you're watching beyond one hundred days. american voters rush for the extremes — on both ends of the political spectrum. a very telling vote in florida showed strong support for donald trump and strong support for progressive democrats. the election for the governorship of the sunshine state will now pit an african american liberal against a pro trump republican. the official death toll from last yea r‘s hurricane maria is revised upwards — nearly 50 times upwards. almost 3000 people are now thought to have died. also on the programme. british and french fishermen clash in the english channel in the latest stage of a long running war over scallops. in the oval office, donald trump is handed the referees cards, by the world governing body fifa — and no prizes for guessing who got the red one. get in touch with us using the hashtag ‘beyond—0ne—hundred—days‘.

hello and welcome — i'm katty kay in washington and christian fraser is in london. for a snap shot of the state of both the republican and the democratic parties you can't do better than the results of a florida election yesterday. first — there was record turnout on both sides, suggesting voters, left and right, are very energised. second — a liberal democrat won his party's nomination for the governorship while a hardline pro trump candidate won the republican spot. just how pro trump is ron de santis? take a look. everyone knows my husband ron de santis is endorsed by president trump. but he's also an amazing dad. ron loves playing with the kids. build the wall! he reads stories... then mr trump said, you're fired. i love that part. he is teaching madison to talk. make america great again. people say ron is all trump, but he is so much

more. big league, so good. i just thought you should know. ron de santis for governor. meanwhile andrew gillum, who won the democratic nomination, is a symbol of the progressive resistence to donald trump. how about running for governor and being the most progressive democrat who would invest a billion dollars in education and create medicare for all. is it impossible to come from nothing, be outspent ten to one, and win? let's bring in our correspondent nick bryant. let's start with the turnout and this is an off year election, president trump not even winning and yet we have high turnout on both sides of the political spectrum. we talk about this blue wave and people energised for hatred against donald trump who will turn out but in

florida we had evidence of this red wave that donald trump has been talking about and the turnout in the republican primary, the race to decide who will represent the republican party in the governor ‘s race, turnout on the republican side was declared them the democratic side. i think a state—wide race is a bit different from the localised races we will be seeing in the congressional midterms in november. i think you will get different levels of republican turnout in the suburbs that will decide that election rather than these state—wide races but it was interesting to see so many republicans turning up yesterday to vote for a trump candidate. i watched the campaign closely, watched the campaign closely, watched it time and again. one of the funniest campaign adverts i think i've ever seen in american politics. let's talk about the

democratic side and top one beat a woman on the democratic side who had styled herself as a moderate, she said she was the safe choice because she was electable, it seems democratic voters did not respond to that message. politics now is becoming increasingly polarised, on the right voters seem to be moving towards the trump rivals or so is dashed the trump right. and on the left victories for people moving towards the sanders left and we had this with andrew gillum, an african american. he beat a candidate from an exalted political family, american. he beat a candidate from an exalted politicalfamily, she american. he beat a candidate from an exalted political family, she was an exalted political family, she was an establishment candidate and normally would have been tipped to win but these kind of moderate centrists cannot seem to doing very well in this cycle. the energy seems to be on the sanders left and of

course we had that most recently in new york. that primary in queens and the bronx. president trump responded to the result on twitter: big election wins last night! the republican party will make america great again! actually, it is happening faster than anybody thought possible! it is morphing into keep america great! with me now is former special assistant to president trump mark lotter. were you surprised by the size of the desantis victory?” were you surprised by the size of the desantis victory? i was because pollin had shown him up maybe five points in that area and so that shows the strength of the endorsement from the president and the energy republicans are bringing. is the republican party now firmly the party of donald trump?”

is the republican party now firmly the party of donald trump? i think the party of donald trump? i think the party of donald trump? i think the party is mirrored by the president and so what we had in arizona and florida and other places is that those going around with that message of lowered taxes and less regulation, it is a winning message. so the single biggest issue is donald trump himself in these midterms? generally the national parties like to do that especially the one on the outside looking in but most of the time these are won and lost by local issues. and so the president regardless of party or president, will always bigger dominantly ina president, will always bigger dominantly in a midterm election but i think although having said that it will come down to local issues. when you look at ron desantis versus adam putnam, very much the establishment candidate, there is a 20 points difference which tells you what sort of effect donald trump has been having and if he is going to

complain anyway you would think looking at the numbers which have remained solid in florida, that is where he's going to go. absolutely and the president is all in on the race and makes sure that the government, the current governor will win that important senate race. soi will win that important senate race. so i would anticipate you would see both candidates right next to president trump and president trump down there quite a bit. are you concerned that republicans have given up on independent voters, how would you appeal to those in the middle of the spectrum who may not like president trump?” middle of the spectrum who may not like president trump? i understand some people made not like the style rhetoric but when they look at the economy growing in such large sums and look at reinvesting in the military, it is hard for them to look away from those results and i think many of them will think i like where we are and do not want to go

