:00:07. > :00:19.We'll begin in Washington where Barack Obama has just finished his
:00:20. > :00:23.final press conference as president. Inevitably, he was asked about his
:00:24. > :00:30.successor. I don't expect there is going to be you know, enormous
:00:31. > :00:35.overlap. The British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson warns EU
:00:36. > :00:38.leaders not to give the UK punishment beatings over Brexit like
:00:39. > :00:44.a World War II movie. We've had a response from the top of the EU,
:00:45. > :00:50.Theresa May's announcement that the UK will leave the single market.
:00:51. > :00:54.Thousands of tourists are leaving the Gambia because of an ever
:00:55. > :00:57.worsening political crisis. In theory the new president will be
:00:58. > :01:01.inaugurated tomorrow. It's not going to happen as the man who lost the
:01:02. > :01:05.election is refusing to go. We'll talk to the US journalist who
:01:06. > :01:09.campaigned to get the CIA to put millions of documents online, which
:01:10. > :01:10.they've now done. And Frank Gardner on Donald Trump and the nuclear
:01:11. > :01:31.codes. Barack Obama has just finished his
:01:32. > :01:34.last press conference as president. There was plenty to discuss within
:01:35. > :01:39.it. We'll work through the main points with the help of Katty Kay.
:01:40. > :01:47.Here is the president talking about Russia. In my first term we
:01:48. > :01:50.negotiated the start two treaty which has substantially reduced our
:01:51. > :01:54.nuclear stockpiles, both Russia and the United States. I was prepared to
:01:55. > :02:00.go further, I told President Putin I was prepared to go further. They
:02:01. > :02:04.have been unwilling to negotiate. If President-elect Trump is able to
:02:05. > :02:08.restart those talks in a serious way, there remains a lot of room for
:02:09. > :02:14.our countries to reduce our stockpiles. Part of the reason we've
:02:15. > :02:19.been successful on our nonproliferation agenda and nuclear
:02:20. > :02:23.security agenda is because we were leading by example. I hope that
:02:24. > :02:27.continues. Let's bring in Katty Kay from Washington. A few years ago
:02:28. > :02:30.there was lots of talk about resetting the relationship with
:02:31. > :02:37.Russia. Hasn't really worked out as planned, has it? No. Relations are
:02:38. > :02:40.not good at the moment. Obama Administration officials would tell
:02:41. > :02:43.you they are not good at the moment. People here are slightly bewildered
:02:44. > :02:48.by what will happen next with Donald Trump and his new tone towards
:02:49. > :02:52.Vladimir Putin. I've heard two messages from the Obama
:02:53. > :02:56.Administration people, one is what the president was saying. We can and
:02:57. > :03:00.have worked with Russia on certain issues, the Iran nuclear deal for
:03:01. > :03:06.example. We cooperated with the Russians on that and got a
:03:07. > :03:08.successful outcome. The other message to Donald Trump in
:03:09. > :03:12.particular from the Obama people is Vladimir Putin's interest to know
:03:13. > :03:15.not to line up with American interest that the moment and if you
:03:16. > :03:19.think you can get them on the same page you are kidding yourself, treat
:03:20. > :03:23.this relationship very carefully. That's effectively what you're
:03:24. > :03:27.hearing from the president and his staff. So many elements of this
:03:28. > :03:31.press conference to discuss. Let's hear what President Obama said as he
:03:32. > :03:35.defended his decision which we got this time yesterday that he has
:03:36. > :03:44.commuted Chelsea Manning's sentence for leaking documents to WikiLeaks.
