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The leaked Trump dossier - what did the British authorities know?

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Who in Whitehall saw it, and who knew what impact it

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We'll talk to a former MI6 officer and a man who's been personally

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Also tonight, we report from Cyprus, where signs are that

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But in some quarters, wounds still run deep.

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I don't believe a solution will come in the next two

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If they start changing the education system, if they start

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changing the Dhekelia, even now they are spreading

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We ask the Northern Cypriot Representative to the UK

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And we talk to choreographer Wayne McGregor about how

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Some people like to dance when when no-one's looking

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I think what's interesting, everybody has a personal

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A salacious memo - slapped down as fake news

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and vehemently denied by President-elect Trump

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yesterday at his first news conference since July.

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Today, he tweeted that the US Intelligence Service said it was

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In fact, James Clapper, the Director of National Intelligence,

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effectively distanced the US Intelligence Agency

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from the unverified video, saying it didn't leak it and hadn't

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Since then, the spotlight has been shone on the man credited

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with producing the memo - Christopher Steele, a former MI6

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officer respected by British intelligence agencies,

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The focus is now on what British intelligence knew and whether

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anything made its way onto ministers' desks.

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But the wider question persists - is this a scandal of Watergate

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proportions, or one of the biggest smears in the history of politics?

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Here's our Diplomatic Editor, Mark Urban.

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We're learning more about the world of private intelligence gathering

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and how information gleaned from across the globe -- Globe was

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assembled in the Trump files, and what was done with them. There was a

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London connection. The offices of Orbis, a small private firms set up

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by a former company of MI6 officers, commissioned in this case by

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American paymasters to dig the dirt on Trump. A series of reports was

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filed by August between June and December last year. Taken together,

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they presented such a serious catalogue of alleged wrongdoing is

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surrounding Mr Trump and his campaign, that those in receipt of

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the reports decided they would have to be sent to the FBI. And people

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here, I've been told, Kimberly conclusion that meant MI6 would also

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have to be put in the picture. The reports were put together by

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Christopher Steele, who had served as an MI6 intelligence officer in

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Russia and France. He and a partner founded August business intelligence

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when he left the service in 2009. He is reported to have provided

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information on the Fifa corruption case to the FBI. So evidently, they

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regarded him as sound. Yesterday though, Trump trashed several of the

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most extraordinary claims in the memos. I think it's a disgrace that

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information would be let out. I saw the information, I read the

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information outside of that meeting. It's all fake news, it's phoney

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stuff, it didn't happen. But while Donald Trump yesterday claimed James

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Clapper had denounced the report, today the director of national

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intelligence without a public statement saying something quite

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different. Leaving aside the private

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intelligence gathering with all its apparent faults, the official US

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intelligence community view, presented at Trump Tower last week,

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was of a gross violation of American democracy in favour of the Trump

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campaign by Russia. A verdict that his own nominee to run the CIA

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endorsed today. Everything I've seen suggests to me that the report has

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an analytical product that is sound. But as Mr Pompeo and the other

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inductees move into position, Trump supporters expect the way

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intelligence is presented to change. It is very convenient for them to

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delegitimise ties -- delegitimise Donald Trump. They don't like him,

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they don't want him, they want Mrs Clinton and they want Barack Obama,

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who appointed them. But remember, you can have a whole new group of

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people running these agencies as soon as his appointees are confirmed

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by the Senate. With that happening, you are good to see a change in tone

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and temperament. What did MI6 do with the reports it received? The

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government today was remaining tight-lipped. But one person

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familiar with the service's procedures told me that MI6 wouldn't

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normally circulate such material if it wasn't aware of the identity of

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sources from which it was drawn. So the answer seems to be, they kept it

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largely to themselves. I think it would have been a pretty borderline

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case if the material was not well sourced, if the source wasn't

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identified, and if the source couldn't be assessed in terms of

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reliability or access and credibility. I think the agency is

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quite likely have been pretty cautious about putting it out. Since

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the Butler report, since the Chilcot Report, they have become much more

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rigorous, much more prudent in the way they present intelligence. As

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for the fallout from this, the former MI6 man, Christopher Steele,

