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Tonight at Ten, Donald Trump at loggerheads with US intelligence | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
officials over allegations of Russian cyber hacking. | :00:07. | :00:11. | |
Earlier today, the President-elect met with intelligence chiefs. | :00:12. | :00:13. | |
He claimed there was no evidence Russia affected the result | :00:14. | :00:17. | |
But tonight, the intelligence agencies stated "with high | :00:18. | :00:21. | |
confidence" that the Russians had tried to boost the Trump campaign - | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
We'll have the latest from Washington on the growing | :00:26. | :00:30. | |
tension between the President-elect and the intelligence community, just | :00:31. | :00:32. | |
In Florida, a gun attack at a busy airport leaves five people dead | :00:33. | :00:37. | |
The Shropshire man who's terminally ill - | :00:38. | :00:41. | |
and the latest legal challenge for the right to die. | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
I have a right to determine how I should die, and more | :00:46. | :00:53. | |
A visit to China's most polluted city, as the country struggles | :00:54. | :01:00. | |
with the worst winter smog of recent years. | :01:01. | :01:04. | |
And Chris Froome talks to us about the damage done | :01:05. | :01:06. | |
to cycling by allegations of doping and misconduct. | :01:07. | :01:13. | |
And coming up in Sportsday on BBC News: All the day's stories, | :01:14. | :01:16. | |
including action from the FA Cup third round's opening | :01:17. | :01:19. | |
game between West Ham and Manchester City. | :01:20. | :01:43. | |
President Putin did try to boost Donald Trump's campaign for the | :01:44. | :01:52. | |
presidency, according to a report published tonight by US intelligence | :01:53. | :01:56. | |
officials. The report was released shortly after intelligence chiefs | :01:57. | :01:59. | |
had briefed Mr Trump on their findings. The President-elect | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
insisted that any cyber espionage by Russia, China or anyone else, had | :02:05. | :02:07. | |
not influenced the result of the contest. But he is now ordered a | :02:08. | :02:10. | |
plan to be delivered within 90 days of taking office of developing an | :02:11. | :02:16. | |
aggressive reserve -- response to any cyber attacks as Nick Bryant | :02:17. | :02:17. | |
tells us. American intelligence tonight | :02:18. | :02:23. | |
released its explosive report, claiming Vladimir Putin personally | :02:24. | :02:27. | |
ordered an influence campaign, to help Donald Trump win the presidency | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
by denigrating Hillary Clinton and harming her electability. | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
It concludes, the Kremlin had a clear preference | :02:38. | :02:39. | |
Donald Trump today described the investigation as a political | :02:40. | :02:42. | |
witchhunt by adversaries badly beaten in the election. | :02:43. | :02:44. | |
He rubbished the notion that he achieved a Kremlin assisted victory. | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
But US intelligence claims it wasn't just the billionaire | :02:49. | :02:51. | |
who celebrated his unexpected success on election night. | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
Intercepted conversations reportedly picked up senior figures | :02:56. | :02:58. | |
in the Russian government rejoicing, too, among them officials said to be | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
At Trump Tower tonight, he was given a classified briefing | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
by America's top intelligence officials, who claim the Russians | :03:08. | :03:10. | |
tried harder to hack computers of the Democratic National Committee | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
than those at Republican headquarters, and that | :03:15. | :03:17. | |
delivered stolen e-mails to the WikiLeaks website | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
to help him move from his penthouse in Manhattan to the White House. | :03:23. | :03:26. | |
Never before has a President-elect been so openly scornful of America's | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
