:00:00. > :00:12.Hello, I'm Ros Atkins, this is Outside Source.
:00:13. > :00:14.Top US intelligence officials have been giving evidence on claims
:00:15. > :00:16.of Russian interference in the US election.
:00:17. > :00:19.They say Russia has an advanced cyber programme that poses a major
:00:20. > :00:23.threat to a wide range of US interests.
:00:24. > :00:34.A BBC investigation has found that illegal drugs are being bought
:00:35. > :00:36.online and delivered by mail all over the UK.
:00:37. > :00:45.Apple has withdrawn the New York Times from its China App Store,
:00:46. > :00:48.following a request from Chinese authorities.
:00:49. > :00:53.Michelle Fleury in New York has been looking in this for us.
:00:54. > :01:16.And if you want to get in touch we're on #BBCOS.
:01:17. > :01:24.As I talked to you, the outside source screen is blank so I'm going
:01:25. > :01:29.to try and present the programme from here, and I'm going to begin
:01:30. > :01:31.with what the American director of National Intelligence has said about
:01:32. > :01:40.Russian involvement in the US presidential election. This was a
:01:41. > :01:49.multifaceted campaign. So the hacking was only a part of it. It
:01:50. > :01:53.also entailed classical propaganda, disinformation, fake news.
:01:54. > :02:03.These activities are ongoing now in Europe, as Europe
:02:04. > :02:05.prepares for elections, is that a fair assumption?
:02:06. > :02:14.Yesterday the Wall Street Journal indicated that the President-elect
:02:15. > :02:19.is considering changes to the intelligence community. Have you, as
:02:20. > :02:24.the experts in this field, been engaged in these deliberations, and
:02:25. > :02:27.vice?: no, we have not. To reinforce the point,
:02:28. > :02:31.we have a joint statement from US It reads "Russia is
:02:32. > :02:36.a full-scope cyber actor that poses a major threat to US
:02:37. > :02:38.government, military, diplomatic, commercial
:02:39. > :02:41.and critical infrastructure. "We assess that only Russia's
:02:42. > :02:47.senior-most officials could have authorised the recent
:02:48. > :03:04.election-focused data Gordon Carreras gave me his
:03:05. > :03:08.assessment of what we have learned. In a way it was a preview for what I
:03:09. > :03:12.think will be the main event, when we get the report we are expecting
:03:13. > :03:14.next week from intelligence officials about the evidence of
:03:15. > :03:22.Russian hacking and interference in the election. They skirted around
:03:23. > :03:25.the issue, touching it on it at various points but they were careful
:03:26. > :03:29.about giving away too much detail. You got the broad outlines, they are
:03:30. > :03:36.confident with the assertion that Russia was responsible for trying to
:03:37. > :03:39.interfere with the election. Will we see the report? I did an interview
:03:40. > :03:43.with the Russian ambassador to the EU and he said that the Americans
:03:44. > :03:49.are saying this and he went, show me the evidence. Where is the detail?
:03:50. > :03:54.That's what everyone is waiting for, we are expecting some kind of report
:03:55. > :03:59.in detail. There will be different levels of classification. There will
:04:00. > :04:03.be a public report. There will be a secret report, possibly more than
:04:04. > :04:08.one with more detail. A lot of the evidence pointing towards why the US
:04:09. > :04:12.is so confident the Kremlin was behind it may well be very
:04:13. > :04:16.sensitive. It may be that the CIA has an agent in Moscow telling them
:04:17. > :04:22.that and they won't want to put too much detail in a public report.
