:00:08. > :00:15.Hello, this is BBC World News. Our top story. President Trump is still
:00:16. > :00:21.searching for a National Security Advisor. His second choice but the
:00:22. > :00:26.top post says no thank you. Under mental questions about the
:00:27. > :00:32.future relationship with the EU and Russia. It is a fair demand that all
:00:33. > :00:36.who benefit from the best alliance in the world carry their proportion
:00:37. > :00:43.of chair of the necessary cost to defend our freedoms.
:00:44. > :00:46.Princess Cristina, the sister of the Spanish king is cleared and tax
:00:47. > :00:52.fraud trial but her husband has been given a six-year jail term.
:00:53. > :01:00.And diplomacy with bear hugs and head locks, how Iran took on the
:01:01. > :01:11.United States and one. -- won.
:01:12. > :01:19.A day after President Trump told his Administration was running like a
:01:20. > :01:23.fine tuned machine, it has been called to be in disarray.
:01:24. > :01:25.The former naval admiral chosen by President Trump
:01:26. > :01:29.to be his national security advisor has turned down the job.
:01:30. > :01:37.The president returned to one of his favourite themes, of wing in jobs
:01:38. > :01:40.back to America. He has been speaking to a factory in South
:01:41. > :01:44.Carolina. As York resident, I am going to do everything I can to
:01:45. > :01:59.unleash the power of the American spirit. And to put our great people
:02:00. > :02:05.back to work. This is our mantra, by American and higher American. We
:02:06. > :02:10.want the Bucs made in America, made by American hands.
:02:11. > :02:15.Our correspondent Gary O'Donoghue is in Washington for us now.
:02:16. > :02:21.It must be quite unusual for someone to turn down the offer of such a
:02:22. > :02:24.prestigious job, particular when it has got to the stage there name is
:02:25. > :02:31.being mentioned soap publicly in connection. Yes, you are talking
:02:32. > :02:35.about the National Security Advisor. That is a conundrum, frankly. It is
:02:36. > :02:41.bad enough losing your NSA within the first four weeks of coming into
:02:42. > :02:46.office and that has derailed this presidency little bit in its early
:02:47. > :02:53.days. But putting it about that they wanted Bob Harwood, the Vice Admiral
:02:54. > :02:57.who had been the centre of command as well, you really want to make
:02:58. > :03:06.sure he differently was to do it before you start putting that idea.
:03:07. > :03:12.-- the deputy centre of command. He said he would rather stay at the
:03:13. > :03:15.defence company. They are still costing around. The reason it is
:03:16. > :03:22.important is Security Advisor is one of the absolute inner circle. They
:03:23. > :03:25.are there to bring everything to the President in terms of security,
:03:26. > :03:33.defence, and intelligence. They are the conduit for all the other parts
:03:34. > :03:35.of the executive branch. They are in the situation room when something
:03:36. > :03:40.big is kicking off, advising the presidency. It is a crucial role. He
:03:41. > :03:45.will need to get someone in place pretty soon on that. We have seen
:03:46. > :03:49.President Trump trying to retake the initiative today with this trip to
:03:50. > :03:56.the Boeing factory in South Carolina. That is playing to his
:03:57. > :04:02.base, and his dominant theme of bringing jobs back. Yes, it was
:04:03. > :04:09.actually not a bad speech. It looked pretty controlled, he pressed a lot
:04:10. > :04:13.of buttons, in terms of American jobs, the American dream, American
:04:14. > :04:20.innovation, standing there in front of that great big Boeing dream
:04:21. > :04:23.line-up they have been building, a symbol of American achievement. The
:04:24. > :04:28.jobs issue is the thing that really did get him Alex did. It was the
:04:29. > :04:36.thing that resonated Djibouti with those parts of America, particularly
:04:37. > :04:40.the belt where jobs have been disappearing and probably still are.
