you're watching beyond 100 days. the countdown begins, unofficially it is day one of the general election campaign. and already we have 57 resignations, the divisions over brexit taking its toll on both sides of the house. we will speaking to one of those standing down, about the state of british politics, and the hostility that some mps say they have faced. in the impeachment enquiry, two career diplomats tell congress president trump had a deeply pessimistic view of ukraine, that was out of step with america's strategic aims in the country. also on the programme: boeing's ceo gets a grilling on capitol hill after the two fatal crashes of the 737 max.

for some an apology simply isn't enough. you're not giving up any compensation at all. you are continuing to work and make $30 million a year after these horrific to accidents that made all these people go to disappear, to die. are we entering a new age of global revolution? wherever we look right now there seem to be riots and demonstrations. why? what is driving it? and are there any common themes? plus... trick or treat. it is halloween tomorrow we'll show you the minion moment that had one man wondering where to put the sweets. hello and welcome, i am christian fraser in london, michelle fleury is in washington. in the run up to a general election, mps normally tell you they are ready and eager for the fight.

there will be days spent polishing the stump speech, nervous calls to party hq for money and help, and weeks of door to door canvassing. but this year, there is a suprising number that have already announced they are turning their back on westminter, 57 by this afternoon, have declared they won't be running in this upcoming election. it's almost double the number who stood down at the last parliamentary election, and they come from across the political spectrum. 23 conservative mps have decided not to contest their seats again. 18 labour mps, 7 independents who were originally conservatives, including former home secretary amber rudd who today discovered she would not be invited back into the fold and so has decided it also includes 3 lib dems and 2 independents who were previously labour. one of those 57 mps is richard benyon, a conservative who yesterday had the party whip returned

after it was withdrawn last month, despite having already decided not to stand in the next election. he joins us now from westminster. good have you with those. the whip was returned, you were invited back, yet you are going, why?” was returned, you were invited back, yet you are going, why? i had decided some time ago i was not going to stand. i hoped that the parliament would continue until 2022. you have to make a decision about the next five years and whether you are prepared to give a very intense and very demanding existence hundred and 10%. i have a young family —— existence hundred and 10%. i have a young family “110%. it sounds cliche that i want to spend more time with my family but in this case it is true. you were one of those who stood on your principal against ano

who stood on your principal against a no deal and i who stood on your principal against a no dealand i dare who stood on your principal against a no deal and i dare say you have come into some criticism in your home constituency. what has that been like for you and young family? i have a very nice constituency with people who, if they didn't support me, they were kind enough to talk to me, they were kind enough to talk to me ina me, they were kind enough to talk to me in a civil way. i think that your introduction was absolutely right, there are many of my colleagues who have faced hideous threats. i sat next to a jewish labour mp who once pushed her ipad to me to show me some of the abuse she was getting on social media and i thought, gosh, we all know what has happened since then with anti—semitism and the whole brexit debate has polarised people out there in a way that is totally u na cce pta ble people out there in a way that is totally unacceptable in the modern age. asa

totally unacceptable in the modern age. as a society, we have got to just faced 2—macro face up to the fa ct just faced 2—macro face up to the fact that in this coming election there will be, i don't know how many candidates, nearly all of them want what we all want. we want a healthier, wealthier, better society. we will disagree on how we are going to get there but people are going to get there but people are doing it for the right reasons. it should be respected. people should feel that we have a robust democracy where we will all speak oui’ democracy where we will all speak our minds to those who want to get elected and once they are elected we will hold them to account. i have noticed, in recent years, the tone of debate, the discourse of the nation has deteriorated. that has to change. i fully endorse what you are saying but i just change. i fully endorse what you are saying but ijust want change. i fully endorse what you are saying but i just want to change. i fully endorse what you are saying but ijust want to draw change. i fully endorse what you are saying but i just want to draw your attention to the letter that the chief whip sent to amber rudd today.

