you're watching beyond 100 days. 5 people have been sentenced to death in saudi arabia for the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi. it is either a whitewash, or justice at last, depending on who you talk to and where they live. the trial was closed, there were no independent monitors and we don't even know who the 5 people are. president trump has declared victory over islamic state, but a top kurdish counter—terrorism official has told the bbc the hard core that's regrouped is like "al-qaeda on steroids". also on the programme... new evidence emerges, suggesting the trump administration did order a freeze of aid to ukraine, just 90 minutes after a july phone call between the us president and his ukranian counterpart. the top man at boeing has gone.

ceo dennis muilenburg pays the price for his repeated failings regarding the 737 max. and what were we thinking? the social habits, the fashion faux pax, the must—have gadgets of the last decade, that we can finally say goodbye to. hello and welcome, i'm katty kay in washington and christian fraser is in london. there are very mixed reactions today, to news that 5 people have been sentenced to death in saudi arabia for the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi. amnesty international calls the sentences a whitewash, the human rights group criticised the process, because the trial was closed and there were no independent monitors. but mr khashoggi's son, salah, publicly disagreed, tweeting. ..

fairness of the judiciary is based on two principles, fairness and speedy litigation, so there is neither injustice nor procrastination. salah still lives in saudi arabia and it's not clear what pressures he may or may not be under to support the government. the last public sighting of jamal khashoggi, seen here walking into the saudi consulate in istanbul in october last year. he never came out alive. turkish cctv footage shows a hit team of 15 saudi government agents arriving in istanbul to intercept khashoggi. inside the consulate, they overpowered him, injected him and suffocated him. his body has never been found. 11 men were eventually put on trial. today, the preliminary sentences were announced. translation: the criminal court in riyadh has delivered the following preliminary sentences for ii of the accused. sentencing five of them to death in retribution.

they are the ones directly implicated in the death of the victim, may god rest his soul. at the time of the crime, saudi arabia initially denied responsibility, but turkey, which had bugged the consulate, leaked details of what really happened. in november 2018, the cia said the killing was probably ordered by the saudi crown prince. and injune this year, a un report said there was credible evidence of saudi state involvement. saudi arabia's powerful crown prince, mohammed bin salman, had become increasingly irritated by khashoggi's public criticism of his policies. he denies any responsibility in the murder. jamal khashoggi was described by one royal aide as a threat to national security. critics are now calling the investigation into his murder a whitewash. for saudi arabia, this whole story has cast a dark shadow over its international reputation. in riyadh, the authorities

will be hoping this verdict draws a line under it. but others will keep on pressing for answers. that un investigation mentioned in frank's report was carried out by agnes callamard, the un special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions and she joins us now from france. thank you very much forjoining us. what is your main criticism of these sentences that were carried out today? the main criticism is that the trial did not focus on the chain of command, it did not focus on the state. i did not focus on. the five people found guilty are frankly at the lowest level of the team of 15 people. even the one who had been

named by the prosecutor in his original indictment as being found not guilty, another had been named but not charged by the prosecutor, was not even worried, did not even have anything to be worried about with the trial. as far as i am concerned, at trial for the with the trial. as far as i am concerned, at trialfor the killing ofa concerned, at trialfor the killing of a journalist that focuses solely on the hit men and ignores the mastermind behind the crime, such a trial is nothing but a travesty of justice. i was going to say, i was interested to know what he thought of the timing, coming the day before christmas eve? the timing is no accident as far as i'm concerned. it is probably an attempt to ensure that there is as little reaction as possible and story is forgotten in

the midst of the festivities. he has said he would like an international criminal investigation. do you think thatis criminal investigation. do you think that is realistic? couldn't possibly happen? i want is for the killing of jamal khashoggi for the truth around the killing to be completely viable. the killing was a state—sponsored killing under international law. saudi arabia keeps repeating the state is not responsible, i am sorry, they just do state is not responsible, i am sorry, theyjust do not know international law. that is the first thing. the prosecutor had absolutely no focus on the state in its handling of the case. i did not try to unpack who within the state either incited the killing ordered the killing, created the condition that made the killing possible, or failed to protect jamal khashoggi when the killing was known to be happening. those are the scenarios

that must absolutely be investigated if we want to combat effectively impunity for the killing of journalists around the world is in saudi arabia. that has not been done. you can do it? at the moment there are several options. the united states could do more than what it has done so far. the fbi has demanded to investigate the killing, the cia could make assessment public rather than leaked. and the us congress last week demanded that the head of the national intelligence services render a public report on killing of jamal khashoggi. you must be aware none of that will happen under donald trump? that will be a litmus test for the independence of the american institution, including its intelligence institution. let's

