11/01/2017 BBC News at Six

A furious Donald Trump denies claims Russian intelligence has

In his first press conference since becoming president

elect he said the claims are entirely fake.

It was a group of opponents that got together.

Sick people, they put that crap together.

A leaked report alleges Mr Trump was filmed in a compromising

situation in a Russian hotel and his campaign team had secret

Mr Trump tried to talk at his press conference about his future

He said he will be the greatest jobs producer God ever created.

Mounting pressure on the NHS - the head of hospital trusts

in England says we can't keep pretending the NHS

After the death of seven-year-old Katie Rough, a 15-year-old girl has

appeared in court charged with her murder.

Gale force winds close the Forth bridge and cause damage

across Scotland and northern England.

You took on a roll you did not get us to do with grace and wit and

And President Obama bows out in his final speech

with an emotional tribute to his wife.

And coming up in Sportsday: England's greatest goal-scorer

and Arsenal ladies striker Kelly Smith has retired.

She says her body has told her it's time to stop.

Good evening and welcome to the BBC news at six.

Donald Trump has condemned as nonsense allegations that

Russian intelligence has compromising material about him.

The claims published on the internet last night,

and which are so far unverifiable, say his election campaign

communicated secretly with Moscow and also contain suggestions

of unusual sexual practices by Mr Trump.

The President elect said US intelligence agencies could be

responsible for leaking allegations and try to concentrate instead on

his priorities in office including dealing with so-called Islamic

State. Donald Trump is nine days away from

inauguration, but his path to the White House is tangled in

controversy. What might well the Kremlin and President Putin have

played to help Donald Trump undermine Hillary Clinton and to

gather compromising material to gather against Donald Trump whilst

he is in power. My friend and the President elect of the United States

of America, Donald Trump. This afternoon, Donald Trump was blunt.

The allegations against him are totally untrue, designed to

undermine him. It is all fake news, it is phoney stuff, it did not

happen and it was gotten by opponents of hours, as you know,

because you reported it and so did many of the other people. It was a

group of opponents that got together, sick people, and they put

that rubbish together. So what could Moscow's row have been? In shadow we

were both to promote Donald Trump and also gain a hold over him? Here

he is visiting the Russian capital in 2013 for the Miss universe

pageant, then co-owned by him. The most Lou Reed claim is he used the

same hotel suite which President Obama had stayed in for unusual at

involving sex workers, all of it allegedly recorded by Russian spy

cameras and microphones. I was in Russia years ago with the Miss

universe contest which did very well in the Moscow area. And I told many

people, be careful, because you do not want to see yourself on

television, cameras all over the place. And again not just all over,

does anyone really believe that story? I am also very much somebody

who has a phobia about germs. The source of the claims is said to be

an ex-MI6 officer who was once based in Moscow. Today President Putin's

spokesman said the allegations were pulp fiction, a clear attempt to

damage relations. Donald Trump says he is in no way compromised by

Vladimir Putin's preference for him as president. If Putin likes Donald

Trump I consider that an asset, not a liability. Russia can help us

fight ices, which is number one tricky. I do not know I can get

along by the mere Putin. I hope I do, but there is a good chance I

will not. If I do not, do you honestly believe that Hillary

Clinton would be tougher on Vladimir Putin than me? Give me a break. The

press conference got most heated when CNN, one news organisation that

has covered the allegations extensively, try to put a question.

