:00:09. > :00:18.An hour of international news live here.
:00:19. > :00:23.An inquest into the murder of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko
:00:24. > :00:29.says Vladimr Putin probably approved the killing.
:00:30. > :00:36.I am very pleased that the words my husband spoke on his deathbed, when
:00:37. > :00:39.he accused Mr Putin of his murder have been proved.
:00:40. > :00:41.We'll look at the evidence that led to that conclusion.
:00:42. > :00:43.Russia has called the report a provocation, and warned it
:00:44. > :00:50.will affect its relationship with Britain.
:00:51. > :00:59.Brazil is struggling to contain a virus thought to cause a rare
:01:00. > :01:01.David Cameron is at the World Economic Forum.
:01:02. > :01:04.He's drumming up support for his plans to renegotiate
:01:05. > :01:11.Britian's place in the European Union.
:01:12. > :01:30.And you are welcome to get in touch with us.
:01:31. > :01:36.A long-running public inquiry has found that the murder of this man -
:01:37. > :01:39.ex-Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko - was probably approved by Vladimir
:01:40. > :01:48.Mr Litvinenko had fled to Britain in 2000 where he became UK citizen.
:01:49. > :01:50.In 2006, he was poisoned with polonium-210 at the Millennium
:01:51. > :02:01.He was meeting two former FSB agents, Andrei Lugovoi and Dmitri
:02:02. > :02:11.The FSB is Russia's security service.
:02:12. > :02:20.He drunk poisoned tea from this teapot.
:02:21. > :02:25.After three weeks, he died here, at University College Hospital.
:02:26. > :02:28.The report found that Mr Litvinenko was murdered over his criticism
:02:29. > :02:30.of Mr Putin and the FSB and his association with other
:02:31. > :02:58.Let's hear reaction from some of the inquiry's main players.
:02:59. > :03:10.There is a strong probability that when Mr Lugovoi poisoned Mr
:03:11. > :03:18.Litvinenko he did so under the direction of the FSB, the federal
:03:19. > :03:24.security service of the Russian Federation. I have further concluded
:03:25. > :03:33.that Mr Kovtun was also acting under FSB direction. The FSB operation to
:03:34. > :03:41.kill Mr Litvinenko was probably approved by Mr Patrushev, then head
:03:42. > :03:53.of the FSB. And also by President Putin. It was saying yes, these two
:03:54. > :04:02.guys definitely committed this crime. Yes, they are working from
:04:03. > :04:08.Moscow. I believe final justice, when these two people will be
:04:09. > :04:15.punished, will happen. But today it was a very serious... It happened
:04:16. > :04:20.officially in the English courts. And now we absolutely support this
:04:21. > :04:28.verdict to say yes, I support, I know who killed my husband and I can
:04:29. > :04:31.name them. The conclusion that the Russian state was probably involved
:04:32. > :04:38.in the murder of Mr Litvinenko is deeply disturbing. It goes without
:04:39. > :04:46.saying this was a blatant and unacceptable breach of the most
:04:47. > :04:50.fundamental tenets of international law and civilised behaviour. We have
:04:51. > :05:00.to accept this does not come as a surprise. The inquiry confirms that
:05:01. > :05:01.this was a state-sponsored act. That was Theresa May and before that we
:05:02. > :05:04.saw Marina Litvinenko. I've been talking to Famil Ismailov
:05:05. > :05:15.from BBC Russian about her role. She lost the person close to her,
:05:16. > :05:21.she lost a lot of her life. It was not just something political, a
:05:22. > :05:26.political murder, for her it was a personal quest to get justice for
:05:27. > :05:30.people who murdered her husband and today she is probably really happy
:05:31. > :05:36.because she can now put this at rest. What has she been able to do
:05:37. > :05:40.to push the UK Government's response to this? She was always there, never
:05:41. > :05:46.thought that is it, there is nothing much I can do. She was refused to
:05:47. > :05:51.judicial inquiry. She appealed and got permission to do the public
:05:52. > :05:55.inquiry, which was the most important thing, to be able to say,
:05:56. > :06:02.I know who killed my husband, I have proof. You are staying with us, I
:06:03. > :06:06.will come back to you in a moment. I want to look through how some of the
:06:07. > :06:13.main Russian TV channels have covered this. We do not have the
:06:14. > :06:22.rights to show you at length. This is from a popular channel. It has
:06:23. > :06:28.been highlighting words such as probably, supposedly, in the
:06:29. > :06:32.findings. Another report, saying the inquiry was based on the study of
:06:33. > :06:38.classified documents the public cannot see. This is interesting,
:06:39. > :06:42.from last December. A serious retelling the Litvinenko story and
:06:43. > :06:51.in the film the key suspect is shown as a noble -- in this he is shown as
:06:52. > :07:01.a noble FSB agent fighting conspiracy. TRANSLATION: This is the
:07:02. > :07:08.logical conclusion of a studio legal process is performed by a British
:07:09. > :07:13.court and government. In itself this is controversial. We can say this is
:07:14. > :07:17.criminal. There was only one objective, which was obvious from
:07:18. > :07:24.the start, to denigrate Russia, its representatives and leadership.
