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Hello, I'm Ros Atkins, this is Outside Source. | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
The US National Intelligence chief called him to denounce | :00:08. | :00:11. | |
That's not quite how Director Clapper described it. | :00:12. | :00:23. | |
Meanwhile the confirmation hearings for the Trump | :00:24. | :00:29. | |
Today's featured the man nominated to be the new head of the CIA. | :00:30. | :00:36. | |
It is pretty clear, about what took place here, about Russian | :00:37. | :00:42. | |
involvement in efforts to hack information and to have an impact on | :00:43. | :00:49. | |
American democracy. Moscow has described the deployment | :00:50. | :00:54. | |
of thousands of troops in Poland as a threat to its national security. | :00:55. | :00:57. | |
We've been following the Cyprus reunification talks all week - | :00:58. | :01:01. | |
And EU wants new rules on how humans interact with robots. | :01:02. | :01:32. | |
Many will be on line there is the hashtag, our e-mail and social media | :01:33. | :01:39. | |
contacts are on the screen throughout the programme. | :01:40. | :01:39. | |
The fall-out from leaked dossier - with allegations that Russia has | :01:40. | :01:43. | |
compromising personal material about Donald Trump - | :01:44. | :01:45. | |
Mr Trump says he's spoken to the US National Intelligence chief. | :01:46. | :01:52. | |
First, the dossier was produced by a private company | :01:53. | :01:54. | |
Second, if that's how the call went, that's not how | :01:55. | :01:58. | |
He earlier released a statement saying US Intelligence "has not made | :01:59. | :02:22. | |
any judgment that the information in this document is reliable". | :02:23. | :02:31. | |
He also rebuffed the idea US intelligence leaked the dossier. | :02:32. | :02:38. | |
We're also learning more details about the man | :02:39. | :02:40. | |
He runs a private intelligence firm called Orbis. | :02:41. | :02:52. | |
He's also a former UK intelligence agent who worked in Moscow. | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
The BBC understands he's now in hiding. | :02:57. | :02:58. | |
The murky world of intelligence-gathering in Moscow. | :02:59. | :03:08. | |
A secret dossier of allegations about Trump and Russia. | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
All written by a former member of MI6. | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
This is Christopher Steele, now at the centre of controversy. | :03:18. | :03:26. | |
He's supposed to have told neighbours to look after his cats | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
and he is said to be lying low, fearing for his safety. | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
So what do we know about Christopher Steele? | :03:37. | :03:39. | |
In the 1990s he worked undercover for MI6 in Moscow. | :03:40. | :03:47. | |
After leaving, he founded a private intelligence company called Orbis. | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
Last year he was commissioned by Trump's opponents | :03:53. | :03:55. | |
to look into the tycoon's Russian connections. | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
He ended up with 35 pages of allegations about his | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
But so far there has been no confirmation that the extraordinary | :04:04. | :04:17. | |
allegations he dug up there are definitely true. | :04:18. | :04:20. | |
Thanks to his past as a spy, Steele is unlikely to have been able | :04:21. | :04:23. | |
to travel to Moscow himself so instead will have relied | :04:24. | :04:26. | |
Moscow's a difficult place to work in. | :04:27. | :04:36. | |
The Russians have a habit of secrecy and deception. | :04:37. | :04:42. | |
The other complicating factor is money. | :04:43. | :04:44. | |
If you're going to give someone money to tell you something, | :04:45. | :04:46. | |
there is a strong possibility that they will tell | :04:47. | :04:49. | |
Alexander Litvinenko, a former Russian agent who fled to London, | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
investigated powerful figures in Moscow and was killed | :04:55. | :04:56. | |
by radioactive poison, it's alleged on the orders | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
I believe it is dangerous, particularly | :05:02. | :05:09. | |
after the death of my husband, because when you just approach | :05:10. | :05:11. | |
specific information, particularly when this information | :05:12. | :05:13. | |
very close to powerful people, you might be in this line | :05:14. | :05:15. | |
The Russian dossier was not written for public consumption. | :05:16. | :05:28. | |
But American spies have briefed its outlines | :05:29. | :05:29. | |
Its author never expected to be in the spotlight. | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
But in the atmosphere of American politics today, | :05:34. | :05:35. | |
