:00:16. > :00:18.Welcome to outside source, Day 1 of the new Congress in Washington and
:00:19. > :00:22.already Republicans have delivered a high profile U-turn, many wanted to
:00:23. > :00:25.change how members of Congress are overseen, Donald Trump was not keen
:00:26. > :00:30.on that idea, he tweeted about it and now it is not happening, we will
:00:31. > :00:33.be live on Capitol Hill. He has also been exerting influence through
:00:34. > :00:41.Twitter on some of the businesses in the US, told General Motors to begin
:00:42. > :00:44.making more cars and had a similar message for Ford, now Ford has
:00:45. > :00:49.announced it is moving a major planned facility from Mexico to
:00:50. > :00:52.Michigan. This is Sir Ivan Rogers, UK top diplomat at the European
:00:53. > :00:56.Union, he has resigned weeks before wrecks it negotiations are expected
:00:57. > :01:01.to begin, we will be live in Westminster to discuss this. These
:01:02. > :01:04.are new images released by Turkey of the man they say is the gunmen
:01:05. > :01:08.behind the New Year's Eve attack on Istanbul, we know what he looks
:01:09. > :01:13.like, but he is still on the run. And a key Syrian rebel group, the
:01:14. > :01:17.Free Syrian Army, has pulled out of a planned peace talk over the Syria
:01:18. > :01:38.conflict, BBC Arabic is going to explain why.
:01:39. > :01:44.Today is the formal start of a major shift in power in America, we had
:01:45. > :01:49.the newly elected Congress meeting to the first time, the Republicans
:01:50. > :01:54.hold both houses, these are, I was going to show you live pictures,
:01:55. > :01:58.they dropped off, as well as Congress, bear in mind, January 20,
:01:59. > :02:04.the Republicans control the White House, the dynamics within the
:02:05. > :02:07.Republican party are becoming very interesting. Republicans in the
:02:08. > :02:12.House of Representatives had hoped to push this through, it is an
:02:13. > :02:16.amendment to weaken the body that overseas claims of misconduct
:02:17. > :02:22.against members of Congress, a niche concern but it has become a symbolic
:02:23. > :02:25.issue, it went ahead despite senior Republicans in Congress objecting
:02:26. > :02:30.but then a few hours ago, we heard this. In fact, and this is from
:02:31. > :02:34.writers, in fact, the US House Republicans reversed course,
:02:35. > :02:39.withdrawing these proposed ethics panel changes. That's decision may
:02:40. > :02:58.not have been entirely unrelated to Donald Trump taking to Twitter.
:02:59. > :03:07.Strong words. Let's speak with Jane O'Brien about this, joining us live
:03:08. > :03:11.from Capitol Hill. We have had a few messages from viewers saying it is
:03:12. > :03:16.not just about Donald Trump, it is about constituents applying pressure
:03:17. > :03:22.to a pub can men and women, any truth in that? There may well be. I
:03:23. > :03:27.think that whatever decision they reach, the interesting thing here is
:03:28. > :03:31.the fact that you have the president elect publicly rebuking members of
:03:32. > :03:41.his own party on the day that they are sworn in. Regardless of why they
:03:42. > :03:47.decided to not go ahead with their tail -- with curtailing the ethics
:03:48. > :03:51.office, you have got a very public rift between Donald Trump and
:03:52. > :03:58.Republican lawmakers. I cannot think of any similar situation where you
:03:59. > :04:03.have Barack Obama publicly rebuking Democrats on Twitter, or any other
:04:04. > :04:06.social media. That is what is interesting. It raises the question,
:04:07. > :04:10.how is Donald Trump going to win over the support of Republicans,
:04:11. > :04:14.many of whom did not support him during the presidential campaign,
:04:15. > :04:18.how is he going to win them over and how are they going to rely on his
:04:19. > :04:23.support for the agenda that they want to get through? It is a very
:04:24. > :04:29.interesting situation, that has really been illustrated on Day 1. To