:03:45. > :03:55.Given she went to trial, that due process was carried out, that she
:03:56. > :04:02.took responsibility for her crime, that the sentence she received was
:04:03. > :04:10.very disproportional, disproportionate, relative to what
:04:11. > :04:15.other leakers had received... And that she had served a significant
:04:16. > :04:19.amount of time, that it made sense to commute, not pardon, her
:04:20. > :04:22.sentence. Does the fact this has happened right at the end of the
:04:23. > :04:28.Obama Presidency take the sting out of the controversy? No, there has
:04:29. > :04:32.been a firestorm of reaction from conservatives to the commutation of
:04:33. > :04:36.Chelsea Manning's sentence, indeed, president Obama's secretary of
:04:37. > :04:41.defence, Ashgabat, we understand was not in favour of this, nor were
:04:42. > :04:46.people at the Pentagon. If you commute sentences of people who
:04:47. > :04:50.leaked classified information, you are encouraging others to do the
:04:51. > :04:54.same thing, they think, and the president was wrong to take this
:04:55. > :04:57.action. In the press conference Obama said I don't think anybody who
:04:58. > :05:01.is thinking of leaking is going to look at Chelsea Manning who has
:05:02. > :05:06.spent seven years in an American prison and think this is a piece of
:05:07. > :05:10.cake and decide to do the same thing. He's trying to say, she
:05:11. > :05:13.served her time, being apologetic, this is not Edward Snowden, the
:05:14. > :05:17.sentence was disproportionate and other people will look at her and
:05:18. > :05:25.say, actually, there was a strong punishment here. That won't satisfy
:05:26. > :05:28.conservatives. It was inevitable Chelsea Manning would come up and
:05:29. > :05:35.inevitable Russia would come up, and of course, inevitable, Barack Obama
:05:36. > :05:43.was asked about Donald Trump. My working assumption is that, having
:05:44. > :05:48.won an election opposed to a number of my initiatives on certain aspects
:05:49. > :05:58.of my vision for where the country needs to go, it is appropriate for
:05:59. > :06:06.him to go forward with his vision and his values. And I don't expect
:06:07. > :06:12.there is going to be, you know, enormous overlap. Maybe a little
:06:13. > :06:16.understatement. Katty, I know Donald Trump and Mr Obama have such
:06:17. > :06:20.different styles but some of his supporters frustrated he's not
:06:21. > :06:24.speaking more frankly, more pointedly about Donald Trump? I'm
:06:25. > :06:28.not hearing that, I'm not hearing President Obama's supporters think
:06:29. > :06:34.this is the moment, the appropriate moment for him to be massively
:06:35. > :06:39.critical. What Obama did say in the press conferences, look, if there
:06:40. > :06:44.are individual issues on which I really feel Donald Trump is taking
:06:45. > :06:47.the wrong action, for example, deporting the children of illegal
:06:48. > :06:51.immigrant is from the US, Buttler children brought here by their
:06:52. > :06:56.parents, then I will speak out. He's not saying he's not going to say
:06:57. > :06:58.anything, but I think is going to choose his moment carefully. This
:06:59. > :07:03.press conference was fascinating because it really was an example of
:07:04. > :07:06.no drama Obama and one of the most memorable moment in the press
:07:07. > :07:09.conference was when he said, listen, I've always taught my daughter is
:07:10. > :07:13.the only thing that is the end of the world is the end of the world.
:07:14. > :07:18.This is not the end of the world, this is a transition of power in the
:07:19. > :07:23.US, part of the democratic process. It's right and expected Donald Trump
:07:24. > :07:27.will implement his own policies even if I don't agree with them. That was
:07:28. > :07:34.the tone, quite philosophical but quite calm look at the situation in
:07:35. > :07:40.America today. One more click to play you. This is Mr Obama talking
:07:41. > :07:48.about the prospect of leaving office and what the future may hold. I want
:07:49. > :07:56.to do some writing, I want to be quiet little bit, not tear myself
:07:57. > :08:02.talk so much. I want to spend precious time with my girls. So
:08:03. > :08:06.those are my priorities this year. This is the last press conference Mr
:08:07. > :08:09.Obama will be holding. He's had eight years in office. He's talked
:08:10. > :08:15.about how he has reshaped America, how he has hope he is reshaped
:08:16. > :08:21.America. What do you think will be his lasting legacy? That's a big
:08:22. > :08:25.question. In 90 seconds, that would be great. Listen, he's always going
:08:26. > :08:29.to be remembered even though he perhaps didn't want to be, as
:08:30. > :08:34.America's first black president, it's part of his biography. He will