spies, or so disparaging about their work. | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
But the Trump team says he's right to be cautious, | :03:35. | :03:37. | |
not least because the US intelligence community has got it | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
wrong before, over Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
In a statement after the meeting, Mr Trump said that Russia, China, | :03:47. | :03:49. | |
other countries and outside groups are consistently trying to break | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
through the cyber infrastructure of our governmental institutions | :03:54. | :03:56. | |
and organisations, including the Democratic National Committee. | :03:57. | :04:03. | |
But he added, "there was absolutely no effect | :04:04. | :04:05. | |
Tellingly, he did not single out Russia for blame. | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
But Vice President Joe Biden has told him to accept the intelligence | :04:11. | :04:13. | |
findings pointing the finger at the Kremlin. | :04:14. | :04:16. | |
The idea that you know more than the intelligence community | :04:17. | :04:23. | |
knows seems like saying, "I know more about physics | :04:24. | :04:26. | |
I didn't read the book, I just know I know more". | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
Relations between President Obama and President Putin have | :04:31. | :04:38. | |
had a Cold War chill, and Donald Trump has | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
Speaking to the BBC today, the outgoing Secretary of State, | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
I would encourage him to engage with Russia | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
and to try to find that common ground, but not at the expense | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
of rolling over and losing the values and principles, | :04:57. | :04:58. | |
or interests that we need to protect as we do so. | :04:59. | :05:04. | |
Donald Trump tonight expressed tremendous respect | :05:05. | :05:07. | |
for America's spies, but he still clearly believe | :05:08. | :05:09. | |
the allegations of a Kremlin conspiracy are being used | :05:10. | :05:12. | |
One of the most noticeable trends in American politics over the last 25 | :05:13. | :05:29. | |
years has been partisan attempts to delegitimise presidents. With Bill | :05:30. | :05:32. | |
Clinton, it was a personal scandal. With George W Bush it was the | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
contested 2000 election, the Florida recount and the fact conservative | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
leaning Supreme Court intervened in his favour. With Barack Obama it was | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
the campaign led by Donald Trump that claimed he wasn't even a US | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
citizen. And political opponents of Donald Trump are going to seize on | :05:50. | :05:55. | |
this report and say that it creates a big question over the validity of | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
his electoral victory, even though the intelligence community has made | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
no assessment over whether boats were changed or opinions were | :06:04. | :06:07. | |
altered. -- whether boats were changed or opinions were altered. | :06:08. | :06:10. | |
With me now is our security correspondent, Gordon Corera. | :06:11. | :06:14. | |
You have looked at these findings. What do they tell us? The most | :06:15. | :06:20. | |
significant line is the first line, we assess with high confidence that | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a campaign to influence the | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
election, not crackers, not officials in the Kremlin, Vladimir | :06:30. | :06:33. | |
Putin himself. What you get is a story of how American intelligence | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
believed he did that. How at one point, when they thought Hillary | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
Clinton might win, they sought to delegitimise the whole process. And | :06:42. | :06:44. | |
