>> you heard steve evans say repeatedly we don't know, we don't know. what has happened over the last week is intense examination really of the fingerprints of that attack on sony, and what was eventually concluded was that it bore the same fingerprints as those attacks we were hearing about on south korean banks and television stations last year, and that's what's led to this conclusion that it is north korea involved. >> can the fingerprints, for example, be laid there in order to point in one direction even if they're not? >> well, they could be. what we're talking about is methods of attack. it's very difficult ever to pin down -- unless somebody cops out and reveals themselves, it almost never happens that you are able to say person x, country x actually did this. but you can have a high level of suspicion and you can look at past patterns of behavior. and we do know that north korea has developed -- we know from defectors and so on that it has developed quite a sophisticated level of cyber warfare. particularly strange in a country where, you know

our correspondent steve evans is in seoul and he told me about china's role in all this. >> reporter: there have been articles in the chinese press basically expressing exasperation at north korea, basically saying we don't have to support you forever. nobody thinks that's the official leadership position of china, but the very fact that that idea is floated in the official chinese media indicates that somebody might want to be getting a message to pyongyang, just hold your horses a bit. china is the root of the internet into north korea, a single server in china. president obama had asked china for help. we simply don't know what the response was, if any. but people might surmise about whether china is saying well, okay, we will just yank the reins in a little bit here. at the end of it all, china will support north korea, but that doesn't mean it's happy about everything which north korea does, and maybe it's indicating its unease. >> steve evans there in seoul. with me is the bbc's technology reporter dave lee. obviously, there's speculation about whether china was involved, whethe

the bbc's steve evans is there for us. steve, it's an extraordinary state of affairs really, this whole story. is there a north korean response yet? >> reporter: no. silence. but they've said enough in the run-up to this. they promised before the hacking of sony pictures that there would be merciless retaliation. they called the making of the film an act of terrorism, so there's no doubt that they were angry about it. also, they've got previews in this case. they hacked -- shown to have hacked south korean tv channels. so there is a lot of circumstantial evidence pointing towards north korea. it has denied that it was involved in that hack, its denials have been equivocal. they've said we didn't do it, but we can quite understand why this righteous act was committed. so all the assumption is that it was north korea, but without that final element of proof. >> steve, we've got hollywood stars left, right, and center condemning the sony decision, if you like, saying it's an attack on freedom of expression, etc. can you just g

steve evans has the latest from the south korean capital seoul. >> reporter: the hackers call themselves the opponents of nuclear power from hawaii. though nobody believes that hawaii is necessarily any connection to them. they've been posting documents, internal documents from the nuclear industry here in south korea on the web over the past few days. now, though, they're also putting warnings up on the web. they say that if three reactors aren't closed by christmas day, then a "round of destruction" will occur, and also they're threatening to put about 100,000 new documents on the web. and asking the question, is this really what you want, this kind of information about nuclear power to be out there. now, nobody knows how forceful, how truthful these claims are. what we do know is that hackers have got into the system. the nuclear power company and the government here says that they do not have the power to get into the bit of the computer system, that controls power stations. that they don't have the ability to take over power stations, if you like. but they're also saying that they'r

let's take you to our seoul correspondent steve evans, who is following this for us from south. give us the story in a nutshell then. >> in a nutshell. last friday, there was a korean airlines flight from new york to seoul, to the airport here. and on that airline was cho hyeun, who is a vice president of korean airlines and perhaps more importantly, the eldest daughter of the chairman and chief executive of said company. as the plane was taxiing away from the terminal in jfk, she was served nuts. macadamia nuts, we are told. but she was served them in a bag. and not on a plate. and that was not the proper way, she thought, as the plane was moving away from the terminal. she complained vociferously. there was a scene. the purser was called. she then demanded that the offending nut server was put off the plane. the captain, who obviously was in a difficult position because this was the daughter of the boss, turned the plane around, went back to the gate, the purser of the plane was put off the plane, and the plane continued to be 11 minutes late. the government here decided to in

let's talk to our entertainment correspondent who is with me here in the studio, and the bbc's steve evans who is in seoul for us. this is an extraordinary decision from sony, suspect it? >> it's absolutely unpreceden unprecedented. films have been cancelled for a variety of reasons. but for a film that spent tens of millions of dollars not just in making the film, but in publicity and promotion, for them to say they're not going to actually be releasing it anywhere is absolutely without exception. >> we're seeing the trailer for the movie at the moment. the fact that cinema chains said they wouldn't have screened it, in a way did this give sony an out? >> sony has had undoubtedly a difficult few weeks with some tough decisions to make. it's given them something of an out, something of a reason to genuinely say that actually, is it worth it for this movie. we're not talking about "citizen kane" here, for the kind of impact it's something negatively in so many areas. is it actually worth going through all the harassment of releasing this, so i think it did give sony a slightly easier way of

