06/01/2017 World News Today

This is BBC World News Today with me, Reged Ahmad.

The headlines: America's top intelligence chiefs are briefing

President-elect Donald Trump on claims of Russian hacking.

But before the meeting, Mr Trump told the New York Times

that the investigation was a witch hunt carried out by his

Gunmen opened fire in Fort Lauderdale.

Sending a message: Michelle Obama gives an emotional last

speech as First Lady, saying the country belongs

to the young, regardless of their background.

If you or your parents are immigrants, you are proud part of

their tradition, an infusion of cultures, talents, and I is in

generation after innovation. Also coming up: An iceberg five

times the size of Manhattan is close to breaking away

from the Antarctic ice shelf. Donald Trump has described

allegations that Russia interfered in the American presidential

election as part of a witch hunt The president-elect was speaking

to the New York Times ahead of a briefing by top US intelligence

officials on Russian cyber-attacks. That briefing is taking place about

now at Trump Tower in New York - this was Mike Pence,

vice-president elect The heads of the CIA,

FBI and National Intelligence insist the Kremlin ordered a cyber attack

to help Mr Trump's campaign. He has repeatedly cast

doubt on those claims. Ahead of the meeting,

CIA Director, John Brennan, said he was looking forward

to the encounter. I am hoping that he will be

respectful to the profession, respectful towards the intelligence

community and I am looking forward to a rather throw but, if not

sporting, discussion on this issue. Our north America correspondent

Nick Bryant has more. Did a cyber attack on America

organised by Vladimir Putin help put US intelligence can't say

whether votes were changed or opinions altered

but they are convinced Russia wanted the billionaire to win and conducted

a multifaceted cyber campaign using hacking, propaganda and fake

news to boost his chances It wasn't just the billionaire who

celebrated his unexpected victory, Intercepted conversations reportedly

picked up senior figures in the Russian government rejoicing,

too, among them officials said to be Donald Trump will be told

by America's intelligence chiefs that the Russians tried much harder

to hack the computers of the Democratic National Committee

than those at Republican headquarters, and also that

go-betweens have been identified who allegedly handed stolen e-mails

to the website WikiLeaks. Details from the classified report

were leaked to NBC News, Did a cyber attack on America

organised by Vladimir Putin help put Details from the classified report

were leaked to NBC News, "How did NBC get an exclusive

look into the top-secret Vice President Joe Biden said it was

time for Donald Trump to grow up. The idea that you know more

than the intelligence community knows, is something like saying

"I know more about physics Time to be an adult.

You are President. Donald Trump this morning complained

of a political witchhunt, and his spokesman said he is right

to be cautious. The President-elect has a healthy

scepticism of everything, People need to know that

when decisions are made, we've seen in the past that a rush

to judgment is not in This morning Donald Trump got

into an online dispute with Arnold Schwarzenegger over

ratings for the TV And so he continues

with his unconventional journey to the White House,

but troubled by that nagging question, did Russia

help him on his way? Let's speak to our correspondent

Aleem Maqbool, who's Our correspondent is in Washington.

You have been speaking to John Kerry. He has something to say about

these claims from Donald Trump that this focus on Russian hacking

amounts to a witchhunt? Yes, I spoke to secretary Kerry before Donald

Trump was briefed by the intelligence service. Just after

Donald Trump said he thought the focus on Russian hacking amounted to

a witchhunt, I asked Secretary Kerry Wattie of those remarks.

We have an extraordinary have professional intelligence community.

The men and women who work every day to give us information

And some of them sometimes have many different ways of doing things

In order that we can be informed and make decisions,

I think DNI Clapper could not have spoken more clearly about it,

he said that healthy scepticism is a good thing,

And he felt it fell on the side of disparagement.

So, I think he has spoken for this administration

There has also been friction with the administration and Theresa May.

