:00:00. > :00:08.Donald Trump says America must greatly
:00:09. > :00:12.expand and strengthen its nuclear weapons capability.
:00:13. > :00:15.In yet another message on social media,
:00:16. > :00:18.the President-elect says expansion is needed until the world
:00:19. > :00:24.comes to its senses regarding nuclear weapons.
:00:25. > :00:29.The Trump team says he was warning about the dangers of terrorist
:00:30. > :00:31.organizations and unstable regimes getting access
:00:32. > :00:34.And earlier today, President Putin was talking
:00:35. > :00:37.about Russia's need to expand its nuclear capability.
:00:38. > :00:48.New images of the main suspect in the Berlin attack.
:00:49. > :00:51.His fingerprints have been found inside the lorry driven into the
:00:52. > :00:56.The owner and mechanic of this lorry - with faulty brakes -
:00:57. > :00:59.are both jailed for manslaughter, after four people were killed
:01:00. > :01:05.. You and I have sign the rise of many populist groups across the
:01:06. > :01:07.world. The Prince of Wales warns
:01:08. > :01:09.of the growing danger comparing it to the dark
:01:10. > :01:19.days of the 1930s. And we meet the seven-year-old
:01:20. > :01:21.Syrian girl who longs to return to her former life,
:01:22. > :01:25.in the city of Aleppo. And coming up on Sportsday on BBC
:01:26. > :01:29.News: Alan Pardew is sacked, with Sam
:01:30. > :01:32.Allardyce primed to take over at Donald Trump, who'll be
:01:33. > :01:58.sworn in as US President in a month's time, has called
:01:59. > :02:01.for America's nuclear weapons capability to be
:02:02. > :02:02."greatly strengthened He made the call in another
:02:03. > :02:07.of his messages on social media. Mr Trump warned that
:02:08. > :02:09.expansion would be needed until the world "came to its senses"
:02:10. > :02:17.regarding nuclear weapons. His advisers said he was warning
:02:18. > :02:20.about the dangers of terrorist organizations and unstable
:02:21. > :02:22.regimes getting hold of nuclear Our defence correspondent,
:02:23. > :02:31.Jonathan Beale, has more details. America and Russia still hold more
:02:32. > :02:36.than 90% of the world's nuclear stock piles. Both able to deliver
:02:37. > :02:42.destruction on a massive scale, by ground, sea or air. For a quarter of
:02:43. > :02:47.a century, they have been reducing their nuclear arsenal but the
:02:48. > :02:53.question now - is the arms' race about to resume? Tonight,
:02:54. > :02:58.President-elect, Donald Trump, tweeted, "The United States must
:02:59. > :03:03.greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability, until such time
:03:04. > :03:08.as the world somes to its senses regarding nukes. It's." It's caught
:03:09. > :03:13.many by surprise, including the Obama administration. I can't speak
:03:14. > :03:18.for what the President-elect's nuclear views or his policy going
:03:19. > :03:22.forward, that's for him and his team to speak to. What I can speak to is
:03:23. > :03:27.the approach that this administration has taken to try to
:03:28. > :03:31.get us on a path to a world without nuclear weapons. President Putin,
:03:32. > :03:38.too, has been ramping up the nuclear rhetoric. Today, addressing his
:03:39. > :03:41.military commanders, he talked of the need to strengthen Russia's
:03:42. > :03:46.strategic nuclear forces. TRANSLATION: We can say with
:03:47. > :03:51.certainty that we are stronger now than any potential aggressor.