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was not at home to chorus today. The focus though is shifting, back from

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the credibility of his reporting, to the bigger question about the spies

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and how they deal with Trump. about the spies and how

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they deal with Trump. Let's talk to our Political Editor

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Nick Watt, who has more details Good evening. Christopher Steele

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passed this on to MI6. What happened next? I can only echo what was said

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in the film. I understand these documents were not passed on to

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ministers, neither were ministers briefed about them when they were

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passed over. Whether they have been briefed in recent days, that is

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another matter. You might have thought that a bin and century

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reports like this ends up add MI6, it would end up on the desks of

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senior ministers and at the White House. But what happened was a

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judgment was made that these reports were not really compiled to the

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standard you would expect of MI6, and with that in mind, MI6 had to

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make a judgment about whether it would be helpful or Makkonen helpful

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to briefed ministers. Clearly they reached something of a political

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judgment based on those procedures mark was talking about, that was

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best to put some distance between ministers and these reports. What is

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the feeling in Whitehall that you are sensing about what has been

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revealed? It's a bit sniffy, really. What I'm hearing is he is not an

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intelligence agent. He is a businessman. He runs a business

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model. He is essentially saying to clients, I can dig deeper and find

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lots of information about rivals or political opponents. There is a

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feeling that the reports are showing off. That there is one sensational

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claim after another. There are very few of the caveats you would expect

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in an official intelligence report. We know all about caveats. The

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Butler report into the use of intelligence in the lead to the Iraq

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war said that the Blair government, the joint intelligence committee,

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had perhaps stripped out some of the caveats in the intelligence

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presented. Let me add my own little caveat. It's not a great surprise

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that officially we are finding a bit of a sniffy UK response. Obviously

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macro Britain needs to big -- build bridges with the incoming Trump

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bridges with the incoming Trump administration.

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Let's talk now to Harry Ferguson, who is a former MI6 officer.

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Thank you for joining us. We were just hearing their that Christopher

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Steele is a businessman, a man respected by many intelligence

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agencies. Your take on him? Yes, I have met Chris once as an

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intelligence and Security Conference. He always struck me as a

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very affable and very reliable sort of guy not given to flights of

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fancy. I also know him through mutual friends. Another work of his

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company. They are a reliable agency. Chris was a strong middle ranking

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SAS officer. I don't quite agree that this was a subpar report. It

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seems to me that Chris has been quite careful to try to find as many

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sources as possible, but also to make it clear that these are stories

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and that what his report has at the moment, it lacks that killer

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evidence. What kind of stories are there? Joe Public, Wii, don't see

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reports like this. What scale do we put it against, the National

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Enquirer, or something as -- akin to a government led report? It's not

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quite the Premier League that an SAS report would be. It's more a leading

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Championship side. One of the things that's missing from this report that

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you would normally find in an MI6 report is an indication of just how

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long these sources have been in contact, and how reliable their

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reporting has been in the past. That sort of caveat is missing. But the

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intelligence included in this document really falls into three

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parts. The first is to suggest that the Russians have been feeding

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intelligence about the Democrats to the Trump campaign. The second is

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one particular incident which appears to have occurred in 2013,

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the one involving supposedly Russian prostitute in Moscow. Chris has

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managed to dig up four different sources, because he wants to back

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that up. There is another story that the Russians have been collecting

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compromising intelligence about Trump for a very long time. That

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also has a certain amount of credibility. I think Trump was

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surprised to become president now. I don't think he was thinking about it

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ten years ago. He is a wealthy man used to getting his own ways. Chris

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has found these stories, tried to corroborate them and he has put them

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out there. But he does not have that final piece of evidence. The reason

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we have not seen either the SAS, the CAA or the FBI move on it is that

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they don't have it either. Nobody can quite find the definitive story.

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If the information is out there but can't be corroborated, why wouldn't

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the intelligence services here have passed that to ministers, or is the

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implication that it has already been discussed? Well, that's just it.