:04:23. > :04:25.That's possible. They know they are under pressure, not least from
:04:26. > :04:30.Donald Trump and others, to produce evidence to show as much as they can
:04:31. > :04:34.to back up the assertion that the Kremlin was behind this alleged
:04:35. > :04:38.interference. Interesting that Europe was mentioned. That was
:04:39. > :04:42.interesting, a question from a Senator, do you think this kind of
:04:43. > :04:46.interference extends to Europe and is ongoing? The intelligence
:04:47. > :04:52.official said yes. We've heard it from some European countries. I
:04:53. > :04:55.spoke to the body area and president before their recent elections where
:04:56. > :04:59.he was standing down and he said that we have seen Russian attempts
:05:00. > :05:03.to manipulate the election. We've heard Germany talking about it,
:05:04. > :05:08.German officials sounding a warning about cyber attacks. Information
:05:09. > :05:14.operations, influence operations to try and affect politics. There may
:05:15. > :05:17.be people watching thinking, hold on, hasn't America been interfering
:05:18. > :05:22.in elections since the Second World War? On one level you are right.
:05:23. > :05:27.There was the interesting question, the Chinese hacked into the American
:05:28. > :05:33.system to steal data, was that something equivalent to what Russia
:05:34. > :05:34.did? American officials say that was espionage, different from
:05:35. > :05:39.interfering with an election. They are saying that espionage is
:05:40. > :05:48.standard and that they do that, so they won't kick up as much of eight
:05:49. > :05:56.fast. But people may point to history -- a fuss. America
:05:57. > :06:02.intervened in Iraq, but they may say that they don't do this any more --
:06:03. > :06:05.in Iran. Quick word about Donald Trump, he's a hard man to predict
:06:06. > :06:11.but you would expect him to make some changes in US intelligence
:06:12. > :06:15.based on his Twitter activity? A lot of nervousness in US intelligence.
:06:16. > :06:20.Fascinating meeting, when he sits down to talk about the evidence with
:06:21. > :06:24.them. They will wonder if he's going to do a clear out, whether he will
:06:25. > :06:28.change the direction, whether he will take some kind of retaliation
:06:29. > :06:32.for the sense that they have been criticising him and that he has been
:06:33. > :06:38.engaging in this spat over the election. Interesting to watch. We
:06:39. > :06:48.will talk to our correspondent in about 20 minutes about those issues.
:06:49. > :06:58.A car bomb and gun fire involved in a terrorist attack in Turkey. The
:06:59. > :07:05.first week of 2017 isn't over and yet there have been two terror
:07:06. > :07:09.attacks in Turkey. The second was in the City of Izmir, the courthouse
:07:10. > :07:15.was targeted, the police approaching a car outside to search it and then
:07:16. > :07:21.the attackers inside the car shot and tried to attack a policeman with
:07:22. > :07:26.an explosive device, a car bomb was detonated and in the mayhem one of
:07:27. > :07:29.the policemen was killed. A member of the court staff was killed and
:07:30. > :07:35.the two attackers were shot dead as well. The third attacker we believe
:07:36. > :07:40.is still at large, wearing a black jacket and a white beret. Officials
:07:41. > :07:44.say they expect that the PKK Kurdish militant group were behind the
:07:45. > :07:48.attack and may believe a much larger attack was foiled given the number
:07:49. > :07:57.of weapons found including machine guns and grenades. It's a few days
:07:58. > :08:04.after the New Year's Eve attack on the Reina nightclub, that gunman is
:08:05. > :08:09.still at large. Arrests have been made in Istanbul but not the gunmen,
:08:10. > :08:14.leaving people feeling nervous. It has shown how difficult it is to
:08:15. > :08:19.secure Turkey. How to keep the country safe. 80 million people,
:08:20. > :08:23.bordering Syria and Iraq, it has the Kurdish insurgency in the
:08:24. > :08:28.south-east, and it has the PKK and so-called Islamic State. More police
:08:29. > :08:33.alone is clearly not the answer, they must have better intelligence.
