:00:08. > :00:12.Reporting from Washington, I'm Laura Trevelyan.
:00:13. > :00:18.The Dutch voters have had their say, exit polls showed the current Prime
:00:19. > :00:22.Minister has held off the challenge of far right leader Geert Wilders.
:00:23. > :00:25.US officials point the finger at Russia for a hack which led
:00:26. > :00:27.to hundreds of names, email addresses and passwords
:00:28. > :00:30.And: Michelangelo was undoubtedly one of the Renaissance masters.
:00:31. > :00:46.We explore the rivalry and partnership which shaped his work.
:00:47. > :00:48.Welcome to our viewers on public television in America -
:00:49. > :00:57.Polls have closed in the Netherlands and today's election is being seen
:00:58. > :01:00.by many a big test of the way the winds of populism
:01:01. > :01:05.Attention was focused on the country's far-right leader,
:01:06. > :01:07.Geert Wilders, who has mounted a challenge to the centre-right
:01:08. > :01:11.Mr Wilders is running on an anti-immigration platform.
:01:12. > :01:13.He's pledged to take the Netherlands out of the EU,
:01:14. > :01:19.And earlier, he had this message to Muslims who don't like that idea.
:01:20. > :01:46.Well, Prime Minister Mark Rutte is hoping to stop Geert
:01:47. > :01:49.He warned today that this ballot will set the tone for other
:01:50. > :01:51.elections across Europe, like the French Presidential
:01:52. > :02:02.I know the International journalists are very interested in this. This is
:02:03. > :02:07.Brexit, after the American elections, we have the upcoming
:02:08. > :02:12.French and German elections for a big democracy like the Netherlands
:02:13. > :02:15.to make a point, to stop this toppling over the wrong sort of
:02:16. > :02:19.populism. And there is still a risk that we up Thursday morning and see
:02:20. > :02:24.that occur to is reading the biggest party.
:02:25. > :02:31.The latest exit poll, Mark Rutte's centre-right party is projected to
:02:32. > :02:35.win 31 seats out of a total of 150. For ahead of the next three
:02:36. > :02:39.contenders including Geert Wilders, his anti-immigration Freedom Party,
:02:40. > :02:43.the Christian Democrats and the Liberals which each got 90 seats.
:02:44. > :02:48.Our reporter is in The Hague. I spoke to him about these exit poll
:02:49. > :02:53.results a short time ago. Doesn't look as though this wave of populism
:02:54. > :02:58.which began in Brexit and swept of the Atlantic to Donald Trump has
:02:59. > :03:03.stalled in the Netherlands? Certainly, we can describe Geert
:03:04. > :03:07.Wilders as a populist and if this is not a disastrous result for him, it
:03:08. > :03:11.is not the significant shift in the voting that he would have been
:03:12. > :03:16.hoping for. There were times when he was polling well ahead of Mark
:03:17. > :03:19.Rutte's party and that has not materialised on voting day.
:03:20. > :03:23.Interesting talk on the politicians here, some quite resistant to the
:03:24. > :03:28.idea that what is happening in the Netherlands is connected to the US
:03:29. > :03:32.and the UK. But Mark Rutte push that point heavily, he said, there could
:03:33. > :03:38.be a domino effect from Brexit, Trump, the Netherlands and
:03:39. > :03:41.potentially to France and Germany. For some people, that was a
:03:42. > :03:46.persuasive message and he will be delighted with the night's results,
:03:47. > :03:50.exit polls, it is not a result yet. He looks like he will form the next
:03:51. > :03:58.coalition although we will have to wait for the results. Departments to
:03:59. > :04:03.Mark Rutte how to tax far to the right to defeat Geert Wilders? He
:04:04. > :04:07.certainly did attack further to the right than some of his supporters
:04:08. > :04:10.would have wanted, he made it clear in a number of high-profile
:04:11. > :04:14.statements that if anybody comes to live in this country, they need to
:04:15. > :04:19.be prepared to adopt certain Dutch values. How you define Dutch values
:04:20. > :04:23.is a difficult thing to do, but he had a stronger message in the last
:04:24. > :04:27.six months than we have seen from him previously. I should also
:04:28. > :04:33.mention what people call the Turkey bounce. This highly passionate
:04:34. > :04:38.vitriolic argument between Turkey and the Netherlands over a cancelled
:04:39. > :04:41.rally on Sunday has allowed Mr Rutte to seems strong in the face of
:04:42. > :04:45.fierce criticism and most commentators agree that favoured him
:04:46. > :04:49.in the last couple of days. Marine Le Pen in France will be watching
:04:50. > :04:55.this result very closely, what is the message to her, do you think?
