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after the party selects its next leader. >> in june when the liberals lost a very key, very strong house see that they've had for a long time, they then lost another seat in montreal, and that relay signals for most other liberals that the prime minister's time is up. >> it is not being helped justin trudeau being mocked by donald trump, america's tsitsipas states, and -- tsitsipas states, and referring to trudeau as "governor trudeau," instead of prime minister. ♪ christian: justin trudeau steps down as prime minister. the end of an era in canada. an anti-populist, a feminist. we will hear from canada's former environment minister. also on the program, sir keir

starmer tells elon musk he has crossed the line. the debate which refuses to go away. and snow and floods continue to affect much of the country. major issues in leicestershire and lincolnshire. new warnings issued. we will bring those to you. good evening. the u.s. convened this afternoon to certify donald trump's election victory in november. ordinarily, that is a formality, but of course all normal conventions were upended four years ago by the mob that ransacked the capital. unlike trump four years ago, kamala harris is not disputing the results, and unlike republicans in the aftermath of the 2020 election, democrats made a point of not challenging the count. vp harris: the votes for president of the united states are as follows, donald j. trump of the state of florida has received 312 votes.

[applause] , the harris of the state of california has received 226 votes. [applause] christian: a much calmer, less death-defying experience than four years ago. the contrast between the two january 6 def events could have hardly been starker. kamala harris said she viewed it as a sacred obligation for the constitution. vp harris: as we have seen come our democracy can be fragile, and it is up to each one of us to stand up for our most cherished principles and to make sure that in america, our government always remains of the people, by the people, and for

the people. christian: with us tonight, the democrat who represents california's 18th district. she served on the select committee that investigated the january 6 attacks. congresswoman, good to have you with us on the program. you must've had your thoughts today of where you were four years ago and what you and your colleagues with through. rep lofgren: yes, absolutely. i was there four years ago at the mob broke into the p and we were ultimately evacuated, as the mob was trying to break the glass and break in at one end of the hallway, we were going down the stairwell at the other end of the hallway, and i've been thinking of the officers, many of them severely injured by the violent mob, they saved my life and they saved our democracy. i'm grateful for them. christian: let me review part of

president biden's editorial in "the washington post" this morning. to tell us what we did not see with our own eyes, to dismiss concerns about some kind of partisan obsession, to explain it away as a protest that just got out of hand, this is not what happened. and must infuriate you that it has been whitewashed in some circles by republican colleagues who were on the floor today who, four years ago, were condemning the role donald trump had played in it. rep. lofgren: absolutely. i mean, the same republican members who were saying well, nothing happened, you know, at the time, were decrying the violence and blaming then-president from, so they know that they are lying now. the astounding thing is that some people believe those lies, but you cannot erase the records. one of my colleagues just posted his third remark about how it

was just "a little peaceful protest." i did not make any comment, i just showed the video of the mob attacking the police that day could you cannot unwind the truth. christian: and yet speaker mike johnson said the select committee may manipulated and destroyed evidence, created a fake, phony narrative to her donald trump. house republicans will continue our investigation into this corrupt committee, and it will be fully funded so it can continue next congress. are you ready for a fight? rep. lofgren: well, he is sucking up to trump. the house democrats in the house administration committee issued a report today, all of the things he said was false. no evidence was disposed of. you can go to anyone, you can go to the government city house

website, and there are terabytes of evidence posted there, including a video of the attack and the transcripts of the interviews and on and on. so they are doing the best they can to please donald trump. he was reelected. i did not support him, and i do not respect him, but i do respect our democratic process. he was elected, and we come as we should have, certified that election today, counting the electoral count, but it does not make him an honest man. christian: what does it mean to you the next four years if they are going to investigate you on committees, if they are going to come after use of the department of justice? presumably they are going to tie you up in all sorts of legal affairs. rep. lofgren: well, the speech and debate clause in article six of the american constitution points out that members of the house and senate are immune from

any liability, criminal or civil, for their legislative acts, so they know this is a bunch of b.s. i would assume that they are going to focus, and not just on pleasing the great orange president, but tried to deliver their agenda, which they may have a little trouble with, since most americans do not support the idea of cutting back their social security and medicare benefits. so we will see what happens next, but i'm proud of the work that we did. i'm not proud of what then- president trump did come and i'm not proud of my colleagues who are willing to lie for him today. christian: what about your countrymen who voted for him? how do you reconcile that? he lied about the election workers, the voting machines, his lawyers have been de-sanction, disciplines, or disbarred. dozens of white house administration campaigners

testified against him. he has been convicted, indicted, and still he won. how he reconcile that? rep. lofgren: people close to -- cast their votes for a variety of reasons. everybody has their own individual reason. i think the economy is not where people wanted. prices rose during the pandemic, and they did not come back down. that has really put a tremendous financial strand -- strain on many american families, and i think that was top of mind for many american voters. you know, i do not agree with this election, but i respect the right of american voters to make their choice, and they did make their choice. they've chosen, he will be the president, and we will see what happens next. christian: congresswoman, good as you to come on the program. thank you. justin trudeau is standing down as prime minister and the leader of the liberal party and said he will remain until a replacement has been chosen through a party

