:00:00. > :00:00.This is BBC World News Today with me Tom Donkin, broadcasting in the UK
:00:07. > :00:15.More than 30 people are now known to have died as icy temperatures
:00:16. > :00:18.The extreme conditions have caused big disruptions,
:00:19. > :00:21.while aid agencies have warned of the dangers faced by thousands
:00:22. > :00:34.of vulnerable people across the continent.
:00:35. > :00:40.Here especially, people are suffering too much and having
:00:41. > :00:44.respiratory infections, they are quickly going down because of
:00:45. > :00:45.pneumonia and bronchitis, it can be really bad.
:00:46. > :00:47.Protests in Turkey as the country's parliament debates constitutional
:00:48. > :00:49.changes that'll give President Erdogan more powers.
:00:50. > :00:50.Opponents say it'll turn a democratic system
:00:51. > :00:58.Is a visit to the dentist about to become a thing of the past?
:00:59. > :01:00.There's hope - because scientists discover a drug that encourages
:01:01. > :01:04.Meryl Streep hits out at Donald Trump in her
:01:05. > :01:08.He fires back by calling her one of the most 'overrated'
:01:09. > :01:27.More than 30 people have died over the weekend as a cold snap
:01:28. > :01:30.from the Arctic Circle took hold in much of central
:01:31. > :01:35.Temperatures dropped to as little as minus 30 celsius.
:01:36. > :01:43.In Kosovo for example many areas are without power.
:01:44. > :01:45.This is the Mirusha waterfall, a popular tourist attraction.
:01:46. > :01:57.Two people have died in Moscow, nearly 200 others are in hospital
:01:58. > :01:59.after suffering from severe hypothermia.
:02:00. > :02:01.And charities are concerned for refugees crossing
:02:02. > :02:06.the continent on foot or living in informal settlements.
:02:07. > :02:10.There are 2000 of them in the Serbian capital, Belgrade,
:02:11. > :02:13.where temperatures are down to minus 20.
:02:14. > :02:21.The fourth consecutive day of snow here has
:02:22. > :02:23.closed this area to shipping and given the area's ferry operators
:02:24. > :02:29.Traffic on another major waterway, the Danube, has also
:02:30. > :02:34.been suspended because of ice flows in Serbia, Romania and Bulgaria.
:02:35. > :02:37.In the major Romanian port city of Constanza,
:02:38. > :02:40.the Black Sea has frozen far out from the shore.
:02:41. > :02:42.Most affected by the cold are the poor in
:02:43. > :02:52.The homeless and migrants have been particularly hard hit.
:02:53. > :02:54.In this abandoned Belgrade warehouse, several hundred migrants
:02:55. > :02:57.and refugees have been living for months.
:02:58. > :02:59.These are the latest pictures from what was once called
:03:00. > :03:05.Yes, actually, the cold is too much and last night, all
:03:06. > :03:08.the people were around the fire and it was too cold.
:03:09. > :03:12.Until now, we are here because the situation is too
:03:13. > :03:21.There are 13 official refugee centres in Serbia with around 7,000
:03:22. > :03:27.Hungary is only allowing in 100 a week.
:03:28. > :03:30.Those near the top of the list wait here in
:03:31. > :03:37.Hungarian police and soldiers patrol on the far side.
:03:38. > :03:39.Meanwhile, in Italy, there are Christmas card
:03:40. > :03:46.Only a few years ago, such images were commonplace
:03:47. > :03:52.in January across Europe, but after five years of global
:03:53. > :03:57.warming, many people had forgotten how hard a real winter can be.
:03:58. > :03:59.Turkey's parliament began debating controversial changes
:04:00. > :04:04.to the constitution that would hugely increase the power
:04:05. > :04:07.He says they're needed to maintain 'stability'.
:04:08. > :04:12.The opposition accuse the government of trying to introduce
:04:13. > :04:15.If approved, the changes would give President Erdogan the power
:04:16. > :04:19.to appoint his government and declare 'states of emergency'
:04:20. > :04:21.They would also mean President Erdogan could serve two
:04:22. > :04:23.more five-year terms - potentially - keeping him
:04:24. > :04:38.He would also have more say over finances and budgets.
