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Hello, I'm Ros Atkins, this is Outside Source.

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Top US intelligence officials have been giving evidence on claims

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of Russian interference in the US election.

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They say Russia has an advanced cyber programme that poses a major

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threat to a wide range of US interests.

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A BBC investigation has found that illegal drugs are being bought

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online and delivered by mail all over the UK.

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Apple has withdrawn the New York Times from its China App Store,

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following a request from Chinese authorities.

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Michelle Fleury in New York has been looking in this for us.

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And if you want to get in touch we're on #BBCOS.

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As I talked to you, the outside source screen is blank so I'm going

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to try and present the programme from here, and I'm going to begin

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with what the American director of National Intelligence has said about

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Russian involvement in the US presidential election. This was a

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multifaceted campaign. So the hacking was only a part of it. It

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also entailed classical propaganda, disinformation, fake news.

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These activities are ongoing now in Europe, as Europe

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prepares for elections, is that a fair assumption?

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Yesterday the Wall Street Journal indicated that the President-elect

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is considering changes to the intelligence community. Have you, as

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the experts in this field, been engaged in these deliberations, and

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vice?: no, we have not. To reinforce the point,

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we have a joint statement from US It reads "Russia is

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a full-scope cyber actor that poses a major threat to US

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government, military, diplomatic, commercial

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and critical infrastructure. "We assess that only Russia's

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senior-most officials could have authorised the recent

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election-focused data Gordon Carreras gave me his

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assessment of what we have learned. In a way it was a preview for what I

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think will be the main event, when we get the report we are expecting

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next week from intelligence officials about the evidence of

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Russian hacking and interference in the election. They skirted around

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the issue, touching it on it at various points but they were careful

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about giving away too much detail. You got the broad outlines, they are

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confident with the assertion that Russia was responsible for trying to

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interfere with the election. Will we see the report? I did an interview

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with the Russian ambassador to the EU and he said that the Americans

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are saying this and he went, show me the evidence. Where is the detail?

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That's what everyone is waiting for, we are expecting some kind of report

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in detail. There will be different levels of classification. There will

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be a public report. There will be a secret report, possibly more than

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one with more detail. A lot of the evidence pointing towards why the US

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is so confident the Kremlin was behind it may well be very

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sensitive. It may be that the CIA has an agent in Moscow telling them

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that and they won't want to put too much detail in a public report.

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That's possible. They know they are under pressure, not least from

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Donald Trump and others, to produce evidence to show as much as they can

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to back up the assertion that the Kremlin was behind this alleged

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interference. Interesting that Europe was mentioned. That was

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interesting, a question from a Senator, do you think this kind of

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interference extends to Europe and is ongoing? The intelligence

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official said yes. We've heard it from some European countries. I

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spoke to the body area and president before their recent elections where

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he was standing down and he said that we have seen Russian attempts

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to manipulate the election. We've heard Germany talking about it,

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German officials sounding a warning about cyber attacks. Information

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operations, influence operations to try and affect politics. There may

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be people watching thinking, hold on, hasn't America been interfering

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in elections since the Second World War? On one level you are right.

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There was the interesting question, the Chinese hacked into the American

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system to steal data, was that something equivalent to what Russia

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did? American officials say that was espionage, different from

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interfering with an election. They are saying that espionage is

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standard and that they do that, so they won't kick up as much of eight

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fast. But people may point to history -- a fuss. America

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intervened in Iraq, but they may say that they don't do this any more --

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in Iran. Quick word about Donald Trump, he's a hard man to predict

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but you would expect him to make some changes in US intelligence

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based on his Twitter activity? A lot of nervousness in US intelligence.

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Fascinating meeting, when he sits down to talk about the evidence with

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them. They will wonder if he's going to do a clear out, whether he will

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change the direction, whether he will take some kind of retaliation

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for the sense that they have been criticising him and that he has been

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engaging in this spat over the election. Interesting to watch. We

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will talk to our correspondent in about 20 minutes about those issues.

