05/01/2017 Outside Source

Hello, I'm Ros Atkins, this is Outside Source.

Top US intelligence officials have been giving evidence on claims

of Russian interference in the US election.

They say Russia has an advanced cyber programme that poses a major

threat to a wide range of US interests.

A BBC investigation has found that illegal drugs are being bought

online and delivered by mail all over the UK.

Apple has withdrawn the New York Times from its China App Store,

following a request from Chinese authorities.

Michelle Fleury in New York has been looking in this for us.

And if you want to get in touch we're on #BBCOS.

As I talked to you, the outside source screen is blank so I'm going

to try and present the programme from here, and I'm going to begin

with what the American director of National Intelligence has said about

Russian involvement in the US presidential election. This was a

multifaceted campaign. So the hacking was only a part of it. It

also entailed classical propaganda, disinformation, fake news.

These activities are ongoing now in Europe, as Europe

prepares for elections, is that a fair assumption?

Yesterday the Wall Street Journal indicated that the President-elect

is considering changes to the intelligence community. Have you, as

the experts in this field, been engaged in these deliberations, and

vice?: no, we have not. To reinforce the point,

we have a joint statement from US It reads "Russia is

a full-scope cyber actor that poses a major threat to US

government, military, diplomatic, commercial

and critical infrastructure. "We assess that only Russia's

senior-most officials could have authorised the recent

election-focused data Gordon Carreras gave me his

assessment of what we have learned. In a way it was a preview for what I

think will be the main event, when we get the report we are expecting

next week from intelligence officials about the evidence of

Russian hacking and interference in the election. They skirted around

the issue, touching it on it at various points but they were careful

about giving away too much detail. You got the broad outlines, they are

confident with the assertion that Russia was responsible for trying to

interfere with the election. Will we see the report? I did an interview

with the Russian ambassador to the EU and he said that the Americans

are saying this and he went, show me the evidence. Where is the detail?

That's what everyone is waiting for, we are expecting some kind of report

in detail. There will be different levels of classification. There will

be a public report. There will be a secret report, possibly more than

one with more detail. A lot of the evidence pointing towards why the US

is so confident the Kremlin was behind it may well be very

sensitive. It may be that the CIA has an agent in Moscow telling them

that and they won't want to put too much detail in a public report.

That's possible. They know they are under pressure, not least from

Donald Trump and others, to produce evidence to show as much as they can

to back up the assertion that the Kremlin was behind this alleged

interference. Interesting that Europe was mentioned. That was

interesting, a question from a Senator, do you think this kind of

interference extends to Europe and is ongoing? The intelligence

official said yes. We've heard it from some European countries. I

spoke to the body area and president before their recent elections where

he was standing down and he said that we have seen Russian attempts

to manipulate the election. We've heard Germany talking about it,

German officials sounding a warning about cyber attacks. Information

operations, influence operations to try and affect politics. There may

be people watching thinking, hold on, hasn't America been interfering

in elections since the Second World War? On one level you are right.

There was the interesting question, the Chinese hacked into the American

system to steal data, was that something equivalent to what Russia

did? American officials say that was espionage, different from

interfering with an election. They are saying that espionage is

standard and that they do that, so they won't kick up as much of eight

fast. But people may point to history -- a fuss. America

intervened in Iraq, but they may say that they don't do this any more --

in Iran. Quick word about Donald Trump, he's a hard man to predict

but you would expect him to make some changes in US intelligence

based on his Twitter activity? A lot of nervousness in US intelligence.

Fascinating meeting, when he sits down to talk about the evidence with

them. They will wonder if he's going to do a clear out, whether he will

change the direction, whether he will take some kind of retaliation

for the sense that they have been criticising him and that he has been

engaging in this spat over the election. Interesting to watch. We

will talk to our correspondent in about 20 minutes about those issues.

A car bomb and gun fire involved in a terrorist attack in Turkey. The

first week of 2017 isn't over and yet there have been two terror

attacks in Turkey. The second was in the City of Izmir, the courthouse

was targeted, the police approaching a car outside to search it and then

the attackers inside the car shot and tried to attack a policeman with

an explosive device, a car bomb was detonated and in the mayhem one of

the policemen was killed. A member of the court staff was killed and

the two attackers were shot dead as well. The third attacker we believe

is still at large, wearing a black jacket and a white beret. Officials

say they expect that the PKK Kurdish militant group were behind the

attack and may believe a much larger attack was foiled given the number

of weapons found including machine guns and grenades. It's a few days

after the New Year's Eve attack on the Reina nightclub, that gunman is

still at large. Arrests have been made in Istanbul but not the gunmen,

leaving people feeling nervous. It has shown how difficult it is to

secure Turkey. How to keep the country safe. 80 million people,

bordering Syria and Iraq, it has the Kurdish insurgency in the

south-east, and it has the PKK and so-called Islamic State. More police

alone is clearly not the answer, they must have better intelligence.