:04:30. > :04:32.what degree is Donald Trump reliant on Congress to get through some of
:04:33. > :04:39.his signature policies, like increased infrastructure spending or
:04:40. > :04:42.tax cuts? That is a huge one, the infrastructure spending is going to
:04:43. > :04:47.cost billions of dollars, we know that there is a conservative wing of
:04:48. > :04:52.his party that do not want to spend any more money, they are vehemently
:04:53. > :04:59.opposed to any increase in spending, they themselves were elected on a
:05:00. > :05:01.mandate to cut the budget deficit and so far, what we have seen of
:05:02. > :05:07.plans to increase infrastructure spending, that will not do that. He
:05:08. > :05:14.may have opposition from them. In terms of Obamacare, they are
:05:15. > :05:16.repealing Obamacare, we know that Republicans and Donald Trump want to
:05:17. > :05:19.reveal Obamacare, but what will they replace it with? These are questions
:05:20. > :05:25.that it is going to be interesting to see what answers come back. You,
:05:26. > :05:29.I and many others have spent months and months and months reporting on
:05:30. > :05:32.the politics of last year, and here we are, the shift in power formally
:05:33. > :05:38.beginning, leading up to the inauguration on the 20th, does it
:05:39. > :05:44.feel different? That is a difficult question to answer, the problem is,
:05:45. > :05:51.you feel so in is constant and the whole thing, that the surprise, the
:05:52. > :05:54.shock, it is very difficult to tell what has actually changed at the
:05:55. > :05:59.moment, especially because Donald Trump is not actually here, we still
:06:00. > :06:06.have a president in the White House, Barack Obama, certainly the feeling
:06:07. > :06:08.where I am now, we have had freshman congressmen and senators walking
:06:09. > :06:19.through, doing lots of interviews, most of them Republican, most of
:06:20. > :06:24.them smiling. Until January 20, when Donald Trump takes the reins, I
:06:25. > :06:29.think that is when we will see the real difference in atmosphere. Thank
:06:30. > :06:33.you very much indeed. Jane will be part of the BBC team in Washington,
:06:34. > :06:41.DC as we cover the inauguration of Donald Trump on January 20. This is
:06:42. > :06:53.the 115th congress. And it will be the most diverse ever. We spotted
:06:54. > :06:59.this graphic from he Pew Research Centre, it shows that from 2001,
:07:00. > :07:02.there has been an upward trend in diversity. Progress only being made
:07:03. > :07:10.up to a point, as you will see in this report. VOICEOVER:
:07:11. > :07:13.Distinguished members of America's 115th Congress have two notable
:07:14. > :07:17.features, they are overwhelmingly white and male, they don't look much
:07:18. > :07:25.like this diverse country, even with a few notable firsts. Orlando's
:07:26. > :07:29.former police chief, Valder means. She is now the first woman and first
:07:30. > :07:34.African-American to represent her district in Florida. This means
:07:35. > :07:44.there will be a record number of black lawmakers on Capitol Hill,. --
:07:45. > :07:48.Capitol Hill. -- Val Demings. Asian-Americans have 15 seats in
:07:49. > :07:50.Congress, it too is a record, among them, Stephanie Murphy, from
:07:51. > :07:56.Florida, the first Vietnamese American woman elected, and this
:07:57. > :08:02.fellow freshman, from Washington state, the first Indian American
:08:03. > :08:09.woman to serve. From the Vada, the first Latina Senator, and from New
:08:10. > :08:15.York, the first Dominican American elected to the house. They are among
:08:16. > :08:20.38 Hispanic representatives. Even these impressive firsts don't do
:08:21. > :08:24.much to hide the big picture, only one in five members of Congress is a
:08:25. > :08:34.woman, which means the US only ranks the same as Bangladesh's 20%. Israel
:08:35. > :08:40.has 28%, in Sweden, it is 44%. While this may be the dawn of the most
:08:41. > :08:47.racially diverse US Congress ever, Capitol Hill is still clearly an old
