 | |
It was also censured by Ofcom
for claiming that the BBC staged | 0:29:52 | 0:29:55 | |
a chemical weapons attack
for a news report. | 0:29:55 | 0:29:57 | |
Well, the star of the show,
Alex Salmond, is here now. | 0:29:57 | 0:30:03 | |
So you are doing a chat show on
Russia Today. Do you feel that you | 0:30:03 | 0:30:09 | |
will be free to criticise Russian
policy? I know I will be, because | 0:30:09 | 0:30:13 | |
the show was produced by my company
and we give it to RT on a Wednesday | 0:30:13 | 0:30:20 | |
evening, and all they decide is
whether to broadcast it or not. And | 0:30:20 | 0:30:24 | |
are you sure that if you are
critical and they have a 24 hours | 0:30:24 | 0:30:28 | |
beforehand, they will broadcast it?
If they choose not to broadcast it, | 0:30:28 | 0:30:32 | |
that is up to them. I am certainly
hoping they will. In terms of | 0:30:32 | 0:30:37 | |
criticising their policy, I was on
an RT show a year ago and I made him | 0:30:37 | 0:30:47 | |
vigorous attack on Russian
intervention in Syria. They | 0:30:47 | 0:30:50 | |
broadcast that on one of their own
shows, so I think there were hardly | 0:30:50 | 0:30:54 | |
not broadcast a show that I produce
where I am free to say what I like. | 0:30:54 | 0:30:59 | |
And it is an interview show and as
you know, in interviews you let your | 0:30:59 | 0:31:04 | |
guests express anything. So you
think you will be free to bring on | 0:31:04 | 0:31:07 | |
people like Pussy Riot? I can bring
on whoever I like. One of the early | 0:31:07 | 0:31:15 | |
topics I will be looking at is
homosexuality and the apology that | 0:31:15 | 0:31:18 | |
has been made in Scotland, where the
same bill was proposed by an SNP MP | 0:31:18 | 0:31:24 | |
last year and was talked out by the
government here to apologise to | 0:31:24 | 0:31:29 | |
homosexuals. That will be an
interesting early subject to | 0:31:29 | 0:31:33 | |
discuss. Would you have any qualms,
take that censure of RT when they | 0:31:33 | 0:31:41 | |
broadcast the wrong assertion that
the BBC had staged its own chemical | 0:31:41 | 0:31:44 | |
weapons attack. Would you have any
worry about the juxtaposition of | 0:31:44 | 0:31:49 | |
some kind of assertion like that?
Over the last year or two, 50 Labour | 0:31:49 | 0:31:55 | |
MPs including the current Labour
Party leader, 37 Conservative MPs, | 0:31:55 | 0:31:59 | |
including some who were at the
launch tonight and 17 SNP MPs have | 0:31:59 | 0:32:05 | |
appeared on RT programmes. I
appeared on RT programmes when I was | 0:32:05 | 0:32:09 | |
still a member of Parliament. It
would be strange if I said that now | 0:32:09 | 0:32:12 | |
I am no longer a member of
Parliament, I am refusing to make my | 0:32:12 | 0:32:15 | |
own show with my own production
company over which I have total | 0:32:15 | 0:32:18 | |
editorial control. Do you lend
credibility to RT? The idea is that | 0:32:18 | 0:32:28 | |
people watch the show, and if it is
a good show with high production | 0:32:28 | 0:32:31 | |
values and interesting guests, they
should say it is a good show. If it | 0:32:31 | 0:32:37 | |
turns out to be Kremlin propaganda,
people can slate me, but why not | 0:32:37 | 0:32:40 | |
watch the show first? So who are you
confident of having on? I have done | 0:32:40 | 0:32:46 | |
some of the first interviews
already. The inspiration for this | 0:32:46 | 0:32:50 | |
show came from the festival show I
did in Edinburgh and the chat | 0:32:50 | 0:32:53 | |
component of that. Another
television company suggested that we | 0:32:53 | 0:32:58 | |
should turn it into a TV show. I'm
not suggesting that you are some | 0:32:58 | 0:33:04 | |
kind of Mogul in the Rupert Murdoch
