11/01/2017 BBC News at One

Donald Trump is embroiled in more controversy amid claims that Russia

Unverified reports say that Russian intelligence agencies have

compromising details about his business interests

Russia dismisses the claims as pulp fiction.

The President-elect calls it a political witch hunt.

Mr Trump will give his first media conference since elected later

today. We'll have the latest

from Washington. The Prime Minister and the Labour

leader clash in the commons over The death of seven-year-old

Katie Rough - a 15-year-old girl appears in court in York charged

with her murder. An emotional farewell -

after eight years in office Barack Obama prepares to step down

and pays tribute to his wife. For the past 25 years you have not

only been my wife and mother of my children, you have been my best

friend. CHEERING

And coming up in the sport on BBC News:

Sam Warburton is close to stepping down as the Wales captain.

Alan Wyn Jones would be his likely replacement for the Six Nations.

Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One.

Russia has dismissed media reports that it's holding compromising

It comes after claims in America that Russian intelligence agencies

have obtained personally compromising material

about his business interests and his private life.

Mr Trump - who has denied the allegations -

is due to hold a news confererence this afternoon - his first

He tweeted that the intelligence agencies shouldn't have allowed the

information to leak. He took one more shot at them and said are we

living in Nazi Germany. He will hold a news conference this afternoon,

his first since November. Our correspondent

Jonny Dymond reports. In nine days' time he will be

President but never has a President-elect been so ensnared in

controversy. The allegations that swirl around him and his aides are

unverified. Explosive allegations, all denied by the man himself, of

unusual sexual practices and financial impropriety. Leaked to a

website. The suggestion that Russian President Vladimir Putin had

material which could compromise America's new President. From Mr

Trump, a flat, loud denial. Many people accept that Donald Trump is

the President-elect. But recognise that there are issues, that there

are problems, particularly with Russia that need to be addressed.

And so I think that is something that lawmakers are looking, and I

think the intelligence community would like to see Donald Trump take

a more proactive approach to addressing. Moscow's reach into the

trumpet campaign and the President-elect's success has been a

focus of claim and counterclaim for months. The latest allegations were

reportedly compiled by a former British intelligence official who

was once based in the Russian capital. He is described as a

credible source. Donald Trump has an extensive network of links to

Russia. This beauty pageant three years ago just one. He has gone out

of his way to praise the Russian President. His campaign team stands

accused of improper relationships with the Russian government.

Gathered by political opponents to discredit Mr Trump, the report

claims that the Russian government obtained material with which to

blackmail the new President. With Albert hotel rooms and clandestinely

things, the report reads like a spy thriller -- bugged hotel runs. One

Trump associate, a lawyer, shot down an allegation almost immediately.

Russia scoffed. TRANSLATION: Fabrication of such

spoofed stories is an obvious attempt to damage our bilateral

relations. Washington waits for a new

commander-in-chief, a man who promises to overturn the old order,

a man confronted by his own spy chiefs with the most period of

allegations. Never before has the office of a new President been under

such scrutiny. Jonny Dymond, BBC News.

Well our correspondent Paul Wood is in Washington.

It is early morning in America but Trump has already taken to Twitter,

clearly furious about the claims. Is not the first time he has attacked

the CIA but we have not seen language like this from him for

quite some time. Let's start with what we know. It was definitely

originally compiled by a former British intelligence agent, this

report, from an MI6 man. He did it for what is known as opposition

research company, in Washington, DC, a company I know quite well, and

have visited often. They worked first of all four Jeb Bush's

SuperPACs in the Republican primaries and then for an anonymous

Democratic party donor. The allegations themselves are extremely

limited and out of fairness to Mr Trump and anybody under the age of

18 watching I don't think we should relate them. Here is the crucial

point. I was able to send a message into the CIA in November to ask

about these allegations. It is illegal for any official to talk to

me about them but I got a message back from an intermediary who said

the allegations were regarded as credible, and more than that, there

was more than a single source, not just the MI6 man. There was

supposedly more than one take, not just video but audio, more Amaq more

than one date and not just in Moscow but in St Petersburg as well.

