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This is BBC World News Today with me, Celia Hatton. | :00:09. | :00:10. | |
The battle lines are being drawn in Washington over the future | :00:11. | :00:14. | |
of President Obama's health care reforms. | :00:15. | :00:15. | |
With just two weeks left of his presidency, the Republicans | :00:16. | :00:18. | |
are promising to repeal Obama's signature health care policy | :00:19. | :00:20. | |
New images of the main suspect in the Berlin truck attack passing | :00:21. | :00:27. | |
through Brussels are released by Belgian prosecutors. | :00:28. | :00:35. | |
2017 is looking to be a crucial year for the EU, | :00:36. | :00:38. | |
with Brexit, major elections and the rise of populism. | :00:39. | :00:41. | |
We gaze into the crystal ball at what lies ahead. | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
And spinning his way through old age. | :00:46. | :00:47. | |
He may be 105 years old but this Frenchman has set | :00:48. | :00:50. | |
With just days to go before he leaves the White House, | :00:51. | :01:14. | |
Barack Obama faces a battle over his legacy. | :01:15. | :01:16. | |
A political showdown is underway in Washington | :01:17. | :01:19. | |
over his health care reforms, with the Republicans promising | :01:20. | :01:21. | |
to repeal the legislation as soon as possible. | :01:22. | :01:24. | |
President Obama has been meeting fellow Democrats in Congress | :01:25. | :01:27. | |
to discuss how to protect the Affordable Care Act, | :01:28. | :01:31. | |
It started with a simple goal - to extend health insurance | :01:32. | :01:35. | |
Vice-president-elect Mike Pence said Donald Trump is working to ensure | :01:36. | :01:43. | |
an orderly transition to a new health care system. | :01:44. | :01:46. | |
Earlier, Mr Trump warned Republicans to ensure the Democrats took | :01:47. | :01:49. | |
the blame for what he described as "the Obamacare disaster". | :01:50. | :01:54. | |
There have been two distinguished guests at Capitol Hill this morning. | :01:55. | :02:08. | |
President Obama was here to try to save his key health care reforms. | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
And Vice President elect Mike Pence was here to talk about ridiculing | :02:14. | :02:18. | |
and replacing it. With me is, written and Bruce Westerman from | :02:19. | :02:25. | |
Arkansas. -- congressmen. What are you going to replace Obamacare with? | :02:26. | :02:31. | |
I'm not sure replace is the right word. The first order of business | :02:32. | :02:38. | |
will be to repeal some of the bad parts as much as possible and then | :02:39. | :02:42. | |
it will be a process to put in a good legislation that puts patients | :02:43. | :02:48. | |
first and is about a patient's ability to get access, something | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
that will not break the bank. We have seen the cost of insurance | :02:54. | :03:01. | |
premiums skyrocket, as much as 115% increases this year. For private | :03:02. | :03:07. | |
individuals buying their health insurance through employers, we have | :03:08. | :03:11. | |
seen deductibles and premiums go up and we have to get this up under | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
control and make it more patient centred. You have spoken of the | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
problems with Obamacare but you are saying you will not rip the whole | :03:21. | :03:28. | |
Affordable Care Act up? Through the reconciliation process there are | :03:29. | :03:34. | |
certain things we can wrap up to with taxes and spending and then we | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
will have to look at individual pieces of the whole health care | :03:40. | :03:49. | |
system, like Medicaid and Medicare. With Obamacare, nobody understood | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
what was in it when they got it. What about the 20 million Americans | :03:55. | :04:00. | |
who have health insurance that they would not have had before Obamacare, | :04:01. | :04:06. | |
will they get to keep it? A lot of those people had insurance and were | :04:07. | :04:12. | |
pushed in the exchanges. The rollback process will be slow. It | :04:13. | :04:17. | |
took 5-6 years to implicate Obamacare as it is now and we cannot | :04:18. | :04:23. | |
