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you're watching beyond one hundred days. he's been to saudi arabia, france and china but donald trump had never been to his own state department — until today. the president paid his first ever visit to the den of diplomats for the swearing in of his new secretary of state. so help me god. mike pompeo says he'll put the swagger back in foreign service — mr trump certainly thinks it needs it. i must say, that's more spirit than i've heard from the state department in a long time, many years! a 2015 letter asserting then candidate trump's so—called "excellent" health was written by none other than the candidate himself, says the doctor who signed it. also on the programme. another shake—up in donald trump's legal team — as questions swirl over whether the president will sit down with special counsel bob mueller. i want to thank you for your welcome, you and your delicious wife
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for your warm welcome. the international language of diplomacy. a delicious slip up by the french president. get in touch with us using the hashtag ‘beyond—one—hundred—days‘. hello and welcome — i'm katty kay in washington and christian fraser is in london. diplomacy is back in fashion in washington — at least for today. the president made his first ever visit to the us state department building — less than a mile from the white house. it was a public vote of confidence in his new secretary of state mike pompeo. mr pompeo is a firm champion of mr trump's global view and as such he'll have the president's ear. that alone could make him a far more effective ambassador for the administration than his predecessor. putting america first is the doctrine of america's top diplomat. we will employ tough diplomacy when necessary to put the interests of the american people first. i will work to ensure their safety, to preserve their rights and defend their values.
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and i will make sure america is always a respected and prinicipled leader on the world stage. on script — mr trump was full of praise for one of the few people around him he really seems to trust and admire. off script — he was a bit less clear and a bit more intriguing. we are profoundly grateful for everything you do for our country. and you'll be doing things that you don't even know about. right now, they're not even a glimmer in your eye. and we have a couple going, mike, right now, that a lot of people don't know about that are very, very encouraging. we're joined now by our state department correspondent, barbara plett—usher. it looked like a reset the state department this afternoon with mike pompeo in the job department this afternoon with mike pompeo in thejob now. how has it gone down with the rest of the department? well that was quite
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unlike the traditional low—key state department culture, it was a long political theatre. ii department culture, it was a long political theatre. 11 it cabinet ambrose, the best china service in use, a string quartet and theatre of course because mike pompeo was sworn in last week. none of that will have gone unnoticed here but the more important thing is that it signalled the state department will become releva nt the state department will become relevant again after being little more than an afterthought for the past year. that is at least what one woman who attended said, she said last year was so bad and donald trump said there was a lot of work to do and they would be doing things they do not even know about. in a kind of teaser. and for mike pompeo it seemed carefully choreographed to send messages to his constituencies as he establishes his authority. so to foreign governments he was saying that the president has confidence in me, to the state department he said i will restore your legitimacy and
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to washington he said i will be a major player not behind the scenes but upfront as the secretary of state. thank you, barbara. joining us now is ab stoddard, associate editor at real clear politics. so he has a bunch of big deadlines coming up, north korea, trade, nafta, the iran deal. can he deliver, mike pompeo, in a way that rex tillerson could not. to begin with i think he has done all the right things since officially being sworn in. in the past days he has visited with people at the state department and rex tillerson, his tenure was a kick in the stomach to many long—term diplomats who many of them have left. morale was low and monk —— mike pompeo has made sure that he talks to them as a team and says he wants to work with them rather than just on top of them. he has made clear that they will do
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this together which is a good start. and he also says he agrees with the mission of the state department although many were concerned he might not be placing a premium on diplomacy. he is engaging and making them feel that he's ready to be the of the us on the world stage. at the issueis of the us on the world stage. at the issue is more than worth is fundamentally many american diplomats in the professional civil service corps may not agree with the whole america first approach to american diplomacy. and mike pompeo also stressed that he will be putting forward president trump's bishop around the world. not what long—term diplomats have thought of as being american diplomacy. that is the challenge and we just learned that generaljohn kelly had to convince the president not to withdraw troops from south korea of the anything can happen at any time and so he sees his task as implementing an agenda, and america
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first agenda for president trump which also can choose —— can change any time. president trump has been convinced to keep troops in afghanistan coming he was going to pull out of syria and then decided to retreat on that decision. it will bea to retreat on that decision. it will be a challenge for mike pompeo. he has that personal history but does he really know they today what he's going to be doing in terms of north korea or iran deal, nafta, you cannot, if anyone around him that he knows exactly what he will be asked to pursue. can ijust change tack it and talk about the new york doctor who looked after mr trump for some yea rs. we featured who looked after mr trump for some years. we featured him on the programme yesterday and he has now come out to say that that 2015 ledger which said donald trump would be the healthiest president ever, well guess what, it was written by donald trump itself. i think at the