:04:56. > :04:59.Well, I think Marine Le Penn would say, please don't compare me with
:05:00. > :05:11.Geert Wilders and the Freedom Party here, I am my own national and my
:05:12. > :05:16.own quite different. Geert Wilders and other politicians in the
:05:17. > :05:19.Netherlands have tapped into a frustration at Western consensus
:05:20. > :05:24.around issues of immigration and the trade. She liked and it is true,
:05:25. > :05:29.there are a huge number of parties in the Netherlands and makes it hard
:05:30. > :05:34.for any party, Wilders or others, the poll highly, so we cannot draw
:05:35. > :05:38.huge conclusions about how well she might do in a completely different
:05:39. > :05:40.electoral system when the French presidential election comes around.
:05:41. > :05:42.From the Netherlands, thank you. Two Russian intelligence agents
:05:43. > :05:44.and two hackers have been charged in a breach at Yahoo that affected
:05:45. > :05:47.at least half a billion The incident occurred in 2014 and,
:05:48. > :05:52.today, the FBI came forward It comes at the same time
:05:53. > :05:58.the House Intelligence Committee is looking into Russian involvement
:05:59. > :06:00.in the US election. And when it comes to those charges
:06:01. > :06:03.by President Trump that his phones were tapped before the election
:06:04. > :06:06.by the previous administration, here's what the Republican chair
:06:07. > :06:09.of the committee had to say today. As I told you last week -
:06:10. > :06:12.about the issue with the President talking about tapping Trump Tower -
:06:13. > :06:18.that evidence still remains the same, that we don't have any
:06:19. > :06:22.evidence that that took place. In fact, I don't believe,
:06:23. > :06:26.just in the last week of time, the people we've talked to,
:06:27. > :06:29.I don't think there was an actual For more on the wiretap
:06:30. > :06:33.allegation and charges announced for the Yahoo hack,
:06:34. > :06:36.I spoke a brief time ago with Washington Post
:06:37. > :06:49.columnist David Ignatius. David heard the top of the
:06:50. > :06:58.intelligence and evidence of the alleged wiretap that this method is
:06:59. > :07:05.that if damage? I think support for man of the allegations that
:07:06. > :07:16.President Obama ordered his lawyers have a brother. We sold exclusive.
:07:17. > :07:25.The White House staff and affect the way from validation.
:07:26. > :07:38.Those in my Trump campaign'. Authorise the machine ages. So this
:07:39. > :07:49.story to life. You will survive his father, though.
