04/02/2018 World News Today

And it's cold outside

but the Patriots and Eagles will be

inside in Minneapolis as they battle

it out in the 52nd Super Bowl.

Hello and welcome

to World News Today.

Another development

in the diplomatic thaw between North

and South Korea over

the Winter Olympics -

the North is to send its highest

ranking official for years

to the South to the Games.

Here he is - Kim Yong-nam,

the ceremonial head

of state, will lead a 22-member

delegation to the South

beginning on Friday.

It comes as the two nations put

on an unprecedented show

of sporting collaboration today,

fielding a joint women's

ice hockey team.

It played an international

friendly against Sweden.

The BBC's Laura Bicker reports.

Fierce and determined,

the Korean players head

onto the rink to prove

they are not just pawns in a

political drama or an experiment

in sports diplomacy.

They fight hard against

high-ranking Sweden.

Willed on by a crowd

eager to witness a

piece of history and waving

the flag of a unified Korea.

TRANSLATION:

I was so

touched, I feel so good

because I felt the passion

of the players and it felt

like we were one together.

But this team's formation

has been controversial.

The South Korean hockey

coach has had to tell

players she has worked with for

years that they have lost their spot

to make way for North Koreans,

such as this player.

We are not allowed to ask

the North Koreans any

questions at the press conference,

but the South Korean coach was frank

when I asked her

about the challenges.

TRANSLATION:

Any players that have

not been with us for the

last four years, learning our

systems and understanding how our

team plays, it is difficult.

North Korean is different to

South Korean so for our team

meetings it is going

through to English,

to

South Korean, to North Korean,

so the meetings take three times as

long.

The event feels like a celebration

but playing as one team

under one flag has not been welcomed

by the younger generation in South

Korea.

To them, unifying the two countries

is a very distant goal.

The North Korean

players will not stay

with their team-mates

at the

athletes' village, they will be kept

in separate accommodation and

watched over by minders.

As the Olympics draw

ever closer, language

is not the only barrier

this team faces.

Laura Bicker, BBC News, Seoul.

The pressure is continuing to grow

on South Africa's President

Jacob Zuma to step down.

The top six officials

from the country's governing ANC

have arrived at his official

residence in Pretoria -

to discuss his future.

Mr Zuma is facing allegations

of corruption and whether he can

complete his term as president

is looking increasingly uncertain.

Here's the BBC's Andrew

Harding in Johannesburg.

He is swamped by scandal. South

Africa's

He is swamped by scandal. South

Africa's President Jacob sooner has

already been found guilty of

breaking his oath of office -- Jacob

Zuma and he has refurbished his home

at taxpayer expense. More recently

his controversial developments with

the business family the Guptill is

as cause controversy. During the

Jacob Zuma presidency, South Africa

has floundered, unemployment is

soaring, amid a sense that senior

officials could get away with

anything. But in December, Jacob

Zuma and his allies lost control of

the governing ANC and the new man,

Cyril Ramaphosa, promising to end

impunity.

Everyone agrees that our

state was captured by people who

purported to be close to the

president, who have been doing

really bad things in getting into

all and many state institutions.

And

suddenly there is real change in the

air here. Prosecutors seizing this

State farm in connection with

alleged fraud by the Guptill family

and officials, and the courts

pursuing corruption charges against

President Zuma himself.

I think

these are important moments in South

African politics. In all likelihood

we will see arrests and big people

being caught up in this because we

are seeing that the wheel is turning

and momentum is developing and I

don't think that there is any

turning back.

Fonau, Jacob Zuma is

clinging to his job, but his allies

are discerning -- deserting him and

to night party leaders are meeting

to discuss his removal. In places

like Zimbabwe and tenure we have

seen this sort of situation turn

ugly and dangerous -- and Kenya. But

South Africa is a robust democracy

and whether he is pushed or jumps,

President Zuma will soon be out of

power and, most likely, in court on

corruption charges. It is a moment

of drama and optimism for a country

poised to exit the troubled

President Zuma era.

Two people have died in a crash

between a freight train

and an Amtrak passenger train

in South Carolina.

Early indications suggest the Amtrak

train was on the wrong track.

It's the third deadly crash

involving the national

carrier in just seven weeks.

It is a horrible thing to see, to

understand the force involved. Two

trains, that is about as forceful as

you can get. The engine of the first

engine of the freight train was torn

up and the engine of the passenger

train which was headed south was

barely recognisable. It is quite a

crash.

David Willis has been following

the story from Washington.

Those figures, 139 passengers on

board, and eight crew, we know that

the two people who died in the

incident were both Amtrak employees.

