hello. this is bbc news. our top story— an intelligence report released in the united states states with high confidence that the russians tried to boost donald trump's election campaign and discredit hillary clinton. a gunman opened fire at the fort lauderdale international airport. at least five people are killed and passengers evacuated. the first lady makes her last speech. an emotional michelle obama tells the young that the country belongs to them no matter what your background. thank you for everything you do for our children and for our country. being your first lady has been the greatest honour of my life. i hope i have made you proud. a visit to china most polluted city effort country struggles with the worst winter smog of recent years. president putin tried to boost

donald trump's campaign for the presidency. that is according to a report from us intelligence officials. the report was released after they had briefed mr trump on their findings. after they had briefed mr trump on theirfindings. while after they had briefed mr trump on their findings. while the after they had briefed mr trump on theirfindings. while the president elect insisted any espionage by russia, china or anyone else had not influenced the result that he has ordered a plan to be delivered within 90 days of taking office on developing an aggressive response to cyber attacks. american intelligence tonight released its explosive report, claiming that vladimir putin personally ordered what it called an influence campaign to help donald trump's chances of winning the presidency by denigrating

hillary clinton and harming her electability. it concludes, the kremlin had a clear preference for the billionaire. donald trump today described the investigation as a political witch—hunt by adversaries badly beaten in the election. he rubbished the notion that he achieved a kremlin—assisted victory. but us intelligence claims it wasn't just the billionaire who celebrated his unexpected success on election night. intercepted conversations reportedly picked up senior figures in the russian government rejoicing, too, among them officials said to be aware of the alleged cyber campaign. at trump tower tonight, he was given a classified briefing by america's top intelligence officials, who claim the russians tried harder to hack computers of the democratic national committee than those at republican headquarters, and that go—betweens allegedly delivered stolen e—mails to the wikileaks website to help him move from his penthouse in manhattan to the white house. never before has a president—elect been so openly scornful of america's spies, or so disparaging about their work. but the trump team says he's

right to be cautious, not least because the us intelligence community has got it wrong before, over iraq's weapons of mass destruction. in a statement after the meeting, mr trump said that russia, china, other countries and outside groups are consistently trying to break through the cyber infrastructure of our governmental institutions and organisations, including the democratic national committee. but he added, "there was absolutely no effect on the outcome of the election". tellingly, he did not single out russia for blame. but vice presidentjoe biden has told him to accept the intelligence findings pointing the finger at the kremlin. the idea that you know more than the intelligence community knows seems like saying, "i know more about physics than my professor. i didn't read the book, ijust know i know more". grow up.

time to be an adult. you're president. relations between president obama and president putin have had a cold war chill, and donald trump has signalled warmer ties. speaking to the bbc today, the outgoing secretary of state, john kerry, delivered this advice. i would encourage him to engage with russia and to try to find that common ground, but not at the expense or interests that we need to protect as we do so. donald trump tonight expressed tremendous respect for america's spies, but he still clearly believes the allegations of a kremlin conspiracy are being used to delegitimise his presidency. earlier i spoke to our coats —— security correspondent in just how bold this was in pointing the finger

at the russian president. the first line was that vladimir putin ordered it. it didn't say russian hackers or officials at the kremlin, it put it very much at vladimir putin's door and then told a story which from the us intelligence community's viewpoint is what happened which isn't that at different points the russians intervened in different ways will stop at one point they thought hillary clinton would win so they we re hillary clinton would win so they were seeking to undermine the legitimacy of the whole electoral process. another point, they were intervening to try and denigrate her and therefore to help donald trump. doing that not just and therefore to help donald trump. doing that notjust a hacking, cyber espionage and release of information but also other forms of propaganda. but, that is the story they tell. what there isn't is a lot of evidence behind those assertions. it has not got the secret material which you might not expect to see in an unclassified report which says why they believe that all what they base thesejudgements. i why they believe that all what they base these judgements. i think that leaves room to sceptics to go, this

