:00:00. > :00:08.This is BBC World News Today with me, Reged Ahmad.
:00:09. > :00:11.America's National Intelligence chief says Russia made an aggressive
:00:12. > :00:16.attempt to interfere in the US election.
:00:17. > :00:22.James Clapper appears at a Senate investigation into hacking attacks
:00:23. > :00:30.He says Russia continues to be a serious cyber threat.
:00:31. > :00:35.It also entailed classical propaganda and disinformation, fake
:00:36. > :00:43.news. Did that continue? Yes. Two
:00:44. > :00:44.people are killed in a car bomb explosion near a court building
:00:45. > :00:47.in the Turkish city of Izmir. New research suggests that living
:00:48. > :00:50.near a busy road increases the risk And the bad boy prince -
:00:51. > :00:54.Letters written by Princess Diana reveal that her son Harry
:00:55. > :01:18.was routinely in trouble at school. America's Director of National
:01:19. > :01:24.Intelligence, James Clapper, says there were multiple motives
:01:25. > :01:27.for cyberattacks during the US presidential election,
:01:28. > :01:29.but he says any interference did not He's referring there to whether US
:01:30. > :01:37.voting machines were manipulated. Mr Clapper, and other senior
:01:38. > :01:40.intelligence and security figures, were giving evidence before
:01:41. > :01:42.the Senate Armed Services He described Russia
:01:43. > :01:44.an an existential threat Mr Clapper was also asked
:01:45. > :01:48.by the committee about WikiLeaks He insisted that Assange had put
:01:49. > :01:51.American lives in danger. James Clapper's comments
:01:52. > :01:53.were in contrast to incoming president Donald Trump
:01:54. > :01:55.who on Wednesday seemed to back Assange's view which cast doubt
:01:56. > :01:58.on whether Russia was the source Mr Trump has since insisted that
:01:59. > :02:02.he's a big fan of US Intelligence. During the hearing, Mr Clapper
:02:03. > :02:05.was asked directly about Mr Trump and whether his behaviour had
:02:06. > :02:11.undermined the intelligence There is an important distinction
:02:12. > :02:18.here between healthy scepticism, which policymakers, to include
:02:19. > :02:20.policymaker number one, should always have foreign intelligence,
:02:21. > :02:23.but I think there is a difference between scepticism and
:02:24. > :02:25.disparagement. An intelligence report into alleged
:02:26. > :02:28.Russian hacking is set to be Let's speak to our correspondent
:02:29. > :02:39.in Washington, Laura Bicker. Laura, a lot came out of today, but
:02:40. > :02:45.what is the biggest thing that we should be thinking about? This was a
:02:46. > :02:51.sobering assessment of a side bar, a series of cyber attacks jawing the
:02:52. > :02:55.US election. Now, what these top intelligence chiefs are saying is
:02:56. > :03:02.not only did they aggressively hack the US election and they say they
:03:03. > :03:06.have not seen hacking aggressively like this in past elections, but
:03:07. > :03:12.this is a threat that is growing. Not just from Russia, but from
:03:13. > :03:16.elsewhere. And they had a warning for their success that they needed
:03:17. > :03:21.to do better and that is certainly what the National intelligence
:03:22. > :03:26.agency director, James Clapper, had to say. But will his successor list?
