:00:00. > :00:12.This is BBC world News today, broadcasting in the UK and around
:00:13. > :00:16.the world. The headlines. The White House asks Congress to investigate
:00:17. > :00:19.whether President Obama ordered wiretaps and the trump campaign. The
:00:20. > :00:25.former director of national intelligence denies the claim. There
:00:26. > :00:30.was no such wiretap activity mounted against the President-elect at the
:00:31. > :00:37.time as a candidate for against his campaign. Francois Fillon insists he
:00:38. > :00:44.will not pull out of the French presidential race. My campaign goes
:00:45. > :00:49.on despite the defections. Nobody has the power to force me to
:00:50. > :00:53.withdraw my candidacy. It is my decision and I have been reassured
:00:54. > :00:58.by this show of support. Everyone thought it would be a failure and it
:00:59. > :01:02.was a success. Iraqi forces are trying to retake muscle from Islamic
:01:03. > :01:07.State reported to be closing in on the main government buildings in the
:01:08. > :01:10.city. In sport, Harry Kane scores twice as Spurs close the gap with
:01:11. > :01:24.Chelsea at the top of the Premier League.
:01:25. > :01:30.The former US director of national intelligence, James Klapper, has
:01:31. > :01:34.denied there was any wiretap on Donald Trump what this election
:01:35. > :01:38.campaign. President Trump has alleged that his phones were tapped
:01:39. > :01:43.by the Obama administration without offering any evidence and has asked
:01:44. > :01:44.Congress to examine the claims. For North America correspondent, Nick
:01:45. > :01:48.Bryant, reports. On the Sunday talk shows
:01:49. > :01:51.this morning one main Trump claiming the Trump campaign
:01:52. > :01:54.was wiretapped by President Obama. In his extraordinary
:01:55. > :01:56.twitter tirade Donald Trump accused his predecessor,
:01:57. > :01:58.Barack Obama, of being a sick wiretaps at Trump Tower
:01:59. > :02:06.in a Watergate style conspiracy. This morning, the White House issued
:02:07. > :02:10.a statement asking that as part of their investigation
:02:11. > :02:11.into Russian activity, the Congressional intelligence
:02:12. > :02:15.Committee exercise their to determine whether executive
:02:16. > :02:19.branch investigative powers But the White House has produced no
:02:20. > :02:27.evidence to back up the President's claims of criminality and seems
:02:28. > :02:30.to be hoping these congressional Let's get the truth
:02:31. > :02:36.here, let's find out. I think the bigger story is not
:02:37. > :02:40.who reported it, but is it true? I think the American people
:02:41. > :02:43.have a right to know if this happened because if it did,
:02:44. > :02:47.again this is the largest abuse of power that
:02:48. > :02:50.I think we have ever seen. Senior Democrats have
:02:51. > :02:52.labelled Donald Trump trying to distract attention
:02:53. > :02:55.from the Trump team's To understand this, this
:02:56. > :03:03.is the deflector in chief, no jobs, no infrastructure
:03:04. > :03:09.built, no nothing. But America's former Director
:03:10. > :03:11.of National Intelligence claims At this point you cannot confirm
:03:12. > :03:16.or deny whether that happened? This weekend has seen pro-Trump
:03:17. > :03:22.rallies around the country, celebrating his successful speech
:03:23. > :03:24.to Congress, but the week that began with the presidential reset has
:03:25. > :03:43.ended once again with Russia. Our correspondent in Washington is
:03:44. > :03:44.Laura Baker. I asked if James Clapper's categorical would make any
:03:45. > :03:54.difference. We have had no reaction from the
:03:55. > :03:58.White House. The statement stands. They want the congressional
:03:59. > :04:02.committees to investigate whether or not there has been an overreach and
:04:03. > :04:06.abuse of power, according to the deputy White House spokesperson this
:04:07. > :04:12.morning. They are saying that if it is true, and they seem to be basing
:04:13. > :04:18.their claims in part on reports in newspapers, Breitbart News and other
:04:19. > :04:21.conservative radio shows, but there was wiretapping in Trump Tower
:04:22. > :04:25.during the presidential campaign and they said that was an abuse of power
:04:26. > :04:31.and it needs to be investigated and are calling on Congress to do that.