back to the way things used to be. let me ask about comments to the evangelical preacher the other day talking about the risks of people running out to vote for him. he said it is not a question of like or dislike but there will overturn everything we've done and do it quickly and silently. he is looking at antifa on the far left who he has talked about before but here the is invoking violence in an election, is that not a dangerous thing?” invoking violence in an election, is that not a dangerous thing? i do not think he was referring to farmers specifically as a physical act more metaphorically in terms of not wasting any time and will take a hatchet to any single policy and accomplishment that the president is she. i took that more is rhetorical reference rather than direct reference rather than direct reference to physical violence. thank you very much. i should point out it is not the first time there has been a reference to violence from donald trump. he suggested there could be writes

on the street if he was not nominee for the republican party so there is some history here. there is a dilemma for both parties, the energy seems to be on the left of the democrats on the right of the republican party, what about those independents in the middle?” republican party, what about those independents in the middle? i think thatis independents in the middle? i think that is a dilemma and how do you bring in areas which are more moderate in the country where you have to pick up those independent swing voters. perhaps not that many of them but you can see it particularly on the democratic side, the democrats being pulled to the left. bernie sanders was campaigning in florida with andrew gillum, andrew gillum ran on a message of impeaching president trump, universal health care, getting rid of the border and customs control people. that is a very popular message amongst progressives but there are people in establishment of

a democratic party who are concerned that message will not sell nationally particularly when it comes to the elections in 2020. french fisherman have been accused of throwing rocks, smoke bombs and insults at rival british boats in a bitter row over scallop fishing in the english channel. they clashed i2 miles—off the normandy coast on monday night in the bay of seine. british fishermen are legally entitled to fish in the scallop—rich area, but the french accuse them of ‘pillaging' stocks and not sticking to an agreement on when they can fish. our environment correspondent, claire marshall reports from brixham harbour, where the british boats returned. just watch the blue boat, a 200 ton british trawler. this footage from a french boat

shows it colliding with smaller vessels. british fishermen say french boats like this surrounded them and started attacking them. just a glimpse of the violent clashes off the coast of normandy in the early hours of tuesday morning. rocks and flares coming across here. right through here? yeah. there was about 50—60 boats around us in the end. do you think our navy should go with you? the only way to deal with it now is to get our navy involved and try and protect us. but the french fishermen involved are furious. french law bans them from fishing over the summer in the bay of seine. normally there is a deal where larger british boats stay away, this year, negotiations broke down and they moved in. translation: they have no hours, no quotas, they just fill their boats, they come, scrape and leave. they start working a month before us and they leave us the crumbs. dredging is a highly controversial method of fishing. conservationists say it destroys the whole of the seabed. scallops reproduce in the summer

and this is why french fishermen say they should not be harvested until the ist of october, it is a question of sustainability. but this side of the channel the view is that there is more than enough to go around. we believe that the scallops are in good condition from the middle of august through the rest of the year. british fishermen will continue to fishing in the bay of seine if we don't do a deal with france. that's just what brian and some of the other skippers caught up in the clashes say they plan to do, return to the same waters next week, this time, they say, in force. but tonight, it's playing it safe. are you going to go out again? yeah, i will be leaving here this evening hopefully i will be fishing a bit close to home this time! it is now down to the international negotiators to cool tempers. the british environment secretary michael gove

says the french need to keep theirfishermen under control. my heart goes out to the fishermen who've been caught up in this. they have my full sympathy. they are fishing legally and they have every right to be fishing in those waters. and we are talking to the french authorities at the moment. for more on this we can speak to mike park, who's the chief executive of the scottish white fish association. michael gove is right that british fishermen where there legally but there is this feeling among french fishermen that they should not be fishing in august and should not be dredging when the scallops are reproducing and they are going there with more votes than they used to. we're not going there with more votes tha n we're not going there with more votes than we used to to put this in context. i had some discussion today from the french fishermen saying that we are just leaving the crumbs. but the uk removes about 1000 tonnes of scallops from the area and the