:07:25. > :07:27.There was a certain inevitability about the British Government and
:07:28. > :07:35.Russian government reaction. The British Government had to be shown
:07:36. > :07:43.to take action, that it will not let it lie unanswered. Russia, at the
:07:44. > :07:47.same time, the relationship is still at the bottom, frozen, worse as ever
:07:48. > :07:56.before. The Russians believe there is nothing much they can do. There
:07:57. > :08:03.are sanctions connected to 2007 and the Litvinenko case and also to
:08:04. > :08:10.Ukraine. Showing there that somebody is out to smear Russia's name. This
:08:11. > :08:14.is not judicial process, they say, it is you don't judicial process,
:08:15. > :08:18.and that is how they want the people in Russia, it is for the domestic
:08:19. > :08:24.audience, how they want to be seen in Russia. It was referred to as a
:08:25. > :08:27.smear, but Mr Litvinenko is dead and was poisoned. What is the
:08:28. > :08:34.alternative narrative offered by the Russians? The Russians tried to make
:08:35. > :08:42.sure it is seen that somebody else has done it, maybe MI6, MI5. Having
:08:43. > :08:47.dealings with polonium-210. The important message is for the
:08:48. > :08:52.domestic audience. This is what happens to traitors of the great
:08:53. > :08:56.Russia. That is what will happen to those who betray us and go to the
:08:57. > :09:02.other side and are now trying to make us look bad.
:09:03. > :09:04.Our correspondent Daniel Sandford has reported on the story
:09:05. > :09:12.Here's his report on how the finger of blame finally pointed
:09:13. > :09:17.It was a police investigation like no other.
:09:18. > :09:21.In a London hospital, a man was dying of a mysterious
:09:22. > :09:24.illness, claiming he had been poisoned on the orders of Vladimir
:09:25. > :09:29.Exactly what the poison was was a mystery, until almost
:09:30. > :09:33.by chance, a nuclear scientist realised that it was a very unusual
:09:34. > :09:38.and highly radioactive isotope, called polonium-210.
:09:39. > :09:42.Alexander Litvinenko's son, Anatoly, now a young man,
:09:43. > :09:49.knows how close it came to his father's death
:09:50. > :09:56.Let's say if they did not happen, like starting straight
:09:57. > :09:59.from when my father died, if they did not find the polonium,
:10:00. > :10:01.they would never have been able to trace the killers.
:10:02. > :10:05.The death, the murder of a man who had just become a British
:10:06. > :10:08.citizen, a man who had been working with MI6, sparked a massive
:10:09. > :10:18.To my knowledge, there had never been another investigation
:10:19. > :10:22.into the murder of a British subject in London by means of radioactivity.
:10:23. > :10:26.We were cutting new ground almost at every stage of this enquiry.
:10:27. > :10:31.By following a trail of polonium-210 left at a London sushi bar,
:10:32. > :10:34.on a British plane that arrived at London Heathrow,
:10:35. > :10:54.and another that routed from Hamburg, police were led to two
:10:55. > :10:56.suspects, who had met Alexander Litvinenko in the bar
:10:57. > :10:59.They had given him tea, laced with polonium-210.