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A car bomb and gun fire involved in a terrorist attack in Turkey. The

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first week of 2017 isn't over and yet there have been two terror

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attacks in Turkey. The second was in the City of Izmir, the courthouse

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was targeted, the police approaching a car outside to search it and then

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the attackers inside the car shot and tried to attack a policeman with

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an explosive device, a car bomb was detonated and in the mayhem one of

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the policemen was killed. A member of the court staff was killed and

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the two attackers were shot dead as well. The third attacker we believe

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is still at large, wearing a black jacket and a white beret. Officials

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say they expect that the PKK Kurdish militant group were behind the

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attack and may believe a much larger attack was foiled given the number

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of weapons found including machine guns and grenades. It's a few days

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after the New Year's Eve attack on the Reina nightclub, that gunman is

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still at large. Arrests have been made in Istanbul but not the gunmen,

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leaving people feeling nervous. It has shown how difficult it is to

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secure Turkey. How to keep the country safe. 80 million people,

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bordering Syria and Iraq, it has the Kurdish insurgency in the

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south-east, and it has the PKK and so-called Islamic State. More police

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alone is clearly not the answer, they must have better intelligence.

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Some attacks are being foiled but others are happening and that shows

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intelligence gaps and it is making this country feel extremely worried

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going into 2017. Mark mentioned the Istanbul attack,

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we had a development on that today. But today several men connected

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to him have been arrested, and all are reported to be

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Uighurs from Xinjiang Uighurs are a mainly

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Muslim minority, and they have a troubled

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relationship with China's Uighur separatists are often accused

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of terrorism in China. The government is accused

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of discriminating against Uighurs. The modern grievances are two fold,

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firstly some of them consider, they want a brief government of their

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own, they country called East Turkistant which vanished after the

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coming is to over in China, and some of them want to go back to the days

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of East Turkistan. Also they've complained about the millions of

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ethnic Chinese moving in from other provinces into the province where

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they mainly live, making them a minority. That is the ethnic tension

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side of the complaint. In terms of the radicalisation, the Chinese

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government has made claims for many years, from the Taliban time because

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ten free Mac is near Afghanistan. Claims that the Taliban worth

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training them -- because Xinjiang is near Afghanistan. The exact

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percentage, I doubt any can calculate that but to safely say,

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there is a degree of... A BBC investigation has found that

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large amounts of illegal drugs are being delivered by post

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in the UK. The drugs are being

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bought on the dark web. That's an area of the internet

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where a large amount of illegal material and products

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are shared and sold. Jim Connolly from BBC

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Newsbeat has the story. It is an illegal trade worth

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millions but your local postman could an Wichary -- good unwittingly

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be delivering drugs. More and more people are buying drugs on the dark

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web. What was in there? It's not of cannabis. You smell it and then

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what? You tell the managers and they say that you must deliver it, tell

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them to be more careful. Really? The Royal Mail says that it does not

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knowingly carrying illegal items in the network. Getting drugs online is

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becoming more popular with people like Steve who would only talk to us

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if we protected his identity. It was cheaper and you had less chance of

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getting skanked. We found it funny how she handed it over and said

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thank you very much, she was completely unaware that she was part

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of the drugs trade. This part of London news to be home to lots of

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shots where you could purchase legal highs. The government say that new

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laws to tackle this mean that the shops have closed down but we

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managed to get these drugs on the dark web, getting around the issue.

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We asked the government to speak to us about this but they declined.

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They say they are spending ?1.9 billion over the next five years on

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cyber security. How easy was it to buy the drugs on the dark web? We

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met Chris, an independent security expert. Everything about it is

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pretty much like eBay but it looks a bit more amateurish? The technology

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is not as mature in many cases but you are accessing a very anon I

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website which is hard to track down. We purchased ecstasy, marijuana and

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a drug known as spice. A few days later, all three parcels are wired.

