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That wall street is not main street, look at Financial Markets today. The us stock market has recorded huge losses recently and all because the real economy is actually doing better. After yo yoing alde, the dow jones is still trading and it is down slightly. The main european markets took a hit, the ftse100 closed down by 2. 6 , its lowest level since last april. Do the numbers matter . What do they tell us about the Global Economy . If you own the highs, do you own the lows . Let us the highs, do you own the lows . Let us get the thoughts of a former adviser to george w bush. We are glad youre here with us in london. That is how it goes in politics. President s like to talk the fact that the stock market is doing well but when it isnt, you have to say, i have to reassure the American People and give people confidence that there are highs and lows. It is cyclical. If youre that worried, you should not be in the stock market to begin with. You say that. All sorry if i dont remember any of them saying being quite so keen to tout any stock markets. President bush had an eye on the long ball. I am here to be the economic steward of the american economy, i am here to help congress find laws to work better for business. This to help congress find laws to work betterfor business. This is something that donald trump might regret you have to be careful of taking too much credit, taking a victory lap when Economic Conditions could change ever so quickly. Knowing President Trump as you do, would you expect him to turn around when the market has had a bad couple of days, as the market sellers continue and go to the American People as you have suggested and reassure them . No, ido have suggested and reassure them . No, i do not. The soul that he was saying in cincinnati, he was talking about democrats and the state of the union, i dont think he will, he will take credit when things are good and not speak to the American People when things go down a little bit. Youre going to stay with us. It will be good to have you on. The last time i was with him on the show, the fire alarms off went off and the entire studio nearly burned down. Democrats have prepared a memo in response to the one that the republicans release criticising the fbi and Justice Department over surveillance rules. The Intelligence Committee has authorised the release of the democrats version and has sent to the president who will decide whether it should be declassified, they say the public must be able to see both sides of this argument in order to make up their ownjudgments. This argument in order to make up their own judgments. We think this will help inform the public of the many distortions and inaccuracies in the majority memo. We have also asked as of our transmittal to the white house that unlike the process that was used, that the department ofjustice that was used, that the department of justice and the that was used, that the department ofjustice and the fbi be consulted, that they have the opportunity to that they have the opportunity to that any information that they may be concerned about in our memo in terms of sources and methods, we wa nt to terms of sources and methods, we want to make sure that those who are in the best position to bet that have the opportunity to do so. That was the democrat there. He is on the Intelligence Committee. As we look at the whole discussion of republican memos and democratic members, i wonder if you can remind me, what it is that the Intelligence Committee in the house, your committee in the house, your committee is actually investigating . That is a great question. A lot of the talk about the memos, the memo issue itself is a distraction about the real purpose of the investigation which is to get to the bottom of how russia interfered with the 2016 president ial election in the 2016 president ial election in the United States and also whether any americans help them to accomplish their goals. All of this last few weeks in particular has been a real sideshow to the main investigation. It has been a sideshow which has not improved relations between republicans and democrats, the republicans have their memo wide and now the democrats have there is out, can you investigate something as important as russia interfering in the American Election if you and your collea g u es American Election if you and your colleagues are such odds with each other . You are right, it makes it very difficult. Historically the Intelligence Committee and the house of representatives has been one of the more Bipartisan Committee is it all on whether Armed Services for example as opposed to other committees like Thejudiciary Committee and this has made it tougher, but we have a responsibility to the American People to see this investigation through and to complete it. From the point of view of the democrats, the rebuttal is important. 0ne point of view of the democrats, the rebuttal is important. One week ago the committee voted to block it, what has changed since, do you think . I think a big part of the reason that republicans voted yesterday to release the memo, the democratic memo but did not release it before is because they wanted to release the new memo first and get about four or five new cycles were only their side of the story was out and after that happened, they were willing to release the democratic memo second. The democratic memo secondlj the democratic memo second. I think that it was basically a media spin. Now it is on the desk of the president , if he were not to release it, and he might even redact some of it, and he might even redact some of it, taking out some of the key parts, what would happen them . My fear is that he may do that, this president on many issues is beyond shame. His sense of fairness is gone. It would not surprise me if he either does not release the memo or redact is so much of it that it makes it really impossible to fully understand for the American People. You have a vote to get to, we will let you go, thank you forjoining us. Thank you for having me. You may recall mr trump advocating in his state of the Union Address i knew bipartisan approach but that does not appear to have lasted long. Yesterday he was attacking democrats for the way that they responded to his speech. An american. Someone said treasonous. Why not . Can we call it treason . Why not . Joining us 110w call it treason . Why not . Joining us now is jonathan, a call it treason . Why not . Joining us now isjonathan, a National Political reporter. It is unusual to hear a president accuse the other side of treason, we know that, President Trump does things that are different but you have reported that he has the capacity to sway Public Opinion. Is there a risk that there isa opinion. Is there a risk that there is a serious consequence and people start to believe that democrats are treasonous . There is a capacity that we have almost never seem to sway Public Opinion, which is between 30 and 40 of republican voters. He has turned a party that was staunchly in favour of law and order to being pretty sceptical if not downright hostile towards the fbi. He has turned Public Opinion particularly among republican reporters towards the nfl and to use words like treason towards the democratic party, it escalates rhetoric, if someone is unstable. It is dangerous. You spend an awful lot of time talking to people in the white house, perhaps even more time then you would like, 18 hours a day, either concerns amongst any people around the president that this kind of language is not helpful to his presidency or diminishing his presidency . I have covered trump for more than two years and what you need to understand about these people, particularly people who have worked with him for a long time, they are so inoculated, this isjust another day in the life of. While we have fresh outrages in the media, almost every day, it takes Something Like cha rlottesville almost every day, it takes Something Like charlottesville to release which some of these people on. Most of them just roll their eyes, move on, they may grumble and if you press them on that, they would say i think it is inappropriate but i do not see a lot of hand wringing internally at this point. The white house has said today that he was joking and he is quite flippant in the way that he does that in his speech. I will cut him some slack, what is crucially more important is what is crucially more important is what is crucially more important is what is coming down the line in terms of the legislation, whether they can find this bipartisan agreement. You have got the Government Spending which is right around the corner, there is a bill coming forward. What really matters here is whether he can get the parties working together on the legislation . The reality is, if the two parties to come together and hash out a deal, it is not going to be because of donald trump. He does not have the capacity to sway a large enough proportion of congress to get the deal happening. If you look even objectively at the republican conference in the house and senate, most of these members do not feel it is an advantage to be close to donald trump, the people who have courted him, a very small segment of the conference. What we saw for the last negotiation is at the last minute donald trump pulling back and having very little to do with the negotiations and i expect that if they do come to a deal, it might be along similar lines. 0k, jonathan swan, thank you for coming in tojoin us. One other bit of jonathan swan, thank you for coming in to join us. One other bit of news coming out of washington, the New York Times reporting that there is a debate amongst the president s advisers and lawyers are bad whether he should sit down with their special counsel, the president has said that he would like to do so, a p pa re ntly said that he would like to do so, apparently some of his advisers and lawyers are more cautious because the president has a tendency to go backwards and forwards on particular issues and stories and how things actually occurred. We will see how that pans out. Let us go back to the top story and the Financial Markets. The president has not been shy about taking credit for a booming economy, he has treated more than 60 times about the stock market. Last august he said that business was looking better than ever, stock market at an all time high, that does notjust happen. How about this . This is from january, President Trump is not getting the credit he deserves for the economy, tax cut bonuses for more than 2 million workers, most explosive stock market rally that we have seen in modern times. Yes. It has now come down a little bit. Let us has now come down a little bit. Let us explain what is going on. The chief economist at Grant Thornton joins us now from chicago. Thank you for joining joins us now from chicago. Thank you forjoining us. I was in davos a couple of weeks ago and financial types and economic types there were a giddy with excitement, there was not a cloud on the horizon apart from the odd storm and snow cloud. They were convinced this was a market that was going to run and run, what has happened . market that was going to run and run, what has happened . I am sorry, i lost you for a second but i think there was an extraordinary amount of complacency about this market and you really saw that in the sense that people were driving without a seat belt as well, they were not hedging the downsides, the risk that the market could go down. There was a feeling it will continue to go up and there was a reality check that we saw set in last week and it was three series of events, what happened in davos was interesting because it confirmed what we knew, we are in a world growth situation where economies around the world are doing much better than they had been doing. We have got Central Banks no longer feeding that growth, the only support that and some of them have not only ease their foot from the pedal but are hitting the brakes and we had some good Economic News in the us, overstated of it, wages, reigniting the debate about how many fed hikes we had, a change in guard at the Federal Reserve and the sense that on top of it, the tax cuts we had but have to be paid for, the treasury issued a warning and they will have to issue more Treasury Bonds than initially thought. All those things together it gave us a reality check that the markers were priced to war was unrealistic. Anyone with more of the memory will start thinking about 2008 and it made me nervous about where we might be headed. If the fundamentals of the world economy, notjust the us economy are good, are we in a quantified lee different situation from the one we were in in 2000 and a woman started seen big sell offs in the market . Absolutely. That is the most important thing. I was worried about the asset price bubble we we re worried about the asset price bubble we were in. Letting out of the air in some of those is welcome news to the Federal Reserve. If it went too far, they would not be able to raise rates and the irony is, they would not be able to do that. If this was a real market crash like we had in 2008, they do not have the tools to deal with it but i do not think that is what we are facing, it is nowhere near that. They have got to euphoric. The 21st century economy may have 4. 