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This is BBC World News America, reporting from Washington. | :00:09. | :00:16. | |
I'm Tim Willcox. No information support base, and we have looked | :00:17. | :00:19. | |
inside the FBI carefully. The head of the FBI says there is no | :00:20. | :00:25. | |
evidence of wiretapping. The bureau is investigating possible Russian | :00:26. | :00:29. | |
meddling in the US elections and any ties to the Trump campaign. | :00:30. | :00:34. | |
Iraq's Prime Minister visited the White House to talk strategy against | :00:35. | :00:39. | |
Islamic State, and how the two leaders hope to fight back against | :00:40. | :00:44. | |
the militant group. # The White Cliffs of Dover # | :00:45. | :00:49. | |
Celebrating the forces sweetheart, Dame Vera Lynn on her 100th | :00:50. | :00:56. | |
birthday, her voice the soundtrack to the Second World War. | :00:57. | :01:09. | |
Hello, and welcome to our viewers on public television in America and | :01:10. | :01:16. | |
around the globe. The allegations had been explosive | :01:17. | :01:20. | |
but the question today, would be testimony be equally so? Straight | :01:21. | :01:24. | |
out of the gates, the director of the FBI confirmed his agency is | :01:25. | :01:28. | |
looking into possible into parents by Russia in the US presidential | :01:29. | :01:31. | |
elections. He also made clear there is no | :01:32. | :01:35. | |
evidence to back up President Trump's claims of wiretapping at | :01:36. | :01:37. | |
Trump Tower. Both of these issues have consumed | :01:38. | :01:44. | |
the US public and been the talk of Washington for weeks. | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
Jon Sopel has this. Big questions for a big man, at 638 | :01:49. | :01:52. | |
inches, James Comey stands head and shoulders above all of those around | :01:53. | :01:57. | |
him, would he stick his neck out at the hearing today? | :01:58. | :02:01. | |
The answer is yes. The FBI, as part of our counterintelligence mission, | :02:02. | :02:05. | |
is investigating the Russian government efforts to interfere in | :02:06. | :02:10. | |
the 2016 presidential election. That includes investigating the nature of | :02:11. | :02:14. | |
any links between individuals associated with the Trump campaign, | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
and the Russian government, and whether there were any coordination | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
is between the campaign and Russia's efforts. On the detail of the | :02:24. | :02:27. | |
investigation into Russian pollution, James Comey would not be | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
drawn. What about the President's claims that his predecessor, Barack | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
Obama, wiretapped Trump Tower? He was more forthcoming here. With | :02:38. | :02:40. | |
respect to those tweets from the president about alleged wiretapping | :02:41. | :02:45. | |
directed at him from the prior administration, I have no evidence | :02:46. | :02:48. | |
to support those and we have carefully looked inside of the FBI. | :02:49. | :02:51. | |
Resident Obama could not unilaterally order a wiretap of | :02:52. | :02:57. | |
anyone? -- president. No president could. President Obama has been | :02:58. | :03:07. | |
accused of engaging in McCarthyism, do you? I tried very hard not to | :03:08. | :03:14. | |
engage in any isms of any kind. Then, they turned to the director of | :03:15. | :03:17. | |
the National Security Agency to answer questions about British | :03:18. | :03:20. | |
security involvement, but the responses were unequivocal. | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
Could you ever request that your counterparts at GCHQ should wiretap | :03:25. | :03:31. | |
President Trump on behalf of Barack Obama. That would break the FISA | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
agreement that has been in place for decades. They called this nonsense, | :03:37. | :03:45. | |
would you agree? Yes, sir. Does it damage the relationship with one of | :03:46. | :03:49. | |
our closest intelligence partners for the president to make a bailiff | :03:50. | :03:55. | |
-- baseless claim that the British participated in this against him? It | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
frustrates a key ally. This relationship is strong enough, we | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
can deal with this. Donald Trump didn't wait for the committee to | :04:04. | :04:06. | |
start but -- before tweeting his verdict. | :04:07. | :04:12. | |
At the White House briefing, were they getting ready to hoist the | :04:13. | :04:29. | |
white flag? Of course not. Is the president prepared to withdraw that | :04:30. | :04:34. | |
accusation and apologise? No, we started a hearing. It is still | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
ongoing. As for collusion with the Russians, what pollution? There is | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
no evidence, according to the people who have been briefed, of any | :04:44. | :04:47. | |