secrets are no longer as safe as they were. | :05:36. | :05:49. | |
Senate confirmation hearings have continued in Washington. | :05:50. | :05:51. | |
Those answering the questions have been nominated by Donald Trump | :05:52. | :05:53. | |
Mike Pompeo is a Republican congressman nominated | :05:54. | :05:56. | |
Retired General James Mattis is nominated for Secretary of Defence. | :05:57. | :06:07. | |
Rex Tillerson is nominated for Secretary of State - | :06:08. | :06:09. | |
Here he is on allegations of Russian hacking. | :06:10. | :06:26. | |
It is pretty clear about what took place here, about Russian | :06:27. | :06:32. | |
involvement in efforts to hack information and to have an impact on | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
American democracy, I am very clear about what that intelligence report | :06:37. | :06:42. | |
says, and I have every expectation as we develop the facts I will relay | :06:43. | :06:46. | |
those to the President, to the team round him and to you all, so we can | :06:47. | :06:52. | |
have a robust discussion about how to take on an enormous threat from | :06:53. | :06:56. | |
cyber, you have lived it. This is very real, it is growing, it is not | :06:57. | :07:01. | |
new in that sense, but this was an aggressive action taken by the | :07:02. | :07:05. | |
senior leadership inside Russia and America has part of that obligation | :07:06. | :07:08. | |
to protect that information. P Anthony Zurcher is with us. How well | :07:09. | :07:26. | |
will Mr Trump know Mr Pom owe. He doesn't know him really, he is a | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
long time member of Congress and Donald Trump didn't move in those | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
circles. Pom owe is more establishment. He wasn't an early | :07:37. | :07:40. | |
supporter so when you see something like that you have to wonder, after | :07:41. | :07:45. | |
hearing Donald Trump talk about how an asset to have a close | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
relationship with Vladimir Putin, to see who the man who could be the | :07:50. | :07:55. | |
next director of the CIA come out and single Russia out and endorse | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
the intelligence community's findings that Russia was behind | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
hackings, they were aggressive in trying to meddle in US election, it | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
makes you think could will have be disagreement and conflict between | :08:10. | :08:14. | |
Donald Trump and his senior national security advisers and how would that | :08:15. | :08:22. | |
resolve itself. Let us talk about the relationship between Donald | :08:23. | :08:24. | |
Trump and the intelligence agencies. Can some of the damage done by the | :08:25. | :08:30. | |
comments be swept away when his choices of leaders come in? Well, | :08:31. | :08:36. | |
you saw a bit this morning with Clapper, the current director of | :08:37. | :08:39. | |
intelligence coming out with the statements saying that they weren't | :08:40. | :08:43. | |
responsible for the leak, you could interpret that as an attempt to mend | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
fences between Donald Trump and the intelligence community. Donald Trump | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
tweeted out a thank you and that he felt vindicated, that earlier today, | :08:53. | :08:58. | |
so, that might be a first step, but bringing in new leaders won't change | :08:59. | :09:04. | |
the way the rank and file view Donald Trump. There are people | :09:05. | :09:07. | |
within the one whoty who feel aggrieved and upset that Donald | :09:08. | :09:13. | |
Trump has questioned their effectiveness, their motivation, | :09:14. | :09:17. | |
questioned whether they were responsible for undermining his | :09:18. | :09:20. | |
Presidential authority, they are not going to go anywhere in all | :09:21. | :09:24. | |
likelihood, barring some major reform of the agencies, so they will | :09:25. | :09:28. | |
have to make peace with fact Donald Trump is President or we could see | :09:29. | :09:34. | |
more examples of this back-and-forth that will make it difficult for | :09:35. | :09:38. | |
Donald Trump at times, to present first of all to rely on intelligence | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
briefings from these people and also to site the intelligence agencies as | :09:44. | :09:47. | |
evidence for whatever foreign policy he wants to pursue in a moment of | :09:48. | :09:53. | |
crisis he will have to point to his intelligence agency, this is why I | :09:54. | :09:58. | |
am agenting, that is a big question. Don't go anywhere. This was the | :09:59. | :10:04. | |
hearing attended by retired general James Mattis. | :10:05. | :10:06. | |
Donald Trump's pick for Secretary of Defence. | :10:07. | :10:07. | |
Here he is talking about Russia and Nato. | :10:08. | :10:14. | |