This is very interesting. After secretary Kerry last week gave a

tough speech criticising Israeli settlement building in the occupied

territories, quite unusually, the British Prime Minister Theresa May

put out a statement criticising, effectively, the speech. In all the

time I have been covering American politics, which is a long time,

almost 16 years, I have never heard of British Prime Minister be that

critical in public of an American Foreign Secretary. So I asked John

Kerry what he made of this criticism from such a key ally. I'm very

gratified by the support I received from members in the Arab world, and

Turkey, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and others, expressed support for

the principles which I laid out, which by the way are very much alike

with what Great Britain believes would bring about a solution in

Middle Eastern peace. I stand by it. I believe the speech was honest, I

think it was very much spoken as a friend of Israel, but also as a

friend of the region and one that recognises it is heading in a

dangerous direction if we don't resolve this problem. Were you

surprised by promised a pot-macro reaction? An honest answer is yes

but I am not going to get into it. We move on. I did ask him whether he

thought this was something of the Donald Trump affect, perhaps the

British by Minister has been trying to align herself more closely with

the incoming American president double trouble, who has taken a

tougher stand in favour of Israeli issues, but he said was up to me to

speculate on that question. US media are reporting a shooting in Florida.

The sheriffs office has been quoted as saying several people have been

killed and nine have been wounded and the shooter is in police

custody. You can see these live pictures. It was at the airport. It

is believed the shooter acted alone. It is an ongoing incident at the

baggage claim area in terminal two. We hope to speak to our

correspondent shortly to get more on the news.

Michelle Obama has delivered her final speech as First Lady

of the United States with an impassioned call

on young people to have hope and fight for their rights.

Speaking at a ceremony in the White House to honour

American school counsellors, Mrs Obama told young people

to empower themselves with a good education and lead by example.

She concluded tearfully by saying that being First Lady had the been

Npower yourselves with the good education, then get out there and

use that education. Lead by example with hope. And never fear. And note

that I will be rooting for you can supporting new for the rest of my

life. And that is true I know full every person who is here today, and

for educators across this nation who get up every day and work their

hearts out to lift up our young people. And I am so grateful to all

of you for your passion and your dedication and all the hard work, on

behalf of our next generation, and I can think of no better way than to

end my time as First Lady than to celebrate all of you. So, I want to

close today by saying thank you. And queue for everything you do for our

kids and for our come to. Being your First Lady has been the greatest

honour of my life. And I feel proud. Russia says its aircraft carrier,

the Admiral Kuznetsov is to come home

from the Mediterranean, where it's been involved

in military action in Syria. The vessel's return is to be part

of a wider scaling back of Russia's Forces backing Moscow's ally,

President Bashar al-Assad recently won a significant victory

in the battle for Aleppo. Russian military forces have played

it he wrote in this war, providing support to the Syrian regime. So

much so that Moscow is credited with helping turn the tide in favour of

its ally, the Syrian president Bashar al-Assad but a week or so

ago, Vladimir Putin announced a partial pull out of its forces in

light of the ceasefire that Russia helped to broker, despite four

elections, is still holding. The Russian Foreign Ministry have said

it's aircraft carrier and some small warships based in the Mediterranean

would be the first to leave. Russia became significant military presence

in Syria but for some this is a sign that Moscow sees the Syrian conflict

is entering a new phase after helping the Syrian government take

control of Aleppo and with peace talks and folate of this month. But

this comes with an important caveat. It is the first time Russia has

announced the withdrawal -- isn't the first time Russia has announced

withdrawal from Syria, it did so in March and then went back in.

Police in Bangladesh say they have killed one of the masterminds

of last year's terror attack on a cafe in the capital Dhaka

which left 20 hostages, mostly foreigners, dead.

Nurul Islam Marzan and another suspected Islamist extremist died

in a pre-dawn raid on a property in the city.

The world's biggest art gallery, the Louvre in Paris,

says the number of foreign visitors fell by 20% last year

in the wake of Islamist attacks in the city and elsewhere in France.

The director of the Louvre, Jean-Luc Martinez, said the drop

in visitor numbers had cost the museum more than

Other galleries in Paris also saw a decline in foreign tourists.

