03/01/2017 Outside Source

Welcome to outside source, Day 1 of the new Congress in Washington and

already Republicans have delivered a high profile U-turn, many wanted to

change how members of Congress are overseen, Donald Trump was not keen

on that idea, he tweeted about it and now it is not happening, we will

be live on Capitol Hill. He has also been exerting influence through

Twitter on some of the businesses in the US, told General Motors to begin

making more cars and had a similar message for Ford, now Ford has

announced it is moving a major planned facility from Mexico to

Michigan. This is Sir Ivan Rogers, UK top diplomat at the European

Union, he has resigned weeks before wrecks it negotiations are expected

to begin, we will be live in Westminster to discuss this. These

are new images released by Turkey of the man they say is the gunmen

behind the New Year's Eve attack on Istanbul, we know what he looks

like, but he is still on the run. And a key Syrian rebel group, the

Free Syrian Army, has pulled out of a planned peace talk over the Syria

conflict, BBC Arabic is going to explain why.

Today is the formal start of a major shift in power in America, we had

the newly elected Congress meeting to the first time, the Republicans

hold both houses, these are, I was going to show you live pictures,

they dropped off, as well as Congress, bear in mind, January 20,

the Republicans control the White House, the dynamics within the

Republican party are becoming very interesting. Republicans in the

House of Representatives had hoped to push this through, it is an

amendment to weaken the body that overseas claims of misconduct

against members of Congress, a niche concern but it has become a symbolic

issue, it went ahead despite senior Republicans in Congress objecting

but then a few hours ago, we heard this. In fact, and this is from

writers, in fact, the US House Republicans reversed course,

withdrawing these proposed ethics panel changes. That's decision may

not have been entirely unrelated to Donald Trump taking to Twitter.

Strong words. Let's speak with Jane O'Brien about this, joining us live

from Capitol Hill. We have had a few messages from viewers saying it is

not just about Donald Trump, it is about constituents applying pressure

to a pub can men and women, any truth in that? There may well be. I

think that whatever decision they reach, the interesting thing here is

the fact that you have the president elect publicly rebuking members of

his own party on the day that they are sworn in. Regardless of why they

decided to not go ahead with their tail -- with curtailing the ethics

office, you have got a very public rift between Donald Trump and

Republican lawmakers. I cannot think of any similar situation where you

have Barack Obama publicly rebuking Democrats on Twitter, or any other

social media. That is what is interesting. It raises the question,

how is Donald Trump going to win over the support of Republicans,

many of whom did not support him during the presidential campaign,

how is he going to win them over and how are they going to rely on his

support for the agenda that they want to get through? It is a very

interesting situation, that has really been illustrated on Day 1. To

what degree is Donald Trump reliant on Congress to get through some of

his signature policies, like increased infrastructure spending or

tax cuts? That is a huge one, the infrastructure spending is going to

cost billions of dollars, we know that there is a conservative wing of

his party that do not want to spend any more money, they are vehemently

opposed to any increase in spending, they themselves were elected on a

mandate to cut the budget deficit and so far, what we have seen of

plans to increase infrastructure spending, that will not do that. He

may have opposition from them. In terms of Obamacare, they are

repealing Obamacare, we know that Republicans and Donald Trump want to

reveal Obamacare, but what will they replace it with? These are questions

that it is going to be interesting to see what answers come back. You,

I and many others have spent months and months and months reporting on

the politics of last year, and here we are, the shift in power formally

beginning, leading up to the inauguration on the 20th, does it

feel different? That is a difficult question to answer, the problem is,

you feel so in is constant and the whole thing, that the surprise, the

shock, it is very difficult to tell what has actually changed at the

moment, especially because Donald Trump is not actually here, we still

have a president in the White House, Barack Obama, certainly the feeling

where I am now, we have had freshman congressmen and senators walking

through, doing lots of interviews, most of them Republican, most of

them smiling. Until January 20, when Donald Trump takes the reins, I

think that is when we will see the real difference in atmosphere. Thank

you very much indeed. Jane will be part of the BBC team in Washington,

DC as we cover the inauguration of Donald Trump on January 20. This is

the 115th congress. And it will be the most diverse ever. We spotted

this graphic from he Pew Research Centre, it shows that from 2001,

there has been an upward trend in diversity. Progress only being made

up to a point, as you will see in this report. VOICEOVER:

Distinguished members of America's 115th Congress have two notable

features, they are overwhelmingly white and male, they don't look much

like this diverse country, even with a few notable firsts. Orlando's

former police chief, Valder means. She is now the first woman and first

African-American to represent her district in Florida. This means

there will be a record number of black lawmakers on Capitol Hill,. --

Capitol Hill. -- Val Demings. Asian-Americans have 15 seats in

Congress, it too is a record, among them, Stephanie Murphy, from

Florida, the first Vietnamese American woman elected, and this

fellow freshman, from Washington state, the first Indian American

woman to serve. From the Vada, the first Latina Senator, and from New

York, the first Dominican American elected to the house. They are among

38 Hispanic representatives. Even these impressive firsts don't do

much to hide the big picture, only one in five members of Congress is a

woman, which means the US only ranks the same as Bangladesh's 20%. Israel

has 28%, in Sweden, it is 44%. While this may be the dawn of the most

racially diverse US Congress ever, Capitol Hill is still clearly an old

boys club. STUDIO: The main story here in the UK today, the UK's

ambassador to the European Union has resigned, Sir Ivan Rogers, expected

to play a key role in "Brexit" talks, not anymore, scrutiny

committee, who has described with some understatement that the whole

situation is not ideal, Hillary men, a senior member of the opposition

Labour Party, leading pro-"Brexit" figures are far less concern. --

Hilary Benn. Arron Banks has put a lot of his own money into campaigns

to get the UK out of the European Union. Let's listen to the former

leader of the UK Independence Party, Nigel Farage, leading figure for

"Brexit", with his reaction. I'm very pleased, after all, he is a

committed Europhile, he helped lead the renegotiations with David

Cameron that went so badly and came out the other day with an incredibly

negative comment, that it might take up to ten years to renegotiate the

bill, clearly the wrong man., Meyer only regret is that he did not go

the day after the referendum. -- my only regret. First of all, let's

look at the practicalities, what impact might this have on when

"Brexit" talks begin, and who is conducting? In terms of when talks

begin, no impact whatsoever, Downing Street is absolutely determined to

stick to its timetable, which is to trigger Article 50, pushing open the

exit door to the EU and starting negotiations by the end of March,

there has even been a big court case here in the UK, which we don't have

a verdict yet, it'll come quite soon, Downing Street has made it

clear that even that won't derail the timetable, no chance that

something like this will. Sir Ivan Rogers was the leading diplomat, he

was going to be in the room looking into the eyeballs of those 27 other

EU member state diplomats, trying to hammer out the framework of the

deal, clearly then is to be a new person put in place, it is not clear

who that will be, but there will be plenty on the diplomatic circuit

around the world, and here in London who would be eager for that posting.

The way in which this is interesting, it shows the growing

political intensity that will surround these negotiation, when

even a diplomat like this, most people in the UK have never heard

of, nevertheless has an important role, and his resignation has

prompted a very angry debate not just about what caused it but what

it means to about how the negotiation should be conducted.

Here was a guy who was prepared to speak truth to power, they said he

should have stayed in the job. In the words of one MP, people pull

pushing him aside haven't drunk the "Brexit" Kool-Aid. But Nigel Farage

says that he should go, news part of the establishment which was in

favour of the whole European project, and they think that he is

the wrong man for the job. This news means hard Brexit is more likely,

according to some today, that it is more likely that the UK will leave

the single market, is that your analysis? We use phrases like hard

Brexit, and people have to understand that Downing Street's

view of all of this is that there is no such thing as hard or soft. In

their view, you can cherry pick, they think that is a binary view,

and they think they can cherry pick. What does Britain give in return?

