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Tonight at Ten: The White House tries to limit the damage after one | :00:00. | :00:09. | |
of the President's senior advisors is forced to resign. | :00:10. | :00:13. | |
There was a breakdown of trust following Michael Flynn's misleading | :00:14. | :00:16. | |
account of contacts with Russian officials before | :00:17. | :00:18. | |
The issue, plain and simple, came down to a matter of trust | :00:19. | :00:22. | |
Mr Flynn was said to have conducted unlawful talks with Russian | :00:23. | :00:29. | |
diplomats and senior Republicans backed the decision | :00:30. | :00:32. | |
I think the President made the right decision to ask for his resignation. | :00:33. | :00:39. | |
You cannot have a national security advisor misleading | :00:40. | :00:41. | |
We'll be asking what the resignation tells us about the workings | :00:42. | :00:47. | |
The half-brother of the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, | :00:48. | :00:55. | |
is reported to have been killed in a poison attack in Malaysia. | :00:56. | :01:06. | |
The Ukip leader, Paul Nuttall, admits it was wrong to claim | :01:07. | :01:09. | |
he lost close friends in the Hillsborough disaster. | :01:10. | :01:12. | |
A special report from the Central African Republic | :01:13. | :01:13. | |
where rival militias are driving the country towards anarchy. | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
You portray yourself as a protector of the people. | :01:18. | :01:20. | |
But there is another view of you and that is that | :01:21. | :01:23. | |
And, a glorious way to mark the reopening of the line | :01:24. | :01:31. | |
Coming up in Sportsday on BBC News: Find out if Barcelona could come | :01:32. | :01:36. | |
back from two goals down at half-time in their | :01:37. | :01:40. | |
Champions League last 16 tie at Paris St Germain. | :01:41. | :02:01. | |
The White House has rejected suggestions that Donald Trump's | :02:02. | :02:08. | |
presidency is in turmoil following the resignation | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
of his national security adviser, Michael Flynn. | :02:13. | :02:15. | |
Mr Trump's spokesman said the level of trust between the two | :02:16. | :02:18. | |
men had been damaged, making Mr Flynn's | :02:19. | :02:20. | |
Mike Flynn had admitted misleading colleagues over his contact | :02:21. | :02:26. | |
with Russian diplomats before Mr Trump took office. | :02:27. | :02:29. | |
But the White House is now facing further questions | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
about the extent of its knowledge of Mr Flynn's activity. | :02:34. | :02:35. | |
Our North America editor Jon Sopel is at the White | :02:36. | :02:38. | |
There's always that question, did he jump or was he pushed? Overnight, | :02:39. | :02:51. | |
this morning, all the stress was on that Mr Flynn had reflected, thought | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
it was probably best for the administration, if he left. That all | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
changed this lunchtime when the former three star General was | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
unceremoniously thrown under the bus by the administration. | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
Politically inseparable, but after just three weeks | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
as national security adviser, Michael Flynn has gone | :03:14. | :03:15. | |
in a stunning fall from grace, after a day of chaos and confusion | :03:16. | :03:18. | |
The camera loving president, suddenly becoming camera shy | :03:19. | :03:27. | |
But today, the President's spokesman came out all guns blazing, | :03:28. | :03:33. | |
the former close friend had lost the President's trust. | :03:34. | :03:36. | |
We got to a point, not based on a legal issue, | :03:37. | :03:39. | |
but based on a trust issue with a level of trust | :03:40. | :03:45. | |
between the president and General Flynn had | :03:46. | :03:48. | |
eroded to the point where he felt he had | :03:49. | :03:50. | |
The president was very concerned that General Flynn had misled | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
The evolving and eroding level of trust as a result of this | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
