hello, i'm kasia madera, this is outside source. having received a majority of the votes cast, is duly elected speaker of the house of representatives for the 116th congress. and nancy pelosi hasjust become the most powerful woman in us politics. in china, people are celebrating, because their space agency has landed a probe on the unexplored far side of the moon, sending back images that have never been seen before. a bad day for apple. more than £40 billion is wiped off its value. it blames a slowdown in sales in china. and after 270 containers fall off a ship, people in the netherlands are finding chemicals, shoes, and plastic ponies washed up on their beaches. hello, welcome to the programme.

in washington, members of the new us congress are being sworn into office. have a look at this scene, which was taking place at congress a little bit earlier, with new members taking their oaths. the us congress is made up of two parts, the senate and the house of representatives. the republicans used to control both, but the democrats gained control of the house after the midterm elections at the end of last year. that will further frustrate donald trump's demand for $5 billion to build a wall on the mexican border, which has shutdown parts of the us government for the last two weeks. the democrats insist there will be no money for the wall, the republicans accuse their opponents of staging a political sideshow.

—— showdown. nancy pelosi has been sworn in as the new speaker of the house of representatives, her election to the post was expected. here she is speaking earlier. applause. we enter this new congress with a sense of great hope and confidence for the future, and deep humility and prayerfulness in the face of challenges ahead. our nation is in an historic moment. two months ago, the american people spoke and demanded a new dawn. they called upon the beauty of our constitution, that our system of checks and balances that protects our democracy, remembering that the legislative branch is article one, the first branch of government code equal to the presidency and to the judiciary. applause. one of the top problems facing the new congress, the government shutdown.

there are 800,000 government workers who are not getting paid because of it. here's a tweet from one government employee, becki, who describes herself as "an essential employee. i'll get paid, but when?! we live paycheque to paycheque. i'm terrified we won't be able to pay our mortgage, student loans, and other bills next month if this shutdown continues." another, heather manus, says she's "thankful i have two jobs, because i'm not getting paid at tsa." she's referring to the us transport security administration. "but i still have to show up. which means i have to work both jobs every day, sleeping 2—3 hours at night, just to not even break even on bills." there are many other such tweets, all using the hashtag #shutdownstories. you can find more on the fallout of the shutdown on the bbc website. there are also people not getting

their paycheque, which is a pretty important thing. buzzfeed news reports that couples in washington, dc can't get marriage licenses because the marriage bureau wasn't deemed "essential." another one of the fallout from this shutdown. the democrats say they will pass new bills to end the government shutdown, but they won't include any money for a wall, so donald trump isn't likely to allow them. i spoke to anthony's erker earlier to find out how long the shutdown is likely to go for . dick durbin said there was no end to the shutdown inside, he was realistic about the outcome, not

optimistic. the reality is that democrats and republicans are both fostering further base. the democrats will try to open up a government based on their votes in the house, which will run into a brick wall in the senate that does not want across donald trump. trump seems to be in no mood to negotiate either, so it does not look like there is any end in sight. in the meantime, we have a much more different set up in the house behind you. how will donald trump cope with that? it will be a challenge, it is the first time he's had to deal with a part of the branch of government controlled by his political opposition. if you look behind me now, you can see members of congress streaming out on the steps. there in a temporary recess, but they will be back here tonight to pass some legislation that they want to reopen the government to fund the shuttered government agencies. trump is

unwilling to give in on that, but it will be a long night for democrats and what is left of the republicans in the house of representatives. they are jumping into action very quickly. in the meantime, we have anti—pelosi as the most powerful woman in washington? absolutely, for the first time in eight years, she gets the gavel back. there's only been one speaker of the house in the last 120 years who has lost the gavel, losing the majority in the house, then getting it back, sam rayburnin house, then getting it back, sam rayburn in 1953. he only had to wait two years rayburn in 1953. he only had to wait two yea rs before rayburn in 1953. he only had to wait two years before he got power back. anti—pelosi waited eight years on the challenges to her weak leadership, questions about whether she would ever be able to climb to the summit again. he or she is, making history in 2007, becoming the first speaker of the house, and making history today. in terms of the shutdown, we are on the day 13, people are fearing about how they lived day—to—day. what are your feelings for the next ups going forward 7

feelings for the next ups going forward? we will see democrats take action in trying to pass legislation. that will not pass the senate, they are paying attention to the president. there may be nor —— more negotiations on friday, trump said he was inviting the leaders of congress back in to talk more on friday, but at least at this point, there is no common ground for them to negotiate. i think they will have to negotiate. i think they will have to start feeling the pain of the federal workers, 800,000 of them, as well as theirfamilies. federal workers, 800,000 of them, as well as their families. and their contract workers who are not on the payroll, but they get their salaries from government spending. they will not be getting paid, and unlike federal workers, they may never get paid for the time they are missing. the repercussions of the shutdown are the repercussions of the shutdown a re really the repercussions of the shutdown are really serious and they need to move on. at 02:26 gmt today, china became the first country to successfully land a robotic spacecraft on the far side of the moon. this is the first close—up image of the far side of the moon ever recorded.