This passenger train colliding with

a stationary freight train south of

Colombia, which is the capital of

South Carolina, just after 2am local

time, and the speed given the

passenger train at the time of the

collision was 59 mph. 116

passengers, they say, were

transported to local hospitals, many

of them with minor injuries, but

some broken bones but officials from

the National Transportation Safety

Board are on their way to the scene,

as is normal, and that is the

federal agency which investigates

these incidents and they will look

into it. Meanwhile the governor of

South Carolina has said that it does

appear that the Amtrak train, the

passenger train, was on the wrong

track at the time of the collision.

You mentioned it was the third

serious rail accident in America in

as many months. What sort of debate

is there over rail safety there?

I

think this will prompt a renewed

debate about rail safety here, not

least because the South Carolina

Governor has prompted one, saying

perhaps this is the time to have

such a debate, and in actual fact,

it's worth noting that Congress has

not passed a long-term funding bill

for Amtrak since 2008 and has relied

relief -- repeatedly on short-term

extensions of existing funding

levels. And, indeed, the Trump

administration proposed cutting by

13% the allocation of funds for

Amtrak. President Trump has now come

up with this very big infrastructure

plan, $1 trillion in total but it is

not clear how much, if any of it,

will be earmarked for improving the

railroads, the safety of the

railroads and so on, so the debate

is filling out.

Let's take a look at some of

the other stories making the news.

Hundreds of thousands of Greeks

have protested in Athens

against the former Yugoslav republic

to the north using

the name Macedonia.

The latest talks on the long-running

dispute are underway

at the United Nations.

Greece objects because it has

a region called Macedonia,

and argues the use by its neighbour

implies it has claims

over the province.

Re-election has been won in the

second term in the presidential

elections in Cyprus. The

Conservative incumbent got 55% of

the vote and has promised to restart

his talks with Turkish Cypriots who

govern the north of the island.

Police in fraud have arrested a man

who is alleged to have made threats

to kidnap the singer Lana Del Rey.

Michael Hunt faces charges of

aggravated stalking with a credible

threat and an attempted kidnapping

with a weapon. The UK Home Secretary

has played down government internal

divisions over Brexit at the start

of a crucial week in negotiations.

Amber Rudd said the Cabinet was more

divided than people thought. Michel

Barnier will be in London shortly

for talks and the UK Brexit

committee will meet later this week

seeking agreement on the way

forward. Eleanor Garnier reports.

I have a surprise for the

Brexiteers. The committee is more

united than they think. We meet in

the committee, privately for

discussions, and I think we will

arrive at something which suits us

all.

Exactly how we trade with the

EU after Brexit is the source of

division in the Tories. Some want

complete disentanglement from

Brussels but others hope to stay as

close to the EU as possible. The

Home Secretary believes that the

government priorities are clear. We

want fiction -- frictionless trade

at the border and make sure there is

no border on the island of Ireland

and we want to make sure we can do

trade deals outside the European

Union.

That is the deal we are

looking for.

It is clear to all in

the Conservative Party how difficult

it will be to get everyone on side.

There are inherent tensions in

Brexit because different people take

different views. It's not just in

the Conservative or Labour Party,

it's across the country and we need

a team effort, loud and clear.

So

far the Prime Minister has prevented

the decade-old split in the

Conservative Party over Europe from

spilling out into something more

serious, something which could spell

a crisis for her government. But

with crucial ministerial meetings --

meetings this week to pin down and

agreed position on the future

relationship with the EU, Theresa

May will finally have to pick a

path, and whichever she chooses, she

risks making a large swathe of her

party unhappy. It is not just a

battle at home, winning in Brussels

is also key, and with more

negotiations with the EU this week,

the next few days could be pivotal

for the Prime Minister.

China is accusing the United States

of exaggerating Beijing's

nuclear strength,

saying America needs

to ditch what it calls

a "Cold War mentality".

The statement comes after Washington

unveiled a new nuclear policy,

which included plans

to diversify its nuclear

armoury with smaller bombs.

The policy also highlighted concerns

about Russia and North Korea.

The Chinese defence ministry

said the US had engaged

in presumptuous speculation

about Beijing's intentions.

With me is Elizabeth Minor

an advisor at Article 36,

a member of the International

Campaign to Abolish

Nuclear Weapons.

What is your reaction to what the US

has announced with its policy

change?

As you were saying, China is

saying that this represents a Cold

War mentality we think the risk from

nuclear weapons never went away

since the Cold War so this policy

represents a kind of reckless

development on what was already a

dangerous status quo.

You think it

rejuvenates the of having nuclear

weapons rather than rejuvenating it?