just pull the rug out but we have to do it in a methodical process and | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
give people peace of mind to do this in a way that allows people access | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
to health care but also do it in a smart way, debating individual | :04:33. | :04:39. | |
components and issues, keeping what is... Do you think both parties can | :04:40. | :04:46. | |
work together on some points? I think so because when you look at | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
the failure the increased premiums, people were told if they liked their | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
doctor they could keep them, it hasn't been true, we were told | :04:56. | :05:01. | |
premiums would go down $2500, not true, increased deductibles were | :05:02. | :05:08. | |
out-of-pocket expenses are tremendous, simple things like | :05:09. | :05:11. | |
health saving accounts allowing Americans to save money for expenses | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
and keep that money for future years, small solutions, I am not in | :05:16. | :05:24. | |
favour of one big package to replace what is there now. As a Republican, | :05:25. | :05:31. | |
you must be pretty happy with the state your party has found itself | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
in. What are you looking forward to under Donald Trump? I am looking | :05:37. | :05:44. | |
forward... -- I am going into my second term so I am looking forward | :05:45. | :05:51. | |
to getting legislation passed. Vice President Mike Pence was a member of | :05:52. | :05:58. | |
this body and is willing to work with us. I think we are seeing a | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
common vision that has been mandated by the American people that they | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
want the country to move in this direction and I am excited to help | :06:08. | :06:13. | |
it move that way. I heard from a Democratic congressman earlier and | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
he said he felt quite sad that it may be President Obama's last visit | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
to Congress. You have seen both sides within just a few hours but | :06:23. | :06:25. | |
the president elect will take his place in just 16 days in the White | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
House. The German prosecutor's office has | :06:30. | :06:32. | |
confirmed the detention of a second Tunisian suspect in connection | :06:33. | :06:34. | |
with the attack on a Officials said the man had dinner | :06:35. | :06:37. | |
with the killer, Anis Amri, The man who drove the truck | :06:38. | :06:40. | |
into the crowded market, He was shot dead in Milan, | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
four days after the attack. Today, Belgian prosecutors have | :06:45. | :06:59. | |
released a CCTV image which they say shows the main suspect in the Berlin | :07:00. | :07:03. | |
truck attack passing through Brussels two days later. | :07:04. | :07:04. | |
To get more on the arrest, let's go to our correspondent | :07:05. | :07:07. | |
Damien McGuiness who is in Berlin for us. | :07:08. | :07:11. | |
Tell me, what else can you tell us about this suspect and the ongoing | :07:12. | :07:20. | |
investigation? Officials said this afternoon that they think this new | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
suspect either knew about the attack, that it was going to happen, | :07:25. | :07:30. | |
or helped in planning. That is because it seems he spent all | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
evening the night before the actual attack chatting in the restaurant, | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
as you mentioned, with Anis Amri, and this was described as an | :07:39. | :07:45. | |
intensive chat. Indicating they were possibly talking about the attack. | :07:46. | :07:48. | |
Right now, police are questioning this suspect and analysing 20 mobile | :07:49. | :07:54. | |
phones seized in the refugee accommodation where this man left. | :07:55. | :08:01. | |
-- was living. He was an asylum seeker from Tunisia, like the | :08:02. | :08:07. | |
attacker Anis Amri, and this started a debate here about asylum seekers | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
who do not have their application for asylum accepted in Germany, | :08:13. | :08:18. | |
