05/01/2017 BBC News at Ten

A warning from America's top

intelligence officials - Russian cyber attacks pose a major

They insist there is no doubt that Russia tried to interfere

I don't think that we've ever encountered a more aggressive

or direct campaign to interfere in our election process

The President elect Donald Trump will be briefed about the findings

Jill Saward - the first rape victim in the UK to waive her right

to anonymity and campaign against sexual violence has died.

I want people to be able to understand just how much

of a trauma rape is and just what you do go through.

Britain's service sector grew rapidly last month -

at its fastest pace for almost 18 months - according a new survey.

Noise and air pollution - how living near major roads

could put you at higher risk of developing dementia.

And six letters from Princess Diana to a Buckingham palace

steward are sold at auction for more than ?15,000.

And coming up in Sportsday on BBC News, Sir Andy Murray's

through to the Qatar Open semi-finals after beating

He'll face either Jo-Wilfried Tsonga or Tomas Berdych in the last four.

American intelligence officials have given a stark warning

about the threat posed by Russian cyber attacks.

The outgoing US National Intelligence Director,

James Clapper, told a Senate hearing he hasn't come across a more

aggressive campaign to interfere with an American election

than Russia's actions in last year's race for the White House.

Mr Clapper - who will brief Donald Trump about his findings tomorrow -

said the hacking of Democratic Party emails had been ordered

Washington is investigating what could be the biggest political

In the 70s it was the building belonging to the Democratic National

In 2016 it was the computer system at the party's present headquarters.

A robbery in cyberspace rather than in person.

And US intelligence believes it was orchestrated

by Vladimir Putin, from the Kremlin, to help Donald Trump

I want to welcome all our members back to the committee.

Today, those allegations were aired publicly

on Capitol Hill at this Republican-controlled

Every American should be alarmed by Russia's attacks on our nation.

There is no national security interest more vital

to the United States of America than the ability to hold

free and fair elections without foreign interference.

That's why Congress must set partisanship aside,

follow the facts and work together to devise comprehensive

solutions to deter and defend against and, when necessary, respond

America's Director of National Intelligence,

James Clapper, said he stood more resolutely by a statement

released in October, before the election,

that Moscow was interfering to help Donald Trump.

He was asked if that was an act of war.

Whether or not that constitutes an act of war I think is a very

heavy policy call that I don't believe the intelligence

community should make, but it would certainly carry,

The President-elect has repeatedly rubbished the notion

that he achieved a Kremlin-assisted victory and has publicly poured

He's also spoken approvingly of Julian Assange, the founder

of Wikileaks, who released the hacked e-mails and

claimed the Russians weren't involved.

That's enraged senators from both parties.

Who actually is the benefactor of someone who's about to become

commander-in-chief trashing the intelligence community?

I think there's a difference between scepticism and disparagement.

Director Clapper, how would you describe Mr Assange?

I don't think those of us in the intelligence community

Then, this blunt and direct message for President-elect Trump

from a senior member of his own party.

I want to let the President-elect know that it's OK to challenge

the intel, you're absolutely right to want to do so, but what I don't

want you to do is undermine those who are serving our nation in this

arena until you're absolutely sure they need to be undermined.

And I think they need to be uplifted, not undermined.

Trump Tower these days has its own microclimate of Twitter

The President-elect took to social media to complain that journalists

were being dishonest in saying he agreed with Julian Assange

and that he was a big fan of the intelligence community.

Donald Trump will receive the treatment tomorrow. Will it alter

his thinking, that the Russian hacking claims are a cock-up along

the lines of Iraqs weapons of mass destruction, rather than pointing to

a Kremlin conspiracy. And confirmation that Theresa May is

heading to Washington in the next month or two to see Donald Trump?

You remember the first conversation and Donald Trump delivered the

casual invitation: If you travel to the US, you should let me know! Well

Downing Street wanted to firm up the details, especially at the time when

Donald Trump was tweeting that Nigel Farage would make a great UK

ambassador. So meetings with Donald Trump's transition team. A vague

date in the diary, it may happen in spring or next month. Tony Blair met

George W Bush in February for the first time, Gordon Brown met

President Obama in early March, so this is the same sort of ball park.

But it could be that the first British politicians to get to shake

the hand of President Donald Trump will be Nigel Farage as it was

announced today he will be attending his inauguration in 15 days' time.