is just another politically partisan attempt to undermine donald trump is that what would be classified? attempt to undermine donald trump is that what would be classified ?m attempt to undermine donald trump is that what would be classified? it is likely to be sensitive intelligence. if the caa had a sauce, and human agent, in the kremlin who said yes, vladimir putin organised it ——c i a, thatis vladimir putin organised it ——c i a, that is the thing that could have come through. some of it make have come through. some of it make have come through. some of it make have come through from partners. i understand britain's gcn queue was the first to report it to the americans. 0ther the first to report it to the americans. other partners might also be involved in new challenges that will be in the classified version. that leaves room to sceptics to say well, it's just politics. that leaves room to sceptics to say well, it'sjust politics. have you in your career doing this ever come across something like this we have a

report given to us? the answer is yes and it's a difficult analogy because the answer is, think of iraq, 2003, i remember getting the dossier on that and much of that proved wrong. of course, that is why there is a scepticism about intelligence because people say look, and donald trump himself pointed to that and set spies get it wrong. that makes the intelligence community very unhappy because yes, they did get it wrong but he in there arise is attacking their whole credibility and they work. —— in their eyes. that is why they are pushing back and putting out this material. it just pushing back and putting out this material. itjust accusations. we heard earlier in the report that the bbc‘s katty kay has been speaking with john the bbc‘s katty kay has been speaking withjohn kerry. she began by asking him about the hacking scandal. just this morning, donald trump said in an interview that he thinks the focus on the russian hacking of the

us election is a witch—hunt. what you make of that? i'm not going to start getting into the day to day back and forth. what i know is that we have an extraordinary professional intelligence community. the men and women who work every day to give us information, and a patriot and hard workers —— patriots. they are doing things in places of great risk in order that we can be informed and make decisions. i think the clapper could not have spoken more clearly about it. he said healthy scepticism is a good thing and disparagement is not. he thought it fell on the side of disparagement. he has spoken for this administration and i will leave it at that. you concerned by the appearance that mr trump is siding with vladimir putin? at this point, honestly, my job is with vladimir putin? at this point, honestly, myjob is not to get involved in the day to day back and

forth of politics at the moment. i have spoken just now to my faith in the intel community on this particular issue. sometimes i have healthy scepticism. we ask questions, that's ourjob. but i think that the american people will have to make their own judgements about this back and forth. john kerry speaking with katty kay. we have lots more on our website and also a little later we will be speaking to a former cia director. stay with bbc news for that. the united states is shocked with another mass shooting incident today. at least five people have been killed and eight injured, after a gunman opened fire at fort lauderdale international airport in florida. the man, who's in custody, is said to have taken the gun out of a bag that he'd checked in, and opened fire in a baggage area. he has been named as 26—year—old estaban santiago, and was said to be carrying a us

military identity card. 0ur north america correspondent, james cook, reports. a mundane task at a busy airport has turned into a scene of horror. passengers, who seconds earlier were collecting their bags, now cower on the ground. some appear stunned. others were dead or dying. survivors say there were desperate attempts to save lives. we heard the noise, we thought it was firecrackers that kids were doing. and then we looked where we came in. we looked again and we saw him with the gun going up and down. once he was done with the ammunition, he threw his gun down. i was about ten feet away from him. he basically threw the gun on the ground and he laid on the ground, face down, spread eagle. he was already done. he was waiting for the officers to approach him. for hundreds who fled the airport, the terror was not over. rumours of another gunman sent

people running from the terminal, but they were just rumours, as the local sheriff eventually confirmed. there has been no shooting at any place else other than downstairs at terminal two. we have the shooter in custody. he is unharmed. no law enforcement fired any shots. the subject is being interviewed by a team of fbi agents and homicide detectives. the suspect is reported to have flown into fort lauderdale with a weapon checked into his luggage apparently legally. a senior us politicians said the man was carrying a military id card in the name of esteban santiago. the shooter is in custody, according to tsa. as we get information we will pass it on to you. the focus is turning to the investigation. the gunman‘s motive is not clear but terrorism has not been ruled out.

in the united states, those phrases, these pictures, now have a terrible familiarity. 0ur correspondent luis fajardo is on the line from fort lauderdale. 0bviously obviously the gunman is now in custody but there is still a situation going on in the sense that a lot of security is still present at the airport. melo is there a short while ago and there was a very large security present. --i was there a short while ago. people were not allowed to leave. there was lots of helicopters flying over, throughout the afternoon there has been a lot of nervousness. at one point in the afternoon there was a false alarm about a second incident.