:03:27. > :03:31.Because it's successor, Donald Trump, seems to be looking
:03:32. > :03:34.elsewhere. He has dismissed the evidence from various intelligence
:03:35. > :03:39.communities. 17 separate intelligence agencies, that Russia
:03:40. > :03:43.hacked into the US election. He dismissed it in the past, saying
:03:44. > :03:47.that these are the same and chief Sue said that Sadam Hussein had
:03:48. > :03:50.weapons of mass destruction, and he said it could beat Russia, China, or
:03:51. > :03:56.some 14-year-old sitting in their bedroom somewhere. And then of
:03:57. > :03:59.course, recently, he looked as if he was siding with Julian Assange. As
:04:00. > :04:05.you mentioned there, the founder Wikileaks. And to that, the
:04:06. > :04:14.Democratic senator Claire McCaskill had this to say. This information,
:04:15. > :04:20.this goes back to the 60s. The funding that they would share or
:04:21. > :04:23.provide two candidates they supported, the use of this
:04:24. > :04:30.information. But I don't think that we've ever encountered a more
:04:31. > :04:34.aggressive. -- disinformation. Or direct campaign to interfere in our
:04:35. > :04:40.election process than was seen in this case. Laura, there is a much
:04:41. > :04:45.anticipated meeting tomorrow between intelligence chiefs and Donald
:04:46. > :04:50.Trump. Yes, there is. President Obama has already been briefed on a
:04:51. > :04:54.full report by these intelligence chiefs. Donald Trump will get that
:04:55. > :04:57.tomorrow and next week the public will get an unclassified version. It
:04:58. > :05:00.will be interesting to see the reaction of Donald Trump tomorrow
:05:01. > :05:03.because he is coming under increasing pressure, not just from
:05:04. > :05:09.intelligence chiefs but also from his own party. What will he say? And
:05:10. > :05:11.what will the tweet after he has seen that report? Laura, from
:05:12. > :05:12.Washington, thank you very much. Two people have been killed and five
:05:13. > :05:15.wounded in a car bomb explosion The blast took place outside
:05:16. > :05:19.the city's courthouse, with armed attackers opening fire
:05:20. > :05:21.before detonating a bomb. Two of the attackers were shot dead
:05:22. > :05:24.by police and a third Officials have blamed
:05:25. > :05:27.Kurdish militants. This CCTV footage silently conveys
:05:28. > :05:39.the scale of the fatal blast Now the mangled wreckage of the car
:05:40. > :05:50.bomb litters the police checkpoint, where several people
:05:51. > :05:54.have been killed and injured. Turkish police say the bomb was
:05:55. > :05:57.detonated after officers attempted to stop a vehicle in front
:05:58. > :06:05.of the courthouse in is near. Eyewitnesses described
:06:06. > :06:08.what happened next. TRANSLATION: I was at the security
:06:09. > :06:11.cabin and a black car approached and He got out of the car
:06:12. > :06:15.and exploded the bomb he I ran into the market
:06:16. > :06:22.and lay down on the floor. Police at the scene shot dead
:06:23. > :06:25.a man they suspected following a shoot out involving
:06:26. > :06:29.the police and a number of men The area has now been
:06:30. > :06:32.sealed off for further The governor of Izmir has
:06:33. > :06:49.already saiD he believes that Kurdish separatists, the PKK,
:06:50. > :06:51.are behind the attack. The group, however, has not
:06:52. > :06:53.claimed responsibility. TRANSLATION: The terrorists
:06:54. > :06:57.were captured dead. Along with them, two
:06:58. > :07:00.AK-47 rifles, an RPG7, and eight sets of ammunition
:07:01. > :07:02.as well as hand grenades. It was just a week ago
:07:03. > :07:05.in Istanbul that 39 people were killed in a terrorist
:07:06. > :07:08.attack carried out by the so-called As security forces grapple
:07:09. > :07:17.with today's events in the normally peaceful
:07:18. > :07:18.seaside town of Izmir, Turks are again left
:07:19. > :07:20.with a sense that they are no longer safe
:07:21. > :07:23.in their own country. Now a look at some of
:07:24. > :07:36.the day's other news. Syrian state media say at least ten
:07:37. > :07:41.people have been killed by a car bomb in the government-controlled