see, how far they can go in putting out an independent report. there are other mechanisms through which justice and truth can be known. a trial in saudi arabia will be an important step. the country, the prosecutor there has investigated the killing for the last 12 months, they have a great deal more information. they need to make the information. they need to make the information public and that will be portent. 0thers information public and that will be portent. others can proceed with at least, put the case of jamal khashoggi against the principle of universaljurisdiction khashoggi against the principle of universal jurisdiction and yet khashoggi against the principle of universaljurisdiction and yet they are to allow some vindication. let no system the fact that the killing ofa no system the fact that the killing of a journalist, that does not focus on the system, that allowed for the killing to happen, that killing just breeds impunity. and that is exactly

what has happened here. we have only focused on, we have forgot the system that allowed for the killing to happen. thank you very much for joining us from france. well, let's get more on this story from washington post columnist, david ignatius. he was not only a colleauge of jamal khashoggi's, but his friend for 15 years. interesting points raised there, that this sends a message that other countries can't get rid of their critics with impunity? that is one of the most disturbing things about the findings. this is a murder that took place in the saudi consulate in istanbul, it is inconceivable to me that a rogue team could do this independent of orders for higher up. that is not how saudi arabia works,

thatis that is not how saudi arabia works, that is not how most countries work. essentially, the saudi prosecutor has let this go. wanted it to go away, the responsibility in particular of the crown prince's key aid who then united states treasury identified a month after the killing as having been directly involved with the planning and the fact he was let go and they claim there was no evidence whatsoever about him, i think what particularly disturbed new was that, finally there is the question of safety and security of journalists everywhere. if there is no accountability in this especially public case. you and your colleagues are going to great deal of effort to investigate this and yet the reaction from the white house has been pretty minimal in terms of the repercussions of this case on saudi arabia's relationship with the united states, hasn't it? president trump seems to have decided from the first to give crown prince mohammed

bin salman a pass, not to present on this. other parts of the us government, there are state departments have been tougher. they have demanded saudi arabia show in some way that there is accountability. 0ur intelligence service has a lot riding on the integrity and stability of the kingdom, they want more answers than they have gotten. so in a sense, what the saudi prosecutor has done isa what the saudi prosecutor has done is a poke in the eye of these us agencies which the saudis know very well. we heard agnes callamard say that congress could split, the senate committee could get involved in this? i hope lindsey graham will continue to take this case seriously. saudi arabia needs to understand that the us congress has a broad concern about saudi

stability, actions of the crown prince, if you, as the government does want to continue, it needs to have a firmer basis and i hope congress takes that as a starting point. we need to move on and have a relationship with the kingdom going forward. briefly, iwanted to relationship with the kingdom going forward. briefly, i wanted to get your take on the victim's son today saying justice had been done. your take on the victim's son today saying justice had been donelj never want to second—guess the child of someone who has been murdered. it is for him to decide what he wants to see. he is living in the kingdom, has been under some pressure i think since long before his father was murdered. so i am not going to second—guess him. but i do think that everybody who cares about his father's def and memory remains concerned. -- death.

there are signs that the islamic state group is re—organising in iraq. it's only two years since is lost its territory in the country, but now kurdish and western intelligence officials have told the bbc that the is presence in iraq is a sophisticated insurgency, with militants moving freely, raising funds and carrying out attacks. the militants are now more skilled and more dangerous than al-qaeda, according to one top kurdish counter—terrorism official. there are believed to be about 10,000 of them and security forces are warning that history is in danger of repeating itself, as 0rla guerin reports. from a hilltop in northern iraq, a sweeping view of territory reclaimed from the islamic state group. the kurdish peshmerga, who helped drive them out, tell us now they are making a comeback. the militants are exploiting an area of no man's land, disputed terrain between kurdish and iraqi forces. looking at this territory here now right in front of us, do isis have free rein here now? yes, i can say, yes. especially between, the delta between the great

zab and tigris river, they are permanent there. are you worried? of course. of course i'm worried, because they are a really big threat. day by day, we can see the movement of isis, the activities, they reorganise themselves. is has done that an hour's drive away in hawija, which was their last stronghold in iraq. the authorities have planted theirflag, but the militants are hunting local officials. it is by night that is emerge, spreading their terror as before. this chilling propaganda video shows a mukhtar being led away to his death. nine have been killed in hawija alone. the area is tense. we have to travel with an armed escort.