:04:39. > :04:43.As I mentioned, those proposals still need to go through Parliament
:04:44. > :04:49.twice and then to a public vote, how likely is that? The process would be
:04:50. > :04:54.longer than two weeks but the main opposition parties are saying they
:04:55. > :05:00.are going to be making some oppositions against changes to the
:05:01. > :05:07.consideration, so in two weeks, the parliament will be discussing the
:05:08. > :05:09.changes to the Constitution. 2016 was one of the bloodiest years for
:05:10. > :05:14.Turkey in recent memory, president and again would say that the country
:05:15. > :05:19.needs a strong leader in order to combat terrorism for what do Turks
:05:20. > :05:23.think about that argument? There are a lot of parties saying that, this
:05:24. > :05:29.change will bring more stability, so the people who are going to be, if
:05:30. > :05:32.the can changes, there will be a referendum so people who would be
:05:33. > :05:37.voting for the concert you should, they will be saying yes or no.
:05:38. > :05:43.People will be thinking more about whether supporting it, they will be
:05:44. > :05:47.thinking about that when they go to the polls. Surely they will be some
:05:48. > :05:50.in the country saying that the president has promised to crack down
:05:51. > :05:56.and tighten security, and all the string of attacks which continue to
:05:57. > :06:02.happen, that hasn't happened yet? In 2016, the past year, we have seen an
:06:03. > :06:06.attempted coup, so now the president is elected in Turkey. Beforehand
:06:07. > :06:12.they were not elections for the president. So right now, the parties
:06:13. > :06:15.are saying that, the president would be more powerful, and democracy will
:06:16. > :06:22.be more powerful so the terrorist attacks, and the two, they will be
:06:23. > :06:27.less in the future. Is this debate about the concert you shall have
:06:28. > :06:35.anything to do with the failed coup? This has been debated, for so long,
:06:36. > :06:38.even before the attempt. But after they could attack, after these
:06:39. > :06:42.attacks, they will be saying that this change will be to the system in
:06:43. > :06:44.Turkey. Now it's time to look at some
:06:45. > :06:48.of the days other news. Russia has called accusations by US
:06:49. > :06:50.intelligence agencies that it ran a programme of cyber hacking
:06:51. > :06:54.to influence the American presidential election
:06:55. > :06:57."groundless and amateurish". The Kremlin said the accusations
:06:58. > :07:00.resembled a witch-hunt - A new US intelligence report warns
:07:01. > :07:07.that the risk of conflicts between and within nations
:07:08. > :07:10.will increase over the next five years to levels not
:07:11. > :07:13.seen since the Cold War. Analysts say slow growth along
:07:14. > :07:16.with the use of greater technology in job markets will threaten poverty
:07:17. > :07:19.reduction and drive tensions within countries for years to come,
:07:20. > :07:32.leading to nationalism. Talks on reunification between
:07:33. > :07:38.Turkish and Greek site in Cyprus have begun in Geneva, seen as the
:07:39. > :07:38.best chance in a decade to end the 42 year division in the
:07:39. > :07:46.Mediterranean island. Donald Trump appears to have
:07:47. > :07:48.stolen the headlines He's called Meryl Streep 'overrated'
:07:49. > :07:51.The actress had accused Mr Trump of 'divisive rhetoric',
:07:52. > :07:53.at last night's awards in California, from where
:07:54. > :07:55.James Cook reports. Yet again Hollywood has been invaded
:07:56. > :07:58.by British acting royalty. In film and in television,
:07:59. > :08:00.stars from the UK are wowing And what could be more
:08:01. > :08:04.British than the Queen? She has been at the centre
:08:05. > :08:12.of the world for the past 63 years and I think the world could do
:08:13. > :08:16.with a few more women at the centre There were three awards
