tv Beyond 100 Days BBC News February 12, 2018 7:00pm-8:01pm GMT
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you're watching beyond 100 days. the white house insists the president is shocked by allegations of domestic violence by a staff member, so why did donald trump defend the accused abuser is so vociferously? it's another tumultuous day in the white house. mixed messages on north korea. the vice president says the us is open to negotiations. the deputy chief executive of 0xfam resigns over the british charity's handling of a prostitution scandal in haiti. a new exhibition celebrates the decade that brought us celebrates the decade that brought us everything from pop art to political change. get in touch on social media. hello. i'm kitty kay. it is infrastructure day at the
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white house. the president is unveiling his multibillion—dollar spending plan. the only problem is no one is paying much attention because that is yet another trump administration scandal. the latest episode concerns an aide accused of beating his wife and chief of staff who increasingly seems to be losing his grip on power. generaljohn kelly is accused of miss handling the case of rob porter and now there are reports that he has threatened to quit. yesterday, the counter to the president went on television to explain trump's position. he has full confidence in his current chief of staff generaljohn kelly and he is not actively searching for replacements. he also has full confidence in his communications director and long serving eight. when it comes to those two individuals, the president has full confidence in their performance. not actively searching for replacements. for more on this, i spoke with
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general kelly's friend jayjohnson. he served as the secretary of homeland security during the president 0bama administration. somebody in the white house made an error ofjudgment over a staffing issue. john kelly is the chief of staff. should he stand down? as long as donald trump is the president, are country is best served ifjohn kelly is the chief of staff. you're correct. i think there were serious errors injudgment correct. i think there were serious errors in judgment about the situation. it is a very serious allegation. it may be more than an allegation. it may be more than an allegation. and ifind it very difficult to believe, to work with someone difficult to believe, to work with someone who has frankly hit his wife. even if... rhodes scholarship notwithstanding. i think there were serious errors in judgment notwithstanding. i think there were serious errors injudgment here. notwithstanding. i think there were serious errors in judgment here. and yet somebody in the white house and it may be john yet somebody in the white house and it may bejohn kelly because it does seem like he knew these allegations
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even though he may not have known about the full extent of them. somebody decided that rob porter's public service was more important than the fact that his wife says she beat him. yes, and i think that is a problem. something like this should come out in the security clearance process almost immediately and sometimes you get an interim clea ra nce sometimes you get an interim clearance and it just sometimes you get an interim clearance and itjust kind of sits there without a final adjudication, and so somebody made a judgment to let mr porter have access to all sorts of very sensitive documents with an interim security clearance without pushing it to a final adjudication. would that have happened in the 0bama administration, that somebody who did not have permanent security clea ra nce did not have permanent security clearance would have had access to the kind of documents that mr porter had the kind of documents that mr porter ha d a ccess the kind of documents that mr porter had access to? i am not aware of any similar situation in the 0bama administration. very definitely we had people with interim security
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clea ra nces had people with interim security clearances who were able to simply get into thejob clearances who were able to simply get into the job with an interim security clearance, but i'm unfamiliar with the situation. could you have somebody with interim security clearance for a year? is that totally unheard of at does that happen? it is hard for me to say from my vantage point, but it does seem very unusual, from my vantage point, but it does seem very unusual, yes. let me ask you about russia because obviously it was during your time as head of homeland security that the russians we re homeland security that the russians were hacking into and meddling with the american electoral system. to what extent were you aware when you are running homeland security of what the russians were doing and to a greater degree, did you miss anything? there was merging intelligence throughout the summer of 2016. by late summer, that picture was clear. and then the discussion turned to what we do
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about it. a number of us felt very strongly that we had to tell the american people what we knew in an ongoing presidential campaign that a foreign power was attempting to put his thumb on the scale of the election result in multiple ways, and so we were doing then with a cross current of considerations. 0ne, cross current of considerations. one, the national security apparatus rarely if ever becomes involved in a political campaign, in an ongoing campaign. two, one of the candidates, mrtrump, campaign. two, one of the candidates, mr trump, was saying that the outcome was good to be raped, and rightly we did not want to be perceived as ourselves putting out on one still taking sides. —— was going to be reached. we had to tell the american public what we knew and we did. were you aware of the full extent of it? how many americans were receiving information on facebook? no. i am not sure we
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are aware now of the full extent of it. it continues to be a unfolding picture and at this stage frankly i am not anything would surprise me at the extent of the influence campaign from 2016, which we have to be concerned about for our midterm elections this year ‘s. concerned about for our midterm elections this year 's. thank you very much for coming in. thank you. the president refused to answer questions about his staff issues today. instead, he announced $1.5 billion for an infrastructure plan, saying it is time to spend money at home and not abroad. as of a couple of months ago, we have spent $7 trillion in the middle east, $7 trillion. what a mistake. it is what it is. when i took over. and we are trying to build roads and bridges and fixed bridges that are falling down. and we have a hard time getting the money. it's crazy. he has a point. america's infrastructure is in a very sorry