so-called failed asylum seekers. So the ramifications on the whole | :08:19. | :08:23. | |
debate about who is a legitimate asylum seeker and who is not as been | :08:24. | :08:32. | |
affected by this. Are there concerns that this investigation is widening? | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
The difficulty is that we have had a couple of false leads. You will | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
remember that the day of the attack the wrong man was arrested and this | :08:43. | :08:48. | |
meant that police were going down the wrong route for days and it is | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
thought this is one reason why Anis Amri slipped out of the German | :08:54. | :09:01. | |
police's grasp. He went to Amsterdam, spending a couple of | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
hours in Brussels before going through France to Italy. So there is | :09:06. | :09:15. | |
possibly going to be a big shake-up on domestic security through | :09:16. | :09:18. | |
Germany, it was announced yesterday by the interior minister of Germany. | :09:19. | :09:23. | |
It is not leading to a backlash against refugees, this case, but a | :09:24. | :09:28. | |
debate about who is a legitimate refugee, and what to do about asylum | :09:29. | :09:35. | |
seekers whose applications were rejected, and how to deport them | :09:36. | :09:36. | |
back to their countries. Turkish police have detained 20 | :09:37. | :09:39. | |
people in connection with the attack on a nightclub in Istanbul | :09:40. | :09:42. | |
on New Year's Eve. Earlier, the Turkish Foreign | :09:43. | :09:46. | |
Minister said the chief suspect had been formally identified, | :09:47. | :09:49. | |
but the authorities have Our correspondent Mark | :09:50. | :09:50. | |
Lowen is in Istanbul. Well, it's almost four days now | :09:51. | :10:01. | |
since the massacre at the Reina nightclub which left 39 people dead | :10:02. | :10:04. | |
and still the suspect is on the run. The Turkish Foreign Minister | :10:05. | :10:07. | |
says his identity has been established but we do not | :10:08. | :10:09. | |
have a name officially released. And very little information | :10:10. | :10:14. | |
has come out about him. Some reports that he could have been | :10:15. | :10:16. | |
from a Central Asian country, some video footage that suggests | :10:17. | :10:19. | |
he was in the central Turkish city of Konya back in December before | :10:20. | :10:22. | |
travelling to Istanbul. There have been detentions, some | :10:23. | :10:24. | |
more in the city of Izmir today, of dozens of people suspected | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
of having links to so-called Islamic State, which said | :10:30. | :10:33. | |
it was behind the attack. As for the gunman himself, | :10:34. | :10:35. | |
he is still at large. That is a real problem, of course, | :10:36. | :10:38. | |
for the country, for this nation, because they are fearful of any sort | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
of follow-up attacks and also they want proof from the people | :10:43. | :10:45. | |
who are meant to defend them, to protect this country, | :10:46. | :10:51. | |
that they really can close in on this man, | :10:52. | :10:52. | |
that he hasn't slipped through the net and possibly | :10:53. | :10:55. | |
even left Turkey to go But really those crucial hours | :10:56. | :10:57. | |
following the New Year's Eve attack have now gone | :10:58. | :11:01. | |
and so could the gunmen have been The president, President Erdogan, | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
spoke to the country today, his first public address | :11:06. | :11:21. | |
since the New Year's Eve attack, which is very unusual for a man | :11:22. | :11:23. | |
who rarely shies away from the limelight, and he said | :11:24. | :11:26. | |
that the aim of terrorism is to divide and polarise | :11:27. | :11:28. | |
the country, but we will stand tall as Turks, and he said those | :11:29. | :11:31. | |
who allege this is an attack on a lifestyle choice in Turkey | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
are talking rubbish. That comes from the allegation | :11:36. | :11:39. | |
that the Islamist rhetoric of President Erdogan | :11:40. | :11:42. | |
and his government has made the secular side of the country feel | :11:43. | :11:45. | |