Thank you. Jill Saward, the woman who became

a renowned campaigner for survivors of sexual assault

after she was raped during a burglary at

her father's vicarage, She was 51 and had

suffered a stroke. She became the first

rape survivor in the UK to waive her right to anonymity -

and spent much of the rest of her life crusading for better

treatment of survivors of sexual The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin

Welby described her as a heroic Here's our Home affairs

Correspondent June Kelly. Jill Saward was 21 when, in 1986,

she became the victim of a crime which caused revulsion

across the country. There was horror that in a suburban

vicarage in Ealing in West London, a young woman was dragged

into a bedroom at knife-point and It began to be serious

when Mantu took It began to be serious

when Man two took me upstairs and brought

me into this room, the spare room, basically,

and Her attackers were part

of a three-man gang, Her father, the Reverend

Michael Saward, and her Jill Saward's rapists

tied her up with a In the criminal trial that

followed, the judge caused outrage when he said that

Jill Saward's trauma - had not been so great -

and he gave her attackers, the gang member, who

be didn't rape her. My response to what the judge said

about me, that I had suffered no great trauma,

or that the trauma don't think words could have

expressed how I felt in that I don't think the judge had a clue

what I went through. As a rape victim, Jill

Saward's name was kept secret but she took

the decision to write a book and speak

publically about what she had I want people to be able

to understand just how much of a trauma rape is,

and just what you do go through when you're being raped,

and I hope that what I've done Having been exposed

to the realities of the Criminal Justice System, Jill Saward became

a pivotal advocate of better She was at the vanguard

of a successful campaign to stop defendants in rape

cases from cross-examining women Tonight fellow campaigners

pay tribute to her. And one of the most

important things she did, of course, was to try

to dispell the stigma and the taboo around rape and sexual violence,

because as a survivor herself, she very strongly and rightly,

repeated the message, the survivor, the victim, has

nothing to feel ashamed about, it is always the perpetrator who has

the reason to feel shame. Jill Saward leaves

a husband and three sons. The Attorney General

said she had opened the eyes of many

politicians and helped to ensure that victims

were placed at the heart

of the Criminal Justice System. The campaigner Jill Saward,

who's died at the age of 51. The way domestic abusers are dealt

with in family courts in England The Justice Secretary wants to stop

the growing practice of abusers questioning their own victims -

adding to their ordeal. One woman in four can expect

to experience domestic violence At the moment two women are killed

every week in England and Wales Now a pilot scheme backed

by the Home Office - has brought Northumbria Police

and several other agencies together in a new way

of tackling the problem. As our UK Affairs Correspondent

Jeremy Cooke reports, I'm just going to try

around the back. Northumbria Police,

tracking down those guilty of a crime often unseen

- domestic violence. The lad we're going to see is no

stranger to the police anyway. It's a volatile relationship, erm,

so there's physical violence, The key is intelligence-gathering,

a task that goes well His father believed he may have been

recalled to prison... In this one room are councils

and probation workers, victim support groups,

the NHS and more. Six police events on our system

are all down to domestic abuse. All of it designed

to identify suspects. We wouldn't have a domestic

abuse victim if we didn't Therefore, if we want to stop

domestic abuse, we need The work could hardly

be more urgent. This police force alone has dealt

with almost 30,000 domestic abuse We were standing in the kitchen just

talking, and then next thing, Was biting us, punching us,

grabbed us by the throat. I just thought she was in the wrong,

I was blaming her for everything and I punched her and kicked her

and I physically assaulted her. I don't know what I done it for,

just something flipped, or clicked, Back on the street, the police

are still on the case. And finally, they track

down their man and the woman They've slipped out of the house

into the back alley. This is to inform you that

Northumbria Police have identified you as a domestic

abuse serial perpetrator. What's different here is that these

cops are not making an arrest, they're trying to get him to engage

in a programme to stop the violence. We can offer you these

courses now, and... It's things like, they're looking

at things like anger management, drug and alcohol misuse,

and it's like, you want You recognise the behaviour

before it escalated It's a key element of this

new Home Office-funded pilot scheme. Every man on this course had

admitted domestic abuse, Your body tenses up,

your fists will clench. The numbers are impressive -

for men who complete this course, rates of offending have reduced

by 61% - enough I love him, and we've got

four children together. That to me is enough

to try to make things work. Some people watching this

who will say, you shouldn't be on this course, you should

be in jail? Well, to be honest with you,

I think I should have been in jail. I think anyone who hits anybody

or abuses anybody or anything But obviously, I've

had a second chance. Ultimately, those behind this

programme want one thing - They're doing all they can,

but there are warnings that the process can only be

as strong as its weakest link. We've taken the initiative,

and I want the courts to follow suit and take

the initiative, too. And it is a nasty course of conduct

that's changing vulnerable victims' lives and the courts need

to intervene, understanding that. The police here stress

that whenever possible, perpetrators will still face

arrest and prosecution. It's a zero tolerance