:04:41. > :04:44.He will tell you the jobs are all coming back. He will put tariffs on
:04:45. > :04:51.American companies that move jobs outside the US. We will see how
:04:52. > :04:55.successful that is as a policy. But this was a strongly economically
:04:56. > :04:58.nationalist speech in that sense and that is what we have come to expect.
:04:59. > :05:03.The slogan is America first. US vice-president Mike Pence
:05:04. > :05:05.is to become the latest representative to shed light
:05:06. > :05:08.on what Trump's America First policy He will speak at the Munich
:05:09. > :05:13.Security Conference later. The conference is happening right
:05:14. > :05:15.now - US policy towards Russia, the Middle East and Nato
:05:16. > :05:21.are all on the table. And on Nato, the new US
:05:22. > :05:23.Defence Secretary, James Mattis, insisted that Nato countries shared
:05:24. > :05:26.a strong bond against instability. But he stressed the need for members
:05:27. > :05:41.to contribute their fair share. President Trump came into office and
:05:42. > :05:47.has thrown down his full support to Nato. He too espouses Nato's need to
:05:48. > :05:55.adapt today's strategic situation for it to remain credible, capable
:05:56. > :05:57.and relevant. It was noted last week that it was a fair demand that all
:05:58. > :06:02.who benefit from the best alliance in the world currently a
:06:03. > :06:07.proportionate share of the necessary costs to defend our freedoms, and we
:06:08. > :06:13.are committed to keep those freedoms intact for the next generation. Lyse
:06:14. > :06:24.Doucet has been following the events. We are here for the annual
:06:25. > :06:26.security forum. There is real diplomacy, real negotiations going
:06:27. > :06:32.on behind the scenes and sometimes even on public that forms to tackle
:06:33. > :06:36.the world's red crisis. There is of this year because of the uncertainty
:06:37. > :06:40.and quite some anxiety about the new policies emerging from President
:06:41. > :06:46.Trump's new team in Washington. Most of all, there is concern about the
:06:47. > :06:56.transatlantic relationship. James Mattis began the conference. Michael
:06:57. > :07:02.Fallon, there has been comments from many of those attending St that you
:07:03. > :07:05.weren't convinced by the speech. He repeated the commitment that
:07:06. > :07:12.President Trump has already even. Our Prime Minister Theresa May was
:07:13. > :07:16.told that America remains 100% committed to Nato. Secretary James
:07:17. > :07:20.Mattis has been in Brussels with me for the last two years, with Nato
:07:21. > :07:24.ministers and we are in no doubt that America is continuing to commit
:07:25. > :07:28.to Nato. But the anxiety is such that even the chairman of the Munich
:07:29. > :07:31.Security force said he wanted to hear from the United States that
:07:32. > :07:37.they would not try to break up the European Union and destroyed the
:07:38. > :07:45.killers that had been in place since the Second World War. -- back
:07:46. > :07:50.pillars. This is the Munich security forum. You get some uncertainty
:07:51. > :07:54.about new policies of the new administration, particular make
:07:55. > :08:03.changes. Republican and Democrat and vice versa. That is inevitable. But
:08:04. > :08:06.on the commitment to Nato, we are in the town that America is behind the
:08:07. > :08:12.Alliance, they want Europe to do more to contribute more, we agreed
:08:13. > :08:17.all that two and a half years ago, we agreed we would each spend two
:08:18. > :08:23.and a half percent. In Britain, we do spend 2%. America was the other
:08:24. > :08:25.countries to step up as well. Given the hour-long press conference that
:08:26. > :08:31.President Trump gave yesterday, would you be worried about it? We
:08:32. > :08:38.all handle these things in different ways. One thing, chaotic, ramming is
:08:39. > :08:42.another. This is the beginning of the new administration for a very
:08:43. > :08:45.new president. What is important is to judge this Administration on what
:08:46. > :08:50.it actually does, not what was said during the camp aim. Over here,