The most important thing is we recognise the reality of what we | :10:15. | :10:20. | |
dealt with, with Mr Putin, and we recognise he is trying to break the | :10:21. | :10:25. | |
north Atlantic alliance, in that we take the steps, the integrated | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
steps, diplomatic, economic, military and the alliance steps, the | :10:30. | :10:33. | |
working with our allies to defend ourselves, where we must. Let us go | :10:34. | :10:39. | |
back to Anthony Zurcher. Talk us through the practicalities, there | :10:40. | :10:42. | |
was some discussion about whether the gap between the genre tiring | :10:43. | :10:45. | |
from the military, and now taking up this post might be an issue, but | :10:46. | :10:50. | |
doesn't seem like it is going to be. It requires special permission gran | :10:51. | :10:54. | |
granted by Congress in order for a retired general who has been out of | :10:55. | :10:57. | |
the active service for less than seven years, to head the Defense | :10:58. | :11:03. | |
Department, the Senate had a vote on that and they overwhelmingly granted | :11:04. | :11:07. | |
that permission, the House also has to have a vote, as far as I know | :11:08. | :11:11. | |
they have not had that vote but it seems pretty clear he is going to | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
get that box checked and be able to be formally considered. Thank you | :11:17. | :11:23. | |
very much. We appreciate it. We will talk next week on Outside Source. | :11:24. | :11:31. | |
This is the biggest US military operation in eastern Europe | :11:32. | :11:33. | |
These are American troops, more than 80 US tanks and hundreds | :11:34. | :11:42. | |
of armoured vehicles arriving in Poland. | :11:43. | :11:43. | |
From there they'll move out to Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, | :11:44. | :11:59. | |
Romania, Bulgaria and Hungary on a rotational basis. | :12:00. | :12:02. | |
This is part of a Nato deployment - it's designed to deter | :12:03. | :12:05. | |
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told the BBC "We see | :12:06. | :12:16. | |
It's an action that threatens our interests and our security. | :12:17. | :12:28. | |
Especially as it's a third country that is building up its military | :12:29. | :12:31. | |
Here's the US brigade commander in Poland. | :12:32. | :12:44. | |
Within the next few days, our soldiers will be showcasing their | :12:45. | :12:51. | |
lethal abilitys as they begin to train on nearby gun range, to arrive | :12:52. | :12:56. | |
at this point so swiftly, its proof when we work as a team, not only | :12:57. | :13:03. | |
within the ranks of our tireless US Army but as at lied nation, a team | :13:04. | :13:08. | |
of teams, no challenges is too large to overcome, no distance is too far | :13:09. | :13:16. | |
to cross, when the need arises. US Russia relations are dominating | :13:17. | :13:19. | |
the programme, it is not only the only stories we will cover. We will | :13:20. | :13:26. | |
turn to South Korea. The head of Samsung has been questioned over | :13:27. | :13:29. | |
allegations of corruption, in relation to this scandal that has | :13:30. | :13:31. | |
engulfed the South Korean President. Investigators have announced 23 | :13:32. | :13:40. | |
people and organisations could face prosecution over | :13:41. | :13:41. | |
the Hillsborough disaster. 96 fans were found to have been | :13:42. | :13:43. | |
unlawfully killed at the FA More that 400 investigators have | :13:44. | :14:03. | |
been running two separate criminal squireries into Hillsborough. | :14:04. | :14:06. | |
Operation Resolve, that is the investigation which has looked at | :14:07. | :14:10. | |
the planning and preparation for that day in 1989. The investigators | :14:11. | :14:16. | |
running that inquiry have said today they have identified 15 people who | :14:17. | :14:19. | |
can they consider to be criminal suspects. There is a second | :14:20. | :14:22. | |
investigation, that has been run from the same building here in | :14:23. | :14:26. | |
Warrington by the Independent Police Complaints Commission. They have | :14:27. | :14:30. | |
been looking at the aftermath and specifically, the alleged cover up | :14:31. | :14:34. | |
which is said to have followed the disaster and the IPCC has said it | :14:35. | :14:37. | |
has identified eight suspects. This is Outside Source live | :14:38. | :14:50. | |
from the BBC newsroom. Donald Trump has said that the US | :14:51. | :14:52. | |
Director of National Intelligence has told him that reports that | :14:53. | :14:56. | |
Russia held compromising information about the president-elect | :14:57. | :14:58. | |
were false. Israel's military says it has | :14:59. | :15:06. | |
uncovered a scam by Hamas militants to spy on its soldiers | :15:07. | :15:09. | |
by hacking their mobile phones. Members of the Palestinian group | :15:10. | :15:13. | |