:07:42. > :07:46.capital. Videos show a number of damaged cars and buildings on what
:07:47. > :07:49.would normally be a busy street. It is not yet clear who was behind the
:07:50. > :07:53.attack. The Iraqi military says it's opening
:07:54. > :07:56.a new front in the fight It's trying to re-capture towns
:07:57. > :08:00.near the Syrian border in the west. For weeks the army has been
:08:01. > :08:02.engaged in a major fight against the militants
:08:03. > :08:04.in the northern city of Mosul. German authorities are investigating
:08:05. > :08:07.whether there were security failings relating to the truck attack
:08:08. > :08:09.on a Christmas market in Berlin. The security services had
:08:10. > :08:11.dropped surveillance of the Tunisian Anis Amri
:08:12. > :08:15.despite identifying him as potentially dangerous,
:08:16. > :08:18.and known to be living under Police in Israel have arrested two
:08:19. > :08:22.people accused of inciting violence against judges who convicted a young
:08:23. > :08:24.soldier on Wednesday of manslaughter, for shooting dead
:08:25. > :08:26.a wounded Palestinian attacker. The military court's decision
:08:27. > :08:30.to convict Sgt Elor Azaria on Wednesday has sharply divided
:08:31. > :08:32.opinion, with some threatening Four teenagers have been arrested
:08:33. > :08:44.in the US city of Chicago after a man was tortured in a video
:08:45. > :08:49.broadcast live on Facebook. Police say the man has special
:08:50. > :08:52.needs and have described the video as "sickening"
:08:53. > :08:56.and a possible hate crime. Catharina Moh has more -
:08:57. > :08:59.and just a warning you may find some A graphic attack,
:09:00. > :09:05.streamed live on Facebook. A man bound, beaten,
:09:06. > :09:09.and tortured in Chicago. The assailants can be heard
:09:10. > :09:16.shouting racial slurs. It makes you wonder
:09:17. > :09:19.what would make individuals I have been a cop
:09:20. > :09:24.for 28 years and I've seen things that you shouldn't see
:09:25. > :09:28.in a lifetime but it still amazes me how we still see things
:09:29. > :09:32.that you just shouldn't. In one part of the half-hour video,
:09:33. > :09:36.they use a knife to remove part of his
:09:37. > :09:38.scalp and he is forced at knife-point to say,
:09:39. > :09:39."I Police say the victim has
:09:40. > :09:45.mental health challenges. They found him wandering
:09:46. > :09:48.the streets disorientated. Like I said, I mean,
:09:49. > :10:01.it took most of the night for him to calm down enough to be
:10:02. > :10:03.able to talk to us. He is an acquaintance of one
:10:04. > :10:06.of the subjects and apparently they For teenagers have
:10:07. > :10:09.been arrested, two Police say he may have been
:10:10. > :10:13.kidnapped for up to 48 hours If you looked at the video,
:10:14. > :10:16.they were just... Investigators don't believe this
:10:17. > :10:19.was a racist attack. They believed the victim
:10:20. > :10:22.was targeted because he has special needs and that it is possible
:10:23. > :10:24.the suspects were trying to extort Police in Austria say they're
:10:25. > :10:38.still looking for about six men suspected of sexually
:10:39. > :10:40.assaulting 18 women during New Year's Eve celebrations
:10:41. > :10:42.in the western city of Innsbruck. The men, thought to be
:10:43. > :10:45.from Asia or North Africa, groped and kissed the women
:10:46. > :10:50.as they watched a firework display. The assaults come a year
:10:51. > :10:52.after hundreds of women were attacked in the German city
:10:53. > :11:07.of Cologne during 2015 New Europe is like a celebration in
:11:08. > :11:15.a Innsbruck. It was here, among this crowd, that 18 met -- and women who
:11:16. > :11:20.had come to watch the fireworks were assaulted. Lycee it was done by a
:11:21. > :11:25.group of five or six men. They touched the women inappropriately.
:11:26. > :11:28.The man who is leading the investigation told the BBC that the
:11:29. > :11:33.number of assault and the fact that they were carried out by a group was
:11:34. > :11:38.unprecedented in Innsbruck. The police are checking CCTV footage.