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We took them to this government approved testing lab. These don't

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look suspicious, there's no way that every single bike can be opened, we

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would never get our post. There would be backlog is. We are looking

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for things that look suspicious, and these don't. It may have only been

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three samples but the testing proved everything we bought on the dark web

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was as described, raising the question of what needs to be done to

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stop this deadly trade. How will authorities tackle a global issue

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where every time a marketplace is closed down, another appears to

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replace it? In a few minutes we are going to be

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talking about global warming. It is often stated that the speed of

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global warming has been slowing but new data suggests it isn't. We will

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get into that. The UK service sector

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grew at its fastest pace for 17 months in December,

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a closely-watched BBC's economics editor

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Kamal Ahmed explained what's Andrew Haldein, the chief economist

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at the Bank of England, he welcomed the figures

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and was optimistic that 2016 had been stronger in terms of growth

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than many people predicted, including the bank, that maybe it

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had been too pessimistic. These good figures are based

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on the great British shopper who has kept spending despite the warnings

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of what the Brexit vote may bring. But Mr Haldein sounded a note

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of caution when he said that this since the referendum means that

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food imports and fuel imports are more expensive,

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which is going to feed through to consumers

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who may see higher prices, meaning lower spending,

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which means possibly some tougher headwinds for the economy this year

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and next year. This is Outside Source live

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from the BBC newsroom. Our lead story is: US intelligence

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chiefs have renewed accusations that Russia disrupted the presidential

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election, and that it posing a threat

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to a swathe of American interests. The trial of the woman at the centre

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of a scandal involving South Korea's Choi Soon-sil appeared

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in court in Seoul. She's facing charges of abuse

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of power and attempted fraud. It's alleged that President Park

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allowed Ms Choi to exploit Four people have been

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arrested in Chicago over a live stream on Facebook

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in which a bound and His assailants are heard making

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derogatory statements speaking on the progress of a recent

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ceasefire brokered Opposition groups have complained

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of violations including air strikes from the government

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in Wadi Barada, a village The government says it is targeting

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terror groups not included Meanwhile in Geneva the UN envoys

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for Syria have both been speaking on the upcoming peace talks

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in Kazakhstan, and on water shortages that have

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arisen around Damascus. There are incidents, we know about

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them, we are involved and we are trying and hoping that the two

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actors will secede in overcoming them and Richard the point --

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reached the point where facilities will recover. 5.5 million people

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have had their water supplies cut or minimised. To sabotage and the night

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water is a war crime. It is civilians who drink it and who will

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be affected bash Mac and to deny water supplies -- and to deny water

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supplies. Police in Austria say they are

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looking for six men suspected of sexually assaulting 18 women during

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New Year's Eve celebrations in the City of Innsbruck. The men are

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thought to be from Asia or North Africa and the allegation is that

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they groped and kissed women as they watched a fireworks display. The

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assaults are a year after hundreds of women were attacked in Cologne

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during the 2015 New Year's Eve celebrations. New Year's Eve

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celebrations in Innsbruck. It was here in this crowd that 18 young

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women who had come to dance and watch the fireworks were sexually

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assaulted. Police say it was done by a group of five or six men.

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TRANSLATION: The offenders surrounded the women dancing and

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touched them inappropriately. The person leading the investigation

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told the BBC that the number of the assaults and the fact they were

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carried out by a group is unprecedented for Innsbruck. The

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police are checking CCTV footage. The suspects are believed to be

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between 25-30 years old, possibly from Asia or North Africa. The

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nationalities are unclear. It is thought they in Innsbruck. Police

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say that the surgeon includes refugee shelters. The assaults

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happened despite heightened security in the City. Last year in

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neighbouring Germany, hundreds of women were assaulted in New Year at

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Cologne and anti-immigrant sentiment in Austria has grown after the

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refugee and migrant crisis in 2015, when the country took in about 1% of

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its population. A couple of you asking why I not using the outside

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Source screen. It isn't using and we are working to fix it. We will carry

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on with our coverage of the main stories. Back to the US now.

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President-elect Donald Trump makes no secret of his disdain for US

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companies who create jobs outside the US.

