:00:12. > :00:17.This is a World News America, reporting from Washington, I'm Jane
:00:18. > :00:21.O'Brien. A rift in relations between the US and UK. Britain's
:00:22. > :00:23.intelligence agencies says allegations it eavesdropped on
:00:24. > :00:29.President Trump are utterly ridiculous. Wiretapping allegations
:00:30. > :00:34.also took centre stage at President Trump's meeting with Angela Merkel,
:00:35. > :00:41.where he stood by his claim. As far as wiretapping, I guess this past
:00:42. > :00:50.Administration, at least we have something in common perhaps. And the
:00:51. > :00:55.famous Kronos Quartet is now helping the next generation of musicians
:00:56. > :01:09.with new music from around the globe.
:01:10. > :01:15.Welcome to our viewers on public television in America and around the
:01:16. > :01:19.globe. They are supposed to be the closest allies, but unusually sharp
:01:20. > :01:22.words have been exchanged between Britain and the US. The UK is
:01:23. > :01:27.outraged over a claim its intelligence agency bugged Donald
:01:28. > :01:31.Trump during the election campaign. The allegation was made by a
:01:32. > :01:35.television analyst and repeated by the White House press secretary.
:01:36. > :01:39.Britain's denials come just one day after a key Senate committee said
:01:40. > :01:41.there was also no evidence that Mr Trump was bugged by US intelligence
:01:42. > :01:47.either. The risk Frank Gardner. Britain's GCHQ surveillance agency -
:01:48. > :01:51.secretly listening in, said the White House,
:01:52. > :01:52.on President-Elect Not true, says GCHQ,
:01:53. > :01:59.in a rare public rebuttal. It all began with a tweet,
:02:00. > :02:02.with Donald Trump alleging on social media Barack Obama had ordered
:02:03. > :02:04.the tapping of his phone calls Then came the claim, from Fox News,
:02:05. > :02:13.that GCHQ may have been behind it. Sources have told Fox News
:02:14. > :02:17.that President Obama could very easily have,
:02:18. > :02:20.and probably did, use a foreign intelligence service to gather this
:02:21. > :02:24.information for him. The probable culprit
:02:25. > :02:29.here is called GCHQ. The next thing, that unsubstantiated
:02:30. > :02:31.claim was being quoted That triggered alarm
:02:32. > :02:38.bells in Whitehall. I'm told it was serious enough
:02:39. > :02:41.to be considered a threat It prompted this
:02:42. > :02:49.unprecedented denial by GCHQ. Recent allegations, it said,
:02:50. > :02:52.made by media commentator Judge Andrew Napolitano about GCHQ
:02:53. > :02:56.being asked to conduct wiretapping against the then
:02:57. > :02:59.President-Elect are nonsense. They are utterly ridiculous
:03:00. > :03:03.and should be ignored. This is just not
:03:04. > :03:06.something GCHQ does. The legislation under which it
:03:07. > :03:09.operates doesn't allow it to happen. The governance and the oversight
:03:10. > :03:12.of the organisation just does not I think, in this case,
:03:13. > :03:17.it is absolutely clear this If Donald Trump was embarrassed,
:03:18. > :03:25.he wasn't showing it today - seen here meeting the German
:03:26. > :03:28.Chancellor, Angela Merkel. His administration has promised not
:03:29. > :03:30.to repeat these allegations, So, what is the damage
:03:31. > :03:37.to relations with Washington? MI6, MI5 and GCHQ, Britain's three
:03:38. > :03:41.spy agencies, all have incredibly close working relationships
:03:42. > :03:46.with their US counterparts. Whitehall officials insisted
:03:47. > :03:48.today that partnership remains as strong as ever,
:03:49. > :03:53.despite the controversy Still, it is a bad day
:03:54. > :03:56.for Western intelligence, when Britain has to publicly
:03:57. > :03:59.contradict a statement coming out of the highest office
:04:00. > :04:01.of its closest partner, Frank Gardner, BBC News, outside MI6
:04:02. > :04:19.headquarters in central London. President Trump was asked about
:04:20. > :04:22.allegations against a day. He said the media initially pointed the
:04:23. > :04:27.finger at the British intelligence agency and not the White House or
:04:28. > :04:35.the president himself. We said nothing. All we did was quote a
:04:36. > :04:38.certain very talented legal mind, who was the one responsible for
:04:39. > :04:43.saying that on television. I didn't make an opinion on it, that was a
:04:44. > :04:47.statement made by a very talented lawyer on Fox. You shouldn't be
:04:48. > :04:53.talking to me, you should be talking to Fox, OK? Making matters even
:04:54. > :04:56.murkier, late today Fox News said they had no evidence of any kind
:04:57. > :05:01.President Trump was under surveillance at any time in any way.