:08:51. > :08:56.secretary James Mattis has reassured all the allies that Nato remains
:08:57. > :09:03.behind the Alliance. General Mattis has also been tasked with drawing up
:09:04. > :09:07.a new plan with looking at Islamic State. You have said then is to be
:09:08. > :09:11.more pressure on them in Syria and a lark -- Iraq. There is talk that
:09:12. > :09:17.America could consider putting troops on the ground in Syria. Will
:09:18. > :09:21.that be a good idea? We need to keep the momentum up. Half of Mosul, the
:09:22. > :09:28.second biggest city in Iraq has been liberated. Some 2 million fewer
:09:29. > :09:34.people live under the Daesh rule now than did. We need to keep up that
:09:35. > :09:37.campaign and help the Iraqis, and we're helping with air strikes, with
:09:38. > :09:42.intelligence, and with training. British troops have trained merely
:09:43. > :09:48.40,000 Iraqi and Peshmerga troops. We will not deploy combat troops on
:09:49. > :09:53.the ground but we are going to help local forces regained control of
:09:54. > :09:58.their country. You've just come back from Iraq. If President Trump
:09:59. > :10:01.decides it was more aggressive, kinetic action for a sonic State,
:10:02. > :10:05.will question back him in that special relationship? We are making
:10:06. > :10:12.probably the August two and reviews. Would you change if evident from
:10:13. > :10:18.changes his condo Bijan? -- will you change your contribution if
:10:19. > :10:22.President Trump changes his? We've been doing this for two and a half
:10:23. > :10:30.years now. Many of the towns occupied in the Iraq have now been
:10:31. > :10:38.lit related. We want -- liberated. In the end, the fighting has to be
:10:39. > :10:41.done by local troops. Defence Secretary Michael Fallon, thank you
:10:42. > :10:45.per room at for joining us here in unique. Just getting underway, much
:10:46. > :10:51.more coming from behind-the-scenes. One woman arrested in Malaysia over
:10:52. > :10:54.the killing of the half brother of North Korea's leader has said
:10:55. > :10:57.she was duped into thinking she was part of a comedy show prank -
:10:58. > :11:00.that's according to Indonesia's national police chief who's been
:11:01. > :11:03.briefed by Malaysian authorities. Kim Jong Nam died after being
:11:04. > :11:06.attacked at Kuala Lumpur Meanwhile North Korea has made
:11:07. > :11:23.a plea to Malaysia to release We strongly urge and demand from the
:11:24. > :11:34.Malaysians side not to be entangled with the political plot via the
:11:35. > :11:41.hostile forces towards us. And want to damage the image of our republic.
:11:42. > :11:46.And to release the body, immediately, without any conditions.
:11:47. > :12:01.A Spanish court has acquitted the Princess of being... Her husband was
:12:02. > :12:05.found guilty of fraud and tax evasion and sentenced to six years
:12:06. > :12:14.in jail. For more on this, we can speak to Raphael Timmy Gell, editor
:12:15. > :12:19.of Elle Pace. Raphael, good to see you. Tell us more about this case.
:12:20. > :12:25.It sounds extraordinary. It has been a very extra merry case. A very long
:12:26. > :12:30.trial, almost seven years of a trial. It came at a time during
:12:31. > :12:36.probably the worst economic and political crisis that Spain has
:12:37. > :12:43.suffered in decades. The public romance with the monarchy, with the
:12:44. > :12:48.institution that lasted so many years had started to erode because
:12:49. > :12:55.of the public behaviour of the former King, and then when this case
:12:56. > :13:04.erupted, the public anger towards the monarchy became more and more
:13:05. > :13:11.intense. Now, as you probably know, the King abdicated and his son, King
:13:12. > :13:15.Philip, the sects, and the public knew what the outcome of the trial
:13:16. > :13:19.would be because the public persecution had renounced to push
:13:20. > :13:25.against -- push a case against Princess Christina. But still, it
:13:26. > :13:33.has been a very dramatic, of every hard case for the Spanish monarchy.