Obviously the Russians have blackmail material on the Russians

they would hardly release it, so these are allegations, but they are

allegations regarded as credible, not the same as saying accurate, but

they are regarded as credible by the US intelligence community. Paul

Wood, in Washington, thank you. The Prime Minister has called

the Red Cross irresponsible and overblown for talking

about a humanitarian crisis At Prime Minister's Questions

the Labour leader Jeremy corbyn said At Prime Minister's Questions

the Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said the NHS was in crisis

but the Prime Minister Our political correspondent

Iain Watson reports. Some medical professionals are

issuing critical warnings of the worst of a winter crisis in the NHS

and now Labour want to turn this into a political crisis by piling

pressure on the Government. Is there a crisis in the NHS? He doesn't use

the C work Jeremy Hunt wouldn't talk of a crisis but has suggested

patients shouldn't make their way to A departments unless the case is

urgent and today Jeremy Corbyn attacked a Prime Minister accusing

her of trying to wriggle out of the target that most patients should be

seen within four hours.. She agree with him that the best way

to solve the crisis of the four our weight is to fiddle the figures are

so people are not seem to be waiting so long on hospital trolleys in NHS

hospitals? Over the Christmas period we saw the day where more people

were treated in accident and emergency within four hours than had

ever happened before. Earlier this week the Prime Minister said she

wanted to create a shared society. Well, we certainly have got that.

More people sharing hospital corridors on trolleys. More people

sharing waiting areas at A departments. More people sharing in

anxiety created by this government. Our NHS, Mr Speaker, is in crisis.

But the Prime Minister is in denial. The last thing the NHS needs is a

check from labour that bounces. The only way we can ensure we have

funding for the National health Service is a strong economy

yesterday the Right Honourable gentleman proved he is not only

incompetent but he would destroy our economy and that would devastate our

National Health Service. It is only a heartbeat away for the politicians

at Westminster is the NHS is never far from their thoughts. The

government say they have met the pressures of the NHS by increasing

funding and bringing about improvements. The opposition parties

don't think that is good enough. But what would they do if they had the

power? The Lib Dems have set up an expert panel to look particularly at

the idea of a dedicated health and care tax and set alongside that an

independent assessment of how much money the health and care system

needs. In the medium term we would argue bringing forward 700 million

for social care which is allocated for 2019, let's not wait until 2019.

?700 million is just a down payment, not enough. White correct, we need

to look at this across the board for the long-term. Labour now feel the

government is vulnerable on the NHS, but the Conservatives will continue

to argue that only they can provide a robust economy that will pay for

it. Iain Watson, BBC News, Westminster.

Norman Smith is in Westminster for us now. How much pressure is the

Prime Minister really under over this?

Sophie, I think the Prime Minister was on the defensive, on the back

foot now over the NHS. Yes, she acknowledged there were precious but

she put that down to long-term pressures over an ageing population,

increasingly complex patient demands, traditional winter

illnesses. She rejected out of hand the idea of any emergency funding.

She lambasted the Red Cross for saying there was a humanitarian

crisis and always seemed to play down some of the terrible trolley

waits that have made headlines in recent days, describing them as a

small number of incidents were unacceptable practices have taken

place. There is a view at Westminster that Theresa May just

doesn't quite get the NHS as a political issue. The intensity of

the argument about it, the emotions around it, the vulnerability of the

Tory party on this issue, not in the same way as her predecessor David

Cameron. There is also a view that she thinks more money, billions

more, has been given to the NHS while other departments are being

cut and yet still they can't manage. Why should they get even more? And

lastly there is Brexit. This place has been dominated for months by

Brexit and now the NHS has sort of broken to the surface like a great

big iceberg and I wonder whether it has caught the Government off-guard.

The danger, though, for Mrs May, is however passionate people feel about

Brexit they probably feel as, if not even more passionate, about the

health service. Norman Smith, thank you.

Well, health experts are warning that without fundamental action,

millions of older, ill and disabled people will - in their words -

Our health correspondent Robert Piggott reports.