he says... amber rudd stood twice on a manifesto to deliver brexit and although her protest was over no deal and not a deal per se, it was plain that she had great difficulty fulfilling the commitments that she made and that is why there is a lot of anger made and that is why there is a lot ofanger in made and that is why there is a lot of anger in the country in some ways. it is a funny old world when people like her and i who have been loyalist down the years have had the whip removed. i think that that letter, i reckon at this particular time, was not clever. amber is an extraordinary talent and i am glad she is staying in the party and

wants to stay in politics and will be back one day, i am sure, in a very senior role. brexit has undoubtedly been a contributing factor to the tone of the debate. parliament is part of the problem there. it has let the country down. i don't blame people for being angry. there is a way to talk to people. sometimes my e—mails back to people. sometimes my e—mails back to people who are angry, i say, you can disagree with me. that is ok in a democracy but don't think by insulting me you will change my opinion and i won't insult you to try and change yours. you can hold me to account because i am elected but don't abuse me for the views that i hold. that is the sort of common sense i hope will be restored. let's hope in this

election is that everyone deals with this calmly. that they listen to the debate, take the stand is that you wa nt debate, take the stand is that you want people to take in a democracy. i think this is a really important time for us to reboot how we do policies and debate in this country. thank you. i was just looking at heidi allen's letter. she says i am exhausted... it strikes me that it is much easier to get to your mp on social media and perhaps twitter is feeding this hostility and anger towards mps but maybe this is not the way that we should be doing politics. here is a man that knows a thing or two... what was interesting on this side is that you have former

president barack 0bama speaking about some of the points we are talking about here which is challenging woke culture when people put a foot wrong. this is what he had to say yesterday. the world is messy. there are ambiguities. people who do really good stuff have flaws. the point he was trying to make is that you shouldn't necessarily change your beliefs but you should remember that the people who don't necessarily agree with are still people. you should remember your humanity and i think in the current

climate we are seeing a very releva nt climate we are seeing a very relevant message. he could go places, that guy. two diplomats are testifying before house impeachment investigators today. but it is the 10 hours of evidence provided by a top national security council official yesterday which has one of the senior ukraine advisors who sits on the national security council and he was on thatjuly 25th phone call between donald trump and the ukrainian president. he is the first white house official who listened in on that conversation to give evidence. and he has been filling in the gaps.in response decorated army officer, tweeting this...

the colonel testified this in his opening statement. joining us is the white house correspondent for the washington post. let's start by going back to his comments. how does that change things for the democrats's certainly the lieutenant is the most significant witness in several days since bill taylor. they have

unimpeachable records of public service so for them, it is very significant to come forward over the objections of the state department and the white house and testify undera and the white house and testify under a congressional subpoena. the lieutenant is significant as he is currently working at the white house. he is the first to testify and as faras house. he is the first to testify and as far as i know he was going back to testify today. he made things a little difficult for republicans who want to focus on an unfair process rather than what they are saying. i want to focus... that drew a rare rebuke from the

republicans. talking about decorated veterans who have served this nation, who have put their lives on the line and it is shameful to question their patriotism, their love of this nation and we should not be involved in that process. you're hearing from several republicans saying don't challenge on patriotism, go for the substance but that doesn't seem to be happening. certainly amongst a right—wing media and the president? the president is making it very difficult for a lot of the people who he needs in his corner right now but they know that, the congressional republicans and they also know that the president is feeling a little bit underrepresented. he would like to see congressional republicans defending him more strongly and that is why you have heard him say over the last couple of days that he once congressional republicans to be

defending him on substance rather than process. to his ears, it sounds like when they go to the microphones, they are not saying what he wants to hear which is that the president has done nothing wrong, period. that is the way he feels about it and he keeps pointing back to the black and white, the reconstructed record of the july 25 phone call saying see, i did did nothing wrong. like the vindman's testimony yesterday... thanks for joining us. it is interesting when you look at the way the story has been covered over the. you get

different opinions depending on which shows you are watching. let's show you some of the coverage that we had last night. this is fox and cnn, two sides of the coin. its smoke and mirrors, they are trying to make you think it is something that it is not. it is not fair. it is not what new kingsbridge offered to clinton, it is anything but fair. what this really is is a massive fishing expedition in the hopes that any cooked up allegations might stick. that whistle— blowers complaint, of course, has been multiply corroborated by lots of different trump administration officials, including officials from the state department, the defence department and now an official from the white house. the basic claims of an improper quid pro quo between a president trying to extort something out of ukraine has also been corroborated corroborated by the president's

in chief of staff. americans see this every night. 0ne reason for this, that you see that all the time is the huge hit for both of them but it does show the polarisation in the country at the moment. the ronald reagan presidential library is under threat after california fires. a regional weather phenomenon is spreading. more than 5000 firefighters are battling the fires as thousands of people have had to evacuate their homes. california's governor has declared