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Chris worked in SAS for 20 years. Most of the sources he is using

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would be once he built up. You would assume that in the seven years since

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he left, other sources have recruited. He would have tried to

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add sources himself. SYS should have already been aware that this

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information was out there. I was at a Conference last week for

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intelligence professionals and there was a love of gossip about this

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story before it broke. People said they had heard rumours last year at

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times. I think they looked at it and said, we haven't got anything new

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that we are not already reporting. It doesn't enhance what we have put

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out there. There is no need to let ministers know. They might have led

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the Americans know what Chris was working on. A question was made

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about not knowing what his sources were. They could have gone to him.

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They could have asked him. I suspect they already knew. Harry Ferguson,

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thank you for your time. Harry Ferguson, thank

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you for your time. Someone else caught up in the Trump

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memo scandal is Rick Wilson, a Republican party strategist

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and Trump critic. He was accused of being

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behind the Trump memo, and of leaking it to the CIA -

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a charge he has denied. Rick now joins us from

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Tallahassee, Florida. Thank you for joining us. How did

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you get caught up in this? Well, I've been a prominent person in the

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anti-Trump movement and a critic of Donald Trump for well over a year

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now and when the online forum decided to claim that they had

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written the memo as a prank, they put my name into the chain of

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accusations, that they had leaked it to me and I had taken it to the CIA

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and John McCain. It is readable and absurd but we live in an era, in

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American journalism, the post-fact are, so Conservative journalists

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took off with the story, believing it verbatim, even though it came

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from an anonymous forum, easily demonstrated to be false and my

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alleged role was easily demonstrated to be false, mainly because these

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folks don't understand how politics and media and journalism works in

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the US. How does politics and media work over there? You've denied any

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relationship to the memo and you've established that but the fact is, as

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a person who's worked in opposition research, your job is to dig dirt,

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isn't it, on the opposition, in order to sully their reputation,

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isn't that how it works? I'm actually the guy who hires the

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opposition researchers and yes, we use opposition research to establish

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a fact in a campaign so you can look at another candidate and say that

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their message doesn't fit with what they are claiming, their record

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doesn't fit with what they're claiming, their behaviour doesn't

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fit and to go after the predicates of their candidacy. Donald Trump

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claims to be a multi-billionaire, a successful international businessman

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but he's been very careful about hiding his relationships in the

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business community, so folks like me in the primary, well before this

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silly fabricated version came out, and well before the Christopher

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Steele report came out, we were looking at those relationships and

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that's where a lot of the pursuit was, looking at the secrets behind

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the opacity established by Trump hiding his tax returns and going

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after the business relationships, overseas in particular. Why do you

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think this has come out now? Many said that there were rumours last

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autumn, last fall as you might say, but why now? The first contact I had

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was a major investigative reporter for a TV network reached out and

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said, do you know anything, can you check with your people? This was in

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discussion last summer and there were rumours before that. Even some

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jokes in pop culture on the Howard Stern Show before that. Why it pop

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now is simple. The intelligence community has been told by Donald

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Trump that they are one of his enemies, he has declared war on the

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US intelligence community, questioning their judgment,

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professionalism, and patria Chisholm. This is something you're

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going to see when they are up against the wall like this --

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patriotism. They will play with elbows out, and I don't blame them,

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he has put much more trust in VanderMeer Putin and the FSB rather

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than the CIA -- Vladimir Putin. Has he successfully batted this away? It

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is the biggest political bet he's going to make, that he can bluster

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his way out of this, that there is nothing there, that at no time in

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his trips to Russia did he engage in any behaviour that was caught on

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tape and that's a big bet. If he's right, he's right, but if not it

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will have significant consequences for his credibility. Thank you for

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joining us. The pressure and strain that the NHS

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is under has been well It's experiencing its worst ever

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winter crisis, the Royal College of Physicians and the Royal College

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of Nursing has warned. Many patients are not receiving

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care when they need it. The government's target

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for A patients to be treated within four hours,

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hasn't been met for 16 months - a target that is speculated

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will be soon adjusted. Beds are being blocked,

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causing much-needed operations to be delayed, with the head of NHS

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England calling for extra funding for social care so that

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patients can be released. Chris Cook, Policy Editor,

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is tracking the problems There's a documentary that is

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reflecting the challenges that NHS is facing. That's right, Hospital,

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BBC Two on Wednesday, it is excellent and we are going to show