french take 17,000 tonnes in the area. the majority of the scallop bedsis area. the majority of the scallop beds is within the 12 mile limit of france which we do not have access to so we just harvest the small area outside. the stock itself is coming to no harm and the stock is actually grow to no harm and the stock is actually gi’ow year—on—year to no harm and the stock is actually grow year—on—year in the area. people have said if this is the level of antagonism now when we're pa rt level of antagonism now when we're part of the eu fisheries policy then surely there is a prospect of further attention next after brexit? what it shows is if we think time access to waters and trade is a sensible thing and we need to think again because it has been clear that to access the waters in big context area is, they should be kept apart as far as possible. within four the uk will get coastal state in its own right and enter into negotiations annually as to who gets access to oui’ annually as to who gets access to our waters. and other coastal states

indeed allow us access to their waters so these will be complex negotiations as they always are other good thing is i think it is not unheard of to set long—term management regimes. for the past five years you have managed, british and french fishermen to sort this out and there has been no violence so what went wrong this year? for the last few years we made a deal with the french fishermen that if they give us some of their days at sea, and the scallop industry is regulated, if they give us some more days at the, and they have enough and we do not then we will stay out of this area. this year they were upset that some small cluster that. fishing the area during the three months and they said they were not willing to strike a deal until we can control our smaller vessels. there's nothing we can do about

these vessels because it is unregulated. so the cost of that in my mind it was an excuse rather than ability and they just my mind it was an excuse rather than ability and theyjust refused to strike a deal. but in the last 12 hours we have communicated with our french colleagues and offered to sit down and the response has been positive. let's hope that means the scenes will not be repeated again. the official death toll in puerto rico from last year's hurricane maria is far higher than original thought. a new academic study has raised the final tally from the original estimate of 64 to 2,975. it's a massive hike. the hurricane battered the caribbean in september 2017 and puerto rico was particularly hard hit. the new study suggests the poor and elderly suffered most, and many died after the storm because of poor health care and the lack of water and electricity. at the time donald trump said numbers this high would be tragic. if you look at a real catastrophe like katrina and you look at the

tremendous hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people that died, you can be very proud of all of your people, all of our people. mrtrump comparing maria with a so called "real catastrophe" — hurricane katrina. but take a look at these stats... and you'll see how misguided those comments now are. as we've just mentioned — hurricane maria killed 2,975 people. substantially more than the 1,833 that died in katrina in 2005. and just to put that into perspective for you — 2,977 people died in 9/11 — the worst terror attack on american soil in history. a short while ago we spoke to the mayor of sanjuan, puerto rico — carmen yulin cruz. how did the government get the

initial estimates of the death toll in puerto rico so wrong? first of all they were denying the truth, eve ryo ne all they were denying the truth, everyone could see what was happening and the despair we were in. we all knew, all the politicians and everyone in the public service new there were people without dialysis, people in the eye line without a dialysis centre because there was no electricity in that particular area. we all knew what was happening. there was a humanitarian crisis and you have to make a decision, i stood before president trump and said it was not about politics but about saving lives. for whatever reason you would

become an accomplice to these desperate scenes not only from a natural disaster but from the botched efforts of the trump administration. and their ridiculous obsession of making the puerto rican story a good news story. this was not a good news story from the beginning. the report has many recommendations but you have any confidence that there is money or indeed the appetite to put those recommendations in place? there is an appetite for the recommendation is to be put in place. there is a lot of shame in the government but the first thing that needs to happen is the commission created by the governor yesterday, one of the members of that commission, a person that this morning was still saying and emphasising that we may or may

not know how many people died but for heaven ‘s sake let's accept the truth. neglect made it possible for people in puerto rico to die from situations to do with the lack of recovery and in an appropriate timeframe. joining me now is our north america correspondent aleem maqbool who has reported extensively on this story for us. where do you think accountability lies? that is the important question because when we talk about the huge difference in numbers, from 60 at the time and as was explained those can be seen in some ways as kind of an act of god, people hit by a tree or wall collapsing but the rest of those, the people who died they did not get dialysis, who died because medication was not available and so on, in the months that followed, every single one of those is seen by

some as having been preventable. those deaths were not caused by the storm hitting itself and it was because of the poor recovery effort and so even though we had thousands in the end of people from the us military working there, it was not seen at the time that this was being taken seriously seen at the time that this was being ta ken seriously enough seen at the time that this was being taken seriously enough by the federal government and not enough resources we re federal government and not enough resources were being put into puerto rico. and right through the last year because we're nearly at the one—year point, you know things, but americans have felt they had been screaming out for help and no one has been listening. it is only enough last month that the last houses got the electricity back. as we head back into hurricane season, do puerto ricans basically feel that they are seen as second—class citizens? there's no question about that and when this came through it re—sparked if you like a debate about the relationship with united

states. people in puerto rico are entitled to precisely the same disaster effort as people living in texas and florida or anywhere else and they did not feel that they got that. we are talking about the number of deaths in terms of the impact of hurricane maria, there has been a massive impact beyond that. if you can imagine communities without electricity on a daily basis, schools being closed over the past year. where tens of thousands of people have left the island and that has had a massive hit on the economy. this is notjust about the deaths but this has had a broader impact on the community there are many do feel it is because of their race or because of whatever reason that they have not been treated like other american citizens. and hurricane season is upon us, there must still be a lot of trauma in puerto rico and nervousness about what may come? no question about it.