:03:52. > :03:56.Anyone. Both United States and Russia have made large cuts to their
:03:57. > :04:00.nuclear arsenals since the height of the Cold War but they still have
:04:01. > :04:04.many weapons. The US have stock piles of several thousand war heads
:04:05. > :04:10.of which 1900 are deployed already to use. Russia has just over 7,000,
:04:11. > :04:15.with just under 1800 deployable. While the UK has 250 war heads, of
:04:16. > :04:22.which 120 are available to use and could be fired from its vanguard
:04:23. > :04:24.submarines. Both America and Russia are already modernising their
:04:25. > :04:28.nuclear weapons' systems at significant cost. What is not clear
:04:29. > :04:32.now is whether Donald Trump now wants to go much further. Tensions
:04:33. > :04:37.have been rising with Russia. These US troops on exercise in the balance
:04:38. > :04:41.particulars are response to its intervention in Ukraine. Russia's
:04:42. > :04:46.military campaign in Syria has deepened the rift. But Donald Trump
:04:47. > :04:54.has signalled he wants to improve relations with Moscow. So, his
:04:55. > :04:58.comments might be more directed at North Korea, whose unpredictable
:04:59. > :05:03.leader boasts of now being a new clear power, or even Iran. Donald
:05:04. > :05:07.Trump threatened to rip up a deal over its nuclear programme - still
:05:08. > :05:12.suspicious of Iran's intentions. What Donald Trump did with that
:05:13. > :05:18.tweet, was, we start the nuclear arms race, it is not just strengthen
:05:19. > :05:22.our nuclear arsenal. It is expand T we have arms controls that limit,
:05:23. > :05:28.set caps on the weapons we deploy. He pays no heed to that, seems to
:05:29. > :05:32.want to bust through the cap. With nuclear weapons, words matter. Once
:05:33. > :05:33.again a Donald Trump tweet has surprised and raised plenty of
:05:34. > :05:40.questions. Jonathan Beale, BBC News. Our correspondent, Laura Bicker,
:05:41. > :05:49.is at the White House. To what extent are people in
:05:50. > :05:53.Ashington taking this message the face value, they expect President
:05:54. > :05:57.trump to move to expand the nuclear arsenal that America has. -- people
:05:58. > :06:01.in Washington? Well, it is difficult to say, because in 140 characters or
:06:02. > :06:05.less, it is difficult to decipher Donald Trump's policy on nuclear
:06:06. > :06:10.weapons. So, it was up to his team to try to do it for us. In a
:06:11. > :06:13.statement they said that "President-elect was referring to
:06:14. > :06:20.the threat of nuclear proliferation and the critical need to prevent it,
:06:21. > :06:26.particularly to and among terror organisations and unstable and rogue
:06:27. > :06:32.regimes." Who could he be aiming at? Was it simply posturing and aiming
:06:33. > :06:34.at Vladimir Putin or was he referring to the so-called Islamic
:06:35. > :06:39.getting his hands on nuclear weapons, which, by the way, in an
:06:40. > :06:41.interview he said would he not rule out using weapons of mass
:06:42. > :06:47.destruction against the Islamic State and when it came to other
:06:48. > :06:51.organisations, he said he wanted to be unpredictable. But what can
:06:52. > :06:55.Donald Trump do? There is a $1 trialian package under way to revamp
:06:56. > :06:58.ageing nuclear programmes here in the United States. If he wanted to
:06:59. > :07:02.add to that, that would be very costly. In truth here, there is only
:07:03. > :07:06.one man who really knows what he meant and that is Donald Trump
:07:07. > :07:10.himself. And in 29 day, he will have his hands on the nuclear code.
:07:11. > :07:11.Many thanks, Laura at the White House tonight.
:07:12. > :07:17.# German police say there's
:07:18. > :07:25.clear evidence linking their main suspect, a
:07:26. > :07:27.Tunisian man, Anis Amri, to the attack on a Christmas
:07:28. > :07:29.market in Berlin. His fingerprints have
:07:30. > :07:32.been found in the lorry that was driven into shoppers
:07:33. > :07:33.on Monday, killing 12 people. Speaking at the family
:07:34. > :07:35.home in Tunisia, Amri's brother called on him
:07:36. > :07:37.to give himself up. Chancellor Merkel said today
:07:38. > :07:40.she was proud of the calm way in which Germans had responded
:07:41. > :07:42.to the attack, as our Europe correspondent,
:07:43. > :07:43.Damian Grammaticas, reports. It's new footage
:07:44. > :07:45.that's just emerged. The scene immediately after Monday's
:07:46. > :07:47.attack, filmed from a A few seconds earlier,
:07:48. > :07:50.this is what happened, From the left comes