Outside hospitals heaving ambulances are a visual testament, says the

Royal College of Physicians, to the crisis facing the NHS. With the New

Year at some hospitals have faced unprecedented pressure with 20% more

patients than this time last year. Another trauma coming in now. A BBC

documentary gained access to one of Britain's busiest hospitals, St

Mary's in Paddington, as it struggled to meet overwhelming

demand. Accident and emergency departments have borne the brunt of

the increasing need for care. What about trauma beds? Two. As patients

continue to arrive a shortage of social care has made it hard to

discharge those who have recovered. The minute that we have had

problems, usually due to patients not being able to leave the hospital

at the other end we end up in this state -- bed problems. There is no

cubicle anywhere in A Patients are worth dumber waiting longer in

queues or corridors for treatment. It is easier to say what we have got

which is nothing at the moment. It means hard decisions about who to

treat. This case has trumped the patient with cancer that was going

to get done in the other theatre, because she's got a condition which

will kill her some time in the next three, four, five, six hours. So if

we don't do it now then there is going to be no five hours' time for

them. Specialist doctors blamed a shortage of qualified staff, saying

they are stretched too thin lead to meet the challenge they face.

Our members fear that people's lives are at risk because they can't get

around to see the patients that aren't yet in the emergency

department, or indeed waiting for results to come back. Members and

fellows have been writing in and our council members specifically have

said to me this is the worst they have ever seen. The Department of

Health said it had invested ?10 billion to develop health services

and relieve pressure on hospitals. And since last year had recruited

3000 extra nurses and 1600 more doctors. But will it meet increasing

demand? Doctors and experts in social care say the time has come to

rethink the long-term future of the NHS. Robert Piggott, BBC News.

Well, with me is our health editor Hugh Pym.

The NHS is always under pressure at this time of year -

but how much more serious is the situation now?

Well, yes, at this time of year there is always particular pressure

straight after the holiday season. People going to hospital, maybe

having held back. What seems to be different this time is the sheer

volume. It was busy enough last year, hospitals were really

stretched. The volume increase, 20% at one hospital more patients coming

through the door, and figures leaked to the BBC yesterday of the numbers

who had to wait unacceptably long periods, 12 hours on a trolley

before they could get a bed, reveal a really big increase there as well.

So it isn't a massive pressure. And for the Royal College of Physicians

and other leading health and social care leaders, to say this was

unacceptable and lives were at risk as we heard in Robert's peas, shows

how seriously the medical profession is taking it. Theresa May and the

Government acknowledges this and she did in the House of Commons but

there does not seem to be a change in policy. They say they have put

more money in, they have put more into social care, but how long that

is sustainable is anyone's guess. We are in early January, in this

situation winter doesn't simply end in the middle of January, they could

be two more months of pressure, a cold snap adding to the volume of

people going to hospital, there could be a nasty outbreak of flu.

All of these things could come along and push the whole thing even closer

to a quite dangerous situation. That is the challenge for the government.

Hugh Pym, thank you. You can see more on the NHS tonight

in a special BBC documentary called Hospital on BBC Two at 9pm.

A 15-year-old girl has appeared in court charged with the murder

Katie Rough was found critically injured near a playing field

in the Woodthorpe area on Monday afternoon - she died

Our correspondent Fiona Trott is in York.

Inside court the mother of Katie Rough and other family members

listened as a lawyer spoke on behalf of the teenager confirming her name

and address. Because of the severity of the charges this was a regular

magistrates court sitting this morning and not use court despite

the young age of the defendant. She is to appear before Leon Cort on

Friday charged with murder and possessing an offensive weapon. It

is understood that Katie Rough was found near a playing field behind

some houses in the wood area on Friday, on Monday afternoon.

Residents said that they saw a woman in street crying asking for an

ambulance. The seven-year-old was taken to hospital but died from her

injuries are a short time later. It has had the community hard, it has

affected people who do not know the family, a fundraising page was set

up on line overnight by a woman whose present but she wanted to help

the family through this terrible time. -- who said that.

The Forth Road Bridge remains shut in both directions after a lorry

crossing this morning - was blown over.

The driver has been charged with dangerous driving.

High winds have caused problems across large parts of northern

More than two thousand homes across the north east

A main shopping street in Newcastle City Centre has also

been closed because of damage caused by the weather.

Lorna Gordon is at the Forth Road Bridge now.

The wind over the past 30 minutes has been gusting to just shy of 50

miles an hour. It is causing problems for the engineers trying to

remove the lorry from the centre of the Forth Road Bridge. This is the

main artery into Edinburgh from the north and tens of thousands of cars

normally cross every day. But for the past 11 hours it has been

completely empty of traffic. People having to take a 50 mile detour to

get into Scotland's capital. Not just problems here though because of

the weather but elsewhere across the country.