the probe called chang—uh four touched down on the moon's largest and deepest crater. now take a look at this animation. the far side of the moon always faces away from earth. 0rbiting spacecraft have photographed its surface, but this is the first time a probe has landed on it. and this side is much rougher and bumpier than the other side. that is a really huge achievement. adding to the complexity of this mission, no direct communication link is possible, so all pictures and data have to be bounced off a separate satellite before being relayed to earth. meanwhile, the jade rabbit rover or the yutu—2 will explore the surface and conduct experiments. you may be wondering, what's so special about this side of the moon? well, here's an article by our science editor david shukman. he says the moon could be a source of minerals and even energy,

and china is hoping to harness all its available natural resources. here's more from david. now that they are there, they can help answer questions which scientists, for years, have tried to answer about what is going on on the far side of the moon, and what does it tell us about how the moon was formed? and maybe if the chinese share their data, those answers will come in the next couple of years. it also shows us really with the chinese are trying to do in space. one british scientist a few years ago said that if you wanted to be the dominant power in space by the middle of the century, you would do all the things the chinese are doing now, namely plans for a space station, these operations on the moon, plans for a moon base and on mars. it all just shows that they are very methodically, in a measured way, not only catching up with the big space powers, particularly the americans and the russians, but also perhaps trying to get ahead. the leading expert of this latest mission says this

isjust the beginning. translation: if our lunar exploration is a success, we can make bigger contributions to mankind and improve china's ability and technology. so i don't think our exploration will stop. it will only go deeper, further, and we will invest more. take a look at this by scientist alasdair allan. "for those saying that china is ‘just following in american footsteps‘ when it comes to their space programme, this is the landing that proves otherwise. this is china, notjust returning to the moon, but doing something that has not been done before." and everything about this mission emphasises that this is very much a chinese mission, even down to the names of the craft. laura westbrook explains. the lunar probe is named after the

moon goddess, who is one of the most popular figures moon goddess, who is one of the most popularfigures in moon goddess, who is one of the most popular figures in chinese logy. popular figures in chinese mythology. the legend goes she'd married a famous archer who had a magical potion that would make you immortal. they decided not to drink it because there was only enough for one. but one of his students tried to steal the potion, and the stopping drinking it, she dragged herself and floated up to the moon. she remains there with her pet the rover is named after her pet. love lens its name to the relay satellite. when the goddess found out, she banished them to opposite sides of the milky way. once a year, they meet up via a bridge. the satellite's name means magpie bridge. laura explaining the significance of those names. in the next decades, china plans not only to build a new space station, but also a base on the moon

and conduct missions to mars. let's speak to joan johnson—freese, who served as chair of the us national security affairs department, and is now at the us naval war college. shejoins me from rhode island. china was very quiet before they actually landed this probe on the far side of the moon, but now this is incredibly significant. explain to us the significance as part of the space programme? china has had this programme in place, this very methodical rover exploration of the moon. their landing was not a surprise, but they've been very prudent and laid back an terms of not announcing success until they could verify success. and part of this has also been because they've been playing catch—up to the united states, they very carefully have integrated firsts into their plans. to be the first country to land on the far side of the moon, because the far side of the moon, because the chinese very well understand that getting into the record books

as first carries a great deal of prestige, and that prestige very often translates into geopolitical or strategic leadership complications, which they are very keen on. what does this mean for the united states? they've had their own firsts with new horizons, but what does this mean for their space programme? in the future i think it is not just programme? in the future i think it is notjust going to be china and the united states, but also the new space player, the privately funded companies who have made plans to go to the moon and do the kind of exploration that has been of to countries to do before. but china is certainly trying to notjust catch up, as you said, but to go beyond. and i think that what we will see next from china is a combining of their robotic lunar explorer programme with their human space flight programme with their human space flight programme, which will culminate in the relatively large

