as you look back now what does michael nutter think of that successful effort to cast that with jared wong -- john ashcroft to predict the outcome of the mayoral race? >> that story was a complete fabrication but in the moment it worked. but many of us knew that there is no way that is really what was going on. but democratic city people do not like george bush or john ashcroft so there was a narrative already made two or three days after that big explosive story everybody was radio silent we couldn't figure out what was going on then laying out that scenario people bought it. >> you point out in the book the margin in that cycle it was bigger than four years prior. >> yes. the 99 race somewhere 9400 which is the closest in modern history and then winning by 85000 so there was a number based on the fiction created the republicans in washington trying to take down the flag the democratic mayor of philadelphia which would then lead to the republicans being able to win pennsylvania 2004. that was a fundamental theory. >> summer 2006 resigning from counsel, i was surprised but maybe i had forg

donald trump's son—in—law jared kushner as his white house security clea ra nce kushner as his white house security clearance downgraded. hong kong actor anthony wong to us about the search for his long last british father. live from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news. it's newsday. it's 8am in the morning here at singapore. the united nations says fighting has resumed the eastern ghouta despite a humanitarian pause. it would hope the daily five—hour cease—fire ordered by the syrian ally russia would allow civilians to leave. at the united nations says a collapse before it was due to expire. nearly 400,000 people are trapped in a region which has been besieged by the government since 2013. our middle east editorjeremy bowen has the details. it was supposed to be a chance to get some aid into eastern ghouta, but the temporary ceasefire, at best, was ragged. no civilians left down the newly designated safe corridors. once again in syria, the russians are setting the pace. this russian officer, stationed in the humanitarian corridor, claimed armed opposition groups were stopping civilians leaving. the day turned into a demonst