:05:02. > :05:05.Wiretapping was just one of the topics the leaders discussed today
:05:06. > :05:09.and a short time ago I discussed Chancellor Merkel's visit with
:05:10. > :05:12.Charles Koch who served as senior director for European affairs at the
:05:13. > :05:18.National Security Council during the Obama Administration. Thanks for
:05:19. > :05:23.joining me, how damaging are these wiretapping allegations? They won't
:05:24. > :05:26.go away. We have an expression here, when you're in a hole stop digging.
:05:27. > :05:31.President Trump seems to keep digging. The Republican leadership
:05:32. > :05:35.has come out and said no wiretapping. Now the US has more or
:05:36. > :05:40.less had to apologise to the UK for this report that it was British
:05:41. > :05:47.intelligence that was giving misinformation. That is no more
:05:48. > :05:51.confirmable than the wiretapping to begin with. Rather than backing off
:05:52. > :05:55.President Trump keeps doubling down and it is damaging his credibility.
:05:56. > :06:00.Those comments came at the end of that news conference but what we saw
:06:01. > :06:05.throughout was really a vision of two different worldviews. Angela
:06:06. > :06:09.Merkel talking about globalisation, defending free trade, and Donald
:06:10. > :06:14.Trump putting America first. How are these different approaches going to
:06:15. > :06:17.be reconciled? Angela Merkel put her finger on it when G said it's better
:06:18. > :06:21.to be talking to each other than about each other. In some ways it
:06:22. > :06:26.was an indication that the discussion in the Oval Office was
:06:27. > :06:31.probably pretty frank and tough. As you said, they are coming at the
:06:32. > :06:34.core issues from opposite ends of the political spectrum. I think we
:06:35. > :06:39.did see a bit of movement on some of the core issues, with the Chancellor
:06:40. > :06:45.accepting she needs to do more on defence spending, with President
:06:46. > :06:48.Trump saying, I will stand by historic institutions, whatever that
:06:49. > :06:52.means. He didn't come right out and say I support the EU, which I think
:06:53. > :06:56.Chancellor Merkel would have liked. There is no question this is the
:06:57. > :07:00.initial conversation in what is going to be a very tough
:07:01. > :07:05.conversation across the Atlantic over the coming months. What are the
:07:06. > :07:09.priorities here? They disagree on virtually everything from Russia, to
:07:10. > :07:14.Nato, to the future of the EU. What is the consequence if they don't get
:07:15. > :07:18.it right? Particularly on Russia. I think if they don't get it right we
:07:19. > :07:23.are in a heap of trouble because as we found out during the Obama
:07:24. > :07:27.presidency, Berlin and Washington need to stay in lockstep. In part
:07:28. > :07:31.because the French are weak politically and economically, the
:07:32. > :07:34.British are tied up in the Brexit negotiation, so it is really the
:07:35. > :07:39.leader of Germany and the United States that have been guiding the
:07:40. > :07:42.West at a very troubled time when there is populous rising on both
:07:43. > :07:49.sides of the Atlantic. The key issues for now are to stand by the
:07:50. > :07:53.core institutions of Nato and EU. Trump did say he supports Nato. To
:07:54. > :07:57.stand up to Russia because Russia continues to leaning and interfere
:07:58. > :08:01.in our politics. It's still got troops in Ukraine. I think the
:08:02. > :08:07.toughest conversation may be on trade. We saw that today in the
:08:08. > :08:10.press conference, Merkel said, I'm a free trader, standing by trade
:08:11. > :08:15.deals. Trump was really America first. That's going to be a tough
:08:16. > :08:20.conversation especially because Merkel is hosting the G20 coming up
:08:21. > :08:25.in July. All eyes on that. Charles, thank you very much indeed. Let's
:08:26. > :08:30.take a look at some of the other news. The UN refugee agency has said