Some attacks are being foiled but others are happening and that shows

intelligence gaps and it is making this country feel extremely worried

going into 2017. Mark mentioned the Istanbul attack,

we had a development on that today. But today several men connected

to him have been arrested, and all are reported to be

Uighurs from Xinjiang Uighurs are a mainly

Muslim minority, and they have a troubled

relationship with China's Uighur separatists are often accused

of terrorism in China. The government is accused

of discriminating against Uighurs. The modern grievances are two fold,

firstly some of them consider, they want a brief government of their

own, they country called East Turkistant which vanished after the

coming is to over in China, and some of them want to go back to the days

of East Turkistan. Also they've complained about the millions of

ethnic Chinese moving in from other provinces into the province where

they mainly live, making them a minority. That is the ethnic tension

side of the complaint. In terms of the radicalisation, the Chinese

government has made claims for many years, from the Taliban time because

ten free Mac is near Afghanistan. Claims that the Taliban worth

training them -- because Xinjiang is near Afghanistan. The exact

percentage, I doubt any can calculate that but to safely say,

there is a degree of... A BBC investigation has found that

large amounts of illegal drugs are being delivered by post

in the UK. The drugs are being

bought on the dark web. That's an area of the internet

where a large amount of illegal material and products

are shared and sold. Jim Connolly from BBC

Newsbeat has the story. It is an illegal trade worth

millions but your local postman could an Wichary -- good unwittingly

be delivering drugs. More and more people are buying drugs on the dark

web. What was in there? It's not of cannabis. You smell it and then

what? You tell the managers and they say that you must deliver it, tell

them to be more careful. Really? The Royal Mail says that it does not

knowingly carrying illegal items in the network. Getting drugs online is

becoming more popular with people like Steve who would only talk to us

if we protected his identity. It was cheaper and you had less chance of

getting skanked. We found it funny how she handed it over and said

thank you very much, she was completely unaware that she was part

of the drugs trade. This part of London news to be home to lots of

shots where you could purchase legal highs. The government say that new

laws to tackle this mean that the shops have closed down but we

managed to get these drugs on the dark web, getting around the issue.

We asked the government to speak to us about this but they declined.

They say they are spending ?1.9 billion over the next five years on

cyber security. How easy was it to buy the drugs on the dark web? We

met Chris, an independent security expert. Everything about it is

pretty much like eBay but it looks a bit more amateurish? The technology

is not as mature in many cases but you are accessing a very anon I

website which is hard to track down. We purchased ecstasy, marijuana and

a drug known as spice. A few days later, all three parcels are wired.

We took them to this government approved testing lab. These don't

look suspicious, there's no way that every single bike can be opened, we

would never get our post. There would be backlog is. We are looking

for things that look suspicious, and these don't. It may have only been

three samples but the testing proved everything we bought on the dark web

was as described, raising the question of what needs to be done to

stop this deadly trade. How will authorities tackle a global issue

where every time a marketplace is closed down, another appears to

replace it? In a few minutes we are going to be

talking about global warming. It is often stated that the speed of

global warming has been slowing but new data suggests it isn't. We will

get into that. The UK service sector

grew at its fastest pace for 17 months in December,

a closely-watched BBC's economics editor

Kamal Ahmed explained what's Andrew Haldein, the chief economist

at the Bank of England, he welcomed the figures

and was optimistic that 2016 had been stronger in terms of growth

than many people predicted, including the bank, that maybe it

had been too pessimistic. These good figures are based

on the great British shopper who has kept spending despite the warnings

of what the Brexit vote may bring. But Mr Haldein sounded a note

of caution when he said that this since the referendum means that

food imports and fuel imports are more expensive,

which is going to feed through to consumers

who may see higher prices, meaning lower spending,

which means possibly some tougher headwinds for the economy this year

and next year. This is Outside Source live

from the BBC newsroom. Our lead story is: US intelligence

chiefs have renewed accusations that Russia disrupted the presidential

election, and that it posing a threat

to a swathe of American interests. The trial of the woman at the centre

of a scandal involving South Korea's Choi Soon-sil appeared

in court in Seoul. She's facing charges of abuse

of power and attempted fraud. It's alleged that President Park

allowed Ms Choi to exploit Four people have been

arrested in Chicago over a live stream on Facebook

in which a bound and His assailants are heard making

derogatory statements speaking on the progress of a recent

ceasefire brokered Opposition groups have complained

of violations including air strikes from the government

in Wadi Barada, a village The government says it is targeting

terror groups not included Meanwhile in Geneva the UN envoys

for Syria have both been speaking on the upcoming peace talks

in Kazakhstan, and on water shortages that have

arisen around Damascus. There are incidents, we know about

them, we are involved and we are trying and hoping that the two

actors will secede in overcoming them and Richard the point --

reached the point where facilities will recover. 5.5 million people

have had their water supplies cut or minimised. To sabotage and the night

water is a war crime. It is civilians who drink it and who will

be affected bash Mac and to deny water supplies -- and to deny water

supplies. Police in Austria say they are

looking for six men suspected of sexually assaulting 18 women during

New Year's Eve celebrations in the City of Innsbruck. The men are

thought to be from Asia or North Africa and the allegation is that

they groped and kissed women as they watched a fireworks display. The

assaults are a year after hundreds of women were attacked in Cologne

during the 2015 New Year's Eve celebrations. New Year's Eve

celebrations in Innsbruck. It was here in this crowd that 18 young

women who had come to dance and watch the fireworks were sexually

assaulted. Police say it was done by a group of five or six men.