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state. with me as former adviser to george w bush, ron christie. i guess this didn't happen very much during mr bush's white house. six days. people are talking about a staffing issue up bout somebody who is accused of beating his wife. why has the white house let this go on for so the white house let this go on for so long? it is a shame. in the bush administration and i believe also in the 0bama administration, this would have been a one—day story. you have a supper who is accused, rightly or not, of committing a very horrible crime, domestic violence, they would be gone. there is no place for that in the white house. we have been talking about this for six days and it isa talking about this for six days and it is a testament to the fact that the president likes some of the guys who are around him and doesn't want to get rid of them. 0k, who are around him and doesn't want to get rid of them. ok, so there is a political invitation to this, beyond whether general kelly stays or goes, as we were discussing, and thatis or goes, as we were discussing, and that is what women voters think of this and there is some evidence that female voters are turning against
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him. there is a new washington poll that has come out saying that president trump's approval has followed. a year ago, he had a 40% approval rating among white, college—educated women. those arab women that about a lot. that has tumbled to 27%. i will take a wild guess and say that the kind of things we are hearing from the white house are not particularly helping them with the no. —— those are women who vote. these are the people who got mrtrump who vote. these are the people who got mr trump elected. those college educated white women. those people are wondering what operation his staff are running and so u nfortu nately staff are running and so unfortunately in politics perception is reality and there is a perception right now that the president wants to defend some of these staffers who have been accused of some really bad things and where is the president's statement? we heard it from mike pence but not from the president
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himself. it is women who tend to decide elections in america so i am sure that the president is watching those numbers very carefully. christian is of competing in the 0lympics at the moment, as we talked about last week. america may or may not be planning to speak to north korea. mike pence to that the president always believes in talking but don't expect any rewards in return. he first floated the idea of negotiations on his way back from the winter olympics when he came under some criticism for choosing not to stand when the joint korean tea m not to stand when the joint korean team entered the stadium. he was objecting to the presence of north korean athletes and to the presence of kimjong korean athletes and to the presence of kim jong un‘s sister. she korean athletes and to the presence of kimjong un‘s sister. she is korean athletes and to the presence of kim jong un‘s sister. she is 30 yea rs old of kim jong un‘s sister. she is 30 years old and studied in switzerland and then became director of propaganda, tasks with protecting her brother's image. south korean‘s media has said that it is not kim
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jong un often seeks advice. it is not there that the comparisons with the us ends. in 2017, she was blacklisted by the us over north korea's alleged human rights abuses. let's speak more about this with big the michael richardson —— with bill richardson who has travelled to korea and knows it well. if the us on the same bed at the moment as south korea when it comes to what to do about north korea, and specifically how to handle negotiations or otherwise with pyongyang? well, we are not on the same page. south korea basically boxed the us in by announcing a potential summit with north korea by thejoint potential summit with north korea by the joint efforts of the olympics working together, but you have got to recognise the south koreans are the first line of attack. 25
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million. if there is a north korean attack. so the south koreans are playing their politics and the us is kind of isolated here, but i think developments are positive. they are moving in the right direction. instead of talking about military options and pre—emptive strikes and a bloody nose, the administration, even though they are contradicting each other, are talking about preconditions of talks, no preconditions. it is confusing, but they think we are all moving in the right direction, but i am an optimist. i am glad you are confused, because i am too. how did the vice president handle all the pics diplomacy this weekend when it came to south korea? well, ifi pics diplomacy this weekend when it came to south korea? well, if i were him in his shoes, i would havejust shot a glance at kim jong un‘s sister and smiled. but there is diplomacy involved. you're not
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supposed to shake hands or a show friendship with a country that you have aggressive relations with. that is diplomacy. but i would have done something in between. president 0bama was very good at this. at the un, you would shake the hands of the venezuelans, the un, you would shake the hands of the venezuela ns, the north un, you would shake the hands of the venezuelans, the north koreans, he would engage the iranians. but i don't fault him terribly. i like what he said on the aeroplane, that we are open to talks without preconditions. that is where the administration should have been policy wise a long time ago. he has been contradicted a little bit, not totally, by the secretary of state. they have got to sort this out and i think the best step forward is let there be a good stomach between north and south korea, which is possible. and then let's have a discussion with north korea on denuclearisation. so i think things are going a little better, but i am confused because of the mixed message that has happened within a few hours today by us policy. 0k,
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stay with us. i want to ask you about another area of the world that you are about another area of the world that you a re interested about another area of the world that you are interested in. for months, the rohinga minority has been attacked in myanmar. reuters has published an extensive reporting to the killing of ten rohinga men in september which included this photograph and eyewitness accounts. while working on the story, two of the agency's journalists were arrested and now face up to 1a years in prison. ambassador richardson, you resigned earlier this yearfrom an international panel set up by myanmar to advise on the rohinga races. you called it a whitewash and easy to suggest that aung san suu kyi, who has long been a friend of yours, has let howard go to her head. what happened and why did you set down? well, i stepped down because i felt that this commission was good to be a whitewash. when i i