:08:34. > :08:36.Some attacks are being foiled but others are happening and that shows
:08:37. > :08:37.intelligence gaps and it is making this country feel extremely worried
:08:38. > :08:41.going into 2017. Mark mentioned the Istanbul attack,
:08:42. > :08:54.we had a development on that today. But today several men connected
:08:55. > :08:56.to him have been arrested, and all are reported to be
:08:57. > :08:59.Uighurs from Xinjiang Uighurs are a mainly
:09:00. > :09:01.Muslim minority, and they have a troubled
:09:02. > :09:03.relationship with China's Uighur separatists are often accused
:09:04. > :09:06.of terrorism in China. The government is accused
:09:07. > :09:21.of discriminating against Uighurs. The modern grievances are two fold,
:09:22. > :09:28.firstly some of them consider, they want a brief government of their
:09:29. > :09:31.own, they country called East Turkistant which vanished after the
:09:32. > :09:37.coming is to over in China, and some of them want to go back to the days
:09:38. > :09:43.of East Turkistan. Also they've complained about the millions of
:09:44. > :09:52.ethnic Chinese moving in from other provinces into the province where
:09:53. > :09:57.they mainly live, making them a minority. That is the ethnic tension
:09:58. > :10:01.side of the complaint. In terms of the radicalisation, the Chinese
:10:02. > :10:12.government has made claims for many years, from the Taliban time because
:10:13. > :10:19.ten free Mac is near Afghanistan. Claims that the Taliban worth
:10:20. > :10:27.training them -- because Xinjiang is near Afghanistan. The exact
:10:28. > :10:32.percentage, I doubt any can calculate that but to safely say,
:10:33. > :10:34.there is a degree of... A BBC investigation has found that
:10:35. > :10:37.large amounts of illegal drugs are being delivered by post
:10:38. > :10:39.in the UK. The drugs are being
:10:40. > :10:42.bought on the dark web. That's an area of the internet
:10:43. > :10:45.where a large amount of illegal material and products
:10:46. > :10:48.are shared and sold. Jim Connolly from BBC
:10:49. > :10:57.Newsbeat has the story. It is an illegal trade worth
:10:58. > :11:03.millions but your local postman could an Wichary -- good unwittingly
:11:04. > :11:12.be delivering drugs. More and more people are buying drugs on the dark
:11:13. > :11:16.web. What was in there? It's not of cannabis. You smell it and then
:11:17. > :11:25.what? You tell the managers and they say that you must deliver it, tell
:11:26. > :11:30.them to be more careful. Really? The Royal Mail says that it does not
:11:31. > :11:33.knowingly carrying illegal items in the network. Getting drugs online is
:11:34. > :11:37.becoming more popular with people like Steve who would only talk to us
:11:38. > :11:47.if we protected his identity. It was cheaper and you had less chance of
:11:48. > :11:50.getting skanked. We found it funny how she handed it over and said
:11:51. > :11:54.thank you very much, she was completely unaware that she was part
:11:55. > :11:59.of the drugs trade. This part of London news to be home to lots of
:12:00. > :12:03.shots where you could purchase legal highs. The government say that new
:12:04. > :12:07.laws to tackle this mean that the shops have closed down but we
:12:08. > :12:11.managed to get these drugs on the dark web, getting around the issue.
:12:12. > :12:16.We asked the government to speak to us about this but they declined.
:12:17. > :12:20.They say they are spending ?1.9 billion over the next five years on
:12:21. > :12:25.cyber security. How easy was it to buy the drugs on the dark web? We
:12:26. > :12:31.met Chris, an independent security expert. Everything about it is
:12:32. > :12:39.pretty much like eBay but it looks a bit more amateurish? The technology
:12:40. > :12:43.is not as mature in many cases but you are accessing a very anon I
:12:44. > :12:53.website which is hard to track down. We purchased ecstasy, marijuana and
:12:54. > :12:56.a drug known as spice. A few days later, all three parcels are wired.
