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The execution of the Shia cleric in Saudi Arabia led to the embassy in | :00:09. | :00:20. | |
Tehran being attacked and the Saudis have cut off diplomatic ties with | :00:21. | :00:24. | |
Iran and other families have followed suit. He will get an | :00:25. | :00:28. | |
analysis and we will hear from the Saudi Foreign Minister. We will cut | :00:29. | :00:33. | |
off commercial relations with Iran and we will have a travel ban | :00:34. | :00:40. | |
against people travelling to Iran. Sweden and Denmark are increasing | :00:41. | :00:42. | |
security on the borders as pressure from the migrant crisis builds. | :00:43. | :00:47. | |
Those are pricier, Rafa Benitez sacked by Real Madrid, the real | :00:48. | :00:52. | |
surprise is that Synod in sedan will replace him. We will also be live in | :00:53. | :00:59. | |
Oregon because protesters are still occupying a US government building | :01:00. | :01:02. | |
and a reporter is one of the first at the scene. And we're live on BBC | :01:03. | :01:07. | |
television in the UK and around the world, life on the BBC News app in | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
the UK and if you are online, you can reach me at any point with | :01:12. | :01:13. | |
questions and comments. First, Saudi Arabia executed a Shia | :01:14. | :01:29. | |
cleric, along with 46 others. Then, the Saudi embassy in Tehran | :01:30. | :01:33. | |
was attacked by protestors. And the fallout from | :01:34. | :01:36. | |
both events continues. Saudi Arabia has cut diplomatic | :01:37. | :01:40. | |
relations with Iran. Now Sudan and Bahrain | :01:41. | :01:47. | |
have followed suit. And the UAE has | :01:48. | :01:51. | |
downgraded relations. There has been an arrest in Baghdad. | :01:52. | :02:04. | |
Two Sunni mosques have been bombed and another was killed. This is of | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
vital importance because tension between Iran and Saudi Arabia | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
represents broader sectarian tension in the Muslim world. | :02:14. | :02:16. | |
Something which is relevant to conflicts in Syria, | :02:17. | :02:18. | |
First let's get the Saudi perspective. | :02:19. | :02:24. | |
This clip of the foreign minister has just come into us. | :02:25. | :02:26. | |
We decided to cut off all the diplomatic relations with Iran. | :02:27. | :02:29. | |
We will also be cutting off all air traffic to and from Iran | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
and we will be cutting off all commercial relations with Iran | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
and we will have a travel ban against people travelling to Iran. | :02:38. | :02:40. | |
The Iranians and their allies have been pushing and promoting terrorism | :02:41. | :02:42. | |
and recruiting people, inciting and providing weapons | :02:43. | :02:44. | |
He is as much of a religious figure as Osama Bin Laden was. | :02:45. | :03:01. | |
He is a man who was agitating, who was organising cells, | :03:02. | :03:04. | |
who was providing them with weapons and money. | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
He was engaged in attacks against Saudi security forces that | :03:09. | :03:11. | |
We will not allow Iran to destabilise our region. | :03:12. | :03:20. | |
We will not allow Iran to do harm to our citizens or those | :03:21. | :03:23. | |
And an expiration of a question people have been asking of the BBC. | :03:24. | :03:38. | |
-- explanation. Why does Iran feel so strongly | :03:39. | :03:39. | |
about the execution of a Saudi This is a clip of Seyed Mohammad | :03:40. | :03:42. | |
Marandi from the University Well, Iran's problem is not simply | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
the fact that the Saudi regime has But it is the promotion | :03:47. | :03:54. | |
of extremism and the Wahhabi ideology that has been | :03:55. | :04:02. | |
going on for decades. The Saudis helped create Al-Qaeda | :04:03. | :04:08. | |
in the 1980s with US help. And we saw that it led to September | :04:09. | :04:15. | |
11th and the attacks on London. This story brings us back | :04:16. | :04:22. | |
to sectarian divisions Of the 1.5 billion Muslims, | :04:23. | :04:24. | |