another point they sort of support Trump and denigrate Hillary Clinton. | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
I did that through propaganda as well as cyber attacks. As a whole, | :06:49. | :06:53. | |
is it plausible? Yes. Is it convincing? Well, I'm not sure it | :06:54. | :06:58. | |
will be to sceptics, because actually what you don't get in the | :06:59. | :07:01. | |
report is the hard evidence. That's undoubtedly secret material which | :07:02. | :07:03. | |
the intelligence community might have, but which isn't in the report. | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
There's no technical details of hacking. One thing which is not in | :07:08. | :07:11. | |
the report but it which I've been told incidentally is that British | :07:12. | :07:16. | |
intelligence, GCHQ, was the first to spot the significant breach into the | :07:17. | :07:19. | |
Democratic party and reported it to its American counterparts. But | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
that's not in the report. Where are we left? We've had clash between a | :07:24. | :07:29. | |
president who is worried about his legitimacy and an intelligence | :07:30. | :07:31. | |
community worried about its credibility. They have both set out | :07:32. | :07:34. | |
their stalls today. But I don't think it's a clash that either side | :07:35. | :07:37. | |
are actually going to win. In offence, both will come out damaged. | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
America will still come out divided. I think the only people who might be | :07:43. | :07:46. | |
left smiling or America's adversaries, people like, if you | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
believe this report, Vladimir Putin Gordon Corera, thank you. | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
At least five people have been killed and eight injured, | :07:56. | :07:57. | |
after a gunman opened fire at Fort Lauderdale International | :07:58. | :07:59. | |
The man, who's in custody, is said to have taken the gun out | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
of a bag that he'd checked in and opened fire | :08:05. | :08:06. | |
Passengers ran onto the tarmac outside, where they're currently | :08:07. | :08:09. | |
being held while the police search the building. | :08:10. | :08:11. | |
Our North America correspondent, James Cook, has the latest. | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
A mundane task at a busy airport has turned into a scene of horror. | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
Passengers, who seconds earlier were collecting their bags, | :08:20. | :08:21. | |
Survivors say there were desperate attempts to save lives. | :08:22. | :08:32. | |
We heard the noise, thought it was firecrackers | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
We looked again and we saw him with the gun going up and down. | :08:37. | :08:46. | |
Once he was done with the ammunition, he threw his gun down. | :08:47. | :08:52. | |
He basically threw the gun on the ground and he laid | :08:53. | :08:56. | |
on the ground, face down, spread eagle. | :08:57. | :08:58. | |
For hundreds who fled the airport, the terror was not over. | :08:59. | :09:09. | |
Rumours of another gunman sent people running from the terminal, | :09:10. | :09:12. | |
but they were just rumours, as the local sheriff confirmed. | :09:13. | :09:15. | |
There has been no shooting at any place else | :09:16. | :09:38. | |
other than downstairs at terminal two. | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
The subject is being interviewed by a | :09:43. | :09:55. | |
team of FBI agents and homicide detectives. | :09:56. | :09:57. | |
The subject is being interviewed by a | :09:58. | :10:11. | |
team of FBI agents and homicide detectives. | :10:12. | :10:13. | |
The suspect is reported to have flown into Fort Lauderdale | :10:14. | :10:16. | |
with a weapon checked into his luggage legally. | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
A senior US politicians said the man was | :10:21. | :10:31. | |
carrying a military ID card in the name of Esteban Santiago. | :10:32. | :10:37. | |
The shooter is in custody, according to TSA. | :10:38. | :10:40. | |
As we get information we will pass it on. | :10:41. | :10:42. | |
The focus is turning to the investigation. | :10:43. | :10:45. | |