vulnerable and exposed. But really Turkey is now desperately | :11:46. | :11:49. | |
trying to find this man and desperately trying to reassure | :11:50. | :11:52. | |
a country which has been profoundly shaken by this terror attack | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
in the heart of Istanbul. Turkey has warned that | :11:57. | :12:02. | |
a new round of Syria peace talks is at risk, | :12:03. | :12:04. | |
accusing the government of violating a fragile truce it brokered | :12:05. | :12:08. | |
with Russia last week. The nationwide ceasefire | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
is holding in most areas but is being threatened by fighting | :12:13. | :12:14. | |
near Damascus, in the areas Government forces and their | :12:15. | :12:17. | |
Iranian-backed allies are trying to recapture the area, | :12:18. | :12:21. | |
which is the main source of water to the capital | :12:22. | :12:24. | |
which has been without water The regime and the rebels | :12:25. | :12:27. | |
have been blaming each The UN said that the lack | :12:28. | :12:30. | |
of clean water in Damascus Any lack of water I think is | :12:31. | :12:34. | |
obviously a humanitarian emergency Lack of fresh water leads | :12:35. | :12:41. | |
to more and more diseases, As part of our response in Syria, | :12:42. | :12:44. | |
the UN has already rehabilitated and equipped a number of wells | :12:45. | :12:54. | |
in and around Damascus to cover about one third of daily | :12:55. | :12:57. | |
water needs in the city. Since the 22nd, those wells have | :12:58. | :13:00. | |
been the sole source of water Israel's Prime Minister, | :13:01. | :13:02. | |
Benjamin Netanyahu, has joined those calling for a pardon for a soldier | :13:03. | :13:09. | |
who's been convicted of manslaughter for the killing | :13:10. | :13:12. | |
of a wounded Palestinian. Sergeant Elor Azaria killed | :13:13. | :13:15. | |
Abdul Fatah al-Sharif in Hebron last March, | :13:16. | :13:18. | |
after the Palestinian had been involved in | :13:19. | :13:20. | |
stabbing another soldier. The high profile case has | :13:21. | :13:23. | |
polarised opinion in Israel, as our Middle East correspondent | :13:24. | :13:25. | |
Yolande Knell explains. It's minutes after two young | :13:26. | :13:31. | |
Palestinian men with knives attacked One is dead and one's | :13:32. | :13:33. | |
clearly still alive. Sgt Elor Azaria, | :13:34. | :13:43. | |
a 19-year-old medic, A single bullet to the head | :13:44. | :13:45. | |
killed Abdul Fatah Sharif. Today, the sergeant | :13:46. | :13:56. | |
was in a military court, smiling to see a friend | :13:57. | :13:58. | |
and his mother. But soon after, he was found | :13:59. | :14:01. | |
guilty of manslaughter. Judges rejected the soldiers claim | :14:02. | :14:03. | |
that the Palestinian posed a threat and decided he shot him | :14:04. | :14:09. | |
out of revenge. But Sgt Azaria has loyal backers, | :14:10. | :14:14. | |
in a country where most young people They accused the army | :14:15. | :14:17. | |
of abandoning one of its own. This guy came to do an attack, | :14:18. | :14:25. | |
to hurt about these families. Even the Israeli Defence | :14:26. | :14:30. | |
Minister spoke of this Before taking up his post, he made | :14:31. | :14:36. | |
clear his support of Sgt Azaria. And that caused tensions | :14:37. | :14:42. | |
with the top brass here They have said they command | :14:43. | :14:44. | |
according to rules and an ethical Such a high-profile trial | :14:45. | :14:50. | |
of a soldier for killing a Palestinian is very | :14:51. | :14:56. | |
unusual in Israel. The outcome was welcomed | :14:57. | :14:59. | |
by the family of Abdul Fatah Sharif. TRANSLATION: I feel like any father | :15:00. | :15:05. | |
would feel after seeing my son It's so hard to see that, | :15:06. | :15:08. | |
no-one can endure this. It's still hard for me every time | :15:09. | :15:12. | |
I remember what happened. If he died instantly, | :15:13. | :15:16. | |
it would've been much easier than to see your son | :15:17. | :15:18. | |
executed like that. Sgt Azaria's crime took place | :15:19. | :15:22. | |
during a wave of Palestinian attacks, when there was a national | :15:23. | :15:25. | |
debate about how to respond. And his case has proved | :15:26. | :15:29. | |
highly divisive. When he is sentenced, | :15:30. | :15:32. | |