it's estimated that between 85 This shows the spread of Sunnis | :04:25. | :04:31. | |
across the Middle East. The darker areas are larger | :04:32. | :04:38. | |
Sunni populations. And these are the areas | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
where Shias live. You can see that Iran has the | :04:43. | :04:56. | |
darkest blue. This is live on our BBC News networks. We also have none | :04:57. | :05:02. | |
to others, BBC Arabic and BBC Persian. Both broadcasting right | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
now, both leading on the story and we wanted their analysis. They have | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
a unique perspective from both sides of the story. We can play what I | :05:13. | :05:19. | |
heard from BBC Persian and BBC Arabic. I have to say that this is a | :05:20. | :05:27. | |
largest simultaneous execution since 1980 and many say that the Saudis | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
expected the international outcry, many think that they expected this | :05:33. | :05:35. | |
and they wanted to create an explanation -- escalation and | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
tension to attract the attention of America to tell them they have to | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
act on our side because it is us against the Iranians. And Iran... | :05:46. | :05:52. | |
Protesters attacked the Saudi embassy but that would not have been | :05:53. | :05:54. | |
possible without the authorities are loving that? We have received a lot | :05:55. | :05:59. | |
of sarcastic comments from viewers inside Iran, how come when we want | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
to protest, the matter how peaceful, you don't get permission or if we do | :06:05. | :06:11. | |
stage it, our security is not guaranteed and we are mobbed by some | :06:12. | :06:15. | |
vigilante groups or arrested by the official police forces so that the | :06:16. | :06:21. | |
end of the day, if this is a police state, even giving them the benefit | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
of the doubt, they will have wanted to control the protest but they | :06:26. | :06:28. | |
could not, it is still an embarrassing and. To be more | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
cynical, you could argue that this has been given some green light from | :06:34. | :06:36. | |
some parts of the establishment because they would have thought they | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
would benefit from an escalation in tension with their neighbours in | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
this region. The last them months, Russia has become involved in Syria | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
and people tell me that Syria is not about Russia against the US, it is | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
about Saudi Arabia against Iran. Why is this tension is so relevant to | :06:55. | :07:00. | |
Syria and also Yemen? At the end of this month, there will be talks | :07:01. | :07:05. | |
about finding a solution to the Syrian crisis and many are trying to | :07:06. | :07:11. | |
position themselves in this crisis and the Saudis have been saying | :07:12. | :07:16. | |
clearly, we don't want the Iranians meddling in Syria and we don't want | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
resident Assad so maybe this is having a dimension in the Syrian | :07:21. | :07:26. | |
crisis and also in Yemeni -- the Yemen where the Saudis are accusing | :07:27. | :07:33. | |
Iran of siding with the Shia rebels. We are doing this live stream on | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
Facebook, one gentleman in Afghanistan was asking about the | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
possible knock-on effect of these tensions in his country and I | :07:43. | :07:46. | |
expected you to say not much but you said there could be possible | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
consequences? In Afghanistan we have Shia and Sunni Muslims and a wider | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
ethnic mix so we have Persian speakers who are considered to be | :07:57. | :08:02. | |
sometimes probing the relation of Iran but those Persian speakers can | :08:03. | :08:09. | |