The motive is not clear but terrorism has not been | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
In the United States, those phrases, these pictures, now | :10:50. | :10:52. | |
A man from Shropshire who's terminally ill with motor neurone | :10:53. | :10:58. | |
disease has started a legal challenge to secure the right | :10:59. | :10:59. | |
Noel Conway claims the law as it stands condemns people like him | :11:00. | :11:04. | |
It's the first challenge of its kind since MPs rejected an attempt | :11:05. | :11:08. | |
to change the law two years ago, and it's being backed | :11:09. | :11:10. | |
by the campaign group Dignity in Dying, as our medical | :11:11. | :11:15. | |
I fear very soon I shall be entombed in my own body, | :11:16. | :11:28. | |
and the thought of that fills me with absolute horror. | :11:29. | :11:32. | |
Day by day, Noel Conway is gradually losing all strength in his body. | :11:33. | :11:39. | |
Increasingly, he relies on his wife, Carol. | :11:40. | :11:41. | |
He's too weak to take his own life, so when his condition gets worse, | :11:42. | :11:43. | |
he wants a doctor to be allowed to give him a lethal dose. | :11:44. | :11:49. | |
It's my body. I have a right to die. | :11:50. | :11:51. | |
I have a right to determine how I should die. | :11:52. | :11:53. | |
And more importantly, when I should die. | :11:54. | :11:55. | |
And I want to do so when I have a degree of dignity remaining to me. | :11:56. | :11:59. | |
Noel often relies on a ventilator to help him breathe. | :12:00. | :12:01. | |
He's registered with the Swiss suicide group Dignitas, | :12:02. | :12:03. | |
but will soon be unable to travel, so he's challenging the law here. | :12:04. | :12:08. | |
Our current law condemns people like me to unimaginable suffering. | :12:09. | :12:14. | |
I'm just heading, really, on a slow, slippery slope to hell. | :12:15. | :12:23. | |
Noel was a keen walker, climber and skier. | :12:24. | :12:26. | |
His family support his right to die but don't want to play | :12:27. | :12:30. | |
It places me in an intolerable position. | :12:31. | :12:36. | |
We need the assistance of professionals, of medical staff, | :12:37. | :12:48. | |
The courts have shown leniency with relatives involved | :12:49. | :12:59. | |
in assisting a suicide, but campaigners, most | :13:00. | :13:01. | |
recently Tony Nicklinson, have never been able to persuade | :13:02. | :13:03. | |
judges that doctors should be allowed to end a life. | :13:04. | :13:10. | |
This issue stirs huge passions, and when MPs last voted, | :13:11. | :13:12. | |
So does that mean this latest High Court challenge is doomed to fail? | :13:13. | :13:23. | |
While it is Parliament that makes the law, | :13:24. | :13:27. | |
So when the case comes here, Noel Conway's legal team will seek | :13:28. | :13:32. | |
a declaration that the current law is not compatible with his basic | :13:33. | :13:37. | |
human rights, to live and die with dignity. | :13:38. | :13:42. | |
Under the 1961 Suicide Act, any doctor who helped end his life | :13:43. | :13:46. | |
Baroness Jane Campbell has spinal muscular atrophy and has been close | :13:47. | :13:57. | |
A disability rights campaigner, she says altering the law | :13:58. | :14:04. | |
If the law were changed, it would feed into society's fear | :14:05. | :14:12. | |
that to be severely disabled, to be trapped within your body, | :14:13. | :14:16. | |
which I already practically am, is a state worse than death. | :14:17. | :14:23. | |
We already have to fight for the right to live. | :14:24. | :14:29. | |
Please don't help us with the right to die. | :14:30. | :14:35. | |
But that is exactly what Noel Conway wants. | :14:36. | :14:39. | |
Canada and California have introduced assisted | :14:40. | :14:41. | |
Noel is determined it should happen here. | :14:42. | :14:50. | |
But he knows he may run out of time before his case is settled. | :14:51. | :14:56. | |
Hundreds of people have attended the funeral | :14:57. | :15:01. | |
in Huddersfield of Yassar Yaqub, who was shot dead by police | :15:02. | :15:04. | |
The inquest into his death was opened and adjourned today. | :15:05. | :15:12. | |
The Independent Police Complaints Commission is continuing | :15:13. | :15:14. | |
Hundreds of people came to the funeral of Yassar Yaqub | :15:15. | :15:21. | |