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steve evans there in seoul for us. >>> now, the palico tribe live in the amazon in and around the borderse's language and culture could die out within 20 years. >> translator: my mother named me after a hummingbird in the forest because she thought it was beautiful. and so she gave me this name. i am an artist of the palico of people. i didn't know i was an artist until the white man told me that i was. the first sculptures of i did were of animals. a jaguar, kaman, and a condor. and then i started making sculptures about the stars. the biggest star is known as the seven stars. it's the star that governs all stars. the story goes that his boat is capable of sheltering everyone. every star has a story. the young people aren't interested. they don't want to learn to become an artist. they are abandoning our indigenous culture. my knowledge has not been spread, and so these seeds have not been planted. the seed has stayed with me and will die with me. who knows if our own language will survive more than 20 years. are we going to abandon our own language? because if we do that, one day the in

speaking of executive, we've lost the head of the anf, head of utx, now the head of bob evans, which is up almost 4%. stevening by mutual agreement. >> that was something. i felt bob evans should split, after what happened with hillshire brands. bob evans has a terrific sausage product. >> had the success of tom sandel, the activist investor able to replace quite a few board member. on the activism front, a deal this morning, toma bravo along with more canadians, ontario teachers pension plan, a large private equity wing, if you will, buying river bed for 21 bucks a share in cash. river bed, you may remember, was elliott came after them, actually offered to buy the company for 18 bucks a share. the deal gets done, private transaction. had 21 for river bed, which as you might imagine is up, rather sharply. and elliott says, largest shareholder, we're happy with the outcome, i'm paraphrasing here, we think we've gotten immediate premium value, a quote from jesse cone, who runs a lot of the activist practice when it comes to technology. >> a good deal, wide area networking, competitive. used to be a good high

. >> the things are so bad out there why did restaurant chain bob evans farm soar this morning on the resignation of its ceo steve davis who many thought stood in the way of a breakup to split the company in a business like hillshire brand, the company that got the bid from tyson foods and a restaurant business on fire given how its locations dot interstates everywhere, not unlike cracker barrel. forget that, forget that. russia may not be able to pay its bills. of course, we sell sell sell sell sell. sell bob evans. it's directly linked to the ruble, isn't it? if things are bad why does honeywell, standing by their guidance forecast for more. i can't wait to take ceo david cote to task. i mean hasn't he been watching the tape about how his company is still on course for a big year? what a great opportunity this would have been to say the global growth picture is slip sliding away and he had to revise his view to the negative because i mean he must look at stocks. if things are so bad why is klaus kleinfeld the brilliant ceo of alcoa acquiring a german company that makes titanium aircraft parts. a german company.

evans on a journey from chester county to washington, d.c. >> you grab the apples for me. >> carlene, loves to cook. fresh applesauce, homemade the old-fashioned way. a treat her husband stevewith the prep. >> dining room on the bottom shelf. >> right behind the antique grandfather clock. a family treasure. it will be sauce just in time for the arrival of another treasure, ava their biological granddaughter who they recently adopted. >> she knows that she's my ang angel. >> you'll see why in just a bit. so life couldn't be more perfect for this family living in the surrene rolling hillside of spring city, pa. except -- >> food doesn't do anything for me. i don't absorb anything. i don't live like every other human being lives. i have a bag, i have a port, i have to could be conscientious of infections. >> she has a big problem with her intestinal tract and she's running out of time to fix it. >> we've done everything medically and her bowel just won't function. >> why? nobody knows but it has taken quite a toll. >> the first abdominal surgery was in 1986. >> and ever since, there's been snipping, cutting, repairing, and removing. >> 35 abdominal surgeries. >> normally, all