be either Sunni or attempt to but the hope of Khalistan is because it | :08:10. | :08:13. | |
is a more detailed mosaic of ethnicity, maybe this will not | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
necessarily be so likely for them, for the situation to degenerate but | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
we have to see in the next coming days if there will be protests and | :08:23. | :08:25. | |
the situation can possibly degenerate. You covered the tension | :08:26. | :08:32. | |
between Iran and Saudi Arabia for years, can you put this in context? | :08:33. | :08:39. | |
How serious are the last few days? This is as bad as it can get for | :08:40. | :08:44. | |
decades. And many think the Saudis are doing this because they feel the | :08:45. | :08:48. | |
Americans are not backing them any more because of the nuclear deal on | :08:49. | :08:50. | |
one side and because they do not need Saudi oil any more and they are | :08:51. | :08:56. | |
pushing this escalation to a crisis in order to attract the American | :08:57. | :09:04. | |
backing. That is to rent to a decision that Sweden has taken... -- | :09:05. | :09:06. | |
let us turn to. Sweden has introduced checks | :09:07. | :09:08. | |
for people coming from Denmark. All related to the volume | :09:09. | :09:11. | |
of migrants and refugees that Anyone wanting to cross | :09:12. | :09:13. | |
the Oresund Bridge by train, bus, or ferry will be refused entry | :09:14. | :09:22. | |
if they don't have the Denmark is bringing in temporary | :09:23. | :09:25. | |
border controls at its southern That is the main entry point | :09:26. | :09:33. | |
for migrants seeking to reach These are the latest immigration | :09:34. | :09:39. | |
figures from Sweden. Over 160.000 people have | :09:40. | :09:48. | |
arrived last year. The second highest per capita in | :09:49. | :09:58. | |
Europe. You can see that top is hungry. The | :09:59. | :10:11. | |
reason it is higher is this is the main entry point for many migrants | :10:12. | :10:14. | |
coming into Western Europe and most do not stay in Hungary but in the | :10:15. | :10:19. | |
case of Sweden, many see this as the final destination. | :10:20. | :10:23. | |
That may explain public opinion on this. | :10:24. | :10:25. | |
69% of Swedes are positive towards the tougher policy according | :10:26. | :10:27. | |
There are practical consequences though. | :10:28. | :10:33. | |
Over 15,000 people commute daily between Sweden and Denmark. | :10:34. | :10:35. | |
Their journey time may well increase. | :10:36. | :10:36. | |
Gunilla Fritze is a reporter with Swedish Television. | :10:37. | :10:40. | |
She very kindly sent us this report from Malmoe. | :10:41. | :10:46. | |
About 10,000 people travel every day across this bridge between Denmark | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
And there will be delays in traffic due to the controls on the Danish | :10:52. | :10:57. | |
When I took the early morning train, we were about 40 minutes | :10:58. | :11:05. | |
after schedule when we arrived to the Copenhagen airport. | :11:06. | :11:11. | |
And many travellers were frustrated and irritated and they said, | :11:12. | :11:13. | |
what will happen when we are coming back? | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
Because everyone has to show either ID or passport to the staff | :11:18. | :11:20. | |
And today, the Danish Prime Minister said that they will have similar | :11:21. | :11:26. | |
border controls between Denmark and Germany. | :11:27. | :11:31. | |
And the Swedish Immigration Minister said that he thinks that the Danish | :11:32. | :11:36. | |
government has taken the right decision today, | :11:37. | :11:39. | |
even though the Danish Prime Minister said it is not a happy | :11:40. | :11:42. | |
Let us turn to a story that raises so many questions. | :11:43. | :11:56. | |
A government building in Oregon continues to be occupied | :11:57. | :11:58. | |
This is on the West Coast of the USA. | :11:59. | :12:06. | |
This is all happening at a bird sanctuary - | :12:07. | :12:08. | |
the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge - which is here, near a town called | :12:09. | :12:11. | |
There we go. We will get into where the bird century fits into the story | :12:12. | :12:28. | |
