:00:08. > :00:09.Hello, I'm Ros Atkins, this is Outside Source.
:00:10. > :00:16.Let's look through some of the main stories here in the BBC Newsroom.
:00:17. > :00:21.Barack Obama has just finished his final press conference as president,
:00:22. > :00:30.inevitably was asked about his successor. I don't expect that there
:00:31. > :00:32.is going to be, you know, enormous overlap. That may be an
:00:33. > :00:32.understatement. I'll play you a report looking
:00:33. > :00:38.at how the day will play out In sport, I'll look
:00:39. > :00:43.at the Vendee Globe yacht race It only happens every four years,
:00:44. > :00:58.and this one is a thiller. Pete main contenders are expected to
:00:59. > :01:00.finish tomorrow morning. -- the two main contenders. If you want to get
:01:01. > :01:15.in touch, that is the hashtag. will be passed from Barack Obama
:01:16. > :01:18.to Donald Trump. This report by
:01:19. > :01:19.Rajini Vaidyanathan explains the practicalities
:01:20. > :01:35.of the day. I do solemnly swear... That I will
:01:36. > :01:42.faithfully execute the office of... How does it work on inauguration
:01:43. > :01:47.day? This is where Donald Trump will wake up on inauguration morning, the
:01:48. > :01:50.White House guesthouse, it doesn't look like much, really, does it? It
:01:51. > :01:55.has been nicknamed the most exclusive hotel in the world, and
:01:56. > :02:04.that is because it has played host to some distinguished guests over
:02:05. > :02:10.the years. This is St John's Episcopal church, where Mr Trump
:02:11. > :02:15.will head to for a church service. Barack Obama came the morning of his
:02:16. > :02:26.inauguration too. Look at this, it is absolutely beautiful. So here I
:02:27. > :02:32.am, in the President's pew, actually sitting where presidents of history
:02:33. > :02:37.have sat. After he is done, Donald Trump bakes the very short journey
:02:38. > :02:42.across the road to the White House. I don't think they're going to lead
:02:43. > :02:46.us in. As is part of tradition, he will go to the White House to meet
:02:47. > :02:50.President Obama. Another tradition that always happens is that the
:02:51. > :02:52.outgoing president always writes the incoming president a note, a word of
:02:53. > :03:04.advice. This, the US Capitol, is where
:03:05. > :03:07.Donald Trump will officially become president, when he is sworn in.
:03:08. > :03:11.Politicians and dignitaries will get to watch from up close, the rest of
:03:12. > :03:20.us will all have to watch from the bottom. It is cold! Now we are
:03:21. > :03:24.heading to the cheap seats. This is the national moll, not much to say,
:03:25. > :03:32.just a lot of grass, but if you don't have a ticket, this is where
:03:33. > :03:36.you come to watch. Next, the parade, which heads towards the White House
:03:37. > :03:42.and is led by the President and the First Lady. The parade even goes
:03:43. > :03:50.past here, Donald Trump's new hotel in DC, so who would have thought
:03:51. > :03:54.that when he was planning this hotel, Donald Trump would one day be
:03:55. > :04:00.moving into the White House just down the street from here?
:04:01. > :04:04.We will have full coverage of the inauguration, whether you're
:04:05. > :04:06.watching in the UK or outside of the UK, on the BBC News Channel and BBC
:04:07. > :04:08.World News. The final stages of the Vendee Globe
:04:09. > :04:12.are drawing to a close. This is a solo
:04:13. > :04:14.round-the-world yacht race. It happens every four years,
:04:15. > :04:16.and this one is a thriller. Welsh sailor Alex Thomson
:04:17. > :04:18.is in second, At Christmas,
:04:19. > :04:22.Thomson was about 1000 miles behind. Both men are expected
:04:23. > :04:28.to finish at a fixed point on the Atlantic coast of France
:04:29. > :04:44.on Thursday morning. Let's talk to Chris Eakin, author of
:04:45. > :04:48.A Race Too Far, nice to see you, Chris, a former colleague, talk us
:04:49. > :04:52.through these tactics. They have had to go north from Sables-d'Ollone
:04:53. > :04:57.because of the wind, and they have now made their final move, their
:04:58. > :05:01.final tack for home, they are looking at coming in a little bit
:05:02. > :05:07.later, tomorrow afternoon, tomorrow evening, and Alex has slipped back a
:05:08. > :05:10.bit, now 57 miles behind, the last positional report. That is a she,
