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inquiry into an alleged sexual misconduct, alleged financial misconduct. he denied wrongdoing. >> if i were a betting person, i would not bet that matt gaetz is the next attorney general of the united states. ♪ >> reverberations continue around washington following donald trump's to controversial picks for his cabinet. at the top of the list, the nomination of matt gaetz as attorney general. we will be live in washington and in florida where the president elect is hosting a gathering of conservatives. also on the program, the bank of england governor andrew bailey will say in a speech shortly that the consequence of brexit has been a week u.k. economy. we will get reaction from a former government economic adsor. also coming up in a i decoded, we will take you on a digital tour of st. peter's basica.

donald trump's controversial nomination of florida politician matt gaetz as his attorney general is continuing to dominate discussions today about the future, shape, and direction of the united states government. matt gaetz was investigated over a sex trafficking and drug use allegations, which he denies, and was told last year he would not face criminal charges. but he reports on gaetz by the house ethics committee is due to be published in the next coming days, and republicans are warning donald trump he faces an uphill struggle to get some of his topics confirmed. another controversial pig is tulsi gabbard, who has been put forwd as the administration's new administration chief. she has been accused of peddling pro-putin propaganda. while the republicans have

overall control of congress, just a three-seat majority in the senate currently, securing a slim majority in the house of representatis. on matt gaetz's nomination, trump's ally, representative max miller of ohio, describes it as a reckless pig, telling politico, i think he has a 0% shot of getting through the senate. maine senator susan collins says she is shocked by gaetz's nomination and says there'll be lots of questions about the suitability for the role. here is republican lawmaker matt sendale. mr. rosendale: he has shown that he is able to construct a way to pose questions to people that have been brought before hand, to make sure he can bring out the information and evidence that is necessary in order to find out exactly what is going on and get to the bottom of a lot of these situations, and i have complete confidence in him.

>> in the next couple of hours, a gathering of conservative activists and elected officials from across the united states will kick off at donald trump's mar-a-lago estate in florida. it has been suggested the argentine president javier melier could be president. since donald trump's victory in the presidential election, he has stressed his support for mr. trump. let's go live to florida and our correspondent jessica parker, who is in west palm beach. jessica, good to see you. before we get onto the subject of those ninations, tell us what we can expect their over the next couple of hours. jessica: yeah. as you say, conservative activists are descending on this south florida for this investor summit, going on behind closed doors at the mar-a-lago resort, donald trump's florida home, that has really become mission

control for his transition team. as you mentioned, ong the people expected to attend, javier milei, the argentinian president, expressing his pleasure that donald trump was elected to the white house. if they meet, it will be the first in person meeting donald trump has had with a foreign leader since last we pose the election results. >> and obviously, as we been mentioning in the last couple of minutes, jessica, a huge amount of discussions about the people donald trump has picked, a few of them particularly controversial. what are you hearing about those picks in florida, which is very much a trump stronghold. jessica: yeah. a trump stronghold, and people talking but i florida wave heading toward washington, d.c. look, i think the nomination of

matt gaetz has raised some eyebrows, indeed some criticism, as he has been reflecting. i think those around here who are loyal to donald trump and may be supporters of donald say he has won the right, through election results, to appoint who he wants, to appoint people who could do the sorof things he can do on the campaign trail. they are concerned about some of these pix, may be kind of guardrail they want to see to rain on donald trump's work, that those are falling away, and that is a concern for them. >> jessica, thank you very much. jessica parker in west palm beach, florida. let's talk now to american scholar at the american enterprise institute and co-author of "it's even worse than it looks," a book described as a look at how american constitution -- the american constitutional system collided with the new politics of

extremism. norman, good to have you with us on the program. a number of people donald trump is picking have attracted criticism, as you might expect, from democrats, but also within the republican party itself. so is this a loyalty test from donald trump? norman: it absolutely is. think about trump as the cult leader telling others in his coat who the boss really is, and this will be a test, obviously, for the senate, and whether we have any remaining checks and balances. matt gaetz is singularly unqualified for a position that donald trump has already said he wants to weaponize and politicized and used to go after his enemies, and to pick a matt gaetz is a slap at almost everything involved in a process of senate confirmation of checks and balances. but, you know, there are so many other pix he has made that are

even more chilling, in some respects, for your viewers, and around the world. tulsi gabbard, who the russians are saying is one of their own, is effectively an agent to head up the intelligence services. john ratliff, who almost decimated our intelligence when he was there in the first term, to head up the cia. pete, a white nationalist and christian nationalist acolyte, to head the department of defense. he could make it impossible for our allies to share in the intelligence and seek our defense establishment obliterated as well. >> yet, of course, some people are saying we need a shakeup,