1 on the Unemployment Rate but not as many people on the dazzler as it was. Let us show people the dowjones which shows you the volatility. It is about two oclock, just after two oclock in new york at the moment. It went up, covered some of its losses from yesterday and then fell back down. 0ne yesterday and then fell back down. One of the things that markets are waking up to is the fact that Central Banks are starting to take a different approach, there is not easy money around, are we going to see more volatility like that as they wake up to that fact. The volatility we have seen in the last couple of days has been extreme, we went from none to extreme volatility. That is in part due to automated trading. I do think we are in store for more volatility because thatis in store for more volatility because that is what we should have, it is not normal to have no volatility and as the economy goes through that shifting of the phases, where wall street gets to hand off the baton and spread the games more evenly to wages in particular, youre going to have more volatility on wall street. There are reports starting to circle that the plunge was triggered by robots. That the automated trading systems, they pick up a trend and they go with it and that is what drives the market down, is that true . That is one of the speculation is out there and that is that the automated trading that went on did exacerbate this and we have seen this more than once and it gets to theissue, this more than once and it gets to the issue, there is human nature which is a panic and turns out technology is even faster and people who were trying to buy could not buy as the marker was plunging because of these self fulfilling sale orders and we have to take into account that technology, certainly in 2008 made things more rapid, but they can also make these everyday moves more rapid and we have to put our seat belt sign and keep a grip as it happens. Fascinating. Thank you very much. I used to drink with a bond trader in paris and he was programming for one of these things and sometimes it started to follow the trend and he had to put his pipe down and run back to the office to try and stop it. It fascinates me that sort of thing. Time to put your fiver under the mattress, christian. Julian assange has lost his application to have his arrest warrant lifted by a court in london, he breached his bailfive years ago and has since been confined to the ecuadorian embassy. Media outlets in taiwan have shown photographs of a hotel that has partially collapse following an earthquake on these closed. Two people are dead and more than 100 reported injured in the quake which centred on the town of ireland. There were nearly two dozen smaller tremors on tuesday and one expert described it as an earthquake swarm. John mahoney best known for playing marty crane in frasier has died at the age of 77. He was being treated in a hospice in chicago, he was born in lancashire and he starred in frasierfor 11 years playing the grumpy retired policeman who often outwitted his too pretentious sons. He was from blackpool. I nearly grew up. 100 yea rs blackpool. I nearly grew up. 100 years ago today, the rather dull sounding representation of the people act was passed in britain. There was anything but boring to the women who have sacrificed so much, it gives some of them the right to vote for the first time, but only if they were over 30 and married or owned property. It was not until 1928 that the right to cast a ballot was extended to all women. The women who fought for change were known as suffragettes because they wanted universal suffrage. Here are some of those women in their own words. In those women in their own words. In those days i was extremely annoyed at the difference between the advantages of men had and boys had and the ones girls had. When one grew up and saw the differences and the opportunities that men had and women had, then itjust increased. No women solicitors allowed. That woman stood in a court alone. In ammans world. And she got mans sense ofjustice ammans world. And she got mans sense of justice ammans world. And she got mans sense ofjustice in a mans world. I mean if a woman went to work there, he could come outside of the factory and take her money as she earned it, go and spend it and she earned it, go and spend it and she could not do anything. They said it would ruin the country and give us it would ruin the country and give usa it would ruin the country and give us a very it would ruin the country and give us a very bad standing with other nations. It was ridiculous. We lived like animals to a degree, the parasite, there was people with money but there was a very big gap. Those that had and those that really we re those that had and those that really were like church mice, before the suffragettes started. That will curse up. Suffragettes started. That will curse up. Until then, suffragettes started. That will curse up. Untilthen, we suffragettes started. That will curse up. Until then, we were fast asleep. Dad woke us up. To mark the centenary, theresa may went to manchester. She was one of only 113 female conservative mps when she was first elected, today she had some advice for aspiring female politician she was one of only 13 female conservative mps. That does not mean it is notjust as good and it is just as good. I would say, be yourself, dont feel you have to be a stereotypical man in order to get on in politics. Be yourself and believe in what you are doing. So, some women got the vote in 1918, 1920 was when women in america got the vote. The 19th amendment gave all women in america the vote. I have been busy putting together a map andi have been busy putting together a map and i will show you how women are involved in politics. These are percentages in the lower houses of parliament around the world. I will explain this. The highest in the world is rwanda, 61. 3 in the middle of africa. The one to the left of that in latin america, that is bolivia and we will talk about that ina bolivia and we will talk about that in a second. The interesting statistic for me, you can see the nordic countries and the scandinavian countries do particularly well but the interesting one, saudi arabia, 19. 