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said with the specificjournalists, why are they being detained? they we re why are they being detained? they were doing theirjob. they have discovered possibly some mass graves. she exploded at me. she was not willing to listen to frank advice, even from herfriends. we go back 30 years. and the situation is getting worse. there are 1 back 30 years. and the situation is getting worse. there are1 million refugees in bangladesh that want to go home, but the repatriation process is not working. there are killings and rapes and massive degradation of human rights. this is an international crisis that the international community needs to respond to. why do you think aung san suu kyi, given all of history, all of those years under house arrest herself, all of those years of oppression by the government itself, why do then she has failed? letting it is fair to say failed to ta ke letting it is fair to say failed to take this story seriously and to do something about it. well, she has become a human... she has gone from
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being a human rights europe to a politician. the military is committing these atrocities from myanmar. and she does not want to ta ke myanmar. and she does not want to take them on. she wants to get re—elected. so she is not exercising moral authority and saying to her own military, we have got to stop this and make sure these refugees are treated properly. she has changed. politicians change. they get all of this power, they then get a lot of advice from people that they want to hear, they don't like frank advice. they get in a bubble. i think that is what has happened to my friend. well, i don't think she considers me a friend any more. but it is bad. it is not good. governor richardson, that is the truism of the day. thank you very much for joining us. politicians do change. it isa joining us. politicians do change. it is a story that is truly shocking. allegations that the charity 0xfam tried to cover up the full details of a sex scandal in involving its aid workers. the
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allegations have led to the resignation of its chief executive. the government is threatening to cut millions of pounds in funding to the charity. 0ur correspondent has the details. haiti's red light district. prostitution is illegal here, but that didn't stop some of 0xfam's staff. the charity now admitting it knew about concerns about its team and prostitutes not just knew about concerns about its team and prostitutes notjust in haiti but also in chad. and nothing was done. this man worked in human resources in haiti four years. she says she flagged concerns and was ignored. there were a lot of rumours on the ground about management and leaders exploiting the locals. sexually and in other ways. to get jobs and to have good standing. so
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these were ongoing rumours that would come to me through the drivers and other employees. so on many occasions, i would share those rumours with my boss. now, 0xfam's deputy chief executive has resigned. penny lawrence was programme director when the prosecution allegations were made and ignored. she said, "i am ashamed that this happened on my watch and i take full responsibility." the actions of senior 0xfam employee in haiti were never properly dealt with. at that time, when he used the prostitutes, it was not explicitly contrary to 0xfam's code of conduct. bringing fun into disrepute in any way and abusing people who may have been beneficiaries of course was. so there was an exploration of how should the organisation respond, but we didn't act on it, and more significantly we then allowed him
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because there were not formal complaint, we allowed him to move onto another post, and that was our failing. 0xfam's bosses were called in to meet ministers this morning, with questions about the £32 million the charity receives from the government. ministers here at the department international development no british charities do good work overseas, but with 0xfam only telling half the story about what happened with its staff in haiti, it has now put pressure on the entire charity sector. 0xfam says it investigated 87 allegations of sexual abuse or exploitation last year. save the children said it looked into 31 cases of sexual misconduct where half the people we re misconduct where half the people were fired. christian aid said it had two cases. 0ne were fired. christian aid said it had two cases. one was reported to the charity commission. had two cases. one was reported to the charity commissionlj had two cases. one was reported to the charity commission. i don't think anybody can say in good faith operating in an environment like ours that we can eliminate all risk asa
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ours that we can eliminate all risk as a matter of 100% certainty. what we can do is put in 100% best effort to keep these people out of our organisation. the charity commission says it receives reports about 1000 incident involving safeguarding from charities every year. but a culture of cover—up is not the image charities want. sadly does nothing to help build a case for international aid upon which so many people around the world of course depend. a quick look at other news from around the world. the wife of donald trump junior vanessa has from around the world. the wife of donald trumpjunior vanessa has been taken to hospital after she opened a letter containing a white powder. the letter was addressed to donald trump junior and sent to the letter was addressed to donald trumpjunior and sent to their apartment in new york. she and two others were decontaminated by firefighters as a precaution. it has since been found that the powder was not hazardous. tributes have been paid to three british tourists who