permanently crewed space programme the microstation. once those programmes have proven their success , programmes have proven their success, they will officially announce a human space flight programme back to the moon and potentially build a lunar base and go beyond. but they still have some significant technical challenges, in terms of launch capability to overcome. but this is a big step forward for the chinese. a huge step forward. are we now looking at a new space race, or is there more collaboration between different countries? unfortunately i don't think we will see much collaboration between the us and china. nasa is legally prohibited from bilateral cooperation with china. and with the current demonstration and the competitive nature of their policies with china, i think is more a development race than any geopolitical race, because again with new space players, it could be

mandarin we hear from the with new space players, it could be mandarin we hearfrom the moon, it could be english or any language, based on who can get the technology funded first. fascinating stuff. thank you so much for your insight, absolutely brilliant. china very much with that incredible first. stay with us on outside source, still to come. south korea's spy agency says that north korea's top diplomat to italy has disappeared. jo song gil and his wife are reportedly seeking asylum in a third country but their whereabouts are unknown. the uk's environment secretary has warned that farmers and food producers face "considerable turbulence" if the uk leaves the eu without a deal. many british exports currently reach european markets through the narrow strait between dover and calais. nobody can be blithe or blase

about the real impact on food producers in this country of leaving without a deal. that is just one of the reasons why i hope my colleagues in parliament support the prime minister's deal. it is not perfect, but we should never make the perfect the enemy of the good. it not only gives us a 21—month transition period in which current access is completely unaffected, it also allows us to maintain continuous tariff and quota—free access to eu markets for our exporters after that. and it also allows us to divert from the eu regulation in many areas after the transition. and of course, it also means that we will leave the common agricultural policy, and it ends all mandatory payments to the eu. this is outside source live from the bbc newsroom. our lead story.

nancy pelosi becomes the most powerful woman in america, as she's elected speaker of the house of representatives. some of the other stories we're working on here in the bbc newsroom. niger says its army has killed more than 280 boko haram militants in raids near the border with nigeria in the past few days. the defence ministry says most of the jihadists died in airstrikes. that's from bbc afrique. a tribunal in afghanistan has convicted three men of being involved in the murder of bbcjournalist ahmad shah. mr shah worked for the bbc‘s pashto language service, and was shot dead by unidentified gunmen last april. the case is going to the appeals court. this was one of the most—watched videos on our website. pope francis, seeming to enjoy a cuban circus group who were performing at his weekly general audience at the vatican. the pope even showed off his own ball—spinning skills. south korean intelligence officials

say north korea's deputy ambassador to italy has disappeared. this is cho song—gil. he and his wife are reportedly seeking asylum in a third country, we're not sure where yet. he was last seen leaving his residence in rome in november last year. high profile defections from north korea are rare, because the consequences for family members left behind are thought to be severe. the last senior diplomat to defect was the deputy ambassador in london. thae yong—ho abandoned his post in 2016, along with his wife and children. he defected to south korea. laura bicker has more from the south korean capital, seoul. seems also that mr cho may have been more than simply an ambassador. what we understand is that

both his father and father—in—law were former diplomats. we also understand that his father—in—law is one of the high—ranking workers party officials. so these are the elite in pyongyang. if he has indeed defected, it would be embarrassing for kim jong—un. we do understand from another former director, he was the former deputy ambassador in britain, and what he has told reporters here in seoul is that mr cho was part of the network to try to get the jury goods into pyongyang. also, he claims that mr cho might have knowledge about north korea's nuclear plants, as well as obviously with those connections, knowing about the pyongyang elite. as you can imagine, us intelligence officials would love to get their hands on that information. so when it comes to where he is,

we aren't exactly sure, but we've heard from the south koreans that they've not heard from him, we've heard from the italians that they have had no asylum application. so what we are really waiting to hear from are officials in the united states and elsewhere. the mystery continues, we will keep an eye on that one. shares in apple have taken a sharp downward turn, after it reduced expected revenue for the end of 2018 by $5 billion. this is how the stock faired after trading opened in new york, falling more than 9% before recovering slightly. this was the letter from ceo tim cook breaking the news yeasterday. in it, he blames sales in china for most of the revenue loss. "while we anticipated some challenges in key emerging markets, we did not foresee the magnitude of the economic deceleration, particularly in greater china," he said. but have a look at this alternative

view from journalist matthew keys. "apple has managed to blame everyone for its woes: china, tariffs, customers who replaced batteries in their phones. yes, apple has blamed everyone, except apple." to get more on what's behind this fall from grace, we can talk go to san francisco to talk to dave lee. is itfairto is it fair to be so harsh on apple, should they have seen this coming?” think they could've foreseen something, and they should've been preparing for the iphone to not be the huge profit driver it has been in the past. they been trying to release new products and make more money from some of its other services, like downloads, that sort of thing. but i think it is slightly harsh because one of the things that have affected apple in the last quarter are out of its control.