any moment. First of all, a BBC report with the basics. | :12:29. | :12:35. | |
This'll become a base, a place where patriots from all over | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
the country can come and be housed here and live here. | :12:40. | :12:43. | |
We are planning on staying here for several years. | :12:44. | :12:55. | |
And I am 100% willing to lay my life down to fight against tyranny | :12:56. | :13:01. | |
It just seems like a little bit of overreach for having | :13:02. | :13:19. | |
That is what we are up here for, the constitution. | :13:20. | :13:35. | |
It is sort of frightening, when there are people making | :13:36. | :13:38. | |
This is the power of America right here, it doesn't have to stop here. | :13:39. | :14:07. | |
We need you to come to the National Wildlife Refuge. | :14:08. | :14:17. | |
What an interesting story. We will get to the question a few minutes | :14:18. | :14:25. | |
ago, while only playing this out at a bird sanctuary? James Cook is at | :14:26. | :14:35. | |
the scene. It is a curious target, perhaps, because on the face of it | :14:36. | :14:38. | |
it does not seem like an obvious symbol to the outside world of | :14:39. | :14:42. | |
government oppression, it is a bird sanctuary, it has been here since | :14:43. | :14:50. | |
1908, but they say it is a crucial symbol of what the federal | :14:51. | :14:54. | |
government has been doing in terms of its interactions with local | :14:55. | :14:57. | |
ranchers, they complained that the federal government has been | :14:58. | :15:00. | |
interfering in their affairs, it has been tampering with their rights in | :15:01. | :15:09. | |
this land. Thank you, James. The man leading the occupation has been | :15:10. | :15:14. | |
speaking to reporters, he is called Eamon Bundy and he said in various | :15:15. | :15:18. | |
points but statements are not enough, we intend to unwind | :15:19. | :15:24. | |
unconstitutional land transactions, to understand what these people | :15:25. | :15:28. | |
want, a reporter for Oregon public broadcasting joins me. Thank you for | :15:29. | :15:36. | |
your time. Can you translate that statement for us? What is it they | :15:37. | :15:42. | |
want? They have said they want to return their slant to the people, to | :15:43. | :15:50. | |
the ranchers and others here in this county and that is a big claim, | :15:51. | :15:54. | |
about 75% of the county is land owned by the federal government and | :15:55. | :15:58. | |
that includes the wildlife refuge but lots of land managed by the | :15:59. | :16:04. | |
bureau of land management and ranchers lease that land to graze | :16:05. | :16:13. | |
cattle and essentially, Bundy says they want to take back this land. | :16:14. | :16:17. | |
What do the people locally make of this? Well, the people of Burns are | :16:18. | :16:25. | |
divided, many have grievances with the bureau or order federal agencies | :16:26. | :16:32. | |
and many believe that some of the federal -- environmental regulations | :16:33. | :16:36. | |
are excessive but he also are quite nervous by the tactics of the script | :16:37. | :16:41. | |
and people are concerned about the possible that he of bloodshed. As an | :16:42. | :16:46. | |
outsider, it does seem to be strange that a time would be divided over | :16:47. | :16:50. | |
the action of what appears to be militia and in most countries that | :16:51. | :16:55. | |
would seem extreme, not a way to make a point to the government? | :16:56. | :17:02. | |
Well, I think you have to understand people in this community, many have | :17:03. | :17:09. | |
guns and the belief in gun rights. This is sparsely populated, 7000 | :17:10. | :17:15. | |
people and hundreds of thousands of beggars so people are not as | :17:16. | :17:19. | |
uncomfortable with some of the ideas that this militia is talking about. | :17:20. | :17:25. | |
I would say that many people have told me they believe that the | :17:26. | :17:29. | |
militia has crossed the line and they do not support the illegal | :17:30. | :17:38. | |
taking of federal land. But this is a different kind of community. Thank | :17:39. | :17:43. | |
you for your time. We can perhaps check in again tomorrow. If you want | :17:44. | :17:54. | |
local reports, go to OPB. In a few moments, we will have this report | :17:55. | :17:58. | |