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died ina paid to three british tourists who died in a helicopter crash in the grand canyon on saturday. stewart and jason hill and becky dobson were among seven people in the aircraft. three other british nationals and the pilot are being treated in hospital in las vegas. theresa may is in belfast for talks with irish counterpart, aiming to persuade local parties to restore ireland's devolved government. brexit has been on the agenda with the irish prime minister repeating his commitment for a broader deal after the uk leads the eu. we both prefer the option by which we can avoid a hard border in ireland and that is through a competence of free trade and customs agreement involving britain and ireland, and that's the best way we can avoid any new barriers. london city airport has been closed all day on monday after an unexploded german world war ii bomb was found close to the runway. all flights bomb was found close to the runway. all flights in and out of the airport were cancelled affecting some 16,000 passengers. police they work to remove the bomb will take until tuesday. we live in busy
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times. try the 1960s. they had everything. civil war demonstrations, free love and drugs. now a new exhibition at philadelphia brings together the art and culture from the decade of political and social upheaval. revolution, war, social upheaval. revolution, war, social upheaval. revolution, war, social upheaval and assassinations mark the 1960s. but on the front lines of culture, everything was groovy, baby. designers and artists experimented with new forms, new materials, and a new, more mobile age. consumer culture in the 1960s was really a driving force of innovation and experimentation. the new use of materials like plastic allowed for furniture and design objects to be mass produced or miniaturised, and this goes along with the rise of the jet age, so people are flying all over the world and that is part of consumer culture. i know small was supposed
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to be beautiful in the 60s, but this tv isn't really practical, is it? yes, and the screen is curved to the image might be a bit distorted, but it is bright and colourful and fun and it is portable so you can take it anywhere with that keen on top. and what about the furniture, because that looks uncomfortable. and what about the furniture, because that looks uncomfortablelj because that looks uncomfortable.” see that, but the curves of the silver give you something to lean into and there is some cushioning to give you some support.” into and there is some cushioning to give you some support. i suppose all thatis give you some support. i suppose all that is missing is the lava lamp. yes, design team 9063. it would fit perfectly. this was the jet age and also the space age. designers responded with equal baldness, unapologetic colour, and an exuberance that matched the soaring ambitions of the age. these are two textiles that were created in anticipation and to commemorate the lunarlanding in1969, in anticipation and to commemorate the lunar landing in 1969, in the summer of 1969. trippi, i
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lunar landing in 1969, in the summer of1969. trippi, i pay? lunar landing in 1969, in the summer of 1969. trippi, i pay? they are fabulous. but what would you do with them? i think eddie squires on the top would make an interesting bedspread. not a dress. i don't think i would be walking around with rockets or astronauts on my clothes, but that's just me. even in the 19605. but but that's just me. even in the 1960s. but there was a dark side to the pub. president kennedy died at 1pm, central standard time. andy warhol reappropriated the singular grief ofjackie warhol reappropriated the singular grief of jackie kennedy for mass consumption as americans looked for a way to publicly express their feelings. that collective emotion was further enhanced by television, the way most people experience the funeral of martin luther king a few yea rs funeral of martin luther king a few years later. at a time when rigid norms were breaking down, artists played openly with people's perceptions. the result, as this exhibition demonstrates, was far
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out. 0k. the 1960s were seriously cool out. 0k. the 1960s were seriously cool, right? we missed out? groovy, man! iwas cool, right? we missed out? groovy, man! i was born in the summer of 69. summer of love, man! what a groovy exhibition. my parents still have some of that stuff in the house. must be worth a fortune. i can't believe there is the coolest up and she is worried about whether the silver is comfortable. that wasn't the point. it is like look how cool iam. we the point. it is like look how cool i am. we have do see if she has some bell—bottoms. i am. we have do see if she has some bell-bottoms. i want to see if she comes back with that astronaut outfit. it was an enormous political change. we think we are busy today. that was really p. yellow you had the assassination of bobby kennedy and martin luther king. so much people going on in the country that here in america we still the re m na nts of here in america we still the remnants of that. and you know who
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missed it all, christian fraser, because he is just too young, was born after the swinging sixties. that is why he is not as cool as we are. get with the programme. lets hope he comes back with a medalfrom the olympics. 0k, hope he comes back with a medalfrom the olympics. ok, this is aung san suu kyi proroguing —— bbc news. jacob zuma meets with his own party. we will have an update from pretoria. prince harry and meghan markle have more details from their wedding and that is all still to come here on the programme. good evening. some of us are going
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to see some snow over the next 2a hours and that could actually be destructive in places. we have already had a covering to start the week. for some, as you can see from the view from space, this cloud coming in from the atlantic, that is going to bring some outbreaks of rain from the south. in northern areas and especially over high ground but even to lower levels at times we will see some snow fall. ahead of that frontal system, some strong and gusty wind. 50—60— 70 mph gusts in the south west. and the south west. and temperatures pretty mild down towards the south—west, but cold further north for some eyes as well as the snow. into tomorrow morning and a bit more detail at 8am, you can see the snow falling across large parts of scotland over high ground may be up to ten centimetres, but three centimetres through the central belt. could cause some issues for the tuesday morning commute. some snow into northern ireland and parts of north—west england and north wales. so with that snow and ice and also