:05:11. > :05:15.and there is no doubt now that he can win through raw speed alone, he
:05:16. > :05:18.needs something to happen. But there is a history of things happening at
:05:19. > :05:23.this stage of a race that has been going on for two and a half months,
:05:24. > :05:27.they are all clapped out, the boats and the skippers are tired, so you
:05:28. > :05:31.never know. A lot of people have become aware of this race just in
:05:32. > :05:36.the last few days, and is speed these machines are going out is
:05:37. > :05:41.quite something. A lot of the time they are like powerboats, Alex broke
:05:42. > :05:48.the 24-hour record only a few days ago in this race, doing 23 knots on
:05:49. > :05:52.average for that 24 hours. If you look at the first attempt to go
:05:53. > :05:58.around the world by Robin Lod Johnston in 1968-9, his average
:05:59. > :06:02.speed was just over 4 knots. These are spectacularly different worlds,
:06:03. > :06:06.you can see is both there filmed in the Southern Ocean by a French naval
:06:07. > :06:14.helicopter. Really powerful beast of a boat. You can see the blade, these
:06:15. > :06:18.are very new, very radical, and a little bit before the shots he lost
:06:19. > :06:26.the starboard one, the one on the right-hand two weeks into the race,
:06:27. > :06:31.so he has been at a advantage. Does it continue at this speed even when
:06:32. > :06:36.the pilot is sleeping? It does, and Alex has a problem with his
:06:37. > :06:41.autopilot, which controls the steering, but in a 24 hours, he will
:06:42. > :06:45.have gone to sleep, the last two days he has had very little sleep,
:06:46. > :06:50.but that is because of technical problems that have made the
:06:51. > :06:57.autopilot difficult to use. But they absolutely keep going relentlessly.
:06:58. > :07:00.Robin Knox Johnston took ten months to get around, and Alex has said
:07:01. > :07:06.that is tougher than what he does, but you can see the contrast. It is
:07:07. > :07:11.a big sport in a number of different ways, but this race has a hold on
:07:12. > :07:16.the imagination. The French in particular are just huge on it, our
:07:17. > :07:20.stars, people like mike Golding, I don't know how many Britons have
:07:21. > :07:26.heard of him, but he cannot sit in a pavement cafe in Paris without
:07:27. > :07:31.people coming up to him. All of our guys speak French, because the
:07:32. > :07:35.French are so much into it, and of course we invented all of this,
:07:36. > :07:40.Robin Knox-Johnston's tack won very much against a Frenchman,
:07:41. > :07:45.incidentally, there were nine in the race, but the Frenchman was the main
:07:46. > :07:48.contender with him. It is an extraordinary thing, the British
:07:49. > :07:52.have led the way, and now we are struggling no non-Frenchman has ever
:07:53. > :08:01.won this race, as you say, every four years, they call list tonight
:08:02. > :08:05.it's the Everest of the seas. It looks incredibly expensive, it is
:08:06. > :08:11.quite a niche sport, how does it add? It is like Formula One in many
:08:12. > :08:14.respects, the boats cost at least ?3 million, and the whole team
:08:15. > :08:19.organisation considerably more, and that is why you see big sponsor
:08:20. > :08:24.names on these lead boats. Only six of the 29 boats have got those foils
:08:25. > :08:27.I was talking about, they are the big-money teams, just like Formula
:08:28. > :08:32.One, there will only ever be two teams who can win this season, very
:08:33. > :08:36.similar. Before I let you go, there are those who will not finish, some
:08:37. > :08:42.contestants who have got a long way to go. It is a good question, and it
:08:43. > :08:46.illustrates how this is a photo finish. Third place is more than 700
:08:47. > :08:51.miles behind the lead two, and the back of the fleet is 9000 miles
:08:52. > :08:57.away, that is how fast election Armel Le Cleac'h have been, deeply
:08:58. > :09:01.impressive. -- that is how fast election. I hope the French will
:09:02. > :09:05.turn out for the late arrivals as well it might they will turn out for
:09:06. > :09:08.a Frenchman, you can bet your bottom dollar on that!
:09:09. > :09:11.CSKA Moscow have headed to Spain's Costa Blanca
:09:12. > :09:13.to try and get some sunshine during their mid-season break.
:09:14. > :09:16.It's pretty cold in Moscow right now.
:09:17. > :09:25.This is what they got - a complete white-out.