iraqi forces are facing an enemy that is close but hard to find. well, is can't hold territory here any more, but they can still strike. they've been carrying out deadly attacks here and they can still create fear among the local population. many in the area are too frightened to speak. militia fighters in hawija are on alert. one of their checkpoints was targeted earlier this month. hussein hamada survived, but saw two of his friends killed. translation: it's very difficult. i still cannot sleep and i go to a psychologist. they were my guys. we would eat and drink and sleep together. they were my brothers. since the caliphate crumbled, is has been driven underground to caves and tunnels

beneath these mountains. but iraq has seen terror grow from these beginnings before. and the fear is a new threat is coming, for the region and the west. 0rla guerin, bbc news, northern iraq. and david is still with us. you have done a lot of reporting on islamic state, iraq and syria and is the report said, the danger as it will go back to asymmetric warfare, like pre—9/11? will go back to asymmetric warfare, like pre-9/l1? that was a chilling piece of reporting. what i found haunting was the scene of the local moped are, the leader who had dared to step up against the islamic

state, and was struck down. systematically, those who worked with the us to take down al-qaeda doubt were struck —— hunted down and killed. i hope people take it seriously. to use a cliche, we have seen seriously. to use a cliche, we have seen this movie before. what are the circumstances that are allowing for so—called islamic state to re—emerge in iraq? part of the problem is this organisation, there are scenes in iraq where fighters can hide, there is no authority that can chase them down the fear is that the same thing is happening in syria, fighters re grouping and beginning to take reprisals. it is a process, is is

about physical intimidation. the threat that if you fight against me i will come back and kill you. that is happening now in iraq, i think it is happening now in iraq, i think it is happening now in iraq, i think it is happening in syria as well. thank you very much for coming into both stories david. democrats and republicans are in a stand—off over the impeachment trial of donald trump. as the case goes to the senate, democrats are pushing for more documents and more witnesses. they hope that by getting top white house officials to testify in public and under oath, they could build an irrefutable case that the president coerced ukraine to investigatejoe biden in exchange for military aid and a white house visit. democrats point to a newly surfaced email that shows the white house ordered the pentagon to withold aid to ukrainejust 91 minutes after mr trump spoke with ukrainian president zelensky onjuly 25th. obtained by the investigative journalism organisation, the center for public integrity , the email was sent by a senior white house official and tells the pentagon to ‘hold off‘ releasing funds to kyiv. it then goes on to ask the recipient to keep the information ‘closely held to those who need to know‘. here‘s senate minority leader

chuck schumer speaking yesterday. so far, senator mcconnell and president trump have come up with no good reason why there should not be witnesses, why there shouldn‘t be documents. we don‘t know what the witnesses will say, we don‘t know what the documents, how the documents will read. they might exonerate president trump, or they might further incriminate him, but the truth should come out on something as important as an impeachment. well, this new information is rather explosive. also speaking yesterday, vice president mike pence‘s chief of staff had this to say. i think the president wants to prove his innocence and so... he wants witnesses? i think the president has articulated he is open to witnesses chuck, but at the same time... but his legal team doesn't? is that fair to say or not? i think at the same time

the american people are tired of this sham. they are tired of this whole thing. and i think we are anxious to get back to the work for the american people. so, to the extent there is a prolonged trial, we're not anxious for that, we're anxious to say lets get back to the work the american people said they wanted. and joining me now is time magazine contributor, jay newton small. he has a point in terms of public opinion in terms of the american public being fed up of this process of impeachment and they would like congress to get back to passing legislation which affects their daily lives? let's face it, it is already an election year and congress will not pass any legislation in this year that is going to affect daily lives. but i will say look this has become a political football, it was from the beginning and it is reallyjust

being used to shore up both democratic and republican bases and popularity heading into the 2020 elections. and i think the only person who is disappointed that there may not be a senate trial is donald trump himself who love the idea of a republican run process that could be broadcast on cable television and what you would think, what he thought would exonerate him in this case and colinjoe biden and his son hunter and embarrass them and ask questions about corruption, what donald trump says was corruption under the obama administration. republicans don‘t really wa nt administration. republicans don‘t really want a trial. in practical terms, what does it make who controls the process —— difference doesn‘t make who controls the process if documents are released and witnesses are called? could that make a difference to the result of the trial? it is hard to say. it is doubtful almost anything that is said will change the outcome of a senate trial, that many republican senator‘s opinions that they will somehow change their mind and impeach a president of their own

party heading so close into an election period where the base is clearly against impeaching donald trump. that said, if you are calling on witnesses that democrats have long wanted to hear like head of the, chief of staff, others with important voices, they would somehow testify there was some quid pro quo here, that could be damning. maybe not so much in the eyes of republican senators within the eyes of the electorate. looking at the letter chuck schumer has sent to collea g u es letter chuck schumer has sent to colleagues the senate, he is requesting documents saying there is simply no reason that documents should be withheld. he is right in principle, isn‘t he? they want to get on with their lives but when they think of the trial which is set down by the constitution, they think of witnesses and evidence. if there is no witness and evidences that not look bad for the republicans that this is not trial? this is moving at lightspeed because people are again