:07:51. > :07:54.the lorry at speed, heading straight for
:07:55. > :07:58.the Christmas market. This is Anis Amri, the man
:07:59. > :08:03.police say was driving it, filming himself humming
:08:04. > :08:06.nonchalantly in Berlin. The video posted to his
:08:07. > :08:09.Facebook page in September. Now the 24-year-old Tunisian
:08:10. > :08:14.is Europe's most-wanted man. Police first found his ID
:08:15. > :08:18.documents in the cab of the lorry, now tests have shown his
:08:19. > :08:24.fingerprints on the door and the bodywork, the conclusion
:08:25. > :08:28.that he was at the wheel. Angela Merkel, this afternoon,
:08:29. > :08:32.thanked Germans for their measured TRANSLATION: Our thoughts
:08:33. > :08:42.are constantly with the victims' We owe it to them to give
:08:43. > :08:46.this our very best. I can say we've done a lot
:08:47. > :08:47.in recent years to meet Police raids in Germany,
:08:48. > :08:51.earlier today, targeted Anis Amri's known contacts,
:08:52. > :08:52.turning up nothing. His family, back in Tunisia,
:08:53. > :08:54.last saw him five years ago. They say he wasn't religious,
:08:55. > :08:58.drank alcohol, and dreamed of owning TRANSLATION: If my brother
:08:59. > :09:05.is listening to me, I want to tell him to surrender,
:09:06. > :09:08.for the sake of our family. If he did what he's suspected
:09:09. > :09:12.of having done, he'll be sanctioned But I'm sure that my
:09:13. > :09:17.brother is innocent. Anis Amri left his family
:09:18. > :09:19.travelling, illegally, He spent four years in jail
:09:20. > :09:24.for violence and theft but without a passport,
:09:25. > :09:27.he couldn't be deported to Tunisia. So, last year, he moved
:09:28. > :09:30.to Kleve in Germany. Denied asylum, once again
:09:31. > :09:33.he wasn't deported. Security services feared
:09:34. > :09:36.he was trying to get automatic weapons for an attack but with no
:09:37. > :09:39.new evidence, surveillance of him Should the authorities have
:09:40. > :09:47.taken the threat posed But for most Germans,
:09:48. > :09:52.as the markets re-open here with new security barriers,
:09:53. > :09:55.criticisms of the police are less So, getting Breitscheidplatz
:09:56. > :10:02.up and running today We have to respond to the terrorists
:10:03. > :10:11.that we don't care, we are going to open,
:10:12. > :10:14.we are not scared because it's The crowds were thinner
:10:15. > :10:19.than usual, but wanted to show "I've come to show we must not
:10:20. > :10:26.hide", says Rosemary. I was here on Monday,
:10:27. > :10:37.luckily I left before it happened." "I feel anger and sadness,
:10:38. > :10:39.more anger", says Annika, "I didn't know any of the victims
:10:40. > :10:42.but it makes me really angry." Berliners determined to show
:10:43. > :10:53.they won't give up the things Live to Berlin tonight and Damian is
:10:54. > :10:59.there. Tell us more in the progress in this investigation that has been
:11:00. > :11:02.reported today. Well, Huw, this is an important step forward, I think,
:11:03. > :11:09.the fingerprint evidence that now means that police think Anis Amri
:11:10. > :11:14.was driving that truck. The question is - where did he go after the
:11:15. > :11:18.attack here? Late this evening some newspapers here have published
:11:19. > :11:21.grainy photos taken in the hours after the attack, outside a mosque
:11:22. > :11:27.in Berlin, showing a man loitering in a doorway. They say that maybe,
:11:28. > :11:30.Anis Amri. We can't be sure. We know police raided that mosque today and
:11:31. > :11:35.found nothing but there are serious questions to answer about why they
:11:36. > :11:42.haven't been able to track him down. Are there people helping him? And
:11:43. > :11:45.why, before the attacks, were the Security Services warnings not
:11:46. > :11:48.heeded and why was he not deported? But for now it is worth remembering
:11:49. > :11:54.that the Germans are putting that criticism to one side. This is the
:11:55. > :11:58.first mass casualty terror attack in Germany. They are shocked but
:11:59. > :12:03.willing to, I think, react with some patience. The question, though,
:12:04. > :12:09.remains - where is Anis Amri, where has he gone? And tonight, remains
:12:10. > :12:13.armed, dangerous and still on the run. Thank you very much, Damian.
:12:14. > :12:16.The owner of a haulage company and his mechanic
:12:17. > :12:17.have both been convicted of manslaughter,
:12:18. > :12:20.after a truck with faulty brakes crashed in Bath last year,
:12:21. > :12:21.killing three men and a four-year-old girl.