:07:50. > :07:56.'S says more interesting items will come to the forefront, what you make
:07:57. > :07:59.of that? We will discover the incidental collection as the FBI and
:08:00. > :08:05.intelligence agencies were surveying Russian targets did include people
:08:06. > :08:10.in Trump Tower. That is not in the President's interests and it
:08:11. > :08:16.continues this story of Russian hacking and contact with Trump
:08:17. > :08:20.associates. We are still very early in this process and I do not want to
:08:21. > :08:27.get two for ahead of the facts. We do have a key moment coming on
:08:28. > :08:31.Monday when FBI Director James Comey will be in an open hearing on
:08:32. > :08:36.Capitol Hill. How significant do you expect that to be? I think he will
:08:37. > :08:42.be very careful and guarded in what he says. It is widely believed, I
:08:43. > :08:46.have reported that the FBI is conducting a criminal investigation
:08:47. > :08:51.on this question of Russian hacking and involvement in the campaign,
:08:52. > :08:55.involvement with Trump associates. That is ongoing and the FBI Director
:08:56. > :08:59.will not want to disclose sources and methods of investigation and I
:09:00. > :09:04.think will not want to talk much about the details of what the
:09:05. > :09:08.finding. Given the criminal investigation is ongoing, how long
:09:09. > :09:11.will it take for these claims about Russia allowed in the early months
:09:12. > :09:16.of the Trump administration to clear? It could be months before the
:09:17. > :09:19.facts get established. I think Congress has an ingress and
:09:20. > :09:25.Republicans more than anyone in clearing as much this as they can
:09:26. > :09:30.and if there are criminal prosecutions and we have no idea of
:09:31. > :09:33.the evidence, but if there criminal prosecutions, we could be in the
:09:34. > :09:38.next year before that is resolved. The matter of Russia is swirling
:09:39. > :09:41.around and in a separate development, two Russian
:09:42. > :09:45.intelligence agents have been charged by the Justice Department
:09:46. > :09:52.with hacking Yahoo e-mail accounts we cannot get away from it! This
:09:53. > :09:57.fascinating, it demonstrates the evidence compiled in this indictment
:09:58. > :10:01.which alleges that the Russian intelligence service, the FSB, works
:10:02. > :10:07.closely with the Russian hacker underground, something people have
:10:08. > :10:12.often speculated about. I included that in a novel several years ago.
:10:13. > :10:16.It has been the subject of fiction and speculation. But this is real
:10:17. > :10:21.evidence that people doing criminal activity ended up providing
:10:22. > :10:25.information to the Russians which had other uses. Vladimir Putin is
:10:26. > :10:33.watching from Moscow no doubt, what must he be making of his influence
:10:34. > :10:37.on American politics and Yahoo hacking? This is a covert action
:10:38. > :10:42.with enormous results and it has tied America in knots for the last
:10:43. > :10:45.months. And I think Vladimir Putin was hoping that Trump would open the
:10:46. > :10:50.way for a different kind of relationship between Russia and the
:10:51. > :10:54.US, that is less likely now than it was before the election on November
:10:55. > :10:58.the 8th, so in that sense, Putin and Russia have lost out on what they
:10:59. > :11:04.hoped would be an opening. David, thank you for joining us. In other
:11:05. > :11:09.news, at least 30 people had been killed in a suicide bombing at the
:11:10. > :11:13.main courthouse in the Syrian capital Damascus. Later, a second
:11:14. > :11:16.attack targeted a restaurant, causing multiple casualties, mainly
:11:17. > :11:20.women and children. The latest in a series of bombings to hit
:11:21. > :11:24.government-controlled areas in Syria. Scientists claim to have
:11:25. > :11:28.calculated how much food the global population of spiders eats every
:11:29. > :11:33.year. The university appraisal estimated they consume up to 800
:11:34. > :11:36.million tonnes of insects, approximately the same amount as the
:11:37. > :11:39.meat and fish eaten by humans each year.
:11:40. > :11:42.After the economic crash of 2008, US interest rates were slashed
:11:43. > :11:46.But today, the US Federal Reserve has made a move -
:11:47. > :11:50.for the second time in three months, it is upping the rate and forecasts
:11:51. > :11:54.For more on this action, Katty Kay and Christian Fraser spoke
:11:55. > :11:58.to economist Diane Swonk in Chicago for their program, 100 Days.
:11:59. > :12:01.Diane Swonk, that's the real story here, isn't it,
:12:02. > :12:03.that this interest rate hike is a reflection of the fact
:12:04. > :12:14.In fact, Chair Yellen went out of her way to say this
:12:15. > :12:20.is a reflection of underlying economic fundamentals,
:12:21. > :12:23.no pre-emptive strike, no even scenarios about what fiscal
:12:24. > :12:27.And that finally, the Fed is getting what it expected in the economy,
:12:28. > :12:30.and it is reacting to it as they expected to react to it.