:08:35. > :08:39.go down as the person who stopped America falling off the financial
:08:40. > :08:44.cliff in 2008. Proving a negative. But things could have been a lot
:08:45. > :08:48.worse than they were. He spoke out consistently in favour, as he did
:08:49. > :08:52.today, of gay rights and minority rights. You can quibble with how
:08:53. > :08:57.much he has done on those issues, and there have been feeling
:08:58. > :09:02.failings. Obamacare is not particularly popular, he didn't get
:09:03. > :09:08.far on gun control. He leaves office with a 58% approval rating, not bad
:09:09. > :09:12.for two term president in a very divided country. I think Americans
:09:13. > :09:15.will look back with respect for President Obama and his time in
:09:16. > :09:21.office, if nothing else, for the fact he was their eight years in the
:09:22. > :09:26.fishbowl, not a single scandal out of the Obama White House. That's not
:09:27. > :09:32.bad. You did it, I didn't doubt you would. You will be back for viewers
:09:33. > :09:37.outside the UK after outside source. We're going to come back to America
:09:38. > :09:44.across the hour because Donald Trump will be president in two days. We
:09:45. > :09:47.must turn to an ever more serious situation in the Gambia because
:09:48. > :09:52.tensions are increasing. This is a small country in West Africa and the
:09:53. > :09:56.whole crisis stems from the presidential election last year. Two
:09:57. > :10:05.men are at the heart of this. This is Adama Barrow. It seems unlikely
:10:06. > :10:10.he will become Prime Minister on Thursday because because recurrent
:10:11. > :10:18.President Jammeh doesn't accept the result. He has Parliament to extend
:10:19. > :10:22.his term by three months. If you want a measure of how serious the
:10:23. > :10:26.situation is, we have a number of other west African nations saying
:10:27. > :10:34.they are ready to use military force to remove him. Senegalese forces
:10:35. > :10:41.# # We're are already on the border.
:10:42. > :10:48.We are ours from that deadline and there seems no prospect of a
:10:49. > :10:52.political solution. What this has meant is that thousands of Gambians
:10:53. > :10:56.have been fleeing, they are concerned about violence, tourists
:10:57. > :10:57.are being evacuated. Our correspondent can bring us up to
:10:58. > :11:06.date. Since the state of emergency was
:11:07. > :11:12.announced on Tuesday, Gambians are fleeing anywhere they can. Crowding
:11:13. > :11:17.onto boats and roads to neighbouring countries and rural areas. The
:11:18. > :11:20.national assembly announced it will allow the president to stay in
:11:21. > :11:24.office three more months. Foreign tourists some advice to leave
:11:25. > :11:28.immediately with extra flights coming into the capital to take them
:11:29. > :11:31.home. Things have moved quickly since the announcement and the
:11:32. > :11:36.atmosphere in the Gambia is uncertain. Tourists are leaving, not
:11:37. > :11:41.as they came, not as they had anticipated. In the hotel everything
:11:42. > :11:47.was OK, yes. But now when we go from the hotel, to the airport, we see
:11:48. > :11:50.all the people leaving. All the buses, they take all... Even the
:11:51. > :11:56.people in Gambia they are very, very scared. It's for our family that we
:11:57. > :12:02.go home. Behind me is the national stadium of the Gambia, the planned
:12:03. > :12:06.venue for the inauguration on Thursday of Adama Barrow as the
:12:07. > :12:09.country's next president. President Jammeh has declared a state of
:12:10. > :12:14.emergency, some of the measures include the banning of large
:12:15. > :12:19.gatherings of such proportions. It remains to be seen what will happen
:12:20. > :12:23.here on Thursday. Yesterday the lead story was UK Prime Minister Theresa
:12:24. > :12:27.May's speech on Brexit and her vision for it. Today the UK Foreign
:12:28. > :12:33.Secretary Boris Johnson said this while on a visit to India... If Mr
:12:34. > :12:39.Hollande wants to administer punishment beatings, to anybody who
:12:40. > :12:45.chooses to escape in the manner of some sort of World War II movie, I
:12:46. > :12:51.don't think that it is the way forward. I think actually it's not
:12:52. > :12:54.in the interest of our friends and our partners. Diplomatic
:12:55. > :12:59.correspondent James Landale has posted an excellent piece online,
:13:00. > :13:01.you can get it on the Apple now. He quotes a European diplomat who says
:13:02. > :13:06.for that clown to compare rest of the Nazis, that hurts. It'll not be
:13:07. > :13:10.forgotten. Most of the reaction we've had today has been to do with
:13:11. > :13:14.a speech by Theresa May. We've heard from two big beasts of the EU.