:08:17. > :08:22.for the cast of the BBC Its star, Tom Hiddleston,
:08:23. > :08:27.told us he couldn't believe it. I did not expect to win
:08:28. > :08:31.a Golden Globe tonight and I was sat next to Hugh Laurie when he won
:08:32. > :08:35.and I thought, I can go home happy. And then when it came
:08:36. > :08:37.to my category, I was up Another British winner was absent,
:08:38. > :08:46.Olivia Colman is preparing But Hugh Laurie was there to pick
:08:47. > :08:52.up his award from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association with a dig
:08:53. > :08:55.at Donald Trump. I suppose made more amazing
:08:56. > :08:58.by the fact that I will be able to say that I won this at the last
:08:59. > :09:01.ever Golden Globes. I don't mean to be gloomy,
:09:02. > :09:04.it's just that it has the words Hollywood,
:09:05. > :09:06.foreign and press in the title, Receiving a lifetime achievement
:09:07. > :09:11.award, Meryl Streep also lambasted Disrespect invites disrespect,
:09:12. > :09:20.violence incites violence. When the powerful use their position
:09:21. > :09:26.to bully others, we all lose. In the most predictable plot twists,
:09:27. > :09:38.Donald Trump responded on Twitter. On the night, though,
:09:39. > :09:40.it was not politics There were a record seven
:09:41. > :09:50.Golden Globes for the old-fashioned musical La La Land, including acting
:09:51. > :09:52.awards for its stars, And I think that hope and creativity
:09:53. > :10:02.are two of the most important things in the world and that is what this
:10:03. > :10:06.movie is about. Hollywood can be fun and frivolous
:10:07. > :10:09.but it also prides itself on tackling serious subjects
:10:10. > :10:13.and many stars here on the red carpet are predicting a surge
:10:14. > :10:17.in political films this year following the most
:10:18. > :10:21.divisive of elections. James Cook, BBC News,
:10:22. > :10:26.at the Golden Globes in Angeles. The Golden Globe awards also
:10:27. > :10:28.recognise achievements in television, and the biggest
:10:29. > :10:31.winner for the small screen was The Night Manager,
:10:32. > :10:33.an adaptation of a novel by spy novelist John Le Carre,
:10:34. > :10:36.which was co-produced by the BBC. Joining me live from Los Angeles
:10:37. > :10:51.is the show's executive Huge congratulations on the win, I'm
:10:52. > :10:58.only on the first episode of the series. This is essentially a spy
:10:59. > :11:06.story, isn't it? And not a Cold War won but a modern take. You think the
:11:07. > :11:12.spy genre is having a renaissance? I don't think it's ever going away.
:11:13. > :11:19.The Night Manager was adapted from a novel by John Omran, it was his
:11:20. > :11:30.first post Cold War model, and as the good Godfather of the genre, he
:11:31. > :11:35.set the template for everything we have come to know as the
:11:36. > :11:44.quintessential spy story. We taciturn Brits have a worrying
:11:45. > :11:48.talent for the city and reserve. -- duplicity. At the spy story works so
:11:49. > :11:59.well because it's about people who not only have two... Have to lie in
:12:00. > :12:04.their lives, but also to their nearest and dearest. I don't think
:12:05. > :12:09.that's gone to go away and the moral ambiguity that also is championed by
:12:10. > :12:15.Le Carre, head of his time, is increasing a something of the
:12:16. > :12:18.zeitgeist. I think we're seeing a renascent and we will go on seeing a
:12:19. > :12:24.recent in spy stories, they are fun to watch and fun to make. Huge
:12:25. > :12:31.congratulations for the many wins, the executive producer of the
:12:32. > :12:34.Brilliant Beginnings, which won a slew of awards including acting
:12:35. > :12:40.gongs for Tom Fulston and Hugh Laurie.
:12:41. > :12:42.In the last hour, it's been annoucned that Donald Trump has
:12:43. > :12:45.appointed his son in law Jared Kushner as a Special Advisor
:12:46. > :12:50.Anthony Zurcher joins us from Washington.