:09:26. > :09:31.You can just about make out the goals on the training pitch, but
:09:32. > :09:33.probably not that the Mark Watt they were after, but I'm sure it reminds
:09:34. > :09:37.them of home! Each day, this week I've
:09:38. > :09:40.picked out one rally It takes place in Grand Central
:09:41. > :09:44.Station in New York. As you'll see,
:09:45. > :10:04.this rally goes on and on. This is the UK's James Wilstrop
:10:05. > :10:07.against New Zealand's Paul Coll. Wilstrop won,
:10:08. > :10:11.he'll play Karim Abdel Gawad. He's one of two Egyptians
:10:12. > :10:14.in the men's semis. Egypt is the most successful squash
:10:15. > :10:17.country, in part due to former leader Hosni Mubarak,
:10:18. > :10:24.who was a keen player. Anyway, back to this rally,
:10:25. > :10:26.it's about to hot up. Goodness me, this is great! Goodness
:10:27. > :11:00.me, only matter of time! Or! There goes, the acknowledgement,
:11:01. > :11:02.that is the biggest of the day! Thanks to the PSA for sending us
:11:03. > :11:04.those pictures. By the way, we're making a big
:11:05. > :11:07.effort to cover sports that normally don't get
:11:08. > :11:09.too much of the limelight. This week, it's been
:11:10. > :11:22.squash and sailing. Let's turn to some important
:11:23. > :11:23.scientific findings that have come out today.
:11:24. > :11:26.2016 was the hottest year since records began over a century ago.
:11:27. > :11:29.Average global temperatures edged ahead of 2015,
:11:30. > :11:32.and are now 1.1 degrees higher than pre-industrial levels.
:11:33. > :11:34.In fact, it is the third consecutive year
:11:35. > :11:41.that the record has been broken, according to Nasa.
:11:42. > :11:43.Scientists believe that the El Nino weather phenomenon
:11:44. > :11:47.played a role, but that increasing levels
:11:48. > :11:49.of greenhouse gases were the main factor.
:11:50. > :11:57.and the latest data suggests that 2016 was a record-breaking year.
:11:58. > :12:01.This winter, parts of the Arctic have had a heatwave,
:12:02. > :12:09.when they should have been far below.
:12:10. > :12:14.While Australia's Great Barrier Reef was transformed to this.
:12:15. > :12:17.Vast swathes of coral were killed off as the waters warmed.
:12:18. > :12:20.2015 was the warmest year on record up until now,
:12:21. > :12:25.It's beaten it by about 0.1, 0.12 degrees Celsius,
:12:26. > :12:30.but in terms of the yearly variations, it is actually huge.
:12:31. > :12:36.Part of this rise was caused by an El Nino event,
:12:37. > :12:42.a warm ocean current that disrupts the world's weather.
:12:43. > :12:44.But scientists say greenhouse gases were the main driver.
:12:45. > :12:46.This shows how global temperatures have increased
:12:47. > :12:50.The bigger the circle, the hotter the year.
:12:51. > :12:53.And the latest data, collected by Nasa and meteorological
:12:54. > :12:56.agencies around the world, suggest 2016 is the third year
:12:57. > :13:04.The global temperature is edging ever closer
:13:05. > :13:10.Scientists say a rise of two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels
:13:11. > :13:14.could lead to dangerous impacts around the world.
:13:15. > :13:17.So a lower limit of 1.5 Celsius was set by the Paris climate
:13:18. > :13:21.agreement, a global deal that came into force last year.
:13:22. > :13:26.But with carbon dioxide at record levels, scientists say
:13:27. > :13:33.this is a temperature threshold we are on course to surpass.
:13:34. > :13:37.To tackle global warming, the world is being urged
:13:38. > :13:40.to move away from fossil fuels like coal.
:13:41. > :13:43.But in the US, Donald Trump has said he wants to revive the industry,
:13:44. > :13:48.and has threatened to pull America out of the Paris climate agreement.
:13:49. > :13:50.The woman who brokered the deal is concerned.
:13:51. > :13:55.If the US chooses to exit the road and the path that has been pursued
:13:56. > :14:00.by every other country in the world, it is only going to damage itself,
:14:01. > :14:03.because it will become less competitive.
:14:04. > :14:05.We are moving toward a de-carbonised society.
:14:06. > :14:09.All eyes will now be on this year's data.
:14:10. > :14:11.Already, scientists forecast that 2017 won't be as warm,
:14:12. > :14:16.But they say longer term, unless action is taken,
:14:17. > :14:36.A lot more background on that story from BBC News if you wanted. In a
:14:37. > :14:39.few minutes, this report in full from Jon Kay, who has been
:14:40. > :14:43.travelling from state to state in the US head of Donald Trump's
:14:44. > :14:48.inauguration. His latest reporters from Tennessee, we will have that in
:14:49. > :14:51.a few minutes' time. That report is from.
:14:52. > :14:54.Unemployment in the UK has fallen to its lowest level
:14:55. > :14:59.The jobless total dropped by just over 50,000
:15:00. > :15:01.between September and November and now stands at 1.6 million.