collusion or activity leading them to believe it exists. The president | :04:48. | :04:53. | |
had a public meeting today with the Iraqi Prime Minister, and even he | :04:54. | :04:56. | |
got in on the act, grabbing the arm of the president at the end and | :04:57. | :05:00. | |
said, we had nothing to do with the wiretapping. It is not recorded | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
whether or not the president laughed at the joke. | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
Let's go straight to Capitol Hill, and Laura Trevelyan. | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
After those allegations and speculation, a significant | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
development about the investigation? Yes, we now know the FBI had | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
sufficient evidence, whether circumstantial or what, we don't | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
know, to decide to open a counterintelligence investigation | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
into whether there were links between a foreign power, Russia, | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
which we know intelligence agencies concluded, tried to interfere in the | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
election with the aim of helping Donald Trump against Hillary | :05:42. | :05:43. | |
Clinton. Remember, Vladimir Putin does not like her. An investigation | :05:44. | :05:50. | |
into foreign powers, Russia, and the Trump campaign to see if officials | :05:51. | :05:56. | |
colluded or coordinated at all with Russian agents during the campaign. | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
We now know the existence of this enquiry. Before it had been reported | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
by media outlets, but now it has been officially confirmed. | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
Potentially this is a criminal investigation, right at the door of | :06:10. | :06:12. | |
the White House. Upstart involving those currently in the White House | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
but those who were known to the Trump campaign or part of it. | :06:18. | :06:21. | |
Where it leads or how long it takes? We have no idea. All we know is the | :06:22. | :06:27. | |
FBI director has said he will follow the facts wherever they may lead. | :06:28. | :06:31. | |
And, the existence of this? Of course, it's not good news for the | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
White House as it revives the whole question of whether or not be | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
relationship with Russia was to close, and the president is very | :06:41. | :06:43. | |
sensitive about the election and the fact he lost the popular vote to | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
Hillary Clinton and doesn't want the issue of Russia revived. | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
And, difficult for the White House, saying there was no evidence of | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
wiretapping Trump Tower. Another big hearing today, Neale | :06:57. | :06:58. | |
course edge, do we expect him to be blocked as a supreme court judge by | :06:59. | :07:04. | |
the Democrats Russian market is a question as to whether they invoke | :07:05. | :07:09. | |
the filibuster, talking out that. The nominee by Barack Obama was not | :07:10. | :07:17. | |
given a hearing by Republicans, they correctly counted that they could | :07:18. | :07:19. | |
win the election and have the chance to fill the vacancy. What he does | :07:20. | :07:27. | |
isn't changing the ideological balance of the court. The court | :07:28. | :07:31. | |
would still be split 4-4 with a swing justice. It is the possibility | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
of more vacancies opening up in the next couple of years that could tip | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
the balance. Do they go for broke now, or do the Democrats wait and | :07:40. | :07:43. | |
save their energy for the next fight? That is big question, he is | :07:44. | :07:50. | |
doing his best to appear like the best judge you can appealing to | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
central Democrats. Thank you. And as we saw earlier, | :07:55. | :07:59. | |
much of the world's media attention was focused on congressional | :08:00. | :08:02. | |
hearings but Donald Trump welcome to the Iraqi Prime Minister to the | :08:03. | :08:08. | |
White House. His visit comes as the Trump Prime Minister -- | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
administration has meetings on fighting Isis. He sought financial | :08:14. | :08:20. | |
and military assistance from the prior administration. I spoke to a | :08:21. | :08:32. | |
an expert on the matter. What is he seeking from President Trump? I | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
think Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi is looking for President Trump, | :08:37. | :08:42. | |
something that he will be wanting to hear, it is all Daesh Daesh Daesh, | :08:43. | :08:48. | |
