Neil gorsuch chair is donald trump Australia Beck for the Supreme Court and he is now as good as confirmed but not before there was plenty of drama and what is being called the Nuclear Option. Republicans needed 60 votes to pass the nomination. They could not get them. So they changed the rules. To needing just 51. Asimple changed the rules. To needing just 51. A simple majority. 52 republicans in the senate so once the rules are changed its a done deal and we expect the vote later in the week. This is the reaction of a senior democrat. The Nuclear Option means the end of a long history of consensus on Supreme Court nominations. It weakens the standing of the senate as a whole. As a check on the president s ability to shape the judiciary. On the president s ability to shape thejudiciary. In a postnatal world if the senate and the presidency are in the hands of the same party there is no incentive to even speak to the senate minority. That is a recipe for more conflict and bad blood between the parties, not less. Post nuclear world, no shortage of melodramatic language, jane obrien in the newsroom has been talking me through what this means. First of all the war now loud explosions over the capital, the world did not come to an end. However Chuck Schumer is making a very valid point that some republicans agree with, that this is the end of bipartisan ship, being able to cut a deal between two Fighting Parties over a very important nominations like who should sit on the Supreme Court because that is a life position. The Supreme Court as we know rules on all sorts of things. So it is a really important thing. By seeing a simple majority based on who controls the senate will now get these people into place is a very, very big step. It might be news to some who have been watching American Politics to hear bipartisanship still existed in washington. Politics to hear bipartisanship still existed in washingtonm politics to hear bipartisanship still existed in washington. It was supposed to exist in the senate and thats the problem, it is supposed to be the grown up chamber of congress. They are supposed to be able to reach across the aisle. Senators have much longer terms so they are not constantly in real election mode. We have seen bipartisan cooperation over the yea rs, bipartisan cooperation over the years, not much recently and pretty much none today. Dont go anywhere, i want to talk about the man i have just brought up, devin nunes who has been overseeing the House Of Representatives investigation into link between the Trump Campaign and russia but he has stepped aside after Allegation Information he bit into the Public Domain came from the white house and was designed to help president trump. That has been denied, today he has said lets get the perspective of a house speaker, paul ryan. Devin lillis has earned my trust over many years for his integrity and dedication to the critical work of the Intelligent Community to keep americans safe. He continues to have that trust and i know hes eager to demonstrate he has followed all proper guidelines and laws. In the meantime it clear this process would be a distraction to the House Intelligence Committee s investigation into russian interference in our election so he has offered to step aside as the lead republican on this probe and i support his decision. If he has done nothing wrong why has he gone . Its a matter of appearances. Devin nunes was in charge of the committee heading the investigation into russian hacking. Separately to that and this is where it gets complicated, he was tipped off by somebody there was a possibility the Trump Campaign team had been caught up Trump Campaign team had been caught up in surveillance of foreigners. He rushed to the white house, discussed it and then came back and held a press c0 nfe re nce it and then came back and held a Press Conference and then told the House Intelligence Committee and thatis House Intelligence Committee and that is where the problem started because it gave the appearance that instead of going to the House Intelligence Committee like he should have he went first to the white house which gave everyone the perception he is to close with the people he has been charged to investigate. There is a big sigh of relief, paul ryan says he supports but i think it was becoming a distraction and devin nunes himself was becoming bigger than the story. Thank you for those updates jane. Lets start the sport with the report about a young footballer from afghanistan who lives in the uk and has made it into the arsenal disability team. A country which is rarely much more than a land of feuding tribes anyway has collapsed into anarchy and blood letting. Has collapsed into anarchy and bloodletting. I am an Amputee Football player. I lost my leg at the age of six. I have basically no hope especially afghanistan, its very difficult situation there because i was little and unable to play with my friends and unable to play with my friends and go out but because of the passion i had with football i never gave up. The people were struggling to work and eat food basically. I was not able to afford to buy a football so i took some cloth and some plastic and made, just like this size, and everybody was so surprised at what i was doing with the football. I have my afghan crutches which were so heavy and not very secure. So it took me so many years to learn. But the only thing which i never lost was hope. Ididnt i didnt know about Amputee Football in england. Every Football Club has a disabled team and they are supporting us with kit, transport and the pitch. On facebook there are and the