9 women in the lower house and look at america, 19. 4 . China and saudi arabia have more women in the lower house than the United States. What is interesting about those countries, rwanda, bolivia and saudi arabia is changes in legislation. That is what has produced higher numbers of women in representation, rwanda has always been an anomaly, after the genocide, men were targeted more and they decided they wa nted targeted more and they decided they wanted more women in politics. Bolivia is really interesting. In 2000 there were as 12 of women in parliament and they changed the law in 2010 and now we are above 50 . That is a remarkable change, the kind of change most companies would die for it if they could get that change in female representation in such a short period of time and it is just changing the law, you mandate more women running for office and politics and it happens. Do we obsess too much about women in politics, women in the boardroom at the expense of women who were lower down the ladder, who were suffering from low pay, are disproportionately involved in low paying jobs. No, it is women in politics he will change legislation for women who are working in less well paid positions. You start to see movement in countries where you have more politics, women in politics, you start to see more female friendly kind of policies and policies that benefit working women. You do need to have those women running for office and have a more representation otherwise you do not get change for the other women. It is interesting. When you look at britain, we have come so far in terms of women at the top, you have a woman Prime Minister, the home secretary is a woman, the head of the metropolitan police and the National Crime agency but it is representation in politics, still less tha n representation in politics, still less than a third of mps. It is not enough to have them at the top, you need to have them the whole way through. This is beyond 100 days from the bbc. Coming up for viewers on the news channel and worldviews, 100 years after some women won the right to vote, what more should be done to encourage women in politics . And the other rocket man, elon musk to ta ke and the other rocket man, elon musk to take off with high winds delaying the launch of his most powerful rocket. All still to come. Good evening, the wintry theme continues. Today most are a bit of steel, not too disruptive but it did make for some lovely scenes in the north east of thing led to finish the day. The sun setting their behind the hills, but as sky is clear in its wake, we will see a widespread frost across the country and where you have seen snow, even rain today, an increasing risk of eyes. There is High Pressure building on behind this weather front, so clearing skies, we still have not seen still, you might do tonight. Across norfolk and suffolk, we could get two or three centimetres of snow. A few wintry showers in cornwall, a few in scotland, but for most under clear skies, these are the temperatures in the towns and cities, just about all below freezing. Almost all of the uk in blue, with rural areas anywhere between 5 and 11 to take us into tomorrow morning. Should be a lovely crisp start for many, still wintry showers to begin with, a real risk of ice during the morning rush hour, just about anywhere across the country and why most. The sunshine, already starting to see changes in the north west of the uk. If you look around during the rush hour, increasing cloud in scotland, eastern areas under sunshine. I see in Northern Ireland, but cloud increasing, much of england and wales, early cloud, those wintry showers down across the far west of wales into cornwall giving a slight dusting and could be a slight dusting and could be a slight dusting of snow thanks to the weather front there in the south east corner. That will fade away but the weather front in the north west will continue to push through wet and stay. Stormy across scotla nd through wet and stay. Stormy across scotland and Northern Ireland, cloudy, a bit of snow on higher ground, between five and ten centimetres of snow. Turning to reign as temperature is left, and mild end to the day in the hebrides but for cloud increases from the north and west, a dry and sunny but cold day. Whether tonight into thursday, about whether from will fragment. Never reaching the selfies until we go into thursday, a frosty start, a motor started thursday. Lots of cloud, brighter conditions across scotland and Northern Ireland. Rain pushing into the west of england and wales. Goodbye for now. This is beyond 100 days, with me, katty kay, in washington. Christian frasers in london. 0ur our top stories. Volatile markets. Theres been more frantic trading on wall street after yesterdays dramatic fall sparked a global sell off. A diplomatic challenge for state secretary tillerson, as seven out of ten posts at his department are unfilled. Coming up in the next half hour 100 years after some women won the right to vote, theresa may says one of the reasons so few women Enter Parliament is down to the online abuse they suffer. High winds are delaying the launch of the worlds most powerful rocket. 0n board is elon musks old tesla roadster, which will be propelled into orbit around the sun. Let us know your thoughts by using the hashtag beyond100days. They say its lonely at the top. And when yourjob comes with a lot of responsibility, like confronting a nuclear north korea, it must be very lonely. Rex tillerson is not quite a one man band, but he leads a Us State Department where many Senior Management and diplomatic positions still have not been filled more than a year into the administration. Just over 150 positions at state need congressional approval but so far, fewer than half of the positions have been filled. Soon, seven of the top ten jobs at the state department will be empty including positions with responsibility for arms control, democracy, human rights, and the agencys role control, democracy, human rights, and the agencys role in trade policy. And its a similar picture in us embassies around the world. Right now, there are 41 vacant ambassador posts including to important partners like south korea, saudi arabia, turkey, egypt. Joining us now to look at the impact these vacancies are having across the board is linda thomas greenfield. She has 35 years of Foreign Service under her belt, and