we were there just a week after the hurricane hit and people were staggering around at that point, you looked across the beautiful ra i nfo rest looked across the beautiful ra i nforest across looked across the beautiful rainforest across the region and there was not a single tree with leaves on it. and that but for the electricity grid as well, so many buildings impacted to but six months later people in many ways were still in shock at what they had been living through since. so many people very worried and anxious about what the next couple of months is going to bring and still do not feel that they are in a position where they can withstand hurricane like this. thank you very much. of course now heading back into hurricane season. donald trump's relationship with the media is terse at the best of times. and as the old saying goes, actions speak louder than words.

so naturally the president was delighted when he was given a yellow and a red card during an event with fifa president gianni infantino. and yes the red card was swiftly brandished at the media. how many names rushed through his head when he was handed that red card! jeff sessions may be or maybe robert mueller. an indefinite ban for overly aggressive behaviour! don mcgann, we have not mentioned him, the white house lawyer who we believe will be living is active the midterms. —— leaving us after the midterms. —— leaving us after the midterms. but maybe the president is onto something and there is a technique that when someone steps to cross the line theyjust get a yellow card. and maybe if they had a

couple of infractions, maybe they get the red card. are you thinking of painting your house red as well? it was that colour! i'm going to keep those handy. just watch how you go. this is beyond 100 days from the bbc. coming up for viewers on the bbc news channel and bbc world news — is the eu's chief brexit negotiator michel barnier prepared to offer britain a unique partnership, different from that agreed with any outside country? that's all still to come. good evening. wednesday was the day

of contrasts, we had weather friends moving south and east across the country bringing some cloud and rain across the south—east corner in fact we had half an inch close to kent and it stayed pretty dull for much of the day. despite the rain easing took some time for the clout thin and break. but behind those fronts we also had some decent spells of sunshine today. further north and west it was a beautiful day with sunny spells through the afternoon. it looks as though we continue to see those skies clearing going to the evening and overnight. the crowd in the south—east melting away and under those clearer skies are colder peeling. so we start to see those green areas penetrating down through the spine of the country, with temperatures falling into single

figures. so a chilly start to thursday morning. and a pretty straightforward day, quite acquired story, any early—morning areas of mist will fade away and we have sunshine to begin with. the clout developing through the afternoon and further west more in the way of cloud but are largely dry day with just an isolated chance of a shower. it is high pressure that is controlling the story at the moment. despite these weather fronts trying to push on from the atlantic. but they're not going to make that much ofan they're not going to make that much of an impression. but there will be a bit ofa of an impression. but there will be a bit of a divide developing between west and east towards the weekend. friday again at chilly start first thing, some cloud developing. but more sunshine further east. in the west some areas of light rain. the

high—pressure really not going far very quickly and again killing off these weather fronts up into the far north—west. so for the weekend not much ina north—west. so for the weekend not much in a way of significant rain. so it is likely that the cloud east skies will be further north and west. warming up in the south—east by the end of the weekend. this is beyond one hundred days with me, katty kay in washington, christian fraser is in london. in last night's primary elections in florida last night there was record turnout on both sides. a liberal democrat won his party's nomination for the governorship while a hardline pro trump candidate won the republican spot. facebook has removed hundreds of fake accounts linked to iran that were part of a covert operation to influence public opinion worldwide. an investigation by the reuters news agency suggests the iranian campaign is significantly bigger than was first thought. coming up in the next half hour: the eu's chief brexit negotiator

says it will offer the uk an unprecedented deal — but what does that mean? a new british survey says a fifth of 14—year—old girls have self—harmed. we'll ask why. let us know your thoughts by using the hashtag facebook has removed hundreds of fake accounts linked to iran that were part of a covert operation to influence public opinion worldwide. and an investigation by the reuters news agency suggests the iranian campaign is significantly bigger than was first thought. reuters say they have identified a "sprawling network" of unnamed websites and social media accounts in 11 different languages that were posted on facebook, instagram, twitter and youtube. christopher bing is the reporter that broke the story. hejoins me now in the studio. thank