an emergency and imposed precautionary power cuts, leaving millions without electricity. sophie long has this report from los angeles. another day, another fire. california continues to burn as the hot dry weather delivers fires they we re hot dry weather delivers fires they were afraid it would. it whipped fla mes were afraid it would. it whipped flames through the scenic valley. among buildings evacuated is the ronald reagan library which is home to many documents and the resting place of former first lady. putting it out is proving anything but easy. we arejust on it out is proving anything but easy. we are just on the hill by the presidential library where there is a massive effort to get this blaze under control. they are fighting it from the airand under control. they are fighting it from the air and the ground but the wind is blowing very strongly. it is the wind that is their greatest enemy. it is ferocious here with

gusts of up to 70 mph. it has propelled this fire through more than 1000 acres in just propelled this fire through more than 1000 acres injust a propelled this fire through more than 1000 acres in just a few hours. the winds down south are going to be very serious, there is a very serious fire situation developing across southern california. i am concerned for southern californians down there. this is just concerned for southern californians down there. this isjust one of many fires are burning a crust california where a state of emergency has been in place since sunday. they are dangerous and they are disruptive. hundreds of thousands of homes have been evacuated and many more are without power. roads are closed, as well as schools and businesses. the hot, dry conditions are expected to continue to combine with the strong winds for another 2a hours at least.

for a second day boeing executives have come in for a grilling on capitol hill. the company's ceo dennis muilenberg has apologized for the crashes of two 737 max planes which killed nearly 350 people. but he has been confronted with internal documents that suggest test pilots may have known about faults in the system. there have also been questions raised about whether there need to be changes in regulation in the industry. for one democratic congressman, the fact that boeing's ceo hasn't paid a higher price was a major point of contention. is anybody at boeing taking a cut or working for free to try and rectify this problem? like the japanese would do? congressmen, it is not about the money for me. are you giving up any money? congressmen, my work conducted a comprehensive review... so you're saying you're not giving up any compensation atall? you are continuing to work and make $30 million a year after this

horrific to accidents that caused all these people's relatives to go, to disappear, to die? difficult times for the ceo. as we have already discussed there are many faces and personalities from the house of commons that will disappear before parliament reconvenes in the new year. but there is one, who it seems is loathed and admired in equal measure. a man who has found almost cult like status on social media. he is of course, the man in the middle, speakerjohn bercow. today was the last time he will preside over prime minister's questions, he will be stepping down in his own words he is a man prone to "adjectival excess", with a turn of parliamentary vernacular... which sails over my head, and i dare say the heads of most of us who have ever tuned in.

order! behave yourself! order! it is rude compared it is pompous, and it needs to stop. i am not having it in this chamber and that is the end of the matter. order! order! quiet! calm yourselves, take up yoga. that is the beginning and the end of the matter. bercow through the ages. there is another man who has a particular turn of phrase. recently adjudicating on the finer points of

parliamentary procedure with your trademark, mr speaker, not just parliamentary procedure with your trademark, mr speaker, notjust as a commentator offering your own opinions on the rallies you are watching. above all, as a player on your own right, peppering every part of the chamber with your own thoughts and opinions like some tennis ball machine. delivering a series of literally unplayable, and returnable, volleys and smashes. how does this speaker, john bercow, compared to other previous speakers in the house of commons? well he is in a very different position to a lot of other speakers. for several reasons. first of all, he has mostly dealt with parliaments that have either had very narrow majorities or have been hung parliaments. sometimes there has been

a coalition government but it has given him, as speaker, more scope because there isn't a flat one party majority out there that can basically dictate the terms of what goes on in parliament and his adjudications havejust become increasingly important as the normal party lines have splintered under the strain of brexit. there have been all kinds of ad hoc alliances that have shown that they can outfit the government and he has provided the opportunity for those alliances to actually operate. he hasn't found a procedural way of squashing them before they can get to the wicket, so to speak. he has been able to facilitate a majority in parliament to have its say. and of course, those decisions, increasingly have become controversial. there are some who accuse him of bias in one direction. does that affect how they might move when choosing his successor? well, the bias question is an interesting one because the speaker is meant to be bias on the side a in favour of parliament and that might mean

being bias against the government. wanting to weigh in majority in parliament to help them decide what they want to. governments don't like that. governments like parliaments that do what they are told. essentially want parliaments to pass the legislation through with a minimum possible trouble. you are absolutely right. this could well feed in to how mps view the next speaker. do they want a continuity bercow speaker who will do broadly the same things or do they want someone who is in a more traditional mould who is prepared to accept the advice of ministers, a bit more thanjohn bercow was. that seems to be the key decision that mps will have to take when they come to replace him. we should quickly talk about the runners and the riders. who is in the box seat so to speak? the senior deputy speaker, i think is generally seen as the favourite, indeed the heir apparent. what you have to say about that is that there are have often been heir apparents in previous speaker's