:08:48. > :08:55.boys club. STUDIO: The main story here in the UK today, the UK's
:08:56. > :09:00.ambassador to the European Union has resigned, Sir Ivan Rogers, expected
:09:01. > :09:08.to play a key role in "Brexit" talks, not anymore, scrutiny
:09:09. > :09:14.committee, who has described with some understatement that the whole
:09:15. > :09:19.situation is not ideal, Hillary men, a senior member of the opposition
:09:20. > :09:24.Labour Party, leading pro-"Brexit" figures are far less concern. --
:09:25. > :09:27.Hilary Benn. Arron Banks has put a lot of his own money into campaigns
:09:28. > :09:37.to get the UK out of the European Union. Let's listen to the former
:09:38. > :09:43.leader of the UK Independence Party, Nigel Farage, leading figure for
:09:44. > :09:47."Brexit", with his reaction. I'm very pleased, after all, he is a
:09:48. > :09:50.committed Europhile, he helped lead the renegotiations with David
:09:51. > :09:53.Cameron that went so badly and came out the other day with an incredibly
:09:54. > :09:58.negative comment, that it might take up to ten years to renegotiate the
:09:59. > :10:02.bill, clearly the wrong man., Meyer only regret is that he did not go
:10:03. > :10:07.the day after the referendum. -- my only regret. First of all, let's
:10:08. > :10:14.look at the practicalities, what impact might this have on when
:10:15. > :10:17."Brexit" talks begin, and who is conducting? In terms of when talks
:10:18. > :10:20.begin, no impact whatsoever, Downing Street is absolutely determined to
:10:21. > :10:27.stick to its timetable, which is to trigger Article 50, pushing open the
:10:28. > :10:32.exit door to the EU and starting negotiations by the end of March,
:10:33. > :10:36.there has even been a big court case here in the UK, which we don't have
:10:37. > :10:40.a verdict yet, it'll come quite soon, Downing Street has made it
:10:41. > :10:47.clear that even that won't derail the timetable, no chance that
:10:48. > :10:51.something like this will. Sir Ivan Rogers was the leading diplomat, he
:10:52. > :10:56.was going to be in the room looking into the eyeballs of those 27 other
:10:57. > :11:02.EU member state diplomats, trying to hammer out the framework of the
:11:03. > :11:06.deal, clearly then is to be a new person put in place, it is not clear
:11:07. > :11:11.who that will be, but there will be plenty on the diplomatic circuit
:11:12. > :11:14.around the world, and here in London who would be eager for that posting.
:11:15. > :11:18.The way in which this is interesting, it shows the growing
:11:19. > :11:21.political intensity that will surround these negotiation, when
:11:22. > :11:26.even a diplomat like this, most people in the UK have never heard
:11:27. > :11:30.of, nevertheless has an important role, and his resignation has
:11:31. > :11:34.prompted a very angry debate not just about what caused it but what
:11:35. > :11:43.it means to about how the negotiation should be conducted.
:11:44. > :11:54.Here was a guy who was prepared to speak truth to power, they said he
:11:55. > :12:01.should have stayed in the job. In the words of one MP, people pull
:12:02. > :12:05.pushing him aside haven't drunk the "Brexit" Kool-Aid. But Nigel Farage
:12:06. > :12:08.says that he should go, news part of the establishment which was in
:12:09. > :12:15.favour of the whole European project, and they think that he is
:12:16. > :12:18.the wrong man for the job. This news means hard Brexit is more likely,
:12:19. > :12:24.according to some today, that it is more likely that the UK will leave
:12:25. > :12:27.the single market, is that your analysis? We use phrases like hard
:12:28. > :12:33.Brexit, and people have to understand that Downing Street's
:12:34. > :12:44.view of all of this is that there is no such thing as hard or soft. In
:12:45. > :12:47.their view, you can cherry pick, they think that is a binary view,
:12:48. > :12:51.and they think they can cherry pick. What does Britain give in return?