:11:39. > :11:42.The suspects are believed to be between 25 and 30 years old,
:11:43. > :11:47.possibly from a shot or North Africa. Their nationalities are not
:11:48. > :11:53.clear. It is but they are still in Innsbruck. Police say their research
:11:54. > :11:56.includes refugees are tours. The assaults happened despite heightened
:11:57. > :11:59.security in the city. Last year in neighbouring Germany, hundreds of
:12:00. > :12:05.women were assaulted on new year in Cologne. Anti-immigrant sentiment in
:12:06. > :12:10.Austria has grown after the refugee and migrant crisis in 2015. When the
:12:11. > :12:22.country to gain about 1% of its population. -- took in.
:12:23. > :12:25.There have also been reports of New Year's Eve
:12:26. > :12:28.It's been described as the mass molestation case in the south
:12:29. > :12:32.Several women have been telling the media they were
:12:33. > :12:36.One incident was caught on CCTV of two men on a motorbike
:12:37. > :12:41.But the police commissioner has now told the BBC there's no evidence
:12:42. > :13:41.to support allegations of widespread sexual assaults.
:13:42. > :13:43.People are pushing and shoving and they were
:13:44. > :13:44.touching and grabbing and
:13:45. > :13:46.groping and everything was happening on that
:13:47. > :13:47.street, and not only with
:13:48. > :13:59.They were using their arms and legs to slap them.
:14:00. > :14:23.But I felt so helpless but still I was not able to do anything.
:14:24. > :14:29.We have seen about 70 camera footage is. And we have not found any case
:14:30. > :14:43.which is molestation case. A British woman who dedicated
:14:44. > :14:46.her life to helping survivors of sexual violence
:14:47. > :14:48.after she was raped has died. Jill Saward was 51
:14:49. > :14:50.and suffered a stroke. She was assaulted in 1986
:14:51. > :14:54.by burglars who broke into her father's vicarage in Ealing
:14:55. > :14:56.in West London. Having already been partially
:14:57. > :14:59.identified by different media outlets, she went on to become
:15:00. > :15:01.the first rape victim to waive her right to anonymity,
:15:02. > :15:04.when she wrote a book People who live near
:15:05. > :15:14.major roads could be That's according to a decade-long
:15:15. > :15:19.study by scientists in Canada, which found one in ten cases
:15:20. > :15:21.could be linked to The researchers say more work is now
:15:22. > :15:26.needed to understand the link. Our Medical Correspondent Fergus
:15:27. > :15:34.Walsh has the story. Two of the downsides
:15:35. > :15:39.of living near a major road. But a greater likelihood
:15:40. > :15:47.of getting dementia? Well, that's the theory
:15:48. > :15:49.behind a new study. This research shows I think
:15:50. > :15:54.for pretty much the first time, there is a link between
:15:55. > :16:01.living near a busy main road - we are talking a busy A road or dual
:16:02. > :16:04.carriageway - and having But I think shows that this
:16:05. > :16:08.could be a new risk factor we haven't really
:16:09. > :16:09.considered before. A study of 2 million
:16:10. > :16:12.Canadians found around 10% of dementia cases in urban areas
:16:13. > :16:14.could be linked to exposure to heavy The researchers found that living
:16:15. > :16:18.within 50 metres of a major road increased the risk
:16:19. > :16:22.of dementia by 7-11%. At 100 metres, the
:16:23. > :16:28.increased risk was 4%. Leeds is like any urban
:16:29. > :16:30.centre, congested and Keeping the mind active is one
:16:31. > :16:39.of the benefits of this crossword club, so are members
:16:40. > :16:42.worried that city living might be main road, you could do yourself
:16:43. > :17:00.a great deal of damage. In the same way that
:17:01. > :17:05.when unleaded petrol was introduced, the connection between
:17:06. > :17:13.lead and brain damage was then proven so I would not
:17:14. > :17:15.be at all surprised. Around 850,000 people
:17:16. > :17:17.in the UK have dementia. It gradually robs them