races who haven't made. therefore has been heavily touted, had several allies saying this is going to be the guy who will take over and sometimes it just hasn't come out that way. of course, all this court intrigue is very good for your channel, bbc parliament, which has seen some extraordinary figures of late. i have to draw attention to this meme that your twitter panel had put out, is this you stealing viewers away from us the news channel? we would never do such a thing. no, no, no. bbc parliament has has a record week. 4 million people watching bbc parliament in the last month. record figures whenever there has been a big brexit moment in the house so a lot of people are tuning into bbc parliamentjust to see the whole drama unfold. who says we are bored of brexit. this is beyond 100 days from the bbc. coming up for viewers on the bbc news channel and bbc world news, what do protests in chile, lebanon, and hong kong have in common?

we're dedicating some of the next half hour to global unrest. there was some beautiful autumnal sunshine for some of us today. a glorious day to be at the beach and this photo was sent in earlier. claudia skies in this photo in devon. visibility not so great here as well. this cloud is thanks to this weather front. it has been helped largely at bay which is heading eastwards. three tonight there will be more in the way of cloud and outbreaks of rain in south—west england and perhaps into southern parts of wales. away from

that, largely clear spells and temperatures will dip away. a real range in temperatures tonight. —3 for certain parts of northern scotland. holding into double figures where we have outbreaks of rain. they could be a touch of frost. plenty of sunshine around though. it will be fairly cloudy across the south—west and parts of wales but the rain will tend to ease here. temperatures between eight and 14 here. temperatures between eight and 1a celsius. as we move into thursday night, we will start to see signs of change. we will see low pressure start to put in and weather fronts as well. we will also drag and is a milder air. this is the air mass is moving to friday. that orange and yellow colour is firmly across the map which means a milder day. it will be a very different —looking day. plenty of cloud around,

generally cloudy and overcast day with spells of rain too. temperatures at significantly milder. in the north, highs of nine to ten. highs of 16 in the south. into the weekend, a little bit of uncertainty in the detail but it does look like low pressure will be in charge. the uncertainty as to where the centre of the low sits and where the centre of the low sits and where most of the wet weather will be but it does look like it will be an unsettled picture. temperatures staying in the double figures but dropping a touch from what we will see on friday. goodbye.

this is beyond 100 days, with me, michelle fleury, in washington and christian fraser is in london. our top stories: hospitals, children, and cringeworthy photo ops — politicians in the uk gear up for a general election campaign after mps voted yesterday for a december 12th poll. more witnesses testify in the house's impeachment probe. two career diplomats say the president's deeply pessimistic view of ukraine was out of step with us‘s stratetgic aims in the country. coming up in the next half hour. from the middle east to asia, south america and europe, major protests are erupting round the world. we'll look at what's causing people to get up and call for change.

it isa it is a volatile cocktail, and all you need is a spark of some sort and you need is a spark of some sort and you get those protests. plus — do halloween visitors to the white house get a trick or treat from the president and first lady? if you have opened the foreign pages of any newspaper lately you can hardly have missed the pictures of protests which appear to be everywhere right now, across so many countries. huge street rallies, violent clashes with police, buildings on fire. many of them have started with one specific issue — or cause — in mind, but underpinning them, so often, is a frustration at the political class, that is seen as corrupt, unjust, perhaps both. so we are going to spend some time looking at it this half hour, and how, despite some being thousands of miles apart, these protests

might be interconnected. in many ways it is the brief this programme was given when it was was launched back in 2016. so — in case you had missed it, here is a list of some of the many protests we have seen. in lebanon it started with the introduction of a tax on voice calls on whatsapp. on tuesday — after two weeks of protests — prime minister saad hariri stood down. in chile — a 4% rise in subway fares, brought a million people out onto the streets. ecuador‘s government has been forced to repeal a bill that would have ended fuel subsidies. in bolivia, they have been fighting street battles since the election on the 20th. president morales is trying to hang on for a fourth term. in hong kong the unrest has moved well beyond the extradition bill that sparked the protests, they are now being driven by a much wider set of grievances. in iraq thousands have defied a curfew to demand morejobs, better public services and an end to endemic corruption. some 200 people have died so far. in russia it was the exclusion of opposition candidates