mould, but there is a suggestion | 0:33:04 | 0:33:08 | |
that you might be joining the board
which runs the Scotsman. I might | 0:33:08 | 0:33:16 | |
become chair of the board if the
shareholders agree. You would have | 0:33:16 | 0:33:21 | |
no problem with taking on that role
as well as broadcasting on RT? You | 0:33:21 | 0:33:26 | |
mustn't count your chickens with
these things. That will be a matter | 0:33:26 | 0:33:30 | |
for the shareholders. One of your
BBC colleagues, Andrew Neil, was | 0:33:30 | 0:33:34 | |
tweaking tonight and attacking me
for wanting to be the chair of | 0:33:34 | 0:33:38 | |
Johnson press and having my show on
RT, oblivious to the fact that he | 0:33:38 | 0:33:42 | |
used to be editorial director of the
Scotsman and want to dictate to | 0:33:42 | 0:33:50 | |
journalists. I have no such
ambitions, I just want to produce a | 0:33:50 | 0:33:54 | |
good television show. Alex Salmond,
thank you very much. | 0:33:54 | 0:33:58 | |
A year ago, President Trump
was elected on a mandate to withdraw | 0:33:58 | 0:34:01 | |
from international treaties and put
jobs - especially in coal - | 0:34:01 | 0:34:03 | |
before the environment. | 0:34:03 | 0:34:05 | |
He is living up to his promise,
saying he will leave the Paris | 0:34:05 | 0:34:08 | |
climate accord as soon
as the UN allows. | 0:34:08 | 0:34:10 | |
And in the USA itself, he's been
rolling back environmental laws. | 0:34:10 | 0:34:12 | |
On this, the week when nations
are meeting in Bonn for the annual | 0:34:12 | 0:34:19 | |
UN climate conference,
the BBC's environment analyst, | 0:34:19 | 0:34:22 | |
Roger Harrabin, has been to the USA
to hear how some states are right | 0:34:22 | 0:34:25 | |
behind him, but others have
begun a green fightback. | 0:34:25 | 0:34:30 | |
Southern California. | 0:34:30 | 0:34:34 | |
The San Gorgonio pass. | 0:34:34 | 0:34:38 | |
A route through the mountains
and a funnel for the wind that | 0:34:38 | 0:34:40 | |
rushes from desert to coast. | 0:34:40 | 0:34:47 | |
Look at this land. | 0:34:47 | 0:34:48 | |
Stone, brick, a bit of scrub,
useless for agriculture. | 0:34:48 | 0:34:55 | |
Stone, grit, a bit of scrub,
useless for agriculture. | 0:34:57 | 0:34:59 | |
But there is one very
lucrative crop here, | 0:34:59 | 0:35:01 | |
and that is the clean energy
from the desert wind. | 0:35:01 | 0:35:04 | |
Renewables boomed under
President Obama, but President Trump | 0:35:04 | 0:35:08 | |
says they threaten the economy
because their output is variable. | 0:35:08 | 0:35:11 | |
He wants to subsidise coal
and nuclear instead. | 0:35:11 | 0:35:15 | |
He's trying to scrap 50
environmental rules. | 0:35:15 | 0:35:18 | |
He wants to protect coal by relaxing
pollution standards for power plant. | 0:35:18 | 0:35:24 | |
15 states, led by California
Governor Jerry Brown, | 0:35:24 | 0:35:27 | |
are fighting back with plans
for their own emissions cuts | 0:35:27 | 0:35:29 | |
from housing, industry and cars. | 0:35:29 | 0:35:34 | |
We're in a contest of ideas,
a contest of government | 0:35:34 | 0:35:37 | |
actions and policies. | 0:35:37 | 0:35:42 | |
The outcome of this contest
will determine what the world | 0:35:42 | 0:35:44 | |
is going to look like over the next
10, 20 and 30 years. | 0:35:44 | 0:35:52 | |
I hope Trump will not be, I hope,
a permanent phenomenon, | 0:35:52 | 0:35:58 | |
so we're holding the torch,
as it were, in this | 0:35:58 | 0:36:00 | |
interim of rather sorry
environmental ignorance. | 0:36:00 | 0:36:10 | |
But what to do about variable
energy from sun and wind? | 0:36:11 | 0:36:17 | |
Here's part of a solution
in California. | 0:36:17 | 0:36:20 | |
These containers make up the biggest
lithium battery in the world so far. | 0:36:20 | 0:36:23 | |