or Islamic State. You will want there to be programmes to keep it | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
from being as effective as a terror group, they had a terrible coming in | :08:54. | :08:57. | |
Baghdad today that killed over 40 people. He will want some help. It | :08:58. | :09:02. | |
looks like Mosul may finally be retaken but he is also looking for | :09:03. | :09:06. | |
Reconstruction and that. -- money for that as well. How does it have a | :09:07. | :09:10. | |
with President Trump and his proposed budget cuts which would see | :09:11. | :09:14. | |
the State Department losing a lot of money which would be responsible for | :09:15. | :09:18. | |
reconstruction in Iraq? When it comes to the reconstruction, | :09:19. | :09:22. | |
President Trump may tell them to look elsewhere, like the Gulf states | :09:23. | :09:29. | |
and possible donors, Germany and other European countries. But the | :09:30. | :09:32. | |
USA has pulled most of the weight on the security side which is where | :09:33. | :09:35. | |
they should expect to see contributions. With proposed 54 | :09:36. | :09:41. | |
billion US extra for the Pentagon, more money could be earmarked for | :09:42. | :09:46. | |
the fight against Daesh, Islamic State, in Iraq and Syria? Yes, they | :09:47. | :09:52. | |
could request a long-term military presence to train their army and | :09:53. | :09:58. | |
police forces. It could easily fit into the new budget proposals. Where | :09:59. | :10:02. | |
are we at the moment in terms of US forces fighting in Iraq? How many | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
thousands are there? In Iraq? There are about I've thousand, 5500. Most | :10:08. | :10:13. | |
of them in a kind of training role. Mostly high-end special forces with | :10:14. | :10:22. | |
Iraq on the battlefield. We've heard of these conversations with Haider | :10:23. | :10:25. | |
al-Abadi asking Donald Trump in the early days about these restrictions | :10:26. | :10:28. | |
on Iraqi forces. He has won a battle against the USA | :10:29. | :10:37. | |
administration? Or has found allies. Secretary matters, the new National | :10:38. | :10:43. | |
Security Advisor, General McMaster, they work well and I expect the | :10:44. | :10:47. | |
Prime Minister had a receptive audience and people to carry his | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
water into the administration and make his case. | :10:52. | :10:55. | |
And we have President Trump hosting this meeting, 68 countries in the | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
fight against Islamic State, what do we expect America will offer to | :11:00. | :11:03. | |
spearhead any agreement with all of those different countries? I expect | :11:04. | :11:07. | |
the 68 countries are going to be looking less at Iraq, as you | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
mentioned. That fight is nearly done, and focus more on Syria where | :11:13. | :11:16. | |
that problem is more complicated and answers are more difficult to find. | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
America promises more cash in the fight against Islamic State as well? | :11:22. | :11:26. | |
Possibly, but money can only take you so far. What you need our boots | :11:27. | :11:31. | |
on the ground and good allies, not American boots but local forces who | :11:32. | :11:38. | |
carry the fight to Islamic State. On the Syrian side of the border, they | :11:39. | :11:44. | |
are more difficult to find. It's a pleasure talking to you. | :11:45. | :11:51. | |
Pope Francis has asked for God 's forgiveness for what he called the | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
sins and failings from the Roman Catholic Church during the Rwanda | :11:57. | :12:02. | |
genocide, and it came after he met the president of Rwanda. | :12:03. | :12:06. | |
He asked for an apology for the role that some Catholic priests played in | :12:07. | :12:11. | |
the manner scope -- massacres. Some of the biggest consumers of | :12:12. | :12:17. | |
Brazilian meets have. In a meeting with ambassadors from | :12:18. | :12:22. | |
Europe, the USA and China, the Brazilian president said that the | :12:23. | :12:27. | |
government is confident in the meat's quality, the biggest red meat | :12:28. | :12:30. | |
exporter in the world. The five main candidates for the | :12:31. | :12:35. | |
French presidency are taking part in the first of three televised | :12:36. | :12:36. | |
debates. The frontrunners in the opinion | :12:37. | :12:44. | |
polls, Marine Le Pen and her opponent, they are hoping. | :12:45. | :12:56. | |
The divorce date is set, the UK will start the Brexit process on March | :12:57. | :12:59. | |
the 29th. The Prime Minister will notify the | :13:00. | :13:03. | |
EU that Britain is leaving the union. | :13:04. | :13:05. | |
Downing Street says Theresa May will write a letter to the European | :13:06. | :13:08. | |
Council to make it official and earlier she spoke about the expected | :13:09. | :13:12. | |
benefits of Brexit. When people voted in the referendum | :13:13. | :13:15. | |
last year it wasn't just about leaving the EU but voting for | :13:16. | :13:20. | |