china's economy is really struggling, its gdp growth has slowed dramatically. there is an ongoing trade war between the us and china, and apple says that has having a great impact on the number of people that will be able to buy iphones. i think apple could be held responsible for some of the issues that face them, but certainly not all of them. there are questions about whether the iphone is as hot a product as it has been in the past, but i think that has been a question that has been asked of any company that has been asked of any company that makes smart i've been reading that makes smart i've been reading that globally smartphone sales are down year after year, that has been the first time this is happened since the smartphone era began. we are seeing the tail end of this huge computer use —— computing cycle, in the same way we saw cycles with desktop computers in the early 2000. apple has work to do, but i cannot ta ke apple has work to do, but i cannot take all the blame for the problems it is facing at the moment. but it

isa it is facing at the moment. but it is a question that they were perhaps overoptimistic in their expected revenue? they've had a couple of strategies on the go over the past year that are obviously having an impact, one of them is at the iphone isa impact, one of them is at the iphone is a lot more expensive than heather has been, $1000 now for the main iphone. there is a slightly cheaper version, but in many ways it is quite inferior to that premier model. i think that is a big gamble to make the phone more expensive, because they were preparing to sell less of them, they were hoping by raising the price and adding new features, they could address that in difference to keep that money coming in. that does not seem to be working as well as they hoped, and china is simply making the matter worse for them. dave in san francisco, many thanks. 2018 was a tough year for many of america's auto—makers. its biggest, general motors, saw sales fall 2.7% in the last three months of the year,

while ford saw sales fall 8.8% in december. so what's going on? michelle fleury is in new york. so is this all cars, or something to show us about the bigger picture of what's going on in terms of the international market? well we are waiting to find out any moment now what the kind of final tally will be for car sales for the year in america. the figure that is being bandied around his 17 million, and whether that turns out to be correct, we have seen sales over 20 million since 2015 here in the us. pretty impressive record levels, but if you look what has happened to the stocks of these companies today, they've all been negative. because

people believe the future will not be as good as the past two years has been for the industry. a lot of that has to do with the fears driving the market in general at the moment, which is the prospect that perhaps growth is decelerating, slowing down, or in some parts of the world, maybe a reception. —— recession. people may be buying fewer cars, which is where that anxiety creeps in. there is his concern that consumers are not going to be rushing out to buy new vehicles, but perhaps spending more money on second—hand vehicles or holding off car purchase is completely. so they are blaming the consumers, as always. many thanks, michelle. we will see you for the next edition of outside source in just a moment. is at time of day that we take a

look at some interesting weather happening elsewhere around the world. first off is north america, where there been mild air in many parts of the continent, particularly to central canada. the satellite image shows a weather front further south that will continue to bring outbreaks of rain as we had to thursday night into friday. that low pressure eventually cue me out of texas, bringing some heavy rain to parts of georgia, the carolinas and down to central florida. it is also u nsettled down to central florida. it is also unsettled for the pacific northwest, with low pressure moving in to the pacific. more rain and hail snow for parts of british columbia, washington state should remain drive. so here's the outlook, you can see more rain in forecast for vancouver at times over the next five days or so. also a bit of rain heading towards new york by the time we get to the weekend. now the other side of the atlantic, we have some very cool weather in charge for of

northern africa. temperatures in tripoli is below average. further south, temperatures in cape town in the 20s, the could be more showers and johannesburg over the next few days, but cape town remains dry. tripoli should lose those showers and turned cooler over the next five days or so. on the eastern parts of asia, high pressure keeps things largely try and settle for the northeast of china towards japan. a further south we have a weather front that will bring some rain to the likes of shanghai and eastern parts of china. now this system here isa parts of china. now this system here is a cyclone that is making landfall across southern parts of thailand, a particularly large system here. it will bring heavy rain, flooding is likely, along with damaging rains and big wins. think should be dryer as we head into next week. heading

across europe on friday, high pressure still dominating uk, france, spain and portugal. meanwhile we have very heavy snowfall for the priest and cold conditions with a northerly wind across finland and austria, even greece and turkey see some wintry weather on the cards over the next couple days. meanwhile lots of sunshine and settled whether holding on across spain and portugal, and the south france, as well. then here is the outlook of the uk over the next few days. it looks like a lot of dry and settled whether it's on the cards, but we could be seeing rainfall across northern parts of the country as we look towards the latter pa rt the country as we look towards the latter part of next week. but things are looking mostly dry, rather cool with a generally light winds, with frost and fog at times. goodbye for now. hello, i'm kasia madera, this is outside source. we're going to take you to the