:08:31. > :08:34.it is appalled by the deaths of dozens of Somali refugees after
:08:35. > :08:39.their boat was attacked off Yemen's red Sea coast. More than 40 bodies
:08:40. > :08:42.have been recovered and survivors taken to detention centres. It's not
:08:43. > :08:45.clear who was behind the attack. Coastguards say the vessel was
:08:46. > :08:51.travelling from Yemen to Sudan when it was fired at from the air. A US
:08:52. > :08:54.Secret Service laptop containing sensitive information about
:08:55. > :08:57.President Trump and Hillary Clinton has been stolen. The computer
:08:58. > :09:02.contained the floor plans of Trump Tower and details of the
:09:03. > :09:06.investigation into Mrs Clinton's use of a private e-mail server. It was
:09:07. > :09:10.reportedly taken from an agent's car in the New York borough of Brooklyn
:09:11. > :09:15.on Thursday, police are trying to identify suspects from CCTV footage.
:09:16. > :09:19.Egyptian archaeologists say a vast statue uncovered in a suburb of
:09:20. > :09:23.Cairo last week is not Pharaoh Rameses the second as originally
:09:24. > :09:27.thought, it is believed to depict a much later King, some take the
:09:28. > :09:32.first. It was found by an Egyptian- German archaeological team and had
:09:33. > :09:39.split into a number of parts. Its torso alone weighed more than 300
:09:40. > :09:42.tonnes. Today the US secretary of state Rex Tillerson continued his
:09:43. > :09:45.trip to Asia with a blunt message for North Korea. The White House's
:09:46. > :09:51.ruling nothing out including military action. Speaking after
:09:52. > :09:55.talks with South Korean leaders, Rex Tillerson said a policy of strategic
:09:56. > :10:00.patience with Pyongyang was over. Stephen Evans reports from Seoul. Mr
:10:01. > :10:05.to and came here with a particular message in the Foreign Ministry and
:10:06. > :10:08.that is that the ironclad alliance between the US and South Korea, as
:10:09. > :10:16.he calls it, will remain, whoever wins power in elections here in two
:10:17. > :10:20.months. He was firm, though quietly spoken, he said the old policy has
:10:21. > :10:25.ended. We wait, though, to see exactly what the new policy will be.
:10:26. > :10:31.Let me be very clear, the policy of strategic patience has ended. We are
:10:32. > :10:37.exploring a new range of diplomatic, security and economic measures, all
:10:38. > :10:40.options are on the table. North Korea must understand that the only
:10:41. > :10:47.path to a secure economically prosperous future is to abandon its
:10:48. > :10:50.development of nuclear weapons, ballistic missiles, and other
:10:51. > :10:56.weapons of mass destruction. We call on other regional powers and all
:10:57. > :10:59.nations to join us in demanding the North Korean government choose a
:11:00. > :11:05.better path and different future for its people. Beyond the actual words,
:11:06. > :11:11.the tone of the press conference was that the moment North Korea has the
:11:12. > :11:16.ability to hit the continental United States with nuclear weapons
:11:17. > :11:24.is a moment of real crisis. And military options really will be an
:11:25. > :11:29.the table then. For more on secretary Tillerson's tough tour, I
:11:30. > :11:32.spoke to Jordan Chang, author of nuclear showdown: North Korea takes
:11:33. > :11:37.on the world. He joined us from New York. -- Gordon. Thank you for
:11:38. > :11:42.joining me. Very different tone, but what can we make of it, what does it
:11:43. > :11:46.mean? The Trump administration has yet to figure out its policy on
:11:47. > :11:52.North Korea. That is sort of understandable because North Korea
:11:53. > :11:57.policy isn't just about North Korea, it's about Iran, Pakistan and China,
:11:58. > :12:00.because these countries cooperate on ballistic missiles and nuclear
:12:01. > :12:07.weapon technology. This is a hard issue for the United States. Part of
:12:08. > :12:10.Tillerson 's brief is to find out what the Chinese position is and how