:12:31. > :12:33.So this is sort of a validation of it finally being credible.
:12:34. > :12:36.Another key point is the statement itself was slightly less
:12:37. > :12:40.Highlighting the symmetry of the inflation target.
:12:41. > :12:45.There was also a dissent, but I think highlighting of the symmetry,
:12:46. > :12:48.what that means is that the FED is willing to overshoot a bit
:12:49. > :12:52.on inflation to allow unemployment to undershoot and re-engage workers
:12:53. > :12:54.that have sort of been marginalised in recent years.
:12:55. > :12:57.That is one of the key issues and where the debate
:12:58. > :13:01.So I guess this is one of the questions people continue
:13:02. > :13:04.There we have Janet Yellen sounding optimistic,
:13:05. > :13:07.you yourself saying this is a good sign about the US economy,
:13:08. > :13:09.and yet we keep hearing from American voters
:13:10. > :13:11.that they are underemployed and underpaid, and that there
:13:12. > :13:14.is a large section of the US workforce that is not happy,
:13:15. > :13:17.that is not at all feeling optimistic, which is why they voted
:13:18. > :13:25.Exactly, and I think that is one of the reasons why not only
:13:26. > :13:29.is there symmetry in the inflation target, which is something
:13:30. > :13:32.the FED has discussed and will be debated at length.
:13:33. > :13:36.How high will they let it go and how low will they let unemployment go?
:13:37. > :13:39.Chair Yellen is a veteran of the 1990s and one
:13:40. > :13:42.of her goals has always been, even though she felt she didn't have
:13:43. > :13:47.all the tools necessary to reduce the economy immediately
:13:48. > :13:49.after the expansion and even later in the expansion
:13:50. > :13:51.without fiscal policy, which is what happened
:13:52. > :13:53.later in the expansion, now they do have the ability
:13:54. > :13:56.to allow the economy to run a little hot and re-engage those workers.
:13:57. > :14:02.And it's beginning to happen now, and it's necessary, we do need
:14:03. > :14:05.policy, fiscal policy, that is better attuned to this.
:14:06. > :14:08.But it is necessary to re-engage those workers around the sidelines.
:14:09. > :14:10.You're finally seeing firms investing in training.
:14:11. > :14:13.That is not something we saw earlier in the expansion.
:14:14. > :14:17.It's really something that was cut aggressively during the crisis.
:14:18. > :14:19.They're investing in workers that don't have the skills
:14:20. > :14:22.necessary to employ them to upgrade their skills.
:14:23. > :14:25.And she's hoping that will also trigger some innovation as well.
:14:26. > :14:33.Diane, it's Christian here in London.
:14:34. > :14:36.Indulge me a bit as a Brit, as a nervous Brit amid all
:14:37. > :14:37.the Brexit stuff that's going on here.
:14:38. > :14:40.If we have a world economy where the US is pushing up rates
:14:41. > :14:43.while the UK is keeping its rates at rock bottom, I mean,
:14:44. > :14:46.I'm no expert, but does that mean that the pound remains low
:14:47. > :14:52.Well, unfortunately, I think you're stuck with that.
:14:53. > :15:02.I was already there, in London, in the fall,
:15:03. > :15:06.So I do think it is important to understand that we are starting
:15:07. > :15:09.We have been competing, Central Bank policies.
:15:10. > :15:12.The ECB is sort of not quite ending with its dovish tinge,
:15:13. > :15:16.but there are some hawks in the mix now of their flock, and I think
:15:17. > :15:18.and I think that's going to be less accommodation, less pushing
:15:19. > :15:20.of the accommodation, with the European Central Bank,
:15:21. > :15:25.which will help to slow the appreciation of the dollar.
:15:26. > :15:28.On the flip side of it, it is a different equation
:15:29. > :15:35.All of that sort of complicating the mix, along with the triggering
:15:36. > :15:38.of Article 50, this is just going to be a very hard period,
:15:39. > :15:40.in terms of inflation picking up in the UK,
:15:41. > :15:44.even as the economy has held up fairly well.