and that characterization of donald trump as being members of a cult is what they would say is exactly what led kamala harris to her loss in the presidential election, saying this is not a cold around donald trump. along the checks and balances, where does it put the sense of checks and balances, an interval part of american government? norman: in serious jeopardy, and to those who would question whether it is a truck, remember that trunk, right after the election, said you know what, we don't need the senate to go through this normal all confirmation process, we can use a way out, a recessive program a point met -- a recess appointment, where you can go into adjournment and i can make appointments without any hearing. while his choice for senate majority leader fail, rick scott, who immediately said "sure, let's do that," the other

two candidates, including the winter, john thune, said they are open to that as well. there is a real question whether we will have the kind of hearings and vetting that only occurs with a president for his top positions. remember as well, anita, some of the posts that do not require a conservation -- confirmaon. he has a health czar in robert kennedy junior who traffics in conspiracy theories and vaccine denial. we have deportation czars. tom holland, out of the white house, creator of the child separation in the first term, and set we won't have child separation, we will deport the american citizens along with the rest of their undocumented families. annita: we must leave it there. we are out of time, but obviously we will be keeping a very close eye to see what happens with regards to confirmation hearings or otherwise. norman ornstein, thank you very much for your time today. norman: sure.

annita: let's go now to the cop 29 climate conference in azerbaijan, where delegates are told that developing countries will need at least $1 trillion a year by the end of the decade to cope with the impact of climate change, but there is concern at the meeting about what donald trump's concern to the white house will mean for financing the fight against global warming. negotiators for argentina's government have withdrawn from the talks, as we've been reporting a moment ago,he argentine president, javier milei, who previously called global warming a hoax, is expected to be donald trump in florida. there's also a row between the host country in both france and the netherlands after azerbaijan was the president -- azerbaijan's president accused them of human rights violations in the territories. "these unacceptable statements risk undermining the

conference's vital objectives and the credibility of azerbaijan's cop 29 presiden cy. we stand with france and the netherlands." the senior director for climate change at the national security council and is now at the bezos earth fund. paul, great to have you with us on the world today, thank you for joining us. pretty much all roads at the moment it to lead to donald trump. how concerned are you about where climate financing goes, and this c.o.p. is described as the finance c.o.p., where does financing go, with donald trump in the white house? paul: w.hell, there's no questin thatonald trump owes the election is going to be a blow to the forward momentum of the martian at zero, and momentum is

important because every major economy needs to be ming forward at maximum power. but what i would say about this and climate finance is 2024 is not 2016, and you see this in baku. 2016 when donald trump was first elected, people were wandering around in shock, and now they are getting around with business. so i think this result was priced in for a lot of people. in 2016, it was the era of climate negotiation, and the world needed the u.s. to take the lead with china and getting the paris agreement done. now we are getting on with implementing the paris agreement. so this issue of climate finance, like many others, what the world needs most from the united states is not a couple billion dollars to push through aid budgets or develop my finance, but what they world needs from the u.s. is to be an engine for driving toward net zero and driving the deployment

of these technologies, which will benefit the rest of the world. annita: on that point, about funding from wealthier countries, developed countries, talking about private finance, too, and i think it was last year that the bezos are fun to talk about private finance working more creatively to fund the sorts of initiatives that will help developing countries cope with the effects of climate change and mitigate those impacts. so are you seeing that creatively coming to the floor in baku? what would that look like? paul: yeah. so in baku, negotiators are arguing about what government should be doing, but as you say, the key will be creative collaboration between private and public sectors. there is a new study that was released a couple of days ago that estimates you need $1 trillion a year in external finance to flow into developing countries come about half of which needs to be private sector and half of which need to be public-sector. the thing is that private sector

does not necessarily flow by itself into these countries, because they are considered high risk, and some of the technologies involved are considered to be novel. so i do see a lot of creativity happening right now at that intersection of public and private, whether it is developing new foreign-exchange tools or guarantee structures, but it is just not happening fast enough. and, you know, while it is very important that this negotiation yields a result that would boost the amount of public finance that countries are willing to put on the table, not justich countries but also emerging powers like china, because that is the kind of precious concessional money that will attract private investment. annita: very good to hear your thoughts. thanks for your time again. paul bodnar, director of sustainable finance, industry, and diplomacy at the bezos are fu around the world and across the u.k., this is bbc news. ♪

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the bbc can reveal for the first time serious allegations of abuse against mohammed l fayed's younger brother salah fayed. three former employees alleged he abused them. he died in 2010. he comes after a bbc investigation in september posed decades of serious sexual abuse allegations against mohamed al fayed. they have had more than 80 complaints against him. you may find some details in helena wilkins report distressing. helena: 1999, a book announced by nancy reagan come with his brother mohamed al fayed. helen is one of three women who have for the first time spoken about shocking abuse at the hands of salah fayed. in the same year of this event,

helen says she was abused by both mohamed al fayed and by his brother, sala fayed. in 1989, she went on a business trip with salah fayed and was told to stay in the same business week with him. >> i looked in the mirror, and in the mirror saw fayed walking in, no knocking, no saying anything. it was like i was in a horror film. it was like so frightening. he decided he was going to take me into his room, and i would say no, no, let me go, and i knew i could not stop him. he raped me that night. >> months later, she was sent by mohamed al fayed to do some personal assistant work for his brother, salah, on the last.

