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Transcripts For BBCNEWS BBC News 20180201

For its harrowing and powerful testimony from survivors of sexual abuse. Now the entire board of usa gymnastics has resigned over its failure to protect Young Athletes from the convicted doctor, larry nassar. More than 250 victims have now accused nasser, who preyed on young girls, under the pretence of giving them medical treatment, for two decades. Andrew plant reports. Another day in court for larry nassar, the former gymnastics coach exposed as a prolific paedophile. Now time for some of his victims to end their years of silence. I lost all motivation when i was overwhelmed with the truth of your abuse. But that ends today. You are the most vile, disgusting creature i have ever met. Scum of the earth is too high of a title for you. I hope you realise that you will never have any power over anybody for the rest of your life. Nassar gave medical treatment to hundreds of girls. There are now more than 265 victims. He has already been sentenced to 175 years injail. He has to listen to the agony he caused his victims. We do not view this as an isolated incident. The gymnastics world allowed him. Because women are still not perceived to be credible. Many are now suing nassarfor damages and usa gymnastics and other institutions that they accused of ignoring their earlier warnings that allowed larry nassar to continue to abuse young girls for more than 20 years. Mark aleesha is an Investigative Reporter for the indy star which first broke the story of Larry Nassars abuse. What difference do you think these resignations will make, the entire board resigned at the directive of the United States olympic committee. The impact, it is hard to tell. I talked to a very prominent womens sports advocate, a former olympic swimmer, who said she does not care who is on the board or she does not care if usa gymnastics is certified or decertified, she cares about the policies that will be put in place to protect the athletes when this shakes out. The problem seems to be, many problems, there were too few people with power to do anything about it. The structure of rules has to change. No doubt about it. Usa gymnastics is kind of in tatters right now. They have lost all of their sponsors, not all of them, but they have lost major sponsors. Now they have lost their board and they have a new president and now they have to somehow rebuild. I have talked to people who have said even if they put the most perfect policies in place right away, sponsors are going to want to sit back and see how it all goes. They are not going to get major sponsors back any time soon. That is quite apart from trying, somehow, to repair some of the damage that has been done. When you reported on the trial and you spoke to the very first victim to come forward and you have spoken to more since. The damage is huge, the damage is enormous. All you have to do is watch the victim impact statements. 156 at the previous sentencing hearing. And now a total of more than 250 are expected. These are women, really, bearing their souls in public so bravely. That has kind of shaken the american consciousness, since they are paying attention. Our report has been out there for quite some time. But the spectacle of these women and all of the pain and visceral reactions you are singing, they have everybodys attention now. It is worth saying, when you first broke the story, your colleagues took a lot of flak. The fbi says it has grave concerns over the accuracy of whats expected to be a critical memo that could soon be released by the white house. It centres on a report written by the republican congressman devin nunes, which is thought to condemn the fbi for spying on the trump election campaign. Swirling around all this are the allegations of russian interference in the election, allegations that republicans colluded in that, and allegations that the white house has been trying to obstruct justice. Democrats argue the memo is just an attempt to derail investigations into all that. An attempt to muddy the waters with that enquiry by special Council Robert mueller nearing its conclusion. It is saying there are certain omissions, which give the fbi grave concerns about this particular documents. The democrats, as we mentioned, believe it is highly selective and is an attempt to basically discredit the work of the special council. The white house, because of the sensitive nature of this they havent had to do an analysis oii they havent had to do an analysis on what sources and methods are. The president says he has not even read the memo. It might be a pretext to sack Robert Miller and rob rosenstein. It sends a message to the white house that it can fire rosenstein or miller. There are gop members who are so vested in his presidency that they will roll over. That will cause a constitutional crisis. Owing to the sensitive nature of the memo, the white house has to sign off on its release and there are reports here that it is looking to do so, possibly as early as later today thursday. Live now to new york and to yael eisenstat, adjunct professor at new york university. Yael, you were a cia analyst, under 3 democratic president s, and National Security adviser to Vice President joe biden. You used to co ordinate those top secret Daily Briefing documents for president s. The Public Statement will look to some people, particularly to supporters of president trump, like the fbi trying to avoid democratic scrutiny. How do you see it . Thats exactly right. I actually served under to democratic and one republican president. The people in the Intelligence Community, they serve the American People, the president , democrat or republican and while there was enough political squabbling going on between parties right now, people like me are choosing to speak up to really explain how dangerous it is to use intelligence for political purposes, to politicise