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further south in wind and rain, there is the potential for further south in wind and rain, there is the potentialfor some travel disruption tomorrow morning. your bbc local radio station will keep you up—to—date. as we go on through the day, we take this band of rain and snow and we slide it further east and behind the skype will begin to brighton. we will see some spells of sunshine and wintry showers coming into words the west. most of these will be following as snow on what will be a cold day. top temperature of 4—7dc. as we move out of tuesday into wednesday, we push that first run away to the east but here comes another system from the atlantic. ahead of it again some strong winds, possibly bail in places and we could see some snowfall. at this stage, the snow will increasingly become confined to high ground as we get onto wednesday because we will start to drag in some slightly milder air from the south—west. double digit temperatures are plymouth and cardiff and belfast as we head towards the end of wednesday. then as we move towards the end of wednesday. then 3s we move towards towards the end of wednesday. then
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as we move towards the end of the week, low pressure remains in charge of the scene. it will remain cold enough snow showers at times, particularly in the north but further south signs of something a little bit milder. then more generally to do weekend and into next week things should begin to settle down as high pressure builds from the south. this is beyond 100 days, i am katty kay in washington. 0ur this is beyond 100 days, i am katty kay in washington. our top story, another staffing scandal in white house, donald trump says he is standing by his chief of staffjohn kelly. a member of 0xfam's team resigns. and coming up in the next half—hour comedy desperate measures the young italians take to find work, italy prepares for a general election. the banners are back in washington for good, at least the portraits are. portraits of the
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former president and first lady are unveiled. the 0bamas are back in washington. the future of south africa's presidentjacob washington. the future of south africa's president jacob zuma washington. the future of south africa's presidentjacob zuma is being decided right now. the anc have been meeting to discuss him stepping down. the 75 old has resisted pressure to quit since december when the anc‘s replaced him as party leader. jacob zuma has survived lots of attempts to get rid of him, is he going to survive this one as well? it looks like this is going to be hard for him to push back. because here in this hotel where i am standing, just behind here, his own comrades are deciding
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his fate. essentially, as far as we know, they have come here to decide to recall him as the president, which they had sent. so that the guy has a proportional representation system in terms of its electoral system. when they vote in a general election here, people vote for a party. the party then sends it only candidate to be president. they are meeting here, about 90 of the anc i meeting here, about 90 of the anc i meeting to decide to recall president zuma. 0nce meeting to decide to recall president zuma. once they have decided that and announced it, it looks like he has no other option. thank you. we will follow that story. 0xfam has spent a day in emergency talks with the government to try to protect their funding following allegations some 0xfam staff were involved with prostitutes in haiti after the 2010 earthquake
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in what seems a gross abuse of power. our next guest knows something about that. at 13, she was trafficked from her home to france and sold into prostitution. she runs and sold into prostitution. she runs an organisation teaching girls to coat to keep them out of property and exploitation. thank you for joining us. i want to hear your story and i want to talk about whether aid agencies are doing enough to help girls. you were trafficked from senegal to paris at the age of 13 to become a prostitute. who sold you? why were you sent? a very difficult childhood ihad. i you sent? a very difficult childhood i had. i am totally familiar with theissues i had. i am totally familiar with the issues that young girls are facing today. i was very traumatised and angry this morning when i heard these stories. i have been there. the uk is my home now, but i was taken away from my country when i was a very young taken away from my country when i was a very young girl. where there
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are no adults along the way who stood up to protect you? know. that is why we need to talk about these issues. it is not about the ngos, it issues. it is not about the ngos, it is about the young women and young girls who are being neglected today, totally neglected, abandoned as young women and young girls across the world. a lot have been taken away from my country to paris. where there are other girls as well who we re there are other girls as well who were taken away? was yours and unusual case or is this happening more often than most of us are aware of? it is happening all over the place, that is why i created the coding organisation. it is happening everywhere. it is an epidemic from senegal to brazil, human trafficking is absolutely high. young girls are being marginalised, the eye facing human trafficking, only manages and
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they are facing abortions, children that they don't want to have in your country. they don't have a very solid system in place. it is happening everywhere and i think it's time for us to forget about the ngos and start thinking about the young women and girls being traumatised. i am one of them and thatis traumatised. i am one of them and that is why i am hurt nobody is talking about the young women and girls being traumatised. we'rejust talking about the ngos and who is going to get away with this. it is time for all of us as a society to start thinking about these young women who are being traumatised an early age, until, i am women who are being traumatised an early age, until, iam now women who are being traumatised an early age, until, i am now ali years old, i know what it means to go through this. you went to paris at the age of 13 and became a prostitute, your childhood was taken away from you, you didn't learn to read right until you were eating because you had no opportunity. i am
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looking at you know, you are 1111, you're confident, outspoken, trying to help other young women, how did you do it? how did you get yourself out of that situation when there was nobody helping you ? out of that situation when there was nobody helping you? the uk is my home now, the uk gave me a safe space. i think this is why i created iamthecode, these young girls need safe s pa ces. iamthecode, these young girls need safe spaces. the kent and his ngos to look after them. they can be dignified young women and can be protected. but we are failing to do this. this is my home and the uk gave me a safe space where i can think, i can see psychologists, i can get support that i need in this country. but there are so many young women across the world who don't have this opportunity and they are going from street to street, nobody