:15:02. > :15:03.But as our economics correspondent Andy Verity reports,
:15:04. > :15:12.the number of people in employment is no longer growing.
:15:13. > :15:19.This farmer and a food processor near King's Lynn in Norfolk supplies
:15:20. > :15:23.root vegetables like carrots to all the major food retailers from M to
:15:24. > :15:26.Morrisons, but it is being squeezed. It has been forced to offer higher
:15:27. > :15:31.wages to attract the people it needs to do the work, regardless of the
:15:32. > :15:35.living wage. It says that is because the supply of workers from the rest
:15:36. > :15:39.of the European Union has now gone into reverse. We are struggling to
:15:40. > :15:44.fill positions at the minute, it is a very fluid marketplace, inflation
:15:45. > :15:50.in wages in our sector at the minute, which is being driven by
:15:51. > :15:56.some EU citizens going home and moving from the UK marketplace, and
:15:57. > :16:00.it is creating a vacuum. In the three months to the end of November,
:16:01. > :16:05.the number of unemployed people dropped by 52,000 down to 1.6
:16:06. > :16:12.million. It remains at its lowest rate in 12 is, 4.8%. The average
:16:13. > :16:18.weekly pay packet was ?477, up by ?12 compared to a year ago or 2.7%.
:16:19. > :16:22.Businesses can't always pass on the higher cost of labour by simply
:16:23. > :16:27.charging higher prices. Simon will have to wait until you renegotiate
:16:28. > :16:31.his contract with his customers, the food companies and retailers, and
:16:32. > :16:36.they won't want big price increases. All of us are looking to try and
:16:37. > :16:41.recoup some of this back. I think the load has got to be shared by
:16:42. > :16:45.all, and that includes the consumer. If tighter labour markets are
:16:46. > :16:49.offering modestly paid workers the chance to big up their wages, many
:16:50. > :16:54.economists will see that as positive. We are seeing quite a
:16:55. > :16:58.robust edge to the UK economy, consistent with the other economic
:16:59. > :17:03.data that we have had. Hiring has not slowed down materially, and
:17:04. > :17:08.people are finding jobs and finding jobs at improved wage levels. But
:17:09. > :17:12.there has been a marked change since the Brexit vote. For 20 years now,
:17:13. > :17:17.the number of people in work in the UK has been hitting new records. In
:17:18. > :17:21.the three months to the end of November, it dipped slightly, and it
:17:22. > :17:29.is no higher than it was in July. Andy Verity, BBC News.
:17:30. > :17:40.I am Roz Atkins with the latest news from the BBC newsroom, Barack Obama
:17:41. > :17:43.has given the final news conference of his presidency, touching on
:17:44. > :17:48.issues such as Donald Trump, Russia and his decision to free Chelsea
:17:49. > :17:49.Manning. This is what you have got coming up later.
:17:50. > :17:51.If you're outside of the UK, it's World News America next,
:17:52. > :17:53.with a special report from inside Aleppo
:17:54. > :18:10.In the UK it is the News At Ten, where the lead story is Brexit with
:18:11. > :18:16.Huw Edwards. We will also hear from Davos and Strasbourg.
:18:17. > :18:23.Now, a story we covered a couple of weeks ago, the first freight train
:18:24. > :18:27.to travel directly to the UK from China has arrived here in London.
:18:28. > :18:34.The Chinese government is calling it the new silk route. Andy Moore has
:18:35. > :18:40.more on this story. The train began its journey
:18:41. > :18:43.at a giant container depot in China. 34 carriages were loaded with goods,
:18:44. > :18:45.such as clothes, bags China has been operating trains
:18:46. > :18:49.to 14 European capitals from this Now, London has been
:18:50. > :18:52.added to the list. Now, London has been
:18:53. > :18:55.added to the list. Because of different rail
:18:56. > :18:57.gauges along the way, the containers have to be offloaded
:18:58. > :18:59.and reloaded several times, but China sees this
:19:00. > :19:12.as a new version of the Silk Route. In all, the train, carrying
:19:13. > :19:14.?4 million worth of goods, on its journey of more
:19:15. > :19:17.than 7,500 miles. The UK is China's seventh-biggest
:19:18. > :19:20.trading market, so the boost to Chinese enterprise is clear,
:19:21. > :19:23.but it is also hoped the train will make the journey back to China
:19:24. > :19:43.laden with British goods. Back to US politics one more time.