message, and it's all Details of organisations providing

support for victims of domestic Two people have been killed and five

have been wounded in a car bomb explosion in the Turkish resort

of Izmir. The blast took place outside

the city's courthouse, with armed attackers opening fire

before detonating a bomb. Two of the attackers were shot dead

by police and a third Britain's service sector

grew rapidly last month, at its fastest pace

for almost a year and a half. Services, which cover everything

from retail and transport, to banking and accounting,

make up three-quarters The Chief Economist at the Bank

of England, Andy Haldane, welcomed the figures,

but warned that the next two years Here's our Economics

Editor, Kamal Ahmed. The great British shopper,

still confident, still spending, still the motor driving the UK

economy, which, despite all those gloomy forecasts,

now looks set to be one With interest rates low

and employment levels high, for these shoppers in Birmingham,

it's time to splash out. I just spend all the time,

because I get paid weekly, so as soon as I get paid

I spend it all. I'm the kind of person,

if I like something, I'll go and buy it anyway,

whether it's in the sale or not. But I think I am still

a bit careful, yes. Cashing in for the moment,

the high street shops like this one in Glasgow,

that are the mainstay It was a good Christmas for us,

which is a very important Going forward, I'm not so confident

that things will hold up The reason being that a lot

of our suppliers have already announced price rises for 2017,

most of them across the board. Here's the chief economist

of the Bank of England, an organisation that warned before

the referendum that things could get If you look at how the British

consumer performed during the course of last year, it's almost as though

the referendum had not taken place. And of course, in terms

of many of the real things, like pay and jobs, not

very much happened. Do you feel more confident now

about the UK economy in 2017, given the very positive figures this

morning on services, very positive figures on construction,

very positive figures on manufacturing, than you and

the Bank did pre the referendum, if there was a vote to leave

the European Union? We are still expecting this rather

difficult balancing act, with a slowing, not a huge slowing,

but nonetheless a material slowing during the course of next year,

as the effects of higher prices in the shops begin to chew away

a little at the spending Andrew Haldane welcomed

today's good economic news, based as they are on the resilience

of the great British shopper. But in those figures

today, a note of warning. Inflation in the services sector,

the biggest part of the UK economy, is now rising at rates not seen

since April 2011. And that could lead

to higher prices. Add that to increasing household

debt and Brexit uncertainty, and that all-important consumer

confidence could dim, The number of new cars sold in

the UK hit an all-time high in 2016. was mainly due to high demand

from business customers, according to the Society

of Motor Manufacturers and Traders. But sales are expected

to fall sharply this year, as our industry correspondent

John Moylan reports. Once, new cars were the preserve

of the privileged few. These days, we buy cars

like mobile phones. The reason we're all buying so many

new cars is because the industry In fact, the vast majority

of customers are now effectively leasing new vehicles

for an affordable monthly payment, rather than worrying

about the overall sticker price. Ivan Foreman used to

buy cars second-hand. All of the options are now available

with leasing and financing. I can now pay less overall

on a monthly basis but still go home You can probably now have a car

like that for ?10 a month This shift in how we buy cars

is also changing the type There's a real trend for people

to buy more upmarket cars, because the monthly payments

are usually not that much greater than buying a more mainstream

vehicle and people are very badge conscious and they want the latest

technology and that's what these Last year, total sales hit

almost 2.7 million cars. That was up 2.3% on the previous

year, which was also a record high. But the industry now expects

sales to fall by more That's because consumer

demand has been falling. It could get worse,

amid the economic uncertainty ahead. What's more, higher prices

are coming to forecourts. The pressure that comes

from a lower value pound, to a certain extent does help

exporters but the converse is it Around six out of seven cars

we sell here are imported, so the pressure of that depreciation

in sterling will undoubtedly flow The rising price of fuel

won't help either. Petrol and diesel have

hit an 18-month high. After five years of growth,

the car market could be A brief look at some of the day's

other other news stories. A 30-year-old man has been charged

with firearms offences in relation to a police operation

in which another man was shot dead Moshin Amin from Dewsbury

will appear before A postmortem has found Yassar Yaqub

died from wounds to the chest after the car he was in was stopped

on a slip road off the M62 The RMT union has accepted an offer

from the Transport Secretary, Chris Grayling, to discuss the

long-running dispute over operating train doors on

Southern Rail. Unions are arguing that the

extension of driver-only services, where drivers rather than guards

open and close carriage doors, A transgender prisoner has been

found dead at a jail Jenny Swift, who was

49, was transitioning from a man to a woman,

but had been on remand at Doncaster Prison,

which only holds male inmates. The death is not being

treated as suspicious. People who live near major roads

could be at greater risk That's according to a decade-long

study by scientists in Canada. They say air pollutants caused

by heavy traffic could get But the researchers say

more work is now needed Air pollution and noise,

two of the downsides But a greater likelihood

of getting dementia? Well, that's the theory