found the soldiers online, then tried to strike up a friendship | :15:14. | :15:16. | |
using the fake identities. Dozens of soldiers were persuaded | :15:17. | :15:18. | |
to install an application that controlled their phone | :15:19. | :15:21. | |
cameras and microphones. US investigators say special forces | :15:22. | :15:30. | |
were hunting for Taliban leaders, when they came under fire | :15:31. | :15:39. | |
and called in air strikes. Samsung's vice-chairman has been | :15:40. | :15:41. | |
questioned by prosecutors as a suspect in South Korea's | :15:42. | :16:01. | |
political corruption scandal. The scandal has resulted | :16:02. | :16:03. | |
in the impeachment of the country's Lee Jae-yong apologised - sort of - | :16:04. | :16:06. | |
when he arrived this morning. Here's our Seoul | :16:07. | :16:27. | |
correspondent Stephen Evans. The central allegation is that lots | :16:28. | :16:42. | |
of businesses including Samsung gave millions of dollars to two funds | :16:43. | :16:46. | |
controlled by the best friend of the President. They did that for | :16:47. | :16:53. | |
favours. And in the case of Samsung, the allegation is Samsung gave $17 | :16:54. | :17:00. | |
million to the funds, in return the country's pension fund voted through | :17:01. | :17:03. | |
a change which the ruling family in Samsung wanted. So you don't get any | :17:04. | :17:11. | |
closer to the elites of politics, the President, and the elites of | :17:12. | :17:15. | |
business, the acting head of Samsung. There is new evidence, we | :17:16. | :17:22. | |
are told, and that is a tablet computerdowned by the friend of the | :17:23. | :17:27. | |
President. -- owned. On that tablet computer the prosecutor believe | :17:28. | :17:30. | |
there's is evidence that the President of this country, and the | :17:31. | :17:33. | |
head of Samsung had a meeting, only the two of them together, and they | :17:34. | :17:38. | |
agreed on this deal. You give the money, and I'll get the votes for | :17:39. | :17:44. | |
the change. Now, it should be said very loudly that everybody involved. | :17:45. | :17:49. | |
Involved. Those three people vociferously deny any wrongdoing, | :17:50. | :17:54. | |
and certainly any criminality. They have all apologised but it is not | :17:55. | :17:58. | |
for breaking the laws, it is for, in the case of the President, for | :17:59. | :18:01. | |
example, for trusting people too much. In the case of the head of | :18:02. | :18:09. | |
Samsung, he said basically, he has it should be said very loudly that | :18:10. | :18:11. | |
everybody involved. Those three people vociferously deny any | :18:12. | :18:13. | |
wrongdoing, and certainly any criminality. They have all | :18:14. | :18:15. | |
apologised but it is not for breaking the laws, it is for, in the | :18:16. | :18:18. | |
case of the President, for example, for trusting people too much. In the | :18:19. | :18:21. | |
case of the head of Samsung, he said basically, he has given a bad | :18:22. | :18:23. | |
impression, "I am very sorry about that." So apologies but not guilty | :18:24. | :18:26. | |
pleas. We will talk to Steve about that again. | :18:27. | :18:26. | |
This is how Fiat Chrysler's stock closed on the Milan | :18:27. | :18:29. | |
stock exchange today - that's down 16%. | :18:30. | :18:30. | |
That's because the company has been accused of not telling authorities | :18:31. | :18:33. | |
about software regulating emissions in thousands of its vehicles. | :18:34. | :18:35. | |
But before anyone jumps to conclusions - here's | :18:36. | :18:41. | |
@NathanBomey quoting the company's CEO: | :18:42. | :19:02. | |
What spot is Fiat Chrysler in? What is going on? So, I mean it is very | :19:03. | :19:12. | |
challenging for Fiat Chrysler because of the optics of all of it. | :19:13. | :19:17. | |
With regards to what they are being accused of, the environmental | :19:18. | :19:20. | |
protection agency says that guy yacht Chrysler used software that | :19:21. | :19:25. | |
may have allowed excess diesel emissions in more than 100,000 | :19:26. | :19:29. | |
trucks and sports utility vehicles sold since 2014. So briefly, it | :19:30. | :19:34. | |
seems like they could have been engaged in similar activities as VW, | :19:35. | :19:39. | |
but what the head of Fiat Chrysler said, this is just a case of | :19:40. | :19:44. | |
misunderstanding, really, and that guy yacht Chrysler had been in touch | :19:45. | :19:49. | |
with the EPA for a long time, and had gone through many discussions | :19:50. | :19:53. | |
with regards to how their emissions tests work. And how their cars are | :19:54. | :19:59. | |
regulated, so Fiat Chrysler was very quick to defend themselves against | :20:00. | :20:04. | |
these accusations by the EPAN further, to say any sort of | :20:05. | :20:09. | |
comparison between them, and VW was just outrageous. But just so I | :20:10. | :20:14. | |
understand this, this is an American story only at the moment? For the | :20:15. | :20:19. | |