:11:00. > :11:01.Those men were former Russian spies, Andre Lugovoi,
:11:02. > :11:03.seen here on the firing range, and Dmitri Kovtun, both confirmed
:11:04. > :11:13.For almost five years now, Andre Lugovoi has been the source
:11:14. > :11:17.But when I met him in 2011, on a fishing boat in
:11:18. > :11:19.the far east of Russia, he was still denying
:11:20. > :11:23.he was the killer and wondering what the fuss was all about.
:11:24. > :11:26.TRANSLATION: Are we going to fight about it for the next 100 years?
:11:27. > :11:32.Alexander Litvinenko was buried in a North London cemetery
:11:33. > :11:34.in a lead-lined coffin, leaving a grieving widow
:11:35. > :11:45.and relations between Britain and Russia in tatters.
:11:46. > :11:52.We saw Daniel on a fishing boat with Andrei Lugovoi. He has made a
:11:53. > :12:22.statement which we have received in the past hours.
:12:23. > :12:31.We have been discussing where these two men are now. A Russian citizen
:12:32. > :12:38.cannot be extradited. Both have successful careers. Mr Lugovoi was
:12:39. > :12:44.given a medal for services to the motherland. He has been a successful
:12:45. > :12:49.politician. He has been elected to the Duma and made a name for
:12:50. > :12:55.himself, in the Duma, the parliament. He is also a presenter
:12:56. > :13:03.of a TV show, which is called Traitors. It is an interesting
:13:04. > :13:11.career for someone he used to work for the FSB. Mr Kovtun is still an
:13:12. > :13:15.entrepreneur and successful. He definitely is not poor. Is there any
:13:16. > :13:23.prospect of the report will change everything? I guests Russia will
:13:24. > :13:28.have formed their view on these men? They will be seen as heroes by the
:13:29. > :13:33.Russian authorities. If they travel abroad they might be arrested and
:13:34. > :13:40.get into trouble. As long as they stay in Russia, they will be safe
:13:41. > :13:42.and lead their lives. If you want more background, go to the BBC News
:13:43. > :13:46.website. I've got a brilliant report
:13:47. > :13:52.by the BBC Click team on hyperloops. I don't really understand them -
:13:53. > :14:16.but if they work they could In the UK senior BBC figures are
:14:17. > :14:22.likely to be called before MPs to see if changes have been made in the
:14:23. > :14:30.light of the Jimmy Savile scandal. It is claimed that Dame Janet
:14:31. > :14:35.Smith's report had a deferential culture and above the law managers
:14:36. > :14:39.and a statement said the document was out of date and significant
:14:40. > :14:44.changes had been made to contents and conclusions. The BBC chief Lord
:14:45. > :14:49.Hall said that lessons would be learned. What happened was a dark
:14:50. > :14:54.chapter in the history of the BBC. Dame Janet's report will be
:14:55. > :14:57.invaluable in helping us to understand what happened and help
:14:58. > :15:11.ensure we do everything possible it does not happen again.
:15:12. > :15:13.This is Outside Source live from the BBC newsroom.
:15:14. > :15:19.An inquiry in Britain has found that President Putin probably approved
:15:20. > :15:21.the murder in London of the former Russian spy,
:15:22. > :15:31.Russia has dismissed the inquiry as biased.
:15:32. > :15:34.Some of the main stories from BBC World Service.
:15:35. > :15:37.A car bomb has exploded at a restaurant in the capital
:15:38. > :15:42.There are reports of explosions and gunfire have been heard
:15:43. > :15:45.Islamic extremist group al-Shabab have claimed
:15:46. > :15:51.A new case of Ebola has been confirmed in Sierra Leone -
:15:52. > :15:53.the second since the World Health Organisation declared an end
:15:54. > :16:00.Will Smith has confirmed he will be joining his wife,
:16:01. > :16:02.Jada Pinkett Smith, in not attending the Oscars next month.
:16:03. > :16:06.He said it would be awkward to attend in the light of the row
:16:07. > :16:15.about the lack of black people among this year's acting nominees.