Near San Diego, this giant battery
farm can power 200,000 | 0:36:23 | 0:36:26 | |
homes for four hours. | 0:36:26 | 0:36:28 | |
It was built in just six months. | 0:36:28 | 0:36:33 | |
This type of energy storage system
can move energy throughout time, | 0:36:33 | 0:36:39 | |
so it can take energy that's
generated when wind and solar | 0:36:39 | 0:36:41 | |
are abundant and move it to the peak
times when the grid might eat it | 0:36:41 | 0:36:51 | |
when the grid might need
it | 0:36:55 | 0:36:56 | |
and those energy sources might not
be available at the level needed. | 0:36:56 | 0:36:59 | |
Along with other technologies,
batteries can buffer temporary | 0:36:59 | 0:37:01 | |
shortfalls in power. | 0:37:01 | 0:37:02 | |
Whether 100% renewables can work
is still under debate. | 0:37:02 | 0:37:05 | |
The roads are another
Trump battleground. | 0:37:05 | 0:37:08 | |
The president wants to relax
pollution standards for vehicles. | 0:37:08 | 0:37:13 | |
The California Air Resources Board
has led the way on car standards. | 0:37:13 | 0:37:20 | |
Its head says the President's team
will be held back by court cases | 0:37:20 | 0:37:23 | |
brought by their opponents. | 0:37:23 | 0:37:28 | |
I expect that they will lose a lot
of those cases because the people | 0:37:28 | 0:37:31 | |
trying to carry out these programmes
of deconstruction, if you will, | 0:37:31 | 0:37:34 | |
the rollback, don't actually know
much about how to do what they're | 0:37:34 | 0:37:36 | |
trying to do. | 0:37:36 | 0:37:38 | |
Some of what they've
promised can't happen. | 0:37:38 | 0:37:42 | |
In California, the climate
may already be a matter | 0:37:42 | 0:37:44 | |
of life and death. | 0:37:44 | 0:37:47 | |
Scientists say climate change
did not cause the wildfires that | 0:37:47 | 0:37:49 | |
killed at least 40 people,
but it did make them worse. | 0:37:49 | 0:37:54 | |
They can't believe President Trump's
administration has banned mention | 0:37:54 | 0:37:56 | |
of climate change from some
key government documents. | 0:37:56 | 0:38:01 | |
I'm appalled by what is happening
in the Trump administration. | 0:38:01 | 0:38:04 | |
He has appointed a climate
change denier to run | 0:38:04 | 0:38:07 | |
the Environmental Protection Agency. | 0:38:07 | 0:38:09 | |
He has appointed a climate change
denier, or at least a contrarian, | 0:38:09 | 0:38:15 | |
to run the Department of Energy,
a climate change denier to run | 0:38:15 | 0:38:18 | |
the Office of Management and Budget,
and it's consistent with the view | 0:38:18 | 0:38:23 | |
which I call the
know-nothing trifecta. | 0:38:23 | 0:38:27 | |
These are people who don't know
anything, they're proud of not | 0:38:27 | 0:38:29 | |
knowing anything they don't want
anyone else to know anything. | 0:38:29 | 0:38:33 | |
But President Trump promised voters
that he would bring back coal, | 0:38:33 | 0:38:37 | |
and 26 states supported his plan
to scrap President Obama's clampdown | 0:38:37 | 0:38:40 | |
on pollution from coal power. | 0:38:40 | 0:38:44 | |
The Trump administration declined
to be interviewed on the issue, | 0:38:44 | 0:38:46 | |
but the President's spokesmen say
elements of climate science | 0:38:46 | 0:38:48 | |
is still up for debate. | 0:38:48 | 0:38:54 | |
are still up for debate. | 0:38:56 | 0:38:57 | |
I think President Trump is doing
a wonderful job not only | 0:38:57 | 0:39:00 | |
in reviving the coal industry,
but in reviving the | 0:39:00 | 0:39:02 | |
United States of America. | 0:39:02 | 0:39:03 | |
I do not believe that the American
coal industry will ever come | 0:39:03 | 0:39:06 | |
back to where it was,
but I believe it will stay | 0:39:06 | 0:39:10 | |
there and come back slightly