A new documentary about David Bowie has revealed that he learned his

cancer was terminal only three months before he died.

The director of the Lazarus music video, which shows Bowie in a bed

with his eyes bandaged, says it was not about

Bowie's long-time producer also says the artist

was "at the top of his game" when recording his final

An iceberg a quarter of the size of Wales is close to breaking away

If and when it happens, it would be one of the 10

Scientists have been monitoring the break-up for months.

And even though the crack in the ice shelf has got

significantly worse in December, they're not blaming it

on climate change, but calling it a 'natural event'.

Here's our environment correspondent, Matt McGrath.

Stretching for around 100 miles in length,

the 100 yard wide rift in the Larsen ice shelf has grown

Just 12 miles of frozen material is keeping this enormous iceberg

Collapsing ice shelves are common in Antarctica.

As these pictures show, these fragmentations can

dramatically affect the landscape, creating icebergs of

A team of British researchers have been travelling to Antarctica

to monitor the growing rift in the Larsen C ice

shelf for several years, but they have been surprised

by the dramatic expansion in the rift that's taken place

What we've found is that the rift that's been in this ice shelf

for a number of years has broken through another 18 kilometres

and is now at risk of giving birth to an iceberg about a quarter

And the significance of that is it is a very large

iceberg that will go out into the open ocean,

but the remaining ice shelf we believe will be less stable

When large icebergs break off the edge off an ice shelf

like the Larsen B in 2002, it can have a dramatic

effect on the stability of the whole structure.

At Larsen B, most of the remaining shelf disintegrated

Experts at the British Antarctic Survey are worried that any

new iceberg formation could have long-term consequences.

When the ice shelf loses this ice, it may then start to collapse

and if that were to occur, then the glaciers that feed the ice

shelf could flow faster and contribute more to sea-level

When it shears away, the new iceberg will be one

of the biggest recorded - around 50 times the size

But despite concerns about the impact of global warning,

researchers they receive no evidence evidence that climate change

is playing any significant role in the new iceberg's formation.

Dr Anna Hogg is a researcher at Leeds University who uses

satellite technology to study ice sheets and ice shelves

Thank you for the joining us. Why is this important? Why should we care

about this? This is important because of the location in which the

iceberg will carve off. It will carve off the Larsen C which is on

the peninsular and we have seen dramatic warming in this region over

the last 20 years. Iceberg calving in itself is not a direct indicator

of climate change but it is important we monitor the small

events in order to better understand the region. What are the

consequences of this ice shelf separating? For example, for the

mammals that live there? Not so much for the mammals that live there. If

shipping routes were in this location, then icebergs could cause

problems for ships as they have to navigate around the speeches but for

this iceberg that is so large, it is possible to observe this using

satellites from space and therefore safely navigate the feature. In the

future, it may force problems when it is in smaller pieces that are

harder to spot. Once the iceberg moves away, will it melts, will we

see water levels rise? The iceberg itself, it is like an ice cube in

your gin and tonic, it won't directly cause sea level rise

because it is already floating in the water. Typically, icebergs last

many years. They melt very slowly over time so that is what we expect

will happen with this iceberg, too. Can you give us a sense of how

unusual an event this is? Is this something that scientists like

yourselves way to many decades for? We see ice berg is carving all the

time. There may be many pieces of fragments of ice that are about to

or nearly calving off different glaciers. This iceberg is not unique

in its calving but it is unique in the context of the size of the

iceberg which is much bigger than we usually observe. Thank you.

There is increasing talk about all the different ways

but what about when it comes to going under the knife?

Surgeons are labelling the technology a revolution

for the field - as the ability to print bespoke implants gives

patients quicker recovery times and a better end result.

Katie Silver's been to meet someone whose face has been

But, in 2011, he had an accident which tore

What happened next, I slammed into a piece

Not a good idea to hit something with your chin at 30 miles an hour,

and a titanium metal plate to rebuild his jaw.

They then covered it with a skin flap.

