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BBCNEWS World News Today January 6, 2017

Security officials in the us state of florida say five people have been have been killed in a shooting at Fort Lauderdale International Airport. The local sheriff said eight people were also wounded. The gunman is understood to be in Police Custody and is believed to have acted alone. This scene is considered fluid and active. One of the more critical pieces of information is we have the shooter in custody. He is unharmed, nose or enforcement fired any shots. The subject is being interviewed by a team of fbi agents and Sheriffs Office homicide detectives. That was the local sheriff. Lets get the latest from Barbara Plett usher in washington. Some interesting details have come out, including details on how the shooter may have got hold of a gun. Yes, the sheriff you just heard they didnt reveal how the shooter got the gun over where he came from, but the County Commissioner has said that the shooter was a passenger on a flight that came from canada and that he had checked his gun, he claimed his bag, had gone into the bathroom and loaded it and then came out shooting. As i said, the showers didnt confirm that the County Commissioner is the local executive so is probably being briefed by law enforcement. According to witnesses, the shooter just calmly enforcement. According to witnesses, the Shooterjust Calmly and quietly walked through the Baggage Claim area, firing and reloading his gun at least once, didnt say anything. People were screaming and running and trying to hide and panicking and then he was arrested, according to then he was arrested, according to the sheriff, without being shot himself and is in custody and as far as the investigation has discovered and it is very early days yet here, they say they believe he was the only shooter and they are trying to find out now whether he was acting alone or whether he was part of an organisation. We dont know any more about the motive, do we . No information about that at all. We dont know if it was a loner or somebody who was mentally disturbed or whether it was a terrorist act. None of those things, the investigation has revealed so far. But the fbi have come in to help out the local police. They are now sort of helping the police but if it looks like it is going to be decided that it isnt a terrorist attack, the fbi will take over. They havent done so at this point, theyll still trying to find out what motivated this man and whether he was acting alone. About 90 minutes after he was arrested when things have calmed down, suddenly there was a panic again with reports of gunfire at another terminal, so you had police and people running again in panic but the sheriff said that there hadnt been any other shooter discovered, that there was only one, there were no other gun fired and nevertheless, you heard him say it is an active and fluid situation and they are trying to evacuate the airport and they are trying to evacuate the airportand a they are trying to evacuate the airport and a lot of people still sheltering places, some have landed and havent been able to get off so there was a discussion about whether they should just take off again and land somewhere else, so right now, there is a big focus on clearing the Airport Passengers safely and going through and sweeping it clean and making sure there is no other threat. Barbara plett usher, thank you very much. President Elect Donald Trump has released a statement describing a briefing from senior intelligance officials as constructive. Mrtrump has mr trump has ends a cuddle it suggested the investigation into hacking is a political witchhunt against him. He says he will appoint a team to deal with Cyber Hacking within 90 days of taking office. And he says that while russia, china and other countries and outside groups and people are consistently trying to break through the cyber infrastructure, there was absolutely no effect on the outcome of the election and no tampering whatsoever with voting machines. Lets cross live to washington where we can speak to katty kay. First of all, with this particular statement that donald trump has released, its not exactly an about face, is it . Released, its not exactly an aboutface, is it . Not really. He is tacitly acknowledging that the russians, amongst other countries, russia, china and other countries, are consistently trying to break through our cyber defences, so he is acknowledging that there has been Outsider Tampering and he also says very firmly that this didnt affect the outcome of the American Election and he says that America Needs to control aggressively itself against Cyber Attacks like this, so in a way it isa Cyber Attacks like this, so in a way it is a tacit acknowledgement that russia was involved in hacking, but not an outright condemnation of moscow, which is, of course, where other republicans, democrats, Hillary Clinton and indeed the Us Intelligence services themselves have been heading. There is also this report that we expected would come out next week, that has now emerged and there are details. Tell us emerged and there are details. Tell us about that and whether it is in line with this donald trump statement. I have just got that and we are reading it right now. This is the declassified version of the report donald trump was given access to today up in trump