situation and a series of other questionable instances is what led | :03:59. | :04:00. | |
the president to ask for General Flynn's resignation. | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
The Republican leadership, always uncomfortable | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
about the unorthodox General, were relieved to see him go. | :04:09. | :04:14. | |
You cannot have a national security adviser misleading the vice | :04:15. | :04:16. | |
So I think the president was right to ask for his resignation | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
and I believe it was the right thing to do. | :04:21. | :04:22. | |
This all goes back to action taken over the Christmas | :04:23. | :04:25. | |
period by the former President Barack Obama, | :04:26. | :04:26. | |
to impose sanctions against Russia over its interference | :04:27. | :04:28. | |
On the 29th of December, Michael Flynn speaks to the Russian | :04:29. | :04:35. | |
Ambassador in the first of a series of calls. | :04:36. | :04:39. | |
On the 15th of January, vice-president Mike Pence denies | :04:40. | :04:41. | |
What I can confirm, having spoken to him about it, | :04:42. | :04:47. | |
is that those conversations that happened to occur around the time | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
that the United States took action to expel diplomats had nothing | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
whatsoever to do with those sanctions. | :04:56. | :04:58. | |
But in late January, the former acting Attorney General | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
warned the White House it might have been misled by General | :05:04. | :05:05. | |
But then on the 9th of February, the Washington Post revealed Flynn | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
did discuss sanctions and it was then pressure grew. | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
And Democrats are not going to let the matter go. | :05:15. | :05:17. | |
The resignation of Michael Flynn was brought about, not | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
by discovering the falsehood, but by the fact that | :05:22. | :05:24. | |
And that ought to be deeply disturbing to everyone. | :05:25. | :05:30. | |
Welcome to the stage, General Mike Flynn, | :05:31. | :05:33. | |
Michael Flynn was a spear carrier for Donald Trump | :05:34. | :05:39. | |
during the election, making Hillary Clinton's honesty | :05:40. | :05:41. | |
We do not need a wreckless President who believes she is above the law. | :05:42. | :05:59. | |
Yes, that's right, lock her up. But now it is Michael Flynn who on a | :06:00. | :06:05. | |
question of trust has been found wanting and finds himself very much | :06:06. | :06:06. | |
alone. In a moment we'll speak to Jon | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
at the White House but first to Moscow and our correspondent | :06:11. | :06:13. | |
there Steve Rosenberg. Steve, the Kremlin saying this is a | :06:14. | :06:20. | |
matter for the US but behind the scenes what's been said? Well, there | :06:21. | :06:26. | |
is a degree of anger. Today several prominent Russian politicians took | :06:27. | :06:29. | |
to social media to express their anger and to claim that Michael | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
Flynn was a victim of anti-Russia paranoia in America but the Kremlin | :06:35. | :06:40. | |
said it wasn't going to comment and tonight Russian state television | :06:41. | :06:43. | |
didn't even mention the story in its main news, partly, I suspect, | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
because the whole thing is embarrassing for the Kremlin, but I | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
also think that Russia feels it doesn't need to make a lot out of | :06:52. | :06:57. | |
this because, after all, Moscow is counting on Donald Trump to change | :06:58. | :07:00. | |
US-Russia relations, not Michael Flynn. The Russians believe it is | :07:01. | :07:05. | |
going to be the Trump-Putin chemistry or lack of it that will be | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
the decisive factor here. One other thing that the Russians are aware | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
of, if these two leaders don't get on, if relations don't improve, then | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