:13:34. > :13:36.And the UK has a very tough work ahead to regain the public
:13:37. > :13:42.confidence that his father once enjoyed. -- the new king. You
:13:43. > :13:47.mentioned that the effect this has on the image of the monarchy, is
:13:48. > :13:52.there any sense of how the king is going to try and restore that? Well,
:13:53. > :13:59.it is going to be a very slow and tough process. He has started to
:14:00. > :14:06.take distance from his sister and from all those past behaviours. The
:14:07. > :14:13.institution, the monarchy, has started to put in place new
:14:14. > :14:17.accountability and Rawls -- rules. The public behaviour of the new King
:14:18. > :14:28.is very austere, in comparison to the former king. He has adhered to a
:14:29. > :14:33.very strict constitutional role in order to regain that confidence,
:14:34. > :14:40.because as I was telling you, it is going to be very hard. And among the
:14:41. > :14:44.royal family and their advisers, there will be mixed feelings about
:14:45. > :14:51.the outcome. Well, it is a very sad day, especially for Queen Sophia,
:14:52. > :14:57.which has been very close to Princess Christina. In the case of
:14:58. > :15:03.King Philip the six, he knew that in order to reserve the constitution,
:15:04. > :15:09.he had to distance himself from her. Apart from that political decision,
:15:10. > :15:14.the relations with tween them had grown very cold after he found out
:15:15. > :15:21.all the things that his brother-in-law had done and all the
:15:22. > :15:25.businesses he had engaged in. So, now you have very cold relations
:15:26. > :15:31.between the king and his staff and it is indeed a very sad day for the
:15:32. > :15:34.Royal family. -- the king and his sister.
:15:35. > :15:36.Pakistan's security forces have carried out raids
:15:37. > :15:37.across the country, killing and arresting dozens
:15:38. > :15:42.It follows the suicide attack at a famous Sufi shrine in the south
:15:43. > :15:45.The attack has been claimed by the so-called Islamic State.
:15:46. > :15:50.Our Pakistan correspondent Secunder Kermani reports.
:15:51. > :15:53.The shrine was packed with men, women and children for the special
:15:54. > :15:55.devotional services that take place here on Thursday nights.
:15:56. > :16:03.Jihadists believe Muslims who attend shines like this are heretics
:16:04. > :16:08.Today the families of the dead began to bury their loved ones.
:16:09. > :16:13.This woman's 13-year-old son was among those killed.
:16:14. > :16:17.His uncle expressed the family's sorrow.
:16:18. > :16:21.TRANSLATION: He only wanted to pay his respects at the shrine.
:16:22. > :16:29.I raised him like my own child as I don't have any children.
:16:30. > :16:32.He was my own child and they took him from me.
:16:33. > :16:38.There have also been angry scenes close to the shrine where locals
:16:39. > :16:41.have clashed with police, who they blame for not having done
:16:42. > :16:52.We have been telling the police and other officials
:16:53. > :16:56.that there was no security and that anything could happen any time
:16:57. > :17:02.Security has been stepped up at religious sites considered
:17:03. > :17:06.possible targets like this Sufi shrine.
:17:07. > :17:09.Paramilitary forces say they have killed dozens of suspected militants
:17:10. > :17:13.in raids carried out across the country today
:17:14. > :17:16.but Pakistan has now suffered five attacks in five days carried out
:17:17. > :17:22.One faction of the Pakistani Taliban has vowed to unleash
:17:23. > :17:28.It's not known whether this latest attack by IS is linked to that
:17:29. > :17:30.but many here now fear that after a recent significant
:17:31. > :17:34.reduction in violence, the security situation
:17:35. > :17:50.The US and Iran have gone head-to head in one of the ultimate
:17:51. > :17:52.More than 300 people have broken through a fence separating
:17:53. > :17:55.the Spanish territory of Ceuta from Morocco.