from council elections. in barcelona the jailing of separatist leaders from catalonia. and across the world in recent weeks we have had climate change protests in more than 200 countries. we can look at the middle east first, and i'm joined a lot to discuss, then. we can look at the middle east first, and i'm joined now by our editor — jeremy bowen. we could have added many more to that list, egypt, sudan, syria. absolutely. why do people go to the streets ? absolutely. why do people go to the streets? they are fed up and they think there is no other way of getting redress for their grievances. in the middle east, a lot of it is driven by demography. 60% of the population, more than that in some places, is under the age of 30, and very many of those people feel cut out of whatever national cake is left once the state has taken its bit, the rulers have taken theirs and corrupt people have taken theirs and corrupt people have taken theirs and corrupt people have taken their bit out of it. so that

means that when there is a spark like whatsapp taxes in lebanon, which might seem trivial in some ways, people think, that is it, that is enough. and once they are on the streets, they start thinking of other things. those protesters in lebanon are essentially calling for a complete clean out of the entire political system. jeremy, you are talking about a clean out of the political system. frustration, talking about a clean out of the politicalsystem. frustration, is it fairto politicalsystem. frustration, is it fair to say, with corrupt elites? is that something that could be applied beyond lebanon to some of the other countries we are discussing? yes, i think worries about corruption, disgust at corruption, those things are strong motivators for getting people out there. but there are other things as well. if you educate a generation and then they can't get jobs, and their whole lives get put on hold as a result, and then they look at other people, the fat cats

who seem to be digging their mouths into the trough, then they think, wait a into the trough, then they think, waita minute, into the trough, then they think, wait a minute, that isn't fair. and if they are in the kind of society where there is the sort of political system where you can run for office and trying to change things, it is easierjust to get out there and make a noise. but i guess we have seen this before with the arab spring, and so i'm sort of wondering, how do things play out? we have seen mixed success in the past. one of the things that happened with those demonstrations in the arab uprisings in 2011 was that sometimes they manage to make some progress, but when there is a fairly leaderless, fairly inchoate kind of uprising, when something changes, say when a leader moves like the president of egypt was forced out by demonstrations, in 2011, then the people who can control that vacuum are not a bunch

of stu d e nts control that vacuum are not a bunch of students on the streets, they are actually whatever organisations are in the country with structure, and in the country with structure, and in the case of egypt, the two organisations which had structure we re organisations which had structure were not the demonstrators, but the muslim brotherhood on one hand and the military on the other hand, and so the story of the following years was a competition for power between those two sides. jeremy, stay with us those two sides. jeremy, stay with us if you would. we are going to look at another continent. latin america stands out with a truly dizzying array of protests — from bolivia to ecuador, haiti to honduras — there has been an outpouring of rage. chile has decided to pull out of hosting two major international summits as anti—government protests continue. we're joined now by our south america correspondent, katy watson. that decision to pull out of apec, a major international summit, one where the us and china were

reportedly considering signing their trade agreement, a trade deal there, was this the right decision for chile? how did it get there?|j was this the right decision for chile? how did it get there? i think given that the protests are showing no signs of stopping, the president thought this was the only way to be able to focus on his problems back home. he likened his problems to a pa re nt home. he likened his problems to a parent who is struggling with family problems, and the family comes first. he says the chilean people come first, and he needs to resolve issues closer to home, but he is... he is easing the protest, he is trying to increase wages, pensions, change the cabinet, but certainly chilean protesters are saying, you know, it is not enough. sorry for the sound break there. katy, we were talking about the common themes, jeremy was outlining those familiar

to the middle east. if you want to look at hong kong on the way that went on, and when it started, the fa ct went on, and when it started, the fact that the protest goes on and on and on, and it morphs into something else, is that, to some of these protests in the middle east? you talk about chile where it has gone on for several weeks. i think what's happening in chile is exactly that, it is notjust a question of changing one thing. the protests started because of a rise in metro fares, that was the spark. it is not that people are so angry about one thing. what has happened is that chile for example has done very well in the last decade, it is one of the most affluent countries in the region. people who could see potential, especially during a commodities boom where people were doing very well, and when countries are slowing, when perhaps the political system doesn't change and it is not inclusive, chile has one of the biggest problems with inequality in the region as well,