:12:51. > :12:59.How legal is this? There are none was against nepotism that dates back
:13:00. > :13:05.to the 1960s that they can't put on that of your family -- laws against
:13:06. > :13:11.nepotism. Reports are coming out that the Trump administration's
:13:12. > :13:15.lawyers have come up with a walk around, they could look at the
:13:16. > :13:20.language of the law that talks about appointing two and agency and say
:13:21. > :13:25.the White House isn't a government agency therefore not covered by
:13:26. > :13:34.this, and then there was an outlandish proposal suggested that
:13:35. > :13:38.Donald Trump appoints him, and then pardons amusingly presidential
:13:39. > :13:42.pardon looks as if they will try and take advantage of this grey area and
:13:43. > :13:50.getting in there. The reality is that Jared Kushner has had Donald
:13:51. > :13:52.Trump's ear, he has had his ear throughout the campaign, whether or
:13:53. > :13:59.not he had an official position, he would be looking to him for advice.
:14:00. > :14:03.We often see him by Donald Trump's side, many of these meetings, I just
:14:04. > :14:11.want to ask why that is, why does he want so badly in his illustration?
:14:12. > :14:15.He has an interesting ground and a lot in common with Donald Trump,
:14:16. > :14:24.they were both children of real estate, he inherited his father's
:14:25. > :14:33.business business, he has ties to the more established political
:14:34. > :14:39.people in Manhattan, said Donald Trump feels he is a go-between
:14:40. > :14:41.between Donald Trump and some of the establishment figures that he wants
:14:42. > :14:48.to curry favour with but the bottom line is that he trusts Jared Kushner
:14:49. > :14:56.and he stood by him throughout the campaign so you want to keep them
:14:57. > :14:58.close. Thank you. Donald Trump has announced that his son-in-law Jared
:14:59. > :15:04.Kushner is to be senior adviser. Northern Ireland's power-sharing
:15:05. > :15:06.agreement is under threat after the most senior Republican
:15:07. > :15:08.politician in the as Deputy First Minister,
:15:09. > :15:15.in protest at the handling of His Sinn Fein party,
:15:16. > :15:23.which favours unification with the Republic of Ireland,
:15:24. > :15:24.currently shares power with a pro-British party
:15:25. > :15:35.in a system established Just put this in context and explain
:15:36. > :15:39.to our viewers what this means for the Northern Ireland peace process.
:15:40. > :15:44.Essentially, the peace process itself is still intact, what we're
:15:45. > :15:47.talking about tonight is the political process, Northern Ireland
:15:48. > :15:52.is run by a Northern Ireland executive which is made up of
:15:53. > :15:55.essentially two parties, the DUP, pro-British and Sinn Fein,
:15:56. > :16:01.pro-Irish, the institutions were set up as a result of the good Friday
:16:02. > :16:04.agreement, a peace agreement, and it operates on the power-sharing, so
:16:05. > :16:08.you have a First Minister from one party and the Deputy First Minister
:16:09. > :16:12.from the other party. The power-sharing can't exist unless you
:16:13. > :16:16.have two people going together, what has happened the night is Martin
:16:17. > :16:18.McGuinness, the Deputy First Minister, has resigned and that
:16:19. > :16:26.basically means power-sharing cannot continue. They have a week to try
:16:27. > :16:29.and sort it out and nominate another Deputy First Minister, and then the
:16:30. > :16:33.British Secretary of State in London has a big decision to make, he can
:16:34. > :16:38.ask for elections and then they would be new elections to the
:16:39. > :16:41.Northern Ireland assembly. These two parties in the power-sharing
:16:42. > :16:47.agreement share power, they are the highest elected parties in the land,
:16:48. > :16:52.they become the two highest voted for parties, what happens then? That
:16:53. > :16:55.is highly likely, if you look at the statistics, it is likely that both
:16:56. > :17:00.DUP and Sinn Fein could come back again as the top two parties and
:17:01. > :17:04.technically, you could have a DUP First Minister and a Sinn Fein
:17:05. > :17:10.Deputy First Minister. What it means is that all the problems we were
:17:11. > :17:13.talking about, the energy scheme, the mass debating, they haven't gone
:17:14. > :17:21.away, they will have to sit down and come up with some sort of system to
:17:22. > :17:22.sort out this mess. It means that the old problems simply haven't gone
:17:23. > :17:29.away. A fund for the family
:17:30. > :17:31.of the Polish lorry driver killed in the Berlin Christmas
:17:32. > :17:33.market attack has reached Fellow lorry driver David Duncan
:17:34. > :17:39.was so shocked by what happened Today Mr Duncan was personally
:17:40. > :17:45.thanked by the Polish Ambassador to London,
:17:46. > :17:55.as Kasia Madera reports. When Dave Duncan heard
:17:56. > :17:56.about Lukasz Urban's killing in the attack on the Christmas
:17:57. > :17:59.market in Berlin, he felt compelled to help the deceased
:18:00. > :18:01.man's family in some way. So he set up an online fundraising
:18:02. > :18:05.campaign to raise money. It was just something I'd seen
:18:06. > :18:08.on the TV or something and thought "Why not?