Another question altogether, does this mean we will be heading for a

harder "Brexit", a softer "Brexit", hard to say, after all these

instances, where we get a bit of a glimpse into the kind of pressures

and tensions that there are, within Whitehall, within Westminster,

within government, over this issue, people trying to decode it, I am not

sure it is quite that simple, in some ways we will just have to wait

and see. There is a divergence of views across government over this,

some ministers believe Britain should try to take an approach where

we have the best bits of the single market, the customs union. On the

other hand, others believe it is much clearer to pull all the way out

of those things. We will have the way for a clearer picture, Theresa

May is expected to give a plan to Parliament in the next couple of

months, potentially in February. Thank you very much. Just as we did

last year, covering "Brexit" before the vote, after it, in Brussels,

then in Bratislava and back in Brussels again, as the story unfolds

in the coming months, we will bring you extensive coverage. Live reports

from the centre of London, from Washington, DC, next we will turn to

Turkey as we have done all we, the Istanbul New Year's Eve gunmen is

still on the run. We are learning more about him. A few different

videos we can show you. This has been released by the authorities.

This is the suspect ilming himself at Taksim square in Istanbul. It's

thought he's from Uzbekistan or Kyrgyzstan. And that he arrived in

Turkey with his wife and two children in November. Reports say

his family have been detained. Next this is footage from Istanbul's main

airport. Footage of two foreign nationals detained and being

question, these pictures from Istanbul's main airports, the two

men to pay attention to, one man wearing a woolly black hat pulled

over his eyes, you can see him walking here, and behind him, a man

in a bright blue hooded top, you can see him among the throng, are the

two being questioned in central Istanbul. These are pictures film by

a BBC team working with correspondent Mark Lowen. They are

among the first journalists to be granted access to the nightclub

where the attack took place. You can see it's located on the Bosphorus

river. Some people jumped into the water to escape the bullets. The

owners say that they will reopen the nightclub, it is a sign of a defined

mood here, yes, people are sombre and fearful but Turks have lived

with the terror threat for decades albeit on a smaller scale and they

are determined not to let its defeat them. In a few minutes, we have

already talked about Donald Trump, we will talk about him some more,

this time in the context of American business, he has criticised General

Motors in a tweet over where it manufactures cars. We will get into

that. Kurdish militants say that a British man has died alongside them.

Ryan Lock, 20, died during an assault on and I is stronghold, one

pro-Kurdish campaigner, Mark Campbell, says the family are

struggling to come to terms with the news. It is age and is shocked to

them. Ryan had said that he was going on holiday, apparently, to

Turkey, back in August. Then he had put a Facebook Post up saying he had

arrived in Syria to fight Isis. For your 20-year-old son, to see that,

must have been awful. Final confirmation on Friday, and then

went to visit them on Sunday. Two days later. So they were just

obviously incomplete and utter devastation. Distraught with grief.

Day 1 of the new Congress, there has already been a major U-turn from the

Republican held lower house on the issue of congressional ethics. Some

of the main stories from the BBC World Service, yesterday we would

talking about a deadly prison riot in Brazil, these men may not be the

sharpest tools in the box, they escaped, the man in front has been

posting photos of himself on Facebook bragging about the whole

thing. The man behind him already called, would not be the biggest

surprise is the man at the front is picked up before long as well. BBC

Brasil. New Year's Eve fireworks may have contributed to dangerously high

levels of pollution in several German cities, 15% of vehicle

emissions from the whole year, there are now called for a ban on private

firework parties. 85,000 copies of an annotated edition of Adolf

Hitler's mine camp have sold in Germany in the year since its

launch, you can read about that on the BBC news app. Politics and

business always intertwined, we suspect that will be even more of

the case once Donald Trump takes over in America, he has been

criticising a number of companies for how many of their production

operations are based in Mexico, Ford is one of the companies that he has

criticised. Today, Ford cancelled and $1.6 billion plant that it was

planning to build at a place in Mexico called San Luis toasty,

instead, it will spend that money extending existing operations in a

place called flat rock, Michigan. Here is what the Ford CEO told the

BBC. Overall, the reason we have made these decisions is because they

are the right thing for the business. We look at a lot of

different factors when we look at decisions. The announcement we are

making today of $700 million investment in flat rock, Michigan,

and adding 700 jobs, one factor we put into that is the more favourable

US business environment that we see under President-elect Tromp and some

of the pro-growth policies and reforms, whether it is tax or

regular Terry, that he has been talking about. -- San Luis Potosi.