the process, and the interesting thing is, the fbi is trying to cover some tracks from the reporting, are actually did offer to go through the request with devin nunes and those who are interested andi nunes and those who are interested and ijust nunes and those who are interested and i just saw that they didnt want to do that. Sowing the seeds of political distrust in a process which should be completely non partisan is a huge concern. Which should be completely nonpartisan is a huge concern. You know that intelligence doesnt operate in a vacuum. It will have political consequences. Why is this situation so dangerous . This situation so dangerous . This situation is going against every possible process in how you need to protect not just the sources possible process in how you need to protect notjust the sources and methods but a whole bunch of ramifications of just methods but a whole bunch of ramifications ofjust using intelligence in any political weight. For example, if we lose the trust of our partners around the world because we are not properly protecting those who provide as intelligence or how we gather intelligence, that well is going to dry up. Partners will not trust that the United States will protect those relationships and they wont necessarily give us the information to protect our National Security is thatis to protect our National Security is that is one of the multiple reasons why it is so important to follow certain processes to protect how intelligence is gathered. Those are the implications of declassification, mishandling as you see it, and not protecting sources. It is suggesting devin nunes made material changes to the memo he sent to the white house, not approved by the committee. Does that alter the picture . It absolutely does. The committee. Does that alter the picture . It absolutely doeslj the committee. Does that alter the picture . It absolutely does. I heard maybe ten minutes ago, it does confirm this idea that this is being used for political purposes and again, there is also an environment where the intelligence agencies, the fbi and cia, other agencies, have been used in this political football and just one other thing, regardless of whether they be released this memo, theyve already accomplished the key part of sowing distrust among the American People and whether they release the memo, whoever it is, devin nunes robbers, who want to make sure that the American Public doesnt trust the current process, that damage is already done. We are already talking about it, talking about whether the Intelligence Community is not believed by sir part of the population. Thank you to talking to us. A train chartered to carry dozens of Us Congress Members to a Republican Party retreat has collided with a rubbish truck in the state of virginia. The driver of the truck was killed and four people were injured. Among those on board was the speaker of the house of representatives, paul ryan. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg says it was a hard year for the social media giant, despite announcing a 47 increase in quarterly revenue. The firm says newsfeed changes have led to a significant drop in usage 50 million hours less per day on the network. Fewer viral videos and more checks on advertising were recently brought in to tackle misinformation. This will shift the row over equal pay at the bbc has intensified with the corporations former china editor appearing before a british parliamentary hearing. Carrie gracie, who resigned from her post in protest over the issue, has accused the bbc of having an illegal pay culture. The director general, lord hall, who also appeared, said it was wrong that she had been underpaid. Our media editor amol rajan reports. A united front several of the most high profile female presenters on bbc news were in westminster today to support their colleague Carrie Gracie. Reporter do the bbc need to do more on equal pay for women . Thats why were here to support carrie. Thank you. I was appointed china editor at the end of. She resigned her post as china editor in protest at unequal pay. In blistering testimony to a select committee of mps, she accused the bbc of institutionalised discrimination, when it had paid her less than other international editors. We knew there was inequality. We didnt know the details, because the bbc is extremely secretive on pay, but we knew we were underpaid. And i was determined, at this point, where i knew id give the china job every last ounce of my skill and stamina, i knew i would do that job at least as well as any man. The corporations dealing with her grievance was, she said, insultingly shambolic, and she added that she would be declining nearly £100,000 in back pay. I have said i dont want that money. Thats not what its about for me. I feel my salarys a good salary, its public money, i. Thats not what it was about. Theyre still not giving me equality. And, in a concerted attack against bbc management, she said that for years it had created a fortress to keep out ordinary staff. I was so distraught by what had happened. Anyway. Then i thought, no, i have to fight. Gracies grilling went on for 2. 