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time that we had these affirmations from his position as a candidate they sounded very familiar in their wedding. when the test results are positive it does not normally deliver good news but this is not a surprise in that then candidate donald trump dictated the words of the letter but that the doctor would be willing now to come out and discussed this and describe this kind of rage of his office from last february, it really is because this doctor seems to be such a strange character and not really credible eve ryo ne character and not really credible everyone is laughing but it is not a laughing matter. i criticised hillary clinton many times but to imagine, if she had done this as a candidate, what kind of blowback she would have faced not taking this kind of thing seriously. the presidential candidate, and requiring the full disclosure of
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health records, treating this like some kind ofjoke that he could kick around and be untruthful about. it really is quite a scandal. thank you very much for coming in. i think thatis very much for coming in. i think that is the point, in a way we think of course donald trump wrote this and were used to him getting close to the wind when it comes to issues of truth. but there is some seriousness in this as it shows how far he is prepared to go to present himself as he wants to and to win effectively the election. it is something he did that no other candidate would have done. there is a point that this doctor has an axe to grind, he did not like the fact that his office had been raided and he has that issue and that is why he has come out maybe and said this. but i think the context is important because if we think back to 2015 he made a big issue of hillary clinton and her health and he was going to be the fittest residents. i do not
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know how you check that. but his willingness to do things that no other candidate would do, manipulation think is a bigger story because it goes to the heart of what this president is and many people say there is a concern about that and that is why this becomes a story. and of course when he was candidate he was the oldest candidate he was the oldest candidate to run for the presidency and there were questions of course about his health as well. there's a lot of push back today against israel's claims that iran has reneged on the terms of the 2015 nuclear deal. the inspectors, whosejob it is to police the iranian program, say benjamin netanyahu didn't present any new evidence in his theatrical tv presentation this week. john kerry — who helped craft the deal as president 0bama's secretary of state — has also weighed in, tweeting this... "it's worth remembering that the early 2000's — when his evidence comes from — was the period where the world had no visibility into iran's program. "there was no negotiation — and all of that changed withjcpoa. blow up the deal and you're back there tomorrow!"
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we're joined by israel's ambassador to the uk mark regev. thank you for coming in. john kerry is not alone, the former mossad director said this is not a smoking gun, and is relevant today. director said this is not a smoking gun, and is relevant todaylj director said this is not a smoking gun, and is relevant today. i think it is relevant for a couple of important reasons. number one, the iranians deceived the agreement and they were supposed to come clean on their own previous military nuclear programmes. the agreement specifically said they had to come clea n specifically said they had to come clean on their past and they refuse to do so. they lied which is a violation of the agreement and if you read it the grooming says specifically that the continued
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implementation of the agreement is contingent upon the iranians coming clea n contingent upon the iranians coming clean on their previous behaviour. they did not do so. the second problem unique to ask why they are keeping this catalogue of this warehouse full of documents on how to make missiles and bombs and implosions and so forth. they should not even have this, they should not be moving or storing it, that is all information that is forbidden under the deal. senator corker spoke to the deal. senator corker spoke to the president he said today and last night and according to what he says if nothing changes he says he is definitely leaving this agreement. so it looks like you might have one, you have been opposed to israel since 2015 but the question is what is next. to achieve a situation where iran does not have the capabilities to build nuclear weapons. the military option is on the table. the truth is the deal as it stands gives 0rion a clear pathway to nuclear weapons, notjust
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one but many. because initial short few years when the sunset clause kicks in, you have a situation where the iranians according to the agreement can start industrial large—scale nuclear production to create that material that they need for a bomb without any limitations whatsoever. but they are going to come to the table again to negotiate. surely then the military option comes under the table. we wa nt to option comes under the table. we want to see a van prevented from having nuclear weapons and this deal does the opposite unfortunately. no one has ever really taken the military option totally off the table of course in the course of these negotiations. far be it from me to have a counterpoint a few to christian, but have you been surprised by how much pushed back there has been in washington to the presentation by benjamin netanyahu. bob corker saying nothing new, we've known this for some time, mike
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pompeo just last night saying that was known for quite some time. in his testimony in april he said they have seen no evidence that iran is not in compliance. any republicans in washington saying that that was all show but nothing we did not know. i think what we have this something new and we have ultimately got more than 100,000 pages of documents and so forth full of files that are original iranians documentation. and this material is obviously very important and the americans who we shared this documentation with a few months ago a few weeks ago, they had already said publicly that this material is authentic. we will now start sharing this material with the british, the french, the germans, and they will see this documentation and once again it is very powerful material. but they all say nothing that we do not know already. well we would urge
