:00:00. > :00:07.President Obama takes action against Russia for alleged
:00:08. > :00:11.interference in the US Presidential Election.
:00:12. > :00:15.There'll be sanctions against individuals and 35 Russian
:00:16. > :00:21.Russia says it's a very destructive move.
:00:22. > :00:24.Earlier in Moscow, President Putin declared a ceasefire deal in Syria,
:00:25. > :00:39.And the actress Debbie Reynolds has died at the age of 84,
:00:40. > :01:00.just a day after the death of her daughter, Carrie Fisher.
:01:01. > :01:04.President Obama has announced a series of measures against Russia,
:01:05. > :01:06.and said there was evidence of 'malicious cyberactivity' in
:01:07. > :01:12.He's authorised sanctions against individuals and he's also
:01:13. > :01:16.approved the expulsion of 35 Russian diplomats from the US.
:01:17. > :01:20.Three weeks before Donald Trump is sworn in as President,
:01:21. > :01:23.promising to rebuild relations with Moscow, Mr Obama said:
:01:24. > :01:27.'All Americans should be alarmed by Russia's actions'.
:01:28. > :01:29.Tonight, Russia said it would order 'adequate reprisals',
:01:30. > :01:35.as our correspondent Laura Bicker reports.
:01:36. > :01:40.Russia stands accused of trying to help Donald Trump become President.
:01:41. > :01:42.Moscow had been warned, but now it's being punished
:01:43. > :01:49.America's top intelligence agencies believe a cyber attack
:01:50. > :01:55.on Hillary Clinton's closest aides was orchestrated by the highest
:01:56. > :02:04.But Mr Trump has always questioned the evidence.
:02:05. > :02:06.Once they hack, if you don't catch them in the act,
:02:07. > :02:13.You have no idea if it's Russia, or China, or somebody...
:02:14. > :02:16.It could be somebody sitting in a bed someplace.
:02:17. > :02:18.But the CIA and the FBI can both agree - the hackers,
:02:19. > :02:22.And President Obama said all Americans should be alarmed.
:02:23. > :02:23.He's ordered that 35 officials are expelled.
:02:24. > :02:32.They're believed to have close links with Russian intelligence.
:02:33. > :02:35.They have just 72 hours to leave the country and he is closing
:02:36. > :02:37.two Russian compounds, one in New York and
:02:38. > :02:40.White House officials said Russia had to pay a price
:02:41. > :02:43.for what they described as 'an extraordinary attack on US
:02:44. > :02:50.President Obama warned that further action is to come,
:02:51. > :02:54.Russia described the closure of its compounds as the death throes
:02:55. > :02:58.of political corpses and warned it will hit back.
:02:59. > :03:02.Because the cost of expelling Russian diplomats is going to lead
:03:03. > :03:05.to a reduction, or expelling of US diplomats from Russia,
:03:06. > :03:08.it's not clear how this kind of cost is going to be one
:03:09. > :03:13.in which the United States has a clear advantage.
:03:14. > :03:18.President Obama has dealt his strongest response yet to
:03:19. > :03:21.Russian hacking on US soil, but he has only weeks left in office
:03:22. > :03:25.and many are now wondering - what will his successor do?
:03:26. > :03:37.Our North America editor, Jon Sopel, is outside the White House.
:03:38. > :03:43.Three weeks left in office for the President, what can you
:03:44. > :03:47.realistically achieve here? Well, I think he has a sliding scale of
:03:48. > :03:51.responses he can give to this. From the merit -- from the metaphorical
:03:52. > :03:56.slap on the wrist to something much further. This is much further and
:03:57. > :04:00.underlines the President's view that not only was it unacceptable for
:04:01. > :04:03.Russia to intervene in the US presidential election, he wants to
:04:04. > :04:07.send a warning out to other countries who might be thinking of
:04:08. > :04:12.doing likewise. That said, the Russians have said it is
:04:13. > :04:16.unjustified, without merit, it is wrong, and when have you ever heard
:04:17. > :04:21.an intelligence agency of a foreign country say, yes, we did it, we did
:04:22. > :04:26.wrong? Russia has promised retaliation, the nature of which we
:04:27. > :04:31.do not know. But the X Factor in all of this is what Donald Trump decides
:04:32. > :04:35.to do. He was scathing and dismissive of early reports saying
:04:36. > :04:41.the FIA -- the FBI and CIA were involved so he has a choice? Who
:04:42. > :04:44.does he believe, Vladimir Putin or his own intelligence services? And
:04:45. > :04:48.you would imagine there can only be one answer to that question.
:04:49. > :04:51.Thank you very much, at the White House.
:04:52. > :04:53.The latest attempt to stop the fighting in Syria came
:04:54. > :04:57.A ceasefire between the Syrian Government and main opposition
:04:58. > :04:59.groups has been brokered by Russia and Turkey, with a commitment
:05:00. > :05:04.The Americans, who played no part in the deal, welcomed the news
:05:05. > :05:07.Two previous ceasefires in Syria collapsed within weeks,
:05:08. > :05:13.as our Moscow correspondent Steve Rosenberg reports.
:05:14. > :05:15.For nearly six years, Syria has been torn apart by civil war.
:05:16. > :05:24.A conflict that has left more than 400,000 people dead.
:05:25. > :05:28.There have been peace initiatives before, which brought no peace.
:05:29. > :05:34.But today, Russia announced a breakthrough.
:05:35. > :05:36.In the Kremlin, Russia's Defence Minister handed Vladimir Putin
:05:37. > :05:39.a list of Syrian opposition groups which had signed up to a ceasefire
:05:40. > :05:51.60,000 rebels, he said, would stop fighting.