Moscow know it is can fall back on its old way of doing things, | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
treating America as an external enemy, as a scapegoat for Russia's | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
own problems. From here at least it looks like whatever happens Russia | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
emerges the winner. Let's go to Washington and Jon, when | :07:33. | :07:36. | |
we look at this latest sequence of events what does it tell us about | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
the way this White House is functioning? If you were being | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
extremely kind you would say it is an administration that is still | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
finding its feet. If you were being harsh you would say it is like a | :07:50. | :07:54. | |
hornets nest that's been bashed very hard, sometimes it's dysfunctional | :07:55. | :07:57. | |
the way it operates. What has been striking is I don't think they worry | :07:58. | :08:00. | |
too much about that, it is what the people in the country who backed | :08:01. | :08:03. | |
Donald Trump think that they care most about. They've loved what he | :08:04. | :08:08. | |
said about immigration and jobs and border controls and all of that. | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
They don't get his attitude to Vladimir Putin. This is a man | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
prepared to pick a fight with anybody on Twitter, except Vladimir | :08:19. | :08:21. | |
Putin. There was a marked change of tone from the administration today | :08:22. | :08:28. | |
saying you don't know how tough we are being on Russia. I had obviously | :08:29. | :08:31. | |
missed that. There is a new tone and they want that ring out. One other | :08:32. | :08:37. | |
twist in an extraordinary 24 hours, the counsellor to the President has | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
been found guilty by the Government ethics watchdog of a clear violation | :08:43. | :08:49. | |
of their rules when she went on television and actually advertised | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
Ivanka Trump's clothes line. It hasn't been a perfect 24 hours for | :08:55. | :08:56. | |
the administration. Thank you. | :08:57. | :09:02. | |
The half-brother of the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, | :09:03. | :09:04. | |
is reported to have been killed in a poison attack at | :09:05. | :09:07. | |
American intelligence sources say they strongly believe that | :09:08. | :09:12. | |
Kim Jong-nam was murdered by North Korean agents. | :09:13. | :09:15. | |
He'd been critical of his half-brother's regime and had left | :09:16. | :09:18. | |
North Korea after being passed over for the leadership of the country. | :09:19. | :09:20. | |
Our correspondent Rupert Wingfield-Hayes - | :09:21. | :09:23. | |
who was detained in North Korea last year and is now in Tokyo - | :09:24. | :09:26. | |
This is Kim Jong-nam whose body is thought to be the one now lying | :09:27. | :09:32. | |
Officials there say he died after being sprayed in the face | :09:33. | :09:39. | |
with something at Kuala Lumpur airport this morning. | :09:40. | :09:41. | |
South Korean media immediately claimed North Korean agents had | :09:42. | :09:46. | |
assassinated Kim on the orders of his own younger | :09:47. | :09:49. | |
North Korea's young dictator has been tightening his grip | :09:50. | :09:56. | |
on power, ruthlessly purging potential opponents. | :09:57. | :09:59. | |
Last year I saw for myself how strange North Korea can be. | :10:00. | :10:07. | |
I was detained and expelled for insulting the Kim leadership. | :10:08. | :10:12. | |
Much more telling is what he did to his own uncle, | :10:13. | :10:16. | |
Jang Sung-taek was hauled away from a party meeting accused | :10:17. | :10:23. | |
Has he now also eliminated his brother? | :10:24. | :10:31. | |
Kim Jong-nam was once his father's favourite being groomed to one day | :10:32. | :10:34. | |
take over as North Korea's Supreme Leader. | :10:35. | :10:36. | |
But his downfall began here in Tokyo when he was caught sneaking | :10:37. | :10:39. | |
These pictures of his humiliating deportation from Japan are said | :10:40. | :10:47. | |