nothing really happened that people we re nothing really happened that people were very, very, very nothing really happened that people were very, very, very nervous. nothing really happened that people were very, very, very nervous. i nothing really happened that people were very, very, very nervous. i was talking to people outside. people we re talking to people outside. people were telling me they still couldn't get in contact with their relatives and friends who were inside of the airport. they were trained to establish what was happening. 0f course also a massive disruption in travel plans. we are in the height of massive disruption. there is a lot of nervousness in the airport and the situation is still creating and the situation is still creating a lot of tension. thank you very much were bringing us up—to—date on the latest. just bringing us up to date. stay with us on bbc news.

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 she concluded tearfully, saying the role of 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. routeing to you and working to support you all the rest of my life. that is true i know for every person who is here today and for educators and advocates all across this nation. 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 of —— your dedication on behalf of the future of our nation and i can think of no better way in my time as first lady than celebrating with all of you so want to close today simply saying thank you. thank you for everything you do for our kids and our country. being your first lady has been the greatest honour of my life and i hope that i have made you proud. and understandably emotional michelle obama giving her last speech as first lady. stay with us because we will return to the us intelligence report that says that the russian president, vladimir putin, sought to help donald trump win the presidential election. the japanese people are 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 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 areas that oil from the broken tanker erika would head out to sea. it didn't. the world's tallest skyscraper opens today. the burj dubai has easily overtaken its nearest rivals. this is bbc world news. i'm kasia madera.

the latest headlines: us intelligence officials have released a report saying russian president putin directly tried to influence the us presidential election to undermine hillary clinton and support donald trump. five people have been killed in a shooting at fort lauderdale international airport in florida. let's get more on our top story, the us intelligence report which says they have high confidence that vladimir putin ordered an ‘influence campaign" aimed at the us presidential election. earlier, i spoke to former cia director, james woolseyjunior, who on thursday, resigned from president—elect trump's transition team. i began by asking him if he thought there could be any doubt that russia was involved in hacking. it depends exactly how you phrase

it. russia was involved which is quite supportable of the proposition, in no small measure i think because they were able to come up think because they were able to come up with the identities of the intermediary is between the russian government and the people who did the hacking. that, i think, was one thing that got the attention of many people. how different is that what you are suggesting to the usual espionage that you would expect from different countries? that is a good question and the answer is that the russians have been doing something like this although not with cyber gear, for something like 70 or 80 yea rs. gear, for something like 70 or 80 years. they call it this information. at one point, according toa information. at one point, according to a defector, who was the head of

remaining an intelligence and knows a lot about russian intelligence, he says at one point there were more russians involved in the deception about politics and religion and so forth van were in the armed forces. it is staggering. the americans are doing similar actions in other countries, aren't they? not really. we did in the late 1940s in italy and spain, i think, we did in the late 1940s in italy and spain, ithink, as we did in the late 1940s in italy and spain, i think, as the communists were trying to take over and we counted them with cia covert action which had some of those characteristics. as a routine matter, no, the united states does not bump around the world trying to fix elections. how serious is this correct? -- threat. they will certainly continue to operate this

way and we need to work out how to check them. my own view is that it is not so much cyber force either. this is not a board game in which we need to move within the same four corners as thou opponent. i think what would most troubled the russians and the iranians as well, venezuelans, is to introduce as much competition as we can into the transportation fuel market so that we see the price of oil and gasoline go down and russians will need to deal with that. the russians do not do anything apart from palm oil, gas and build weapons. they do not have and build weapons. they do not have a real economy. if the price of oil goes down because you have something like ethanol or wood alcohol, something that is made out of waste that can compete with transportation fuel that we have now, gasoline, and drop the price some, dropped prices

for oil is so much more important to the russians than our trying to do something to affect their elections which are largely meaningless. something to affect their elections which are largely meaninglessm seems like you have a clear plan and thatis seems like you have a clear plan and that is what mr trump is asking for. yet, you resigned on the years of the president—elect receiving this briefing. why? i have been writing about these issues for ten, 15 yea rs. about these issues for ten, 15 years. i stepped down, essentially notified people that i had already effectively stepped down because i was not really being asked to do anything to help on the transition to the new administration. for weeks much of northern china has been shrouded in toxic smog. pollution has reached such high levels that beijing issued a warning 0ur china correspondent