The nuclear weapons they think

should be more usable and they

should be more willing and able to

use them and there is a proposal

that low yield nuclear weapons

should be more available but the low

yield weapons they are talking about

are similar size to the bombs

dropped on Hiroshima in Nagasaki to

such horrific effect in 1945. We

think that any policy that makes

these more usable is poor.

The US is

talking about the deterrent factor,

it is saying that countries like

Russia see the bombs that the US

have as too big to be used so they

are not, in effect, a deterrent.

The

mentality that needs addressing is

that some states see nuclear weapons

as a legitimate tool of statecraft,

including the Trump doctrine that

came out, but also states like China

and Britain and the majority of the

world countries are already

challenging this through a new

treaty on the prohibition of nuclear

weapons that was in the UN and

adopted, so only through these kind

of routes can we create conditions

for multilateral disarmament to be

possible.

Is this the right time to

be thinking about disarmament when

we see nuclear -- North Korea

becomes close to being a nuclear

power? Why should the world scale

back at a critical time?

As your

viewers know very well there has

been dangerous escalation in the

region over the past year and new

policies like the Trump nuclear

doctrine, we do not see how these

can dampen that down in the short

term but we are talking about

long-term solutions to set the stage

for addressing the danger of nuclear

weapons.

In a sense, do the powers

that have nuclear weapons have a

chance when you see what a country

like North Korea is doing?

What we

need to do is create a global

environment in which the weapons are

not seen as legitimate any more.

Can

you do that with North Korea?

If you

look at the other weapons of mass

destruction, thereafter you

countries who would argue today that

it would be legitimate to have

arsenals of them. It might surprise

people to know that the Margaret

Thatcher Cabinet was looking at

asking Nato to adopt a chemical

deterrent which would not be seen as

right now. We have to do the same

nuclear weapons which affects all

states and this is why the treaty is

important, not just to address the

short-term situation, but longer

term to make the world safe from

these weapons.

Elizabeth, thank you

for coming in.

Stay with us on BBC

World News, still to come.

We'll have the latest on today's

vital Premier League clash

between Liverpool and Spurs -

along with all the rest

of the day's sport.

This is the moment is that millions

in Iran have been waiting for. After

his long years in ex-aisle, the

first steps of President Khmeni on

Iranians soil.

The ban on the

African National Congress is lifted

immediately and the ANC leader,

Nelson Mandela, after 27 years in

jail is to be set free

unconditionally.

The aircraft is

returning from Belgrade where

Manchester United had entered the

semifinal of the European cup.

Two

Americans have become the first

humans to walk in space without any

lifeline to their spaceship. One of

them called it a piece of cake.

Thousands of people have given Ellen

MacArthur is a spectacular

homecoming in the Cornish port of

Falmouth after she smashed the world

record for sailing solo around the

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This is BBC World News Today.

The latest headlines.

A unified North and South Korean ice

hockey team plays its first match

ahead of the Winter Olympics,

losing to Sweden.

South Africa's president Jacob Zuma

comes under further pressure as top

ANC officials try to persuade him

to stand down.

Let's get a sports update

now from Gavin Ramjauin

at the BBC Sport Centre.

Let's start with the Premier League.

Because there was a sensational

finish to the match between

Liverpool and Tottenham at Anfield.

Spurs scored a penalty

with virtually the last kick

of the match to earn a point.

Harry Kane scored it to notch his

100th Premier League goal.

Earlier Mohammed Salah had given

Liverpool the lead ,

before a fantastic Victor Wanyama

strike pulled it back to 1-1.

Kane then missed a penalty -

which would have put Spurs ahead..

Salah then put Liverpool in front -

in stoppage time,

before Spurs were then awarded

a controversial penalty

which Kane converted..

I don't understand both of them.

They were both clearly offside. He

was clearly offside, and from our

position that he was offside but it

seems it was not McLear. The second

penalty, the referee and the

assistant say afterwards that there

is a torch, a little such, but we

all know he wants that touch and he

wants to go down. -- a little touch.

Earlier on Sunday, Crystal Palace

drew 1-1 with Newcastle.

Mohamed Diame gave the Magpies

the lead midway through the first

half, but Luka Milivojevic

levelled from the penalty

spot in the 55th minute.

Rafa Benitez's side are only one

point above the relegation zone.

Barcelona salavaged a draw

against Espanyol in La Liga.

Gerard Moreno had put the home side

ahead in the second half

and Espanyol looked to be heading

for a big win over

their city rivals.

But Gerard Pique rescued a point

for the League leaders, with seven

minutes of normal time left.

It means Barcelona, at the time,

extended their lead to 12 points.

Elsewhere in La Liga,

Girona beat Athletic Bilbao 2-0.

Christian Stuani with both goals.

And in the game clash

between high flyers

Atletico Madrid, and

Valencia the score is 1-0.