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you a clip which illustrates the important challenge facing the NHS,

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the delayed transfer of care, called a Detoc, meaning a patient who needs

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care, but the hospital would like to be delivered by somebody else,

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cannot be moved out because the next person in the chain of care is not

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ready to take them. These Detocs are a serious problem because it means

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there are not enough beds in the hospital, the patient can get stuck

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in the wrong place and it can gum up everything. If you can't admit new

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patients, that is difficult for because the two to deal with and it

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feeds into the A problems. The case were about to see is from the

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documentary, a patient called Dolly. 91-year-old Dolly is waiting to find

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out if she can be discharged today. When we saw you earlier

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on this morning, you were As you know, we'd hoped to get

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you home later, well, not home, but to Willesden Community Hospital

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this morning for a bit of rehabilitation and

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some convalescence. But I think given that

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you had your collapse this morning, we should probably keep an eye

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on you here. So what I think we're going to do

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is hang on to you for at least another 24-hours and then we'll send

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the referral again But unfortunately, because they've

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given the bed up to another patient this morning,

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we might end up having to keep you in here for a few more days

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while we wait for it The problems that we face can only

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be solved really by social services creating spaces for people

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in accommodation, be that for homeless drug users

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or for people awaiting rehousing There's a big disconnect

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between the NHS and social services and the NHS gets blamed quite a lot

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for problems in the community which are rarely slightly outside

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of our remit and outside You can see the concern. It is on

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the consultant's face. I wonder how big a problem this is and how it is

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reflected in the NHS. This morning we got a big dump of data from the

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NHS which included the results of the monthly survey they do, one

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night they go around and check how many Detocs are happening across NHS

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England. We can show on a graft. This is the number of delayed

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transfers of care on that night each month going back to 2011. There's

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quite a clear pattern. If we draw a line in 2013 it becomes more

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obvious. On the left-hand side, it bombs around and there is a clear

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seasonal pattern but it is basically flat. Since 2013 it has been riding

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very steadily and it has been accelerating recently. It may help

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to understand more if we pull out a number for 2013 and the number for

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November, 2016. The number has gone from about 4200, to 6000, a 60%

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increase in the number of people stuck in hospital overnight on

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census day. The reason for the rise is quite complicated but broadly

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speaking, 10% of people are waiting for the residential care and 25% are

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looking to go to a nursing home and others are looking for some kind of

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support package. Of the extra, the big rise that's causing the

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problems, about is caused by local authority social services not being

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able to cope and 40% is the internal problems within the NHS. Thank you

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for joining us. No doubt we will talk about this again.

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Cyprus is a country that has been split since 1974 -

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an island that many of us know as a popular holiday destination

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bathed in Mediterranean sun - not overshadowed by a history

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UN peacekeeping forces estimate that 165,000 Greek Cypriots fled

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or were expelled from the north, and 45,000 Turkish Cypriots from

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the south, during the conflict - others say the figures

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Greece and Turkey are now working towards the reunification

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of the island, with talks in Geneva bringing the two sides

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But there will be many sticking points during the negotiations.

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Selin Girit has this report from the island.

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There is something very eerie about this place.

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This used to be the main International Airport in Cyprus.

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Now it's been abandoned for over 40 years.

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I'm in the middle of the buffer zone.

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Nicosia is Europe's the last divided city.

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Its ghost airport, a monument to the scars it bears.

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In 1974, a Greek inspired military coup in the South was met

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with a Turkish invasion of the North.

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But it has led to almost half a century of ethnic division.

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The internationally-recognised Greek Cypriot government controls

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the south of the island, while Turkish Cypriots

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The 66-year-old Turkish Cypriot lives on the border town of Morphe.

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The 60s and 70s saw hundreds of thousands forced to relocate.

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Moved north in a population exchange.

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You are taken from your house, from your village.

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You are being moved to some unknown town.

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Like many people living in Morphe he was given a house that used

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The Geneva talks could see the town change hands and people

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Despite nearly half a century here, he's remarkably philosophical.

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I can't say that I will be so sad to give the house

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I don't want my children to live the wars that we have lived.

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So it is more important to find a solution, to have peace,

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than to move from one house to another.