you for coming in. describe what this campaign looked like and what iran was trying to do with these posts. thank you for having me. last week facebook, twitter and youtube took down content that they said explained inauthentic behaviour, accou nts explained inauthentic behaviour, accounts and content that was made and design for americans and other foreigners, but came from iranian outlets and media. this network was much larger and better organised and more sophisticated than we originally thought. was there a specific message? was there a consistency in what they were putting out to change opinions? yes, it was largely focused on an tight israel, anti—saudi, anti—american content. it was in line with the geopolitical goals to iran and the iranian government. it was more sophisticated, earlier it had not been sophisticated, so have they

stepped up their techniques?m appears so. the international union for virtual media was behind placing a member of this content on shadowy video outlets, outlets that have names like liberty free press, that we re names like liberty free press, that were clearly designed for americans and other westerners, but in fact it was often laundered content from state run organisations like press tv and others. what sort of problem does this present to the social media companies? it is a tough challenge. 0n the one hand you have all these free speech concerns that need to be addressed. 0n the other hand you do not want to have your platform flooded with fake news from sources you cannot validate and are often not in any way fact checked or guided. you do not have to be as sophisticated as the russia, any country could do this. that is

right. 0ne country could do this. that is right. one of the most astonishing things in our report is we discovered it was a low—cost tool for states to invest in and it can be quite effective. some of the pages had hundreds if not thousands of likes. posts were shared widely and the people reading them had no idea where it was coming from. they thought they were reading local news made by journalists thought they were reading local news made byjournalists in their country, but it was is an effective tool. it has been so much focus on russia and its cyber activity in other countries. is there on a scale with russia do you think? in terms of their cyber operations, russia is more sophisticated. we have seen only a small part of what is going on. when it comes to disinformation and propaganda it is hard to gauge, but what our reporting shows is they are more sophisticated and they were doing this before the 2016 elections. some examples go back to

2013. we will see more state and non—state actors involved involved in this effectively. thank you for coming in, absolutely fascinating. iran, russia, who knows who else will be doing this any time soon? russia's president vladimir putin has announced plans to soften controversial pension reforms that have caused public outrage in russia. in a rare televised address, he said the retirement age for women would go up gradually from fifty—five to sixty. for men, it's still a jump from sixty to sixty—five. the body ofjohn mccain, two—time republican candidate for president, is to lie in state in the arizona state capitol. in the last few moments a hearse bearing mccain's body arrived with a police escort. the daylong public viewing of his casket kicks off five days of memorial tributes in phoenix and washington for mccain, who died on saturday at his ranch in cornville, arizona, from brain cancer at the age of 81. hundreds of syrian refugees have crossed back into their home country, returning back while the country

is in its seventh year of civil way. russia has put forward the initiative to return hundreds of thousands of refugees despite international warnings that its not safe to do so. the united nations says the situation for the million or so who ve crossed the border is only getting worse. the republican nomination for florida's governorship has gone to a firm trump supporter — ron de sa ntis. he is the latest in a string of candidates who have won the gop nomination after having got an endorsement from the president or mimicked his campaign strategies. the message republicans in washington are getting is that the party base wants more trump, not less. so this is opening a wider divide within the gop between the traditional party candidates and the new wave of pro—trump politicians. well, to discuss more about this issue, joining me now in the studio is rick wilson whose latest book is everything trump touches dies. let me dispute the title with you because it looks like when it comes

to running for office around the country, getting president trump's endorsement is a good thing for candidates, not a bad thing. in the republican primaries perhaps because the republican party has be become the republican party has be become the party of come. in 2018, guys like edgar westby in virginia have been wiped off the map. the death touch of donald trump is one that plays out in the equation and i think in november we will see a lot ofa think in november we will see a lot of a replicated across the board in terms of the democratic seeds that are vulnerable in congress in the us senate and then the governors' races. yet the new poll, a harris poll, has come out suggesting trump voters, blue—collar workers in the country, are the most optimistic people in the united states at the moment. they are the only ones who seem to believe their children will have a better future and the country

is heading in the right direction. is there a whole cadres of working—class voters who might have been democratic once but who are now hidden trump voters? there are a lot of voters who fall into the economic anxiety category in the 2016th election who described the economy is the worst possible thing in all history and now the donald trump is president, they love it. this is a factor of some of the trump worship and some of the reality and distortion around donald trump. there are plenty of working—class voters who will get a number of surprises in terms of their economic future because trump is engaging in trade war behaviour which was in danger lot of the people who most believe he is helping them. danger lot of the people who most believe he is helping themlj danger lot of the people who most believe he is helping them. i was saying earlier, the two parties have a dilemma about how they appealed to the middle, the moderate republicans. if you look at arizona, the woman who won the ticket

therefore the open senate seat, she has gone much further to the right and embraced trump and she is in a position where she will struggle to get the independence. martha muck sally is a high—quality candidates and she recognise she was running against two people who are fanatic trap supporters. the republican base in arizona has moved to the right, so she had to do enough to get those people on board. it will be a hard journey back to the centre than it would have been otherwise. but she isa would have been otherwise. but she is a good quality candidates and has a good record in congress and a great personal narrative, so i think she will fight that one out effectively. but that will be litigated in large measure on donald trump. rick wilson, thank you very much. congratulations on your new book. this is beyond one hundred days. still to come: are you guilty of this? and why you should stop it if you want any friends in the office.