:12:52. > :12:56.Another question altogether, does this mean we will be heading for a
:12:57. > :13:00.harder "Brexit", a softer "Brexit", hard to say, after all these
:13:01. > :13:04.instances, where we get a bit of a glimpse into the kind of pressures
:13:05. > :13:08.and tensions that there are, within Whitehall, within Westminster,
:13:09. > :13:15.within government, over this issue, people trying to decode it, I am not
:13:16. > :13:17.sure it is quite that simple, in some ways we will just have to wait
:13:18. > :13:19.and see. There is a divergence of views across government over this,
:13:20. > :13:22.some ministers believe Britain should try to take an approach where
:13:23. > :13:28.we have the best bits of the single market, the customs union. On the
:13:29. > :13:31.other hand, others believe it is much clearer to pull all the way out
:13:32. > :13:34.of those things. We will have the way for a clearer picture, Theresa
:13:35. > :13:40.May is expected to give a plan to Parliament in the next couple of
:13:41. > :13:44.months, potentially in February. Thank you very much. Just as we did
:13:45. > :13:48.last year, covering "Brexit" before the vote, after it, in Brussels,
:13:49. > :13:51.then in Bratislava and back in Brussels again, as the story unfolds
:13:52. > :13:56.in the coming months, we will bring you extensive coverage. Live reports
:13:57. > :14:00.from the centre of London, from Washington, DC, next we will turn to
:14:01. > :14:04.Turkey as we have done all we, the Istanbul New Year's Eve gunmen is
:14:05. > :14:08.still on the run. We are learning more about him. A few different
:14:09. > :14:17.videos we can show you. This has been released by the authorities.
:14:18. > :14:19.This is the suspect ilming himself at Taksim square in Istanbul. It's
:14:20. > :14:21.thought he's from Uzbekistan or Kyrgyzstan. And that he arrived in
:14:22. > :14:23.Turkey with his wife and two children in November. Reports say
:14:24. > :14:27.his family have been detained. Next this is footage from Istanbul's main
:14:28. > :14:32.airport. Footage of two foreign nationals detained and being
:14:33. > :14:38.question, these pictures from Istanbul's main airports, the two
:14:39. > :14:41.men to pay attention to, one man wearing a woolly black hat pulled
:14:42. > :14:46.over his eyes, you can see him walking here, and behind him, a man
:14:47. > :14:50.in a bright blue hooded top, you can see him among the throng, are the
:14:51. > :15:04.two being questioned in central Istanbul. These are pictures film by
:15:05. > :15:06.a BBC team working with correspondent Mark Lowen. They are
:15:07. > :15:08.among the first journalists to be granted access to the nightclub
:15:09. > :15:11.where the attack took place. You can see it's located on the Bosphorus
:15:12. > :15:18.river. Some people jumped into the water to escape the bullets. The
:15:19. > :15:21.owners say that they will reopen the nightclub, it is a sign of a defined
:15:22. > :15:26.mood here, yes, people are sombre and fearful but Turks have lived
:15:27. > :15:31.with the terror threat for decades albeit on a smaller scale and they
:15:32. > :15:34.are determined not to let its defeat them. In a few minutes, we have
:15:35. > :15:38.already talked about Donald Trump, we will talk about him some more,
:15:39. > :15:42.this time in the context of American business, he has criticised General
:15:43. > :15:57.Motors in a tweet over where it manufactures cars. We will get into
:15:58. > :16:03.that. Kurdish militants say that a British man has died alongside them.
:16:04. > :16:10.Ryan Lock, 20, died during an assault on and I is stronghold, one
:16:11. > :16:13.pro-Kurdish campaigner, Mark Campbell, says the family are
:16:14. > :16:21.struggling to come to terms with the news. It is age and is shocked to
:16:22. > :16:25.them. Ryan had said that he was going on holiday, apparently, to
:16:26. > :16:29.Turkey, back in August. Then he had put a Facebook Post up saying he had
:16:30. > :16:39.arrived in Syria to fight Isis. For your 20-year-old son, to see that,
:16:40. > :16:43.must have been awful. Final confirmation on Friday, and then
:16:44. > :16:50.went to visit them on Sunday. Two days later. So they were just
:16:51. > :17:09.obviously incomplete and utter devastation. Distraught with grief.