election. p.m. trudeau: my friends as you all know, i am a fighter. every bone in my body has always told me to fight because i care deeply about canadians, i care deeply about this country, and i will always be motivated by what is in the best interest of canadians. this country deserves a real choice in the next election, and it has become clear to me that if i'm having to fight internal battles, i cannot be the best option in that election. christian: elections are due by october. winds of change were blue and will before today's announcement. liberals trail the conservatives by 25 points for the question is, where does that leave the party? last month, his deputy finance minister, chrystia freeland, resigned, and they are ill

prepared to deal with the challenges posed by donald trump. the opposite -- opposition party threatened a motion of no-confidence once parliament resumed. so there will now be a massive scramble to replace him. in response, the conservative leader, pierre parliet, said they have kept him in party for too long --power for too long. >> while liberals focus on saving their jobs and fighting each other, the country spiraled out of control, and out-of-control housing emergency, and out-of-control migrant crisis, out of control $62 billion deficit, not to mention terror threats from the arab states. oh, and another m.v.p. liberal carbon tax hike kicks in this april 1. everything is out of control, and now the government is out of control. christian: catherine mckenna

served in the trudeau cabinet as minister for environment on climate change. she joins us. thank you for being with us. you were one of the first to call on trudeau to go. what did you think had gone so badly wrong? ms. mckenna: well, look, it was not because i did not think he had a legacy to be proud of. we address child poverty, a climate band, we had negotiations with donald trump for the first time over trade, and he was a steady hand through the pandemic, but the reality is we stand to lose everything to pr pull ef -- pierre poillevre, who is big on slogans, not policy. it was clear that they did not want justin trudeau to run again and we would pay a price as a

party. it was to protect our policies. now here we are. there is an opportunity for a new leader. it's going to be very hard, but elections are about choices, and i think that we have good people that are going to step up and running, and canadians will be able to choose. christian: some are concerned that he is effectively pressing the pause button, which means that he normally stays in power. what happens to all the things that he was pushing, bills, the legislation he wants to get through? does that also go on ms. mckenna: hold? ms. mckenna:yes. you would have to bring the new bills in. he is still prime minister, and we need him to be prime minister, because we are facing very significant threat from donald trump. i saw he was tweeting again, talking about 25% tariffs on goods coming from canada, which will actually hurt the united states, because americans will

be paying them, but, you know, this is a serious time, and politic are very challenging. having the prime minister stay on while he knew leader is chosen makes a lot of sense, and then there will be a new election. the election, you know, as late as october, but will likely happen much earlier than that. canadians will have a chance to make a choice. certainly, the reason, as i said that prime minister should step down earlier, was so that we would have time to prepare, and, you know, there's a good leadership race. and there are people that folks in the u.k. would know, mark carney is likely to step up, the former governor of the bank of england and the bank of canada, chrystia freeland, who was a finance minister until she stepped down. so they are good people, and we need canadians to have a choice. i'm really concerned, because a lot of the progress we have made , when it comes to tackling climate change -- and by the way, i have to do this, but all

the money goes back to people, it is revenue neutral. christian: just on that issue, because we've seen protests against carbon taxes, against green issues, the greens in the european parliament suffered badly in the last election. do you think people are rejecting some of the more liberal policies that justin trudeau spoke for? ms. mckenna: on carbon pricing, it is the most conservative policy done in the most conservative way, but we have the opposition who literally lied about it, talking about outrageous prices. and the reason the large part of inflation again that was due to energy prices, the price of oil and gas, not a revenue neutral carbon tax. there is a challenge with misinformation, to fight these things. christian: but when you look at politics across america and europe at the moment, very

anti-immigrant, and in canada, you have 3 million new entrants in three years. these are the policies that he champions. what i'm saying is those more liberal, left the policies for which he reasserted a counterpoint to donald trump, have the canadians tired of that? ms. mckenna: it is complicated. first of all, we know they tired of justin trudeau, and that is not news for incumbents globally , if you are in power during the pandemic. and with high inflation rates, and interest rates, it's going to be really challenging, especially for a prime minister who has been in power for almost 10 years. but there were policies that were problematic. i think, you know, a link to immigration is housing, so folks are really concerned about being able to afford a house. it's extremely expensive. so there's concern about the fact that so many people have been let in.

generally, canadians are quite open to embracing immigrants. it has just been hard because there's a feeling that, well, if you're going to do that, you need to make sure there's enough homes. these are always complicated, but on the flipside, governing by a slogan is not something, either. people still have a choice. christian: we will watch with interest. catherine mckenna, thank you for being with us. around the world and across the u.k., you are watching bbc news. ♪