find out what i'm talking about shortly. theresa may has arrived in nigeria on the second day of her trade mission to boost ties with africa after brexit. 0ur political correspondent ben wright has been travelling with her. they still honour britain here, but the days of obeying are long gone. this former british colony is africa's largest economy and a hot destination for visiting trade delegations and their national leaders. theresa may is the first british prime minister to visit nigeria since 2011. we have long—standing links with nigeria and long standing close commercial ties. there are british companies who have been here for many years and we want to enhance those trading links and there are opportunities to do so as we leave the european union. looking for a new trading direction as brexit beckons, but today resisting

the temptation to join in the dancing. it is a very traditional welcome for theresa may, but make no mistake, this is a dynamic fast—growing economy with a lot of business potential for the uk which is why theresa may is here, hoping to find new markets for british goods and services. theresa may met president muhammadu buhari, promising him more british nigeria is the largest african economy, its gdp was £292 billion in 2017, higher than the other two countries she is visiting, south africa and kenya. nigeria also has the largest population, almost 194 million, and many of them are young. there is huge economic growth potential but currently trade from the uk to nigeria is low and the latest numbers show we just imported over £1 billion worth of goods and exported just over 2 billion. tomorrow theresa may heads to kenya

where again she hopes historic links will help the uk capture a slice of the future. the uk's brexit secretary dominic raab denies there is any tension between his delegation and that of the eu s chief negotiator michel barnier. according to some media reports, mr barnier has turned down requests to meet his british counterpart because of diary constraints. after months of delay and division, the uk government says it now wants to speed up the process and meet more regularly to go through the details of the prime ministers new brexit plan. both sides say they still hope to find a way through the impasse by the end of the year. let's speak to ryan heath from politico. you wrote a piece for politico the other week that said i wean out at peak michel barnier? there is no

doubt, despite the words of dominic raab today, that there are real tension is developing between the british side and michel barnier? tension is developing between the british side and michel barnier7m general there have been tensions throughout this process. the eu has a lwa ys throughout this process. the eu has always been agreed and saddened by the uk's decision to leave and they feel frustrated that david davis in their eyes was not taking the negotiations seriously enough. dominic raab gave fresh impetus to the negotiations, but the eu says it is here to negotiate around the clock and dominic raab still deals with a divided cabinet in the uk. you can see why they are not exactly on the same page. michel barnier, even though he says he is always available, he still has to keep 27 people on the same page from his end, and that is why he is always on the road and there are diary constraints. he does say they will be there 27/7 and the clock is ticking. i think it is wearing a bit

thin. however, iwonderwhether politically speaking he personally needs something out of this. we all know he has designs on the top job at the european commission. absolutely. in michel barnier‘s i is the deal would be done by now, he would be walking towards the finishing line and he would be lining up to be the centre—right european people's party candidates to ta ke european people's party candidates to take up from john european people's party candidates to take up from jothean—claude juncker. the eu has been hard line in its negotiating stance and that is why you see michel barnier walking out of meetings with people like the german foreign minister slightly changing his june, like the german foreign minister slightly changing hisjune, saying there can be a special deal with the uk. that was not the language michel barnier was using three months ago ora barnier was using three months ago or a year ago. that is a little bit of hope for the uk, but he cannot just negotiate in an unravelled situation. he has got strict limits

for marching orders from those 27 governments and the uk will not get much more than what other countries have been given. at the beginning you said michel barnier still thinks there are divisions in the uk government. dominic raab is saying we have got over those divisions and we have got over those divisions and we are all on board and we are ready to start negotiating. yes, it has been chaotic and we are on the same page now. is that an argument that has not been bought in brussels? yes, i think brussels wants to see the conservative party unite at its conference around the chequers plan. the realistic view in brussels is we are not going to finalise this at the october eu leaders' summit, it will be more like november or december and everyone knows the uk has a hard stop on the 21st of january. if theresa may is not sure she has got the final outlines, she will have to answer to parliament and we are in dangerous territory.