most recently served as assistant secretary for african affairs. African american affairs. Thank you for coming in. Seven out of ten of the top posts are filled. How damaging is that to the ability of the state department to do its job around the world . The state department to do its job around the world . I think it sends a very strong message to our partners around the world that we are not prepared as we have been in the past to deal with the Foreign Policy and other challenges that our government needs to deal with. And the secretary cannot do this alone. He needs his top leaders and advisers to support him in this effort. So, do you think this is just the teething pains of trying to reform a department that some had said was bloated and had too many people in it . Or is this a deliberate effort bya it . Or is this a deliberate effort by a white house to undermine the presence of american diplomacy around the world . Presence of american diplomacy around the world . I think its probably more of the latter than the former. Most of us Foreign Service careerists former. Most of us Foreign Service ca reerists never saw former. Most of us Foreign Service careerists never saw a bloated state department. We were always understaffed. I can particularly say that from my position as the assistant secretary for africa that we never had enough staff to do the job. So, there was no gloating that any of us ever experienced, and the department has always been underfunded when you compare our diplomacy to our defence budgets, we have not been able to keep up with the demand. One of the problems, it seems to me, for the administration, is that their nominees, theyve not done the Due Diligence themselves. Theyve not properly vetted them. Youve got, for instance, the nominee to the position of ambassador in barbados, who is now accused of spreading some bizarre conspiracy theories on twitter. His nomination is being held up. You sort of wonder why theyve not gone on this deep dive into the background of some of the people theyve put forward. You know, i think its partially a lack of experience in the offices that are dealing with the vetting thats required. Because that kind of vetting is always done, and having gone through the vetting process myself, no stone has ever been left uncovered. Ive found out things about myself that i didnt know, from the vetting process so, to have this kind of information come out so far into this nominees process is a bit surprising. Out so far into this nominees process is a bit surprisinglj understand that within the state department, its bit like the pentagon, its a star system, the more senior you get, the higher you 90, more senior you get, the higher you go, if the top brass within the state department, if you will, are leaving the department, how easy, or how difficult, is it to replace them once President Trump has gone . Are we talking about long term damage to the department here . we talking about long term damage to the department here . I think we are. And i think its going to take probably a decade to get back to the capacity that we had before this happened. A lot of the senior positions in the department are filled by careerists, who, like myself, have decades of experience and decades of service, and if you are not filling those positions, youre not bringing in new blood, and people are leaving, youre going to have a difficult time finding the right people in the future. That said, there are some very capable people still left in the state department who are in acting positions who are filling some of the senior slots now, and hopefully they will be able to maintain a commitment to fulfil those positions in the future. Ok, ambassador, thank you very much for coming in. You know, we talk a lot about political divisions in this town, christian. Some people would say its not really a question any more in politics of whether you are a republican or a democrat, it is a question of whether you are a nationalist or globalist. Diplomats tend by their nature to be more globalist, and this administration has made it clear that it is more nationalist in its inclinations, and perhaps more and friendly to globalist so who might be inhabiting the state department. I have heard that are at the state department is not great at the moment. That morale at the state department. In 100 years since women have had the vote in the uk, the country has seen two female Prime Ministers. But less than a third of members of parliament are women. One of the reasons for that, said the theresa may today, is the amount of bullying, intimidation and harassment in our political debate. Speaking in manchester, which was the birthplace of the suffragette movement, she blamed social media, which is being exploited and abused, often anonymously. The home secretary, amber rudd, even says she has to put up with the hate filled messages she receives because female voices matter in politics and in life. Werejoined by the labour mp stella creasy, whos in westminster. And Melissa Richmond from the Campaign Group running start, which aims to bring more women into politics in the us. Stella, let me start with you. Your party adopted a policy of all women short lists, and it was controversial at the time, but we have shown people by map of how women are involved in lower houses of parliament are the world, and its still a pretty poor picture. Is all women short lists the answer . Well, as somebody elected on all women short list and trout to have been chosen on an all woman short list. All women short lists are not about the women standing, they are about the women standing, they are about the women standing, they are about the people making the choices and trying to change some of those long held an unconscious bias about what leadership looks like. If anybody thinks it was easy to get elected onto an all woman short list, they didnt meet all of the other fantastic women who went for the constituency of walthamstow when idid. Wed the constituency of walthamstow when i did. Wed like to see that extended to other parts of election system that the moment, particularly with metro mayors in the uk. When you dont make the effort to try and change peoples perceptions about what leadership looks like, people tend to elect white men of a certain age. Melissa, the picture in the United States is even worse. Is that because you have a primary system in america, very different to our system here in the uk, where parties choose their candidates . Is that pa rt choose their candidates . Is that part of the problem in america . M the United States and do think the primary system presented a challenge for women, particularly on them i can side of the aisle. Once women reach the general election, they are both so might just reach the general election, they are both so mightjust as likely reach the general election, they are both so might just as likely as reach the general election, they are both so mightjust as likely as men to get elected. But the deadly republican women face a challenge getting to the primaries. Particularly republican women. You poll women and do a lot of research at running start on this. What are the hurdles that women face running for Political Office that men do not face . The biggest hurdle relates back to a lot of work on confidence. Women tend to undervalue their own qualifications and lose confidence in their ability to run for office ata in their ability to run for office at a really critical age, in high school and college. And so a woman my age would think that her qualifications are only half as good asa qualifications are only half as good as a man with the exact same resonate. There are a variety of other external barriers, but i think the internal barrier, lack of confidence, is the biggest hurdle that women have to overcome. Stella, you clearly had the confidence to run, and to win. They have a saying in the United States that a man looks in the mirror and automatically sees a senator, and a woman would never quite be so presumptuous. You ever came that hurdle and went for office. But then you face the issue of the kind of online bullying that the Prime Minister has spoken about. It is different online, i know, iam online as well and i face that. The tone is different for women and four men. One of the things about these debates that i really want to change, we talk a lot about the women and we talk a lot about anti semitism and islamophobia or racism online, we dont always talk about the people doing it, and recognising that when you are challenging power in barrow back imbalances, when you are a woman speaking up, you are challenging the old patriarchal order, of course that power pushes back. That is what we see, it is the backlash against people. One of the things we have to do is to stop wondering whether women should put up with this and Start Talking about who is doing this and how we can stop them doing it. Its not ok, its not acceptable. I often get told, oh, dont feed the trolls, dont react to this stuff. I think, stuff. Ithink, how stuff. I think, how much should i soak up in silence in the mistaken belief that somehow if im soaking it up there not going to do it to other people . We have to change the way we think about this, we are missing out on the voices of a range of people in our public life, not just in parliament but across the world, if we let that kind of anger and abuse and aggression come in the public domain. It is not free speech when 50 of the conversation feels intimidated, bullied and silenced. It also comes down to attitude to women, doesnt it, stella . We were reporting on this programme a few weeks ago about the president of a Charity Event where women were treated like objects. By president sclub Charity Event. We mark 100 years on, that was a seismic moment for women in 1918. Maybe right now we are approaching a seismic moment for women in the modern age. It is worth reflecting on the fact that the suffragettes themselves received hate mail and trawling and abuse at the time. It is not the time that we live in, its the people who are back lashing against the idea of equality. I would love to believe that we are at another seismic moment. I see that we are at the start still trying to getan we are at the start still trying to get an equal, more Prosperous Society stop one of the messages i would love to give to the men watching this programme tonight is that actually we are fighting for you, too. Equality is good for everyone. We are not asking people to share scarce resources, we are asking to increase the resources, increased prosperity, being more equal, that is what the evidence tells us. Melissa, what are the things that women change when they do run for Political Office . What changes in societies that have higher proportions of female representation . So, i have to say that the uk is doing much better than the United States. You ranked number39 and the than the United States. You ranked number 39 and the United States ranks 99th worldwide. I think a lot of countries use a quota system, it ranked Choice Voting system, a multimember district system. You tend to see higher numbers of women in office in those systems. In the us, we generally dont have those things in place, we have a much smaller proportion of women. Just one in fourof smaller proportion of women. Just one in four of our elected leaders are women. Ok, melissa and stella, thank you very much forjoining us. A north korean spy who blew up a Korean Airlines aircraftjust months before the seoul olympics in 1988 has issued a warning ahead of south koreas winter games. Kim hyon says the regime that recruited her and trained her to murder 115 South Koreans has not changed. Shes been recounting her extraordinary story to our seoul correspondent, laura bicker. She was under heavy sedation, with her mouth covered with adhesive tape. Translation i was told that i was on the front line to unify korea. That i would be freeing south korea, like a revolutionary hero. I was full of pride and dignity. But i realised it was murder, killing my own people. Innocent, everyday people. It was a japanese radio, a small radio, and thats where i put the detonator. Next to it was the liquid explosives in a liquid bottle, in a plastic bag, which i placed on the shelf in the plane. In the north, we are taught that the south is a colony of america. Poor and corrupt. That the us is an aggressor. We are told they are the arch enemy, and we cannot live under the same sky. In a blaze of publicity this morning, the South Koreans paraded the woman they claimed was a north korean agent. Kim hyon hui apparently told Intelligence Officers shed blown up the south korean airliner to disrupt the olympic games. Do you think right now all of this is fake . Do you think the run up to the olympics, the overtures of peace coming from kim jong un, do you think its fake . Translation of course it is fake. The ultimate goal of north korea is to complete its nuclear programme. They