:12:22. > :12:24.Matthew Gordon and Peter Wood will be sentenced next month.
:12:25. > :12:25.The vehicle's driver, Phillip Potter, was
:12:26. > :12:29.Our correspondent, Jon Kay, has been following the trial
:12:30. > :12:39.A 32-tonne truck with defective brakes had careered down a steep
:12:40. > :12:49.Four-year-old Mitzi Steady didn't stand a chance.
:12:50. > :12:55.Businessmen, Robert Parker and Philip Alan were also hit,
:12:56. > :12:57.killed with their driver, Stephen Vaughn,
:12:58. > :13:04.Sian Vaughn told me that being widowed, so soon
:13:05. > :13:08.after her wedding day, had left her heart broken.
:13:09. > :13:11.And especially having to spend your first wedding
:13:12. > :13:13.anniversary alone was just so far removed from the one
:13:14. > :13:22.It's just been absolutely horrendous.
:13:23. > :13:24.Today the boss of Grittenham Haulage, Matthew Gordon,
:13:25. > :13:25.and mechanic, Peter Wood, were both found guilty
:13:26. > :13:30.The trial heard the company was a shambles, failing to carry out
:13:31. > :13:38.The jury was told that as the tipper truck came down
:13:39. > :13:41.the hill that afternoon, its brakes were badly worn, rusty,
:13:42. > :13:48.Philip Potter, who was at the wheel of the truck, was found not guilty
:13:49. > :13:51.of causing death by dangerous or careless driving.
:13:52. > :13:58.He left court sending his thoughts to the bereaved families.
:13:59. > :14:02.He told the jury he hadn't realised the truck was in such a poor state
:14:03. > :14:04.until the brakes failed, and he said his boss had
:14:05. > :14:08.told him to ignore a warning light on the dashboard.
:14:09. > :14:13.When it's blooming it comes out pink.
:14:14. > :14:16.Before the trial, he told BBC News he'd planted
:14:17. > :14:20.tree on the family farm, in memory of the victims.
:14:21. > :14:23.It is like you press replay in your head every night,
:14:24. > :14:26.you go to close your eyes and you just see it.
:14:27. > :14:29.And you think - there was nothing else I could have done that day
:14:30. > :14:40.Just thinking of those four people, all the time, just thinking how
:14:41. > :14:42.horrible it must be for the families and just how hard it
:14:43. > :14:45.would be to lose someone that you love so much.
:14:46. > :14:48.Philip Potter told the trial that as he sat here that afternoon,
:14:49. > :15:00.trying to take in what had just happened, his boss, Matthew Gordon,
:15:01. > :15:15.Sian Vaughn says she's been horrified to hear in court
:15:16. > :15:18.about the state of the truck, especially as her chauffeur husband
:15:19. > :15:21.The words he would have used to describe them would have been
:15:22. > :15:24."cowboys" because there is no way that Steve would have
:15:25. > :15:26.ever put anybody's life in danger, let alone his own.
:15:27. > :15:28.The families hope Matthew Gordon's conviction will send a clear
:15:29. > :15:30.message to the owners of all haulage companies.
:15:31. > :15:32.He and Peter Wood were remanded in custody,
:15:33. > :15:41.The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh have arrived
:15:42. > :15:43.at Sandringham for Christmas - a day later than planned
:15:44. > :15:45.because they're both suffering from heavy colds.
:15:46. > :15:47.A helicopter arrived at Buckingham Palace to take them
:15:48. > :15:52.The Palace confirmed their departure but wouldn't make any further
:15:53. > :16:00.The Prince of Wales has warned of the dangers of religious
:16:01. > :16:02.persecution and intolerance and he's likened the current threat
:16:03. > :16:04.to religions and religious groups around the world
:16:05. > :16:09.Prince Charles said religious freedom was particularly at risk
:16:10. > :16:12.in the Middle East, as our royal correspondent,
:16:13. > :16:20.Religious persecution is as old as faith itself.
:16:21. > :16:26.Christians in Iraq and Syria kidnapped or driven
:16:27. > :16:34.Attacks on Yazidis and Jews and others.
:16:35. > :16:36.Tolerance and freedom of worship are important
:16:37. > :16:40.He recently attended the consecration of a new Syriac
:16:41. > :16:47.He is troubled by the growing evidence of intolerance.