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is looking after them. it's time for us is looking after them. it's time for us to look into what is our law, why are we neglecting these young women and what can we do to look into sexual violence against young women? they don't know what is happening. they don't know what is happening. they don't know what is happening. they don't have any systems to support them in the country, it is time for us to support them.” support them in the country, it is time for us to support them. i hope they can turn to you and find iamthecode and that can help them as it has helped you. mariemejamme, thank you forjoining us. whether it is the fbi, thejustice department or congress, we have spoken a lot about how american institutions are taking a beating, often led by president trump. what if this erosion of trust is nothing new, just a continuing trend were growing distrust has led people to side with their own political tribe? that is their own political tribe? that is the argument made by the national editor of the political report, joining me now to explain. everybody in america and around the world thinks there was a sea change when he was elected, but you are
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suggesting he is just he was elected, but you are suggesting he isjust the continuation of the trend. suggesting he isjust the continuation of the trendm continuation of the trend. if you look back over the last 20 or 30 years in this country, institutions, notjust congress of years in this country, institutions, not just congress of the media, years in this country, institutions, notjust congress of the media, but even public schools in this country or organised religion have lost the faith of americans, really if you just let your after year that faith disintegrates. some of it is because of their own bad behaviour and scandals involving some of these institutions. some of it is an acknowledgement by people in this country that these institutions are not living up to what they were built to do. they simply red adapting and changing for the 215t—century, they were built and survived the 20th—ce ntury 215t—century, they were built and survived the 20th—century because that's where the vet. we seem to be trying to shove the 215t—century reality into boxes that were created for the 20th century. it has made it
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really difficult for institutions to do things and for people to trust them. there was a period when people believed in institutions and the respected their teachers and the idea of the good old days. what is it that change? what is it that precipitated that breaks down, almost not just to precipitated that breaks down, almost notjust to trust in institutions but in the social fabric? there is a lot of good research on this. some people here talk about watergate, that was the breaking point, what a gate and the vietnam war. that broke apart the trust americans had in the presidency and government, when they find out the government was lying to them and the president, this was a sense that something like this could happen. when you see it over the course of these last 30, 20 years, what you are also seeing is the correspondence of the rise in technology. we don't need institutions in the same week we did before. i can put up google and get an answerto any before. i can put up google and get an answer to any question i want. this is not partisan, this is not
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that the republicans have become more tribal than democrats. you are seeing everybody is retreating to the tribes. again, this is a lot of social science, but human beings wa nt social science, but human beings want community. we don't want to be isolated, technology helps us to isolated, technology helps us to isolate ourselves, but we need to find structure in our lives and what helps us do that is this tribalism. imight not helps us do that is this tribalism. i might not trust my institutions but i can look to my tribe to tell me what is right, what is wrong, what i should believe. we are inundated with information constantly, how do we sift through it? if my site says it's good, it must be good, if my site and it's bad, it must be bad. there were institutions that helped us to understand those things, no they don't. this is so fascinating. kristian is going to want to talk about this as well. in just under three weeks, italians will go to the polls and youth unemployment is a huge issue in the general election.
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0ne huge issue in the general election. one in three young italians cannot find work and even a short—term contracts are highly competitive. 0ur rome correspondent has been getting a sense of the desperate measures people will take just to get a job. it is hardly the best way to spend the night before a job exam but an overnight bus ride is these job—seekers‘s best way of getting to the test. they are travelling from southern italy to compete with hundreds of others for a single six—month contract. hundreds of others for a single six-month contract. ijust want hundreds of others for a single six-month contract. i just want to have more dignity, that i don't have too go up and down the country like this. i made a lot of sacrifices at university, but always find myself starting again from zero.” university, but always find myself starting again from zero. i am stuck getting by on a short—term jobs. i am living a day existence, that makes it hard for me to plan a future, to think about buying a home and starting a family. it is very
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difficult for those of us from southern italy, the people that get ahead idols that have connections. there is no transparency. this man isa there is no transparency. this man is a recentjob seeker and decided to lay on these cheap bus rides to get candidates to job exams and interviews. this job was born out of necessity —— this bus. young people need to travel to find work, especially from south to north. need to travel to find work, especially from south to northm is now the middle of the night and we are still battling through the country. the candidates are having to forget their anxiety, they are trying to get what ever sleep they can. at dawn, the bus arrives in the central italian town. this is the rest of the competition. all for one job which lastsjust rest of the competition. all for one job which lasts just six months.