:17:56. > :17:58.Most of the group are believed to be migrants from sub-Saharan Africa,
:17:59. > :18:02.Video footage shows them using clubs and shears to create gaps
:18:03. > :18:06.The former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has launched a campaign
:18:07. > :18:10.to try to persuade people in the UK to change their minds about Brexit.
:18:11. > :18:13.Mr Blair said no-one knew the true cost of what they were voting for.
:18:14. > :18:16.The UK government is expected to start the formal procedure
:18:17. > :18:21.Researchers based in New Zealand say they've found more evidence to back
:18:22. > :18:23.the claim that the world has an additional continent.
:18:24. > :18:26.The land mass, known as Zealandia, is shown here in grey
:18:27. > :18:33.Although 94% of it is under water, the scientists say its geology
:18:34. > :18:44.proves it was once a land mass in its own right.
:18:45. > :18:47.The US and Iran have gone head-to head in one of the ultimate
:18:48. > :18:50.Nothing to do with politics this time -
:18:51. > :18:52.they were in fact locking horns in the Freestyle Wrestling
:18:53. > :19:01.American and Iranian wrestlers battled it out in front of roaring
:19:02. > :19:04.crowds in the city of Kermanshah and it was hosts Iran who pipped
:19:05. > :19:09.There was initially doubt over whether the match would even go
:19:10. > :19:12.ahead after the American team were barred from competing by Iran -
:19:13. > :19:20.a retaliation for President Trump's ban on Iranian travellers.
:19:21. > :19:24.With me is Nicholas Niksadat from the BBC's Persian Service.
:19:25. > :19:35.The match that almost take place. Exactly. Obviously, the travel ban
:19:36. > :19:37.was a big headline and affected many Iranians and originally it was
:19:38. > :19:40.thought the government would retaliate but they changed their
:19:41. > :19:45.mind. In fact, the Americans were the first team that arrived, and
:19:46. > :19:49.much to a warm welcome from many members of the public. There is a
:19:50. > :19:52.portion of the Iranian population that is very eager to show the
:19:53. > :19:57.Westerners and Americans, especially, that they want a distant
:19:58. > :20:00.themselves from the position of their government and in fact,
:20:01. > :20:04.wrestling is one of very few channels of contact between the two
:20:05. > :20:10.nations, other contacts obviously happening very tense situations
:20:11. > :20:14.between politicians, mainly. In recent years it was volleyball, but
:20:15. > :20:20.mainly wrestling revives channels for the two people to have contact
:20:21. > :20:24.with each other. And so it was good-natured, despite the political
:20:25. > :20:28.tension? Of course. Wrestling is a big sport in Iran. It is one of a
:20:29. > :20:34.handful of disciplines where Iranians can winds at world level
:20:35. > :20:39.and in fact when world medals at the Olympics. It is an ancient show of
:20:40. > :20:44.their identity and culture. It is not a major sport in America.
:20:45. > :20:49.Ironically, some of these American wrestlers are bigger stars in Iran
:20:50. > :20:54.than they are in their own country and they have their own fans and
:20:55. > :20:58.that makes the Iranians -- the Americans so popular in Iran. When
:20:59. > :21:04.Americans are wrestling against third parties, the Iranians and the
:21:05. > :21:06.crowd usually support the Americans. That is very interesting. And
:21:07. > :21:12.something you alluded to a moment ago, even if conversations are
:21:13. > :21:17.awkward and difficult on a political level, it is so important to have
:21:18. > :21:21.channels like this must sport, weather two nations can come
:21:22. > :21:26.together. Exactly because after all you have a chance to see that they
:21:27. > :21:33.are normal people like you, you can seal a real, so to speak, persons,
:21:34. > :21:37.people shake hands, they stand up for one another's national and is.