:12:11. > :12:14.far they can be pushed. Tillerson talks about the military operation
:12:15. > :12:19.but it's not going to happen because there are 25 million South Koreans
:12:20. > :12:24.living in Seoul, 30 parameters from the demilitarised zone separating
:12:25. > :12:30.the two careers. The North Korean army has about 60% of its forces
:12:31. > :12:35.deployed on the DMC. What can he do, if the military option isn't an
:12:36. > :12:38.option, what is? He talked about arming North Korea, South Korea and
:12:39. > :12:43.Japan with the world's most dangerous weapons. I don't think
:12:44. > :12:46.it's going to happen because that is ditching seven decades of American
:12:47. > :12:50.proliferation policy. One thing he can do which administrations in the
:12:51. > :12:55.past haven't tried, as a matter of fact the only thing they haven't
:12:56. > :13:00.tried, is to impose costs on China for aiding North Korea in illicit
:13:01. > :13:04.ways. If we unplugged Chinese banks from the global system for money
:13:05. > :13:07.laundering, which we should do, it would rock global markets but it
:13:08. > :13:11.would tell the Chinese for the first time in more than two decade we're
:13:12. > :13:14.serious about protecting the American homeland. There are no
:13:15. > :13:18.longer any low-cost solutions, we've got ourselves in a very bad place,
:13:19. > :13:22.it's going to be horrible getting out of it. How is China going to
:13:23. > :13:28.react? Because that is his next stop. If Tillerson was going to do
:13:29. > :13:32.this, and he has talked about sanctioning Chinese companies,
:13:33. > :13:34.Beijing would be upset. Beijing has not been cooperating, it's been
:13:35. > :13:39.helping North Korea, transferring missile technology, and probably
:13:40. > :13:46.nuclear weapons technology as well, because we know they have also
:13:47. > :13:49.transferred material to the North Koreans. We have to come to some
:13:50. > :13:55.understanding. Really a horrible realisation for us, but the Chinese
:13:56. > :13:59.are not on our side. They are on the side of North Korea, and we have a
:14:00. > :14:04.long way to go in getting China to a good place on this. The wild card is
:14:05. > :14:08.North Korea, you haven't mentioned what their reaction is likely to be
:14:09. > :14:11.and you're not dealing with a rational regime. They think the
:14:12. > :14:16.regime is rational but Kim Jong-un the ruler has a low threshold of
:14:17. > :14:20.risk. Within about three or four week period at the end of January,
:14:21. > :14:25.through February, we saw many instances of instability. For
:14:26. > :14:28.instance the demotion of the Minister of State Security, the
:14:29. > :14:33.execution of five senior subordinates. The killing of King
:14:34. > :14:40.Jong-un, the older half brother of the ruler. -- Tillerson. On the Lord
:14:41. > :14:44.of the intermediate range ballistic missile the head of the North Korean
:14:45. > :14:47.missile forces wasn't there, indicating turbulence at the top of
:14:48. > :14:51.the North Korean military. This is an exceedingly difficult situation
:14:52. > :14:54.because I believe North Korea is not stable. Thank you very much for
:14:55. > :15:03.joining me, Gordon Chang. You're watching World News America.
:15:04. > :15:06.Still to come... Reaching a remote part of China where a security
:15:07. > :15:08.crackdown is underway. Why Beijing worries about terrorism among this
:15:09. > :15:19.community. Authorities in Peru remain on high
:15:20. > :15:24.alert after heavy rains caused mudslides and two rivers to burst
:15:25. > :15:27.banks in the capital, Lima. The damage has forced schools and roads
:15:28. > :15:34.to close and tens of thousands of people have been left homeless, as
:15:35. > :15:38.Greg Dawson reports. As a mudslide churns up the debris of what was
:15:39. > :15:45.somebody's home, a woman suddenly emerges clinging for her life.