to have deeply angered his father, North Korea's late | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
His place at his father's side was taken instead by his younger | :10:52. | :10:59. | |
Kim Jong-nam then went into exile in Macau. | :11:00. | :11:04. | |
In interviews he repeatedly said he had no interest in power. | :11:05. | :11:07. | |
Kim Jong-nam, although he had been quiet and lying low for a while - | :11:08. | :11:13. | |
not low enough it seems - had gone off message badly before. | :11:14. | :11:18. | |
He had said some stuff about not believing in hereditary succession | :11:19. | :11:24. | |
and maybe in this kind of a system, like medieval Europe, | :11:25. | :11:27. | |
any other possible claimant to the Kingship could potentially | :11:28. | :11:29. | |
In the 21st century fratricide is normally | :11:30. | :11:36. | |
Yet again North Korea is showing it is not a normal country. | :11:37. | :11:41. | |
Rupert Wingfield Hayes, BBC News, Tokyo. | :11:42. | :11:49. | |
Inflation reached a two-and-a-half year high in January. | :11:50. | :11:51. | |
The Consumer Prices Index rose to 1.8% - up from 1.6% in December. | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
The rise has been driven by increases in the cost | :11:57. | :11:58. | |
The price of raw materials and fuel for factories is up 20% | :11:59. | :12:08. | |
because of the fall in the value of sterling since the Brexit vote. | :12:09. | :12:11. | |
Our economics correspondent Andy Verity reports. | :12:12. | :12:12. | |
Prices may be up, but it's not yet the consumer who's | :12:13. | :12:16. | |
being squeezed hardest, it's the company that sells | :12:17. | :12:19. | |
you the goods and even more so the companies that produce them. | :12:20. | :12:22. | |
This east London brewery has boosted prices by 5% but its costs have | :12:23. | :12:25. | |
We've got auto-enrollment for the pensions coming in this | :12:26. | :12:32. | |
year, we have a huge business rate increase this year. | :12:33. | :12:35. | |
And on top of that, we've now got a weaker pound so our imported raw | :12:36. | :12:43. | |
In the shops, prices rose by 1.8%, but further up the supply chain | :12:44. | :12:52. | |
The price of goods leaving the factory, wholesale | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
And producers aren't yet passing on the much higher | :12:57. | :13:03. | |
cost of raw materials - up by more than a fifth. | :13:04. | :13:08. | |
The inflation figure announced this morning at 1.8% is still below | :13:09. | :13:11. | |
The Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee is seeking to manage | :13:12. | :13:17. | |
inflation to maintain itself at or around 2%. | :13:18. | :13:21. | |
So when inflation is at this level the economy should be working well. | :13:22. | :13:25. | |
It's worth remembering we've been through one of the tamest periods | :13:26. | :13:27. | |
The price of food overall is down 2% on two years ago. | :13:28. | :13:36. | |
And if you take vegetables, like potatoes, down by 4%. | :13:37. | :13:38. | |
The key question is with petrol prices rise by 17%, when will these | :13:39. | :13:43. | |
In a report to be released tomorrow, the anti-poverty charity | :13:44. | :13:53. | |
the Joseph Rowntree Foundation fears they won't. | :13:54. | :13:55. | |
All over the country people are really struggling right | :13:56. | :13:58. | |
Their fuel prices are going up, their food costs are going up, | :13:59. | :14:04. | |
their heating bills are going up and if we see this increase | :14:05. | :14:07. | |
in inflation keep going we predict we could cost rises of nearly 10%. | :14:08. | :14:12. | |
That means we could see almost four million more people tipped | :14:13. | :14:14. | |
Increasingly, retailers are faced with an unpalatable choice - | :14:15. | :14:22. | |
absorb their higher costs and watch profits shrink or raise prices | :14:23. | :14:25. | |
and accept the risk that customers walk away. | :14:26. | :14:28. | |
The Ukip leader Paul Nuttall has been forced to admit that he did not | :14:29. | :14:36. | |
lose any close personal friends in the Hillsborough | :14:37. | :14:38. | |
football disaster - contrary to claims on his website. | :14:39. | :14:41. | |
He made the admission in an interview with | :14:42. | :14:44. | |
Liverpool's Radio City Talk and insisted he HAD been | :14:45. | :14:47. | |