from Rory Cellan-Jones, it is about virtual reality and about after | :17:59. | :18:02. | |
several years of build-up, this will be the year when it really takes | :18:03. | :18:03. | |
off. Intelligence officials here are | :18:04. | :18:17. | |
trying to identify an Islamist extremist who appeared in a video | :18:18. | :18:20. | |
leased by the so-called Islamic State group, using voice recognition | :18:21. | :18:25. | |
analysis to identify this man who threatens to attack the UK in the | :18:26. | :18:29. | |
video. The ten minute film, not independently verified, shows a | :18:30. | :18:34. | |
child speaking English before five captives who are thought to be | :18:35. | :18:38. | |
Syrian and GIS claims are spies for British intelligence are shot dead. | :18:39. | :18:44. | |
At one stage, the man seen holding a gun is extracted to the British | :18:45. | :18:47. | |
Prime Minister, mocking him for trying to challenge Islamic State. | :18:48. | :18:53. | |
Well, it is desperate stuff from an organisation that really does do the | :18:54. | :18:58. | |
most utterly despicable and ghastly acts and people can see that today. | :18:59. | :19:03. | |
This is an organisation that is losing territory and ground, it is | :19:04. | :19:07. | |
increasingly losing anybody's sympathy. And this shows what an | :19:08. | :19:11. | |
appalling organisation were up against. Welcome back. | :19:12. | :19:26. | |
This is Outside Source live from the BBC newsroom. | :19:27. | :19:29. | |
Our lead story: Several countries have downgraded or severed | :19:30. | :19:31. | |
diplomatic ties with Iran after Saudi Arabia's embassy | :19:32. | :19:33. | |
The trouble began when Saudi Arabia executed a prominent Shia cleric. | :19:34. | :19:37. | |
BBC Hindi is reporting that at least nine people have been killed | :19:38. | :19:41. | |
by an earthquake in north-east India near the borders | :19:42. | :19:44. | |
Japan's Prime Minister calls for a summit with Russia so that | :19:45. | :19:52. | |
after World War Two because of a territorial dispute. | :19:53. | :20:01. | |
The US government says it is planning to sue Volkswagen. This is | :20:02. | :20:18. | |
all about distorting emissions data? What precisely what the government | :20:19. | :20:25. | |
sue Volkswagen for? That is right, I have to say that this civil suit was | :20:26. | :20:31. | |
not surprising, we knew that VW was being investigated for criminal | :20:32. | :20:35. | |
charges but there have been no criminal charges so far but the | :20:36. | :20:39. | |
Environmental Protection Agency says that so far they have recalled | :20:40. | :20:42. | |
discussions with Volkswagen Group and we have not produced an | :20:43. | :20:46. | |
acceptable way forward. What they allege is what they have said all | :20:47. | :20:51. | |
along, since September they say that VW violated the clean air laws and | :20:52. | :20:56. | |
they did so intentionally and by using software to basically an | :20:57. | :21:01. | |
appellate the results of emissions tests, they mis-sold 600,000 diesel | :21:02. | :21:07. | |
engines that were designed differently from what they stated in | :21:08. | :21:10. | |
applications to the Environmental Protection Agency for certification. | :21:11. | :21:16. | |
They basically say that Volkswagen failed to report these violations | :21:17. | :21:20. | |
and is a civil suit. Bogside in a bedsit did something is wrong so is | :21:21. | :21:24. | |
this a case of how much money VW will be hit with rather than whether | :21:25. | :21:31. | |
it will be hit or not? Yes, a spokesperson for Volkswagen said | :21:32. | :21:35. | |
today that they acknowledge this suit and they continue to work | :21:36. | :21:38. | |
cooperatively with the EPA to develop remedies for this but as you | :21:39. | :21:43. | |
say, it is not an issue about how much they would pay. This could cost | :21:44. | :21:47. | |
Williams of dollars, it is hard to give a precise figure but based on | :21:48. | :21:53. | |
this complaint, they could face fines of $37,500 for every vehicle, | :21:54. | :21:59. | |
that could go as high as $90 billion and a lot of people are expecting VW | :22:00. | :22:04. | |
to negotiate a settlement with the government and that is what lots of | :22:05. | :22:07. | |