Not you! Not you, your organisation is terrible. Give us a question. I

am not going to give you a question. You are fake news. These papers are

just... Donald Trump also used the occasion to display some of the

legal documents turning his business is over to his family. It is his

response to accusations of future conflicts of interest. But the

controversy surrounding Donald Trump and Russia are not going away. Those

who voted for him and those who rejected him know his presidency

will be a stormy one. Our North America correspondent

Paul Wood is in Washington. Paul, this dossier of allegations

against Mr Trump and his campaign staff, you've been following this

story for some months, how long have these allegations been

known about and what are we to make This is a series of reports, the

first one was written in June, the last one in October. They were

commissioned by an opposition research company funded by

Democratic party donors, but written by a British former MI6 agent and he

spoke to members of the Russian security service, the FSB, paying

them for information and several of those officers told him there was a

black male tape. I understand the CIA believe it is credible and takes

it seriously. That is not the same as them endorsing it was saying it

is accurate, but I pass a message to the intermediary dealing with this

file and the message came back there was more than one take, there was

audio and video and on more than one day and in more than one place, not

just the Ritz-Carlton in Moscow, but in Saint Petersburg as well. It is

not just the MI6 officer who is the source for this. I was told by a

retired spy back in August that the head of an East European

intelligence agency had told him also of the existence of a blackmail

tape on the Republican presidential candidate. Having said all that,

these are allegations and nobody has seen the tape and Donald Trump is

correct when he has said so far this is not substantiated.

With me is our North America editor Jon Sopel.

Mr Trump's first press conference since winning the election,

I think we have got used to the bizarre standards by which we accept

communications from Donald Trump and this one was way beyond anything we

have ever seen because of these allegations about his business

activities and his personal conduct that we heard Paul Wood talking

about. It is worth underlining, is this fake news or not? We are

reporting this because the intelligence agencies thought it was

serious enough to bring it to the attention of the President elect and

the president himself. I thought what was a remarkable scene in that

news conference was the extent of his distrust, not towards the press,

you would expect that, but towards the US intelligence services, the

CIA and the FI I -- FBI, whose job it is to keep America safe. It

seemed he was more sympathetic to what Vladimir Putin was saying than

his own intelligence services. That could be a source of great tension

going forward. The other thing was that Donald Trump has sought to put

his business interests into a blind trust, but he will still retain

ownership of those businesses and ethics lawyers will want to take a

look at that. Donald Trump has been brilliant on social media at biting,

The mounting pressure on the NHS has been underlined by the head of NHS

hospital trusts in England who's told MPs it's time to stop

pretending the NHS can afford to do everything with the money it's

and that if the current situation continues,

His was one of a number of stark warnings today about the strain

on the health service today, as our Health Editor

If there is one story that sums up the current state of the NHS, it is

Pat's. She could not get a doctor's visit and fearing she had pneumonia

had to go to her local A, but then she had to wait 19 hours for a bed.

When I was actually in the hospital, through tiredness of being there, as

long as we were... Pat has this message for politicians. There are

loads of hospitals in the same position. Go and see them and say,

we will sit down and see what we can do to make it better. The local

hospital trust said on the day in question the pressure was higher

than usual, but safety was monitored closely. Some hospitals are managing

better than others. In Exeter senior consultants are at the front door of

A, ensuring only the sickest patients are admitted. They send

some home, keeping beds free for others. There is a risk they will

deteriorate when they are admitted, they will lose muscle power and we

do more and more investigations. There is no doubt of the huge strain

on the NHS. Figures leaked to the BBC show a big increase last week in

the number of patients in England waiting 12 hours or more on trolleys

because beds were not available. Several hospitals fell far short of

targets for waiting times and medical professional leaders are

warning lives are at risk. Our members have said to me this is the

worst they have ever seen. There are patients all over the hospital, we

do not know where to put them and they do not feel they can provide

the standard of care they have been trained to do. The main

representative of England's hospitals had a stark warning for

MPs. The biggest concern is if we carry on on the current trajectory,

what we begin to bring into question is the entire sustainability of the

NHS model. The NHS is always very busy in the New Year. This time even

more so than usual. The question is, we'll all the pressure is off any

time soon? A burst of cold weather or an upsurge in flu cases could add

to the high levels of pressure being experienced right now.

Adding to the pressure on the Prime Minister, dozens of health and

social care experts have called on the Prime Minister to find a

long-term solution for the millions of older people who are being badly

let down. The Labour leader accused Theresa May of being in denial over

a crisis in the NHS. The health service needs help and

needs it now. Overworked, understaffed, despite extra doctors

and nurses, resources are always stretched. Is this a winter crisis

as bad as any we have seen? Today the blame, claim and counterclaim

reached a new pitch. Prime Minister, will you put more money into the

NHS? Theresa May came wrapped up and ready for a row, ready to savage the

British Red Cross for saying the NHS faced a humanitarian crisis. To use

that description of the National Health Service which last year saw

2.5 million more people treated in accident and emergency than six

years ago was irresponsible and overblown. And critics seized on

this as complacency. I accept there have been a small number of

incidents... Were unacceptable practices have taken place. The

Labour leader, fairly or not, had an obvious target today and he hit it

hard. Earlier this week the Prime Minister said she wanted to create a

shared society. We have got that, more people are sharing hospital

corridors on trolleys, more people are sharing waiting areas in A

departments, Mayor more and more people sharing in anxiety created by

this government. Our NHS is in crisis, but the Prime Minister is in

denial. Doctors, nurses, charities and patients in A queued up to

ward off a crisis. In the here and now there are very real pressures.

