23/01/2017 Outside Source

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

It has been a busy first day for Donald Trump.

He's signed an executive order to withdraw the US from a major

international trade deal between 12 Pacific Rim countries -

And he's also had a message for business leaders.

The regulations are going to be cut massively and the taxes

are going to be cut way down so you're gonna have now incentive,

Mr Trump's Sean Spicer has made his second appearance -

his first at the weekend contained a a number of false statements -

I'm going to tell you the facts as I know them and if we make a mistake

we will do our best to correct that. Lyse Doucet is in Kazakhstan

where Syrian peace talks convened by Russia, Iran

and Turkey are underway. Plus Jonathan Beale will be live

with me to explain the latest in a political row around

the UK's nuclear deterrent. President Donald Trump has

begun his first full week in office. One of his first moves

is to withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership -

that's a trade deal Samir Hussein is here. Do we have

other hurdles to jump before America is out? Did is pretty much it when

it comes to the trade deal. The new President Trump was not going to go

forward with this trade deal and it was a signature part of the

administration, there was a lot of support for that. And when you talk

about the transpacific partnership, people who did not agree with that,

it was more Democrats not in agreement. So we're seeing President

Trump, one of the first things he has done is to sign this order to

get out of it. He is in fact going ahead with some of the things we

talked about during his campaign. But interestingly this is something

that usually people on both sides are in agreement with going forward

with trade agreements. So it is a departure from what we have seen

from other Republicans. But in line with what Donald Trump said of the

campaign trail, bet he feels free trade is not serving American

industry? Absolutely and we heard that the president has gone further

still talking about the North American Free Trade Agreement and we

heard from the White House spokesperson Sean Spicer who said in

his first full briefing that they are going to be speaking with the

heads of Canada and Mexico to look at renegotiating the North American

Free Trade Agreement. So trade has been a topic for the president on

his first full day in office. Stay with us, at the start of the day the

President said he had a busy week planned.

With a heavy focus on jobs and national security.

We're going to be cutting taxes massively for both the middle-class

and companies and that is massive. We're trying to get it down to 15,

20%. We are going to be cutting regulation massively. We will have

regulation, just a strong and protective of the people as the

regulation we have right now. But what we have right now, you cannot

do anything. We can cut regulations by 75%, maybe more. A company

wanting to fire all its people in the United States, and build some

factory someplace else and then thinks that product is just going to

flow across the border into the US, that is not going to happen. They

will have to pay a substantial border tax. When Donald Trump speaks

of regulation, was specifically is he driving at? There are a few

things he is driving at. When he talks a lot regulation he is talking

about things like banking regulations, that he believes are

hurting the ability of the banks to be able to engage in investing

activities. When he talks about other regulations, he means the tax

code, that is very complicated and he wants to reduce any difficulties

around that and make it easier for businesses to create more jobs in

the US. It is interesting about the people he assembled, business

leaders from 12 different companies including Mr musk, and we thought

that we had the head of Lockheed Martin, the number one arms supplier

for the Pentagon, in charge of a fighter jet programme. The one that

back in December Donald Trump criticised for cost overruns. There

were also part of this roundtable discussion. And Donald Trump has now

said he wants to bring this group back together again for almost a

month to talk about different ways that they can keep more

manufacturing jobs here in US. Thank you very much.

White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer has just

This follows his debut on Saturday when he accused the press of false

reporting and then made a number of incorrect statements.

Well he tried to lighten the mood at the start of this one.

Good afternoon and thank you for coming to our first official

briefing. I was going to start with a recap of the inauguration but we

have covered that pretty well. By the way I know that Josh Ernest was

voted the most popular press secretary by the press corps and

after checking my Twitter feed I shot him an e-mail letting him know

he can rest easy that his title is secure for the next few days at

least! That did not go down so well. We then got a sign of how the rules

of the game have changed - first question to Rupert Murdoch's

New York post. Second to the Christian

Broadcasting Network, then two Inevitably though

the issue of the size Remember Sean Spicer said

it was the biggest ever inauguration crowd -

when a raft of evidence There are times when we believe

something to be true or get something from an agency or we act

in haste because the information available was not complete but our

desire to communicate with the American people, and so we do it.

But I think when you look, we're going to do our best ever done we

can. I will come out and tell you the facts as we know them and if I

make a mistake I will do my best to correct it.

For the record Sean Spicer defended his statement

that the inauguration was the most watched of all time.

He brought in internet viewing figures, not quite the point because

originally he said it was the biggest crowd for inauguration.