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them to look at the material which clearly shows there was an iranian programme to build nuclear weapons, to build missile as delivery systems. with the implosions, we have seen a very live and dangerous nuclear weapons programme. the question is this, if the same people who were in charge then of the programme, if they are the same people today in charge of national security in iran, i propose that they have changed their beliefs and wa nt they have changed their beliefs and want anything other than to have a nuclear weapon put up thank you very much for coming in. and we will speak to someone who was on the ground in 2005 a little later. donald trump is bringing a top impeachment lawyer on to his legal team. amid reports that the president could be subpoenaed to testify before the special counsel in the russia investigation, there's considerable tension among mr trump's lawyers. the new team member represented bill clinton during his impeachment in the 1990s. with his background dealing with special investigations, emmet flood is expected to take a more aggressive approach
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with bob mueller‘s probe. leaving the team is ty cobb, a lawyer who has consistently resisted the idea of president trump sitting down to answer questions from mr mueller. here to help us make sense of it all is kim wehle — she was part of the legal team conducting the special investigation during bill clinton's presidency. thank you forjoining the programme. what do you make of news that they are bringing on emmet flood from the impeachment proceedings that in the 19905? it is impeachment proceedings that in the 1990s? it is interesting that he has impeachment expertise, i'm not sure i would take a lot from that except to the extent that this is one of the best criminal lawyers probably in time at least from one of the best law firms in town and i think the american public will benefit from having someone who is going to represent mr trump presumably in a way that is led by ethics and
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integrity as well as adherence to best practice with respect to represent his crime. i'm not sure what the word aggressive really means in this context. really robert mueller is holding all the cars and are not many options for mr trump in terms of dictating how the next steps will go my hope is that emmet flood is going to represent mr trump in the way that serves ultimately the american public in the process. take through the legality of this because if mr trump were subpoenaed by the special counsel, i robert mueller, does that mean he would necessarily have to sit down with them and answer questions or could he get out of it in some way and claim executive privilege? executive privilege would apply to certain questions. there is no blanket of to refusing to testify before the grand jury. bill clinton was subpoenaed and in exchange for not challenging
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that there were some agreements made that there were some agreements made that limited the terms under which he testified. mr nixon tried to challenge a subpoena as president for documents and tapes and that was rejected by the supreme court. so i do not think there is a valid legal claim that ultimately would win in the supreme court saying that mr trump would not have to respond to a grandjury sabine trump would not have to respond to a grand jury sabine every testimony. that means that he is the president of the united states and i think robert mueller would probably agree to certain terms such as would mr clinton, he did not actually testify in front of the grand jury that from the white house. he was able to have his counsel present and that is not something that most grand jury witnesses how. but i do not think robert mueller would agree to have a joint discussion about how the actual investigation will go with respect to donald trump. people wa nted a nswers respect to donald trump. people wanted answers and i think if mr
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trump refuses then it will go to court and then maybe we could have a problem on our hands constitutionally. the deputy attorney general has come in for a lot of pressure, he was on television last night saying the department ofjustice is not going to be extorted. let's just show what donald trump put out today, it says are rigged system, page one to ten other documents to congress, what are they afraid of. white such unequaljustice. are they afraid of. white such unequal justice. but the are they afraid of. white such unequaljustice. but the key point is, at some point i will have no choice but to use the powers granted to the presidency and get involved. many people that he has powers and why has he not sacked rob rosenstein. that is a very loaded question, the constitutional rule professor, these are thorny question i think donald trump seems to think as he is head of the executive ranch article two that he is essentially
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justice and he can call the shots including with respect to investigations on himself. i think underlying the 3—part system of the constitutional government is the assumption that no one branch has unlimited power. ithink assumption that no one branch has unlimited power. i think that in particular is erroneous. traditionally they have been just a separation between the president and the justice department notwithstanding that the president has the authority to hire the attorney general. there has been a matter of decorum and a norm that has operated and the theory that we as americans, as the public, do better if we have a neutral and independentjustice department that is not politicised. because otherwise politics determine who gets justice and that is essentially what mr rosenstein was saying, we are career public servants, and he was appointed by the president, let us was appointed by the president, let us do ourjob and i think that is under attack right now, that whole process. we have to leave it there, thank you forjoining us. and of