change, they wanted a change in how the country works, to make sure it | :13:21. | :13:24. | |
works for everyone, not just the privileged few. As part of that, we | :13:25. | :13:29. | |
have a plan for Britain and part of it is about building a stronger | :13:30. | :13:32. | |
economy. Against the backdrop of Brexit, | :13:33. | :13:40. | |
President Trump made it clear he wants to renegotiate the North | :13:41. | :13:42. | |
American Free Trade Agreement which could be bad news for Texas cattle | :13:43. | :13:46. | |
ranchers, as the trade agreement eliminates trade barriers between | :13:47. | :13:50. | |
the US, Canada and Mexico. Since the introduction in 1984, US | :13:51. | :13:53. | |
beef exports have soared. Coleman Lock is a fifth-generation | :13:54. | :14:03. | |
Texas cattle rancher. My family have been raising cattle since 1915, a | :14:04. | :14:09. | |
little over 100 years. His fortunes are tied to International Trade | :14:10. | :14:13. | |
Commission significant number of his Brahman cattle are sold abroad, | :14:14. | :14:18. | |
including just south of the border in Mexico. We've been dealing in | :14:19. | :14:22. | |
international trade since 1933 when we first expect -- exported cattle | :14:23. | :14:29. | |
to Australia. The export market is important to you? It is very | :14:30. | :14:32. | |
important to our organisation. Some years, I've seen our international | :14:33. | :14:39. | |
sales be 85% of all of our business that we did that year. The North | :14:40. | :14:43. | |
American Free Trade Agreement is really important for those exports. | :14:44. | :14:48. | |
It allows his beef to enter Mexico duty-free. So any changes could hurt | :14:49. | :14:55. | |
him and other American cattle owners. Donald Trump enjoyed strong | :14:56. | :14:58. | |
support in rural communities like this one, as well as the rust belt. | :14:59. | :15:03. | |
Now, the challenge is, can he come up with a trade policy that helps | :15:04. | :15:09. | |
both manufacturing and farming? In the state capital of Austin, the | :15:10. | :15:14. | |
Texas agriculture Commissioner called for calm. Syd Millar was part | :15:15. | :15:18. | |
of the Trump campaigns advisory Council, and like the president he | :15:19. | :15:22. | |
believes changing the trade agreement is a good thing, even if | :15:23. | :15:26. | |
it shakes things up. I predicted that, I said when the president | :15:27. | :15:30. | |
takes office, it will be a rocky start, he will upset people and rock | :15:31. | :15:35. | |
the boat, we will renegotiate deals, people won't want to re-negotiate | :15:36. | :15:40. | |
deals if they don't have a sweet deal. The honeymoon isn't over yet, | :15:41. | :15:45. | |
but is the cattle industry is beginning to fray? According to this | :15:46. | :15:49. | |
cattle dealer, Trump's decision to walk away from the transpacific | :15:50. | :15:54. | |
partnership, a trade pact with Asia, means lost dollars for ranchers. We | :15:55. | :16:01. | |
can qualify TPP today, what could be going to those countries today is | :16:02. | :16:05. | |
about $400,000 worth of beef or that would | :16:06. | :16:09. | |
be going. It is not. It is a quantifiable | :16:10. | :16:17. | |
number. They are hoping his tough stance on the trade agreement is an | :16:18. | :16:25. | |
opening negotiation tactic. You are watching BBC World News | :16:26. | :16:30. | |
America and still to come... A region in peril in Nigeria. Our Boko | :16:31. | :16:33. | |
Haram has put hundreds of thousands of lives at risk in the country's | :16:34. | :16:35. | |
north-east. The hundreds of years, the unique | :16:36. | :16:48. | |
language thrived in the Malayan archipelago but now there are only a | :16:49. | :16:53. | |
handful of people who speak his language. One group from Singapore | :16:54. | :17:01. | |
want to stop that. And bring it back. | :17:02. | :17:05. | |
We are trying to teach this language to a new generation of learners, so | :17:06. | :17:43. | |
we rebuild the critical mass. These new learners pass the language onto | :17:44. | :17:47. | |
their children so it will be used future generations. | :17:48. | :17:55. | |
We use social media like Facebook to reach out to young people and keep | :17:56. | :17:59. | |
the land which relevant so their generation cares enough about the | :18:00. | :18:00. | |
language to keep it going. There are gaps in the language | :18:01. | :18:18. | |
because it is critically endangered, it hasn't been spoken for many years | :18:19. | :18:22. | |
but what we are trying to do is create new terms which fill the gaps | :18:23. | :18:24. | |
and leave the language relevant. The UN says hundreds of thousands of | :18:25. | :18:53. | |
people are at risk in north-east Nigeria as the army continues to | :18:54. | :18:57. | |
push fighters from the Islamist group Boko Haram out of towns and | :18:58. | :19:01. | |
villages. Food shortages have forced many people to flee their homes and | :19:02. | :19:05. | |
farms. The BBC's Clive Myrie has this report. | :19:06. | :19:11. | |
Farmers fields in north-east Nigeria, known to yield crops but | :19:12. | :19:18. | |