:15:45. > :15:48.We need that US trade deal, Diane, we will send you our chief exports!
:15:49. > :15:54.You're watching BBC World News America.
:15:55. > :15:56.Still to come on tonight's programme:
:15:57. > :16:00.We hear from truck drivers in Europe who can't afford to live
:16:01. > :16:09.If you're a small business owner, you'll know that social media can
:16:10. > :16:14.But for millions of people across Africa, getting online can
:16:15. > :16:28.still be a challenge, particularly for women.
:16:29. > :16:57.Today, our first web literacy class is graduating.
:16:58. > :17:00.I am really happy to see the ladies are graduating after the course.
:17:01. > :17:03.Around here, it's been so difficult for women to get access
:17:04. > :17:39.At this minute, I'm just sending an e-mail to a client abroad.
:17:40. > :17:42.I think digital skills is important because I can make
:17:43. > :17:43.business on digital, online, selling my stuff,
:17:44. > :17:49.and meet new friends from all around the world.
:17:50. > :17:54.The jobs are too scarce, no jobs in these areas.
:17:55. > :17:58.But when you know how to use a computer, then you can get a job.
:17:59. > :18:05.I feel so great to see people's lives changing.
:18:06. > :18:18.Truck drivers moving goods for Ikea and other retailers
:18:19. > :18:22.in Western Europe are camping out in their cabs for months at a time
:18:23. > :18:24.because they can't afford to live in the countries they're working in.
:18:25. > :18:27.The East European drivers are being paid at the levels they would
:18:28. > :18:33.A judge has described as 'inhumane' the practice where companies
:18:34. > :18:35.are able to exploit loopholes in European law.
:18:36. > :18:46.In a trailer on the edge of Copenhagen in Denmark,
:18:47. > :18:48.Christian and Emilion have created their very
:18:49. > :18:51.Cooking from scratch saves them money.
:18:52. > :18:54.Is this how you want to have your breakfast?
:18:55. > :18:57.No, I don't want to live like this, but this is the condition.
:18:58. > :19:01.Emilion is moving goods for IKEA, but they don't employ him.
:19:02. > :19:05.His actual employer is the Slovakian firm Bring Trucking.
:19:06. > :19:11.European Union employment rules state that a driver temporarily
:19:12. > :19:14.posted away from home should be guaranteed the host nation's minimum
:19:15. > :19:29.But companies are exploiting loopholes in the law.
:19:30. > :19:31.A Danish driver can expect to take home 2,200 euros,
:19:32. > :19:35.But Emilion has been taking home an average monthly
:19:36. > :19:41.salary of 477 euros, or ?418 a month.
:19:42. > :19:53.Danish drivers go home every couple of weeks,
:19:54. > :19:56.but Emilion spends up to four months on the road.
:19:57. > :20:05.Bring says Emilion is responsible for taking his rest breaks
:20:06. > :20:07.and the company says he can go home whenever he likes.
:20:08. > :20:10.Emilion has just driven some IKEA stock from Denmark into Sweden.