people don't see a better future, and when they are told they have to pay for schooling, health care, and they have to pay for an extra bit of bus fare if they want to go at peak times, these are the things that just kind of breakdown and people say, enough is enough. we don't want to live this life and we need a whole shake—up of the system. when i was in chile last week, that is what people were saying, it is not enough to have the top politicians talking, having photocalls and saying, we are resolving it. it needs to be more people sat around the table, more groups to be able to come to some kind ofan groups to be able to come to some kind of an agreement to change the system, change the structure. katy watson, thank you very much. she was talking about problems of inequality in chile. we can get more from an activist in that country. i'm joined now pablo abufom, an activist in santiago. we could hear the idea of inequality, is that what is behind this movement? that is definitely

one of the recent—— reasons people are joining one of the recent—— reasons people arejoining mass protest, notjust in santiago but in other cities in the country. there is a slogan that became famous during the past two weeks, that it is not about 30 pesos, the subway fare hike, it is about 30 years. and that is the 30 yea rs about 30 years. and that is the 30 years that they have felt there is an inequality. is anyone leading the protest? president pinera said i think a terrible thing last week when after declaring the state of emergency, he said they were in war against a powerful enemy. and perhaps he was right in terms of the

people themselves being a very powerful group of society. there seems to be, this seems to be a leaderless movement. or maybe a movement or social uprising with multiple leaderships. chile is a highly fragmented society, but it is also very organised on the base, so you have different unions and social movements like the feminist movement and the environmentalist movement that are proposing ways to change the structure of society in chile. but when you see that people are protesting even after the president is putting out measures like changing the cabinet, or some reforms from the political establishment, and people continue to protest, you see that it is not that kind of response that is going to make a difference in this situation. pablo, thank you very

much for your perspective. now, we wanted to get a sense of the similarities of the global protest movements and what binds them together — so before coming on air, i spoke with mohamed el—erian, the chief economic adviser to allianz. each of these protests we are seeing at the moment around the world are very different, but what binds them together? is it inequality, injustice? it is a couple of things. for countries like bolivia, lebanon, it is the absolute standards of living going down. so when you get price increases of petrol or even just what's up phone calls, it can spark that. in chile, it is that people feel they should be doing better. so all that is related to low growth, the benefits of the growth not going to the less

fortunate segments of the population, and in addition you have youth unemployment. so it is a volatile cocktail, and all you need isa volatile cocktail, and all you need is a spark of some sort and you get those protest. so we shouldn't characterise this as being about money, it's really about lack of opportunity? exactly. so most populations will put up with income and wealth inequality unless it gets really bad. what tends to tick people over is a sense of unequal opportunities. so the minute you add inequality of opportunity to inequality of opportunity to inequality of opportunity to inequality of wealth and income, you tend to get this sort of reaction where people go to the street and they are just angry, and rightly so. do demographics play into this at all? i was reading a statistic somewhere that if you look around the world, the average age of the population, a1% of the population is now under the age of 24. demographic plays a huge role. you have a young population coming up, aspirations

have gone up, people see what is available around the world, and therefore when they are frustrated, especially when they face unemployment, and when you face unemployment, and when you face unemployment coming out of school, the chances of you becoming unemployable goes up, so it is a real serious issue, and it needs to be addressed. and policymakers, what should they be doing? you have been talking about this for a while. what tips should be done to address these issues? promote inclusive economic growth, it is that simple. to do so is more complicated, but unfortunately governments haven't focused on this single goal with the sort of seriousness and urgency that is needed. so the more you allow low growth to start undermining the flexibility of your economy, the response of your economy, the more potential growth comes down. so this

is an urgent matter, and we have the tools. the economists know what the tools. the economists know what the tools are to address this. the question is getting political will, and it is the same problem in advanced economies. just to tie that back to advanced economies. a lot of focus certainly here in the us has been this us — china trade deal. does that fit into this, or is that a completely separate issue?m does. until recently, countries could aspire to global markets, to turbo—charge their growth, so you use the global markets to sell more, to earn more, and you cant turbo—charge, that is the success story of singapore and china. nowadays the global economy has turned into a headwind, which means you need to do even more to compensate for what is a less accommodating environment. thank you as always, and we didn't even get to

talk about the fed today! thank you. you do wonder if it is going to get worse with the slowing economy. jeremy bowen is still with us. i do wonder listening to muhammad there that you are trying to overlay a capitalist free market economy on top of a very illiberal hard—line government structure in many of these countries. in those countries where the economy is not completely crippled by war, and there are quite a few countries in that category, there have been those sorts of attempts. in egypt under mubarak, there was a fair amount of privatisation, but the people who benefited were his cronies, so the people were not happy about that. there is an issue as well about the way people respond to the way that they are governed on the way that they are governed on the way that the systems that we have satisfy people. here in europe there is a rise of populism at the expense of liberal democracy, not all that long ago people thought we might even have had a practically perfect