:21:38. > :21:41.Some of these tournaments in the past five years, three of them have
:21:42. > :21:46.been held in the US, in Los Angeles, specifically, whether as a Iranian
:21:47. > :21:52.diaspora so it is pretty much like playing at home or the Iranians so
:21:53. > :21:56.there is a lot that -- lot of contact from sport, also volleyball,
:21:57. > :21:58.and that makes have hope for the future and I think maybe some
:21:59. > :22:02.opportunities for mutual understanding that has been shot
:22:03. > :22:07.down by politics can be opened through sport. Thank you very much.
:22:08. > :22:10.The weekend is almost upon us which means for Donald Trump it's
:22:11. > :22:12.almost time to head down to his Florida estate, Mar-a-Lago.
:22:13. > :22:15.He's owned the lavish private club and estate for decades,
:22:16. > :22:19.but it's taken on a new prominence since he took office.
:22:20. > :22:23.It seems destined to become his number one getaway retreat,
:22:24. > :22:34.Welcome to the American President's Florida getaway.
:22:35. > :22:36.A place where Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley
:22:37. > :22:39.spent their honeymoon and actor Charlie Sheen once
:22:40. > :22:44.Maralago, Spanish for "sea to lake", is a sprawling, 126-room mansion
:22:45. > :22:50.nestled in some of the most expensive real estate in Palm Beach.
:22:51. > :22:54.This is a great entrance hall to Maralago.
:22:55. > :22:59.Mr Trump bought it as a holiday home back in 1985 for $10 million,
:23:00. > :23:06.Back then it was a family retreat and a place to wine and dine
:23:07. > :23:11.Never one to miss a moneymaking opportunity, Mr Trump turned it
:23:12. > :23:17.A membership here will set you back a cool $200,000, double the price
:23:18. > :23:24.Mr Trump has stayed at Maralago nearly every weekend
:23:25. > :23:27.since his inauguration and some club members have bragged
:23:28. > :23:32.about their access to the workings of state.
:23:33. > :23:34.When North Korea tested a ballistic missile
:23:35. > :23:37.during the Japanese Prime Minister's visit, witnesses said the two
:23:38. > :23:41.leaders gathered with their advisers openly in front of other guests.
:23:42. > :23:46.It's not unusual for presidents to have retreats, and Maralago
:23:47. > :23:51.Its original owner, Marjorie Merriweather Post,
:23:52. > :23:53.was herself a business tycoon who wanted to be
:23:54. > :23:58.We really pay a certain reverence to Mrs Post
:23:59. > :24:04.She left it to the Government in her will, but the United States
:24:05. > :24:27.It took a future president to come along and make Maralago his own.
:24:28. > :24:33.It is not unusual to be asked for direction but a lorry driver in
:24:34. > :24:37.Kazakhstan has captured the moment a pilot landed on a highway to ask for
:24:38. > :24:42.help after apparently losing his way. The eyelid asked how to get to
:24:43. > :24:48.a city in the north-west of the country, much to the amusement of
:24:49. > :24:52.the two lorry drivers. The pilot had been taking part in the bridge will
:24:53. > :24:57.orientation exercise when he lost his bearings.
:24:58. > :24:59.Dick Bruna, the Dutch illustrator and author who created
:25:00. > :25:01.the much-loved cartoon rabbit Miffy, has died at age of 89.
:25:02. > :25:04.He wrote more than 30 books about Miffy's adventures which sold
:25:05. > :25:21.The reminder of our main news. President Trump has suffered a
:25:22. > :25:24.setback in an attempt to finalise the administration, his latest
:25:25. > :25:28.choice for National Security Advisor has turned the job down.
:25:29. > :25:35.Don't forget you can get in touch with me and most of the team on
:25:36. > :25:43.Twitter. David plenty more of the stories we have covered on our
:25:44. > :25:47.website. Also available on the BBC News app. That is it from the
:25:48. > :25:50.programme and from me in the team, thank you for watching.