:16:16. > :16:22.As I mentioned at the beginning of the programme, a worrying story
:16:23. > :16:23.coming from Brazil. The number of babies born
:16:24. > :16:25.with abnormally small heads since October has now
:16:26. > :16:28.reached nearly 4,000. This is something called
:16:29. > :16:31.microcephaly - and rates are four Well 90% of recorded cases
:16:32. > :16:42.are in the north-east. These areas are
:16:43. > :16:46.particularly affected. Authorities believe this
:16:47. > :16:51.is connected to something called Camilla Costa is for
:16:52. > :17:07.us in Sao Paulo. When were the authorities aware
:17:08. > :17:13.something unusual was happening? In August last year. So far Zika was
:17:14. > :17:18.considered a milder form of dengue fever. The mosquito that spreads
:17:19. > :17:24.those is widespread in Brazil and last year was ill had one of its
:17:25. > :17:31.biggest dengue fever epidemics in history. At that point they thought
:17:32. > :17:36.Zika was a mild form of this. In August last year, doctors in the
:17:37. > :17:41.north-east noticed an abnormal surge in the number of babies born with a
:17:42. > :17:47.malformation, the microcephaly, which is when the alarm sounded.
:17:48. > :17:54.When the alarm started to sound, how did the authorities respond? Very
:17:55. > :18:00.little is known up until now about the most serious consequences of
:18:01. > :18:07.this virus. The authorities started to investigate. Whether the virus,
:18:08. > :18:12.like other viruses, could cause an infection in the baby if a pregnant
:18:13. > :18:17.woman caught the virus in the early stages of pregnancy. So far the
:18:18. > :18:21.investigation has been ongoing, but the evidence has mounted this is
:18:22. > :18:27.what happens, a pregnant woman catches the virus early in pregnancy
:18:28. > :18:32.and it causes the malformation, which stops the brain development of
:18:33. > :18:37.the baby, which causes a lot of limitations throughout the baby's
:18:38. > :18:44.life. Have the BBC Brasil spoken to anybody affected? Definitely. I have
:18:45. > :18:49.been to the most affected state in the north-east and spoken to doctors
:18:50. > :18:53.who have been dealing with this case and mothers, as well. There is
:18:54. > :19:00.anxiety with mothers feeling sad and frustrated because once the
:19:01. > :19:06.diagnosis is given, there is little to do about the limitations the baby
:19:07. > :19:13.will have. They have a limit as to how much they can achieve. There is
:19:14. > :19:18.anxiety, some misinformation going on, as well, because doctors cannot
:19:19. > :19:24.predict accurately what exactly will happen to each baby, because the
:19:25. > :19:27.cases vary. The mothers are anxious to know what exactly will be the
:19:28. > :19:34.future of the kids and how they can help. Thank you very much indeed.
:19:35. > :19:40.Already we have reported other stories from BBC was ill, Somalia,
:19:41. > :19:44.Africa and Russia. Next we will turn to business. And begin with a report
:19:45. > :19:47.from the BBC economics editor. David Cameron has been
:19:48. > :19:50.giving his latest thoughts on the renegotiation
:19:51. > :19:52.of Britain's relationship All happening ahead of an in-out
:19:53. > :20:04.referendum that has to be scheduled. Here's our economics editor
:20:05. > :20:13.Kamal Ahmed in Davos. For a man who claimed not to be in a
:20:14. > :20:19.hurry, there was a gear change over Europe as the Prime Minister came to
:20:20. > :20:25.the Alps to sell to political and business leaders what he sees the
:20:26. > :20:30.best deal for the European Union. If it reforms, Britain can stay in. I
:20:31. > :20:36.am not in a hurry. I can hold my referendum at any time up to the end
:20:37. > :20:40.of 2017, but of course it would be good for Britain and Europe if we
:20:41. > :20:45.demonstrated we could turn the goodwill into action is necessary to
:20:46. > :20:49.put this question beyond doubt. The Prime Minister admitted there was
:20:50. > :20:54.some way to go and made it clear that curbs on EU citizens coming to
:20:55. > :21:00.Britain were an essential part of the renegotiation package. If there
:21:01. > :21:08.is no deal on welfare curbs for immigrants from the EU into Britain,
:21:09. > :21:12.is there no deal at all? This migration welfare question is
:21:13. > :21:17.absolutely crucial. You should have to wait for macro years before you
:21:18. > :21:21.have full access to in work welfare. That proposal remains on the table.