In the early hours of the morning strong wind blew over the story as

it tried to travel north on the Forth Road Bridge. It happened at

around 2am, the lorry falling over onto the southbound carriageway

forgot the bridge was closed to HGVs at the time and the driver has been

charged with dangerous driving. Hours later and the road which links

Edinburgh to Fife would usually have been packed with rush-hour traffic.

Instead it was silent. The recovery process delayed because of the

conditions. There was extensive damage to the Central reserve, the

most extensive we have ever had on the bridge. Conditions were blustery

at the time, the bridge was closed to all high sided vehicles from just

past midnight and at the time of passage is the gusts were around 74

miles an hour. Elsewhere in Newcastle city centre, Newgate

Street was closed when part of the roof of this Debenhams store was

torn off and debris strewn across the normally busy city centre

street. In Feltham in a house and these cars were also badly damaged.

And in Gateshead conditions were so bad that the wind managed to blow

this shed into the road from a field. Northern Power Grid which

supplies homes in the North East and Yorkshire said that the wind caused

more than 25 thousand customers to lose power and meanwhile SSE

engineers are working to restore power to 1500 properties in the

North of Scotland. Today we had severe gales across the northern

half of the UK and impact on the weather and the air is just getting

colder. It is coming from a long way north ad is leading in more wintry

showers across northern parts. But tomorrow we have a spell of rain

across southern parts of England and Wales and with colder behind it that

could turn the rain to snow and sleet in the south-east in time for

the evening rush hour tomorrow. After several hours, cruise on the

Forth Road Bridge have managed to remove the lorry from the central

reservation but it cannot be completely taken off until the

weather improves. Of course the weather forecast, the wind is again

forecast to pick up as the afternoon progresses. It is causing problems

with some very roots in Scotland, possible snow showers on some of the

high roads as well and as to the Forth Road Bridge, they have to wait

for the wind to dip below 40 miles an hour for 20 minutes before they

can start removing the lorry. Even when the lorry has gone there will

be checks on infrastructure so possible delays and destruction here

for the next few days. Donald Trump is embroiled in more

controversy amid claims that Russia He has called it a political

witchhunt. After meeting at a factory

making Lancaster bombers in World War Two, Trudie and Barclay

celebrate their 73rd Jurgen Klopp prepares

to recall his big name Liverpool players for tonight's EFL Cup

semi-final against Southampton after fielding a weakened team

in the FA Cup. There was an emotional goodbye

from President Obama last night as he delivered his farewell speech

to the American people He listed his achievements

after eight years in the White House as thousands of his supporters

chanted "four more years!" And he struck a sombre note,

as he warned of threats to US democracy from inequality

and racism, and derided many of the policies

advocated by his successor, From Chicago Laura Trevelyan

sent this report. Barack Obama returned to Chicago,

the place where his political career began, to deliver his long

planned farewell address. Smiling that one away,

the president used his platform to underline what he sees

as his achievements. If I had told you eight

years ago that America would reverse a great recession,

reboot our auto industry, and unleash the longest

stretch of job creation If I had told you that we would win

marriage equality and secure the right to health insurance

for another 20 million If I had told you all that,

you might have said our sights Turning to his theme

of what could undermine America's democracy,

the nation's first black president was direct

about the state of race relations. After my election there was talk

of a post-racial America. And such a vision, however well

intended, was never realistic. Race remains a potent and often

divisive force in our society. And after a divisive

election campaign, America, we weaken those ties

when we allow our political dialogue to become so corrosive that people

of good character are not even willing to enter

into public service. So coarse with rancour that

Americans with whom we disagree are seen not just as misguided,

but as malevolent. For Americans depressed

by the state of their politics, the message from the man who started

out as a community If you're tired of arguing

with strangers on the internet, try talking with one of them

in real life. If something needs fixing,

then lace up your shoes If you're disappointed

by your elected officials, grab a clipboard, get some

signatures, and run Paying tribute to his wife

Michelle and his daughters, Michelle Lavon Robinson,

girl of the south side... For the past 25 years you have

not only been my wife and mother of my children,

you have been my best friend. For those who had lined up for hours

to hear him speak in person, I thought it was very uplifting

and it gave us a message And it was just, it was

what we needed to hear right now. We had a tough election and we just