at the ground on that day in 1989 - when he was 12 years old - | :14:48. | :14:51. | |
with his father and two uncles, despite recent press reports | :14:52. | :14:54. | |
questioning his account of what happened. | :14:55. | :14:58. | |
I haven't lost anyone who was a close personal friend, | :14:59. | :15:00. | |
there were people who I knew in football, and things like that. | :15:01. | :15:04. | |
I, basically, went through your website last night, | :15:05. | :15:05. | |
It's PaulNuttallMEP.com, that's your website. | :15:06. | :15:10. | |
Well, I'm sorry about that, but, you know that...that is... | :15:11. | :15:15. | |
That is something which I haven't put... | :15:16. | :15:16. | |
Mr Nuttall is standing as a candidate in the Stoke-on-Trent | :15:17. | :15:24. | |
parliamentary by-election later this month. | :15:25. | :15:26. | |
Our deputy political editor, John Pienaar, is there. | :15:27. | :15:31. | |
What do you make of this? Well, this is a an important by-election, Huw, | :15:32. | :15:41. | |
credibility at stake for Labour and Ukip and its leader. Paul Nuttall | :15:42. | :15:46. | |
apologised and said he never spotted the false claim on he is website | :15:47. | :15:49. | |
that he lost close friends at Hillsborough. A Ukip press officer | :15:50. | :15:53. | |
has taken responsibility and resigned. Labour will hope Ukip will | :15:54. | :15:58. | |
suffer from this. Why? The Stoke by-election, like the by-election in | :15:59. | :16:04. | |
Cumbria, they are acid tests of whether voters are deserting in | :16:05. | :16:09. | |
areas that voted heavily to leave the European Union. The it could be | :16:10. | :16:18. | |
a close fight it will be a tough fight in the last week of this | :16:19. | :16:22. | |
campaign. It's a fight that neither of those parties can easily afford, | :16:23. | :16:28. | |
Huw to lose. John Pienaar with the latest there in Stoke-on-Trent. | :16:29. | :16:32. | |
The parliamentary by-election in Stoke-on-Trent takes place | :16:33. | :16:33. | |
There's a full list of the candidates on the screen | :16:34. | :16:37. | |
and it's also available on the BBC News website. | :16:38. | :16:45. | |
A brief look at some of the day's other news stories. | :16:46. | :16:49. | |
A 10-year-old boy, who died after being injured in a Topshop | :16:50. | :16:52. | |
store in Reading, has been named locally as Kaden Reddick. | :16:53. | :17:02. | |
The retailer, council and police have all said that they're | :17:03. | :17:04. | |
His death is being treated as unexplained, but not suspicious. | :17:05. | :17:08. | |
The chairman of the electronics giant, Toshiba, has resigned | :17:09. | :17:10. | |
after the company reported a yearly net loss of more than $3 billion. | :17:11. | :17:14. | |
The announcement prompted unions in the UK to call for clarification | :17:15. | :17:16. | |
after the Japanese firm suggested it no longer wanted to be involved | :17:17. | :17:20. | |
in the construction phase of a new nuclear power | :17:21. | :17:22. | |
Rolls-Royce has reported a record loss of ?4.6 billion | :17:23. | :17:29. | |
among the biggest ever in British corporate history. | :17:30. | :17:34. | |
The jet engine maker blamed having to settle a corruption case, | :17:35. | :17:39. | |
costing more than ?670 million, and the slump in sterling's value | :17:40. | :17:46. | |
which has wiped ?4.4 billion off its value. | :17:47. | :17:48. | |
Union leaders from Unite will meet ministers tomorrow to discuss | :17:49. | :17:50. | |
the implications of a deal which could see General Motors | :17:51. | :17:53. | |
selling its European business to the owners of Peugeot. | :17:54. | :17:55. | |
It could lead to the French car manufacturer taking over | :17:56. | :18:08. | |
the production of Vauxhall, here in the UK, and Opel, in the rest | :18:09. | :18:11. | |
Our business editor, Simon Jack, has the story. | :18:12. | :18:14. | |
Vauxhall makes 60,000 vans here in Luton every year, | :18:15. | :18:16. | |
it makes another 120,000 cars at Ellesmere Port and both factories | :18:17. | :18:18. | |
could have a new owner if General Motors sells its European | :18:19. | :18:21. | |
business to the owner of Peugeot and Citreon. | :18:22. | :18:23. | |
Any potential deal would redraw the map | :18:24. | :18:25. | |
Across Europe, the PSA Group has 14 production sites | :18:26. | :18:28. | |