:17:10. > :17:13.Day 1 of the new Congress, there has already been a major U-turn from the
:17:14. > :17:21.Republican held lower house on the issue of congressional ethics. Some
:17:22. > :17:23.of the main stories from the BBC World Service, yesterday we would
:17:24. > :17:26.talking about a deadly prison riot in Brazil, these men may not be the
:17:27. > :17:28.sharpest tools in the box, they escaped, the man in front has been
:17:29. > :17:32.posting photos of himself on Facebook bragging about the whole
:17:33. > :17:36.thing. The man behind him already called, would not be the biggest
:17:37. > :17:42.surprise is the man at the front is picked up before long as well. BBC
:17:43. > :17:49.Brasil. New Year's Eve fireworks may have contributed to dangerously high
:17:50. > :17:53.levels of pollution in several German cities, 15% of vehicle
:17:54. > :18:02.emissions from the whole year, there are now called for a ban on private
:18:03. > :18:05.firework parties. 85,000 copies of an annotated edition of Adolf
:18:06. > :18:08.Hitler's mine camp have sold in Germany in the year since its
:18:09. > :18:17.launch, you can read about that on the BBC news app. Politics and
:18:18. > :18:20.business always intertwined, we suspect that will be even more of
:18:21. > :18:23.the case once Donald Trump takes over in America, he has been
:18:24. > :18:28.criticising a number of companies for how many of their production
:18:29. > :18:32.operations are based in Mexico, Ford is one of the companies that he has
:18:33. > :18:38.criticised. Today, Ford cancelled and $1.6 billion plant that it was
:18:39. > :18:42.planning to build at a place in Mexico called San Luis toasty,
:18:43. > :18:47.instead, it will spend that money extending existing operations in a
:18:48. > :18:55.place called flat rock, Michigan. Here is what the Ford CEO told the
:18:56. > :19:00.BBC. Overall, the reason we have made these decisions is because they
:19:01. > :19:03.are the right thing for the business. We look at a lot of
:19:04. > :19:08.different factors when we look at decisions. The announcement we are
:19:09. > :19:11.making today of $700 million investment in flat rock, Michigan,
:19:12. > :19:17.and adding 700 jobs, one factor we put into that is the more favourable
:19:18. > :19:20.US business environment that we see under President-elect Tromp and some
:19:21. > :19:23.of the pro-growth policies and reforms, whether it is tax or
:19:24. > :19:30.regular Terry, that he has been talking about. -- San Luis Potosi.
:19:31. > :19:34.That play positively in that and it is a vote of confidence that he can
:19:35. > :19:38.do positively there. -- whether it is tax or regulatory. Was that a
:19:39. > :19:44.polite way of saying, we are doing this because Donald Trump wants us
:19:45. > :19:48.to? Certainly, if that was the case, he was not admitting that, he said
:19:49. > :19:55.the business environment was one of the key factors, that certainly
:19:56. > :19:57.helped shape the decision, when I pressed him he talked about the
:19:58. > :20:03.regular Theresa May environment, that they talked about cutting
:20:04. > :20:06.corporate taxes. -- regulatory environment. Things that will make
:20:07. > :20:20.it easier for businesses to find environment for favourable. Singling
:20:21. > :20:23.out the company... What it does raise is questions about economic
:20:24. > :20:27.nationalism, we have seen Donald Trump use this technique before,
:20:28. > :20:33.using it again, and clearly for him, an opportunity to claim victory.
:20:34. > :20:40.Does this decision cost 40 money, is it more expensive to produce these
:20:41. > :20:46.cars in Michigan than it would be in Mexico? -- does this decision cost
:20:47. > :20:50.Ford money. They looking at Donald Trump's approach and saying, what is
:20:51. > :20:55.the cost to American business? If you take this Pacific decision, only
:20:56. > :21:01.700 rods are being created here in the United States, they were going
:21:02. > :21:08.to create 2800 jobs in Mexico. It is more than 40% cheaper to produce a
:21:09. > :21:11.car in Mexico. -- 700 jobs. One of the argument is made about this type
:21:12. > :21:14.of approach is that it can be harmful for companies, that it does
:21:15. > :21:18.not necessarily make economic sense for them but they do this because
:21:19. > :21:23.the risk of upsetting the president is too great. And therefore, it is
:21:24. > :21:26.not worth undertaking, that is going to be the concern, the other thing
:21:27. > :21:30.is free trade, we know that President Trump has said that he's
:21:31. > :21:40.not in favour of free trade, that he wants to negotiate one of these
:21:41. > :21:45.forms of protectionism, encouraging that may be raising the idea that it
:21:46. > :21:51.is not an open market and other countries may respond with the same
:21:52. > :21:54.thing. We have built about Ford, I would like to talk about General
:21:55. > :21:56.Motors, Ford is not the only one to get criticism over Mexico, this is
:21:57. > :22:14.what Donald Trump said earlier. That gives one impression of what is
:22:15. > :22:20.happening, now look at what GM has said in response, it manufactures
:22:21. > :22:27.the Chevrolet crew Saddam in Ohio, and they are all built in the
:22:28. > :22:35.assembly plant. -- Chevrolet Cruze sedan.