need to keep fighting Barack Obama's supporters

were heartened by his And he leaves office with his

personal popularity at a high. But that didn't stop the American

voters from choosing And now Barack Obama must

watch as Republicans try A white supremacist has been

sentenced to death for killing nine black people at a church in the US

state of South Carolina in 2015. Dylann Roof opened fire 75 times

during a bible study class in what prosecutors said

was a racially-motivated attack. He rejected a final chance

to plead for his life at the court in Charleston,

telling the jury he still felt This is the man condemned to death

for the cold-blooded murder of nine Dylann Roof was convicted last month

of 33 federal charges including He told the sentencing

hearing that he felt he The brother of one

of his victims said the sentence would not bring

back his beloved sister. I wish that this verdict

could have brought her back. The prosecutor said on June 17,

2015, members of one of Charleston's most historic black

churches had opened the door for a He had come with a hateful

heart and a Glock 45. He had sat in a Bible study group

for 40 minutes before opening fire as they closed

their eyes to pray. Turning the peaceful church

into a bloody crime scene. One of those who died

was the local pastor and state A personal friend of the outgoing

president, who sang at his execution for a federal

hate crime conviction. It a hard thing to know that someone

is going to lose their But when you look at the totality

of what happened, it's hard to say that this person deserves to live

when nine others don't. Dylann Roof will be

formally sentenced A couple who met at a factory

making Lancaster bombers in World War Two are celebrating

their 73rd wedding anniversary. Trudie, who's 97, met 96-year-old

Barclay Patoir when he joined the factory at Speke,

Merseyside. Despite opposition to the union,

they married and moved to a new house on an estate

in Wythenshawe, Manchester, They have two daughters,

three grandchildren and seven Our correspondent

Stuart Flinders reports. Barclay was an apprentice

engineer in British In 1942 he found

himself in Liverpool. It was freezing cold

and the snow was an eye-opener. Barclay was put to

work making Lancaster ARCHIVE REEL: Many thousands of men

and women toil night gigantic warplanes

for Bomber Command. His assistant on the

production line was Trudie. They would say, he's

ruining you, isn't he? He used to bring me

sandwiches in and make Barclay and Trudie took

a shine to each other. And a visit to the

Empire Theatre to see star singer Richard

Tauber clinched it. We went to see Richard

Tauber and it was... But in the Liverpool of the 1940s,

Trudie and Barclay faced And that was because you are white

and Barclay's black? What advice would you

give a young couple If he's got a night out,

she has to have one. What do you think,

Barclay, what advice Now this next bit of footage

is pretty extraordinary. The pictures come from a camera

attached to the neck of a female polar bear and show two bears

breaking through ice sheets The US Geological Survey hopes it'll

help researchers better understand how the animals are responding

to declining sea ice levels. Sticking my neck out a little bit,

we've been watching forecasts with snow, there is some snow on the way.

It is going to be tricky to forecast it. But the low pressure is what has

been the story today across the North, blowing a gale. It has been

nasty across the north-east of England and into Scotland. The wind

starting to ease a little now but still blustery. And wintry showers

across the North. This evening it is fairly quiet, some icy patches

across northern areas. Cold air coming in from the Arctic. But we

are watching areas to the South West and what is happening, this is

complicated. You have mild error on the one hand coming from the South

and colder air from the north. You get that clash and then you get this

boundary, narrow boundary where rain and snow start to mix. So zooming in

a bit, we also have a weather front coming in and initially it begins as

rain with milder error to the south coming from the Atlantic. As the

rain moves towards the east and the North it starts to mix in with that

colder air coming from the North through the Midlands and into the

south-east. It is difficult, if it snows over the hills we could be

talking about five centimetres or maybe more. It could even settle

across London in part. In the North it is different, straightforward

north-westerly wind bringing in the showers. So to areas of snow, this

awkward mix of rain, sleet and snow across the South which is a

nightmare for forecasters. It is a mix of weather on the way. But the

point is Thursday night into Friday, in the South and north, it could be

nasty with icy stretches and also on Friday we have another weather

system coming in from the north sliding along the east. These are a

potential storm surge, so waves could overtop some of those sea

defences and on top of but we also have wintry weather. So a real mix

of weather on the way. Beautifully explained!

A reminder of our main story this lunchtime.

Donald Trump is embroiled in more controversy amid claims that Russia

That's all from the BBC News at One - so it's goodbye from me -