GM Europe is known as Opel and has eight factories outside the UK | :18:29. | :18:34. | |
with 39,000 employees and, of course, there's Vauxhall, | :18:35. | :18:36. | |
in Luton and Ellesmere Port, with 4,500 staff. | :18:37. | :18:42. | |
Now, these are only talks at the moment, but if a deal did go | :18:43. | :18:56. | |
ahead - putting together Peugeot, Citreon, Vauxhall and Opel - | :18:57. | :18:59. | |
it would be a game-changer, creating a giant, behind only | :19:00. | :19:01. | |
Volkswagen, in European car production and whenever you get | :19:02. | :19:03. | |
consolidation on that scale, it's bound to cause understandable | :19:04. | :19:05. | |
concern at plants like this in Luton and all around Europe | :19:06. | :19:08. | |
about whether job cuts could be on the horizon. | :19:09. | :19:10. | |
Where does that leave the UK, in the sense that we've got flexible | :19:11. | :19:13. | |
General Motors has already indicated that it faces a financial | :19:14. | :19:17. | |
I think there's going to be some vulnerability for the UK plants | :19:18. | :19:21. | |
The French government owns 14% of PSA, as does the Peugeot family, | :19:22. | :19:25. | |
so the boardroom of a new company would have a very French | :19:26. | :19:28. | |
feel, something not lost on union bosses here. | :19:29. | :19:30. | |
The French government own a significant chunk of Peugeot. | :19:31. | :19:35. | |
They've already come out and said they welcome the prospect of Peugeot | :19:36. | :19:41. | |
buying Vauxhall Opel and we want to make certain | :19:42. | :19:43. | |
that our Government is not sitting on the sidelines because you can | :19:44. | :19:46. | |
bet your life that the French government will be | :19:47. | :19:49. | |
Tonight, the BBC understands that the Business Secretary, | :19:50. | :19:56. | |
Greg Clark, has called a meeting with Len McCluskey for tomorrow | :19:57. | :19:59. | |
morning to discuss potential implications for UK workers. | :20:00. | :20:01. | |
There are a lot of moving parts in this negotiation, | :20:02. | :20:03. | |
but these two manufacturers have collaborated before and together | :20:04. | :20:05. | |
they hope to assemble a European car giant. | :20:06. | :20:07. | |
The United Nations says it is willing to use additional | :20:08. | :20:20. | |
force against militia in the Central African Republic | :20:21. | :20:22. | |
to prevent the country descending into anarchy. | :20:23. | :20:28. | |
Thousands of UN peacekeepers were sent to the country amid fears | :20:29. | :20:31. | |
of genocide when rival Christian and Muslim militias began fighting, | :20:32. | :20:33. | |
In the town of Bambari, where thousands of civilians | :20:34. | :20:38. | |
are sheltering, the UN had to intervene when an armed convoy | :20:39. | :20:41. | |
Our special correspondent, Fergal Keane, has been there. | :20:42. | :20:43. | |
His report does contain some distressing images. | :20:44. | :20:48. | |
Out in the countryside, the UN has already fired the first | :20:49. | :20:52. | |
shots to ward off an assault on Bambari, but the town itself | :20:53. | :20:55. | |
Muslims live in the centre of town, the Christians on the other bank, | :20:56. | :21:06. | |
civilians protected by soldiers of the United Nations. | :21:07. | :21:13. | |
23 years after I watched the UN fail to stop a genocide in Rwanda, | :21:14. | :21:17. | |
I've come to Bambari where the Blue Helmets try to avert | :21:18. | :21:20. | |
Every burned building here speaks of lives erased when the country | :21:21. | :21:28. | |
descended into sectarian massacre in 2013. | :21:29. | :21:36. | |
Civilians slaughtered, hundreds of thousands | :21:37. | :21:37. | |
Now, amid fears of renewed violence, there's no hope of going home. | :21:38. | :21:46. | |
"Leave here, I don't think so", this man tells us. | :21:47. | :21:53. | |
"Here we're protected by the United Nations." | :21:54. | :21:59. | |
Civilians are facing renewed terror from warlords. | :22:00. | :22:04. | |
These are Christians, but it's not as simple as just | :22:05. | :22:06. | |
Numerous warlords fight for power and wealth. | :22:07. | :22:12. | |
Vernonique's husband was murdered, leaving her | :22:13. | :22:14. | |
Madeleine lost her husband and three of her five children. | :22:15. | :22:22. | |
TRANSLATION: They were killing people. | :22:23. | :22:25. | |
They were going from killing to killing. | :22:26. | :22:29. | |