tower and, of course, the administration has already seen as well. This is the report that has been drawn up by the Us Intelligence services on the hacking of the american president ial election. They have given us access to their key findings and the most interest is interesting is they are saying the russian goal was to undermine public faith and denigrate Secretary Clinton and harm her electability. So they are saying the russians deliberately targeted Secretary Clinton and they are associating this with President Putin and the russian government. So i think what we have seen from them is in line really with what we heard in news reports last night that the russians did this, that this went to the russian government and it was an active effort to hamper Hillary Clintons chances of winning the us president ial election. You have been speaking to outgoing Secretary Of Statejohn speaking to outgoing Secretary Of State john kerry and speaking to outgoing secretary of Statejohn Kerry and he said. He had a bit to say about this issue, tell us about that. Earlier today, donald trump had said, again, dismissed the idea really that there was so much attention on the russian hacking of the election and i asked him about what he thought about Donald Trumps reaction to this whole affair. We have an extraordinary professional intelligence community. The men and women who work every day to give us information are patriots and hard workers and some of them sometimes, in many different ways, are doing things in places of great risk, in order that we can be informed and make decisions. I think a dni clapper could not have spoken more clearly, he said that healthy disparagement is a good thing and disparagement is a good thing and disparagement is a good thing and disparagement is not and he felt it fell on the side of disparagement, so fell on the side of disparagement, so he has spoken to this administration and i will leave it on that. Where does this leave us all know . I think what john kerry was referring to there and what is critical here is what is going to be Donald Trumps relationship now with Us Intelligence services . Because as Director Clapper had suggested, the Intelligence Services do feel they have been denigrated by donald trump. There is going to be a crisis that hits the Trump Administration on the Foreign Policy front, it is almost bound to happen at some point during his presidency and he will need those Intelligence Services to provide analysis and provide ideas on how to keep america safe and i think that is the concern that some people in the Intelligence Services have here, that to come into the administration having created so much bad blood between Intelligence Officers and the new president isnt in this countrys interests, it doesnt provide the best Working Relationship and it doesnt mean that donald trump is going to be getting the best advice from those Intelligence Services, so this is defining issue. Donald trumps transition in the weeks running up to his inauguration are being dominated by this hacking story and how he is handling it and the Intelligence Services and it puts the cia and other intelligence officials into very difficult position. Kathie kay in washington with excellent analysis as always and we canjoin her on World News America later this evening, where she will have much more about her interview withjohn she will have much more about her interview with john kerry, she will have much more about her interview withjohn kerry, the outgoing Secretary Of State. Now look at some of the days other news. Police in bangladesh say they have killed one of the masterminds of last years Terror Attack on a cafe in the capital dhaka which left 20 hostages mostly foreigners dead. Nurul islam marzan and another suspected islamist extremist died in a pre dawn raid on a property in the city. The worlds biggest art gallery, the louvre in paris, says the number of foreign visitors fell by 20 last year in the wake of islamist attacks in the city and elsewhere in france. The director of the louvre, jean luc martinez, said the drop in Visitor Numbers had cost the museum more than 10. 5 million. He described 2016 as difficult. Other galleries in paris also saw a decline in foreign tourists. Michelle obama has delivered her final speech as first lady of the United States with an impassioned call on young people to have hope and fight for their rights. Speaking at a ceremony in the white house to honour American School counsellors, mrs obama told young people to empower themselves with a good education and lead by example. She concluded tea rfully by saying that being first lady had the been the greatest honour of her life. Empower yourselves with a good education then get out there and use that education to build a country worthy of your boundless promise. Lead by example with hope, never fear. And know that i will be with you, rooting for you and working to support you for the rest my life. And that is true, i know, for every person that is here today, and for educators and advocates all across this nation who get up every day and work their hearts out to lift up our young people. And i am so grateful to all of you for your passion and dedication and all the hard work on the behalf of our next generation and i can think of no better way to end my time as first lady than celebrating with all of you. So i want