united states to see where the president is breaking. will say a few words 17,000 is one category. the other thing is what they've done in terms of drugs in terms of stopping drugs, and with that and everything else, plenty of fortu nately, everything else, plenty of fortunately, through our southern border. i'm going to ask brandon to come up and say a few words and maybe introduce our friends and very great people, brandon. thank you president. i appreciate all the support you have given the border control, we have appreciate the border support you have given ice. i've beena border support you have given ice. i've been a border patrol agent for 22 years. i can personally tell you from the work that i've done on the southwest border that physical barriers, walls actually work to stop you a lot of talk from the expert —— you hear a loud talker of

the experts that say a wall doesn't work, but if you interview those they say that the wall does work. i work in arizona for ten years. we did not have physical barriers, and illegal immigration and drug smuggling was absolutely out of control. we've built those physical barriers and illegal immigration dropped exponentially. anywhere that you look if you look, they have worked. they have been an absolute necessity for border patrol agents in securing the border. we need those physical barriers, and we appreciate president trump and his efforts to get as those physical barriers. there is a lot of talk on shutdown the federal employees do not agree that the shutdown is that i will tell you that that's not true. with that i would like to introduce the vice president of the national merchant counsel. he is also a long—time border virtual agent, and he would like to say a

few words about the shutdown. thank you everybody. my name is art is that i'm the vice president of the national border patrol council. —— my name is art. we are all affected by the shutdown. we have skin in the game. however, it comes down to border security. we are extremely grateful to president trump and fully support his decision to take ca re of fully support his decision to take care of our borders and the future of the united states is that it has nothing to do with political parties is that you ought to ask yourself this question, if i come to your home do what want me to knock on her front door, or do with the cubs in the window? we fully support the president —— or do you want me to climate through the window. we fully support the president. hello everyone , support the president. hello everyone, i'm hector. i'm also a

border patrol agent of the texas border. ijust border patrol agent of the texas border. i just want border patrol agent of the texas border. ijust want to talk border patrol agent of the texas border. i just want to talk about some of those criminals that we apprehend on a daily basis. we talked about murderers, rapists, people do commit serious crimes in the country. ice hazarded an amazing job supporting these people back from our country, but unfortunately these people will not stay in their countries. these criminal aliens that have been deported will come right back into the united states does not however we have we had a physical barrier or a wall, we would not be able to stop them. i would like to think president trump and we ask our congressmen to fund border security and fungal wall. thank you. —— fund the wall. security and fungal wall. thank you. -- fund the wall. along time ago at a very opportune time, we're all sitting in the oval office working on different plants and ways of stopping the problems that we have in our country, and other countries

or problems, but nobody like that the economy makes it even more so, the economy makes it even more so, the economy makes it even more so, the economy is bringing people and because we are doing so well with the economy, unemployment is up and because we're doing so well with the economy, unemployment is up we put 7% that some of the lowest we've ever had in 50 years that —— unemployment is 3.7%. we've just seen a live press from president trump, that border wall creating the problems that we're seeing on capitol hill. the shutdown of the things in place because the democrats refusing to give any money towards that wall where as mr trump wa nts towards that wall where as mr trump wants money whopping 5 billion us dollars to get that thing built. here he is with this press conference where he is talking about the necessity of having some kind of physical presence, and the importance of it. we're going to come away from that and bring you up—to—date with the rest of the day's news. saudi arabian prosecutors have

called for the death penalty for 5 of 11 men who are on trial for the murder of jamal khashoggi. you'll remember that the saudi journalist's murder sparked international outrage, when he was killed inside the country's consulate in istanbul in turkey in october. saudi arabia has not named the men on trial, but they certainly don't include this man, saudi crown prince mohammed bin salman. western intellgence agencies and us senators say they believe that he ordered the killing. mr khashoggi was one of the crown prince's most prominent critics. that's led to doubts about the trial. for instance, here the afp riyadh bureau chief saying: "there is an immense amount of international interest in this trial, but also a lot of suspicion about whether those ultimately responsible for the crime will be held to account." saudi authorities deny that the crown prince was involved. i spoke to the bbc‘s middle east analyst alan johnston for more on this story. well things have moved quickly up