:18:09. > :18:11.Why not me?" Actions speak louder
:18:12. > :18:14.than words, so they say. It's been incredible, amazing that
:18:15. > :18:24.people responded to it, yeah. The campaign has been welcomed
:18:25. > :18:28.by Mr Urban's family Please accept my gratitude
:18:29. > :18:37.for your remarkable work. Today, the Polish ambassador Arkady,
:18:38. > :18:40.Rzegocki, met up with Mr Duncan Here are some Polish
:18:41. > :18:50.products, just for you. The money raised by Mr Duncan
:18:51. > :18:54.will go to Lucasz Urban's widow and teenage son,
:18:55. > :18:57.and he hopes to visit them in Poland Now, if you're like me you'll do
:18:58. > :19:06.just about anything to get out of going to the dentist -
:19:07. > :19:09.but pretty soon we might not have Scientists say teeth can be
:19:10. > :19:14.encouraged to repair themselves, meaning potentially -
:19:15. > :19:16.an end to fillings. A team of researchers
:19:17. > :19:22.from King's College here in London showed that a chemical can encourage
:19:23. > :19:37.cells to heal small If you would be able to explain how
:19:38. > :19:43.this works? We insert a small sponge, that is soaked in a drug,
:19:44. > :19:47.into the cavity in the tooth, that's prepared in the normal way by a
:19:48. > :19:53.dentist, and the drug of the sponge stimulant is the stem cells in the
:19:54. > :20:00.tooth to begin to repair the damage. Specifically that means making new
:20:01. > :20:04.mineralised tissue called dentine. As I understand the drug can only
:20:05. > :20:09.help very small cavities, in the future, will they be able to repair
:20:10. > :20:17.larger holes and maybe recruited entirely? It can repair larger
:20:18. > :20:22.cavities, what it does is it enhances a natural process, that
:20:23. > :20:27.itself can only repair small lesions. When we add the drug, it
:20:28. > :20:31.enhances that process and so we're able to naturally repair larger
:20:32. > :20:39.lesions. So the tooth is the related to repair itself. -- stimulator.