both sides of the aisle want to clear less ahead of the elections. soi clear less ahead of the elections. so i think the idea was to rush through this, have some sort of airing of opinions on both sides and then move to have a vote which is a foregone conclusion how both parties will vote along boat party lines. so the idea of them bringing in witnesses and documentation, i guess creates an actual real bona fides process out of what is essentially a political process as it stands. and it dragged it out in the mind of most politicians when they want to get it down as quickly as possible. a senate trial and a house trial are not processes that have gone the way otherformer not processes that have gone the way other former impeachment have and it has been a lot quicker, a lot speedier and that is because you

have the election deadline. so it has been a purely political process from the beginning and it is not about to change even if you get documents and witnesses in front of the senate. thank you very much for that. if you had mike pompeo under oath, standing there in the senate you have to tell the truth and if they think they should get him or mick mulvaney orjohn bolton to say something that suggested they did know there had been some kind of quid pro quo, maybe that would peel away a certain number of republicans, probably not enough to get them to overturn this majority but even if they got three or four to say our k we support removing the president from office, that would show there were some bipartisanship and they would feel that was an important signal which is why they are pushing so hard on it. the historians of the future will look back at the 2010s as a period of change perhaps unsurpassed since the second world war. rules of the political playbook once considered sacrosanct have been thrown out, once historic international alliances and partnerships ripped up, and new technologies are fundamentally changing the way

citizens interact with each other and their elected politicains. but it will also be a decade remembered for its cultural moments. some good others less so and a fair share of questionable fads and trends. so what are yours. i will chuck away smart homes. smart everything because i cannot get it. every time i look at it i think all my lord i have to do that too. scrunchies are making a comeback apparently. that is really bad. they we re apparently. that is really bad. they were not ever a good trend. no? i don‘t like scrunchies. find a lot of them the sofa. socks with the days of the week on the bottom. i don‘t know anyone who looks at the bottom of the feet to tell what day it is but i can tell you what, i once did a piece in lemon on for the 10pm news and had my feet out in a mosque

andi news and had my feet out in a mosque and i thought it was a good piece but i had sunday and tuesday on at the same time which is unfortunate when you are trying to convince people you know what your talking about. so let‘s get rid of socks with the days of the week. this is beyond 100 days from the bbc. the christmas week looking fairly mixed, showers and long spells of rain in the run—up to christmas day but by christmas day we should see a ridge of high pressure which will bring plenty of sunshine, cool briefly deport earning wet and windy towards the end of the week. this feature will bring some more persistent rain to england and wales as we head through tonight, starting south—west wales and moving northwards and eastwards, behind it skies will clear towards the end of the night, some blustery showers following on. a touch of frost in places, one or

two showers which will be wintry on the hills. heading into christmas eve, looks like a high macro that rain in the east but this feature will enhance shower activity across the south—west. a grey damp start across north and east england eventually clearing away and then we will see heavy showers pushing in to south wales and south—west england and the midlands, strong and gusty wind. some sunshine further north, one or two shower, very little cloud. 11 and 12 in the south. as we head through the latter part of christmas eve staying fairly showery in the north and west of the country but the showers will continue to ease down as we head through christmas eve night into christmas day. that is because this ridge of high pressure will build in and settle things down for the big day itself and will start with a touch of frost around, a bit of mist and fog too which should feel festive.

you can see on the map barely a cloud in the sky so plenty of sunshine. it will sound hazy out west as the next weather system arrives. single figures for most so arrives. single figures for most so a cool day. as we head through christmas day night into boxing day, it turns wetter and windier across the west, further east some dense fog patches, quite a chilly night to come in the and east. along with the strong wind, and the heavy rain. you can see the system working its way east as we head through boxing day, quite a squeeze in the isobar is, could be gusts of up to 50 mph around irish sea coasts. someone quite heavy as it moves east and there will be some snow on the high ground of northern england, accumulating snow over the scottish mountains. macularfeel accumulating snow over the scottish mountains. macular feel in the north—east but milder in the south. —— a cooler feel.

you‘re watching beyond 100 days with me katty kay in washington. christian fraser is in london. our top stories: a court in saudi arabia sentences five people to death over the murder ofjournalist jamal khashoggi last year. a un expert tells this programme the move is a whitewash. a trialfor a trial for the killing a trialfor the killing of a trial for the killing of a journalist that focuses solely on the hit men and ignored those that awkward —— ordered the crime, such a trial is a travesty ofjustice. a top kurdish counter—terrorism official says the so—called islamic state group is re—organising in iraq, two years after losing the last of its territory in the country. also on the programme: the top man at boeing has gone.