Both will stay second

and third respectively.

Gonzalo Higuain scored a hattrick

as Juventus thrashed Sassuolo 7-0

at the Allianz Stadium

Alex Sandro got the hosts

going with a goal in the opening 10

minutes of the game,

that was followed by two in three

minutes from Sami Khedira.

Another from Miralem

Pjanic saw them 4-0 up

at half time

with Higuain scoring

a hattrick in just 20

minutes after the break .

Napoli hoping to move

back above Juventus,

at the top with a win.

Defending Six Nations champions

England have got their 2018 campaign

off to a winning start.

They've beaten Italy 46-15 in Rome.

England only had a seven point

advantage at half time,

but their power shone

through in the second half.

They ran in seven tries in total.

Anthony Watson and debutant

Sam Simmonds each scored two tries.

Very good, very positive and the

first game is always difficult.

Italy are always traditionally a

difficult opponent and they played

very well today. Well coached by

their coach and may have good young

players coming through. To have the

bonus point and then go on and win

by a substantial score was positive

for us.

It hardly seems credible that

Petra Kvitova is back

winning WTA titles.

Just over 13 months after suffering

terrible injuries to her left hand,

trying to defend herself

against an intruder

in her own home.

Well, Kvitova entered

the St Petersburg Open

in Russia, as a wildcard

but needed just 65 minutes

to see off Kristina

Mladenovic in the final.

She certainly seems to have put

a disappointing first round exit

at the Australian Open behind her,

and is now up to 21

in the world rankings.

And that's all the sport for now.

Let's stay with sport because Sunday

is the biggest night

in the American football calendar.

But fans heading to the 52nd

Super Bowl in Minneapolis

will be wrapping up warm.

It's expected to be a bone-chilling

-16 degrees Celsius

as the New England Patriots take

on the Philadelphia Eagles.

The game is indoors,

but officials are still a warning

those attending to rug up.

And the weather might not be

the only record set on Sunday.

On the field the Patriots will be

looking for a sixth Super Bowl title

which would give Tom Brady more

Super Bowl rings than anybody else

and making the author -- oldest

quarterback in history to win the

trophy.

Another incredible season for them.

A lot of people thought they would

not make it but they keep finding a

way to do it. The combination of

Bill Belichick can Tom Brady for

over the last 15 years has been

phenomenal and this year has been no

different. New England is New

England but Philadelphia was also

the number one seed may have been

through a bunch of obstacles to get

to they are. There was the

frontrunner to be the MVP in the

league, and pay him to get injured

and Philadelphia to keep Honor Roll

shows that they have good coaching

and players and it shows the

character of their football team.

Darkest hour has been nominated for

six BAFTAs. The make-up team that

transformed Gary Oldman into the

Prime Minister is hoping to win an

Academy award.

Brennan Nicholls has been

to meet one of them.

You cannot reason with the tiger

when your head is in its mouth.

Gary Oldman's performance

in Darkest Hour has already

earned him many accolades

and critical acclaim.

Turning him, though,

into Britain's wartime

Prime Minister has been hailed

as a masterpiece of make-up.

Gary would come into the bus,

we would shave his head,

apply the make-up, takes just over

three hours to apply

the make-up and the wig,

plus including getting into his fat

suit and costume, close to four

hours for the entire thing.

He would then go to set for ten,

12 hours a day filming and we need

to be there the whole time

to maintain his make-up

throughout that.

He would then have his make-up

removed which takes an hour.

And then, once he goes, Lucy

and I stay for another hour or two.

Gary Oldman convinced Kazuhiro Tsuji

to come out of retirement to design

the Churchill make-up.

He had just been working

with David on another movie,

it was Oldman who asked him to be

onset applying it alongside

colleague Lucy Sibbick and it's

the three of them that have been

nominated for the Oscar.

Extremely proud.

The best job I have done so far

to date and I am just so pleased

it is getting the recognition it

deserves because of the amount

of effort myself, Kazuhiro

and Lucy have put into it

and the people behind-the-scenes,

such a big team involved.

We are getting the credit

and our names are on the award,

but the amount of people in

the workshops involved is amazing.

We are to receive our reward.

The 39-year-old make-up

artist has a CV full

of blockbusters to his name,

but this is his first-ever

Oscar nomination.

But look at the texture

here, the colour.

Spending a bit more time prepping,

that is why the day was so long,

I wanted to make sure

I painted all of it perfectly

so that they match every day.

David flies out to Los Angeles

for the Oscar nomination

lunch this weekend.

Then back for the Baftas,

before heading off to LA again

for the Oscars themselves on the 4th

of March

for what could be his finest hour.