the maximum he could serve is 20 years in jail, | :15:33. | :15:34. | |
but he is expected to get far less. Marine Le Pen, leader | :15:35. | :15:52. | |
of the French National Front, has launched a scathing attack | :15:53. | :15:54. | |
on the Euro, saying that France should go back | :15:55. | :15:56. | |
to its own national currency. The right-wing politician, | :15:57. | :15:59. | |
who is tipped to make it through to the final | :16:00. | :16:01. | |
round of the presidential election, said leaving the Euro | :16:02. | :16:03. | |
would help return sovereignty. 2017 is shaping up to be a crucial | :16:04. | :16:05. | |
year for the European Union. There's no doubt that Brexit, | :16:06. | :16:08. | |
the rise of the far right, and economic troubles | :16:09. | :16:11. | |
across the Continent will be among Hello, I'm Chris Morris, | :16:12. | :16:13. | |
and these are the top European Elections in several countries | :16:14. | :16:20. | |
are set to reveal whether rising populism is a passing phase | :16:21. | :16:27. | |
or a new reality. In the Netherlands in March, | :16:28. | :16:30. | |
we'll find out how well the Dutch His popularity has faded | :16:31. | :16:33. | |
before previous elections. In France, could Marine Le Pen | :16:34. | :16:40. | |
from the National Front claim Or will voters from the centre left | :16:41. | :16:43. | |
and centre right join In Germany, Angela Merkel remains | :16:44. | :16:51. | |
the favourite to win a fourth term in September but keep an eye | :16:52. | :16:55. | |
on rising support for the anti-immigrant, anti-Euro | :16:56. | :17:03. | |
Alternativ Fur Deutschland. At some stage there is almost | :17:04. | :17:05. | |
certainly going to be The antiestablishment | :17:06. | :17:07. | |
Five Star Movement is The European Union will hold | :17:08. | :17:10. | |
a special summit in Rome in March, to mark the 60th anniversary | :17:11. | :17:15. | |
of the treaty which founded Critics say there isn't | :17:16. | :17:17. | |
much to celebrate. But March should also see the UK | :17:18. | :17:22. | |
triggering Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, | :17:23. | :17:28. | |
setting off a process which will see For the first time, the EU | :17:29. | :17:31. | |
is about to get smaller, not bigger. Much will depend throughout | :17:32. | :17:39. | |
the year on the health of the European economy, | :17:40. | :17:41. | |
particularly in the Eurozone. The migration crisis | :17:42. | :17:44. | |
will also be closely watched. And then, of course, there are two | :17:45. | :17:48. | |
big external actors in Europe. To the east, Russia, | :17:49. | :17:51. | |
and the always difficult relationship European countries have | :17:52. | :17:54. | |
with President Vladimir Putin. And to the West, a new factor, | :17:55. | :17:58. | |
the sheer unpredictability What will he mean for European | :17:59. | :18:02. | |
security and for trade? For decades, Europe has | :18:03. | :18:09. | |
relied on stable relations Joining me now is Florentin Collomp, | :18:10. | :18:12. | |
the UK Correspondent We'll start with a topic I'm sure | :18:13. | :18:33. | |
you deal with on a daily basis, Brexit. Where you think we will be | :18:34. | :18:38. | |
one year from now in the negotiations? 2017 should be the | :18:39. | :18:44. | |
year of the end of the phoney war between the Europe and Britain in | :18:45. | :18:52. | |
that matter. Negotiations should start in March and then progress | :18:53. | :18:55. | |
throughout the year. By the end of the year, I doubt much will be | :18:56. | :19:03. | |
achieved because the negotiations will be interrupted by elections in | :19:04. | :19:07. | |
different countries on the continent, the Netherlands in March, | :19:08. | :19:12. | |
France in April, May and June, Germany in autumn. Until the autumn | :19:13. | :19:21. | |
of 2017, I think the core of the discussions will not have advanced | :19:22. | :19:26. | |
much. Elections. The name of the game. The French election, how do | :19:27. | :19:31. | |
you think the outcome of that will affect the rest of the EU? It is | :19:32. | :19:36. | |
important and it is very open actually. It might lead to | :19:37. | :19:42. | |
surprises. You had a report about marine Le Pen. She is one of the | :19:43. | :19:49. | |
fixtures of this election but people tend to project what happened in | :19:50. | :19:53. | |
Britain, or compare with the election of Donald Trump. I doubt a | :19:54. | :20:00. | |