0k, thank you very much forjoining us. 0k, thank you very much forjoining us. we've been hearing reports of girls and boys self harming themselves for a while but we were surprised and depressed by a new report on the scale of the problem in the uk. the childrens trust survey suggests a fifth of 14—year—old girls have self—harmed. girls tend to do better than boys with school work, which suggests it is the social side of life that is causing them the greatest unhappiness. one in four girls aged 1a say they have self—harmed. across both genders at that age, it is one in six. and the children's society estimate as many as 110,000 14—year—olds across the country may have intentionally harmed themselves. the picture in america is similar. a survey here last month found the incidents of self harm were comparable to the uk with three times as many cases compared to 2009. we're joined now from clevelys in the north of england by kay ska, and joining us here in the washington studio is phyllis fagell. she is a therapist and counsellor

who works in schools. let me start with you. you did self harm for many years and you do not any more. why did you do it?|j harm for many years and you do not any more. why did you do it? i did not feel good about myself, i hated myself at that age. i did not like anything about myself, i did not like my period, i did not like the way i was and i felt a lot and i like my period, i did not like the way i was and ifelt a lot and i did not know how to deal healthily with those feelings. phyllis, does this story resonate with you? is this the kind of thing you are starting to hear from kind of thing you are starting to hearfrom girls in schools in the united states? definitely and i am not surprised the statistics are similar. girls especially tend to be very self—critical and they are consta ntly very self—critical and they are constantly bombarded with messages from society and social media and it appears they are lacking in something and they are not enough. if you do not have helped the hoping

strategies and you discover that cutting yourself releases that tension, it is not an adaptive coping mechanism, but it is a strategy that needs to be addressed. if you are not self harming now, what was it that rescued you from that style of life? i eventually broke down at college and i was sent to see a counsellor and she helped me with self harming and she gave me some coping mechanisms that were healthy ones. does that mean you can deal with it better now? yes, since then i have seen what councillors andi then i have seen what councillors and i have had proper therapy, so right now i am a lot more aware about mental health and of my body and the soft care i got and the priority i have got for my mental health is a lot different than it was back then. i was going to ask

very quickly, it might sound like a stupid question, but does self harming help? does it work for you? no, it does not. but at that age you kind of convince yourself it does because you don't know anything else. there was not much else, there was no healthy coping mechanism that i knew. it is also something that is quite top about among your peers and friends, so i knew a lot of friends who self harm and they told me it helped. phyllis, that is interesting. she is saying she has friends who have done it. is there an element in which this is contagious? girls are starting to hear about other girls doing it. we have known for decades about eating disorders in teenage girls, but self harming is new and it is spreading incredibly fast. definitely, there is an element of contagion both in

terms of the stress itself and then that unhealthy coping behaviour she was talking about. i think the answer is to connect kids with their strengths, not only to give them replacement behaviour in the short term, but also to figure out what is at the root of the distress and the pain that is causing them to self harm in the first place. as adults we might go for a yoga class and we know what works for us and we as adults need to help connect kids to whatever the strategies are that allowed them to express their feelings and cope with their feelings and cope with their feelings in a healthy way. is this becoming an academic? is this something you are concerned about? definitely. depression and anxiety have both increased dramatically in the years i started to work with kids. even adults are more stressed in society as a whole and kids pick up in society as a whole and kids pick up on that. is that because of

social media and mobile phones? we have not talked about social media. social media is part of the problem. it is not necessarily causal, but if you have kids who are constantly looking at other people's lives, comparing their own lives to what they are seeing on the screen and seeing what they are missing out on, it can create a dynamic when matter what you do you do not feel like you are enough and you can struggle with feelings of inadequacy and that leads to self harm behaviour. thank you very much forjoining us. i know this is a hard thing to talk about and we appreciate you came on the airand shared your and we appreciate you came on the air and shared your stories with us. this issue of anxiety is rising amongst teenagers on both sides of the atlantic and here it is being seen as chronic. you wrote a book on this. either

a nswe rs you wrote a book on this. either a nswers to you wrote a book on this. either answers to it? your book was about confidence for girls, but is that the antidote? i think confidence and anxiety are the clip size of each other, so getting girls to feel better about themselves and take risks and not feel they have to please everybody, thatis feel they have to please everybody, that is a key part of treating these disorders, so it is great we can have these discussions and the numbers are alarming. now, this is quite a switch. have you ever stood in front of a goat and wondered why it was staring at you? christian was staring at 1 christian was staring well, maybe the goat was looking at your face, trying to work out your mood. because new research suggests that, in fact, goats are quite perceptive, able to read the emotions on a human face. and invariably they will be drawn to smiley, happy faces, rather than gruff, grumpy, sullen faces. aren't we all! amanda akass has this report. they may be grumpy by name, but it turns out they don't really like those who are grumpy by nature. goats at the buttercup