helen saw it as a way to escape. >> i met salah. he seemed nice and friendly. he did not seem like his brother, a totally different character. >> after completing the two-day tasks, helen said she was drugged by salah and believes she was then raped by whim while unconscious. >> i will cover the next morning in a completely different room, lying on a setee, and he was sitting at my feet. i remember saying, i want to leave now, and i went to set up, and i noticed that my jeans button was undone. >> helen recalls feeling a sensation in her body and then discovering semen. >> i knew then what had happened. in my head, i knew, because you

just know, don't you? this is the letter that mr. fayed gave me. >> earlier that year, two months after helen says mohamed raped her, she was told to sign a disclosure agreement. she says it is partly because of that she felt unable to speak out for 35 years. the bbc has also spoken with two other former harrods employees who do not want to be identified and who say they experienced a range of abuse by both salah and mohamed, including trafficking and sexual assault. for helen, what was meant to be a dream job has left her with lifelong trauma. >> it has affected my life. it really has. i know it has affected my life.

all of these things i have talked about. i needed to speak up, because it happens to other people. annita: helena wilkinson reporting, and she told us more about the investigation. helena: harrods w released a statement in response to the bbc investigation, saying harrods supports the bravery of these women in coming forward. it says these new claims reveal claims to the breath of the abuse by mohamed al fayed and by his brother, sala fayed. the statement goes on to say we encourage the survivors to come forward and make their claims through the harrods schema. here is also says this evening we also hope they are looking at every appropriate avenue to them and their pursuit of justice, whether that be harrods, the police, or the fayed family and the state. annita: if you have been

affected by anything in helena's report, there are detailed organizations, information, and support at bbc.co.uk/actionline, or call any time to have recorded information. -- hear recorded information. the governor of the bank of england andrew bailey says brexit has slow growth in the u.k. in a speech in the city of london shortly, he will say the u.k. must welcome opportunities to rebuild relations with the european union. our economics editor tells us more about what mr. bailey is expected to say. >> he will say there have been consequences to brexit that have affected us, and britain must be alert to and welcome the to rebuild relations with the european union. now, in a way, that is a statement of what is the government policy, but this comes at an extraordinary time

in world trade diplomacy. obviously the election of donald trump as president of the u.s. has raised fears and concerns about the application, trade tariffs on all trade into the u.s., and there is a scenario, i herded myself from donald trump advisors over the last few years, that a country like the united kingdom has to sort of choose whether it wants to be closer to the u.s. or closer to the eu. that is some of the context in the background of all of this. annita: we can speak now to vicki price, chief economic advisor at the center for economics and business research. good to have you with us, vicki. thanks for your time. i think many people would acknowledge brexit and its economic impact in the u.k. are tricky at times, perhaps need to be handled diplomatically. why is the government, the bank of england, making this statement, this speech, at this time? vicky: it is possible because of the election of donald trump,

as we are just a second ago, people are beginning to wonder how to react to this, in relations to perhaps the u.k. can have special arrangements with the u.s. because we have a special relationship, and how you have those imposed, which is what trump has said he's going to do. either 10% or 20% on all goods coming from countries outside china, and china 60% extra tariffs. well, if that were to happen, and europe was subjected to that, then it is actually quite qutionable whether the u.k. could have a special relationship with the u.s., when it still trades quite substantially with europe. and i think that is one of the issues. the second one is that given that we have already got indications of growth in the u.k. economy, post budgets and free budgets as well, is it going to be particularly fast?

getting closer to the eu would make huge amount of sense, because we have suffered trading and goods, the eu has been declining. annita: so politically, perhaps this might push the government, the u.k. government, toward a closer relationship with the eu that it might otherwise have chosen to take, in terms of the rate of the growth of that relationship, but also if you could talk to us, vicki, about what the impact of any tariffs, 60% tariffs on china from the trump administration might be in terms of what china might do with those goods, if it were seeking to push those into the eu or the u.k.. vicky: that is a good question. what china would do with those goods, perhaps it would try to dump those goodsnto europe. we know that you has been worried anyway about electric

vehicles and other exports from china, which get those subsidies in their own country, and then they get exported to the eu and elsewhere, and then, of course, they compete very aggressively with what is produced in europe. so one has to watch that, because obviously there are differential tariffs, put forward by the eu and china. annita: i'm so sorry to interrupt you, but we are out of time. thank you so much for your thoughts today. if you are watching in the u.k., we will have lif coverage announcer: funding for presentation of this program is provided by... financial services firm, raymond james. announcer: funding was also provided by, the freeman foundation. and judy and peter blum kovler foundation, pursuing solutions for america's neglected needs.

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