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after the 45 minute test, they come out. i think it went well, but it could have been better.” out. i think it went well, but it could have been better. i am relieved, i have a headache, but on we go. we will have to wait and see, it is important not to lose hope. shattered, they get back onto the bus. for years, italy's shattered, they get back onto the bus. foryears, italy's political parties have promised it young people jobs without result. leaving this generation to head off on its own in search of work. another election in europe, we will be watching that one. benjamin netanyahu watching that one. benjamin neta nyahu says its watching that one. benjamin netanyahu says its country will defend itself against any attack after carrying out its largest strikes on site in syria in decades. they launched raids against a really on target after seeing it had
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intercepted and really enjoyed that was crossing the syria israeli border. iran denies this. did this intervention marks the beginning of a military investigation? i am joined from tel aviv, he is the joint director... thanks forjoining us. joint director... thanks forjoining us. do you think there is a chance that beyond this weekend this military activity by israel escalates ? military activity by israel escalates? i am not sure, it is definitely a possibility. in order to understand what the situation is, we need to try to understand the overall context, if i may say a few words about that. go ahead. i know you are concerned about a power vacuum emerging in syria. exactly. after almost seven years of civil
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war, very devastating civil war in syria, we have a territory which is disintegrating. it is a very chaotic situation and we have known it in syria for some time now a big hole, a total void, of responsibility, accountability and any kind of structure. u nfortu nately, accountability and any kind of structure. unfortunately, this void has been filled gradually by external forces that supposedly are helping the assad regime but are furthering their own interests. this is interesting, here in the us, the situation in syria is largely being celebrated as the recent success story by american led coalition
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forces against islamic state. you are much closer to syria, being there in the region, you are seeing something else happening. this is pa rt something else happening. this is part of the complex situation. what the americans are doing for some time now and quite successfully is to fight isis and the eastern part of the syrian territory. but when you look at syria as a whole and from our vantage point from the west, you see quite a different story. it is a totally disintegrated system that has been filled with foreign powers. we have his blood coming from the west, we have iranians, the turks coming from the north, the russians from the night —— the north and all of them are fighting each other basically for their own turf. what seems to be
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needed the political settlement now. who could do that? i imagine you are thinking the us needs to be more engaged, beauty you see any indication that want to be? absolutely. this is my idea, in order to settle some of the problems in the syrian territory we will have to have somebody, or what i call a responsible adult, and the only one that seems to be is the possibility of the united states coming back, rex tillerson is coming to the area, he is engaged in some other particular issues in lebanon. it is time for the us to wake up and realise that we don't want to have a major escalation, which would involve quite a few of the surrounding countries. i think that a restructuring is needed fast. thank you very much forjoining us
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from tel aviv. a lot of people watching rex tillerson's visit to the region and wondering whether he has the power in washington to try and do some diplomatic initiatives. this is beyond 100 days, still to come, flying high at 50, boeing celebrates a half—century of service. tourist flights from the uk to tunisia will resume tomorrow two and a half years after 30 british holiday—makers were killed in a terrorist attack at a beach resort. it travel ban was lifted last summer and now thomas cook will resume flights from manchester to birmingham. here is frank gardner. three years ago on the speech and isis gunmen shot dead 38 people, 30 of them british. now tunisia is getting training from royal navy instructors in maritime security,
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well met police detectives have been training up hotel staff. at 40 airports, british aviation experts have installed new screening equipment. i asked the ambassador how safe is no? no country is 100% safe as we saw with the tragic attacks in and manchester.m safe as we saw with the tragic attacks in and manchester. it is safer here than it was in 2015 because the tunisians's capability has improved. in this resort town of thomas cook is taking the first returning british tourists, i asked the hotel manager what precautions he is taking. we have around 60 cameras all around the hotel. the exterior cameras are all monitored 24 hours behind the screens. but tunisia sits in a dangerous neighbourhood, across the sport libya is in chaos and isis has basis. the manchester bomb are
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trained in libya and so did the tunisia gunmen. back in the capital tunis, a raid yields results. suspects are arrested and will now face trial. tunisia has made huge progress against terrorism, but if its tourist industry is to recover fully, it will need to stay vigilant. ina in a little over three months, prince harry and meghan markle tie the knot, but some of the finer details of when and how have been a mystery until now. three months to go and so much to do. harry and megan are set to be involving themselves closely in details of the wedding arrangements. the venue will be the magnificent setting of st