pitch. On facebook there are a lot of people sending me messages, how did you make it to arsenal, but if they come here then arsenal or other Football Clubs are always welcoming foreign. If you are a hard worker you can get anywhere you want. But if you are like ok, i will do it today, maybe tomorrow, you are not going to get anywhere. Good luck to him with his studies and his football. I hope to speak to ian carter at the us masters but some technical problems, fingers crossed we can do it in a few moments. Jason dufner and William Mcgirt in the lead on three under, frustrating time for rory mcilroy, three mac over after nine. A future Labour Government would introduce Free School Meals in all Primary Schools in england to try to improve the health and performance of young children. Jeremy corbyn is proposing to cover the cost by introducing vat on Private School Fees. Ellie price reports. Soggy brussels sprouts and lumpy Mashed Potato are as a general rule of thing of the past in School Dinners these days. In fact they are healthier and more appealing. Labour wa nt healthier and more appealing. Labour want Free School Meals to be available to every Primary School pupil in england and they will pay for it by imposing vat on Private School Fees. We want all children to get it and all the evidence from those councils who do provide Free School Meals is there are higher levels of attainment, better levels of concentration and Better Health for all the children. Launching the Policy Labour estimated it would cost u p Policy Labour estimated it would cost up to £900 million a year whilst introducing vat on Private School Fees would raise about 1. 5 billion annually. Critics say it doesnt add up. This would put up an Independent School fees could, so hard working parents would no longer be able to afford those so smaller schools would have to close and that would move pupils out of our system into the state system. At the moment all children up to the age of about eight are eligible for Free School Meals. After that eligibility depends on if a family receives certain benefits. Latest figures showed just under 14. 5 of pupils in year 3 6 are known to be eligible for and year 3 6 are known to be eligible forand claiming year 3 6 are known to be eligible for and claiming Free School Meals. I would much rather see extra money being derived from extra taxation whether it is on private schools or other sources, given to the poorest children and not necessarily subsidising parents who can afford Free School Meals. The policy might sound familiar because it was in the Lib Dems Election Manifesto in 2015 but they did not suggest putting vat on Private School Fees. Before that gordon brown promised to pilot the idea at the 2010 election. What is new about the policy today is the idea of raising the monday to fund it to Private School Fees. The pitch from Jeremy Corbyn is taxing the rich to feed the poor. He said its about furnas message she hope this will appeal beyond labour core base. Its about furnas. The lead story, Rex Tillerson is saying he believes the Syrian Government is responsible for the chemical attack on tuesday and he also says president assad should not remain in power. Lets look ahead to what is coming up after us, if youre watching outside the uk, russia has seen the arrest of several men from central asia after finding home made explosives in their buildings. They are thought to be linked to the Prime Suspect in mondays bomb attack on the St Petersburg metro. Bbc World Service is reporting the entire town of edge come in new zealands North Ireland has been evacuated. And a dutch retailer has apologised after unwittingly selling a colour by numbers book with a picture of adolf hitler. The book was produced in india and it remains unclear why hitler was included. Next if you are watching on bbc world news is world news america, on the Bbc News Channel it is the news at ten. Earlier this week we reported russias Supreme Court is considering whether to ban the jehovahs witnesses religious movement. Lets talk to our correspondent in moscow who has been looking into the motivation behind the move and how it might affect people who are notjehovahs witnesses. Every evening in moscowjehovahs witnesses gather to pray. But soon Services Like this could be banned. Its because these believers claim they are faith is the only truth. Russian prosecutors say that makes them extremists. Filled by Undercover Police this footage was an attempt to gather evidence. The man leading the service was charged with extremism. He shows me where the policeman sat. He shows me where the policeman sat. He said nobody suspected a thing. He was acquitted at first but added to a list of extremists and now the case against him has been returned to court for a retrial. Translation jehovahs witnesses have never done anything to cause harm. We try to help people. So to be accused of all these absurd violations of the law is really upsetting. If the Supreme Court does ban the job as witnesses then hauls like this one across the country will have to close and people think thats an extreme application of russian andrey Extremism Laws anti extreme as laws. This man is an atheist with the Popular Video blogs. Hes been charged with inciting hatred for playing pokemon go in a church. Activists who monitor extremism here say the laws to prevent it are increasingly miscued touched misused. There are foreign groups, extremist groups, there is a danger. But the instrument is bad and on the other hand if Political Leadership needs to put pressure on political opposition, this tool may also be used for this. For this