♪ in the united states, an enormous storm system is dumping heavy snow and freezing rain across much of the country's east. more than 60 million americans are thought to be affected by the storm, with power cut to hundreds of thousands of people. seven states have declared a state of emergency, including kansas, kentucky, and missouri. let's speak to the chief

administrative officer in kansas city, missouri, which has seen some of the heaviest snow in decades, big volumes. also some very low temperatures as well, brian. were you prepared for it? brian: we were more than prepared. we have a cute alert crew of 400 drivers, 400 clouds we send out. we started working on our street about 36 hours in advance to make sure we were ready for it. we are working 24 hours a day. christian: is that the height of the snow behind you? i can see it over your left shoulder. brian: i'm in the plaza, and one of the business district, and we piled up the snow behind me come about 10 feet, 20 feet high, just to get it off the streets. we see behind me is the streets are pretty clear. we are less than 24 hours after the storm at this point, and our streets are ready for go and open for business. we've been working for heart of the spirit one of our secret weapons is this different type of salt.

we've got the stuff, let me show you some, it is blue. it is blue salt. christian: show me that again. brian: christian: sure. it is different from what we have on our pavements here. brian: it's different. not a lot of cities are using this. it is less harmful to the environment, but it works more effectively at lower temperatures, so when the temperatures get below freezing, this is that secret weapon we use. christian: what are the biggest challenges? are there parts of the state, parts of the city you cannot get to at the moment? brian: kansas city pretty much is open at this point here we have most roads open and clear. we have a few neighborhoods we have to clean out. the biggest challenges right now is we are looking at exceptionally freezing temperatures over the next week. usually after a snowstorm, you can knock down some of the snow. the general nature of cars driving on the roads as well. but when you are looking at

temperatures well below freezing, it's a lot harder to get that melting. christian: how many are without power at this moment? brian: in kansas city, missouri, less than five people. we are doing great. christian: brian, you need to help us out. we have had about half an inch, and the country has imploded. [laughter] maybe you need to come to this i come after you sorted kansas city out, maybe you can help us. brian: i'm happy to. let me just grab it, and i will come your way. christian: brian platt, well done, you. we need some of the blue. brian platt the city. not much better on this side. we had appalling weather conditions with heavy snow and rain falling across the country, yellow weather warnings for snow and ice in place. look at this. we have problems now with flooding. hundreds of schools closed today, road, rail, and air travel disrupted.

160 flight alerts with a major incident in place in leicestershire. matt taylor from the bbc weather center is with me in the studio to take us through what we can expect tonight. matt: yes, not too great where you are at the moment. lots of water around. the main thing tonight in the u.k. is the risk of ice, particularly red weather warnings in place, some yellow warnings with some impacts. the yellow weather warnings are isolated, of course, across the u.k., you can see ice in the morning. take it into tomorrow morning, not quite as much over the weekend. christian: any more severe weather expected this week? matt: i did not expect to see anything as bad as what we did see. this area of low pressure, you've got this very cold air sitting in place, just to the south of us care because it is to the south of us, it could

bump into the cold air across the u.k. come and because of that, there is a risk in southern counties, wednesday night in particular. we could see a flow across the southern counties. there is a b a question how far north it will go, but it is here where some of the worst conditions with some icy, potentially slowing weather hanging around for the first half of the morning. christian: just generally come on the beginning of your picture, i saw a big blue bar off to the west. we just talked to brian in kansas city. are there connections between these weather systems? does their cold weather affect us? matt: in some ways, the weather patterns are linked. the atmosphere is linked in some way, shape, or form. when you get surges of cold air in the u.s., you tend to get corresponding surges of warm air in the atlantic, and another

surge of cold air which comes up to us. this is all linked to the jet stream, and you tend to get these corresponding surges in different directions. christian: what you make of the blue salt? matt: fantastic. i used to forecast surface temperatures, and it is true. christian: you would dispatch and tell them where to go? matt: i would. but you know that certain grits do not work in certain temperatures come and if it extends a certain amounts in certain intensities, it will wash that grit off. various things are at play. christian: you do a great job. that is the contact, behind the gritting. i want to ask you about, generally, how we reacted, because i was making light of it, but a lot of people this week have talked about how the country has responded to this weather come and we had a

fireman on from greater manchester who said if we have more information, we could have done more to help people. how do you respond to that in the weather business? is it getting more difficult to predict these big storms? matt: no, this was forecast pretty well in advance. always when it comes to the actual moment, because of where we are, if we are surrounded by water, this time of year, the waters are warmer than the air temperature. unlike europe, you get massive cold air. the cold air in the central part of the u.k. come warmer waters around, so you get these fluctuations and different temperatures in parts. unless you are firmly below freezing, what falls from the sky could be that mix of rain, sleet, and snow, and the intensity of the rain can determine how quickly it turns to snow, how much snow we get. is not the easiest thing to get exactly right. all the warnings were in place still through the weekend.

christian: thank you very much for that. i've learned so much tonight. i wanted to show you some pictures we were looking at of the late president carter, jimmy carter, lying in state. you can see the guard arner the -- honor there, the coffin draped in stars & stripes. he will lie in repose for two days. the funeral later in the week. joe biden paying his respects today as well. all the presidents, all the former presidents, will file past the coffin. 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 by judy and peter blum kovler foundation,

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