and remember it was october the 2nd when jamaal khashoggi went and remember it was october the 2nd whenjamaal khashoggi went into the saudi consulate in istanbul never to be seen again, and here we are just three months on, and already the trial under way suggesting that the authorities are hoping to put this deeply damaging affair behind them as quickly as possible. the question is whether they can manage to do that with this trial. there were 11 men in the dark is that we do not know their names, we don't know they're charged with, but we know that the prosecutors have asked for the death penalty and five of the defendant cases, so five men possibly going to lose their lives here, and we know that the court has asked for evidence to be brought from turkey that may have been gathered by the authorities there. that the turks had asked those suspected in this case to be

extradited to turkey but it became very clear very quickly that the saudis were not going to do that so we see this trial unfolding now. and as the struggling to be enough to manage the damage that has been done to saudi arabia? —— and is at this trial going to be in the to manage... this whole affair has been lacking in transparency from the outset. you remember the botched effort to cover up the murder. at first the saudi told the world that jamaal khashoggi had left the consulate unharmed. we then heard that he died in a fist fight and gradually pull a came out. we still don't know where jamaal khashoggi's are made be. the saudi zen said that this was the work of rogue agents acting and absolutely denied again

and again that the crown prince had anything to do at this but deep suspicion lingers around the world. western intelligence agencies are given the impression that he was somehow connected, and very powerful people but not least in the us senate have talked about skating terms about the ground prince saying they believed he was guilty. again he denies this. how credible is this suggestion that this was a rogue operation that went wrong, is there such a thing? anybody familiar with places like saudi arabia works definitely struggles to believe that really major episode like this might have been taken on the shoulders of lower—level people. they're our deeper suspicions like this would be done about at least at the highest level. all we can say though is that there isn't a smoking gun. senior

figures in the trump administration have used those words. there has been no tangible evidence to direct the crown prince of this and again he denies any involvement. as i say, the deeper suspicions linger. scientists say they've solved the mystery of the source of yemen's cholera epidemic. it's the worst in recorded history. since 2016 it's affected 1 million people and caused nearly 3000 deaths. now researchers say they've identified the particular bacterial strain of the disease that caused it. they say they think it comes from eastern africa. and that it entered yemen with the migration of people in and out of the region. that's despite the bitter civil war that's been going on for three years in the country. professor nick thomson was one of the researchers involved. he has written this article. i spoke

to him for more. additionally we the colorado would have been, the actual bacteria that causes cholera would have originated relatively low degree to cause the disease and that has been a very predominant theory that has led and guided our understanding and intervention for holera for a long time. after what we see from the genome is that the isolate the cause the current outbreak, one which started in 2016 and 2017, and carried out last year are related to strains that actually we saw elsewhere first. we saw the person about 2006 in south asia, and then isolate that descended from them appeared in 2015 in east

africa, in countries such as kenya, tanzania, uganda where we were able to sample. before appearing in yemen in 26 thing and 2017. —— 2016 and 17. so what does this mean for millions of people that have been affected by cholera in yemen when it comes to dealing with it? so it's, for those in yemen where the country has been ravaged by war, and about 16 million people don't have access to clean drinking water come up genomic data has caused so much misery like a lunar space landing to them. —— clean tricky water, genomic data might seem like a mist read such as the lunar space landing to them. they can help —— like a

mystery... test the efficacy of different approaches controlling these types of diseases. i think long—term, they can really help inform policy, hopefully encouraging cross—border collaborations to really understand in fine detail the pathways over which cholera spreads, andi pathways over which cholera spreads, and i think it really targeting those interventions in a much more strategic way that we have been able to do before. in the past we've concentrated on cholera the disease, the syndrome, but now we can concentrate on really tracking and following the movement of the organism that actually causes the disease, and again using genomic approaches, wejust disease, and again using genomic approaches, we just haven't been able to do that before. so some positive news and what is a desperate situation in yemen. stay with us on outside source. still to come....