pity. They are dusty brown patches because farmers for years have been | :19:19. | :19:21. | |
unable to use this land due to conflict. On the ground in this | :19:22. | :19:31. | |
town, bullet riddled buildings and homes ransacked. Lives destroyed. | :19:32. | :19:36. | |
This city used to have a population of close to 300,000 people but now | :19:37. | :19:40. | |
you walk down the main street here and there is nothing but trouble. | :19:41. | :19:44. | |
It's a ghost town. A shell, empty of life. Residents had to flee the | :19:45. | :19:51. | |
Islamist group Boko Haram, and now the grounds of the derelict hospital | :19:52. | :19:58. | |
many call home. This woman escaped the blood let. She is 14. | :19:59. | :20:07. | |
TRANSLATION: They started killing people and burning houses, so we | :20:08. | :20:11. | |
hide. They said that they would be safe, don't be afraid. But when they | :20:12. | :20:19. | |
found us, they hacked my father, cutting his neck and cutting his | :20:20. | :20:27. | |
throat. Excels in their own country, the rituals of life continue. But so | :20:28. | :20:33. | |
many people are paying the price for the twisted ideology of the few that | :20:34. | :20:39. | |
the camps for those displaced by the fighting are struggling. This one | :20:40. | :20:44. | |
houses 11,000 people and was so overcrowded with malnourished and | :20:45. | :20:48. | |
new arrivals a few months ago, there was not enough food. More than 1000 | :20:49. | :20:53. | |
died. Nevertheless, hundreds of thousands are arriving at camps like | :20:54. | :20:58. | |
this daily, as the Nigerian military continues to push Boko Haram back | :20:59. | :21:04. | |
and liberating villages. A woman had walked with her three children from | :21:05. | :21:08. | |
10pm one evening, and it took her until 9pm to reach the camp. It is | :21:09. | :21:15. | |
estimated there are up to 800,000 people trapped out there without | :21:16. | :21:22. | |
access. They are left to their fate. What is needed is more international | :21:23. | :21:27. | |
help, and crucially farmers being able to tell their land. But Boko | :21:28. | :21:32. | |
Haram is still out there and the farmers are scared. The chances of a | :21:33. | :21:37. | |
decent harvest this year is zero. Planting season begins in less than | :21:38. | :21:44. | |
two weeks. This town is being rebuilt, after the wanton | :21:45. | :21:48. | |
destruction of Boko Haram. But this place holds terrible memories for | :21:49. | :21:53. | |
those who fled for their lives. For this 15-year-old girl. TRANSLATION: | :21:54. | :22:03. | |
I have no mother. I have no father. I have nowhere to live. I'll never | :22:04. | :22:16. | |
go back. Clive Myrie, BBC News. You were watching BBC World News | :22:17. | :22:20. | |
America. Hers was the voice of a generation under fire, dame here | :22:21. | :22:23. | |
Lynn provided hope and reassurance to millions during the Second World | :22:24. | :22:30. | |
War through her songs -- Dame fear relent. Veterans have been taking | :22:31. | :22:38. | |
place at events Dame fear Lynn says she is thrilled by tributes from | :22:39. | :22:43. | |
veterans at the white cliffs of Dover. The face of defiance blended | :22:44. | :22:51. | |
with the voice of hope. 100 years of Day grid three projected onto the | :22:52. | :22:57. | |
last piece of England that the troops saw as they left to battle | :22:58. | :23:03. | |
for England's -- Dame Vera Lynn. A heartbreaking lullabies became the | :23:04. | :23:09. | |
soundtrack for a nation in peril. # Will meet again | :23:10. | :23:15. | |
# Don't know where, don't know when # | :23:16. | :23:17. | |
She soothed fears and stiffened resolved | :23:18. | :23:21. | |
. Some sunny day... But Dame Vera Lynn | :23:22. | :23:29. | |
can still recall her brush with a demanding voice coach. | :23:30. | :23:33. | |
She heard me sing and said no, I cannot train that voice! It's not a | :23:34. | :23:39. | |
natural voice! I said well thank you very much, madam. And left! Today in | :23:40. | :23:49. | |
Dover, above the cliffs that inspired one of her greatest songs, | :23:50. | :23:54. | |
veterans and friends came to celebrate her milestone birthday. | :23:55. | :23:59. | |
And, recall her life affirming sound. Her voice came through clear | :24:00. | :24:07. | |
and with it was a story as she sang. It gave you hope of coming home. If | :24:08. | :24:16. | |
you listen to her voice in a jungle clearing, it takes the fright away | :24:17. | :24:20. | |
by making you think of other parts of your life and hopes for the | :24:21. | :24:25. | |
future. The bracing winds of the channel did not deter a salute above | :24:26. | :24:29. | |
the cliffs that Dame Vera Lynn sang to mortality. A grand gesture for a | :24:30. | :24:36. | |
grand dame still on a journey as she continues to share it with a | :24:37. | :24:40. | |
grateful nation. Duncan Kennedy, BBC News. | :24:41. | :24:46. | |
# All over the world will # | :24:47. | :24:56. | |
Dame Vera Lynn is 100 years old. That's all for today, more stories | :24:57. | :25:00. | |
available on the website. From all of us, thank | :25:01. | :25:02. |