:16:48. > :16:50.Normally at Christmas we think of the birth...
:16:51. > :16:53.In a broadcast for BBC radio's Thought For The Day,
:16:54. > :16:57.Charles likened the persecution of religious minorities
:16:58. > :17:01.and refugees to what happened to the Jews in Nazi Germany.
:17:02. > :17:04.We are now seeing the rise of many populist groups across the world
:17:05. > :17:07.who are increasingly aggressive towards those who adhere
:17:08. > :17:13.All of this has deeply disturbing echoes of
:17:14. > :17:21.I was born in 1948, just after the end of World War II,
:17:22. > :17:27.in which my parents' generation had fought and died in a battle
:17:28. > :17:29.against intolerance, monstrous extremism and an inhuman
:17:30. > :17:36.attempt to exterminate the Jewish population of Europe.
:17:37. > :17:40.That, nearly 70 years later, we should still be seeing such
:17:41. > :17:44.evil persecution is, to me, beyond all belief.
:17:45. > :17:48.He ended his broadcast with a plea for tolerance.
:17:49. > :17:54.Whichever religious path we follow, the destination is the same.
:17:55. > :17:56.To value and respect the other person, accepting their right
:17:57. > :18:02.to live out their peaceful response to the love of God.
:18:03. > :18:04.The Prince's intervention has been applauded.
:18:05. > :18:06.I think it was bold, strong, timely and necessary.
:18:07. > :18:10.Here is a man who will one day be Defender of the Faith in Britain,
:18:11. > :18:13.who has always said he wants to be defender of faith itself.
:18:14. > :18:17.And he is protesting the rise of religiously motivated violence
:18:18. > :18:26.It was strong and courageous and deeply humanitarian.
:18:27. > :18:30.In due course, when he is king and Supreme Governor
:18:31. > :18:33.of the Church of England, Charles knows that his freedom
:18:34. > :18:39.But for now, and on subjects such as this, he feels he has a duty
:18:40. > :18:49.Nicholas Witchel, BBC News, at Clarence House.
:18:50. > :18:52.The Syrian army says it's in control of all of Aleppo,
:18:53. > :18:54.the biggest military victory for President Assad
:18:55. > :18:58.The last convoy of civilians and rebel fighters was
:18:59. > :19:03.One of those brought out in the past few days was
:19:04. > :19:05.seven-year-old Bana Alabed, whose messages on social
:19:06. > :19:09.media covered everything from the death of friends,
:19:10. > :19:11.to her family's attempts to lead a normal life.
:19:12. > :19:18.Our correspondent, Orla Guerin, has been to meet Bana and her mother.
:19:19. > :19:24.Hello, I am Bana, I'm seven years old, I am from Aleppo.
:19:25. > :19:26.From the rubble of Aleppo to the red carpet in Ankara,
:19:27. > :19:31.Bana Alabed and her family are now being hosted by the Turkish
:19:32. > :19:36.government, which opposes the Syrian regime.
:19:37. > :19:39.When we met, this child of war told me how her own home
:19:40. > :19:48.TRANSLATION: We were playing happily and planning to go out
:19:49. > :19:56.So, we got scared and ran to the basement.
:19:57. > :20:01.When our house was bombed, we got out of the rubble safely,
:20:02. > :20:08.but we were about to die because the house was collapsing.
:20:09. > :20:10.Her updates from inside Aleppo echoed around the world,
:20:11. > :20:18.with help from her mother, who manages her Twitter account.
:20:19. > :20:20.But some have questioned whose views were being shared.
:20:21. > :20:24.When your mum was tweeting, was she tweeting your words
:20:25. > :20:36.Her mother, Fatima, insists the Twitter account was Bana's idea,
:20:37. > :20:41.but admits it is a way to combat the regime.
:20:42. > :20:49.I think there now was a big fight out there.
:20:50. > :21:02.But the tweets attracted threats and made it harder for the family
:21:03. > :21:05.to join the mass evacuation of eastern Aleppo.
:21:06. > :21:09.Fatima got Bana on to one of the buses, disguised as a boy.
:21:10. > :21:13.Today, the last opposition fighters retreated from their former
:21:14. > :21:18.stronghold, and by the evening the Syrian Army was in control
:21:19. > :21:20.of the entire city for the first time in more than four
:21:21. > :21:32.Just days after escaping all this, Bana dreams of returning.