ceo dennis muilenburg pays the price for his repeated failings regarding the 737 max. former labour leader ed miliband is to sit on a panel of party figures to look at the reasons behind its disastrous performance at the general election. plus, do you sufferfrom nomophobia? we‘ll discuss the whole new medical lexicon dedicated to our smart phone addiction. hello and welcome. i‘m katty kay in washington, and christian fraser is in london. the plane manufacturer boeing has sacked its chief executive, dennis muilenburg a move it said was necessary to "restore confidence" in the company. mr muilenberg has been under pressure since two fatal crashes involving boeing‘s 737 max aircraft in which nearly 350 people died. boeing‘s shares have gone up by two percent since the announcement of the leadership change —

but does removing the person at the top highlightjust how deep the crisis at boeing is? samira hussain is covering the story in new york for us we were talking earlier about it being a good day to bury bad news. is this another incident of that? this has certainly been something thatis this has certainly been something that is a long time coming. a lot of people have been wondering when there would be some kind of accountability for what has happened with the 737 max crashes and subsequent grounding of the entire fleet. no one has been particularly pleased by the leadership shown by mr muilenberg. we have seen that he has been unable to win back the confidence of any us regulators or even global regulators. he faced harsh criticism from us lawmakers when he went to testify on capitol hill, with some accusing him of putting profits over people‘s safety, and of course, when it comes

to the victims and their families, he has shown very little empathy to what they have been going through. so, regulators had been particularly irritated that mr muilenberg has been pushing for the 737 max to be allowed to fly again. it has been grounded permanently or semi—permanently and production will be halted. what do we expect from the new leadership in terms of what will change? what really needs to change at boeing is a few things. one, there needs to be better communication. there has been a lot of criticism of mr muilenberg on the way he communicated with airlines waiting for these planes to get back in the air, and with regulators trying to get these planes in the air but who won‘t do so unless they have met all of the safety requirements. so the faa has been criticising boeing for not being forthright enough in some of the changes it is making and some of the

security flaws that have happened in the past. with regard to airlines, mr muilenberg has always said it will be a few weeks, a few months, by the end of the year, we will see these planes going in the air, but they haven‘t, and that has had a big impact on some of the world‘s largest airlines, who are unable to do any sort of forward planning because they just don‘t do any sort of forward planning because theyjust don‘t know anything about these planes and when they will be flying again. you say they will be flying again. you say they are pointing to the changes, andi they are pointing to the changes, and i am reading the statement: boeing will operate with a renewed commitment to full transparency, including effective income —— effective communication with the faa and other global customers. right there is everything that was wrong with the company under mr muilenberg. they have made it clear because it is abundantly clear to absolutely everyone, so i think this was a moment for the board to say, let‘s start the new year and do something fresh. we have done all the hard work in terms of the more

difficult announcements, saying we will halt production. let‘s start the new year with new leadership, and perhaps they can start rebuilding their reputation. remember, boeing used to be the real juggernaut. they used to be the leaders in airlines, but their reputation has suffered so badly amongst its peers and amongst the flying public. thank you very much for that. a new man at the top at boeing. a lot of people would say that is about time. as the labour party reels from its worst defeat since 1935 its former leader ed miliband has said he will help lead a review of the party‘s failure — as part of a panel that will hear from members, defeated candidates, and focus groups in heartlands. the postmortem claims it will involve all wings of the membership, and its organisers are hoping to use the process to map out a route back to government for the party. not only was this month‘s election labour‘s fourth consecutive defeat — but this time around the party lost seats traditionally considered to be in its heartland —

including 2a constituencies that had never before elected a conservative mp. one of those seats is ashfield in the east midlands — where the labour candidate was natalie fleet. today she‘s been meeting with labour leadership contender lisa nandy and she joins us now from derby. thank you forjoining us. this panel thatis thank you forjoining us. this panel that is looking at what went wrong and what needs to happen next, there isa and what needs to happen next, there is a lot of pressure on the labour party to come up with a new leader fast, get rid of mr corbett and get someone fast, get rid of mr corbett and get someone else in in the new year, so do you think it is right to take some time, listen and investigate what went wrong? —— mr corbyn. absolutely. before that my result had been announced, people were asking me what i thought had gone wrong and did i want to put the blame on jeremy corbyn wrong and did i want to put the blame onjeremy corbyn or on brexit, but it can‘t be that simple. in this

vast world, people want immediate a nswe i’s , vast world, people want immediate answers, but this is a far more complicated picture. i‘m pleased we will be having the review and people will be having the review and people will be having the review and people will be coming to a like ours and listening, finding out why they couldn‘t trust us with their vote this time. what are some of the things you heard beyond mr corbyn‘s leadership and brexit? where there are other things you heard about the labour party manifesto that they should be looking at now? so, people did bring upjeremy corbyn and brexit, especially in areas like mine, 70% cap might leave. residents thought we were a party of remain, which comes down to a complicated message. the manifesto was 104 pages long and i just message. the manifesto was 104 pages long and ijust didn‘t have time to read it as a candidate. there were some fantastic policies, but working through the myriad of priorities for today, what i needed to communicate today, what i needed to communicate to people, there were so many complicated messages, and we were up