:13:15. > :13:22.Donald Tusk, the European Council president... Yesterday's speech by
:13:23. > :13:28.Prime Minister Theresa May proves the unified position of 27 member
:13:29. > :13:34.states on the indivisibility of the single market was finally understood
:13:35. > :13:41.and accepted by London. It would be good if our partners also understood
:13:42. > :13:49.that there will be no place for pick and choose tactics in our future
:13:50. > :13:56.negotiations. At the same time, I want to underline that we took note
:13:57. > :14:01.of the warm and balanced words of Prime Minister May on European
:14:02. > :14:07.integration, which we are much closer to the narrative of Winston
:14:08. > :14:11.Churchill than President-elect Donald Trump. Next is Jean-Claude
:14:12. > :14:20.Juncker, president of the European Commission. A fair deal is still
:14:21. > :14:22.valid, we need the fair deal we've written, fair means equal
:14:23. > :14:29.obligations for everyone taking part. In a kind of internal market.
:14:30. > :14:36.We'll see this in the course of the next coming months. Must remember
:14:37. > :14:42.the extensive background on Brexit on the BBC News website. We'll talk
:14:43. > :14:45.about the CIA deciding to declassify 13 million documents and post them
:14:46. > :14:50.online. We'll hear from a journalist to fall for that to happen and spent
:14:51. > :14:58.plenty of time examining what's on these records.
:14:59. > :15:07.A disabled man has partially won a Supreme Court case over a dispute
:15:08. > :15:10.over a wheelchair space on a bus, drivers will have to do more to
:15:11. > :15:13.accommodate wheelchair users. Doug Pauley from Yorkshire brought his
:15:14. > :15:19.case after he was refused entry to a first group bus in 2012 when a
:15:20. > :15:26.mother with a pushchair refused to move. He and his supporters say the
:15:27. > :15:32.ruling will make a major difference. I mean, I'm aware some people won't
:15:33. > :15:37.be pleased. It's not gone as far as some people would like. It's gone
:15:38. > :15:41.too far for people, but in the end this is about disabled people's
:15:42. > :15:46.right to access, to travel on the bus. And hopefully today has been at
:15:47. > :15:50.least a step in the right direction. I feel it'll create a cultural
:15:51. > :15:53.shift, that's what they said in court, so people will be aware of
:15:54. > :15:56.the fact the wheelchair area for wheelchair users and they should
:15:57. > :16:13.take priority. Our lead story comes from
:16:14. > :16:17.Washington. In the final news conference of his presidency Barack
:16:18. > :16:21.Obama has defended his decision to free WikiLeaks source Chelsea
:16:22. > :16:26.Manning. We can turn to some of the main stories from BBC World Service.
:16:27. > :16:29.From BBC Arabic the Iraqi army says it is preparing military operations
:16:30. > :16:34.to retake western Mosul. The last part of the city which is held by
:16:35. > :16:39.the Islamic State group. BBC Ukrainian reports a baby has been
:16:40. > :16:45.born to a previously infertile couple in Ukraine using a new type
:16:46. > :16:52.of 3-person IVF. Doctors used a method called pro-nuclear transfer
:16:53. > :16:56.in what is a world first. There is a moth and Donald Trump. A new species
:16:57. > :17:00.has been named after the President-elect. The scientist who
:17:01. > :17:03.took this decision, a Canadian, says he was inspired by the striking
:17:04. > :17:08.golden flakes covering the moth's head.