:21:33. > :21:36.TRANSLATION: I was happy to leave but sad at the same time.
:21:37. > :21:41.I wish I could go back to Aleppo, go back home.
:21:42. > :21:44.I want to live in my house, because I love it,
:21:45. > :21:57.Before saying goodbye, Bana sang us a song about childhood
:21:58. > :22:04.# I am a child with something to say...#
:22:05. > :22:06.One voice, raised for countless others, who often go unheard.
:22:07. > :22:25.The funeral of the Russian ambassador to Turkey,
:22:26. > :22:28.who was shot dead three days ago in Ankara, has been held in Moscow.
:22:29. > :22:30.Andrei Karlov was murdered by an off-duty policeman
:22:31. > :22:33.while giving a speech in the Turkish capital.
:22:34. > :22:35.President Putin was among the mourners at a special
:22:36. > :22:42.ceremony, before the burial with full military honours.
:22:43. > :22:44.Here, the planned strikes by British Airways cabin crew
:22:45. > :22:46.on Christmas Day and Boxing Day have been suspended.
:22:47. > :22:49.Members of the Unite union were due to walk out as part
:22:50. > :22:54.But talks have led to a revised offer, which will now
:22:55. > :23:02.More than 60 prisoners have taken control of a wing at HMP Swaleside,
:23:03. > :23:09.The Prison Officers' Association says fires have been lit,
:23:10. > :23:11.but say the situation is isolated to one landing.
:23:12. > :23:14.It comes less then a week after a riot at HMP Birmingham,
:23:15. > :23:18.which took 12 hours to bring under control.
:23:19. > :23:25.Our reporter Peter Whittlesea is on the Isle of Sheppey tonight.
:23:26. > :23:36.Peter, bring us up to date. Well, it is unclear exactly what the latest
:23:37. > :23:40.situation is but according to the prison service it is now isolated to
:23:41. > :23:45.a landing on one wing. But the inmates are refusing to go back into
:23:46. > :23:50.their cells. Images of this riot are emerging and one person purporting
:23:51. > :23:55.to be an inmate phoned the BBC, saying the prison is in lockdown. He
:23:56. > :24:00.separate was triggered after prison staff raided cells and confiscated
:24:01. > :24:04.property. Earlier, I went down to the prison, three quarters of a mile
:24:05. > :24:09.down this road. From outside, I could clearly hear in makes shouting
:24:10. > :24:14.and screaming from inside the prison. And outside also there were
:24:15. > :24:19.fire crews and ambulance crews on stand-by, and also extra staff were
:24:20. > :24:22.being drafted in. In the last half-hour we have seen riot vans
:24:23. > :24:25.going towards the prison. Thank you for the update.
:24:26. > :24:28.China has warned that relations with the United States could suffer
:24:29. > :24:30."complications" once Donald Trump is installed as US President.
:24:31. > :24:33.During the recent election campaign, Mr Trump made a series
:24:34. > :24:37.of controversial remarks about the impact of Chinese imports
:24:38. > :24:41.He's now chosen an economist who's been highly critical of China
:24:42. > :24:50.Kamal Ahmed explores the prospects for America's relations with China.
:24:51. > :24:52.I graduated with my bachelor's, and I haven't been
:24:53. > :24:57.And the way the economy's going right now, it's
:24:58. > :25:01.It was a major theme of the presidential campaign,
:25:02. > :25:06.Globalisation and the rise of China were blamed for economic stagnation
:25:07. > :25:12.Today, President-elect Trump showed his hand, appointing
:25:13. > :25:16.the man who made this film, Death By China, as his
:25:17. > :25:22.He is the Economist Peter Navarro, and he's clear where
:25:23. > :25:30.Every job that American corporations offshore to China or some other
:25:31. > :25:34.country becomes less of a reason to stand up here and fight
:25:35. > :25:43.President-elect Trump is following through on his campaign pledges.
:25:44. > :25:45.We can't continue to allow China to rape our country,
:25:46. > :25:53.America and China are the world's two largest economies.
:25:54. > :25:58.If a trade war broke out, it could affect global growth.
:25:59. > :26:03.The trade between them is huge, valued at $660 billion.
:26:04. > :26:08.US exports to China are valued at $162 billion.
:26:09. > :26:10.The country is America's third largest export market.