270 containers have fallen off what's believed to be europe's largest cargo ship. and their contents are causing havoc on dutch beaches. here in the uk, the amount of electricity generated per person has fallen to its lowest level since the 19805 thanks in large part to the humble low energy light bulb, and modern energy saving appliances. according to research by environmental analysts, new product standards, which force manufacturers to use less electricity in their goods, have proved more important in tackling carbon emissions than wind and solar power. roger harribin reports. install low—energy lighting and you'll make a negligible effect on cutting the carbon emissions that are heating the planet. butjoining millions of others to change the light poles, and the collective wisdom of the rest you'll make a

small but significant dent of the uk's demand for cleaner energy. the same can be said for newer appliances like washing machines, dishwashers, and tumble dryers. all forced by eu product standards to do the samejob forced by eu product standards to do the same job whilst using less power and creating fewer carbon emissions. even setting up the dust from your carpet uses much less energy than before if you have a new vacuum cleaner is that that's thing to efficiency standards. it's glamourous wind and solar power and that grandmother had less stop today's report shows last year that they generated a third of the uk electricity which is a record. other factors have contributed slightly more than renewables cutting him our carbon emissions. if you replace your current fridge with a modern a+

a+ rated one, you could save half the energy. of course including electrical efficiency will work on its own to solve the massive issue of climate change. it's sweeping changes that we need. it seems that today, humble energy efficiency can ta ke today, humble energy efficiency can take its place in the sun. this is outside source live from the bbc newsroom. our lead story is? nancy pelosi becomes the most powerful woman in washington, as she's elected speaker of the house of representatives. some of the other stories we're working on here in the bbc newsroom... a us citizen, arrested in moscow on suspicion of spying, has been charged with espionage. paw whelan, a former marine, was detained on friday. his family have said he's innocent, and was in moscow only for a friend's wedding. archaeologists in mexico say they have made an important discovery, uncovering a temple to ship—e toe—tec, who was also

known as the "flayed lord". that's because priests paid tribute to the deity by wearing the skin of human sacrifices. mexican archaeologists say the find may be the earliest dedication to ship—e toe—tec discovered in mexico. we're still waiting for the results of sunday's election in the democratic republic of congo. in the meantime, the government has blocked the signal of a tv station called canal congo. it's accused them of announcing the results before the official go—ahead. but the move's raised eyebrows because the station is owned by prominent opposition politician jean—pierre bemba. the government has also cut the broadcasts of radio france internationale and withdrawn the accreditation of one of its journalists. rfi says it regrets the move and that it stands by its journalist. and this is just days after the government shut down the internet across the country.

regional monitors described the election as " reasonably well—managed." but the opposition has complained of irregularities. here's louise dewast in kinshasa. well, the msb in his village of accomplice of civil society has asked the government to restore the internet. the government saying they have considered the request but i think it's in their right to make decisions that affect public order because they are worried that publishing unofficial results on social media and traditional media can lead to chaos. —— the kinshasa in his village of compliance of civil society... the system is likely to remain a place until provisional results are published. the compilation of results is a crucial step in any election they

proved problematic here in the last election here. at the time they concluded that the process lacking credibility, so there is a lot of scrutiny at the moment, and the way it works is that ballots are counted at polling stations, and are sent to compilation centres. today the electoral commission said that compilation centres had only received 20% of the results tally sheets from those different polling stations from around the country was that they are supposed to publish provisional results on sunday on the 6th of january, so that's a very short deadline, there are a lot of questions about whether they will be able to meet that deadline, but they are saying for now that they're doing everything they can to meet that deadline of sunday. of course on those results, we will bring them to you. there's a major clean—up operation under way in the netherlands after this cargo ship shed 270 containers into the sea, including toxic chemicals.

the msc zoe is thought to be the biggest container ship in europe and the impact it's had is equally big. debris from the containers ended up spilled across miles and miles of beaches. one local environmentalist posted this video on facebook, it looks like hundreds of individual parts from plastic bottles. this footage from the coastguard shows the damage on the vessel, containers knocked off their stacks, on their sides. these are massive massive containers. some of the containers came onto shore, some intact, some rather less so, a number of them still with items inside.

it's a really wearing development there. —— worrying development there. the incident happened on tuesday night. it had left the belgian port of antwerp and was heading up the dutch coast when the containers fell off in gale force winds near the german island of borkum. the tide carried many of them to the south—west. and they've been washed up on the coastline of the islands on the netherlands‘ northern coast. we can go live to one of the islands now, to ters—helling, to speak to gus swigeman, former councillor there. so just tell us a little bit, you quys so just tell us a little bit, you guys must‘ve been so surprised to see all this debris on the beaches. yes, indeed. it was an unbelievable sight on the beach. as you said

already, covered with debris, and our island is 28 km long. the beaches are extremely wide, one km wide, and really every square metre was covered with debris. i am also a beach ago were going every week to pick up plastic from the beach, so for ten years we have had a very clea n for ten years we have had a very clean beach, but we are back to zero again commanded to start all over. it is incredible, it's an environmental disaster of the first it is unbelievable. what's really worrying is even though i'm sure you and your community will be what to get down to the beach to clear up, some of these containers had chemicals in them. have you been