to close the day by simply saying thank you. Thank you for everything you do for our kids and for our country. Being your first lady has been the greatest honour of my life and i hope ive made you proud. Applause an iceberg about fifty times the size of manhattan is close to breaking away from the Antarctic Ice shelf. If and when it happens, it would be one of the ten largest ever recorded. Scientists have been monitoring the break up for months. They say Climate Change is not to blame. Stretching for around 100 miles in length, the 100 yard wide rift in the Larsen Ice Shelf has grown rapidly in recent weeks. Just 12 miles of frozen material is keeping this enormous iceberg from drifting away into the sea. Collapsing ice shelves are common in antarctica. As these pictures show, these fragmentations can dramatically affect the landscape, creating icebergs of all shapes and sizes. A team of british researchers have been travelling to antarctica to monitor the growing rift in the larsen Sea Ice Shelf for several years, but they have been surprised by the dramatic expansion in the rift thats taken place in just two weeks in december. What weve found is that the rift thats been in this ice shelf for a number of years has broken through another 18 kilometres and is now at risk of giving birth to an iceberg about a quarter of the size of wales. And the significance of that is it is a very large iceberg that will go out into the open ocean, but the remaining ice shelf we believe will be less stable than before the rift was there. When large icebergs break off the edge off an ice shelf like the larsen b in 2002, it can have a dramatic effect on the stability of the whole structure. At larsen b, most of the remaining shelf disintegrated in less than a month. Experts at the British Antarctic survey are worried that any new Iceberg Formation could have long term consequences. When the ice shelf loses this ice, it may then start to collapse and if that were to occur, then the glaciers that feed the ice shelf could flow faster and contribute more to sea level rising over the next few decades. When it shears away, the new iceberg will be one of the biggest recorded around 50 times the size of manhattan island. But despite concerns about the impact of global warning, researchers they receive no evidence evidence that Climate Change is playing any significant role in the new icebergs formation. Well, much more coming up, including the man with the printed face. We will speak to a cyclist who has had his jaw rebuilt using 3 d technology. The japanese people are in mourning following the death of emperor hirohito. Thousands converged on the imperial palace to pay their respects when it was announced he was dead. Good grief. After half a century of delighting fans Around The World, Charlie Brown and the re st of the world, Charlie Brown and the rest of the gang are calling it quits. The singer paul simon starts his tour of south africa tomorrow, in spite of protests and violence from some black activist groups. They Say International artists should continue to boycott south africa until Majority Rule is established. Teams were trying to scoop up lumps of oil, as france recognises it faces an ecological crisis. Three weeks ago, the authorities confidently assured these are areas that oil from the broken tanker erika would head out to sea. It didnt. The worlds Tourist Skyscraper opens later today, it is easily overtaken its nearest rivals. This is bbc world news today, the latest headlines five people have been killed in a shooting at Fort Lauderdale International Airport in florida. And Us Intelligence officials have released a report saying russian president Vladimir Putin directly try to influence the us president ial election to undermine Hillary Clinton and support donald trump. Now, for much of the past month, a huge swathe of northern china has been shrouded in a thick layer of toxic smog. Pollution has reached such high levels that beijings met office this week issued a warning against venturing out into the snow because of fears its dangerously contaminated. John sudworth reports. Somewhere, underneath this murky gloom, is a city of 10 million people. And for the unfortunate residents, this is normal. For the past 30 days, the average air quality in this city has measured as hazardous on the official scale. You can smell, even taste the coal dust in the air, the grim, tangible reality of this countrys model of economic growth. And people have no choice but to live, eat and sleep in this toxic smog, 2a hours a day. Its like living under a cloud, this Noodle Seller tells me. The smog is harming my childrens health. Of course i want to leave, this man says, but i cant afford to, and anyway, the whole country is polluted. Its not much of an exaggeration. 200 miles away, the pollution literally rolled into beijing earlier this week. And stayed. A toxic mix of coal dust from Power Stations and car exhaust. The smog now regularly blankets a huge swathe of northern china. And it is believed to cause more than a million premature deaths a year. Public concern has forced the Chinese Government to begin investing heavily in renewable energy. Those working in the sector believe china can clean up its air, just as wealthier and more developed countries once had to. So the experience in t

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