moment, right now, this is happening, they are in violation of | :20:20. | :20:23. | |
environmental protection rules here in the United States, we have | :20:24. | :20:26. | |
already heard that the New York Attorney General is going to be | :20:27. | :20:30. | |
looking into this. You know, the big thing about this, you know, is the | :20:31. | :20:35. | |
optics of it all. Coming on the heels of this massive fine we saw VW | :20:36. | :20:43. | |
succumbing to. It is a tough time for Fiat Chrysler. | :20:44. | :20:46. | |
Thank you for that. These pictures show Iran receiving | :20:47. | :20:54. | |
its first Western-built passenger It's happened because of the lifting | :20:55. | :20:56. | |
of Western sanctions last year that The IranAir fleet is among | :20:57. | :21:05. | |
the oldest in the world - its planes have been kept | :21:06. | :21:10. | |
going by parts being Iran's making up for lost time - | :21:11. | :21:12. | |
it's buying 100 planes from Airbus Let us finish by going to Hong Kong, | :21:13. | :21:43. | |
the Hong Kong toy fair to be precise. | :21:44. | :21:55. | |
Welcome to Asia's largest toy show. It's a gaggle of sights, sounds, and | :21:56. | :22:03. | |
of course, toys. Some not yet available to the general public. | :22:04. | :22:07. | |
Thousands of buyers, most wholesalers are here on the hunt for | :22:08. | :22:14. | |
the next blockbuster. Globally the industry was worth | :22:15. | :22:18. | |
almost $190 billion last year and likely expand by 7%. All eyes are on | :22:19. | :22:24. | |
smart toy, still a niche market with $4 billion of sales in 2016, but | :22:25. | :22:29. | |
expected to nearly triple in four years. | :22:30. | :22:33. | |
So this is a great example of what a small toy is. It looks like a | :22:34. | :22:38. | |
traditional play mat for kids, but it has got just a little bit of | :22:39. | :22:41. | |
something extra. Yes, exactly. So with the device, | :22:42. | :22:47. | |
you can scan any animals on the mat, and you can teach children how to | :22:48. | :22:53. | |
spell. And it also has the animal sound on it so the children knows | :22:54. | :23:01. | |
how the animal sounds. We have been making regular play | :23:02. | :23:05. | |
mats for 13 years but it is tougher to make money so now we take | :23:06. | :23:10. | |
technology, we find that we can offer a hiring end product where | :23:11. | :23:15. | |
children can learn from. So smart toys are normally embedded with a | :23:16. | :23:19. | |
technology that responds to a device. And increasing Iingly not | :23:20. | :23:25. | |
just traditional toy mange errs entering the market. We started out | :23:26. | :23:31. | |
making electronic parts, mainly for overseas manufacturers but this | :23:32. | :23:37. | |
business is not growing. Six years ago we found the educational toy | :23:38. | :23:41. | |
industry has good prospects. So that is why we decided to make innovative | :23:42. | :23:45. | |
toys. It is still a relatively small | :23:46. | :23:50. | |
market, but high tech toys are growing in popularity. And soon it | :23:51. | :23:55. | |
may be commonplace to sync your phone or tablet with a digital toy. | :23:56. | :24:05. | |
Lots of people were mentioning Barack Obama and Joe Biden. Barack | :24:06. | :24:13. | |
Obama has aWay warded Joe Biden the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The | :24:14. | :24:18. | |
highest civilian award in the US. It took him by surprise it seems. | :24:19. | :24:25. | |
Here is the moment. As one of his long-term colleagues in the Senate. | :24:26. | :24:29. | |
If you can't admire Joe Biden as a person you have a problem. Problem. | :24:30. | :24:37. | |
He is as good a man as God created. So, Joe, for your faith in your | :24:38. | :24:43. | |
fellow Americans, for your love of country, and for your lifetime of | :24:44. | :24:48. | |
service that will endure through the generations, I would like to ask the | :24:49. | :24:59. | |
military aide to join us on stage. For the final time as President, I | :25:00. | :25:06. | |
am pleased to award our nation's highest civilian honour, the | :25:07. | :25:12. | |
Presidential Medal of Freedom. It did seem to take him by surprise, | :25:13. | :25:18. | |
he has gathered himself, and he is talking now. I knew how honourable | :25:19. | :25:25. | |
you were, I knew how descent you were from the couple of years you | :25:26. | :25:30. | |
worked in the Senate, I knew what you were capable of. But I never | :25:31. | :25:40. | |
fully expected that you occupy the heart, from all of us. We will | :25:41. | :25:45. | |
continue to watch that speech from Joe Biden maybe play you another | :25:46. | :25:48. | |
clip later on. I will be back in a few minutes time on Outside Source. | :25:49. | :26:06. | |
We will look at interesting weather events round the worldment first off | :26:07. | :26:13. | |
to eastern Asia where we have areas of heavy rain | :26:14. | :26:14. |