able to isolate which ones, and what kind of components that these chemicals were? yeah, i forgot what made exactly of it but the shipping company only supplied us with details of which container, the cover and the number on the container which contains these chemicals. so far only on the island bid on one bag end of the container, but if you find one bag, that means the container has been destroyed and they are floating around our island, and our environment... new the wildlife centre. —— near the wildlife centre. —— near the wildlife centre. —— near the wildlife centre. do we know the

damage of the wildlife near there? we do not. we're working very hard on our island and along the coast and all along the water to clean up the plastic, especially the light of packing material which is by the heavy winds blown into the forest, and to the farm regards, into the nature reservation, but also into the... we cannot discover yet what the... we cannot discover yet what the impact is, but the fantastic thing of what happened today is our major call to the public on our islands, and in particular to all the tourist we have now the high season, the christmas holiday on the island, and we have have 20,000 tour island, and we have have 20,000 tour is on our islands, and i was amazed what happened today. the whole beach

was cleaned and there was at least 50 km without plastic. it was fantastic to see. trailers behind them money over the beach and thousands of people cleaning. children, elderly people women. it was fantastic. unbelievable what has been recovered by the government and the environment organisations. it was a fantasticjob. the environment organisations. it was a fantastic job. on the fantastic know we're going to leave it there. it is really good to hear that people are getting involved and you can follow all of that on social media because that is a massive clean—up operation taking place on the beaches. hello there. drive a pretty cloudy, chilly but not especially cold. you

might do our weather is lacking in drama at the moment. the dramatic weather tends to be found north of the jet stream particularly where we have these little tips. one area of low pressure in the atlantic, another brave rain and snow across eastern europe, but in between this bump in thejet stream, is housing this area of high pressure. this height is a to sit in place stubbornly keeping things dry but pretty cloudy. —— this high is sitting in a place stubbornly... blog is causing one or two issues, the fog quite dense and slow to clear in some places but the fog most likely will be across the midlands east wales, and equally around those areas of fog and we are of likely to see some sunshine developing. more cloud across the northwest and for all of us those temperatures are struggling. the mildest conditions are across the northwest of scotland because here we something of a atlantic

influence. elsewhere, with light winds and more in the way of clear skies, i think quite widely we're going to get down to freezing or a little below. a card start of the weekend, but not a particularly dramatic one because our friend weekend, but not a particularly dramatic one because ourfriend high pressure is still with us this frontal system here will start to have more of an influence on the weather as the weekend wears on, but not initially. we set of dry with dense fog possible especially across central and southern areas. best of the sunshine can be done in eastern areas and those temperatures still decreasing into single digits. wherever that frontal system we skip ahead to sunday will buy this stage it will move its way into england, just aren't the bed back into northern ireland. some slightly milderair into northern ireland. some slightly milder air into the far southwest, double digits for plymouth and for cardiff. single digits elsewhere. remember, the dramatic weather is to be found to the north of the jet

stream, and as a going to monday the jet stream becomes closer so this weather system, this area of low pressure is allowed to have a bit of an influences that it pushes between northern ireland and scotland on monday, and will seasonal outbreaks of rain, and further was a close with a high—pressure with temperatures just a touch higher than they have been. on tuesday, the area of low pressure will be sliding away to the east, and in its wake we will be left with a chilly northerly wind. some sunny spells and showers as well but potentially a slightly colder field to the weather. as he met tuesday, low pressure it to the east, but high—pressure returning from the west. that returns because of the jet stream, and it gets back into one of these ridges with these huge beds and the jet stream without that will allow pressure to topple its way back up up up for a time we might allow colder air in and across the southeastern areas, but we're not expecting anything particularly chilly as he head towards the latter

pa rt chilly as he head towards the latter part of next week. where is the high that we have at the moment, it's very stubborn. it may slide southward the moment, it's very stubborn. it may slide southwards at times which brings low—pressure closer to the uk. later nicely, often dry cloudy with the potential for some rain often dry cloudy with the potential forsome rain in often dry cloudy with the potential for some rain in the north. fairly breezy and some overnight frost but nothing particularly dramatic and the outlook. this is bbc news, i'm ben brown. the headlines at 10pm. china makes a bid to become an "aerospace power" after landing the first unmanned spacecraft on the far side of the moon. the democrats take control of the new us house of representatives, with nancy pelosi elected as speaker and promising to end the shutdown. the son of the banned radical cleric, abu hamza, is arrested as part of the investigation into the murder of a security guard at a new year's eve party in park lane.