Over the next three years funding will be highly constrained and in

2018, 19, real terms on NHS spending per person in England will go down.

Here was a tabloid headline about the NHS falling behind in Europe and

a reminder to Theresa May, these were problems tougher than those she

was used to. It is quite different than the criminal justice system.

Winter health crises are as predictable as winter, but there is

a warning crisis and there is never enough cash and changing the way

treatments are delivered is a long-term project and it is

uncomfortable for a project being delivered day after day on a server

is closest to people's pass. Responsibility and blame for the NHS

rests squarely on Theresa May and her ministers.

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.

Our correspondent Danny Savage reports from York.

Some of Katie Rough's family left court in tears this morning

after listening to a brief outline of the case against the 15-year-old

The teenager, who cannot be named publicly because of her young age,

said nothing during the brief hearing here at York

The two charges are that on Monday she murdered Katie Rough and that

on the same day she had with her in a public place

Katie's headteacher said she was a kind and thoughtful child,

Many more people have been to leave flowers

and messages where she was found with fatal injuries.

People are just shocked that a seven-year-old

My daughters were friends with Katie and, you know,

How difficult is it to talk with your own children

about what has happened when they are so young?

Very hard, yes, it's a very hard thing to deal with at the moment.

The teenager accused of murdering this little girl will appear before

Donald Trump has hit back at allegations of Russian intelligence

compromising information -- has compromising information about him.