have nothing on their minds but nuclear weapons. North korea will not change through dialogue. North korea cannot be changed by soft words. I believe only pressure will work on north korea. So, you have life, you have love, and now, i believe, you have children. Do they know what you did . Translation my children are not old enough to know the story, and i havent tried to tell them the details yet. But these days, with internet readily available, and my interviews in the media, i suspect they must know something. My son is quiet, but i think he knows. As the bomber, i have a lifelong work of atonement. It is my cross to bear for the rest of my life. And that is getting an awful lot of attention as we run up to the winter olympics. This is beyond 100 days. Still to come the launch of the worlds most powerful rocket has been delayed by high winds. We will find out what the chances are of a liftoff today. Former executives at the failed construction and services giant carillion have apologised for the compa nys collapse. But they denied claims by mps that they were asleep at the wheel. The firm, which employed 20,000 people in the uk, went into liquidation last month. Today, the companys former directors faced a committee of mps to explain what theyd known about its financial position. Our business editor, simonjack, reports. Summoned to westminster, carillions top brass. Philip green was chairman of the board when the company collapsed, and he started with an apology. I would say im deeply sorry for the impact that the collapse of the company had on employees, pensioners, customers, suppliers and all stakeholders. So, what went wrong . Zafar khan was finance director. He said hundreds of millions was owed by middle east customers, projects hit trouble, and then new business dried up. Here in kings cross, there are a few old signs still up. Carillion has been replaced on this project. Today we saw a mixture of regret, of shock, and a bit of anger at how a company passed fit in its own annual Statement Last march suffered a crippling profit warning four months later, and six months after that was liquidated. Were the bosses rewarded for these failures . Former chief executive Richard Howson was paid £1. 5 million in salary, perks and bonuses in 2016. Do you feel comfortable with the level of bonus you received in the year before the company that you ran collapsed . Yes, i do, for the attributes that i earned it for. Half of that bonus is deferred and half of it was paid in cash. There will be heated moments to come in this postmortem. And there will be awkward ones. Large numbers of people arent going to get paid for their contracts. Other people have lost theirjobs. And youre still all right. All of you. Arent you . Simon jack, bbc news. 0k, time for christians favourite story of the day, i think he wants to be on this rocket no, we want you here on earth, christian, honestly spacex, the Company Founded by elon musk, is due to launch the worlds most powerful operational rocket. The lift off was delayed because of winds in florida, but the falcon heavy should now lift off on its first un crewed flight in half an hour. With twice the lifting capacity of any other commercial rocket, it has 27 engines, which gives it the thrust of 18 jumbo jets. If successful, it would be capable of carrying humans to the moon or mars and for a fraction of the price. The payload today, however, is a car elon musks old cherry red tesla, which will be sent on an elliptical orbit around the sun carrying three cameras, which have been fitted on board. Quite an image there from spacexs promotional video. Will it become a reality . Lets speak to victoria gill. Thats not me strapped into that car so, tell me how they built this rocket . It is fascinating. The brilliant thing by elon musts brockers is they come back to elon musks rockets is that they come back to earth, if it goes well. I wouldnt recommend being on board on this particular nod, it is experimental. It is three of his falcon 9 rockets, which he has successfully returned and three launched into space, strapped together. 39 engine rockets strapped together, the central core has had together, the central core has had to be thoroughly strengthened. What they found out when they started to build this rocket it is not quite that temple, it was initially a announced in 2011, why not strap three of them together and we can make the biggest rocket in the world . Make the biggest rocket in the world . It make the biggest rocket in the world . It changes make the biggest rocket in the world . It changes a lot of things, it is very, very risky and may not ta ke it is very, very risky and may not take off. He has had to strengthen that against all of the aerodynamics and vibrations that cocaine when the 27 engines although off at once. You have the vibrations that go in. You have ended up with three falcon 9s strengthened and developed. The biggest payload in the world, you can put spice that alights on it, even a car if you want spy satellites. You have got a very wealthy man who is ahead of nasa. They are building an equivalent to this, but far more expensive, and behind schedule. They have got a space launch system which was supposed to be in operation now, but has now been delayed until 2022. That is a big. Why dont they scrapped that and go with him was allowed there is a bit of speculation about that. Nasa are definitely going to be watching this launch very, very closely. They are one of spacexs customers already, they have already given them a contract they have already given them a co ntra ct to they have already given them a contract to take stuff up to the International Space station, and in the future to take astronauts as well. They will be keeping a close eye on this. Whereas the space launch system will cost about 1 billion, this is £90 million. It is a fraction of the cost, and it is all in the Reusable Technology that really slashes the cost and makes this a game changer. So, victoria, what i dont understand is why elon musk was basically suggesting that even, and by the way these are old pictures, they are not of course this particular launch, they are from january of last year. If this doesnt work, this launch today, if its a failure, he seems to say that even that would be a success. Why . Well, basically because we are at such an experimental stage, katty. Because this is a test launch, when they see what happens when the engines fire and when it blasts off, or if it blasts off, even, because