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course rudy giuliani has given an interview saying that any questioning by robert mueller of the president would only last a couple of hours and would focus on a narrow set of questions. whether that means they are setting up for an interview, i do not know. cambridge analytica — the software company which harvested from more than 50 million facebook profiles without permission — has announced it is shutting down. it's reported that cambridge analytica's parent company — the scl group — is shutting its us. offices, with american—based workers directed to return their keycards immediately, according to documentation reviewed by the technology website gizmodo. the governing party of armenia has — for the first time — indicated that they'll back the leader of anti—government protests as prime minister. nikol pashinyan had called for a campaign of civil disobedience after not being recognised as prime minister by the ruling party. earlier, tens of thousands of armenian protesters shut down the capital yerevan, blocking roads and government buildings. emergency crews are responding to a military cargo plane which has
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crashed near savannah, georgia. the us air force confirmed that an air national guard plane crashed in the area during a training flight and survivors were unlikely. the hercules transport had five personnel aboard when it went down about. the netherlands is famous for canals, tulips and bicycles. we're willing to bet you didn't know it also has a passion for american news. at least it was news to both of us. according to a new survey, 75 per cent of dutch people closely follow news about the us — that puts it second only to canada. and even mexico, america's own southern neighbour comes much further down the list. so what's going on? is it all the trump factor or is there more to dutch fascination with american news? here are some of your ideas. when i tweeted this poll out, you sent me some of your own theories... theodore says: historical legacy from when the netherlands had a colony in north america, and later dutch immigration to usa. and gazmo's written:
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a relatively small well educated population oh and they have the international criminal court, keeping tabs on the us is essential! that was a little bit barbed, i'd think. looking at the list is an english that are as well, the dutch are obviously very good linguists and all speak english better than i do. the surprising thing about the list is that mexico which of course has a big stake in this is right down at the bottom. of course you have the nafta agreement and those border issues and insults flying this when that. and there is tanzanian as donald trump calls it up tanzanian as donald trump calls it up there at about 62%. maybe because they cannot pronounce their name, they cannot pronounce their name, they just tune in for that. some they cannot pronounce their name, theyjust tune in for that. some of theyjust tune in for that. some of the things he about african countries. next ago may be the most surprising especially as they have
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presidential elections coming up on july the 1st and we keep hearing about the trump factor in most elections, that he is so unpopular in mexico that he is getting some popularity to a populist candidate there who might be tough on border issues for the wii will be watching that poll to see how it changes. there are many ways to describe someone's wife — intelligent, thoughtful, curious, fun — all perfectly acceptable adjectives. and as a foreign leader, finding the right language to thank a hospitable spouse is something you just have to get right. which is why emmanuel macron is in the diplomatic dog house today. to be fair, mr macron was speaking in a foreign language when he addressed the australian first couple. but still, his linguistic faux pas is getting a lot of attention. i wanted to thank you for the welcome, you and your delicious wife, for your warm welcome. the perfect organisation of this trip. thank you very much.
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had to have you g called delicious; no, don't called delicious, it would just be too embarrassing. i know you have a theory that this is some sort of linguistic slip. false friends, we called it at school. i looked up delicious today and i see where he's coming from, it could mean delightful. charming, you know, that sort of idea. it is normally used for chocolate eclair, not somebody‘s
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life. but he is a young man and very formal when it comes to this sort of thing. but i had never heard that before. everything you say i put through the context of yourjealousy of the manual macron, how much she has achieved and you have not. very delicious. i'm just has achieved and you have not. very delicious. i'mjustjealous, i cannot speak french as well as he speaks english. this is beyond 100 days from the bbc. coming up for viewers on the bbc news channel and bbc world news — a serious computer failure in britain leads to as many as 270 women dying of breast cancer. and we've heard from israel about iran's nuclear agenda — next, we'll get an alternative view, from someone who'sjob it was to make sure tehran complies with the terms of the nuclear deal. that's still to come. after that unpleasant weather we had
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earlier today finally the weather is starting to behave itself. for tomorrow not completely sunny and often in fact it will be cloudy. but some sunshine coming through. there is this ugly weather front that brought all that rain which is now clearing away. the skies clearing behind it and tonight it means the temperatures are going to dip quite low and in fact some frost expected in some areas. so really cold on the thursday morning. even in central london. but there will be sunshine around and that sun is strong so not feeling so bad. then through the day the cloud increases and it will be overcast for some of us in the afternoon. but not cold, 16 in
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london, around 13 for newcastle and possibly some light showers. not much changes through thursday evening. that is there a is a look at friday now and we have expected thisjet at friday now and we have expected this jet stream to stay to the north of us and it is going to the noise on friday pushing in milder air in our direction. so temperatures rising but again not necessarily all that funny. in fact the further north and west you are at the thicker the crowd will be and even across central parts of england it could be cloudy times. but temperatures are rising, 19 in london. then through the weekend itself high—pressure establishes itself high—pressure establishes itself across this part of the continent so a lot of settled weather. but the weather front not too far away from the north—western pa rt too far away from the north—western part of the british isles so we could have some rain in the north—west of scotland. but across much of england and wales it should be fine and temperatures keep on rising. 0n be fine and temperatures keep on rising. on saturday the low 20s