:04:32. > :04:35.Opponents of President Trump says he sends these tweets to deflect
:04:36. > :04:41.attention from things he does not want to be discuss. Has he been
:04:42. > :04:44.successful? When it comes to the discussion in Washington, this is
:04:45. > :04:53.consuming all news programmes right across the nation. It is the one
:04:54. > :04:58.topic, it is an astonishing claim by President Trump, that his
:04:59. > :05:03.predecessor has carried out wiretapping on his own Trump Tower.
:05:04. > :05:06.When it comes to the presidential rule book, there is an unwritten
:05:07. > :05:11.rule that when you hand overpowered you do not criticise the
:05:12. > :05:16.predecessor. He has blown the Rob Webber. When it comes to what was
:05:17. > :05:20.being discussed in Washington, that is making headlines. Nancy Pelosi,
:05:21. > :05:25.the Democrat, is calling him the deflector in chief because it is
:05:26. > :05:34.reflecting from the controversy over whether or not his campaign had
:05:35. > :05:37.contact with Russian intelligence. Francois Fillon has used a TV
:05:38. > :05:40.interview to say he will not withdraw from the French
:05:41. > :05:44.presidential race. The centre-right candidate is under pressure to quit
:05:45. > :05:49.over corruption allegations. On Monday, the party Braswell meet to
:05:50. > :05:50.discuss his future. Mr Fillon addressed thousands of supporters in
:05:51. > :06:01.Paris. If there was only slight doubt at
:06:02. > :06:05.the end of this rally speech, he never spelt out that he would be a
:06:06. > :06:10.candidate to the end. People thought he might be sending out a signal. In
:06:11. > :06:14.this interview he was asked that question directly, are you going to
:06:15. > :06:19.withdraw her candidacy and he said no. I don't see any reason to and no
:06:20. > :06:24.one can make me good. That seems pretty clear. Tomorrow is another
:06:25. > :06:28.day and know there are negotiations going on and phone calls flying all
:06:29. > :06:35.over the place, but as things stand, he comes out from this reinforced in
:06:36. > :06:38.his belief that there is a large part of the centre-right electorate
:06:39. > :06:43.that is behind him and he would be betraying them were she to step
:06:44. > :06:48.down. He says I am willing to talk to the other leaders, the party
:06:49. > :06:54.bigwigs, but my position is stronger today than it was before. That is
:06:55. > :07:01.what Mr Fillon is saying, what about the polling and the general chatter?
:07:02. > :07:07.We know it has been a rough few weeks for him and we know the rest
:07:08. > :07:14.of the party are very concerned because the polling shows that if he
:07:15. > :07:18.runs, he will not make it to the second round, it will be Macron and
:07:19. > :07:23.Le Pen. That is where the pressure is coming from that is bursting at
:07:24. > :07:25.the end of asked week with all these defections, people saying this is
:07:26. > :07:30.hopeless, we were supposed to have this on a plate and now we do not.
:07:31. > :07:35.It is time to get another candidate going, so let's get Alain Juppe
:07:36. > :07:38.going. This will give them pause for thought and make them realise this
:07:39. > :07:46.is more complicated than they realised. If only for the simple
:07:47. > :07:52.fact, which is inarguable, but Mr Fillon does have the legitimacy of
:07:53. > :07:57.the primary behind him and if he steps down and Juppe takes his
:07:58. > :08:02.place, there are a number of people who voted for Fillon who will sit we
:08:03. > :08:06.did that with four Alain Juppe and we didn't vote for him for a good
:08:07. > :08:12.reason, which is that he is a soft, centre guy and we don't want that.