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He tells me, "if I have to move out from here,

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I will have another garden in the new home that I make."

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But his attitude is not shared by everyone in Morphe.

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For some, any change will be painful and bitterly opposed.

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A few miles down the road, at an orthodox cemetery,

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there is a reminder that many lost more than their homes.

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Here, Greek and Turkish Cypriot archaeologists work side-by-side,

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digging deep trenches to find and identify people who went missing

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They have already dug out the remains of 25 people

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It's a big deal for both communities.

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And by finding these people you are delivering them back

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to the family so they can have a proper burial,

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they can have their family visiting the grave.

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And so this trauma will close, it will heal.

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Once bodies are found, they are brought here.

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At the lab at the Committee of Missing People, the process

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Sometimes it takes a long time to reconstruct it from small pieces.

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At the end, I think we have a good result.

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So far we have identified about 720 individuals on both communities.

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And the total number of the missing people is about 2,000.

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But that means over 1,000 still lie in the Cypriot soil.

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If there was not a coup, was there an invasion?

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One of them is one victim's younger brother, George.

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He was a nice, good-looking young man.

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This is a very deep wound which will stay there.

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The wound may close but the big scar will stay there

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I don't believe a solution will come in the next two

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If they start changing the education system,

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if they start changing things, even now they are spreading

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So what we have here is exceptional, if you think of what this country

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Half of this table is Turkish Cypriot and the other

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They are drinking their traditional drink and toasting to

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This is not the last chance for peace.

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We, the new generation, we create the piece.

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I am waiting for this all of my life.

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I'm so excited and the same time, emotional.

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This time, they woke up from the ten years sleeping and now it's time

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for us to have a change in our island.

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In Geneva, a game of diplomacy is on, which move to make?

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Here in Cyprus, the hope is neither side loses.

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We are joined by the North Cyprus Representative

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We did ask the Cypriot government for an interview,

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but they were not able to give us anyone.

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Welcome. We have just understood that the talks finished a short time

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ago in Geneva without agreement. They will reconvene on January 18.

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There seem to be some sticking points. What do you think they might

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be? I think right now the Turkish Cypriots side is determined to

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continue with the talks in Geneva until we reach a final solution.

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What would be the sticking points? There may be more than one sticking

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point. Each and every item will be considered. Let's talk about one

:30:12.:30:16.

that has been brought up. Grease once its territory increased. It

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would mean that Turkey's portion of land would be diminished. Is that

:30:25.:30:28.

realistic to expect the Turkish Cypriots side to agree to that? I

:30:29.:30:34.

think the Turkish Cypriots side is there to negotiate the issue of

:30:35.:30:38.

territory as well as any other issue. And yes, both sides will make

:30:39.:30:43.

their demands. I think the Turkish Cypriots side really wants to do a

:30:44.:30:49.

minimal uprooting of people when the issue of territory will be

:30:50.:30:53.

discussed. How much of an effect would 6% have? I wouldn't be able to

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tell you that. But we will -- there will be percentages discussed and

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with they will reach a mutually agreeable solution. But the most

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important thing for Turkish Cypriots is to have a minimal number of

:31:09.:31:11.

people uprooted from their current homes. The reason I ask you about

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this is that President Erdogan has been quite reluctant to exceed any

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land or change this percentage and this will be a sticking point. We

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don't want this, surely, to be this the state of play moving forward? I

:31:32.:31:36.

think the Turkish Cypriots side really wants to move on because the

:31:37.:31:43.

negotiations have started in 1968. 448 years, we have been negotiating,

:31:44.:31:50.

to reach a final agreement, a settlement agreement, which will

:31:51.:31:53.

hopefully be taken to a referendum by both sides simultaneously. Before

:31:54.:31:59.

we talk about the referendum and when they may take place, there are

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30,000 troops come Turkish troops, patrolling the north. How open is

:32:06.:32:08.

the negotiating table from the Turkish Cypriot side to them being

:32:09.:32:12.

removed, being made part of the UN peacekeeping force? As you know, the

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UN peacekeeping force arrived in March 19 64. Turkish troops came in

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1974. Things have happened between the two dates. If any issue of

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troops is going to be discussed, I'm sure it will be discussed. What do

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you think the likely conclusion is? I cannot guess. No one can guess.