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quite widely, 22 in london, 17, very pleasa nt quite widely, 22 in london, 17, very pleasant air in belfast and glasgow looking good as well. then on sunday probably the warmest day of the bank holiday weekend, temperatures could even peak around 23, 2a degrees in london. high teens expect did in the north is well. this is beyond 100 days with me, katty kay, in washington. christian fraser's in london. our top stories... mike pompeo is formally sworn in as the new us secretary of state. donald trump was there in his first visit to the state department as president. donald trump shakes up his legal team as questions swirl over whether he'll sit down with special counsel bob mueller. coming up in the next half hour... the british government apologises for a serious computer failure, after as many as 270 women die of breast cancer. charge italy, there are likely to be some people in this group who would have been alive today if the failure had not happened. —— tragically,
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there are likely to be some people. we pay a visit to troop 6000 — the first scout club in new york designated solely for homeless girls. let us know your thoughts by using the hashtag... almost 300 women in england may have died as a result of a health service computer error which meant they were not sent an invitation for breast screening. the national health service screens all women between the ages of 50 and 70 for breast cancer every three years. but some 450,000 patients who were awaiting their final screening did not receive the letter. and todayjeremy hunt, the health secretary, confirmed 270 women may have died early because of the blunder. 0ur health correspondent hugh pym reports. patricia thinks she's probably a victim of the major errors with breast cancer screening which emerged today. she was due a routine mammogram in 2013, at the age of 70,
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but never got the invitation. two years later, she developed breast cancer. i look back now and think, you know, everything that happened since could possibly have been avoided or lessened. this whole journey i went on, this traumatic journey of all of the treatment, it may have never had to have happened. today, the government admitted there had been a serious failure in nhs screening, caused in part by it problems, with sometimes tragic consequences. there may be between 135 and 270 women who had their lives shortened as a result. i'm advised that it is unlikely to be more than this range, and may be considerably less. however, tragically, there are likely to be some people in this group who would have been alive today if the failure had not happened. labour said a number of questions
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needed to be answered. eight years is a long time for an error of this magnitude to go undetected. did the department receive any warnings in that time, is there any record of how many women raised concerns that they had not received appropriate screening, were there any opportunities to change this mistake which were missed? women between the age of 50 and 70 are invited every three years to come for a routine breast screening, involving a mammogram on an x—ray machine like this. but what's emerged is that some of them in their late 60s never got the invitation to come for the final screening. about 2 million women a year take up the offer of screening. it's thought about 450,000 were affected by the failure. some have since died from a range of causes, 309,000 are still alive. in 2009, the national screening programme up to the age of 70 was launched in england. in 2016, there was an it upgrade. potential problems became clear. in january this year, public health england was informed.
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i feel extremely sad for the women affected by this colossal administrative disaster, really. it's hugely significant. we have to be concerned, generally, about confidence in the screening service now. but we need to know how it has happened. women between the age of 50 and 70 are invited every three years women under 72 that were affected will receive a letter offering a new screening. those aged above that will be offered a chance to discuss whether a screening would benefit them. those letters were going out every three years. i know that my wife response to those letters. but it brings us back to whether there is an argument for economic intervention so that everyone over the age of a0 goes for the mandatory test every single year. because the cost to the nhs is in dealing with
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cancer when it is too late. here in the us, the american cancer society recommends every woman between the age of a5 and 5a society recommends every woman between the age of a5 and sa has a mammogram every year. that's from a5 onwards. i've had one every year since i was a5 stop i get a letter from my radiographers that reminds me to get that. after the age of 5a, you can get it every other year. it is one of those things that you have to schedule and take the time to do. it is not particularly pleasant. the temptation is to say, i will put it off next year. i have no history of breast cancer in my family, so i am particularly tempted to say i will put it off till next year. but i do get those letters from my radiographer and my doctor every year to remind me that i need a mammogram will that i need a mammogram. it is inconceivable that some women
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who have received a terminal cancer diagnosis will say that... for our viewers here in the uk — the department of health is asking patients affected not to contact their gp in the first instance, but to contact the dedicated national helpline instead that has been set up. the number is 0800169 2692, or you can look on the nhs choices website for more information. the man who leads the un's chemical weapons watchdog has told the bbc that the taboo against using them could be eroded, unless more is done to punish those who deploy them. akmet 0zmahchew was speaking after his agency investigated two cases of chemical weapons use — in syria — and in salisbury, here in england. he's been talking to our security correspondent gordon corera. they are the weapons it was once hoped would disappear.