behind a new study. This research shows, I think

for pretty much the first time, there is a link between living

near a busy main road, we're talking a busy A-road

or dual carriageway, and having an increased

risk for dementia. Which I think shows that it could be

a new risk factor we hadn't A study of 2 million Canadians found

around 10% of dementia cases in urban areas could be linked

to exposure to heavy traffic. Researchers found that living

within 50 metres of a major road increased the risk

of dementia by 7%-11%. At 100 metres, the

increased risk was 4%. Leeds is like any urban centre,

congested and polluted. Keeping the mind active

is one of the benefits So are members worried that city

living might be harming them? I eat very well,

I exercise regularly. And yet, you know, you can,

just by living near a main road, you can do yourself a great

deal of damage. It wouldn't be a great shock to me,

in the same way that when unleaded petrol was introduced,

the connection between lead Around 850,000 people

in the UK have dementia. It gradually robs them of their

memories and brain function. But the origins of the condition

are not well understood. This research doesn't prove that

heavy traffic causes dementia. It makes a fascinating link that

requires further investigation. But there are already

many reasons to avoid It can cause serious breathing

difficulties and trigger a heart attack or stroke in those

already at risk. Last year, British scientists found

tiny pollution particles in samples of brain tissue,

another hint there may be a link between traffic

and neurodegenerative conditions. For now, the best advice

to reduce your dementia risk Artificial intelligence is set to

play an ever greater role and nowhere more so than in our

homes. Smart household appliances

are the big draw at this year's giant show is not just about the

distant future. Most of the products are likely to be in shops within the

coming months. Over the 50 years that the show has been taking place,

everything from the compact disc right through to four K TV has been

here first. This year it is all about artificial intelligence coming

into more and more products. From now on, just about every device that

you own is likely to be a smart device.

In a penthouse suite at a ritzy Las Vegas hotel,

There's a smart speaker for children where each toy is a playlist.

Alexa, what's the weather like in Las Vegas?

And here's another giant step towards a world

In a world first, this Chinese robot is controlled

Artificial intelligence helps it move and interact with humans.

It will be able to detect that you are perhaps having a bad day,

And that's all about, that is AI that is doing that?

That's an interaction with software that is unscripted.

Out on the road, cars are getting smarter.

This BMW prototype is the company's most radical step so far

So I've been told that it's perfectly safe for me to do this,

take my hands off the wheel and turn all the way around, look

around me, not actually concentrate on the road.

A safety adviser is ready to take the wheel and order me to brake,

but how many years before the car can really be trusted

I think BMW believe that starting '21, roughly like that,

we start with highly automated driving, not fully automated.

Fully automated driving will come up until, let's say 2030.

a young entrepreneur from Manchester thinks he has a very smart idea.

Danny's instant translation headphones aren't quite ready.

They'll eventually be tiny earbuds, but he's

It's really important to us because we'll be able to showcase

what we've been working on to the whole public

and the whole world, to let them know that this

is something we started years ago as a small team,

as a small start-up, with dedication, passion.

With giants like Apple and Google competing in the same field,

the odds are against Danny, but like plenty of people here,

he's betting he has the product that can change the world.

Rory Cellan-Jones, BBC News, Las Vegas.

Six handwritten letters from Princess Diana to a former

Buckingham Palace steward have sold for more than ?15,000 at auction.

The letters include some revealing insights

about the then young princes, William and Harry,

with one revealing that Prince Harry was constantly in trouble at school.

Sarah Campbell reports from the auction house in Cambridge.

All done this time, the hammer is up, and it's

Estimated values were quickly exceeded, as the world snapped up

As expected, it was Diana's heartfelt letters to Palace

employee Cyril Dickman, the Head Steward at Buckingham

She was a mother who obviously cared about her children.

And she was very generous, and she wasn't afraid

of putting her thoughts down on paper.

And that was shown in some of the lots we sold today.

September 1984, and Prince William's eagerness to see his new baby

Five days after the birth, Diana wrote, "William

adores his little brother and spends the entire time swamping

Harry with an endless supply of hugs and kisses,

That letter sold for more than five times the guide price...

Bids are coming in online and on the phone from across the world,

I'm told particularly America, Japan and Australia and all the lots

so far have easily exceeded their reserve price.

Alluding, perhaps, to the troubles in her marriage,

which were about to be made public, she thanks Cyril for thinking

of her at this "difficult period" and writes that the boys are well

and enjoying boarding school a lot, although Harry

Again, this sold for more than ?3,000.

Today, his grandson watched nervously as the family collection

I mean, it's a good thing my grandfather's

name's ben spread, and, again, my family.

And, again, it just raises the profile of what a great

The royal family is a source of fascination around the world and,

almost 20 years after her death, it appears the interest in Diana

As European capitals talk of the danger of a train crash

Brexit, one of Britain's senior EU officials tells us the UK isn't

going to be buying access to the single market.

Here, it's time for the news where you are.