:08:13. > :08:17.The real danger is that there will be a big loss of votes on the road,
:08:18. > :08:24.maybe the Marine Le Pen, if Francois Fillon is hosted by Juppe. Police
:08:25. > :08:28.are hunting for an attacker who shot a signal and doesn't leave the
:08:29. > :08:32.country Seattle. The victim was approached outside his house before
:08:33. > :08:36.he was shot in the arm. The attackers led to a fresh outcry in
:08:37. > :08:41.India following a deadly gun attack on two Indians in Kansas last month.
:08:42. > :08:45.Police in New York investigating the damage to two stones at a Jewish
:08:46. > :08:49.cemetery in Brooklyn set no evidence of vandalism has been found. They
:08:50. > :08:53.said they had since have come down as a result of long-term neglect and
:08:54. > :08:59.environmental factors such as soil erosion. There has been a series of
:09:00. > :09:04.vandalism is at Jewish cemeteries this year. On a visit to Israel, the
:09:05. > :09:15.New York governor described as an as reprehensible. It is disgusting, it
:09:16. > :09:24.is reprehensible, it violates every ten at the New York State tradition.
:09:25. > :09:27.New York state, five it's definition, is a celebration of
:09:28. > :09:35.diversity. We believe in the spirit of inclusion and we live by
:09:36. > :09:39.discrimination of no one. The principles of Europe are built on
:09:40. > :09:42.Iraq, they will not change and the political winds will not change
:09:43. > :09:48.them. In your state governor speaking there. China faces major
:09:49. > :09:54.challenges in its attempt to overhaul its economy, the world's
:09:55. > :09:57.second-largest force of the premier told the opening session of
:09:58. > :10:01.Parliament in Beijing that he is targeting and half percent in the
:10:02. > :10:07.coming year, lower than last year. Among other commitments there was a
:10:08. > :10:15.pledge to pollution. He made a pledge to make the skies again.
:10:16. > :10:19.Chairman Mao would still recognise the Chinese parliament, rigid,
:10:20. > :10:27.authoritarian and unapologetically Communist. Every year, the delegates
:10:28. > :10:29.to hear their leader 's warn of the increasingly complex challenges
:10:30. > :10:40.faced by a modern capitalist economy. Potential risks cannot be
:10:41. > :10:43.overlooked, he says. Warning that reforming the Chinese economy is the
:10:44. > :10:51.process is filled with promise, but also accompanied by great pain. He
:10:52. > :10:55.spoke of the need to combat industrial overcapacity and to
:10:56. > :11:00.reform what he called zombie enterprises, the bloated state own
:11:01. > :11:06.stacker producing far more coal and steel than the market needs. Similar
:11:07. > :11:10.pledges in the past have proved hard to fulfil. Had he pledged to make
:11:11. > :11:14.the Chinese sky is blue again, outlining further targets for
:11:15. > :11:18.emissions cuts, once again these promises have been made before. The
:11:19. > :11:24.Chinese parliament has very little control over the weighty issues of
:11:25. > :11:28.state, the big political and economic decisions that have been
:11:29. > :11:36.made weeks in advance by the Communist Party leaders behind
:11:37. > :11:38.closed doors. The Premier also warned against growing
:11:39. > :11:43.protectionism, a thinly veiled reference to the policies of the new
:11:44. > :11:48.US president, and a reminder that as well as the economic risks at home,
:11:49. > :11:59.China is facing challenges on the international stage.