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but the last two months have seen chemical weapons deployed. here, allegedly, in syria and closer to home in salisbury — raising fears that their use is becoming normalised. the battles over what really happened and who was responsible in both cases are fought in the 0pcw — the organisation for the prohibition of chemical weapons — in the hague. last week russia brought children from syria into the 0pcw itself, using them to back its claim that no chemical agent had been used against them. today, the director of the 0pcw told me what he thought of that move. i didn't attend, of course, the meeting. i asked myself not to attend it because i thought that it was not appropriate for the impartiality of the work that this organisation has been doing. so you wish it hadn't happened? absolutely. i made this very clear to the russian delegation. in the salisbury poisoning, the 0pcw independently confirmed britain's scientific analysis. russian officials then tried to cast
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doubt on the conclusions. today, ahmet uzumcu defended his team's work. the samples collected by our experts cannot be tampered. so there is a full chain of custody, as we call it. they were attended by our experts from the place they were collected or from the patients. and then they were taken here to the laboratory. so this is a very well established procedure which cannot be interfered with. there had been a taboo on the use of chemical weapons, but the concern is this could now be at risk. if we are not able to address seriously the case of use of chemical weapons and to hold accountable those who are responsible and prosecute and punish them, then there are high risks of erosion. this organisation is now at the heart of an international struggle, whose outcome will determine whether chemical weapons belong to the past or also the future. gordon corera, bbc news, the hague.
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now for christian's favourite story of the day. having qualified for the european champions league on the final day of last season, there can't have been many outside the city of liverpool who expected jurgen klopp's team to go as far as they have. but tonight in rome, liverpool stand on the cusp of the final — and potentially, their sixth european cup. it is some achievement. they are 5—2 up after the first leg. facing a roma team who overcame a similar deficit in the quarter finals against barcelona — so nothing taken for granted. ahead of the match, the liverpool fans were warned "not to walk to the stadium, under any circumstances". live to rome now and our correspondent, james reynolds. he is outside the stadium. and the game is about to kick off will stop lucky you, being in rome outside the 0lympic lucky you, being in rome outside the olympic stadium. how has it gone and have they all got into the stadium safely? just to update you, i am in
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the centre of rome. are you? sorry to update your! i would have loved to update your! i would have loved to have been in the stadium. but i am well away from that. i have been doing something else this evening. in the centre of town. some fans behind me don't have tickets and are happily singing. we are standing little bit away because some of the lyrics of their songs are not necessarily broadcast will. they are hugely happy at the moment. we have seen liverpool supporters get onto buses. they were lively and cheering. some were worried about cheering. some were worried about cheering. 0f cheering. some were worried about cheering. of course, we remember what happened last week. those serious scenes we saw in which one man was seriously injured. so far, liverpool fans getting on well with italian police and being asked to the stadium. —— and being bussed to the stadium. —— and being bussed to the stadium. —— and being bussed to the stadium. having sold a ticket
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and made enough a lot of money, if you had to place a bet, james, denied, and say this quietly because those liverpool fans are behind you, don't get beating up, but which way are you favouring it? i spoke to one liverpool fan who placed a bet, 25 to one liverpool. the had that at the beginning of the season and stands to win a lot of money. that will be hard for roma. i would bet against them standing in a city of people in which i live. and what a beautiful place to be. beautiful vegetable market on a saturday morning, which i am sure thatjames crosby. the roma team, they have been fantastic. they knocked out barcelona in the last round and were not expected to do that. in the introduction, she said, nothing to be taken for granted. —— as you said. roma what this badly and have not
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been to a european final since they we re been to a european final since they were beaten in the city by liverpool in 198a. the major problem for roma is that the best player they had in recent yea rs, is that the best player they had in recent years, mo salah, no place for liverpool. i was going to say francesco totti, but... james, thank you very much. have a great evening. christian, last time burnley went to a european championship was the 1966, 67 cup. i think they made it through to the quarterfinal when they were beaten by frankfurt— one. -- 2-1. good memory! where you pressed by that? we're going to europe, seventh in the premier league and on a european tour. we just need the premier league and on a european tour. wejust need one point on sunday. but i have to say, 1987, i watched burnley against 0rient. we
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nearly went out of the football league and now we are in europe. what an achievement. fabulous. when you start talking about burnley, your voice softens. it is so sweet. 0k, ok, let's move to something far more serious. critics of the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu say the files he revealed on monday relating to iran's nuclear programme contained nothing new. and given that there was no evidence in his presentation of any violations since 2015, it in fact showed that tehran remains in full compliance. but can we believe iran has abandoned its nuclear ambitions if it went so far to conceal from the world the extent of that programme? mark regev is the israeli ambassador to the uk — he's been speaking to our programme about claims the evidence presented was old news. we'd urge them to first look at the material. it shows clearly that there was an iranian programme to build nuclear weapons, to build missiles as delivery systems. we've seen implosion, we've seen a very, very live and dangerous nuclear weapons programme.
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now, the question is this... if the same people who were in charge then of the programme are the same people today in charge of iran's national security, why do you propose they changed their beliefs? why do you propose they want anything else other than to have a nuclear weapon? the israeli ambassador to the uk. so did the international atomic energy agency see the full panoply of nuclear documents. 0lli heinonen was the chief inspector for the iaea between 2002 and 2005. he gave a full classified briefing on what he had seen to the agency's board in 2008. hejoins us from he joins us from washington. very good to see you. i contribute 15, just before this agreement came into force, you said, and i quote, there will be a complete declaration by iran on its past and current nuclear programme. that's the first prerequisite. yes, that was the prerequisite. yes, that was the prerequisite for the implementation.