:05:52. > :05:54.This is the moment Russia has been waiting for and working for,
:05:55. > :06:01.He added that there was also an agreement to start peace talks.
:06:02. > :06:07.The Syrian Government was persuaded by Russia to sign today's agreement.
:06:08. > :06:13.Turkey's role was crucial in convincing them.
:06:14. > :06:18.Not part of the deal are so-called Islamic State,
:06:19. > :06:21.or the main Kurdish rebel group fighting them, the YPG.
:06:22. > :06:23.Excluded too, an armed faction known previously as al-Nusra,
:06:24. > :06:30.The US has welcomed the ceasefire, but it's been sidelined
:06:31. > :06:36.John Kerry's countless meetings with the Russians seemingly
:06:37. > :06:43.Moscow said it hoped America would join the new round of peace
:06:44. > :06:48.talks when Donald Trump moves into the White House.
:06:49. > :06:50.In the Kremlin today, Vladimir Putin portrayed
:06:51. > :06:54.himself as the deal-maker, the peacemaker in the Middle East.
:06:55. > :06:57.But after nearly six years of war, bringing peace
:06:58. > :07:05.A spokesman for the Free Syrian Army, an alliance of rebel factions,
:07:06. > :07:10.admitted they'd had no direct contact with the Syrian authorities,
:07:11. > :07:13.but he said Moscow had promised to keep Syrian Government
:07:14. > :07:23.Ahead of the ceasefire, a reminder of the hell Syria has become.
:07:24. > :07:26.The video purports to show the aftermath of an air strike today
:07:27. > :07:32.Schoolchildren running, screaming through the smoke and the chaos.
:07:33. > :07:37.This is a country desperate for peace.
:07:38. > :07:44.The head of the Royal College of General Practitioners has warned
:07:45. > :07:47.that patients in England could be forced to wait four weeks
:07:48. > :07:50.or longer to see their family doctor in months ahead.
:07:51. > :07:53.Helen Stokes-Lampard says surgeries are already over-stretched
:07:54. > :07:57.because of a shortage of GPs and years of under-investment.
:07:58. > :08:00.But the Government says it's investing an extra ?2.4 billion
:08:01. > :08:13.A review of the Youth Justice system in England and Wales has proposed
:08:14. > :08:15.that offenders who commit crimes before they're 18 years old should
:08:16. > :08:19.The review says naming child offenders such as Jon Venables
:08:20. > :08:22.and Robert Thompson, who murdered two-year-old
:08:23. > :08:24.James Bulger in Liverpool in 1993, undermines attempts
:08:25. > :08:31.Police in Cornwall are investigating what they say
:08:32. > :08:32.are the unexplained deaths of two men.
:08:33. > :08:35.The bodies were found yesterday evening at a block
:08:36. > :08:43.One man was in his early thirties, the other was in his twenties.
:08:44. > :08:45.The Hollywood actress Debbie Reynolds, who starred
:08:46. > :08:47.with Gene Kelly in the musical Singin' in the Rain, has died.
:08:48. > :08:56.Her death was announced a day after the death of her daughter,
:08:57. > :09:00.Her son said the news had been too much for her to bear,
:09:01. > :09:05.as our correspondent David Sillito reports.
:09:06. > :09:08.# I'm singin' in the rain, just singin' in the rain.
:09:09. > :09:14.Singin' In The Rain, Debbie Reynolds was just 19.
:09:15. > :09:17.She'd not really danced before this, but this
:09:18. > :09:28.I was supposed to be an innocent, virginal little
:09:29. > :09:32.I think it was a tough deal for poor Gene to be stuck
:09:33. > :09:38.It would have been far better for him to have a great dancer.
:09:39. > :09:41.But I worked so hard that I think, in the end, when I look
:09:42. > :09:42.at that performance of that little girl,
:09:43. > :09:50.# All I do is dream of you the whole night through.#
:09:51. > :09:52.64 years later, her death comes just a day after losing
:09:53. > :09:56.She'd been planning her funeral when she was taken ill.
:09:57. > :09:59.Her son Todd said the stress was simply too much.
:10:00. > :10:00.Among the tributes, Bette Midler, who said
:10:01. > :10:06.Dame Joan Collins said she was truly heartbroken.
:10:07. > :10:10.You could make an album, I could produce it.
:10:11. > :10:13.That mother-and-daughter relationship, Meryl Streep
:10:14. > :10:17.and Shirley MacLaine gave us a taste of the ups and downs in
:10:18. > :10:28.Indeed, Debbie Reynolds wanted to play the role, but
:10:29. > :10:31.was told she wasn't right for the part.
:10:32. > :10:34.You want me to do well, just not better than you.
:10:35. > :10:38.What she was right for was old-school Hollywood
:10:39. > :10:42.The show always went on, even when she was abandoned by
:10:43. > :10:45.her husband, Eddie Fisher, for Elizabeth Taylor.
:10:46. > :10:48.My personal life is always sort of like this.
:10:49. > :10:50.That little choo-choo train that says, "I think I can, I think
:10:51. > :10:59.Luckily for me, God was good and I have two wonderful children.
:11:00. > :11:01.And here she is, Carrie Fisher, six years old, watching her
:11:02. > :11:09.The photographer said she didn't move.
:11:10. > :11:11.54 years later, Debbie Reynolds' final words:
:11:12. > :11:15.But if you want to remember what made her
:11:16. > :11:37.The actress Debbie Reynolds, who has died at the age of 84.
:11:38. > :11:39.There's more throughout the night on the BBC News Channel.
:11:40. > :11:42.Now on BBC One, it's time for the news where you are.