5 hours. When said management emerged in the afternoon, the director general apologised for the situation. Im sorry it went to a grievance, and i said upfront at the beginning, id very much like to resolve the case of Carrie Gracie with her. And im sorry this has taken so long, and im sorry were in this position, yes. He went on to explain for the first time in public why the bbc believe there is a hierarchy of roles among correspondents. The idea that every single editor, home and abroad, i would imagine, should be paid exactly the same, i dont agree with. It should not be a matter of gender, completely agree. Outrageous if it was. But, you know, you have balances between different editors, and we need to be very upfront about what that, as it were, pecking order is. There are two parallel conversations happening today. Carrie gracie spoke powerfully about the wider implications of her own case, and also the accumulated failures of the past. But the bbc management wanted to focus on the future. They want to shift this story from the injustices faced by Carrie Gracie to their new framework for greater transparency. The trouble is, many staff here have other ideas. The bbc has a clear plan, and is largely ahead of the industry on gender inequality. But Carrie Gracies case remains far from resolved, or unique. Stay with us on bbc news. Still to come the president ial portrait with a difference. The money has gone to trumps head literally. This is the moment that millions in iran had been waiting for. After his long years in exile, the first hesitant steps of Ayatollah Khomeini on iranian soil. South africas white government has offered its black opponents concessions unparalleled in the history of apartheid. The ban on the African National congress is lifted immediately, and the anc leader, nelson mandela, after 27 years injail, is to be set free unconditionally. The aircraft was returning from belgrade, where Manchester United had entered the semi final 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 the yachstwoman Ellen Macarthur a spectacular homecoming in the cornish port of falmouth after she smashed the world record for sailing solo around the world non stop. Very good to have you with us. This is bbc news. One main headline this hour the entire board of usa gymnastics resigns over its failure to protect Young Athletes from the convicted doctor larry nassar. Next week, a 16 year old palestinian girl will go on trial in an Israeli Military court for a range of security offences she was filmed slapping an israeli soldier. The video of ahed tamimi, filmed by her mother, went viral, and they were both arrested. Our middle east editor jeremy bowen reports from their home village nebi saleh, on the Israeli Occupied west bank. Any peace in nebi saleh on a cold winter day is an illusion. Its a small palestinian village on the west bank, a sharp thorn in the side of its occupier, israel. The people here refuse to give in to israels overwhelming power. For some israelis, that makes them terrorists. An israeli soldier shot mohammed tamimi, 15 years old, in the face with a rubber coated metal bullet. Surgeons took the bullet out of mohammeds brain, along with part of his skull. The tamimifamily lead the protests in the village, many of them have been imprisoned by israel for security offences. Mohammed was jailed for three months last year. He was rushed to hospital after he was shot during a demonstration in nebi saleh, on the 15th december. The village was protesting against president trumps decision to recognise jerusalem as israels capital. Ahed tamimi, his cousin, a seasoned activist at 16 years old, told two Israeli Soldiers to get off her familys property, shed just heard, wrongly, that mohammed had died. After one soldier swatted her away, she slapped him. Once the video had gone viral, ahed with arrested with her mother nariman, who did the filming. Theyre charged with security offences and face jail. Aheds father, bassem tamimi, an activist whos also served time in prison, has been taking to her to demonstrations since she was small. Lots of people would say that if you slap a soldier, in any country, youll get into trouble. So its no surprise that the israelis have put her on trial. She cant accept a hard man to come to her field. This is the occupier law, we are resisting. Thats our daughters responsibility. We cant give our enemy a rose when he come to kill us. So this is where it happened, in the driveway of the tamimis house. The incident says a lot about the conflict. The imbalance of force, the way its invaded the lives of yet another generation and the bleakness of a future with no prospect of peace. Very close to nebi saleh is a jewish settlement, illegal under international law. Last summer, a palestinian from another village killed three members of a family there. This area is always tense and the armys mainjob is to guard the settlers. Like all west bank palestinians, ahed tamimi is being tried in a military court, which usually convicts. More than 300 palestinians, under 18, are serving time as security prisoners. Some israelis are horrified by the imprisonment of children, but most feel that she should be punished and perhaps herfamily too. If i was there, she would finish in the hospital, for sure. Nobody could stop me. I would kick, kick herface. Believe me. Shes a 16 year old girl. No, i dont look at it like this because today, as a 16 year old girl, she punched a soldier, tomorrow she will stick a knife in his throat. They say theyre taking part in peaceful protest. You see me smiling. If this is peaceful protest, i dont want to imagine what is not a peaceful protest. A slap isnt terrorism. No, a slap is terrorism. Believe me. A slap is terrorism. No Peace Process exists any more and reviving one looks less and less likely. The future of the next generation is going to be difficult. Incidents like this show the level of tension and anger thats just below the surface. Palestinian lives are dominated by the occupation, but keeping a people under military rule for 50 years has also had a profound effect on israel. Without change for the better, the risk is that the west bank will slide into more serious violence. Jeremy bowen, bbc news, nebi saleh. We will report on that next week, of course. When you become president of the United States you get certain perks with the job. You get an official portrait honouring your time in office. But a pair of ukrainian artists have created their own painting of the current occupant of the white house and its a little unusual as the bbcs tim allman reports. The big reveal of a big portrait of someone who is currently the biggest celebr

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