Some people even lost their children as they were running. | :22:30. | :22:38. | |
One name kept cropping up here, a Muslim warlord they blame | :22:39. | :22:41. | |
TRANSLATION: His name creates fear and terror. | :22:42. | :22:55. | |
Even now, here, when he sent his men to Bacula, all the people ran away. | :22:56. | :23:03. | |
It wasn't hard to find Ali Darassa, he and his bodyguards live | :23:04. | :23:06. | |
Guns are supposed to be banned here, but try telling that to these men. | :23:07. | :23:16. | |
The UN is unwilling so far to provoke a conflict over this. | :23:17. | :23:27. | |
The fighters are Muslims from the ethnic minority, | :23:28. | :23:29. | |
You portray yourself as the protector of the people, | :23:30. | :23:35. | |
but there is another view of you and that is that | :23:36. | :23:38. | |
Everything that happens is reported by people. | :23:39. | :23:47. | |
If I was a ruthless killer, people could not live peacefully near me. | :23:48. | :23:56. | |
The UN escorted us back across town to meet Ali Darassa's enemy, | :23:57. | :24:02. | |
the leader of a Christian militia also accused of atrocities. | :24:03. | :24:13. | |
Meet General Gaytan and his deputy, who calls himself General Tarzan. | :24:14. | :24:21. | |
The fighters hid their guns while we were there, | :24:22. | :24:23. | |
but General Gaytan was blunt about his own role. | :24:24. | :24:25. | |
I have thousands of men, ready to protect the population. | :24:26. | :24:36. | |
The self-styled protectors thrive because the central | :24:37. | :24:38. | |
There are too few peacekeepers and troops are of mixed quality. | :24:39. | :24:45. | |
It's a familiar story of peacekeeping in the modern age. | :24:46. | :24:50. | |
But tensions around Bambari are now so dangerous the UN mission's top | :24:51. | :24:53. | |
Diane Corner is a veteran British diplomat, now trying to ensure this | :24:54. | :25:00. | |
country doesn't slide into chaos again. | :25:01. | :25:02. | |
And then Gaetan, who waits in a room next door | :25:03. | :25:22. | |
In this prefabricated office, the international community | :25:23. | :25:25. | |
Diane Corner tells them the UN is willing to fight. | :25:26. | :25:32. | |
I'm giving very clear messages that we are going to do everything | :25:33. | :25:37. | |
to prevent a battle in Bambari, that we are reinforcing our | :25:38. | :25:40. | |
positions, that the UN is impartial, we're not taking sides with either | :25:41. | :25:42. | |
one group or the other, and that we expect them to respect | :25:43. | :25:45. | |
In the protected zone, the old life of the lost villages | :25:46. | :25:56. | |
A father studies, planning for a future beyond all of this. | :25:57. | :26:02. | |
But the calm depends on the UN continuing to enforce its red | :26:03. | :26:05. | |
Over the years, I've seen the failings of UN missions, | :26:06. | :26:16. | |
sometimes catastrophically, for example, in Rwanda. | :26:17. | :26:20. | |
And yet, standing now on the bridge at Bambari, | :26:21. | :26:24. | |
between the Christian and Muslim districts, it's clear to me, that | :26:25. | :26:26. | |
without a United Nations presence, there would be slaughter here. | :26:27. | :26:29. | |
The Swedish star, Felix Shellberg, is the highest paid star on YouTube. | :26:30. | :26:51. | |
His video clips have been watched 15 billion times. | :26:52. | :26:57. | |
He reportedly made ?12 million last year. | :26:58. | :26:59. | |
But Disney has now decided to end its lucrative | :27:00. | :27:01. | |
It says some of his videos have included Nazi references | :27:02. | :27:05. | |
Mr Shellberg denies the claims and says the films are meant to be | :27:06. | :27:08. | |
funny as our correspondent, Frankie McCamley, tells us. | :27:09. | :27:10. | |
My name is PewDiePie, and welcome to... | :27:11. | :27:13. | |
Felix Shellberg, better known as PewDiePie, rose to fame | :27:14. | :27:15. | |
With more than 50 million subscribers, he's become the world's | :27:16. | :27:22. | |
highest paid YouTuber, but recently his videos have been | :27:23. | :27:25. | |
extremely controversial, containing Nazi references | :27:26. | :27:27. | |
In this one, he asks these boys to hold up a sign saying, | :27:28. | :27:37. | |
It's led to Disney cutting its ties with the star, calling | :27:38. | :27:45. | |
The challenge comes with somebody like PewDiePie, | :27:46. | :27:50. | |