against the tories with a simple slogan of get brexit done. i think it is disingenuous but it did cut through in a way that our message just didn‘t. there were other people it also said... sorry? what explanation has jeremy it also said... sorry? what explanation hasjeremy corbyn given you? we had an e-mail at the end of last week that went out to all candidates. you've not heard from him? no, not... well, i had the e—mail. other people as well thought when we spoke to them that the 104 pages worth of policies, they felt like they would make the country bankrupt and once again we would face a recession like we did in 2008, which isn‘t true, but the fact that people were worried about that and we didn‘t reassure them is a problem. another thing that came up often was that people felt we were a

party for people that live in london, young people. that was what somebody said today. we want to reach out to those people, and we are proud to represent those people, but if we want to be a party of government, we have to represent all people in all of our nations. 0k, natalie fleetjoining us, thank you very much. interesting, that point about the policies bankrupting the country. if you look at boris johnson, he is now proposing expansionist economic policies but doesn‘t seem to be getting that kick back that his policies would cause bankrupting. back that his policies would cause bankru pting. maybe back that his policies would cause bankrupting. maybe it isjust messaging. that interventionist element in the conservative party will be interesting, how it sits with the thatcherite arm of the party. one to watch in the next year. yeah, very different economic policies. an evengelical magazine in the us is under assault after publishing an editorial calling for president trump to be removed from office. the article was noteworthy because christian evangelicals have tended to be firmly behind mr trump. christianity today recognised the president‘s

appeal to evangelicals but said the impeachment hearings revealed a president who is morally unfit for office. yesterday the editor in chief defended his paper‘s position. what i‘m really arguing in the piece, fundamentally, is that the president is unfit for office. now, that may be distinction without a difference, but the point is, and i am not really speaking politically, making a political judgment because that is not our expertise at christianity today, i am making a moraljudgment that he is morally unfit. or even more precisely, it is his public morality that makes him unfit. the president didn‘t take kindly to the editorial. a far left magazine, or very "progressive" as some would call it knows nothing about reading a perfect transcript of a routine phone call and would rather have a radical left nonbeliever who wants to take your religion and your guns, than donald trump as your president. and mr trump has got the quick support of other

evangelical leaders — some 200 of them wrote a letter to christianity today slamming the editorial. i bet they weren‘t the only e—mails and letters that he got, were they? know, he has been inundated with criticism and abuse, he says, from some people as well. he has tried to make the point that, look, there are things we support about this president, but if we take into account the question of character and morality and the constitution, then their conclusion is, after listening to the impeachment hearings, that this is a president who should go. he has made the point that in 1998, when bill clinton was impeached, the magazine made the samejudgment impeached, the magazine made the same judgment on the question of morality in character, saying that bill clinton‘s character had to be called into question as well, so he is trying to have consistency, but it is hard when he is getting incoming from other evangelical

leaders and the president himself, and you have to remember that the evangelicals like what they are getting from donald trump. one quarter of circuit courtjudges in american states are appointed by trump and they are people who like the policies of evangelical christians, and that is why they have by and large that with the president so far. not easy, taking a stand on the right, is it? no, not when the party is as monolithic as it is at the moment. our mobile phones have become essential to everything we do, and that means they are with us every hour of the day. indispensable to everything we do. but they are also working — around the clock — for someone else. your cell phone is a tracking device that happens to make calls. there are scores of companies that log the movements of tens of millions of people and they store that information. the new york times privacy project has obtained some of the location information from more than 12 million americans as they moved through several major cities, including washington, new york, san francisco and los angeles. charlie warzel is one of the people behind the work, hejoins from missoula,

montana. good to have you with us. so i understand properly, are you saying that the phone itself is tracking our movement, or is it the apps that many of us leave open in the background with location services on them? it is definitely the latter, although you could say that it is powered by the phone. the phone is the reason that it is happening. the investigation we looked into, all of the location pings we saw, all the data, comes from these third party apps. data, comes from these third party apps, so this would be a weather app, one that looks at gas prices around your area, an app that might give you a coupon or something like

that. they ask you to share location information when you download them. a lot of people turn it on, use the app and forget about it, but they are still collecting. some of them, you can find they are logging it up to four times a minute. every ping isa to four times a minute. every ping is a person on the screen. how do you associate that with the person? if you can do that, surely intelligence services around the world can do that. as you said, they think it is anonymous, and the information in the dataset we had was simply a string of numbers and did not have an e—mail attached or any phone numbers or names, but when you isolate that one device, you can look and see where it has been. you look and see where it has been. you look for the top two clusters, and