He didn't have any bottom teeth and his new mouth was tiny.

It is very difficult to speak when you have the opening

at the centre in North London, Veronique and her team

input George's CT scan into into a 3-D printer.

This is basically an oven, filled with nitrogen and powdered nylon.

It has a very hot temperature, but when the laser hits the nylon,

it pushes it to the point where it melts.

Here, they are making an engineering part, layer by layer.

Here in the corner is a 3-D printing on George's jaw.

George's doctor, Ian Hutchinson, says that 3-D printing has

We use it to plan the operation, and we use it to actually design

Apart from planning the operation, George's doctors also used the model

to make him an implant, perfectly fitted for his new jaw.

The technology has helped him maintain a sense of hope.

First of all, if you know that you are going to get a solution,

it means you can keep going, and second, red wine helps!

And there's also that passion for cycling, which survives,

in spite of everything he's been through.

Let's return to the story about the shooting at Fort Lauderdale. You can

see live pig just there of the emergency services. Let's go to our

correspondent to tell us a little bit more, she is in Washington. What

do we know best and Mark the latest we have heard is that the County

Sheriff office says there are multiple dead in the shooting, we

don't have the confirmed figure. Earlier, reports said nine people

were injured. We are still waiting to find out what the con firmed

casualty figures are. Clearly, this is a very distressing incident. It

took both at Fort Lauderdale airport, in the baggage claim area.

Apparently, it was a domestic flight, and the security is quite

limited there, it is easier to walk in that area, easier than if you

walked into the departure area for example. Somebody opened fire there.

It was a lone shooter, and that person has been taken into costs are

they. There is no information about whether he was acting alone. There

is no information about what his motive was. Was this a vintage of

crime, a personal grudge, or a terrorist act, we don't know yet

what act -- motivated the shooter. The incident shot down that

particular terminal. People were evacuated out onto the tarmac. We

have now seen pictures of people going back into the terminal now

that the shooter has been apprehended but in the operations of

the airport, at least from that terminal, they are still stopped.

There was a backdrop of traffic and passengers as police officers tried

to figure out what happened and speak to as many passengers as they

can to get details from witnesses who were resident. There is a

sensitivity about incidents at Ayr ports, especially in the United

States. Well, certainly there is a sensitivity about incidents at

airports not only in the United States. We have security in airports

since 9/11. When you go into an airport, you go through bag which

checks, screenings are you go through all kinds of checks to make

sure you are not carrying anything in that could be used as a weapon.

But when you leave the airport, there is less security, and that is

something that this attacker has taken advantage of. Of course there

is a heightened alert about security threats not only at airports but in

other transport areas and so on, with regards to the general fear

about terrorism attacks in the last couple of years because of the

anti-Isis campaign, the influence that Isis has had all other Islamic

extremists have had on instigating lone wolf attacks so there is

increased security because of that but it is to early to say what

inspired this individual to do this shooting.

Two people have been jailed in China for the defrauding people out of

millions of dollars. On the face of it, quite an extraordinary is dory.

It seemed like a anchor, there were tellers behind booths, in uniforms,

even the slips you would expect from a Chinese national bank, except it

was nothing of the sort. It was an illegal act which duped hundreds of

Chinese customers and the people and planet profited around the million

dollars. The two heads of this organisation have now failed in

their attempt, they have been jailed for nine years and nine and a half

years, respect every. You wonder how could you do this? How could you

setup the building and pretend it was a bag and get away with it? They

were able to do with this because it is the kind of rural body which

might have had some of the similar functions of the bank, they were

ordered to dodge any direct questions about whether it was

really a cooperative or a bank and were telling people it was kind of

the same thing, until one day, businessman tried to get his money

out, wasn't able to do so, and went to the police, telling them that

this looks a bit strange to me, the investigations began and the whole

thing came crumbling down. That is it for now. I am on Twitter. You can

get in touch with me. Also check out our website.

A change in the weather as we had through to the weekend. We have lost

most of the cold and frosty weather now and through the next couple of

days things will