sanctuary have been involved in an experiment, showing they much prefer happy human faces. angry people can butt out. founder bob birt is not surprised. goats love people who are happy. i think it rubs off on them if they have got people coming and visiting them and also staff and volunteers that are happy all the time. i think it creates a happy atmosphere for them and that is good. previous research has shown dogs and horses are very good at differentiating human expressions from photographs. the researchers from queen mary university of london wanted to see if goats could manage it as well. so they tested the reaction of 20 goats to photos showing people looking happy and angry. theyjust had to walk across the enclosure and investigate the photographs on the opposite side. we found that the goats were far more likely to walk towards the photographs with the happy face. the overall aim of our research is to raise awareness of how perceptive dog species are. the researchers hope their findings will improve animal welfare standards.

people visiting the sanctuary today were generally quite convinced. i would definitely say they can tell whether you are happy or not because when i first came here i seemed a bit worried with the amount of goats and they could tell. they are really friendly because when i came in as soon as i came in they all come towards you and they let you stroke them and that. i haven't noticed them see if i am really happy. but i would say the more you talk to them and the more likely you say hello and stuff, i'd say that they could probably see that you are interested in talking to them. it's just an emotion. we can probably tell how someone is feeling by the way they are acting so i don't see why are goats would not be able to tell it. so if something has got your goat, don't try and get down with the kids. they do stare. that was pretty

random. christian doesn't like goats. i do. ido like i do. i do like goats. no you don't, you say you are scared of no you don't, you say you are scared of them. oh, the woes of the getting your tone right on e—mail. you know what you're thinking but does it actually come across that way? a new poll in the us might help you get it right. adobe has ranked the most irritating phrases that colleagues write in their messages. top of the list? "not sure if you saw my last email", which was cited as the most—hated phrase by a quarter of survey respondents. in second place was per my last email followed closely by per our conversation . i knew you would have a theory about this. just say it. as per my previous e—mail... it is the way you say it. the goats would know i say it in a much happier, smiley way and you say it ina more

happier, smiley way and you say it in a more personally aggressive way. that was not passive aggressive. if iam going that was not passive aggressive. if i am going to be passive aggressive, i will be passive aggressive. i will say, listen, if you have not seen my e—mail, have a look for it now. get with the programme! good evening. wednesday was the day of contrast with weather fronts moving south and east across the country and they brought cloud and rain. we have three quarters of an inch close to kent and it stayed pretty dull for much of the day. it took awhile for the cloud too thin and break. but behind those of france we also saw some decent spells of sunshine. further north and west it was a beautiful story with sunny spells through the afternoon. it looks as though we

will continue to see those skies clearing through the evening and overnight. the cloud in the south—east melt away and under those clearer skies with the wind and north—westerly, the temperatures will fall away. we start to see the green penetrating down through the spine of the country and that means temperatures will fall into single figures. it will be a chilly start to thursday morning, but it will be a pretty straightforward day. quite a pretty straightforward day. quite a quiet story. early morning mist will fade away and the cloud develops as we go through the afternoon and further west we will see a bit more in the wake of cloud. but it is largely dry, just an isolated chance of a shower. but the showers will be few and far between. temperatures 15—21. high is controlling the story at the moment despite these weather fronts pushing in from the atlantic. they weaken

off as they bump into the high and will not make much of an impression. there will be an east and west divide developing as we move towards the weekend. favoured spots for sunshine is the further east you are. all the time in the west the cloud is thickening up. 16—21d is the hide. but the high pressure is not going very far and it is killing off these weather fronts in the far north—west. in the weekend we are not expecting significant rain, but it could have an impact on where the cloud sits. it is likely that cloudy as of the skies will be the further north and west you are and warming up north and west you are and warming up in the south is by the end of the weekend. this is bbc news, i'm rebecca jones.

the headlines at 8: the uk ambassador to france raises concerns, after violence broke out between british and french fishermen in a row over scollops. before we knew it, we had around ten maybe 15 other french boats surrounding us throwing rocks at us, flares. they have no hours, no quotas, theyjust fill their boats, they come, scrape and leave. they start working a month before us and they leave us the crumbs. we'll be finding out why scollops are such a prized shellfish stock. also this hour: more than a fifth of 14—year—old girls say they've self—harmed, a report says worries about physical appearance are contributing to their unhappiness. all or nothing, back the chequers plan or risk there being no deal on brexit, that's the warning to the eu from a senior cabinet minister.