:26:11. > :26:15.But imports from China into America are far higher,
:26:16. > :26:21.And this, according to President-elect Trump,
:26:22. > :26:30.is the problem, a trade deficit with China totalling $336 billion.
:26:31. > :26:32.Mr Trump says closing that gap would create
:26:33. > :26:42.An America that has certainly lost plenty of traditional manufacturing
:26:43. > :26:44.jobs, like here in Pennsylvania, once the heart of
:26:45. > :26:47.But although people may blame outside forces,
:26:48. > :26:50.economists argue that the job market has changed and that cheap goods
:26:51. > :26:56.from China have been good for hard-pressed US consumers.
:26:57. > :27:02.With China, maybe just we challenge them on one of their policies
:27:03. > :27:07.They may announce a retaliation, they may not.
:27:08. > :27:10.But it looks like quite a bit of friction with China
:27:11. > :27:23.China does not appreciate being called an economic bully.
:27:24. > :27:26.TRANSLATION: China and the United States,
:27:27. > :27:28.as two large countries, have broad common interests.
:27:29. > :27:32.Cooperation is the only correct choice.
:27:33. > :27:34.Mr Navarro's film is certainly provocative, and in power,
:27:35. > :27:42.But with President-elect Trump's pledges ringing in voters' ears,
:27:43. > :27:44.and this most hawkish of China opponents now inside
:27:45. > :27:47.the White House, fears of a trade war between two global economic
:27:48. > :28:00.A return to work after a three-year absence would be a daunting
:28:01. > :28:03.challenge for most people, but Alex Lewis from Hampshire has
:28:04. > :28:06.had to overcome difficulties that very few have experienced.
:28:07. > :28:09.Three years ago he suffered an illness which led to the loss
:28:10. > :28:14.But as Duncan Kennedy reports, the story of Alex's determination
:28:15. > :28:18.to recover and rebuild his life, is one of courage and
:28:19. > :28:27.Precious moments with the family that kept and keep Alex Lewis going.
:28:28. > :28:36.A man whose body was devoured by flesh-consuming bacteria.
:28:37. > :28:40.Nothing at all and I think in some respects that's better.
:28:41. > :28:45.You know, no-one tried to blow me up in war,
:28:46. > :28:55.Alex's "bad luck", as he puts it, started in 2013 when he went
:28:56. > :28:59.from this, to this, after a cold became a strep A infection,
:29:00. > :29:09.For his partner, Lucy, seeing his mouth and nose
:29:10. > :29:14.disintegrate and his arms and legs amputated, was devastating.
:29:15. > :29:17.I couldn't go into the room and see him after it.
:29:18. > :29:19.I found it really difficult to go in and see.
:29:20. > :29:22.I could deal with the legs, I could deal with the legs.
:29:23. > :29:24.I couldn't just deal with the arms very well.
:29:25. > :29:28.Alex began three gruelling years of recovery,
:29:29. > :29:41.But during his 20 operations, Alex always kept one goal in mind -
:29:42. > :29:51.What sort of feeling does that bring, being back at work?
:29:52. > :29:54.It shows that you can get out, you can go back to work.
:29:55. > :29:56.You're not resigned to being stuck at home because you are
:29:57. > :30:04.Alex has become an interior designer.
:30:05. > :30:08.He tested his ideas in this restaurant but now he's won
:30:09. > :30:14.All with the imagination he never knew he had.
:30:15. > :30:19.If we can get through the previous three years, like we have done,
:30:20. > :30:22.going back to work and creating a new business is the topping
:30:23. > :30:25.on the cake, really, the icing on the cake.
:30:26. > :30:33.Alex will base himself at home, and make site visits
:30:34. > :30:39.But just listen to how he sums it all up.
:30:40. > :30:43.They have been the best three years of my life, I think,
:30:44. > :30:47.because I wasn't making the most of the life that I had
:30:48. > :30:53.I think falling ill made me realise what I had.
:30:54. > :30:55.People watching this may use words like "hope",
:30:56. > :30:59.What is your message to come out of all this?
:31:00. > :31:01.It means that I can move on and hopefully live
:31:02. > :31:06.an extraordinary life in a different body.
:31:07. > :31:27.Duncan Kennedy, BBC News, in Stockbridge.
:31:28. > :31:31.Here on BBC One, it's time for the news where you are.