system here. clearly we haven't when people are so dissatisfied. system here. clearly we haven't when people are so dissatisfiedm system here. clearly we haven't when people are so dissatisfied. it is about trickle down here, but even more so in these countries. yes, as you were just hearing from mohammed there, people want to get their share of the cake, and when the cake is shrinking and it looks as if people are getting it who don't deserve it, might be corrupt people, cronies of the president, people who are connected with the security forces, when there aren't institutions as well to allow people to express their grievances, and i'm talking about courts that are fair, police you can trust and don't have to bribe, laws that mean something, contracts that mean something, if you don't have any of those things, and in the middle east where i work there are plenty of countries that fall into that category, it means that people don't have a chance of getting redress for the things that they want to have fixed, and so they get angrier and angrier, and once they break the barrier of fear in those countries where there is an authoritarian state, they might go

out on the streets. at the moment in say egypt, lots of grievances, people are too scared to go out in the main. when they talk about reform, you wonder just the main. when they talk about reform, you wonderjust how far they wa nt to reform, you wonderjust how far they want to reform. jeremy bowen, good to have you with us, thank you very much. this is beyond 100 days. still to come: what happens when you go knocking at 1600 pennsylvania ave on halloween? he's had one of the standout performances of england's rugby world cup campaign — but rugby hasn't always been kyle sinckler‘s passion. known as the "bad boy" of the sport, he went to a school that didn't teach rugby and grew up playing football instead...until he was told he was ‘too physical‘ for it. now he's just three days away from playing in the rugby world cup final against south africa. natalie pirks reports.

he is england's battering ram. the hard—hitting prop dubbed the tooting train whose speed and force made him a standout star injapan. but kyle sinckler‘s route to the world cup final has been far from conventional. he was always full on, it was always like, give the ball to him. nigel coached him here at battersea come at ironsides to hear from the age of eight. for a sport rooted in public privilege, there was no silver spoon. his single mum raised in a south london estate where he attended a local comprehensive. how important is it that someone like him came from a state school? i think if you had a richter scale, he would be at the top of the list that someone from a state school has made it through to by state school has made it through to rugby world. in the past, his hothead has seen him targeted by the opposition as an emotional time bomb. but he has worked hard since to control that temper, and in turn

become a role model for those following in his considerable footsteps. sinckler is carrying a ca lf footsteps. sinckler is carrying a calf injury but hopes to be fighting fit on saturday, where devoted corner of south london will be his loudest fans. england have lost to south africa before, could that happen again? definitely not! revenge time! revenge! for these kids and for england, sinckler is clearing a path to glory. natalie pirks, bbc news, wandsworth. i told you at the beginning of the programme there were 57 mps standing for the next election. make that 58. nicky morgan, culture secretary, has just announced on twitter she won't be standing at the next general election for the first time in 18 yea rs, election for the first time in 18 years, she says, i won't be a

candidate. i have loved being loughborough's voice in westminster since 2010, but i can't go on, she says. a few lines from that letter. after nearly a decade as an mp it is a difficult decision, but i can't commit to another five years. clear impact on my family, abuse for doing myjob, which we were talking about at the top of the programme. i can only justify the sacrifice at the top of the programme. i can onlyjustify the sacrifice if parliament does what it is supposed to do, represent those we serve in all areas of policy, respect votes cast by the electorate and make decisions in the overall national interest. now is the time, she says, for me to be at home far more. nicky morgan, culture secretary, standing down after ten years a conservative member. staying with that december election. essex man, soccer mum, burnley boy — just a few of the stereotypes pollsters, strategists, and yes, journalists come up with come election time. the point being, we are not even out of the gates, and pollsters have already come up with a new

stereotype. step forward workington man. a typically older, white working class man, who didn't go to university, who's been a labour voter in the past. he lives in rugby league town in the north like halifax, wigan, warrington. and according to a london based research institute, these are the kind of people borisjohnson needs to target if he's to win seats like these — seats which have rarely, if ever, gone conservative. if anyone knows who workington man is, it is lee butterworth, a gym owner from the town who joins us now. thank you for coming onto the programme. what do you think of this stereotype that is being created now? to be honest, i think it exists. where traditionally allah dale and copeland, traditionally labour, we have had the mines for work, very working class people ——