Many didn't know him personally, but were here to support his family. | :15:22. | :15:26. | |
His father, mother and sisters were deeply distressed. | :15:27. | :15:29. | |
One family friend said they still need more detail | :15:30. | :15:35. | |
As far as the gun culture is concerned and criminal | :15:36. | :15:45. | |
activity is concerned, we strongly condemn that. | :15:46. | :15:46. | |
But the question arises that the way this was carried out, | :15:47. | :15:49. | |
in my opinion it was totally out of order. | :15:50. | :15:53. | |
Investigators say they are working swiftly and keeping | :15:54. | :15:55. | |
But one key question about the shooting was answered today. | :15:56. | :16:02. | |
The police have already said a gun was found in the white | :16:03. | :16:05. | |
We know he was the front seat passenger in the car. | :16:06. | :16:11. | |
At the inquest into his death this morning, it was revealed the gun | :16:12. | :16:14. | |
was found in the front passenger foot well of the vehicle, | :16:15. | :16:18. | |
Yassar Yaqub was listed in court as being a 28-year-old office clerk. | :16:19. | :16:24. | |
He was once accused and cleared of trying to murder two people | :16:25. | :16:27. | |
His family and friends though stress he was never convicted of anything. | :16:28. | :16:34. | |
Meanwhile a 30-year-old man arrested on Monday as part | :16:35. | :16:38. | |
of the police operation here, has appeared in court today, | :16:39. | :16:42. | |
charged with possession of a gun, bullets and a silencer. | :16:43. | :16:47. | |
Moshin Amin from Dewsbury was remanded in custody, | :16:48. | :16:50. | |
after his hearing at Leeds Magistrates. | :16:51. | :16:53. | |
Danny Savage, BBC News, West Yorkshire. | :16:54. | :16:59. | |
The First Minister of Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon, has | :17:00. | :17:01. | |
suggested that if the UK were to stay in the European single | :17:02. | :17:03. | |
market after leaving the EU, the question of Scottish | :17:04. | :17:06. | |
independence could be "put aside" in the short term. | :17:07. | :17:10. | |
Ms Sturgeon said she was seeking "consensus and compromise", | :17:11. | :17:12. | |
but that she was still committed to the goal of independence. | :17:13. | :17:15. | |
Our correspondent Glen Campbell is at the Scottish Parliament. | :17:16. | :17:25. | |
Your thoughts on the First Minister's thinking in this far. | :17:26. | :17:33. | |
Nicola Sturgeon still believes in Scottish independence but what she | :17:34. | :17:37. | |
has made clear today is that she would be prepared to park a second | :17:38. | :17:42. | |
referendum for at least the next couple of years while Brexit is | :17:43. | :17:46. | |
negotiated, if Theresa May's government would accept her idea of | :17:47. | :17:51. | |
a compromise deal. As Nicola Sturgeon set out last month, she is | :17:52. | :17:54. | |
prepared to hold her nose and I accept that leave will mean leave, | :17:55. | :18:01. | |
even for Remain voting Scotland, if the Scottish Parliament gets more | :18:02. | :18:06. | |
power, and if the UK Government is prepared to seek to remain in the | :18:07. | :18:10. | |
European single market, or to seek a special deal that would allow | :18:11. | :18:15. | |
Scotland to stay in. The snag with all of this is that even though | :18:16. | :18:19. | |
Theresa May says she will consider these proposals seriously, there is | :18:20. | :18:24. | |
no great expectation that she will actually adopt them. Perhaps that is | :18:25. | :18:29. | |
why Nicola Sturgeon has taken to social media to say that right now | :18:30. | :18:33. | |
she still thinks another vote on independence is more likely than a | :18:34. | :18:41. | |
soft Brexit. Thanks, Glenn Campbell at Holyrood. | :18:42. | :18:45. | |
Concerns about air pollution are acute in China, where more | :18:46. | :18:47. | |
than half of all cities are badly affected, with some experiencing | :18:48. | :18:50. | |
the worst winter smog clouds of recent years. | :18:51. | :18:52. | |
Visibility in Beijing was reduced to less than 200 metres. | :18:53. | :18:54. | |
The effects of increased use of coal, and current weather | :18:55. | :18:57. | |
conditions, have left a smog cloud 2000 miles long across | :18:58. | :18:59. | |