:15:46. > :15:58.Slowly, she is able to find her feet and carefully step away. Before
:15:59. > :16:04.onlookers rushed to help her. Later commit Peru's health Minister tells
:16:05. > :16:15.her she's had a lucky escape. She's not the only one. Just watch as a
:16:16. > :16:20.mudslide takes out two chucks. One of the drivers somehow manages to
:16:21. > :16:23.climb from his cab, just before the rushing water drags his vehicle
:16:24. > :16:33.away. It's not clear what happened to the people in the other lorry. In
:16:34. > :16:39.some parts of Peru's capital, Lima, the only route to safety is up as
:16:40. > :16:45.police as if children out of the flood waters. One temperatures in
:16:46. > :16:49.the Pacific have brought torrential rain to Peru according to the macro
:16:50. > :16:53.causing burst river banks and mudslides. 50 people have died in
:16:54. > :17:02.floods since December and tens of thousands have lost their homes. The
:17:03. > :17:07.floods have damaged crops and hit the tourism industry. The full
:17:08. > :17:11.extent of the damage will be Nova while, heavy rain will continue for
:17:12. > :17:22.at least another two weeks. Greg Dawson, BBC News.
:17:23. > :17:27.China has declared that Islamist separatists in the far west of the
:17:28. > :17:31.country are the greatest threat to the nation's security. The president
:17:32. > :17:36.promised to build what he calls a great wall of iron to safeguard the
:17:37. > :17:41.vast western region option Jang, home to a community of some 10
:17:42. > :17:45.million mostly Muslims who the government says may be vulnerable to
:17:46. > :17:47.radicalising propaganda from Syria and Iraq. Widespread intimidation
:17:48. > :17:53.makes reporting from the region extremely difficult, but Carrie
:17:54. > :17:59.Gracie gained exclusive access and sent this report.
:18:00. > :18:09.Once the fabled silk Road between China and the West, now the front
:18:10. > :18:14.line in China's war on terror. They called it an all-out offensive. A
:18:15. > :18:20.new great wall of iron. Thousands of troops, pledging to lay down their
:18:21. > :18:26.lives and shed blood. We're heading for the scene of the only confirmed
:18:27. > :18:29.attack this year. China doesn't want the world to see the police
:18:30. > :18:37.checkpoints. Filming has to be discreet. Body searches in every
:18:38. > :18:45.public building. We're the only foreign reporters to get to this
:18:46. > :18:49.county. Three young Uighurs knifed a group of hanging Chinese on the
:18:50. > :18:57.street here last month. Five victims died of their wounds. Police shot
:18:58. > :18:59.the attackers dead. -- Han Chinese. Some are glad of the heightened
:19:00. > :19:08.security. TRANSLATION: You don't need to be afraid, she
:19:09. > :19:13.says, this place is full of police, you can feel safe, it's a lot better
:19:14. > :19:20.than before. Recent attacks have all been local and low-tech. A handful
:19:21. > :19:24.of young farmers armed only with knives. They show no sign of
:19:25. > :19:28.delivering the kind of large-scale atrocity that would explain the
:19:29. > :19:34.government call for an all-out offensive and sending thousands of
:19:35. > :19:40.troops to this so-called front line. But some say there are more attacks
:19:41. > :19:48.than the government admits to. Security, the only growth business.
:19:49. > :19:51.They say it's backward here. They would get out if they could. But
:19:52. > :19:56.Beijing worries about where they would go. TRANSLATION: The so-called
:19:57. > :20:04.Islamic the so-called Islamic State posted
:20:05. > :20:12.videos of Xinjiang in Iraq, promising rivers of blood in Chinese
:20:13. > :20:16.heartland. Religion in Xinjiang is under ever-growing pressure. No
:20:17. > :20:21.young people in the mosque, no beards except the very old. And
:20:22. > :20:23.propaganda slogans urging the public to thank their Communist Party
:20:24. > :20:41.leaders. Some are grateful. This man sings a
:20:42. > :20:47.tune that Beijing likes. They call him Xinjiang's Justin Bieber. A
:20:48. > :20:55.reminder that Uighurs were once more famous for song than for violence.