allerdale and copeland. people's families were labour, and they would blindly go on a tick that box, and go back out without knowing the policies, so yes, it obviously is a stereotype, but i think it is right. do you still see the labour party as a working class party? know, at the top level, they all go to the same school. i think theyjust draw straws to see which party they are going to represent. they are not working—class at all now i don't think. so when you go to the ballot box, you have two options. if you are not going to vote labour. are you a leaver? es. so you can either vote conservative or you can vote for nigel farage in the brexit party. which way are you going to go? i like boris, to be honest. the politicians have minced about for three years not doing what we have asked. boris has literally come in and tried every trick in the book to

get us out, and they have all been blocking him. so it doesn't matter to you that he got a deal this last week and didn't deliver it? how can it? who is going to get a better deal? they are in the driving seat in the eu, they are just going to give us what they want to give us. no one is going to get a better deal than that. and are you ready for the cameras to descend on workington over the next six weeks? yeah, do you think that is going to happen? thank you for coming on a big good sport about it, much appreciated. lee butterworth there in workington. are you trick or treating tomorrrow? well, president trump and the first lady were hosting their third halloween at the white house on monday, as is the norm they were handing out candy. smiles all around. a rare bit of good press for the president — free of any hiccups —

at least you would think so. but not it seems when you are faced by a child dressed as a minion, who was carrying a basket. where would you put the sweet. in the basket, naturally. or on the top of the child's head, where the child can't reach it. look at this little girl behind, she is sort of standing there aiming her basket, ready for it to drop off. sweeping in! that is smart. i love it. and look, four candy bars. iam going it. and look, four candy bars. i am going home to put spiders' cobwebs on my front gate, and i'm a lwa ys cobwebs on my front gate, and i'm always uncertain at this time of the, because normally when katty are sitting in that chair, mine are usually really lame, but look at these pictures jon usually really lame, but look at these picturesjon sopel has sent me from katty‘s street. look at this! extraordinary. they really go to town in america, don't they?

i will bring you some photos tomorrow! anyway, we will be here for halloween tomorrow. do join us for halloween tomorrow. do join us for that. thank you for being with us. see you tomorrow. hello there. there were some beautiful autumnal sunshine for some of us today. weather watchers have been sending in photos of the weather near them, a glorious day to be at the beach, and this photo sent in earlier. cloudy skies in this photo sent in by a weather watcher in devon, visibility not so great here as well. this cloud is thanks to this where the front in the south and west, and it has been largely held at bay by this area of high pressure which is gradually edging its way eastwards, but it does mean that through tonight there will be more in the way of cloud and some outbreaks of rain for south—west england, perhaps in the southern parts of wales and southern coastal counties of england, could see some further outbreaks of rain. away from that, largely clear spells, and the

temperatures will dip away, so a real range in temperatures tonight. minus three celsius for parts of northern scotland, holding to the double figures where we have the cloud and outbreaks of rain. a chilly start to the day for scotland and northern england, a touch of frost, plenty of sunshine around, it will turn cloudy across northern ireland as the day wears on, fairly cloudy across the south—western for parts of wales, but the rain will tend to ease here. temperatures between eight and 14 celsius. as we move into thursday night, we will start to see some signs of change, low pressure starting to push in, and weather fronts as well. we are also going to drag in some milder air. this is the air mass on friday, you can see the orange and yellow colours on the map, it means we are infora colours on the map, it means we are in for a milder day. colours on the map, it means we are infora milder day. but colours on the map, it means we are in for a milder day. but it will be a very different day, plenty of cloud around, generally cloudy and overcast with some mist work over high ground, and spells of rain too.

significantly milder in the north, highs of around 14 celsius, 12—16dc across the south. into the weekend, across the south. into the weekend, a little bit of uncertainty in the detail, but it does look like low pressure will be in charge. the uncertainty as to where the centre of the low sits, and therefore where the strongest winds and the most wet weather will be. but it does look like it will be an unsettled picture. temperature staying in double figures, but dropping down a touch from what we will see on friday.

this is bbc news, i'm carrie gracie. the headlines at eight. the grenfell tower fire — a public inquiry reveals ‘systemic failures' in the way london fire brigade dealt with the blaze, prompting calls for its chief to resign. and we will never ever forget the tragedy of that night. her son's lives lost and the fire brigade couldn't saved more lives that knives —— could have. the report said more lives could have been saved if the building had been evacuated sooner. the victims relatives and survivors called it heartbreaking. we believe the firefighters told us to stay, so we believed them and we

stayed.