they will usually be where you live in where you work. where you live is often publicly identifiable information in public records, so it is very easy, and... alike might give us an example of the kind of thing that a nonbeliever than —— white might give us an example of the kind of thing that a non—friendly company might use this for and why we should be worried. think of anything in your life you might not want others to see. a lot of people will say, i live a life thatis of people will say, i live a life that is boring and i have nothing to worry about. we need to look at privacy as a collective concern. having your location in this

database actually betrays other people. if you go to a political march or a protest, it is then easy to see the phones nearby and you can give up the privacy of others. this information can be used don‘t like it lacks context. if you check into hotel late at night, it is possible someone hotel late at night, it is possible someone could infer that you are doing something untoward or inappropriate when really you are not, but those things can be leveraged for things like blackmail or trolling. the other thing i think it‘s important is the privacy you wa nt it‘s important is the privacy you want and expect right now isn‘t what you might want and expect five years from now. you may run for office, become the head of a company, have a position in a faith group or something like that. it might be ok now. you wouldn't let the government have this information, so why would you let companies that aren‘t governed by federal law?

you let companies that aren‘t governed by federal law7m you let companies that aren‘t governed by federal law? it is unclear what the security practices are. i guarantee that almost every american has never heard of most of these companies. they are small start—ups and it is unclear what their security practices are and where the information is going, so yes, it is a matter of trust. we wouldn‘t trust the government and we shouldn‘t trust companies. wouldn‘t trust the government and we shouldn't trust companies. an important point. charlie, thank you very much indeed. brilliant graphics from the new york times driving the point home. while we are on the issue of technology — and our addiction to it — did you know there is a whole new lexicon out there to define our dependency on the smart phone. so vibreanxiety — the new term given to the feeling you get, when you think your phone is buzzing in your pocket but in fact it is a phantom vibration. there is no message. vibreanxiety! here‘s another — nomophobia, the fear and terror of not having a working phone.

that also encompasses not being able to get a hold of your colleague at the drop of a hat. the story of my life, katty. you are in my favourites. do you like my ring tone? i‘m turning you off. this is beyond 100 days. still to come: i will be testing christian on his memory of this year‘s shows. prince charles says his father, the duke of edinburgh, is all right and being treated very well on his fourth day in hospital in london. prince charles spoke to well wishers as he visited flood—hit communities in yorkshire. danjohnson has been in the village of fishlake, which was hit hard by floods last month. people here seem genuinely pleased to see the prince. thank you for coming, it means a lot.

he took the chance to see some of the homes wrecked when the river don overflowed last month. it‘s been a real battle since it happened because the insurance companies have taken so long. justin‘s suffered more than most. this is six weeks since this happened. only now have you actually picked this up. this is... so, yeah. i think prince charles, you know, he understood exactly what i was saying. you know, it‘s incredibly frustrating. three feet of water submerged the village for more than a week. thousands were affected across yorkshire and the midlands. this is where all the kitchen units were. people who now face a miserable christmas. we're not in a position that we're anywhere that we feel is home. and, to us, christmas should be at home. we've had to explain to everybody, you know, we appreciate you sending christmas cards, but don't be expecting anything from us this year, i'm really sorry. we just don't feel in the mood or in that position to celebrate. the prince met local

politicians who‘ve called for a regional version of cobra, the government emergency response committee. climate change is undoubtedly a factor. so, we do need to look very carefully at what‘s happened here. and we need investment. we need to ensure that our flood defenses are fit for purpose, because i don‘t want to be here in five years or ten years having this same conversation. when a royal‘s in town, questions of family are never far away. sir, how is your father? he's all right. once you get to that age, things don't work as well. but today‘s real focus was on people here who are still facing a difficult future. danjohnson, bbc news, in fishlake. the professional footballers‘ assocation has called for a government inquiry into racism in the sport after the chelsea player, antonio rudiger, complained of hearing monkey chants from the crowd during yesterday‘s premier league match at tottenham. downing street responded that football authorities need to do more to tackle racism and said it was ready to take

further steps if required. the incident comes 12 months after star manchester city striker raheem sterling was subjected to racist abuse by chelsea supporters. let‘s speak now to dr martha newson, an anthropologist at oxford university, who specialises in group behaviour. she joines us from sussex. the truth is that in english football we like to point the finger at the continent and say that we do it better, but here we have two incidents, and i think we must accept now, mustn‘t we, that this is accept now, mustn‘t we, that this is a problem on english terraces? 10096 it isa a problem on english terraces? 10096 it is a problem, a very visible one at the moment, and i think it has become much more prominent partly by effo rts become much more prominent partly by efforts for people to report it, to come forward more, and i think there is an issue, a political backdrop, which is perhaps rising... bringing