as Mr Trump create jobs in America, | 0:39:10 | 0:39:15 | |
which he is doing. | 0:39:15 | 0:39:17 | |
The US will go to the climate
conference in Bonn facing | 0:39:17 | 0:39:20 | |
all the other countries
in the world. | 0:39:20 | 0:39:22 | |
That COP 21 climate
accord was a fraud. | 0:39:22 | 0:39:25 | |
It was nothing more than an attempt
by developing countries of the world | 0:39:25 | 0:39:29 | |
to get American dollars. | 0:39:29 | 0:39:31 | |
It will have no environmental
benefit at all. | 0:39:31 | 0:39:37 | |
But away from coal states like Ohio,
the world is moving | 0:39:37 | 0:39:40 | |
to a different beat. | 0:39:40 | 0:39:45 | |
This is the Tesla electric
car, dancing for fun. | 0:39:45 | 0:39:52 | |
California's governor warns
that the President's plans | 0:39:52 | 0:39:55 | |
to protect jobs by backing petrol
cars will backfire. | 0:39:55 | 0:40:00 | |
China is investing billions both
in investment in battery technology | 0:40:00 | 0:40:02 | |
and electric cars and the regulatory
regime that will produce, | 0:40:02 | 0:40:09 | |
for their market, a percentage
of electric cars that, | 0:40:09 | 0:40:11 | |
to my knowledge, no American auto
executive can even imagine. | 0:40:11 | 0:40:15 | |
The Chinese have taken over on wind
production, wind technology and also | 0:40:15 | 0:40:22 | |
photovoltaic solar. | 0:40:22 | 0:40:25 | |
So they're going to take
over the American car | 0:40:25 | 0:40:27 | |
industry, and the people
in Detroit are half-asleep. | 0:40:27 | 0:40:29 | |
They have to wake up,
and I'm hoping they will. | 0:40:29 | 0:40:33 | |
But the president is set
on his fossil fuel course. | 0:40:33 | 0:40:37 | |
To the UN climate conference
in Bonn, he's chosen to send two | 0:40:37 | 0:40:40 | |
respected diplomats who say climate
change is a serious problem. | 0:40:40 | 0:40:46 | |
But representatives from the US coal
industry are on the delegation too, | 0:40:46 | 0:40:52 | |
promoting coal as part
of a climate change solution. | 0:40:52 | 0:40:55 | |
That has outraged some
other climate delegates, | 0:40:55 | 0:40:57 | |
but pulling back from climate
agreements and promoting | 0:40:57 | 0:41:00 | |
American coal are exactly
what President Trump promised | 0:41:00 | 0:41:02 | |
the American people a year ago. | 0:41:02 | 0:41:08 | |
That's all from us, but before
we go, today we celebrated | 0:41:08 | 0:41:11 | |
the 20th birthday of
the BBC News Channel. | 0:41:11 | 0:41:15 | |
Since 1997, it has been
covering the stories | 0:41:15 | 0:41:18 | |
that matter round the
clock | 0:41:18 | 0:41:20 | |
with courage,
intelligence and panache. | 0:41:20 | 0:41:22 | |
Well, most of the time. | 0:41:22 | 0:41:24 | |
Good night. | 0:41:24 | 0:41:26 | |
Under the proposals,
drunk troublemakers would be taken | 0:41:26 | 0:41:29 | |
to cells run by private firms
and have to pay for it | 0:41:29 | 0:41:31 | |
once they've sobered up. | 0:41:31 | 0:41:35 | |
Guy Cooney is the editor of the
technology website News Wireless. | 0:41:35 | 0:41:38 | |
Hello, good morning to you. | 0:41:38 | 0:41:42 | |
Good morning. | 0:41:42 | 0:41:43 | |
Plenty more to come from here
of course, none of it news, | 0:41:43 | 0:41:45 | |
because that will come
from Buckingham Palace. | 0:41:45 | 0:41:47 | |
But that won't stop us,
we'll see you later. | 0:41:47 | 0:41:49 | |
Rachel. | 0:41:49 | 0:41:50 | |
CRASHING. | 0:41:50 | 0:41:51 | |
And we've lost a camera! | 0:41:51 | 0:41:53 | |
But never mind. | 0:41:53 | 0:42:02 | |
This is BBC News, I'm Carole Walker. | 0:42:02 | 0:42:06 | |
Every now and then there's
always one mistake. | 0:42:06 | 0:42:08 | |
That was it. | 0:42:08 | 0:42:09 | |
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