man it is disturbingly familiar. He tells me his own parents were among thousands ofjehovahs his own parents were among thousands of jehovahs witnesses sent his own parents were among thousands ofjehovahs witnesses sent to siberia by stalin. They were exiled just for practising their religion, for reading the bible, for Sharing Bible Truths with their neighbours. Thats all. And now we can see for the same reason in modern russia we are facing the same situation. The Court Decision will affect more than 170,000 russians who say it cannot change their faith but could force it underground. An Exclusive Bbc interview has been generating a lot of interest. The reason it is generating a lot of interest is because it is the first she has given this year and she hasnt spoken extensively about what is happening, the alleged Ethnic Cleansing in my and marks rakhine state. As you will see Aung San Suu Kyi denies this is happening and you will also see the article about setting up the interview and what he made about her and if you havent seen made about her and if you havent seen it yet is how the conversation went. It is a relic of the absurdity and paranoia of military rule. It is designed to keep the general safe, but where the new democratic government is trying to consolidate its hold on power. Its leader Aung San Suu Kyi has undergone a rapid transition from pro democracy icon. A period of intense scrutiny and criticism. For the first time this year she has agreed to a face to face interview. In terms of changing the lives of ordinary people, one of the things that has happened in south africa is a massive disappointment when a Liberation Movement comes into power. What have you done to make lives better . You go through the list of things we have done, miles of roads and bridges and so much electrification. We started out last year by saying that at the top of priorities wasjob year by saying that at the top of priorities was job creation. We discovered over this one year that if you start constructing all weather roads and if you provide electrification then people start creating jobs for themselves. There have been advances in health care and more free elections. But all of this has been overshadowed by the terror in rakhine state, where Tens Of Thousands of muslims have fled what human Rights Groups call Ethnic Cleansing. And about which Aung San Suu Kyi has been condemned for failing to speak out. What exactly is that they are condemning . They wa nt is that they are condemning . They want you to allow in a Un Fact Finding Mission into the rakhine state. That is what they asked for last month but what have they condemned over the last year . Many people including those who would be sympathetic to you look at the situation and save why has she not spoken out, here is an icon of human rights. This question has been asked since 2013 when the last round of troubles broke out in rakhine state. They would ask questions and i would answer them and people would say i said nothing simpler because i didnt makea say i said nothing simpler because i didnt make a kind of statement, to condemn one community or another, so what were trying to go for is reconciliation, not condemnation. Do you ever worry that you will be remembered as the champion of human rights, the nobel laureate, who failed to stand up to Ethnic Cleansing . I dont think that is Ethnic Cleansing going on. I think it is too strong an expression to use for what is happening. I think theres a lot of hostility and as i pointed out just now, theres a lot of hostility and as i pointed outjust now, if muslims killing muslims just now, pointed outjust now, if muslims Killing Muslimsjust now, so it is not just a matter of Killing Muslimsjust now, so it is notjust a matter of Ethnic Cleansing as you put it. It is a matter of people on different sides of the divide. She remains the most popular politician here by a very long way and her goal remains to negotiate the military out of politics with people power wrap her back and a steely interior payments determination. Do you think people misjudged you, expecting you to be this amalgam of Mahatma Gandhi and Mother Teresa, for example, and actually maybe you are closer than your determination and steeliness to someone your determination and steeliness to someone like Margaret Thatcher . your determination and steeliness to someone like Margaret Thatcher . I am just a politician. I am not quite like Margaret Thatcher but on the other i am no Mother Teresa either. From myanmar to taki where we have been looking at the referendum coming up that effort delivers a jest vote will give president ahmeterdogan far greater powers. Through the haze above the black sea coast is Ahmet Erdogan land. The president s family hails from this region. And it is fertile territory for votes before the referendum to boost his powers. He will always back the local boy. Recep Tayyip Erdogan is one of us all the past leaders were rich virtuality, but he speaks our language. He tells the world what we want to save. With that common touch hears the voice of pious turks who felt looked over in a one secular arab dominated country. Every vote counts as he pushes to scrap the prime minister, choose the cabinet and issue decrees, his fans desperate to be blessed. They will return the favour. He launches a typical thai lead against supported enemies, denouncing western leaders for pressing the turkish nation. The black sea boy has risen to the top but to become more powerful he needs to consolidate his support base. For that, he sets his voters against his opponents, internal and external. That, he sets his