:20:40. > :20:44.That's not related to growing the new tooth, when it's to do with
:20:45. > :20:52.dental decay Andrew trauma Kouyate damage to teeth. How long do you
:20:53. > :20:59.think it might be before you and I benefit from this? We have quite a
:21:00. > :21:05.few additional things to do, as you might imagine, mice teeth are very
:21:06. > :21:09.small, so the damage is small but is repaired, so we have to look at how
:21:10. > :21:15.we can scale up to the equivalent size of a human tooth. Once that is
:21:16. > :21:21.done, hopefully we will be in a position to start thinking and
:21:22. > :21:25.preparing for testing this in patients. I mentioned we might not
:21:26. > :21:31.have to go to the dentist so often, is there any truth in that? How
:21:32. > :21:37.common feelings, is that one of the reasons people have to go to the
:21:38. > :21:43.dentist? -- billings. There is some truth in that, we think this process
:21:44. > :21:47.restores normal structure of the truth rather than having something
:21:48. > :21:53.artificial put in such is a filling or cement of some kind, there is
:21:54. > :21:56.less chance for failure in the future and conventional fillings do
:21:57. > :22:00.fail and you have to go back to the dentist. This system essentially
:22:01. > :22:08.recreates the normal tooth structure. Thank you for all of that
:22:09. > :22:12.interesting detail. He led the study into regrowing teeth and the new
:22:13. > :22:18.potential future for dentistry. Divorce can often be a painfully
:22:19. > :22:20.long and drawn out process. But in India, a Muslim practice
:22:21. > :22:23.grants men instant divorce if they say "talaq",
:22:24. > :22:24.meaning "divorce", three times. The practice, known as "triple
:22:25. > :22:27.talaq", is completely legal but is now facing a strong challenge
:22:28. > :22:29.at India's highest court which could declare
:22:30. > :22:31.the practice unconstitutional. Yogita Limaye has this
:22:32. > :22:35.report from from Mumbai. Three words changed
:22:36. > :22:39.her life forever. Shavista Sheikh says her husband
:22:40. > :22:41.divorced her during a phone call by simply saying,
:22:42. > :22:48."Talaq, talaq, talaq." Her son is now four years
:22:49. > :22:53.old and she has been doing odd TRANSLATION: Men think they can say
:22:54. > :23:01.the three words and shake off all responsibility but they don't
:23:02. > :23:04.stop to think that somebody's life In India, different religious groups
:23:05. > :23:14.are allowed to have their own rules governing personal affairs including
:23:15. > :23:18.marriage and divorce. That's why, for Muslim
:23:19. > :23:19.men in this country, so-called triple talaq
:23:20. > :23:21.is perfectly legal. It is, though, a practice
:23:22. > :23:24.that's banned across much But it is being
:23:25. > :23:28.challenged in India now. Women offended by triple talaq
:23:29. > :23:31.from across the country One by one, they describe
:23:32. > :23:36.how their world fell apart in an instant,
:23:37. > :23:40.losing not just marriage but also This group has asked India's highest
:23:41. > :23:48.court to ban the practice. All of this is not
:23:49. > :23:52.sanctioned by the Koran. And it is not sanctioned
:23:53. > :23:55.by the Constitution of India, also. So we are demanding
:23:56. > :23:59.our Koranic rights. It's a move supported
:24:00. > :24:03.by India's government, but with its Hindu nationalists
:24:04. > :24:05.links, minority groups are often There's strong opposition from some
:24:06. > :24:11.prominent Muslim bodies. Triple talaq is a part
:24:12. > :24:15.of our religious belief. There is no compromise as far
:24:16. > :24:18.as the religous laws are concerned. The Islam is for the people
:24:19. > :24:25.who have the faith in it. If you have the faith in it,
:24:26. > :24:28.you follow the religion. If you don't have the faith
:24:29. > :24:30.in it, who is asking India's constitution gives
:24:31. > :24:35.people the right to freely practise any religion,
:24:36. > :24:39.but it also guarantees The court will now have to decide
:24:40. > :24:52.which is more important. One of the world's most
:24:53. > :24:54.challenging dog sled races has Set among snow-capped
:24:55. > :24:58.mountains between Savoie riders and their dogs travel 1,000
:24:59. > :25:07.kilometres over 11 days. Contestants from seven countries
:25:08. > :25:30.are taking place in the race. Extreme weather in Europe has left
:25:31. > :25:34.30 people dead. It agencies have warned of the dangers faced by
:25:35. > :25:39.thousands of honourable people across the continent. In Turkey,
:25:40. > :25:42.protests are occurring as the country's parliament debate and
:25:43. > :25:47.additional changes that will give the president much more powers.
:25:48. > :25:53.Opponents say it will create a dysentery and regime. --
:25:54. > :25:57.totalitarian regime. But for now from me and the rest
:25:58. > :25:59.of the team, goodbye.