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and if you look, the information which mister neta nyahu and if you look, the information which mister netanyahu provided a couple of days ago, it has a lot of new information and equipment. new experiments which had been done. therefore, it is important for the international committee to study in detail what is in this document. but the israelis are intent in demonstrating to the iaea the depth of the iranian deception and to reveal to them and the world the lies on which this agreement was based. does that matter? it matters a lot. it matters a lot. the question of iran's answers to iaea, that i ran complied fully...
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there was the pre—requisite for the implementation of this. so they cheated? would you say then that if iran lied before the 2015 agreement, that would be sufficient reason for donald trump juanmi the 12th would be sufficient reason for donald trumpjuanmi the 12th to decide not to renew the sanctions waver for decide not to renew the sanctions waverfor iran. decide not to renew the sanctions waver for iran. —— decide not to renew the sanctions waverfor iran. —— for decide not to renew the sanctions waver for iran. —— for donald decide not to renew the sanctions waverfor iran. —— for donald trump on me the 12th. that is a political decision for mr trump to do. but i think they have to now look seriously at whether the preconditions, which were accepted in december 2015, which other implications as well... it doesn't mean you need to throw the agreement away. but entirely different arrangements are required in order to make sure that iran is kept away from its nuclear weapons aspirations. if the agreement is
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remade upon by the united states and donald trump decides to pull out of it, do you think iran will immediately start resuming its nuclear weapons programme? certainly, they will do something. they cannot sit and wait. but we will see what kind of response they do. in the past, they would increase enrichment. they also tried to narrow the access to various sites. so we can see this, but i would be really surprised if they walk away. because this agreement is pretty good for iran. thank you very much forjoining us. some of the other day's news. there's been another defeat for the uk government over brexit as members of the house of lords voted to give parliament the powers to stop any deal that may restore a hard border in ireland.
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peers have defeated the government and backed a move designed to prevent theresa may striking any brexit deal which is not compatible with the good friday agreement. the government lost by 309 votes to 2a2. police in paris have arrested nearly 200 masked demonstrators during annual may day protests. far—left groups hijacked the rally setting fire to vehicles and smashing shop windows. they were protesting against president emmanuel macron's economic reforms. at least 12 people have been killed in a suicide bomb attack in libya that targeted the offices of the electoral commission in the capital tripoli. a number of militants, including at least one suicide bomber, stormed the building. security guards and election commission members are said to be among the casualties. the european commission has unveiled plans for its next long—term budget from 2021 — the first after the uk leaves the union. the six year budget of nearly £1.3 trillion euros proposes a cut to agriculture subsidies but more money for security, immigration and research. the european commission president,
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jean—claude junker, said the challenge post brexit is to do more with less. this is beyond 100 days. still to come... the wartime singer, dame vera lynn, nominated for two major music awards 80 years after herfirst single. here, the boss of the high street bank tsb has told mps that he is truly sorry for the problems that have affected thousands of customers over the past week after an it upgrade went badly wrong. many customers were unable to access their online accounts for days. here's simon gompertz. it's the bank that wasn't available. 0ne customer was shocked to be £1
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million in the red. the chief executive apologised to mps but said most people could now use their online accounts. the percentage logging in successfully and 95%. 5% of customers are not logging in. that is often the case for any bank. but he was told he was trying to defend a bank that was broken. what we're hearing this afternoon is a most staggering example of a chief executive seems unwilling to realise the scale of the problem. and it didn't pressley, dsp business customer who runs a delivery company in essex. he has had to pay 16 staff out of his personal account. it makes me feel frustrated and really angry. if he was in front of me, i
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would shake him and wake him up from his daydream. with that level of unhappiness, mps wanted to know if the bosses would resign. will you lose a chairman chief executive? no. so they are staying but paul pester does seem to be losing £2 million of bonus. forgoing a bonus is not enough to satisfy lee from essex who just wa nts a satisfy lee from essex who just wants a bank account which works. he is switching his furniture delivery business to another bank. you're watching beyond 100 days. visit girl scout troop 6000 in new york and you'll find what you would at countless meetings across the country — young women working hard to earn that next badge, and yes, preparing for the annual cookie sale. but this troop stands apart as the first for homeless girls living in the city's shelters. it's an attempt to build both community and skills. we went to meet those involved.