TRANSLATION: The offenders surrounded the women dancing and

touched them inappropriately. The person leading the investigation

told the BBC that the number of the assaults and the fact they were

carried out by a group is unprecedented for Innsbruck. The

police are checking CCTV footage. The suspects are believed to be

between 25-30 years old, possibly from Asia or North Africa. The

nationalities are unclear. It is thought they in Innsbruck. Police

say that the surgeon includes refugee shelters. The assaults

happened despite heightened security in the City. Last year in

neighbouring Germany, hundreds of women were assaulted in New Year at

Cologne and anti-immigrant sentiment in Austria has grown after the

refugee and migrant crisis in 2015, when the country took in about 1% of

its population. A couple of you asking why I not using the outside

Source screen. It isn't using and we are working to fix it. We will carry

on with our coverage of the main stories. Back to the US now.

President-elect Donald Trump makes no secret of his disdain for US

companies who create jobs outside the US.

Today, Toyota was the target. It said it would have to pay a new tax

if the new car plant it is making is not built in the US. If you want a

measure of the importance of his tweets, the share price of Toyota

went down. It recovered but it shows the impact he is having. Chief

executives and people who have shares in these companies want to

know what the president is saying because it may affect the value of

their them is Sanaa the same joins us from

New York. This is an existing app and it is adding a new feature. It

will be available on the App Store and they say that as soon as the

President elect mentions a company, and we've seen it happening with

Toyota and in the past when he talks about Lockheed Martin or Boeing,

we've seen a big impact on their share price. This app will give you

real time information about stocks that you own with regards to

comments by the President-elect. For example, today if you own shares in

Toyota, you would have had an alert saying the President-elect has

spoken about a company that you own. Best have a look at the news. I

guess that it's inevitable that when the president speaks it will have an

impact on the value of companies but I can't recall Obama being as

specific in his messages to particular companies. This is

somewhat unprecedented which is why there is a lot of discussion about

it. If you look at social media and how people have reacted, there's

been a lot of scepticism when it comes to the President-elect

singling out companies like this. But it is in line with what Mr Trump

has always said on the campaign Trail, that he's going to fight for

the little guy, which he feels he is doing by calling out companies that

are creating jobs overseas and then selling products in the United

States or with regards to Boeing and Lockheed Martin, when they see cost

overruns for government contracts. Thank you for joining us. As you can

see, while I was talking till we have got the screen fixed.

A year ago Australian company Bririmian Limited bought

a lithium mining project in Mali for just $40,000.

It just sold that same project for around $78 million.

The growing popularity of electric cars.

Lithium is a key component in their batteries.

Francis Browne is a mining and metals expert at the commodities

Here is his analysis. It is an extraordinary deal and it shows the

huge interest in lithium as an as to invest in. Will it affect price? It

should but the scale of production and technology is going so fast that

the unit cost is coming down. Lithium, although vitally important,

is only a component of that technology. The capacity increases

in this particular commodity are actually quite slow, a lot of work

needs to be done to bring lithium to market. We are looking possibly at a

disconnect between supply and demand going forward. Why would save 5-10

year horizon. The Consumer Electronics Show

is on in Las Vegas. There's a range of products

designed for the home, which claim to use Artificial

Intelligence. Here's our Technology

correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones. In a penthouse suite

at a ritzy Las Vegas hotel, There's a smart speaker

for children, where each ..there's even Nora, described

as a smart snoring solution. This little device is paired

with a pad under the pillow which detects me snoring and moves

just enough to stop me, The big theme this year is turning

the advances in artificial This one's meant to be a shop

assistant, while this one is designed as a companion

for children or elderly people. But AI seems to get everywhere, even

into this toothbrush, which learns Artificial intelligence is not

just gathering the data, Then you learn where your weaknesses

are, where your strengths are and the purpose is to become

better at taking care This walking stick is also

smarter than it looks. An in-built mobile phone sim

card means it can help It will detect the fall of its user

and when it detects it it will alert the family or the neighbour,

so they can come and And this clever mirror helps

anyone to try out make-up. Out on the Las Vegas strip,

Danny Manu, a young entrepreneur His instant translation

headphones aren't quite ready. They will eventually be

tiny earbuds, but he's This is important because we will be

able to showcase what we've been working on to the world,

to show this is something we started years ago as a small team,

as a small start-up, The odds are against Danny,

a one-man band taking on giants like Apple and Google,

but like plenty of people here this week, he's betting that he has

the product that can Rory Cellan-Jones,

BBC News, Las Vegas. That's it for the first half of

Outside Source. See you in a couple of minutes.

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of days, there may be some