:12:57. > :13:01.We took them to this government approved testing lab. These don't
:13:02. > :13:05.look suspicious, there's no way that every single bike can be opened, we
:13:06. > :13:11.would never get our post. There would be backlog is. We are looking
:13:12. > :13:16.for things that look suspicious, and these don't. It may have only been
:13:17. > :13:20.three samples but the testing proved everything we bought on the dark web
:13:21. > :13:25.was as described, raising the question of what needs to be done to
:13:26. > :13:28.stop this deadly trade. How will authorities tackle a global issue
:13:29. > :13:31.where every time a marketplace is closed down, another appears to
:13:32. > :13:41.replace it? In a few minutes we are going to be
:13:42. > :13:48.talking about global warming. It is often stated that the speed of
:13:49. > :13:49.global warming has been slowing but new data suggests it isn't. We will
:13:50. > :13:55.get into that. The UK service sector
:13:56. > :14:00.grew at its fastest pace for 17 months in December,
:14:01. > :14:01.a closely-watched BBC's economics editor
:14:02. > :14:04.Kamal Ahmed explained what's Andrew Haldein, the chief economist
:14:05. > :14:11.at the Bank of England, he welcomed the figures
:14:12. > :14:17.and was optimistic that 2016 had been stronger in terms of growth
:14:18. > :14:19.than many people predicted, including the bank, that maybe it
:14:20. > :14:23.had been too pessimistic. These good figures are based
:14:24. > :14:27.on the great British shopper who has kept spending despite the warnings
:14:28. > :14:31.of what the Brexit vote may bring. But Mr Haldein sounded a note
:14:32. > :14:40.of caution when he said that this since the referendum means that
:14:41. > :14:43.food imports and fuel imports are more expensive,
:14:44. > :14:45.which is going to feed through to consumers
:14:46. > :14:47.who may see higher prices, meaning lower spending,
:14:48. > :14:49.which means possibly some tougher headwinds for the economy this year
:14:50. > :15:01.and next year. This is Outside Source live
:15:02. > :15:07.from the BBC newsroom. Our lead story is: US intelligence
:15:08. > :15:10.chiefs have renewed accusations that Russia disrupted the presidential
:15:11. > :15:13.election, and that it posing a threat
:15:14. > :15:23.to a swathe of American interests. The trial of the woman at the centre
:15:24. > :15:28.of a scandal involving South Korea's Choi Soon-sil appeared
:15:29. > :15:31.in court in Seoul. She's facing charges of abuse
:15:32. > :15:33.of power and attempted fraud. It's alleged that President Park
:15:34. > :15:37.allowed Ms Choi to exploit Four people have been
:15:38. > :15:42.arrested in Chicago over a live stream on Facebook
:15:43. > :15:45.in which a bound and His assailants are heard making
:15:46. > :15:48.derogatory statements speaking on the progress of a recent
:15:49. > :16:05.ceasefire brokered Opposition groups have complained
:16:06. > :16:12.of violations including air strikes from the government
:16:13. > :16:14.in Wadi Barada, a village The government says it is targeting
:16:15. > :16:18.terror groups not included Meanwhile in Geneva the UN envoys
:16:19. > :16:26.for Syria have both been speaking on the upcoming peace talks
:16:27. > :16:28.in Kazakhstan, and on water shortages that have
:16:29. > :16:39.arisen around Damascus. There are incidents, we know about
:16:40. > :16:47.them, we are involved and we are trying and hoping that the two
:16:48. > :16:57.actors will secede in overcoming them and Richard the point --
:16:58. > :17:04.reached the point where facilities will recover. 5.5 million people
:17:05. > :17:12.have had their water supplies cut or minimised. To sabotage and the night
:17:13. > :17:16.water is a war crime. It is civilians who drink it and who will
:17:17. > :17:24.be affected bash Mac and to deny water supplies -- and to deny water
:17:25. > :17:35.supplies. Police in Austria say they are
:17:36. > :17:39.looking for six men suspected of sexually assaulting 18 women during
:17:40. > :17:42.New Year's Eve celebrations in the City of Innsbruck. The men are
:17:43. > :17:46.thought to be from Asia or North Africa and the allegation is that
:17:47. > :17:51.they groped and kissed women as they watched a fireworks display. The
:17:52. > :17:54.assaults are a year after hundreds of women were attacked in Cologne
:17:55. > :18:01.during the 2015 New Year's Eve celebrations. New Year's Eve
:18:02. > :18:06.celebrations in Innsbruck. It was here in this crowd that 18 young
:18:07. > :18:10.women who had come to dance and watch the fireworks were sexually
:18:11. > :18:16.assaulted. Police say it was done by a group of five or six men.