:19:44. > :19:45.It is Donald Trump's inauguration on Friday, and you will see extensive
:19:46. > :19:46.coverage from BBC News. All week we've been playing
:19:47. > :19:57.you reports from Jon Kay. He wasn't Barack Obama's favourite
:19:58. > :20:01.diner in Chicago yesterday. This report comes from Tennessee.
:20:02. > :20:03.If you want to understand Donald Trump's election win,
:20:04. > :20:14.Next to Route 45, the Ohio River meets the Mississippi.
:20:15. > :20:19.It's an essential artery for the US economy,
:20:20. > :20:27.carrying 18 million tonnes of cargo every year.
:20:28. > :20:34.But things aren't what they used to be.
:20:35. > :20:42.The locks which boats pass through here have seen better days.
:20:43. > :20:44.Nearly 100 years old, they regularly break down,
:20:45. > :20:53.A boat could be waiting out for 52 hours before coming through?
:20:54. > :20:55.Mark, the lock keeper, says it's a struggle
:20:56. > :20:58.The concrete is starting to break up and crumble.
:20:59. > :21:02.Every time it gets hit by a boat as it lands on it it puts pressure
:21:03. > :21:05.on it and causes more cracks and stress on it, we patch it
:21:06. > :21:21.together and try and keep it going, but it's not going to last forever.
:21:22. > :21:27.to rebuild America's rivers, roads and railways,
:21:28. > :21:29.a promise that's won him plenty of support round here,
:21:30. > :21:32.but he hasn't said where the money will come from.
:21:33. > :21:34.We head back on Route 45 to see the kind of project
:21:35. > :21:36.the new President wants to encourage.
:21:37. > :21:39.A huge dam and lock system to replace the failing one downriver.
:21:40. > :21:45.It's nearly 20 years behind schedule and $2 billion over budget.
:21:46. > :21:48.Many here believe Donald Trump's life in business
:21:49. > :21:55.I think he if he really wants to put his mind with it
:21:56. > :21:58.and really wants to work with the people, for sure, why not?
:21:59. > :22:01.One person can't do it, but if you take a group of people
:22:02. > :22:03.and you've got good conversation communication skills,
:22:04. > :22:06.good listening skills, you can pretty much accomplish anything.
:22:07. > :22:10.Has he got those skills? I hope so.
:22:11. > :22:15.Trump's critics say his pledges are unrealistic and unaffordable.
:22:16. > :22:17.But in an area where jobs can be scarce,
:22:18. > :22:28.We drive on into America's rural south.
:22:29. > :22:31.There are two million farms in this country.
:22:32. > :22:42.Will a property developer president understand this business?
:22:43. > :22:48.students are learning how to weigh and vaccinate cattle.
:22:49. > :22:52.Stick it in, press it forward, pull it out.
:22:53. > :22:54.Some are gonna be more willing to go forward,
:22:55. > :23:01.Sounds like politicians! I guess so!
:23:02. > :23:07.Donald Trump won nearly 80% of the vote in the Martin area.
:23:08. > :23:12.and in turn they have confidence in him.
:23:13. > :23:15.He might have a few mess-ups on the way,
:23:16. > :23:20.but eventually he'll figure it all out.
:23:21. > :23:22.We're always going to need agriculture, that's what feeds us.
:23:23. > :23:25.So we're going to need it to keep going.
:23:26. > :23:27.But is farming compatible with Trump's plans for building?
:23:28. > :23:32.What about the land, the environment?
:23:33. > :23:34.Donald Trump is a man you associate with skyscrapers
:23:35. > :23:37.and New York City, not with farming and places like this.
:23:38. > :23:41.Do you think he understands you and what you want to do?
:23:42. > :23:44.I think he's going to help small-town people also out.
:23:45. > :23:47.I don't think he's going to be the big-city man
:23:48. > :23:52.What about farming, does he understand farming?
:23:53. > :23:58.Not as well as some agriculture people.
:23:59. > :24:00.Whether it's agriculture or infrastructure,
:24:01. > :24:05.in these communities away from Washington,
:24:06. > :24:08.many feel Trump will be a President who finally speaks for them -
:24:09. > :24:20.someone not just following the political herd.
:24:21. > :24:27.I was mentioning that we were trying to focus on sports that do not get
:24:28. > :24:33.all the limelight, you have given me some good ideas. Justin in Cambridge
:24:34. > :24:41.says, what about tour de ski, where people ski up mountains. And Jay in
:24:42. > :24:48.Dublin says, how about a Spanish sport which is a crash between
:24:49. > :24:52.tennis, squash and real tennis, where you take the ball off the back
:24:53. > :24:56.wall as well? Obligated but it looks good, we will try to cover those
:24:57. > :25:05.next week. -- quite complicated.