:20:56. > :21:04.He told his fans disease every chance the government offers but the
:21:05. > :21:07.relationship between Uighurs and Han were Chinese, he says he can't talk
:21:08. > :21:15.about it, and I can see why he is careful. People disappear. Armed
:21:16. > :21:21.SWAT teams are everywhere. Foreign critics warned this repression is
:21:22. > :21:29.the recruiting Sergeant for terror. But China vows it will triumph. And
:21:30. > :21:38.until then every Uighur is suspect. Carrie Gracie, BBC News, Xinjiang.
:21:39. > :21:42.The Kronos Quartet has been entertaining audiences worldwide for
:21:43. > :21:45.more than 40 years, now they are turning their attention to the next
:21:46. > :21:47.generation of musicians. They've launched a project which helps
:21:48. > :21:50.emerging professionals and students with a series of specially
:21:51. > :21:55.commissioned scores. The BBC caught up with the team at the historic
:21:56. > :22:00.sixth and I Synagogue in Washington, DC.
:22:01. > :22:11.50 for the future is a five-year commissioning programme. Each year
:22:12. > :22:19.we commissioned five women and five men composers and making music for
:22:20. > :22:29.future generations. And I want just the most amazing music we can find.
:22:30. > :22:35.We're frequently working with young groups, some from high school, some
:22:36. > :22:38.from colleges, and young professional groups. They are
:22:39. > :22:43.playing our repertoire, that they can download for free from our
:22:44. > :22:47.website, the scores on the parts, you can listen to the coding is. You
:22:48. > :22:53.can hear each composer speaking about their work, giving details of
:22:54. > :23:01.interpretation and background. For free. Any time of day and night.
:23:02. > :23:06.Whether it has been written by Laurie Anderson, Terry Riley, we
:23:07. > :23:13.decided to make it has readily available as possible. That is what
:23:14. > :23:17.50 for the Future is trying to do. Writing for the Kronos is a great
:23:18. > :23:23.honour, but to think of the younger quartets behind them, I was thinking
:23:24. > :23:27.as I was writing, what is useful for a young quartet to learn? A nice
:23:28. > :23:29.thing for them to do, some little things they haven't seen before but
:23:30. > :23:34.nothing too extreme. I thought, what is enjoyable in this part, I play
:23:35. > :23:39.myself, I know what is fun to do and less fun to do. In very conscious of
:23:40. > :23:42.how it feels to play, so when I write something I wanted to feel
:23:43. > :23:44.good as well sound good, when it feels good and the player is happy
:23:45. > :23:54.to it, it works. I'm so pleased about the way the
:23:55. > :23:58.project is developing, it's much bigger than I thought. I think it's
:23:59. > :24:01.a very generous gesture on behalf of Chronos to give to the new
:24:02. > :24:04.generation is 50 new pieces which they have access to free online,
:24:05. > :24:12.it's a wonderful thing they are doing. What I hope is that 50 for
:24:13. > :24:17.the Future is this platform that will allow other groups all over the
:24:18. > :24:25.world to have as much fun as Chronos does.
:24:26. > :24:37.I want musical viewpoint expressed not only through 50 for the Future,
:24:38. > :24:52.but all the work Kronos does. That is is ending on a high note.
:24:53. > :24:56.You can find much more on all the news of the day on the website. For
:24:57. > :24:58.now, from all of us at World News America, thank you for watching and
:24:59. > :25:09.have a good weekend. For an extended look at the weather.
:25:10. > :25:15.We're going to look at the weather for the next week. And a little bit
:25:16. > :25:20.beyond. We start looking into the Atlantic at the jet stream, that
:25:21. > :25:21.fast flowing river in the upper atmosphere