:17:09. > :17:13.As I was mentioning a couple of minutes ago, about 30 million pages
:17:14. > :17:18.of declassified documents from the US Central intelligence agency have
:17:19. > :17:24.been released and put online. You can access them if you are minded to
:17:25. > :17:29.and search them. They are on the CIA library website. Records include
:17:30. > :17:33.intelligence briefings UFO sightings, psychic experiments, they
:17:34. > :17:38.even detail how the CIA tested the celebrity psychic Uri Geller in
:17:39. > :17:42.1973. Lots of you watching on BBC News Channel will know of him very
:17:43. > :17:47.well. One test is a person would draw a picture in one room, such as
:17:48. > :17:51.this, then Uri Geller would draw a picture themselves in another room.
:17:52. > :17:56.Obviously you can see they are reasonably close. The conclusion
:17:57. > :18:00.those behind the experiment came to was he demonstrated his paranormal
:18:01. > :18:03.perceptual ability in a convincing and unambiguous manner. Lots of
:18:04. > :18:08.other people have since concluded he was merely a very good magician.
:18:09. > :18:12.That a separate discussion but the CIA spent time on the issue. It has
:18:13. > :18:16.explained the release of these documents in terms of a commitment
:18:17. > :18:21.to increasing the accessibility of declassified records to the public.
:18:22. > :18:26.It also follows a long campaign for this to happen and Mike Best is a
:18:27. > :18:32.journalist who has been involved in that and joins us from the US. Do
:18:33. > :18:35.you applaud what the CIA has done? I'm glad they finally followed
:18:36. > :18:41.through and made the documents available to everyone. Unfortunately
:18:42. > :18:44.they also decided to make the document is no longer text
:18:45. > :18:50.searchable so it is a bit of a mixed bag. Why do you think they have
:18:51. > :18:55.published these documents? Do you buy the argument it is a commitment
:18:56. > :19:00.to greater transparency? I'm quite sceptical of that. They had to be
:19:01. > :19:05.sued into agreeing to release it in the first place, they said it would
:19:06. > :19:10.take 28 years. Eventually they were forced out to say it would take six
:19:11. > :19:15.years. It was only after I began using their own ink and paper to
:19:16. > :19:18.print out the documents and scan them that they went ahead and
:19:19. > :19:24.decided, we're going to go ahead and released them. It'll save us time
:19:25. > :19:29.and money. We're quite pleased the digital copies are finally available
:19:30. > :19:34.to people everywhere. What did these documents have in common? What
:19:35. > :19:39.connects them? Its millions of pages, about 775,000 documents. What
:19:40. > :19:45.connects them is the Central intelligence agency. They are all
:19:46. > :19:49.into five years or older. That is the declassification review cycle.
:19:50. > :19:54.You spent all this time campaigning to see them, now you can see them in
:19:55. > :19:55.more detail than before. Have you discovered things you didn't imagine
:19:56. > :20:08.you would see? Fortunately I'm more familiar with
:20:09. > :20:13.them than most people are but there are quite a few surprises in there
:20:14. > :20:19.and things relevant to almost anyone's interest. If it's anything
:20:20. > :20:22.at all historical belated, genealogist and scientists will be
:20:23. > :20:27.interested, as will cartographers. Not just military and national
:20:28. > :20:33.intelligence history. Can you give one example of something you found
:20:34. > :20:39.of particular interest to you? There was one CIA memo which accused the
:20:40. > :20:47.NSA director and secretary of defence of creating the CSS,
:20:48. > :20:54.military branch of the NSA, to "Be an abortion". It put into the
:20:55. > :20:58.context of declassified NSA documents gives the strong
:20:59. > :21:04.impression the whole section was sabotaged so the NSA director would
:21:05. > :21:14.get a promotion. It's based off the CIA memo making that accusation is a
:21:15. > :21:18.high level. This huge cache of declassified documents posted online
:21:19. > :21:25.by the CIA, if you can see it, you can find it on the CIA library
:21:26. > :21:29.website. We are two days away from the presidency of Donald Trump and
:21:30. > :21:34.on trade we've heard some very clear pointers of what is to come. Wilbur
:21:35. > :21:38.Ross has been taking questions at his confirmation hearing and
:21:39. > :21:42.inevitably he was asked about the free trade deal between Mexico,
:21:43. > :21:48.Canada and the US, that Donald Trump really doesn't like. Here is the
:21:49. > :21:53.answer we heard. President-elect has made no secret in his public
:21:54. > :21:59.remarks, nor have I in earlier remarks, during the campaign. That
:22:00. > :22:04.Nafta is logically the first thing for us to deal with. We ought to
:22:05. > :22:10.solidify relationships in the best way we can in our own territory
:22:11. > :22:18.before we go off to other jurisdictions. I think that should
:22:19. > :22:25.be and hopefully will be, if I'm confirmed, a very very early topic
:22:26. > :22:30.in this administration. Michelle, in New York, what are the
:22:31. > :22:35.practicalities of America renegotiating all exiting Nafta?