what elon musk has said is that if it gets clear of the launch pad that will be considered a success, at every stage they will be watching to see how it holds together, how the engines perform, what happens to the vibrations, what happens when the frost is all cocaine, and at what stage if and when something goes wrong when the frost does kick in. That is something they can get fixed for the next test launch. It is literally rocket science, and that they are just going to be measuring and gathering information all along the way. What time do you think liftoff will be . Prelaunch activity has started, they have to load a propellant and go, but they are now saying 8 a0pm gmt. Load a propellant and go, but they are now saying 8 40pm gmt. load a propellant and go, but they are now saying 8 40pm gmt. I want to know what is going to happen to the tesla in a few years time, or perhaps in millions of years time, some aliens may pick it up and say, this is a piece of old junk i really dont want it the Us Government is reported to have cancelled a huge contract to provide 30 million meals to hurricane victims in puerto rico last year after only 50,000 had been sent to people in need. The island was devastated by Hurricane Maria in september. In the storms aftermath, the New York Times says the federal Emergency Management agency asked an entrepreneur named tiffany brown, who had no experience of overseeing Disaster Relief efforts, to deliver the food. Fema insists no Puerto Ricans missed a meal as a result of the failed agreement. One person has been killed in a pile up in missouri that involved over 100 vehicles. The crash happened on sunday, but the drone footage, filmed by the springfield fire department, has just been released. As you can see, the accident stretches several hundred metres, and involves cars, trucks and lorries. Its thought the icy conditions were the cause of the crash. Weve just got time to tell you about some Important New Research from the World Economic forum. They have discovered that children aged between four and six perform much better when dressed as batman. No, this is not fake news im serious is it adults or children, i dont know asking for a friend yes, they put 180 kids into three groups and gave them menial, boring tasks. One group was told they could use an ipad as soon as they got fed up. Another group was told to think of themselves in the third person. The final group dressed as their superheroes. No surprise that the ipad group spent 60 of their time on the ipad. Like my daughter but those who thought of themselves as batman performed like batman. I guess the secret here is changing your persona to fit your environment. And it got me thinking, what outfit would get me through these long days with katty kay . and i came up with this in my mind. I might not wear it every day, but in my mind im going to be thinking of this and you can pull the grill down for when i get really annoyed, you will pull the grill down and go inside the costu me grill down and go inside the costume i will be going into sir christian, night of the realm mode i will put my wonder woman costume ona i will put my wonder woman costume on a build last you up into space in elon musks tesla if you ignored me inside that custom blast you up into space. And from california, im a superman died im from california. So im a superman guy we will see you same time tomorrow. Good evening. The wintry theme continues across much of the uk. To date most saw a little bit of snow, not too disruptive but it made for some lovely scenes across the north east of england to finish the day. The sun setting behind the hills. As sky is clear in its wake, tonight we will see a widespread frost across the country, and where you have seen snow and rain today, it is off an increasing risk of ice. High pressure building in behind the weather front, clearing High Pressure building in behind the weatherfront, clearing skies. We still have the weather front at the moment, if you have not seen snow yet, you may do tonight. Across norfolk and suffolk, we could get 23 norfolk and suffolk, we could get 2 3 centimetres of snow in one or two spots. A few wintry showers in the west of wales and cornwall, still one or two in the far north scotland, but for most, clear skies. All below freezing in the towns and cities. And almost all of the uk in blue, with rural areas between 5 and 11 to take us into tomorrow morning. A crisp start for many, a few wintry showers in the south east to begin with, a risk of ice during the morning rush hourjust about anywhere across the country. Whilst most will start with sunshine, weve already started to see changes towards the north west of the uk. During morning rush hour, is, with increasing cloud towards the north west of scotland. Southern and eastern areas under north west of scotland. Southern and eastern areas under sunshine. I see in Northern Ireland, cloud increasing. Much of england and wales, cloud in the sky, sunny start, wintry showers down across the far west of wales into cornwall, it could get a slight dusting. And a slight dusting of snow thanks to the weather front in the south east corner. That will fade away, but the weather front you saw towards the north west will continue to push in throughout wednesday. Scotland and Northern Ireland turning cloudier, snow on the higher ground, 5 10 centimetres of snow in places. Turning back to rain as temperatures left. A mild the day across the hebrides. For england and wales, cloud will increase in the north and west, most will have a dry and sunny but cold day. Wednesday night into thursday, the weather front will fragment as it pushes south and sunny but cold day. Wednesday night into thursday, the weather front will fragment as it pushes south thursday, brighter conditions, but to finish the date we will see rain pushing into western parts of england and wales. Bye for now. This is bbc news. Im rebecca jones. The headlines at eight the building of a new hospital in liverpool is delayed following the collapse of carillion, as Senior Executives from the company face questions from mps. The roller coaster ride on wall street. The ira hyde park bombing of 1982 relatives of the victims get legal aid for a civil action against the main suspect. Clogged up britain new Research Shows some drivers spend more than a day a year sitting in rush hour traffic. Also in the next hour the Aerospace Company spacex is gearing up to test what could become the worlds most powerful rocket