surprise like that would happen in France because she has been a | :20:01. | :20:04. | |
permanent fixture of French politics for years, if not decades if you | :20:05. | :20:09. | |
consider her father at the head of the party as well. So the campaign | :20:10. | :20:19. | |
is very open. Populism will play a part will stop populism is on the | :20:20. | :20:27. | |
rise -- a part. Populism is on the rise. How would you characterise? | :20:28. | :20:37. | |
The British model and the huge event that Brexit was cannot compare our | :20:38. | :20:43. | |
be transferred to politics in different countries like France. | :20:44. | :20:50. | |
Actually Brexit has made support for the EU progress on the continent and | :20:51. | :20:58. | |
only a third of Europeans are actually ready to leave the EU if | :20:59. | :21:03. | |
they were asked to do so. In France, support for the EU is about 60%, so | :21:04. | :21:09. | |
it is not exactly the same topics and it is more linked to migration | :21:10. | :21:11. | |
in France. This year, Canada is preparing | :21:12. | :21:13. | |
to legalise the sale of marijuana. And, with that, a new industry | :21:14. | :21:16. | |
will be born and a whole new group of brands hope to redefine how | :21:17. | :21:19. | |
future consumers There is a large segment of people | :21:20. | :21:22. | |
that are not defined I am who I am, and I might | :21:23. | :21:52. | |
use cannabis but it's Just like people who drink coffee, | :21:53. | :21:57. | |
just like people who might enjoy We felt like there was no real | :21:58. | :22:03. | |
home for the creators, the people who are otherwise able | :22:04. | :22:41. | |
to engage in beautiful retail, there was no real home for them | :22:42. | :22:43. | |
to buy cannabis products. I had really never been | :22:44. | :22:46. | |
in a headshop that I wasn't And he's nothing less | :22:47. | :22:49. | |
than a cycling legend. Robert Marchand is 105 years | :22:50. | :23:13. | |
old and today he set He cycled well over | :23:14. | :23:17. | |
22km in one hour. It was a race against | :23:18. | :23:23. | |
the clock in a category the International Cycling Union | :23:24. | :23:25. | |
created just for him. Asked why he wanted to set | :23:26. | :23:28. | |
a new record, he told reporters he simply wanted to prove that | :23:29. | :23:31. | |
there's more to life after 100 Our Paris correspondent | :23:32. | :23:35. | |
Hugh Schofield has more. 92 laps, 22.5 kilometres, | :23:36. | :23:44. | |
Robert Marchand has done it again. The Frenchman is already | :23:45. | :23:50. | |
holder of the hour time trial for centenarians, | :23:51. | :23:54. | |
and now he is champion of a new age category, created for | :23:55. | :23:57. | |
cyclists aged 105. Robert Marchand has always | :23:58. | :24:05. | |
been a fitness fan. In earlier life he was a gymnastics | :24:06. | :24:08. | |
champion and a boxer. He never smoked, he drinks only the | :24:09. | :24:12. | |
occasional glass of wine TRANSLATION: I do 10-20 kilometres | :24:13. | :24:14. | |
every day but I don't With more and more people | :24:15. | :24:22. | |
around the world living into their hundreds, | :24:23. | :24:31. | |
the case of Robert Marchand Though his coaches | :24:32. | :24:33. | |
admit his physique is TRANSLATION: He has | :24:34. | :24:37. | |
an exceptional heart. Yesterday we did a 20-minute test | :24:38. | :24:45. | |
and all the 20 minutes his heart rate never surpassed 100 | :24:46. | :24:56. | |
beats per minute. At the end of his latest exploit, | :24:57. | :25:00. | |
Mr Marchand said his legs felt fine, His record now has to be officially | :25:01. | :25:04. | |
confirmed by international Lovely pictures now from | :25:05. | :25:11. | |
Chicago Zoo, where a two-week-old She hasn't been named yet, | :25:12. | :25:26. | |
but her birth is already being called significant, | :25:27. | :25:29. | |
as her species is considered Keepers hope she will help to raise | :25:30. | :25:31. | |
awareness about the threats facing A struggle over Barack Obama's | :25:32. | :25:49. | |
legacy is underway with two weeks left in his presidency. The | :25:50. | :25:53. | |
Republicans promise to repeal his signature health care policy. | :25:54. | :25:55. | |
Temperatures are going to continue to plunge through the rest of this | :25:56. | :26:11. | |
evening and tonight. | :26:12. | :26:13. |