is of course his ability to reach a massive audience but brands, | :27:51. | :27:53. | |
at your peril, work with people like PewDiePie | :27:54. | :27:55. | |
because he is provocative, he can be a dangerous | :27:56. | :27:58. | |
proposition for any brands, particularly that like Disney. | :27:59. | :27:59. | |
The 27-year-old has responded by saying he was trying to show how | :28:00. | :28:02. | |
crazy the modern world is and that he's in no way supporting any kind | :28:03. | :28:06. | |
So what does that mean for PewDiePie here on YouTube? | :28:07. | :28:15. | |
Well, they told us he didn't actually break any of their rules, | :28:16. | :28:20. | |
however his up-and-coming subscription feature, | :28:21. | :28:22. | |
Scare PewDiePie 2, has been cancelled. | :28:23. | :28:25. | |
He's also been taken off the Google preferred list, | :28:26. | :28:28. | |
which means top advertisers won't be posting on his videos. | :28:29. | :28:33. | |
Promoting your channel and driving traffic to your video is a very | :28:34. | :28:38. | |
powerful thing and one way to do that is to shout the loudest and be | :28:39. | :28:43. | |
the most inappropriate or most controversial so that these news | :28:44. | :28:46. | |
broadcasters write about what you're doing, in a negative way, | :28:47. | :28:48. | |
but traffic's traffic, that's how you earn your living. | :28:49. | :28:52. | |
With more people heading online to do just that, it's yet to be | :28:53. | :28:56. | |
seen whether a YouTuber, like PewDiePie, can remain | :28:57. | :28:58. | |
controversial and still appeal to the masses. | :28:59. | :29:00. | |
For the first time in England, in half a century, a steam train | :29:01. | :29:11. | |
has been used as part of a mainline timetable. | :29:12. | :29:15. | |
The Tornado is pulling 12 services on the Settle to Carlisle line, | :29:16. | :29:18. | |
It's part of the celebrations to mark the reopening of the line | :29:19. | :29:35. | |
following the landslides of a year ago. | :29:36. | :29:37. | |
Danny Savage was there to see the new service. | :29:38. | :29:39. | |
On the Settle to Carlisle line today, the sights and sounds | :29:40. | :29:41. | |
It's a long time since the mid-morning service from Skipton | :29:42. | :29:45. | |
B. B. | :29:46. | :29:48. | |
But then this was the first timetabled steam train in England | :29:49. | :29:51. | |
Standard fares and discounts applied, you'd normally pay a hefty | :29:52. | :29:56. | |
premium for a steam trip, but not here, not this week. | :29:57. | :29:59. | |
I thought I'd fetch my wife for Valentine's Day. | :30:00. | :30:07. | |
So it was cheaper than a bunch of roses. | :30:08. | :30:09. | |
So what do you make of the Valentine's present? | :30:10. | :30:11. | |
I'm liking it, enjoying it. So, thank you. | :30:12. | :30:19. | |
On the footplates, the crew were working hard, tonnes of coal | :30:20. | :30:22. | |
were shovelled as the train went back-and-forth between | :30:23. | :30:24. | |
And this isn't just about a trip on a steam train, | :30:25. | :30:27. | |
for lots of people it's a ride through the Yorkshire Dales | :30:28. | :30:30. | |
countryside as well and crossing the Ribblehead viaduct. | :30:31. | :30:37. | |
Talking to some customers on the train that had | :30:38. | :30:39. | |
travelled from Essex, Norfolk, you know, just for | :30:40. | :30:40. | |
I think, you know, Valentine's Day, the Settle and Carlisle railway, | :30:41. | :30:45. | |
on a stream train, I mean, how better does it get? | :30:46. | :30:47. | |
So could we see more timetabled steam trains | :30:48. | :30:49. | |
It's something we could do once a year, maybe twice a year. | :30:50. | :30:54. | |
You know, it would fit in Cornwall in Anglia, in Scotland say. | :30:55. | :30:57. | |
Yeah, we could take it round the country. | :30:58. | :31:01. | |
This maybe the start of something special on Britain's railways, | :31:02. | :31:04. | |
49 years after mainline steam officially ended. | :31:05. | :31:06. | |
Tonight, we look at North Korea and ask if, with the apparent murder | :31:07. | :31:31. | |
in Malaysia, is it a nuclear regime out of control and a danger | :31:32. | :31:34. | |
The former British Ambassador there will be with us. | :31:35. | :31:40. | |
Here, on BBC One, it's time for the news where you are. | :31:41. | :31:42. |