:12:00. > :12:06.Iraqi forces have intensified their push into Mosul. They are now
:12:07. > :12:11.reportedly with 80 minutes -- a few miles of government buildings. The
:12:12. > :12:16.operation to move into the West which started a few weeks ago has
:12:17. > :12:17.445,000 people to flee the city. The refugee camp just south of the city
:12:18. > :12:22.is approaching maximum capacity. The people of Mosul endure yet
:12:23. > :12:25.another round of fighting between Iraqi Government forces
:12:26. > :12:31.and so-called Islamic State. In just over two hours we saw more
:12:32. > :12:42.than five buses arriving here. Many children here are too
:12:43. > :12:45.young to understand. We were all just running
:12:46. > :13:04.and running, the mortars raining on our heads,
:13:05. > :13:10.till we got to the Army. Some were grateful for
:13:11. > :13:12.the Army's help, but these men said their homes
:13:13. > :13:30.were hit by army shelling. The refugees from western Mosul
:13:31. > :13:35.arrived here. They have escaped with their lives, but their misery is not
:13:36. > :13:40.over. They keep coming, thousands each day. Too many for the
:13:41. > :13:45.authorities to cope with. Close by, in another temporary camp, more
:13:46. > :13:46.people are seeking refuge. With such an unrelenting flow, authorities can
:13:47. > :14:02.hardly keep up. Still to come, taking the message to
:14:03. > :14:13.the people. One man's quest to raise awareness of mental health issues
:14:14. > :14:16.most people in South Africa. Suddenly, the tables, the chairs,
:14:17. > :14:20.the people crashed sideways and downwards and it was just a matter
:14:21. > :14:27.of seconds as the fairy lurched on her side. The hydrogen bomb on a
:14:28. > :14:31.remote Pacific island. The Americans successfully tested a weapon whose
:14:32. > :14:42.explosive force dwarf that of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. My Hart
:14:43. > :14:46.went back and back. The constitutional rights of these
:14:47. > :14:49.marchers have their rights as citizens of the United States and
:14:50. > :14:52.they should be protected, even in the right to test them out so they
:14:53. > :14:59.don't get their heads broken and sent to hospital. I know you don't
:15:00. > :15:02.want to say too much, but will this religious controversy boarded up
:15:03. > :15:16.when you get to the states? Everything will be all right. This
:15:17. > :15:20.is BBC world News today. The latest headlines, the White House asks
:15:21. > :15:24.Congress to investigate whether President Obama ordered wiretaps on
:15:25. > :15:27.the trump campaign. The former director of National intelligence
:15:28. > :15:32.denies that took place. After tens of thousands of people support him
:15:33. > :15:34.in Paris, the embattled candidate Francois Fillon insists he will not
:15:35. > :15:42.pull out of the French presidential race. The United Nations says for
:15:43. > :15:47.the first time for countries are at risk of extreme hunger and famine at
:15:48. > :15:52.the same time. South Sudan, but on the jury, Somalia and Yemen are all
:15:53. > :15:57.under threat. The worst affected is war-torn Yemen. Over 14 million
:15:58. > :16:03.people need life-saving food aid. It is reported that in Nigeria, nearly
:16:04. > :16:07.2 million people risk my nutrition. In south Sudan, nearly 5 million
:16:08. > :16:14.people need the life-saving food aid and in Somalia, nearly 3 million
:16:15. > :16:18.people are going hungry. This is what a national disaster looks like.
:16:19. > :16:23.Mile after mile of arid, barren land. The worst drought in Somalia
:16:24. > :16:29.in decades. Parts of the country have not seen rain for two years.
:16:30. > :16:36.For successful crop harvests have been hit, making the scale of the
:16:37. > :16:39.looming crisis almost unprecedented. I suppose this is the worst drought
:16:40. > :16:44.I have ever witnessed, because before, only if you've regions used
:16:45. > :16:49.to be affected, but not the country. This drug is brought people from
:16:50. > :16:57.across the country to this region. This is the worst job in Somalia
:16:58. > :17:01.that I know of. This region faces some of the biggest challenges.