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I'm sure even people in Geneva cannot guess. It's a question of

:32:45.:32:52.

discussions. People may have expectations. But when you are doing

:32:53.:32:57.

negotiations, you are trying to reach something mutually agreeable.

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How likely do you think there will be success? There is a specific

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timetable. There is hope the referendum can take place by the end

:33:07.:33:11.

of April. Is that likely to happen? If things continue in Geneva, why

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not? It's all a question of intent. So we could see a reunified Cyprus

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by the end of this year? I hope so. If possible. Thank you very much for

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joining us. Thank you. Wayne McGregor has now been resident

:33:29.:33:29.

choreographer at the Royal Ballet in London for a decade -

:33:30.:33:33.

the first person in that role to come from a contemporary

:33:34.:33:36.

dance background. A high accolade, on top

:33:37.:33:37.

of his already impressive He has collaborated

:33:38.:33:40.

with high-profile musicians such as the White Stripes,

:33:41.:33:46.

Paloma Faith and He's also choreographed films

:33:47.:33:48.

including Fantastic Beasts, Our Special Correspondent,

:33:49.:33:51.

Katie Razzall, has been hearing According to him, there

:33:52.:33:55.

is a dancer in us all. What's amazing about dance is it's

:33:56.:34:09.

connected to everybody As likely to work with Radiohead

:34:10.:34:11.

as the Royal Ballet, at his best Wayne McGregor's

:34:12.:34:21.

choreography fuses dance, Not bad for a boy from

:34:22.:34:23.

Stockport who found early What was it about John Travolta that

:34:24.:34:38.

got you into this whole thing? I think it was just his

:34:39.:34:47.

passion for dancing. He just kind of came

:34:48.:34:49.

alive on the dance floor. And you see this physical

:34:50.:34:52.

kind of vitality. It's just amazing when you see

:34:53.:34:55.

somebody kind of live So I started ballroom

:34:56.:34:59.

dancing lessons, disco Some people like to dance

:35:00.:35:07.

when no one is looking. I think what's interesting

:35:08.:35:15.

is everybody has a personal So when I came in the room and met

:35:16.:35:18.

you today, I already have a sense of something about you,

:35:19.:35:26.

the way in which you greeted me, the way in which you had eye

:35:27.:35:28.

contact, the way in which your body How far or how distanced

:35:29.:35:32.

you started to communicate, In a way choreography or dance

:35:33.:35:35.

making is about that. It's about that

:35:36.:35:39.

transaction of energy. There's just something primal

:35:40.:35:42.

about ideas of physicality that A one-time research fellow

:35:43.:35:44.

at Cambridge University, McGregor's fascination with science

:35:45.:35:51.

and technology has seen him collaborate with neurologists

:35:52.:35:54.

to understand more about how mind And what that means for the creative

:35:55.:36:15.

process. It is partly just a fascination of what happens

:36:16.:36:16.

cognitively when you are moving. In the olden days we would have this

:36:17.:36:18.

idea that the brain and body This kind of sense that

:36:19.:36:21.

we're all just walking But actually we know, and we know

:36:22.:36:24.

this because of in-body technology, the way in which we are using

:36:25.:36:28.

technology now, that actually And I'm just interested to find

:36:29.:36:31.

out more about that. What does it mean to

:36:32.:36:34.

think about something? If I'm about to reach

:36:35.:36:36.

and touch your shoulder, already I've got a sense of how far

:36:37.:36:41.

I have to reach before I touch you, All those things happen intuitively

:36:42.:36:45.

in my brain before I do it. And that's a version

:36:46.:36:49.

of physical thinking. And what we're doing

:36:50.:36:51.

as dancers is doing a more A decade into his role

:36:52.:36:53.

as resident choreography at London's the Royal Ballet,

:36:54.:37:00.