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on my honour, i will try. to serve god and my country. 67% of the children who come to us have already been in shelter are living on somebody‘s couch or floor. homeless children go to at least two schools are year. they come from a disjointed education. all of this is trauma that the children internalise. and we saw what happens with veterans. if you don't provide an outlet, that trauma willjust fester and fester. and what it does for homeless children is make them twice as likely to be homeless adults. have you ever changed your appearance or clothing, style, to please others? i have more than enough understanding of what the mothers of homeless little girls are going through, because i was also homeless
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for three and a half years. when you're going through those kinds of things, you don't think about dressing up or the little girl dreams of you had. you think they don't apply to you. but what we do and what we've been able to do is let them know that they can dream. i would start my own business. like, it would be a clothing business. what are some things that you think you need to have? how would you be successful? i want to be a criminaljustice lawyer to help people with crime and all that stuff, and i would hopefully win all the cases. the girl scouts are helping me become a lawyer by dealing with problems and just being considering and caring about how people feel. often you think of shelters as places where dreams don't exist. but the girl scout troops create another place where dreams are fostered. and those will come to a reality someday for these homeless kids. what a remarkable group of young
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goals. and i understand from a little bird that they had a present the other day, that you send them some books. your book. we had a book on conference for girls. last month, those girl scouts we re girls. last month, those girl scouts were selling cookies in manhattan and our agent took a whole box and gave them a donation. those girls will now have some structure and committee in their lives. living in shelters makes it hard. you're moving the whole time when in shelters and would have permanence. things can be unstable. adding this one environment that they can go to and feel supported, life seems a bit normal just and feel supported, life seems a bit normaljust for and feel supported, life seems a bit normal just for the and feel supported, life seems a bit normaljust for the time that and feel supported, life seems a bit normal just for the time that they are in that girl scout group. i think it is great. absolutely. you get the badge for book—writing, as well. last year, the legendary wartime singer dame vera lynn set an usual record, becoming the oldest living artist to enter the official albums chart. and now she has been nominated for two classic brit awards. the 101—year—old is up
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for best female, best album, but she will also receive a lifetime achievement prize at the show. 0rganisers are hoping dame vera will be able to attend the event in person. with all that in mind, we thought we'd play you out of tonight's show with that iconic 1939 song, we'll meet again. and we will. we'll see you tomorrow. # we'll meet again # don't know where, don't know when # but i know we'll meet again # some sunny day # keep smiling through # just like you always do # till the blue skies drive the dark clouds far away.#
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after that really unpleasant weather we had earlier today, finally the weather started to behave itself will stop how about tomorrow was remarked not completely sunny and often cloudy. the skies will look something like that. some sunshine poking through. here is the ugly weather front that they had across the country and brought all the rain. no cleaving into the north sea. these guys are cleaning behind it. with clear skies tonight, that means temperatures will dip quite low. in fact, a touch of frost in one or two areas. imitate thursday morning. even central london at
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three celsius. it is a really chilly thursday morning. but there will be sunshine and rain. the sun visually strong. it won't feel too bad. the clouds will increase a little bit and it will be quite overcast for some of us in the afternoon. but not cold. 16 expected in london, about 13 in areas like newcastle and possibly one or two like showers. not many changes for thursday evening. that's firstly, this is a look at friday night. we have been expecting this gh been displayed to the north of us, pushing milder air in our direction. the north of us, pushing milder air in ourdirection. —— the north of us, pushing milder air in our direction. —— expecting this jet stream to stay the north of us. it will not be all that sunny. the further north and west you are, the thicker the cloud. in central parts of england, it could be cloudy at times as well. but temperatures are rising. 19 in london, high teens in aberdeen. high pressure establishes
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itself in this part of the continent on saturday, so a lot of settled weather front dummett. the weather front is not far away from us so they will be some rain in the north west of scotland, but across the bulk of england and wales, it should be fine. and because will keep on rising. in fact, be fine. and because will keep on rising. infact, on be fine. and because will keep on rising. in fact, on saturday, we are talking about the low 20s quite widely. 22 in london, 17, very pleasa nt widely. 22 in london, 17, very pleasant in belfast. glasgow and edinburgh looking good as well. sunday is probably the warmest day of the bank holiday weekend. temperatures could even peek at around 23 or 2a degrees in london. in the north, the high teens expected as well. this is bbc news. the headlines at 8pm. political consultancy cambridge analytica, the british firm at the centre of the facebook data—sharing scandal, says it is shutting down scores of women may have died early, because they didn't get a final
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screening for breast cancer, due to an it failure. letters inviting them for an appointment before their 70th birthdays, were never sent. the impact may have been less than it was. if i had the mammogram in 2013 when i was 70. but i never received a letter. theresa may asks for revised proposals on the plans for customs after brexit following challenges from ministers. the boss of tsb has apologised repeatedly, for the it error that left thousands locked out of their accounts last week, he says he's giving up his million—pound bonus.
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