The city with the worst air pollution is Shiijazhuang, | :19:00. | :19:02. | |
from where John Sudworth sent this report. | :19:03. | :19:08. | |
Somewhere, underneath this murky gloom, is a city | :19:09. | :19:12. | |
And for the unfortunate residents of Shiijazhuang, this is normal. | :19:13. | :19:22. | |
For the past 30 days, the average air quality in this city | :19:23. | :19:26. | |
has measured as "hazardous" on the official scale. | :19:27. | :19:30. | |
You can smell, even taste the coal dust in the air, the grim, | :19:31. | :19:35. | |
tangible reality of this country's model of economic growth. | :19:36. | :19:41. | |
And people have no choice but to live, eat and sleep in this | :19:42. | :19:45. | |
"It's like living under a cloud", this noodle seller tells me. | :19:46. | :19:56. | |
"The smog is harming my children's health." | :19:57. | :20:01. | |
"Of course I want to leave", this man says, "but I can't | :20:02. | :20:04. | |
"afford to, and anyway, the whole country is polluted". | :20:05. | :20:10. | |
200 miles away, the pollution literally rolled into | :20:11. | :20:15. | |
A toxic mix of coal dust from power stations and car exhaust. | :20:16. | :20:26. | |
The smog now regularly blankets a huge swathe of northern China. | :20:27. | :20:32. | |
And it is believed to cause more than a million | :20:33. | :20:35. | |
TRANSLATION: As a lung cancer doctor, I'm seeing an increase | :20:36. | :20:41. | |
in patients in recent years, especially from heavily | :20:42. | :20:44. | |
And when the smog gets worse, we see more kids with asthma. | :20:45. | :20:51. | |
Public concern has forced the Chinese government | :20:52. | :20:53. | |
to begin investing heavily in renewable energy. | :20:54. | :20:59. | |
Those working in the sector believe China can clean up its air, | :21:00. | :21:03. | |
just as wealthier, more developed countries once had to. | :21:04. | :21:08. | |
I'm pretty positive for China's future. | :21:09. | :21:11. | |
Actually, we don't need that much time for the science research. | :21:12. | :21:16. | |
We don't need that much time to develop relevant technologies. | :21:17. | :21:21. | |
So I think a lot of things are more ripe for us | :21:22. | :21:24. | |
Those solutions can't come fast enough for this city. | :21:25. | :21:33. | |
Fossil fuels may have lifted China's economy to ever greater heights, | :21:34. | :21:38. | |
John Sudworth, BBC News, Shiijazhuang. | :21:39. | :21:46. | |
A cycle courier has won an employment rights case | :21:47. | :21:48. | |
against the logistics firm City Sprint, in a ruling that | :21:49. | :21:51. | |
could have implications for other workers in the so-called "gig | :21:52. | :21:54. | |
economy", where people are employed on a job-by-job basis. | :21:55. | :21:56. | |
Maggie Dewhurst was classed as self-employed but argued | :21:57. | :21:58. | |
she should be treated as a worker and given greater rights, | :21:59. | :22:01. | |
The company has said it is "disappointed", | :22:02. | :22:04. | |
Maggie Dewhurst delivers medical supplies by bike to hospitals and | :22:05. | :22:19. | |
labs, but despite being a City Sprint career for the last two | :22:20. | :22:23. | |
years, she doesn't have basic workers' rights. She's one of | :22:24. | :22:28. | |
thousands in the so-called gig economy, characterised by temporary, | :22:29. | :22:33. | |
insecure jobs. City Sprint say she is an independent contractor. In | :22:34. | :22:38. | |
other words, she is self-employed. But she believes her relationship | :22:39. | :22:41. | |
with the firm is more like that between employer and worker. We | :22:42. | :22:46. | |
spend all day being told what to do, when to do it and how to do it. We | :22:47. | :22:51. | |
are under their control. We are not a mosaic of small businesses. And I | :22:52. | :22:57. | |
think that is why we deserve basic employment rights like the national | :22:58. | :23:02. | |
minimum wage. Today, and employment tribunal agreed and found she is a | :23:03. | :23:07. | |
worker, describing her City Sprint contract as contorted, | :23:08. | :23:11. | |
indecipherable and windowdressing. Tonight, City Sprint said it was | :23:12. | :23:15. | |
disappointed but that the judgment applies to a single individual and | :23:16. | :23:19. | |