McGregor is rehearsing a revival There you go, there

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you go, you do it. You already have a kinaesthetic

:37:03.:37:20.

response to that. That sense of sound shapes the

:37:21.:37:30.

dynamic. My job in a way is to recognise

:37:31.:37:33.

what that special signature is, what that feel is, and use it

:37:34.:37:36.

to develop something that says something about our ideas,

:37:37.:37:39.

that says something about you. What are you trying

:37:40.:37:41.

to say about the world? I think I'm trying to say

:37:42.:37:44.

that the world isn't complete. It's a partial view,

:37:45.:37:49.

it's fragmented. There are a lot of those

:37:50.:37:52.

old-fashioned traditional ballet They can keep thinking there are,

:37:53.:37:58.

but why would there be? And we don't want an art

:37:59.:38:02.

form that is dying. We want an art form that

:38:03.:38:06.

truly vibrant and alive, I mean, are there

:38:07.:38:08.

issues you care about? I think making art is

:38:09.:38:14.

political in itself. Education is political,

:38:15.:38:18.

empowering people to think creatively and challenge

:38:19.:38:20.

the system is political. This is one of the big challenges

:38:21.:38:25.

of the stem argument, this reduction of arts

:38:26.:38:28.

education in schools. It's really important

:38:29.:38:30.

first of all to get those One of the drivers to get

:38:31.:38:32.

them into school is very And then to see the crosstalk

:38:33.:38:36.

between maths and music, rhythm and mathematics,

:38:37.:38:40.

organisation and spatial organisation, really

:38:41.:38:44.

important terms of geometry. There are some important

:38:45.:38:46.

ways in which these In his quest for crosstalk, McGregor

:38:47.:38:49.

has collaborated with a whole host From Mark Wallinger

:38:50.:38:57.

and the White Stripes, to Mark Ronson, Paloma Faith

:38:58.:39:02.

and Radiohead's Thom Yorke. And he has an amazing ability to be

:39:03.:39:08.

really real and just be himself. That's why you get this

:39:09.:39:15.

amazing raw physicality. I guess when you're working

:39:16.:39:20.

with somebody like that, my job is to recognise it,

:39:21.:39:22.

find it, and just It's not to go, "Well,

:39:23.:39:24.

let's move like this." The technological process

:39:25.:39:29.

of that is very different. That pushes some of your

:39:30.:39:35.

buttons, doesn't it? And it was one shot,

:39:36.:39:37.

you probably noticed. So the camera shows four

:39:38.:39:41.

and a half minutes. And then that really,

:39:42.:39:43.

really long technological process. Please join me in welcoming

:39:44.:39:48.

the lovely ladies... As movement director

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on this Harry Potter, But there's a Wayne McGregor

:39:53.:40:00.

signature to Alexander Skarsgard's performance in The Legend of Tarzan,

:40:01.:40:05.

if you look carefully. And his latest endeavour

:40:06.:40:11.

was Fantastic Beasts. When you're working

:40:12.:40:17.

on something like the obscurus in Fantastic Beasts,

:40:18.:40:19.

how can you make some physical activity that then

:40:20.:40:21.

is motion-captured that But it's also about

:40:22.:40:23.

characterisation, finding small physical detail,

:40:24.:40:26.

and so there is a huge amount of choreographers working in film,

:40:27.:40:28.

or movement directors in film, What we do physically

:40:29.:40:31.

and constantly, we get into habits. We live our lives in

:40:32.:40:41.

a very habit-formed way. I think to remain curious

:40:42.:40:43.

and open to the world, you really have too actively change

:40:44.:40:50.

something about yourself, whether that's watching the kinds

:40:51.:40:52.

of films you never normally watch, whether that's going to a gig

:40:53.:40:56.

you never normally go to, whether that's watching dancing

:40:57.:40:59.

the way that you wouldn't, whether that's picking up poetry,

:41:00.:41:02.

it doesn't really matter. And I think that keeps you really

:41:03.:41:04.

engaged and alive, and all your And I think that's what we always

:41:05.:41:07.

want in life, to be highly attuned. And you can watch Katie Razzall's

:41:08.:41:16.

full interview with Wayne McGregor James O'Brien will be here tomorrow

:41:17.:41:19.

night. Goodbye. Good evening. A wintry night out

:41:20.:41:43.

there. Sleet and snow showers pushing south during the course of

:41:44.:41:46.

the night. First thing in

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