john sudworth has been to the dirtiest city of them all, to find out. somewhere, underneath this murky gloom, is a city of ten million people. and for the unfortunate residents of shiijazhuang, 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 country's model of economic growth. and people have no choice but to live, eat and sleep in this toxic smog, 2a hours a day. "it's like living under a cloud", this noodle seller tells me. "the smog is harming my children's health." "of course i want to leave", this man says, "but i can't "afford to, and anyway,

the whole country is polluted". it's 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. translation: as a lung cancer doctor, i'm seeing an increase in patients in recent years, especially from heavily polluted areas. and when the smog gets worse, we see more kids with asthma. 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, more developed countries once had to. i'm pretty positive

for china's future. actually, we don't need that much time for the science research. we don't need that much time to develop relevant technologies. so i think a lot of things are more ripe for us to make faster solutions. those solutions can't come fast enough for this city. fossil fuels may have lifted china's economy to ever greater heights, but they are poisoning its people. john sudworth, bbc news, shiijazhuang. finally, 0rthodox christians around the world are celebrating christmas as eastern churches believe jesus christ was born on the seventh of january. many christian communities have also been marking the epiphany day, which commemorates the baptism ofjesus in thejordan river. let's take a look at some of the celebrations. from me and the team, thank you very

much for watching, as always. compared with other parts of your europe our weather is quiet indeed. we had rain and drizzle pushing southwards during the day yesterday. rates in the cloud later perhaps in scotla nd rates in the cloud later perhaps in scotland so here it could be a little chilly to start the weekend but on the whole be mild. do not worry about frost. there will be a lot of cloud around and probably not much rain. most of the renewal be seeing overnight across the southern parts of the uk. that will keep temperatures up. could turn chilly across the glens of scotland we are skies are clear. central and eastern scotla nd skies are clear. central and eastern scotland will see sunshine and a bit more cloud in the west. a cloudy start and perhaps misty across the north of ireland and for most of

england and wales that is how it will be as well. i lot of low cloud sitting on the hills. there will still be rain and drizzle left over from overnight along the south coast and into the south—west of england. that will hang about in the south—west corner throughout much of saturday. away from here a lot of dry weather, a few spots of drizzle around the west, a bit more sunshine in the north of england, especially if the pennines, possibly the best of blue skies across central and eastern scotland. cloudy elsewhere but we may get temperatures in double figures. again, no realfrost problem overnight because there is too much cloud. saturday night into sunday morning again mist mists and hill fog. it may mean that sunday is going to be another cloudy sort of day. if you see a glimpse of sunshine that maybe it. any more than that you are doing quite well indeed. we could see persistent rain coming into the palm of west of

scotla nd coming into the palm of west of scotland later an otherwise, again, dry weather and mild as well. richos in glasgow is nine degrees, the same as the temperature in london on sunday afternoon. mild air here but across eastern parts of europe it has been really, really cold. these are the maximum temperatures on sunday. staying cold right through the weekend. blizzards in the worst of the weather heading into the eastern mediterranean. here at home to the start of a new week the weather begins to change. the rain moves southwards into england and wales on monday. that weather will front will bring strong winds. it will signal a change to something a little more mobile and changeable for the next week. areas of low pressure getting closer to the uk in bringing rain at home. nothing particularly cold as yet. i'm kasia madera. 0ur i'm kasia madera. our main headlines this hour. top us intelligence officials have released a report saying russian president vladimir putin directly tried to influence the us presidential election to undermine hillary clinton and support

donald trump. police in florida say five people were killed during a shooting at fort lauderdale international airport. eight others were wounded. the gunman is in custody and is thought to have acted alone. michelle obama has given herfinal speech as first lady. she said the role had the been the greatest honour of her life. she called on young people to have hope and fight for their rights. much of northern china has been shrouded in a thick layer of toxic smog for several weeks. pollution is now so high residents are being warned against going out in the snow because of fears it's dangerously contaminated. now on bbc news, derek brockway investigates sepsis, the condition which killed his father last year. he looks at whether lives are being lost needlessly