:20:11. > :20:13.He only ever works in Western Europe, sometimes it might
:20:14. > :20:17.Yet he is being paid as if he was driving in Slovakia,
:20:18. > :20:44.Ikea of turning a blind eye as to how haulage companies treat their
:20:45. > :20:48.drivers. Ikea would say this is many different layers of companies
:20:49. > :20:53.operating these contracts, they cannot be expected to know. Yes, but
:20:54. > :20:58.the Moldovan, Ukrainian, Polish guys, remove the furniture from
:20:59. > :21:05.Ikea. The Dutch furniture, how can you deny? How can you not know what
:21:06. > :21:10.they are being paid? In a statement, Ikea said at the BBC reports very
:21:11. > :21:12.seriously and recognise that there is a discrepancy between these
:21:13. > :21:20.reports on what we find now auditing process. It is not just Ikea and the
:21:21. > :21:24.big retailers in the firing line. Your's politicians are also under
:21:25. > :21:26.pressure to act, to prevent any further deterioration in the working
:21:27. > :21:34.conditions of Europe's drivers. The exploitation of Emilion and
:21:35. > :21:36.other drivers. Michelangelo was one of the greatest
:21:37. > :21:39.figures of the Renaissance - and we live with his legacy
:21:40. > :21:41.as a sculptor, painter, Now London's National Gallery
:21:42. > :21:44.is shedding new light on his creative partnership
:21:45. > :21:46.with a less famous artist, Sebastiano, while revealing the deep
:21:47. > :21:49.rivalry between Michelangelo Our arts editor, Will Gompertz,
:21:50. > :21:58.tells this intriguing story. As sculptors go,
:21:59. > :22:04.Michelangelo was pretty good. Michelangelo is the peak of, er,
:22:05. > :22:07.skill and virtuosity. As you can see from
:22:08. > :22:14.this marble carving. It shows the Virgin
:22:15. > :22:16.and Child, with Saint John And if you look at the foot
:22:17. > :22:20.of Christ, down here, that's about to emerge
:22:21. > :22:22.from the stone. And Michelangelo wrote so poetically
:22:23. > :22:25.about the figure having to be The only snag was,
:22:26. > :22:29.while Michelangelo was busy decorating the Sistine Chapel
:22:30. > :22:32.ceiling, an ambitious young artist called Raphael had arrived in Rome
:22:33. > :22:35.and started to compete with him for commissions from
:22:36. > :22:38.the powerful Pope Julius II. Raphael prospered,
:22:39. > :22:44.while Michelangelo toiled, until he met an artist -
:22:45. > :22:47.ten years his junior - And he comes to Rome at that
:22:48. > :22:56.moment when Michelangelo Sebastiano becomes friends
:22:57. > :22:59.with Michelangelo and they begin this very fruitful collaboration,
:23:00. > :23:02.of which this is the first example. Michelangelo would make
:23:03. > :23:03.preparatory drawings - such as this male torso -
:23:04. > :23:07.which Sebastiano then rendered in paint without, it would appear,
:23:08. > :23:12.doing much to turn man into Madonna. The colour, the interest
:23:13. > :23:14.in the landscape - which, Michelangelo was never interested
:23:15. > :23:18.in landscape - was because Sebastiano has a real poetic feeling
:23:19. > :23:24.for this nocturnal landscape. With some ruins on the left
:23:25. > :23:26.and the waterfall there. The stakes are raised
:23:27. > :23:29.by Cardinal Giulio de' Medici, He commissioned two enormous
:23:30. > :23:32.biblical altar pieces - The 'Transfiguration',
:23:33. > :23:34.from Raphael, and from Sebastiano, This picture was at the centre
:23:35. > :23:38.of the extraordinary rivalry between Raphael and Michelangelo,
:23:39. > :23:40.with Sebastiano actually painting on behalf -
:23:41. > :23:48.one could say - of Michelangelo. So in a way, it's a sort
:23:49. > :23:54.of proxy battle between Could Sebastiano have done this
:23:55. > :23:57.without Michelangelo? Erm, Michelangelo is fundamental
:23:58. > :24:08.for Sebastiano's development. This sort of heroic, titanic
:24:09. > :24:14.character of the representations, these over-life-sized figures
:24:15. > :24:16.who are full of dynamic energy, these come absolutely out
:24:17. > :24:18.of the mind of Michelangelo. Their remarkable creative
:24:19. > :24:21.collaboration continued even after Raphael's death in 1520,
:24:22. > :24:24.but eventually ended in acrimony, with Michelangelo accusing the now
:24:25. > :24:29.well-to-do Sebastiano of laziness. Well, that brings today's show
:24:30. > :24:43.to a close, but you can find much more on all the day's news
:24:44. > :24:45.at our website. And to reach me, and most of the BBC
:24:46. > :24:50.team, simply go to Twitter. From all of us here
:24:51. > :24:53.at World News America, thank you for watching,
:24:54. > :24:55.and please tune in tomorrow.