Let's go to Washington. You could argue that the first questions as

these press briefings are turned around, Anthony Zurcher, but it

looked like a quite conscious message being sent to a section of

the US media? I think that is the case, the people he picked early on,

he was going to get slightly different questions from them and I

think that he knew that and managed to avoid some of the pressing

questions especially about that contentious non-press briefing

episode on Saturday until later on in the press conference. As you

mention the questions came eventually. It is one thing for Sean

Spicer to stand and talk about how even the administration makes

mistakes sometimes. I think the press issue with that briefing was

the confrontational nature of it, that he was accusing all the media

pair of misrepresenting the facts and doing a poor job and being

dishonest. So that set the stage for the press briefing today, where a

lot of the people there, felt that they had some serious issues they

need to air with Sean Spicer. Donald Trump was entitled to attack the

media as a candidate, entitled to do so as president, but I guess this

leaves some big decisions for the main US networks, for some of the

pillars of US journalism like the New York Times, how they respond to

a presidency which is carrying on completely differently to anything

we've seen before? And say what you will about the nature of that press

briefing statement on Saturday, but several of the major networks here

in the US cut into the regular programming this afternoon to cover

large chunks of the press briefing, all the major news networks covered

it and there was a lot more attention to this press briefing

than the past press briefings in the Obama White House. Part of that is

it is the first one but still people were paying attention and want to

see what Sean Spicer would say and do. So if you wanted to try to put

the spotlight on the Trump administration, that was mission

accomplished. I want to ask you, in a couple of hours we have a couple

of Senate committee is due to vote on some of the key nominees in the

Trump Cabinet. First of all Rex Tillerson, the man nominated for

secretary of state and then Mike Pompeo, nominated as director of the

CIA. If this goes through the committee then the full Senate will

still vote on this but we are talking, while the process goes on,

sometimes yours asked me if the screen and there is proof of it! The

process goes on, but really we are not in for any shocks. I do not

think so. From what I hear, when the confirmation comes through in

committee, when approval comes through, they will be quickly voted

on on the Senate floor because in reality there is a majority of

Republicans in the Senate and all that has to happen for these people

to be confirmed, as for the Republican senators to stick

together. We found out earlier today Marco Rubio, who was a big question

mark over the confirmation of Rex Tillerson, would be on board. Mike

Pompeo, no real opposition for him amongst the Republican party. I

think smooth sailing for them. Thank you very much. The idea of the

screen, we can access everything coming through the BBC newsroom

including all video and audio feeds. And if I select the wrong one as you

see the feed coming in for someone else, but not for me, comes up on

the screen. So I need to be very careful pressing the button.

Let's go to what is happening in Kazakhstan.

It's the first time representatives of Syria's armed rebel groups have

led the opposition side at the negotiating table.

Jihadist groups such as the Islamic State group

and the Al Nusra Front are not in attendance.

They're brokered by Turkey, which supports the rebels,

and Iran and Russia, which back the Syrian government.

The Russian Foreign Minister said last week he hoped

the new administration of President Donald Trump would send

The US State Department declined to do that -

but the US Ambassador to Kazakhstan is in attendance.

Lyse Doucet is at the talks and sent us this.

In the opening ceremony rebel commanders, Syrian generals, sat

together in public for the first time. Nobody walked out. But here on

in it gets harder so what can be achieved, at the opening ceremony

the first to speak was the hosts of these proceedings, the Kazakhstan

Minister. We must admit that the bloodshed that continues to persist

in Syria for approximately six years, has brought nothing but

misery and hardship to the whole region, regarded as an intersection

of different civilisations and cultures. So an effort at a peaceful

settlement of the situation in Syria but how will they go about it, while

the government delegation here are saying the same thing as the

opposition when it comes to the main item on the agenda. That is

consolidating a fragile ceasefire. The opposition says the government

forces are violating the truce. That will be their main item and from

then on they had different issues they want to begin to put on the

table. And if you want updates on those talks, you can get more from

our international correspondent on Twitter.

We learnt today that Theresa May was told about a recent problem

with the UK's nuclear deterrent, Trident when she became

It's been announced that Michelle O'Neill will take over

from Martin McGuiness as the new leader of Sinn Fein

She's the party's current health minister.

Mrs O'Neill will have just five weeks to prepare for an election

after Stormont's power-sharing coalition fell apart over a botched

Martin McGuiness is standing down because of ill health.