:17:02. > :17:04.Workers at save the children supported health clinics report a
:17:05. > :17:08.significant increase in severe malnutrition cases among infants
:17:09. > :17:13.coming through their doors. The United Nations warns over a quarter
:17:14. > :17:18.of a million children will face severe, acute malnutrition in the
:17:19. > :17:24.next few months. In all, half of Somalia faces food insecurity. The
:17:25. > :17:28.new president already has the threat from Islamic extremist group
:17:29. > :17:34.al-Shabab to take on, but hunger is his pressing priority. I want to
:17:35. > :17:39.take this opportunity to call for all Somalis and the donor community
:17:40. > :17:43.to help families affected by the current drought. It is imperative
:17:44. > :17:48.for us to help each other as the magnitude of this drug is very
:17:49. > :17:52.alarming. The Somali drought has been partly caused by the El Nino
:17:53. > :17:58.weather phenomenon from last year, which impacted east and Southern
:17:59. > :18:01.Africa. As appeals for aid go out to the international community, one
:18:02. > :18:10.sign of good news for the region is a year-end forecast that may stocks
:18:11. > :18:14.are on their way to recovery. Here is well parried with all the sport.
:18:15. > :18:20.Tottenham closed the gap at the top of the Premier League with a 3-2 win
:18:21. > :18:24.over Everton. A record club ninth consecutive home win for Spurs.
:18:25. > :18:29.Harry Kane scored twice, Dele Alli got the third. Romelu Lukaku was
:18:30. > :18:32.also on the scoresheet. Mauricio Pochettino is now seven points
:18:33. > :18:38.behind the leaders, Chelsea, who face West Ham on Monday. Another
:18:39. > :18:48.fantastic achievement for that group. We feel very proud about
:18:49. > :18:51.that. They broke the club record. I think it has made history, it is
:18:52. > :18:56.starting to make history, that group. They young players. This is
:18:57. > :19:02.only the start of the good things coming in the future. We know they
:19:03. > :19:07.are strong, but they have two or three years in a row, two or three
:19:08. > :19:14.seasons in a row with the same players and they bought some better
:19:15. > :19:21.players and that is all about timing and that is what we need to have in
:19:22. > :19:26.Everton. If we get the time, if we get to improve, that is the next
:19:27. > :19:31.step for the club and, OK, in some aspects we saw that difference today
:19:32. > :19:34.on the pitch. Manchester City move back up to third, one point behind
:19:35. > :19:40.Tottenham for the game in hand after a 2-0 win at Sunderland. Sergio
:19:41. > :19:52.Aguero and Leroy San Mames with the goals. The first minute was tough
:19:53. > :19:56.because we knew, we expected how aggressive they would play, but
:19:57. > :20:01.afterwards we controlled the game and we were lucky. We made a good
:20:02. > :20:08.first goal, but forgot to have time with 1-0 so that is completely
:20:09. > :20:12.different to drawing or losing and in the second half we played really
:20:13. > :20:18.good. I don't think you can fault the players for and if that. I just
:20:19. > :20:22.think they give everything they can. We lacked quality at times. When we
:20:23. > :20:26.did get the ball back and we back quite a lot we give it away and had
:20:27. > :20:31.to wait back again. The energy, everything they did, they tried to
:20:32. > :20:34.do what we could to get something out of the game. The England
:20:35. > :20:38.cricketers have been the West Indies in the second one-day international.