people think they will have to do to avoid a really big financial | :22:08. | :22:11. | |
ramifications against the company. Thank you very much. We will speak | :22:12. | :22:17. | |
tomorrow. A difficult full day of trading. This starts with the | :22:18. | :22:20. | |
Shanghai share index dropping 7%. That's triggered a drop | :22:21. | :22:24. | |
on some Asian markets. And that's now crossed over | :22:25. | :22:25. | |
into some European markets. Our Asia Business Correspondent | :22:26. | :22:28. | |
Karishma Vaswani explains. A new year usually implies a fresh | :22:29. | :22:30. | |
start, a chance to set things right Take a look at the first | :22:31. | :22:34. | |
trading session of 2016. More of the same pessimism and panic | :22:35. | :22:43. | |
we saw for much of last year. This was the first day that Chinese | :22:44. | :22:47. | |
circuit breakers came into effect, a mechanism to automatically stop | :22:48. | :22:51. | |
shares from trading after a fall In China's case, when shares fell, | :22:52. | :22:53. | |
first by 5%, trading was halted Then, when shares resumed trading | :22:54. | :23:00. | |
and fell again to 7%, Circuit breakers in | :23:01. | :23:06. | |
themselves are not unusual. Lots of countries have them | :23:07. | :23:11. | |
for individual stocks or they go But it is kind of unusual to stop | :23:12. | :23:15. | |
trading altogether for a fall of 7%. An indication perhaps of just how | :23:16. | :23:23. | |
much the authorities Remember the great fall of China | :23:24. | :23:27. | |
last summer when shares slumped by more than 30% in three weeks | :23:28. | :23:36. | |
after a spectacular rally China's officials put in place | :23:37. | :23:38. | |
a host of new measures to stop this Analysts say weaker manufacturing | :23:39. | :23:44. | |
data which showed that manufacturing activity declined for the 10th | :23:45. | :23:51. | |
straight month this year is one There was also speculation that | :23:52. | :23:53. | |
sharp depreciation in the Chinese currency soured sentiments | :23:54. | :24:00. | |
on the market, adding to the overall sense of pessimism about the outlook | :24:01. | :24:04. | |
for the Chinese economy. And finally, people | :24:05. | :24:08. | |
are selling because, China's economy is slowing down, | :24:09. | :24:09. | |
people are nervous and that means we could expect volatile trading | :24:10. | :24:15. | |
for the rest of the year. Thank you. A report live from Rory | :24:16. | :24:29. | |
Cellan-Jones on why 2016 will be the year for virtual reality. Everything | :24:30. | :24:36. | |
cellar with fake snow underfoot, I'm inching across a crevasse on my way | :24:37. | :24:40. | |
up the highest peak in the world. Getting a demo of Everest again due | :24:41. | :24:48. | |
out next year. And now, the manufacturers believe that gamers | :24:49. | :24:51. | |
are ready to immerse themselves in virtual reality worlds. It is a | :24:52. | :24:56. | |
natural progression, the bigger screens, we have had 3D, it is about | :24:57. | :25:01. | |
immersion as much as possible and the next thing is taking us into the | :25:02. | :25:05. | |
virtual environment and looking like every other piece of stimulus so we | :25:06. | :25:09. | |
are focused on these results. Getting to the left... Especially | :25:10. | :25:15. | |
one as old as this can be a scary experience for some people. Can | :25:16. | :25:19. | |
virtual reality help them get over this phobia? I have come to see how | :25:20. | :25:24. | |
some psychologists are working with this technology. I will focus on | :25:25. | :25:27. | |
your breathing. They have developed a programme that allows patients to | :25:28. | :25:32. | |
try out the experience of getting into a lift. The breathing changes, | :25:33. | :25:37. | |
you get this physiological reaction which you do not get with the 2D | :25:38. | :25:44. | |
environment. Has it worked? How does that feel? I am quite proud that I | :25:45. | :25:50. | |
am doing this. You should be! Do you think virtual reality has helped? | :25:51. | :25:56. | |
Policy, I would have been taking the stairs one month ago! More in a | :25:57. | :25:59. | |
couple of minutes. Coming up, news of more unwonted | :26:00. | :26:12. | |
ring for South America and bitter | :26:13. | :26:13. |