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Today, Toyota was the target. It said it would have to pay a new tax

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if the new car plant it is making is not built in the US. If you want a

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measure of the importance of his tweets, the share price of Toyota

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went down. It recovered but it shows the impact he is having. Chief

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executives and people who have shares in these companies want to

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know what the president is saying because it may affect the value of

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their them is Sanaa the same joins us from

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New York. This is an existing app and it is adding a new feature. It

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will be available on the App Store and they say that as soon as the

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President elect mentions a company, and we've seen it happening with

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Toyota and in the past when he talks about Lockheed Martin or Boeing,

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we've seen a big impact on their share price. This app will give you

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real time information about stocks that you own with regards to

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comments by the President-elect. For example, today if you own shares in

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Toyota, you would have had an alert saying the President-elect has

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spoken about a company that you own. Best have a look at the news. I

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guess that it's inevitable that when the president speaks it will have an

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impact on the value of companies but I can't recall Obama being as

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specific in his messages to particular companies. This is

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somewhat unprecedented which is why there is a lot of discussion about

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it. If you look at social media and how people have reacted, there's

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been a lot of scepticism when it comes to the President-elect

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singling out companies like this. But it is in line with what Mr Trump

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has always said on the campaign Trail, that he's going to fight for

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the little guy, which he feels he is doing by calling out companies that

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are creating jobs overseas and then selling products in the United

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States or with regards to Boeing and Lockheed Martin, when they see cost

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overruns for government contracts. Thank you for joining us. As you can

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see, while I was talking till we have got the screen fixed.

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A year ago Australian company Bririmian Limited bought

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a lithium mining project in Mali for just $40,000.

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It just sold that same project for around $78 million.

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The growing popularity of electric cars.

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Lithium is a key component in their batteries.

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Francis Browne is a mining and metals expert at the commodities

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Here is his analysis. It is an extraordinary deal and it shows the

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huge interest in lithium as an as to invest in. Will it affect price? It

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should but the scale of production and technology is going so fast that

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the unit cost is coming down. Lithium, although vitally important,

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is only a component of that technology. The capacity increases

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in this particular commodity are actually quite slow, a lot of work

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needs to be done to bring lithium to market. We are looking possibly at a

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disconnect between supply and demand going forward. Why would save 5-10

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year horizon. The Consumer Electronics Show

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is on in Las Vegas. There's a range of products

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designed for the home, which claim to use Artificial

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Intelligence. Here's our Technology

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correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones. In a penthouse suite

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at a ritzy Las Vegas hotel, There's a smart speaker

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for children, where each ..there's even Nora, described

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as a smart snoring solution. This little device is paired

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with a pad under the pillow which detects me snoring and moves

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just enough to stop me, The big theme this year is turning

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the advances in artificial This one's meant to be a shop

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assistant, while this one is designed as a companion

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for children or elderly people. But AI seems to get everywhere, even

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into this toothbrush, which learns Artificial intelligence is not

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just gathering the data, Then you learn where your weaknesses

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are, where your strengths are and the purpose is to become

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better at taking care This walking stick is also

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smarter than it looks. An in-built mobile phone sim

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card means it can help It will detect the fall of its user

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and when it detects it it will alert the family or the neighbour,

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so they can come and And this clever mirror helps

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anyone to try out make-up. Out on the Las Vegas strip,

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Danny Manu, a young entrepreneur His instant translation

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headphones aren't quite ready. They will eventually be

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tiny earbuds, but he's This is important because we will be

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able to showcase what we've been working on to the world,

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to show this is something we started years ago as a small team,

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as a small start-up, The odds are against Danny,

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a one-man band taking on giants like Apple and Google,

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but like plenty of people here this week, he's betting that he has

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the product that can Rory Cellan-Jones,

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BBC News, Las Vegas. That's it for the first half of

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Outside Source. See you in a couple of minutes.

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If you're going to the west coast of the United States in the next couple

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of days, there may be some

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