Mrs O'Neill's appointment comes just weeks before a snap

In a statement today she spoke of the scale

For me to be selected to lead our party in the north is truly the

biggest honour and privilege of my life. I feel enormous responsibility

on my shoulders and while I do not underestimate my task, given the

changing political world locally, nationally and internationally, I

will not let you down. This is Outside Source live

from the BBC newsroom. On his first weekday

in the White House, President Trump has signed an executive order

to withdraw the US from a major international trade deal

with Pacific countries including In the US, tornadoes

and thunderstorms have left at least 19 people dead

in Georgia and Mississippi. More severe weather warnings have

been issued as the weather system BBC Hindi has been reporting

on protests in Chennai over Police have now moved

in on demonstrators who've been camped on the beach

for several days. The protesters have threatened

to disrupt India's Republic Day celebrations on Thursday

if their demands are not met. We learnt today that Theresa May

was told about a recent problem with the UK's nuclear deterrent,

Trident when she became It's reported that an unarmed

missile went off course This incident occurred only a month

before the UK parliament The opposition Labour Party said

today - "people on both sides of the argument on Trident

would have expected that to be reported to parliament,

and the fact that Theresa May didn't Let's speak to Jonathan Beale, our

defence correspondent. The story has been running over the weekend. What

has shifted today? To be honest not a lot. Theresa May had been told

there was a problem, we have not even have that confirmed from

Downing Street. We know that she was told about this test, they have not

said that there is has been a problem with this tripe missile test

that occurred last June. Essentially both Theresa May and the Defence

Secretary Michael Fallon are sticking to their script, refusing

to confirm that there was a problem or refusing, or not it even

admitting that there was a problem. And Michael Fallon in the Commons in

front of MPs refused to be drawn on a number of questions, citing

operational national security reasons. The problem with that is

that in the past the Ministry of Defence when have been successful

launches, has publicised them, has released video. Why it did not this

time, was it because of that vote a few weeks later in the about

renewing the Trident weapons system and I think the other problem

tonight for Michael Fallon, won the Ministry of Defence is refusing to

confirm that there was a problem, over on the other side of the

Atlantic, an unnamed US defence official has told the Pentagon

reporter that there was a problem and that the missile had to be

aborted and destroyed during mid-flight. Not saying that it was

going of course, I should say. So you have this bizarre situation

where on the one hand the British Government is saying it will not

comment further on what is the independent British nuclear

deterrent but at the same time an unnamed official, someone we are

told that direct knowledge of these tests, who said that something went

wrong. We do not know if anything went wrong but if it had, would be

proud for the Prime Minister to brief parliament? -- would it be

protocol. Not necessarily, I think this is just an issue because in the

past when they have been successful launches, the Ministry of Defence

has released details of those successful launches. Over the past

four occasions. So we do not know if they have been any other problems

and it is true to say that the Trident missile system has been

tried and tested 161 successful tests, we understand only six have

had problems. So not necessarily, but I think there are questions as

to why this was covered up so close to the Parliamentary vote. Thank

you. The UK government has unveiled plans

for a new industrial It says science, technology

and infrastructure will be Here's the BBC's business

editor Simon Jack. Growing an economy

for the 21st-century. This biotech firm is trying

to increase crop yields, reduce fertiliser use

and provide high-paying jobs. Most Conservative governments have

preferred a hands-off What this is about is creating

the right conditions As we leave the European Union I'm

ambitious for the opportunities available to us, building

a truly global Britain. But we need to ensure that our

economy is working for everyone, working in every part

of the country. The government's ten point

plan includes investment in research and development

in high-growth sectors. ?170 million for technical

colleges to improve skills. And infrastructure investment

targeted to fit regional needs. I think it's absolutely essential

and it's been too long in coming. And it's all about coordination,

and directed and focused input to meet the needs of the economy

of this country. And why wouldn't we be doing it

if it's going to bring us the skills we need in a coordinated way,

with the key industry sectors that have the most potential for growth

based on our scientific ability? The government wants

businesses of the future, like biotechnology or life

science, to grow. But with limited amounts

of new money available, the fear is that while some sectors

will be cultivated, others may wither, leaving behind the workers

in those industries. I don't think we can afford

to leave any sector behind in an industrial strategy,

particularly given so many millions of workers are employed

in areas like retail, food, care, where wages are often

too low and investment too scarce. So it has to be a holistic

industrial policy ARCHIVE VOICEOVER: After

the government stepped Previous attempts to get involved

in industrial strategy have met Millions were afforded

to British Leyland for The strategy that somewhat

ironically became known Modern industry leaders

say this is different. Picking winners is much more

about picking the company What I think you are seeing

here is much earlier This is all about building skills,

building capabilities, These are just proposals at this

stage but ones the government hopes will inject new life to a post

Brexit economy. There were multiple cases

of the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 mobile phone overheating

and bursting into flames. It led to the phone being banned

on planes and pulled from the shops. Now the investigation

into what caused the overheating has concluded - and found

that it was a fault in the design Rory Cellan-Jones has

been writing about this He explained what was found

in this investigation. They poured enormous resources into

the investigation and knew how important it was. They had three

outside bodies and many top scientists to investigate. And they

concluded that it was the batteries. Tell me something new! But there was

something fascinating in there, a line from the man in charge of the

smartphone division saying what we've done is ask more and more and

more of the battery in this high-performance smartphone, we ask

too much of it. There's a general truth, everyone is trying to put

more and more capability into these extraordinary devices which of

course are very powerful computers. People are using them more and more

intensively there's one more pressure to fit batteries into the

same space or into a constricted space and in some cases they are

failing. Was this mobile phone trying to do more than other

high-end mobile phones? The competition is so intense that yes,

every new phone, and this was a very high end phones, meant to be

competing against the iPhone seven, Samsung very confident in its great

technology, it is much admired but it always wants to go a step

further. And in the design of this particular handset, there was too

much, not enough space ready for this battery. And not enough

insulation material around it. And you can find that report on the

BBC News app. I will be back in a couple of minutes. Goodbye.

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