:22:36. > :22:40.I've been talking to various trade experts and on the point of law, can
:22:41. > :22:47.President Trump repeal Nafta, the answer is yes. We're starting to
:22:48. > :22:52.hear the globe and mail in Canada is reporting Mr Ross has told the
:22:53. > :22:55.Canadian government already in a formal letter to start negotiations
:22:56. > :22:59.with Canada and Mexico would be sent within days of the start of the new
:23:00. > :23:04.administration. At its heart what this deal does essentially mean the
:23:05. > :23:09.three countries can trade easily with each other without having to
:23:10. > :23:11.worry about tariffs. What you're talking about is a renegotiation of
:23:12. > :23:17.the trade deal, starting from scratch again, going through list by
:23:18. > :23:22.list, which rules do you want to keep, which do you want to
:23:23. > :23:26.renegotiate? It's usually a lengthy process, but that has been Donald
:23:27. > :23:30.Trump's message all along, he wants to rip up existing trade deals he
:23:31. > :23:34.doesn't think are particularly good for the United States. It's a
:23:35. > :23:39.message that has certainly resonated in some states that helped him carry
:23:40. > :23:43.the election, notably Pennsylvania and Ohio. We'll be watching the
:23:44. > :23:48.story closely. That's Michelle in New York. This is a tweet from a way
:23:49. > :23:55.that during the presidential campaign from Hillary Clinton,...
:23:56. > :24:02.It didn't scare everyone because enough Americans voted for him.
:24:03. > :24:05.He'll be the new president. Inside that briefcase is everything the
:24:06. > :24:13.President of the United States needs to set a nuclear strike in motion.
:24:14. > :24:15.On Friday the briefcase will be passed to Donald Trump. Frank
:24:16. > :24:19.Gardner has been looking at the practical measures that have to
:24:20. > :24:24.happen for a nuclear strike to happen. There is a great article you
:24:25. > :24:32.can find online now. Frank has been an outside source tatami what he
:24:33. > :24:37.found. The way it works in the US is on Friday, inauguration day, there
:24:38. > :24:41.will be an unnamed military aid official week you and I have never
:24:42. > :24:44.seen before and will never see again, it will appear at the side of
:24:45. > :24:50.President Obama with a briefcase, the nuclear football. There are the
:24:51. > :24:58.launch codes and predesignated menus, they are called, for target
:24:59. > :25:02.sets, should the unthinkable happen. He or she will never leave the
:25:03. > :25:05.President's side. At the end of the inauguration, after the oath, that
:25:06. > :25:10.aid will be beside the future President Trump. The briefing will
:25:11. > :25:14.already have taken place so President-elect Trump by then will
:25:15. > :25:18.already know what he has to do. They raise an authentication card called
:25:19. > :25:22.the biscuit, three inches by five injured, the president will have to
:25:23. > :25:26.authenticate himself. He doesn't carry out the order himself and he
:25:27. > :25:32.gives it and gives it to the Secretary of State for Defence,
:25:33. > :25:37.which will be General James Mathis. A lot depends on the circumstances.
:25:38. > :25:40.If carrying out nuclear strike was a long-term measure policy a lot of
:25:41. > :25:45.people would be involved but if there is imminent threat to the US
:25:46. > :25:49.is has told Frank the president has extraordinary latitude to take the
:25:50. > :25:53.sole decision to launch. You can find on the BBC News app. I'll be
:25:54. > :26:07.back with you in a few minutes time. See you then.
:26:08. > :26:13.In the next half an hour Helen Willetts will get her thoughts on
:26:14. > :26:14.developments back home with the weather for the week