That play positively in that and it is a vote of confidence that he can

do positively there. -- whether it is tax or regulatory. Was that a

polite way of saying, we are doing this because Donald Trump wants us

to? Certainly, if that was the case, he was not admitting that, he said

the business environment was one of the key factors, that certainly

helped shape the decision, when I pressed him he talked about the

regular Theresa May environment, that they talked about cutting

corporate taxes. -- regulatory environment. Things that will make

it easier for businesses to find environment for favourable. Singling

out the company... What it does raise is questions about economic

nationalism, we have seen Donald Trump use this technique before,

using it again, and clearly for him, an opportunity to claim victory.

Does this decision cost 40 money, is it more expensive to produce these

cars in Michigan than it would be in Mexico? -- does this decision cost

Ford money. They looking at Donald Trump's approach and saying, what is

the cost to American business? If you take this Pacific decision, only

700 rods are being created here in the United States, they were going

to create 2800 jobs in Mexico. It is more than 40% cheaper to produce a

car in Mexico. -- 700 jobs. One of the argument is made about this type

of approach is that it can be harmful for companies, that it does

not necessarily make economic sense for them but they do this because

the risk of upsetting the president is too great. And therefore, it is

not worth undertaking, that is going to be the concern, the other thing

is free trade, we know that President Trump has said that he's

not in favour of free trade, that he wants to negotiate one of these

forms of protectionism, encouraging that may be raising the idea that it

is not an open market and other countries may respond with the same

thing. We have built about Ford, I would like to talk about General

Motors, Ford is not the only one to get criticism over Mexico, this is

what Donald Trump said earlier. That gives one impression of what is

happening, now look at what GM has said in response, it manufactures

the Chevrolet crew Saddam in Ohio, and they are all built in the

assembly plant. -- Chevrolet Cruze sedan.

You get two quite distinct impression from those two sources,

which one is closer to the mark? If you look at them, Donald Trump is

not incorrect in the sense that a small number, but the vast majority

is made in the United States. It is a misleading picture rather than

incorrect, but it goes to this point again, about Donald Trump's view of

global trade, one of the big trade deals here in America is the North

American Free Trade Agreement, it has been in place for many years, he

has said he would like to repeal it. That means goods can be made in

Mexico, transported here to the US or Canada tax-free, that is where

you get this threat to impose tax tariffs on these imports. It is part

of a campaign pledge, and he is sticking to that rhetoric, even

though now the election is over. Very useful, thank you very much. I

want to talk to you about the extraordinary project which China

has long shot, direct rail freight service to London from China, from a

place in central China. The journey is going to take two weeks, this

main map that we use is not going to cope with a journey this complex, so

here is a graphic. 90,001 it is, through Kazakhstan,

Russia, into central and western Europe, with two destination,

London, Madrid and Milan at the end of the line. If you read stories

about this, it describes how this project fits into China's one belt,

one road policy. That requires some explanation. This is the big idea

coming from the Chinese president, the cornerstone of his foreign

policy, they are focusing not as much on ships exporting goods to the

United States, in that direction, he has decided he wants to focus on

sending goods in the other direction, sending goods west,

instead of East. So he is spending $40 billion to build train tracks

through Central Asia, to hook up to western Europe to send goods faster

that way. This will help with manufacturers and retailers to keep

costs down. It really is important that this train goes from this major

manufacturing base in China, it is known for making small goods, rings

use see on store shelves all the time.

Hopefully there will be getting them faster and for a better price. Some

stories that we will be covering in the second half of the programme,

you may remember this video, featuring Chelsea fans in Paris, a

couple of years ago, racially abusing the man you can see on the

platform, some fans have been convicted in a Paris court. Details

of that. We will also hear about a group of up to 50 foreign workers in

Saudi Arabia working in the construction industry, have been

sentenced to jail terms and in some cases lashes because of their

protests over their pay being cut. Good evening, detailed look at the

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