:18:17. > :18:21.TRANSLATION: The offenders surrounded the women dancing and
:18:22. > :18:24.touched them inappropriately. The person leading the investigation
:18:25. > :18:28.told the BBC that the number of the assaults and the fact they were
:18:29. > :18:32.carried out by a group is unprecedented for Innsbruck. The
:18:33. > :18:37.police are checking CCTV footage. The suspects are believed to be
:18:38. > :18:42.between 25-30 years old, possibly from Asia or North Africa. The
:18:43. > :18:46.nationalities are unclear. It is thought they in Innsbruck. Police
:18:47. > :18:51.say that the surgeon includes refugee shelters. The assaults
:18:52. > :18:54.happened despite heightened security in the City. Last year in
:18:55. > :19:01.neighbouring Germany, hundreds of women were assaulted in New Year at
:19:02. > :19:05.Cologne and anti-immigrant sentiment in Austria has grown after the
:19:06. > :19:18.refugee and migrant crisis in 2015, when the country took in about 1% of
:19:19. > :19:21.its population. A couple of you asking why I not using the outside
:19:22. > :19:27.Source screen. It isn't using and we are working to fix it. We will carry
:19:28. > :19:30.on with our coverage of the main stories. Back to the US now.
:19:31. > :19:33.President-elect Donald Trump makes no secret of his disdain for US
:19:34. > :19:37.companies who create jobs outside the US.
:19:38. > :19:47.Today, Toyota was the target. It said it would have to pay a new tax
:19:48. > :19:51.if the new car plant it is making is not built in the US. If you want a
:19:52. > :19:55.measure of the importance of his tweets, the share price of Toyota
:19:56. > :19:59.went down. It recovered but it shows the impact he is having. Chief
:20:00. > :20:02.executives and people who have shares in these companies want to
:20:03. > :20:03.know what the president is saying because it may affect the value of
:20:04. > :20:22.their them is Sanaa the same joins us from
:20:23. > :20:27.New York. This is an existing app and it is adding a new feature. It
:20:28. > :20:32.will be available on the App Store and they say that as soon as the
:20:33. > :20:36.President elect mentions a company, and we've seen it happening with
:20:37. > :20:40.Toyota and in the past when he talks about Lockheed Martin or Boeing,
:20:41. > :20:46.we've seen a big impact on their share price. This app will give you
:20:47. > :20:51.real time information about stocks that you own with regards to
:20:52. > :20:58.comments by the President-elect. For example, today if you own shares in
:20:59. > :21:02.Toyota, you would have had an alert saying the President-elect has
:21:03. > :21:06.spoken about a company that you own. Best have a look at the news. I
:21:07. > :21:11.guess that it's inevitable that when the president speaks it will have an
:21:12. > :21:13.impact on the value of companies but I can't recall Obama being as
:21:14. > :21:17.specific in his messages to particular companies. This is
:21:18. > :21:23.somewhat unprecedented which is why there is a lot of discussion about
:21:24. > :21:26.it. If you look at social media and how people have reacted, there's
:21:27. > :21:32.been a lot of scepticism when it comes to the President-elect
:21:33. > :21:36.singling out companies like this. But it is in line with what Mr Trump
:21:37. > :21:41.has always said on the campaign Trail, that he's going to fight for
:21:42. > :21:46.the little guy, which he feels he is doing by calling out companies that
:21:47. > :21:49.are creating jobs overseas and then selling products in the United
:21:50. > :21:54.States or with regards to Boeing and Lockheed Martin, when they see cost
:21:55. > :22:01.overruns for government contracts. Thank you for joining us. As you can
:22:02. > :22:05.see, while I was talking till we have got the screen fixed.