:20:39. > :20:49.Then when the three match series with an unassailable 2-0 lead. Then
:20:50. > :20:53.plug it took three for 32. Jason Roy hit 54 England. It was a
:20:54. > :21:00.half-century for Chris Woakes who, along with Joe group the mid-90, the
:21:01. > :21:07.infant with ten to spare. Dustin Johnson has a three shot lead at the
:21:08. > :21:11.golf championship events in Mexico. Tommy Fleetwood is the best placed
:21:12. > :21:19.British player, four shots back. Rory McIlroy is a shot behind him
:21:20. > :21:23.with Ross Fisher ten under par. Great Britain finished second
:21:24. > :21:25.overall at the European indoor athletics Championships with seven
:21:26. > :21:30.medals and the final day in Belgrade. Boroughmuir in the second
:21:31. > :21:36.goal after taking the 1500 metres title, she won the 3000 metres, both
:21:37. > :21:40.with victories in chav of record times. Britain won ten medals in
:21:41. > :21:48.total, finishing behind Poland with Germany finishing third. I didn't
:21:49. > :21:52.know what my legs would do and I tried to hang in there. I was tired
:21:53. > :22:04.but I am glad I could do that today. What was the plan at the outset? It
:22:05. > :22:08.went well. I just typed on and used my speed at the event and crashed
:22:09. > :22:15.the line in protest. As this what Franco. Senior Russian MP has
:22:16. > :22:19.proposed that football hooliganism should be recognised as a spectator
:22:20. > :22:22.sport ahead of the World Cup in Russia. The unorthodox proposal is
:22:23. > :22:27.designed to suck a repeat of the trouble seeing at the Rose last year
:22:28. > :22:30.when organised groups of Russian fans, many with martial arts
:22:31. > :22:37.training, for the English fans on the streets of Marseille. One South
:22:38. > :22:40.African township, close to Cape Town, erasing college graduate is
:22:41. > :22:46.taking the fight against mental illness to streets. Andreas believes
:22:47. > :22:50.young people have undiagnosed mental issues and the chance of benefiting
:22:51. > :22:58.from counselling. He is using a brightly coloured van to spread
:22:59. > :23:05.awareness of the problem. Young kids as young as eight or nine, they grew
:23:06. > :23:10.up seeing terrible stuff, whether it is someone being mugged or being
:23:11. > :23:22.stabbed, violence taking place in their own household. This is my
:23:23. > :23:27.mobile consultation van. This van brings services to kids in the
:23:28. > :23:31.township who come from a family who cannot afford services from a
:23:32. > :23:42.psychologist or a registered counsellor like myself. The kids
:23:43. > :23:48.come when the vehicle passes by, they see this funky looking van,
:23:49. > :23:54.then they realise it is a psychology clinic. It is an innovative way of
:23:55. > :24:05.providing the service, it is more attractive to them than having to go
:24:06. > :24:10.and sit in my office and talk to me. I have got this young guy who just
:24:11. > :24:22.jumped in, you would like to top -- talk but you cannot come in due to
:24:23. > :24:32.confidentiality. My fear is for the young people grow up in any township
:24:33. > :24:38.is exposure to substance abuse, peer pressure and other traumas that the
:24:39. > :24:44.experience and see and observe each and every day. That might set them
:24:45. > :24:48.back from achieving some of their dreams that they would love to
:24:49. > :24:53.achieve for the betterment of the community. What keeps me going and
:24:54. > :25:00.providing this service for free is that I would love to see a young
:25:01. > :25:05.person from the townships succeed and go on against all odds and
:25:06. > :25:13.become a role model for the next coming generation. The matter what
:25:14. > :25:14.happens, we will keep this mobile unit going through the dusty streets
:25:15. > :25:23.of Cape Town. The crude attempt from one month to
:25:24. > :25:27.battle mental illness in South Africa. The biggest Gay pride
:25:28. > :25:29.festival in Australia has come to an end the fingerprints of glitter in
:25:30. > :25:32.its workforce of hundreds of thousands of people gathered on
:25:33. > :25:36.Oxford Street in Sydney on Saturday night to survey the 39th annual
:25:37. > :25:41.Mardi Gras Parade, one of the most famous and best defence in
:25:42. > :25:45.Australia. The parade began as a protest in the 1970s but is almost
:25:46. > :25:55.200 foods and there are thousands of marchers who take place. A reminder
:25:56. > :25:57.of our top story, the White House has asked Congress to examine claims
:25:58. > :26:01.from President Trump that Barack Obama ordered his films to be tapped
:26:02. > :26:02.during the election. That is all for now. Thank you for