:17:18. > :17:19.of their memories and brain But the origins of the condition
:17:20. > :17:23.are not well understood. This research doesn't prove that
:17:24. > :17:28.heavy traffic causes dementia. It makes a fascinating link that
:17:29. > :17:34.requires further investigation. But there are already
:17:35. > :17:35.many reasons to avoid the polluted
:17:36. > :17:39.air in our cities. It can cause serious breathing
:17:40. > :17:43.difficulties and trigger a heart attack or stroke
:17:44. > :17:49.in those already at risk. Last year, British scientists
:17:50. > :17:52.found tiny pollution particles in samples
:17:53. > :17:57.of brain tissue. Another hint there may be
:17:58. > :18:00.a link between traffic and For now, the best
:18:01. > :18:07.advice, to reduce your dementia risk is to exercise
:18:08. > :18:17.and eat healthily. Six letters from Princess Diana have
:18:18. > :18:20.sold for more than ?15,000 One handwritten letter from Diana
:18:21. > :18:24.to ex-Buckingham Palace steward Cyril Dickman revealed Prince Harry
:18:25. > :18:26.was "constantly in While another detailed how young
:18:27. > :18:30.Prince William would swamp his baby Bidders from as far away
:18:31. > :18:34.as Australia, Japan and the US all wanted to get their hands
:18:35. > :18:37.on a piece of the royal Joining us now is Luke MacDonald,
:18:38. > :18:44.the director of Cheffins Fine Art auctions, where the letters
:18:45. > :18:54.were sold. First of all, what were your
:18:55. > :18:59.favourite bits of this particular collection? Well, I think the
:19:00. > :19:06.letters you have just mentioned, two of which were extremely personal and
:19:07. > :19:13.clearly written to Cyril Dickman, the head student at King Palace, who
:19:14. > :19:19.they were obviously very close to and that is what really I find so
:19:20. > :19:25.fascinating and so nice. I think it is what people find so interesting.
:19:26. > :19:29.The letters themselves are very personal. I just wonder whether the
:19:30. > :19:34.royal family expressed any interest in getting hold of them and keeping
:19:35. > :19:39.them, given they detail what Princess Diana thought of her
:19:40. > :19:43.family. Before she died. We certainly made the palace very aware
:19:44. > :19:51.of the letters and we do know that they were... That they knew about
:19:52. > :19:58.them. But I think that they already have quite a lot of their own
:19:59. > :20:07.correspondence and photographs and so forth, so now. These letters
:20:08. > :20:14.weren't bought by the family. They were sold to collectors. Locally and
:20:15. > :20:19.abroad. It is 20 years since Princess Diana has passed away. What
:20:20. > :20:26.do you think these kinds of insides tell us about the Princess? I think
:20:27. > :20:31.they show a very personal sides and one that many people can relate to
:20:32. > :20:37.as a mother of small children and she was very much loved, the
:20:38. > :20:43.people's Princess, and I think people can relate, 20 years on to
:20:44. > :20:48.the time when she sadly did pass away and was killed tragically in
:20:49. > :20:54.Paris. I understand part of the wedding cake was sold at auction as
:20:55. > :20:59.well. How unusual is it for this kind of collection to come up? Well,
:21:00. > :21:05.I think quite unusual. Quite unusual to have so many items and have such
:21:06. > :21:11.a personal connection with one person, if you see what I mean.
:21:12. > :21:18.Cyril Dickman was head steward at Buckingham Palace for 50 years and
:21:19. > :21:24.new the Queen for all that time, obviously, and her young family and
:21:25. > :21:28.saw the young royals grow up and I think there was a special
:21:29. > :21:34.connection, so this collection itself was unique in that respect. I
:21:35. > :21:37.can't imagine that piece of wedding cake is very edible. Do we know
:21:38. > :21:42.anything about who bought it and what they may want to do with that?