:22:06. > :22:09.A year ago Australian company Bririmian Limited bought
:22:10. > :22:14.a lithium mining project in Mali for just $40,000.
:22:15. > :22:19.It just sold that same project for around $78 million.
:22:20. > :22:23.The growing popularity of electric cars.
:22:24. > :22:27.Lithium is a key component in their batteries.
:22:28. > :22:30.Francis Browne is a mining and metals expert at the commodities
:22:31. > :22:45.Here is his analysis. It is an extraordinary deal and it shows the
:22:46. > :22:51.huge interest in lithium as an as to invest in. Will it affect price? It
:22:52. > :22:56.should but the scale of production and technology is going so fast that
:22:57. > :22:59.the unit cost is coming down. Lithium, although vitally important,
:23:00. > :23:06.is only a component of that technology. The capacity increases
:23:07. > :23:11.in this particular commodity are actually quite slow, a lot of work
:23:12. > :23:15.needs to be done to bring lithium to market. We are looking possibly at a
:23:16. > :23:19.disconnect between supply and demand going forward. Why would save 5-10
:23:20. > :23:27.year horizon. The Consumer Electronics Show
:23:28. > :23:29.is on in Las Vegas. There's a range of products
:23:30. > :23:31.designed for the home, which claim to use Artificial
:23:32. > :23:33.Intelligence. Here's our Technology
:23:34. > :23:34.correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones. In a penthouse suite
:23:35. > :23:37.at a ritzy Las Vegas hotel, There's a smart speaker
:23:38. > :23:40.for children, where each ..there's even Nora, described
:23:41. > :24:01.as a smart snoring solution. This little device is paired
:24:02. > :24:03.with a pad under the pillow which detects me snoring and moves
:24:04. > :24:06.just enough to stop me, The big theme this year is turning
:24:07. > :24:13.the advances in artificial This one's meant to be a shop
:24:14. > :24:20.assistant, while this one is designed as a companion
:24:21. > :24:26.for children or elderly people. But AI seems to get everywhere, even
:24:27. > :24:29.into this toothbrush, which learns Artificial intelligence is not
:24:30. > :24:34.just gathering the data, Then you learn where your weaknesses
:24:35. > :24:39.are, where your strengths are and the purpose is to become
:24:40. > :24:42.better at taking care This walking stick is also
:24:43. > :24:48.smarter than it looks. An in-built mobile phone sim
:24:49. > :24:50.card means it can help It will detect the fall of its user
:24:51. > :24:57.and when it detects it it will alert the family or the neighbour,
:24:58. > :25:00.so they can come and And this clever mirror helps
:25:01. > :25:05.anyone to try out make-up. Out on the Las Vegas strip,
:25:06. > :25:12.Danny Manu, a young entrepreneur His instant translation
:25:13. > :25:20.headphones aren't quite ready. They will eventually be
:25:21. > :25:23.tiny earbuds, but he's This is important because we will be
:25:24. > :25:31.able to showcase what we've been working on to the world,
:25:32. > :25:34.to show this is something we started years ago as a small team,
:25:35. > :25:37.as a small start-up, The odds are against Danny,
:25:38. > :25:43.a one-man band taking on giants like Apple and Google,
:25:44. > :25:46.but like plenty of people here this week, he's betting that he has
:25:47. > :25:48.the product that can Rory Cellan-Jones,
:25:49. > :26:00.BBC News, Las Vegas. That's it for the first half of
:26:01. > :26:06.Outside Source. See you in a couple of minutes.
:26:07. > :26:11.If you're going to the west coast of the United States in the next couple
:26:12. > :26:12.of days, there may be some