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george's chapel inside windsor chapel. dating from the 15th century and rich in history, the banners of the knights of the garter are on display above the choir stalls. it will be the setting for a ceremony which will be very much more a family wedding and a state occasion. we now know the timetable for the day, at noon the wedding ceremony will begin, well timed for american brea kfast will begin, well timed for american breakfast television. at 1pm, the carriage procession will begin. at 2pm, a wedding reception inside the castle and then in the evening a private dinner and reception for the couple, their families and private dinner and reception for the couple, theirfamilies and close friends. in terms of the carriage procession, this is the rate they will at 1pm they will go down castle hill and windsor high street and out of the size of windsor alan king's wrote before returning to the castle along the long walk. a processional route which will give people a chance to feel part of this special day. one problem which hasn't been resolved is whether prince william,
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the president of the faa, will be able to get to the fa cup final, due to kick off at wembley late that afternoon. it could be tricky. the problem would be getting blood and back to the castle in time for the family dinner in the evening. if the cup final went into extra time, he would have a problem. windsor may well win the day over wembley. at the centre of things at the big match in windsor will be these two, a bride and groom becoming not exactly a mr and mrs, more probably a royal duke and duchess. kind of thinking he is not going to be taking the tube to get back to windsor. are you full of wedding fever? i am, i windsor. are you full of wedding fever? iam, i love windsor. are you full of wedding fever? i am, i love it. this is a great story, the people over there i so great story, the people over there i so excited. an american princess now going to be a british princess. i have been travelling so much, i have
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beenin have been travelling so much, i have been in london, ireland, san francisco, i thought the studio looks so lonely without me sitting here. i got to something. here it is. it is your own beer that you can have sit right next to you and you will know where it i am. when i am missing ron and kristian, this is who i am going to have. i haven't seen who i am going to have. i haven't seen the film, have you? apparently is fantastic. this was my favourite story as a child. paddington, you have to wait. we have to move onto other news! barack 0bama and michelle 0bama have attended... the former president's portrait was painted. mr0bama former president's portrait was painted. mr 0bama described the image as pretty sharp, and said nobody in his family had ever had a portrait done before. mrs 0bama's
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portrait done before. mrs 0bama's portrait was done by a lady whose work often addresses socialjustice. it has been 50 years since the boeing 747 made its debut today world in 1968, the bbc took one of the first ever pilots to fly that aircraft back to london heathrow for aircraft back to london heathrow for a check on how things have evolved. let's see if we can take a look. this is a big change. flatbed seats. you have no idea, for the first landing, how high you are up on the ground. it really was like landing a
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block of flats. this is what you want to come and see. this is all screens, we had a clockwork instruments. we have got flight plans, we can get weather divisions. —— divergence. plans, we can get weather divisions. -- divergence. engine failure were fairly routine. there were occasions when it didn't work very well. we a lwa ys when it didn't work very well. we always managed to get away, we managed to get away first. i think one heart aches for seeing any machine it being broken up, but especially the 747. it is iconic, do have a real affinity to it. turning 50, which makes it younger than i am but older than ron ayres. which is
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kind of sad! from wrong, paddington and me, christian isn't here, but thank you forjoining us. great to have you on the programme, coming up next, we have got 0utside stories and all the latest headlines for those in the uk. goodbye. see you back here tomorrow. we are going to see some snow fall. some strong and gusty winds, 50—60,
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70 mph winds. temperature is pretty mild down towards the south—west but cold further west, called for an ice as well arsenal. into tomorrow morning, you can see snow falling across large parts of scotland over high ground, maybe up to ten centimetres, 1—3 centimetres in the central belt could cause issues with the tuesday morning commute. parts of north—west england and north wales. with that snow and ice and further south some wind and rain, there is the potential for travel disruption tomorrow morning. your bbc local radio station will keep you up to date. we take this band of rain and snow and slide further east. behind it, the skies will brighten, seeing spells of sunshine, wintry showers in towards the north—west, most sharers following us north—west, most sharers following us know. it will be a cold feeling
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day, temperatures 4—7d. as we move out of tuesday into wednesday, pushing that front away to the east, but here is another frontal system. some strong winds, gales and places, we will see some snowfall. at this stage, the snow will become confined to high ground in the north. we will start to drag in some slightly milderair start to drag in some slightly milder air from start to drag in some slightly milder airfrom the north south—west. we head towards the end of wednesday, temperatures plummeting. the end of the week, low pressure remains in charge, it will remain cold enough snow that times, but signs of something a little bit milder and more generally to the weekend and into next week, things should begin to settle down as high pressure builds from the south. this is bbc news. the headlines at eight...
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0xfam's deputy chief executive penny lawrence resigns over the sex scandal involving aid workers in haiti. talks in belfast to restore devolved government end without agreement, but irish political leaders and theresa may say progress has been made. and while some differences remain, i believe that it is possible to see the basis of an agreement here. there is the basis of an agreement here, and it should be possible to see an executive up and running in northern ireland very soon. the three britons killed in a helicopter crash in the grand canyon have been named. three other britons and the pilot were injured when the helicopter went down. the future of south africa's president jacob zuma hangs in the balance as the governing anc party meets to discuss next steps.
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