Still to come... Should you be able to

binge watch Sherlock? And coming up in Sportsday: After

six years, Sam Warburton is set to hand over the captaincy to

concentrate on keeping his place in the Wales side with the Six

Nations championship. After eight years in the Whitehouse,

President Obama has given In it, he looked back

on his achievements in office, warned of present and future threats

to US democracy - and paid emotional Our North America correspondent

Nick Bryant was watching. He is one of the most gifted

speakers ever to occupy the White The poet laureate

of his own presidency. And his farewell words were uttered

in his adopted city of Chicago, where he worked

as a community organiser, where he celebrated becoming

commander-in-chief. He came here to define

and defend his legacy. If I told you eight years

ago that America would Shut down Iran's nuclear weapons

programme without firing a shot... Take out the mastermind

of 9/11, you might have said that our sights

were There were no direct attacks

on Donald Trump, but much of the speech read like a rebuttal

to the billionaire's campaign to the Democracy can buckle

when it gets into fear. That is why I rejected

discrimination against Muslim ..Who are just

as patriotic as we are. Seldom has there been such

a photogenic presidency. It has had the look

of a black Camelot, and the thank you to his wife Michelle

left him struggling to contain his You took on a role that

you did not ask for. And you made it your own -

with grace, and with grit The great wordsmith

rendered speechless, words which brought such hope that

created such expectation. It was a presidency

which began with a mountaintop experience of becoming the first

black man to live in a White House But it ended in the valley,

with the knowledge that Donald Trump will try to strangle his signature

achievements, and tried to demolish I just hope that President-elect

Trump will take on some of his pointers

and carry the torch But I know that will take some work,

so we will wait on it. Barack Obama is a leader

who will have the word "era" attached to his name,

but some will see it as a great failing of his presidency -

that the name "Trump" The FTSE 100 has continued

its record-breaking winning streak, closing at an all-time high

for the tenth day in a row. And the head of the Bank of England,

Mark Carney, says Brexit no longer poses the single biggest risk

to financial stability. The BBC iPlayer will be reinvented

in a bid to be the top online TV service in the UK by 2020,

that's the pledge by Tony Hall says he wants the BBC

to "reinvent public broadcasting The plans will see the BBC

competing with services such as Netflix and Amazon Prime -

as our media editor It was the BBC drama Sherlock

that was the ratings winner over But millions of us are now

watching these shows online. For the BBC, that means

using its iPlayer service. In a speech to BBC staff

in Birmingham today, the director-general Tony Hall said

he wanted to double It's been the number one video

on demand service in the UK, Now we need to make it,

we need to make the leap from a catch-up service to a must

visit destination in its own right. But there's another reason why

the BBC wants, and needs, to adapt. The Crown on Netflix shows how

new digital competitors invest Amazon are also spending

big, using former BBC Looking good is more important

than looking where you're going. New technology is rapidly changing

the way we watch television. A younger generation do not

want a fixed schedule And that means watching

what we want, when we want. Gogglebox has been a huge

hit for Channel 4. Many television executives say it

would be wrong to write off traditional television

channels just yet. 95% of all the hours viewed

of television in the country And so what we as public service

broadcasters must pay attention to is the balance between reaching

audiences in new ways, but making shows big and famous

by using the strength of our linear Planet Earth II was watched

by millions on TV, but hundreds of millions on social media,

via clips like this one. Only by adapting to these platforms

will broadcasters survive and thrive The Forth Road Bridge is closed

after a lorry was blown over and thousands of homes in northern

England lost power as gale force Met Office yellow weather warnings

are in place for wind and snow across much of Scotland,

Northern Ireland and Our Scotland correspondent

Lorna Gordon is at the Forth The Forth Road Bridge at this time

of evening would normally be packed with commuters, but look. It is

totally empty and commuters are instead facing a miserable 40-50

mile slog of a detoured to get home. At the hope is the bridge will

reopen at 6am because welders in the middle of the bridge are working

overnight on repairs. In the darkness of the early hours,

and overturned lorry, blown off balance and blocking a key brutal

inking Edinburgh to the North. -- key route. Tens of thousands of

vehicles crossed the bridge every day but not now. Extensive damage

has been done to the middle of the bridge over 40 metres, conditions

were very blustery at that time and the bridge was closed to high sided

vehicles from half past midnight but at the time of passage, gusts were

recorded at 74 miles power. The closure led to chaos for drivers,

with long detours and delays. On the ropes, there has not been a lot of

movement and frustration because people are late for work -- on the

ropes. People are taking risks and cutting one another up. High winds

caused damage elsewhere, this house in County Durham collapsed, cars

beneath were destroyed but nobody was injured. This section of a

shopping centre blew off in Newcastle, leaving debris strewn

across the road. Tonight, the winds eased a little and on the Forth Road

Bridge, the lorry was cleared. Engineers are assessing the damage

it caused. With this arctic blast bringing snow, difficult conditions

for drivers across the country could be on the way... Lorna Gordon, BBC

News, the Forth Road Bridge. There is a lot going on, there are

numerous Met Office weather warnings in force over the next few days,

watch the forecast. Gales in Scotland and Northern

Ireland tonight with frequent snow showers, coming in from that breeze.

A cold night with icy patches in the northern half of the UK. Tomorrow,

strong winds and snow, further travel disruption is likely. Snow

tomorrow, it will not only be in the colder air but mild air pushes into

words the South. Where those two masses meet, we could see wintry

weather, an awkward forecast for tomorrow. Mild air comes in with

cloud and rain. The rain pushes into colder air further north which will

turn things into snow in Wales, and the south-west of England. Then we

could see snow in parts of the Midlands, East Anglia and the

south-east. Some settling at lower levels. Frequent snow showers in

Central and western Scotland, Northern Ireland and northern

England as well. It will feel cold in the north of the UK. 2 degrees,

but it will feel like -2 minus three degrees. Further snow in East Anglia

and the cell -- south-east. This blue tinge is a

widespread frost, so by Dawn on Friday, we are looking at frost and

ice as an additional hazard. Slippery starts on Friday, and a

very strong wind as well which will generate large waves along the North

Sea coast, but inland, there should be some sunshine, that will not

change the temperatures. In Cardiff and London it will fuel freeze on

and subzero further north. That's all from the BBC News at Six,

so it's goodbye from me