to the surface racist undercurrents. white like a political backdrop. a lot of people won‘t like the fact... i guess you are talking about brexit, talk about immigration, and people won‘t like that, but do you think that is something to do with it? i think we have had political leaders who have made racist and offensive comments, and as humans, we can‘t help but attune really closely to what people in power and people at the top of our hierarchy say. we have always had racism, haven‘t we, on terraces? it is just that it has become more pronounced. there is probably a little conflict about how much there has or hasn‘t been, but it certainly seems to be ata high been, but it certainly seems to be at a high at the moment. fans have a

real identity with their clubs. is this something that is best tackled at club level? the clubs are best placed to tackle this. as fans are so placed to tackle this. as fans are so passionate and loyal to their clu bs, so passionate and loyal to their clubs, as opposed to loyal to uefa or the fa, it is the club school who —— the clubs who can effect most change, not just to —— the clubs who can effect most change, notjust to address racism in football but to have a trickle—down effect. making changes in football, we can hope for racism to be reduced in other areas, also which would be the overall aim, rather than just removing races which would be the overall aim, rather thanjust removing races in football by banning them. there has been a lot of discussion about this today, and that is cocaine undertaking of it among a certain group of people. i was asked about that earlier. so, there has been discussion this year about rising

cocaine use and aggression associated with it, so it seems plausible that it could be linked. i haven‘t seen hard evidence, but certainly anecdotal evidence that it has been on the increase over the last ten years with a preference over alcohol. i don‘t think that would result in racism in its own right, only exacerbate the problem. thank you very much for that. this is the last episode of beyond 100 days for 2019. plenty in store for next year. but we couldn‘t finish the programme without testing christian, as we so like to do. here is your quiz for 2019. so with that in mind, how many bad puns has christian made this year? the number is... 84. how many? 84. how long was christian s leaving video to our dc editor kate farrell,

before we edited it? just under a minute! 49 minutes. how many times has christian mentioned he owns an electric car on the show? ido i do actually own an electric car. new viewers, i don‘t know if you know that. 4589 times, he has mentioned it. and a bonus question — christian recently almost ran out of battery driving on the a4 because: there was a devastating earthquake in hampshire? bmw failed to put a battery in his car? or he would only stop at a motorway service station that would serve him a kfc bucket and so he didn t stop early enough? c. it must have been the earthquake, right? rather unedifying to stop at a service station and eat a bucket on your own at midnight. a service station and eat a bucket on your own at midnightlj a service station and eat a bucket on your own at midnight. i like your hat, though! it was a sad night.

hgppy hat, though! it was a sad night. happy christmas, katty. happy christmas, everybody. see you in the new year. christmas week looks fairly mixed. we will see showers and longer spells of rain in the run—up to christmas day, but by christmas day, we should see a ridge of high pressure bringing plenty of sunshine, though it will be cooler briefly before it turns milder, wet and windy towards the end of the week. this feature brings persistent rain to england and wales through tonight, starting in south—west wales then moving north and east. skies were clear behind it towards the end of the night, perhaps a few blustery showers following on. the northern half of the country will be quite chilly, frost in places. on christmas eve, we will see the end of that rain in the east. there will be shower activity across the

southwest. a grey and damp start across north and east england, rain clearing away, then we will see heavy showers and thunderstorms pushing into wales, south—west england in the midlands. there will be sunshine further north, one or two showers. variable cloud and temperatures in single digits. 11 or 12 celsius in the south. the latter half of christmas eve will be showery in the north and west of the country, but the showers will ease as we head into christmas day. that is because this ridge of high pressure will be building on, settling things down for christmas day. it will start chile with a touch of frost around, mist and fog too, making it feel fairly festive. we should see plenty of sunshine, but that will turn hazy out west as the next weather system arrives. temperatures in single figures for most. it will be a cool day. as we head through christmas day and into boxing day, it turns wetter and

windier in the west. further east, dense fog developing and it will be a chilly night in the north and east. milder air stops to push into the west along with the strong winds and heavy rain. you can see that system working its way east as we head through boxing day, squeezing the isobars. gusts of 40 or 50 miles an houron irish the isobars. gusts of 40 or 50 miles an hour on irish sea coasts. some of the rate will be heavy as it moves east, and there will be snow over the high ground of northern england, and accumulating snow over the scottish mountains. cool in the north and east, mild in the south and west.

this is bbc news. i‘m lukwesa burak. the headlines at 8: boeing sacks its chief executive to try to restore confidence in the company, after two plane crashes that left 346 dead. tottenham say their inquiry is inconclusive, so far — after chelsea‘s antonio rudiger said he heard monkey noises during yesterday‘s match. five people are sentenced to death in saudi arabia for the murder of the journalist jamal khashoggi, but a un investigator says the "masterminds" behind the crime have walked free. the former love island presenter caroline flack pleads not guilty to attacking her boyfriend at her home in london. and prince charles visits fishlake in south yorkshire,