voters against his opponents, internaland external. It is classic divide and conquer. The president is moulding generations in his image, like those at recep Tayyip Erdogan university, a Personality Cult one might say. His lifting of the Headscarf Ban is still a vote winner. I am proud of my president and i am proud of my universitys name. The judge to you according to your belief, according to your appearance. From the centre, the villagers lead upstream towards that rare thing, opposition to erdogan. He faces three years in prison for facebook posts. The opposition fears that if the measure passes the clamp down will intensify. I sheared personal freedom of speech. We cant go further than this. This isjust nonsense. Champion of muslims, builder of infrastructure, president erdogan is revered and reviled and now comes a test of which side of polarised turkey will get its way. From one strong man to another, one minute left in the programme to tell you this image has been banned by the russian justice ministry. You this image has been banned by the russianjustice ministry. This isa the russianjustice ministry. This is a list of extremist material and the Ministry Lists it as being an inappropriate image and tells the seat post. The kremlin spokesperson says. It is not the only image, plenty online that you can find, not quite clear how this new band will be policed, but it is bands none the less, thank you so much watching, goodbye. Thursday was a fine spring day but warmer weather on the way for many of us this weekend. Friday starts rather chilly across southern and eastern areas of the uk and here is where we have the best of the early sunshine, sunshine continuing in the east of scotland, a little more cloud developing for the midlands and other eastern parts of england, still cloud for Northern Ireland and western scotland. A lot of dry weather and in the sunshine the temperature easily getting into the mid teens. Difficult to forecast and there will be some clear skies around overnight, friday into saturday morning. Again particularly over southern and eastern parts so again in the countryside those tem pters again in the countryside those tempters will not be far away from freezing. As we start the weekend it warms up freezing. As we start the weekend it warms up in the sunshine, more sunshine and less cloud on saturday, the sunshine extends its way into all but the far north of scotland and on to Northern Ireland and will break up the cloud across east anglia and the south east and hear the temperature could be 17, 18 or even 19, warmerfarther the temperature could be 17, 18 or even 19, warmer farther north with skies. High pressure over the top of us, just slides away to the nearest continent allowing the Weather Fronts to encroach into the northwest but at the same time drawing up much Warmer Earlierfrom the south in across england and wales. Also seeing more sunshine saw a lot of sunshine for much of england and wales. Always more cloud for scotland especially in the west and Northern Ireland where we see rain arriving later on in some of that cloud could push over the irish sea, so mainly going to be eastern parts of wales, central and Eastern England that we will see the temperature, 22 and even 23, but only going to be with us for a short period of time, one day. This Weather Front is bringing period of time, one day. This weatherfront is bringing rain into the northwest, moving southworth overnight, little or no rain on it but the push away the warm air and introduce called a so the temperature could be eight, nine lower on monday compared with sunday, and we find a few showers across the northern half, particularly scotland. Many places cooler and cloudy but still drive. Monday into tuesday, we push away the cold earlier and instead of a northerly wind we get moderately westerly wind. That looks like it will lead to outbreaks of rain, chiefly to scotland and perhaps Northern Ireland, pushing close south words. As we head closer to easter, still High Pressure on the scene but not covering the whole of the country as it is right now. Low areas will take the wetter weather away from northern parts of the uk, so as we run away from northern parts of the uk, so as we run into easter, High Pressure setting to the south west, this looks like it will be the general weather battered, so a north westerly wind bringing in some showers and feeling a touch cooler but every now and again we could see the High Pressure moving northwards taking the diet unsettled weather for the north and northwards taking the diet unsettled weatherfor the north and pushing showers further away, but throughout, average temperature at best, possibly colder than average and not much rain away from the showers in the north and north east. Sunniest in the south west, closer to the highly. Tonight at ten, the white house dramatically changes policy on syria, after this weeks suspected chemical weapons attack. Man cries. As relatives mourn the dead, washington says theres no doubt Syrian Government forces were responsible. Investigators have been at the scene of the bombing. America says syria has no future under president assad. I think what happened in syria is a disgrace to humanity. But hes there and i guess hes running things, so something should happen. And tonight there are reports of detailed discussions between the pentagon and the white house, about Military Action in syria. Well have the latest. Also on the programme. President trump prepares to meet chinas presidnt xi, the first face to face talks between the super power rivals
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