was not a test case. It added that the case demonstrated there is still | :23:20. | :23:23. | |
widespread confusion regarding this area of law. It is calling on the | :23:24. | :23:27. | |
government to provide better support and help for businesses. But there | :23:28. | :23:32. | |
are a number of legal challenges just around the corner which | :23:33. | :23:35. | |
threatened to shake up this part of the gig economy. As well as this | :23:36. | :23:40. | |
case involving City Sprint there are tribunal cases pending involving | :23:41. | :23:45. | |
Addison Lee, and XL. Some say that if the firms lose these challenges, | :23:46. | :23:48. | |
it could fundamentally undermine their business models. Within the | :23:49. | :23:54. | |
industry it is very important, but further afield it is important to | :23:55. | :23:58. | |
any business that uses self-employed people as their main business model. | :23:59. | :24:04. | |
They will have to be looking at, well, can we justify this? Are they | :24:05. | :24:08. | |
genuinely self-employed or is there a risk they will be found to be our | :24:09. | :24:13. | |
workers? This case mirrors a similar judgment against the cab firm Uber | :24:14. | :24:17. | |
last year. An independent review of modern employment purposes | :24:18. | :24:21. | |
commissioned by the government is Jude to report in the spring. | :24:22. | :24:25. | |
The cyclist Chris Froome, three-time winner of the Tour de France, | :24:26. | :24:27. | |
has told the BBC that allegations of doping have been "bad | :24:28. | :24:30. | |
He said he would never take substances that are banned | :24:31. | :24:34. | |
except for medical reasons, unlike his former | :24:35. | :24:36. | |
He's been speaking to Natalie Pirks in Monaco. | :24:37. | :24:40. | |
Olympic bronze and his third Tour de France victory in four years. | :24:41. | :24:42. | |
2016 might have been a year to forget for some | :24:43. | :24:45. | |
But whilst British cycling enjoys a golden age, | :24:46. | :24:50. | |
off the road and track it's mired in controversy with doping's blurred | :24:51. | :24:54. | |
A TUE, or Therapeutic Use Exemption, allows athletes to take | :24:55. | :25:00. | |
a banned substance for genuine medical reasons. | :25:01. | :25:04. | |
The issue is whether some have exploited the system | :25:05. | :25:06. | |
Just the fact that we're having that debate about authenticity of TUEs, | :25:07. | :25:11. | |
I think there's a problem with the system. | :25:12. | :25:14. | |
I think Wada, the anti-doping authorities, need to tighten | :25:15. | :25:18. | |
their regulations around TUEs, so that they're not | :25:19. | :25:22. | |
In those leaks by Russian hackers it was revealed that | :25:23. | :25:29. | |
Froome's former team-mate, Sir Bradley Wiggins, | :25:30. | :25:30. | |
had received three TUE injections before three major races | :25:31. | :25:32. | |
It's perfectly legal, but Froome revealed to me he refused | :25:33. | :25:40. | |
I didn't feel as if having a TUE in the last week of the Tour de | :25:41. | :25:47. | |
France was something I was prepared to... | :25:48. | :25:49. | |
It just didn't sit well morally with me that that was | :25:50. | :25:52. | |
Do you think, therefore, it's right we are asking questions, | :25:53. | :25:56. | |
for example why Bradley Wiggins had three corticosteroids | :25:57. | :25:58. | |
Sure, I mean, I think it's only healthy to ask those questions. | :25:59. | :26:05. | |
Froome's team, Team Sky, is currently the subject of a UK | :26:06. | :26:08. | |
anti-doping investigation over an incident involving | :26:09. | :26:10. | |
a mystery package delivered to Wiggins in 2011. | :26:11. | :26:14. | |
I mean, it's not good for sport in general, | :26:15. | :26:18. | |
the fact that we are discussing the validity of results and... | :26:19. | :26:24. | |
And, as I said, that brings it back to the authorities and something | :26:25. | :26:29. | |
that they hopefully need to tighten up on. | :26:30. | :26:33. | |
As he attempts to win his fourth Tour this summer, the doping | :26:34. | :26:36. | |
questions will again come thick and fast. | :26:37. | :26:38. | |
Froome's biggest desire is to leave a cycling legacy no one | :26:39. | :26:40. | |
Now it's time for the news where you are. | :26:41. | :26:57. |