:21:43. > :21:50.I don't know who bought it, actually, as it happens. It will be
:21:51. > :22:00.just as a souvenir, isn't it? And unique. 17 years all is, almost. --
:22:01. > :22:07.70 years old. All in its original wrapping, unopened, clearly. And as
:22:08. > :22:11.they all were. There were four pieces. Princess and's wedding,
:22:12. > :22:22.Charles and Diana's wedding, and I can't remember the other one now.
:22:23. > :22:25.Possibly Andrew and Sarah. Yes, the Duke of York's wedding. I can't
:22:26. > :22:32.remember now. It has been quite a busy day. We hope whoever has got
:22:33. > :22:33.those pieces of wedding cakes enjoy it in whatever form. Thank you very
:22:34. > :22:35.much. The biggest technology show in
:22:36. > :22:41.the world is underway in Las Vegas. as it's known, has attracted
:22:42. > :22:45.nearly 4,000 exhibitors Most interesting, perhaps,
:22:46. > :22:48.is the range of products designed for the home,
:22:49. > :22:50.which claim to use Here's our Technology
:22:51. > :22:58.correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones. In a penthouse suite at a ritzy
:22:59. > :23:00.Las Vegas hotel, smart There's a smart speaker
:23:01. > :23:05.for children, where There is even Nora,
:23:06. > :23:24.described as a smart snoring This little device is paired
:23:25. > :23:28.with a pad under the pillow which detects me snoring and moves
:23:29. > :23:31.just enough to stop me without The big theme this year
:23:32. > :23:35.is turning the advances in artificial intelligence
:23:36. > :23:38.into products. This one is meant to
:23:39. > :23:47.be a shop assistant. While this is designed
:23:48. > :23:49.as a companion for children Even into this toothbrush,
:23:50. > :23:53.which learns how you Artificial intelligence
:23:54. > :23:56.is not just gathering So then you learn where your
:23:57. > :24:03.weaknesses are, where your strengths are, and the purpose
:24:04. > :24:06.is to become better at taking care of your
:24:07. > :24:11.oral health. This walking stick is also
:24:12. > :24:13.smarter than it looks. An in-built mobile
:24:14. > :24:15.phone Sim card means And then when it detects it,
:24:16. > :24:24.it will alert the family or the So they can come and
:24:25. > :24:27.help these people. And this clever mirror helps
:24:28. > :24:32.anyone to try out make-up. From the Las Vegas strip
:24:33. > :24:39.we met someone, a young entrepreneur for Manchester,
:24:40. > :24:41.who has just flown in. His instant translation
:24:42. > :24:44.headphones aren't quite ready. They'll eventually be
:24:45. > :24:47.tiny earbuds, but he It is really important
:24:48. > :24:52.because we will be able to showcase what we have
:24:53. > :24:55.been working to the whole public and to the whole world, to let them
:24:56. > :24:59.know that this is something that started years ago, with small starts
:25:00. > :25:02.and the dedication and passion. The odds are against
:25:03. > :25:07.Danny, a one-man band taking on giants
:25:08. > :25:09.like Apple and Google, but like plenty of people here this
:25:10. > :25:12.week, he is betting that he has a product that
:25:13. > :25:29.can change the world. Before we go we will show these
:25:30. > :25:34.pictures of a five-month-old baby elephant taking a dip in Thailand as
:25:35. > :25:37.part of the rehabilitation process to heal her injured foot. It was got
:25:38. > :25:45.in a trap set by local villagers in November. The wind and her health
:25:46. > :25:49.has removed significantly, although she still refuses to put weight on
:25:50. > :25:53.her legs, so the treatment is being undertaken so that she can avoid
:25:54. > :25:54.having to use a prosthetic leg, which could take up to two months.
:25:55. > :25:55.That is all for now. Don't forget you can get
:25:56. > :25:58.in touch with me and some of the team on Twitter -
:25:59. > :26:11.I'm @RegedAhmad. Good evening. Some changes on the
:26:12. > :26:15.way over the next few days. We are losing the call, frosty nights and
:26:16. > :26:16.we are losing a lot of the sunshine as