:21:22. > :21:28.I know other countries have difficulties with it. David Cameron
:21:29. > :21:33.is in Davos with the big message for business leaders. Back my efforts,
:21:34. > :21:39.he says, to keep Britain inside a reformed European Union. But it is
:21:40. > :21:44.not the big public stages that matter, it is the private
:21:45. > :21:46.negotiations with other European leaders and global leaders, and
:21:47. > :21:54.those are happening today outside that door. One of those meetings was
:21:55. > :21:58.with Mark Ritter, the Dutch Prime Minister and Mr Cameron's ally, but
:21:59. > :22:04.on the issue of curbing migration, it was not plain sailing. The deal
:22:05. > :22:08.on the table has the notion of discrimination. What we have to do
:22:09. > :22:14.is find solution for all the 28 in which you would uphold the principle
:22:15. > :22:19.of free movement and non-discrimination and I think that
:22:20. > :22:25.is doable. Business leaders I spoke to said June was the best date for a
:22:26. > :22:30.referendum. For others, it is not the case Britain needs to be in the
:22:31. > :22:36.EU. I am not sure David Cameron is representing our interests in
:22:37. > :22:40.diverse. It is disappointing -- Davos. It is disappointing the
:22:41. > :22:45.changes he is trying to push through are so small. The skies were clear
:22:46. > :22:51.over the outs, but Mr Cameron knows there could be more I see moments
:22:52. > :22:58.before any deal is put to the British public in that long-awaited
:22:59. > :23:04.EU referendum. This is a tweaked to whet your appetite ahead of the next
:23:05. > :23:09.story, telling us that a vacuum transport system will be ready by
:23:10. > :23:10.2018. I do not know what that means. I know that is to do with
:23:11. > :23:25.hyperloops. This is Spencer Kelly. Welcome to
:23:26. > :23:33.the hyper loop. It is an idea proposed in 2013. A network of tubes
:23:34. > :23:40.carrying high-speed passenger pods between cities. Realising that
:23:41. > :23:45.perhaps it was too big a job for him alone, he made plans public and
:23:46. > :23:49.invited engineering teams from around the world to conduct research
:23:50. > :23:55.and pursue their own hyperloop solutions. Hyperloop technologies is
:23:56. > :24:05.one of the teams that has risen to the challenge and it is led by a
:24:06. > :24:10.rocket scientist. It is obviously still in the early stages, but if
:24:11. > :24:14.all goes well, the 50 acres of Desert on this site will see pretty
:24:15. > :24:21.spectacular testing over the next 12 months. This is the landscape. We
:24:22. > :24:28.have done technical engineering work to understand the ground and rock
:24:29. > :24:32.formation that occurs out here, and we will start engineering work in a
:24:33. > :24:41.matter of weeks and then pouring foundations. How long will it take?
:24:42. > :24:49.For the propulsion test, about six weeks. It is a simplified structural
:24:50. > :24:56.system. What will you propel? We have built a small pod to carry
:24:57. > :25:01.elements required on the vehicle side. The pod in this case is a
:25:02. > :25:06.small vehicle with a collection of magnets.
:25:07. > :25:13.Because the pod is lightweight, it will accelerate quickly. To keep it
:25:14. > :25:18.at an acceptable level, you either have to go straighter, which
:25:19. > :25:24.sometimes, certain landscape does not allow, or go slower. A lot of
:25:25. > :25:30.places we will not travel at maximum speed. It sounds so radical and
:25:31. > :25:38.ground-breaking, it is hard to imagine it happening. Maybe it will,
:25:39. > :25:42.we will have to C. We can look ahead to the next half-hour. We will
:25:43. > :25:50.return to the lead story, the murder of Alexander Litvinenko. Looking at
:25:51. > :25:56.government reaction. This is to do with an interesting story about
:25:57. > :26:00.pharmaceutical companies asking governments to pay them to develop
:26:01. > :26:12.new treatments. All of that coming up. We will take a look at the UK
:26:13. > :26:15.and European weather in a couple of minutes, but first I will take you
:26:16. > :26:16.to parts of the