:22:36. > :22:42.You get two quite distinct impression from those two sources,
:22:43. > :22:46.which one is closer to the mark? If you look at them, Donald Trump is
:22:47. > :22:50.not incorrect in the sense that a small number, but the vast majority
:22:51. > :22:55.is made in the United States. It is a misleading picture rather than
:22:56. > :22:59.incorrect, but it goes to this point again, about Donald Trump's view of
:23:00. > :23:04.global trade, one of the big trade deals here in America is the North
:23:05. > :23:08.American Free Trade Agreement, it has been in place for many years, he
:23:09. > :23:13.has said he would like to repeal it. That means goods can be made in
:23:14. > :23:16.Mexico, transported here to the US or Canada tax-free, that is where
:23:17. > :23:24.you get this threat to impose tax tariffs on these imports. It is part
:23:25. > :23:27.of a campaign pledge, and he is sticking to that rhetoric, even
:23:28. > :23:33.though now the election is over. Very useful, thank you very much. I
:23:34. > :23:36.want to talk to you about the extraordinary project which China
:23:37. > :23:44.has long shot, direct rail freight service to London from China, from a
:23:45. > :23:50.place in central China. The journey is going to take two weeks, this
:23:51. > :23:51.main map that we use is not going to cope with a journey this complex, so
:23:52. > :24:02.here is a graphic. 90,001 it is, through Kazakhstan,
:24:03. > :24:06.Russia, into central and western Europe, with two destination,
:24:07. > :24:10.London, Madrid and Milan at the end of the line. If you read stories
:24:11. > :24:15.about this, it describes how this project fits into China's one belt,
:24:16. > :24:22.one road policy. That requires some explanation. This is the big idea
:24:23. > :24:28.coming from the Chinese president, the cornerstone of his foreign
:24:29. > :24:32.policy, they are focusing not as much on ships exporting goods to the
:24:33. > :24:35.United States, in that direction, he has decided he wants to focus on
:24:36. > :24:42.sending goods in the other direction, sending goods west,
:24:43. > :24:47.instead of East. So he is spending $40 billion to build train tracks
:24:48. > :24:52.through Central Asia, to hook up to western Europe to send goods faster
:24:53. > :24:56.that way. This will help with manufacturers and retailers to keep
:24:57. > :25:02.costs down. It really is important that this train goes from this major
:25:03. > :25:06.manufacturing base in China, it is known for making small goods, rings
:25:07. > :25:17.use see on store shelves all the time.
:25:18. > :25:23.Hopefully there will be getting them faster and for a better price. Some
:25:24. > :25:26.stories that we will be covering in the second half of the programme,
:25:27. > :25:30.you may remember this video, featuring Chelsea fans in Paris, a
:25:31. > :25:34.couple of years ago, racially abusing the man you can see on the
:25:35. > :25:39.platform, some fans have been convicted in a Paris court. Details
:25:40. > :25:42.of that. We will also hear about a group of up to 50 foreign workers in
:25:43. > :25:46.Saudi Arabia working in the construction industry, have been
:25:47. > :25:48.sentenced to jail terms and in some cases lashes because of their
:25:49. > :26:10.protests over their pay being cut. Good evening, detailed look at the
:26:11. > :26:12.weather in the UK before the top of the album right now, we'll look at