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Hello, I am Christian Fraser. This is Outside Source. World leaders | :00:10. | :00:17. | |
meet in London to discuss Syria and raise over $10 billion in aid. | :00:18. | :00:24. | |
The crucial point about today is the money raised will save lives, will | :00:25. | :00:28. | |
give hope, will give people the chance of a future. The United | :00:29. | :00:33. | |
Nations has ruled that Julian Assange is being detained | :00:34. | :00:38. | |
arbitrarily. British police want to extradite him to Sweden. He has been | :00:39. | :00:42. | |
hiding out in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London for more than three years. | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
Former Friends start Matt LeBlanc has been named as co-presenter of | :00:47. | :00:52. | |
global TV programme, Top Gear. And we have a report from Sweden's old | :00:53. | :01:00. | |
cold war base which has been modernised to withstand the | :01:01. | :01:01. | |
perceived threat of Russia. Good evening. Turkey already plays | :01:02. | :01:18. | |
host to the largest number of Syrian refugees and the situation is about | :01:19. | :01:22. | |
to get worse, with tens of thousands more heading to its border. They are | :01:23. | :01:26. | |
trying to escape fighting around Aleppo in the north of the country. | :01:27. | :01:31. | |
We told you yesterday that the Syrian army was mounting a fairly | :01:32. | :01:37. | |
big offensive in the North, bringing an end -- bringing to an end a | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
three-year siege. That is backed by intensive Russian air raids. | :01:42. | :01:47. | |
Thousands of miles away in the safety of London, a fund raising | :01:48. | :01:49. | |
conferences taking place to raise money for those affected by the war. | :01:50. | :01:56. | |
Playing host, British Prime Minister David Cameron. | :01:57. | :01:59. | |
I would like to thank everybody who has come and been so generous with | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
their time and resources to help this desperate situation. We have | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
combined a renewed effort to address the shortfall in Umana Terry and | :02:09. | :02:11. | |
funding, with a new approach to provide the education that will | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
bolster stability in the region. All of this is vital work. Vital for | :02:17. | :02:23. | |
those suffering inside Syria. Vital for the refugees. Vital for the | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
countries in the region doing so much. And taken together, what we | :02:29. | :02:32. | |
are delivering today can play a crucial role in preventing refugees | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
from feeling they need to risk their lives on the treacherous journey to | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
Europe. The Prime Minister speaking area. | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
This is the figure the EU has placed. $3.3 billion. Germany has | :02:47. | :02:55. | |
pledged $2.6 billion. The UK, $1.7 billion extra. And from the United | :02:56. | :03:04. | |
States, $925 million. All told, with other donations, the pot has swelled | :03:05. | :03:12. | |
to more than ten billion dollars. Ben Brown has been telling me more | :03:13. | :03:14. | |
about how the money will be spent. Interesting that when you think | :03:15. | :03:16. | |
that they were actually being asked for $9 billion and that seemed | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
a pretty stunning amount of money by itself but they have come up | :03:21. | :03:23. | |
with more than that and dug deeper About half is going to be | :03:24. | :03:26. | |
immediately used this year. The other half is over the next few | :03:27. | :03:36. | |
years, up to 2020. The emphasis at this conference, | :03:37. | :03:39. | |
the fourth in a long line of these donor conferences on the Syrian | :03:40. | :03:45. | |
emergency, the emphasis has been about long-term aid, | :03:46. | :03:48. | |
helping those refugees, about four and a half million | :03:49. | :03:51. | |
of them, who have fled from Syria And helping them, because this war | :03:52. | :03:54. | |
isn't going to end any time soon, helping them get jobs, | :03:55. | :04:01. | |
which is why a lot of them come to Europe, because they say | :04:02. | :04:04. | |
they can't work in They're not getting jobs, | :04:05. | :04:07. | |
they're not getting work permits. The donors here want to try and stop | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
that buying Courage England to get jobs in the region where they are, | :04:12. | :04:17. | |
in the Middle East, and also to offer school places | :04:18. | :04:20. | |
for their children. -- by encouraging them. What they | :04:21. | :04:34. | |
have come up with according to David Cameron was a million jobs for | :04:35. | :04:37. | |
refugees and residents in these countries. And also a million school | :04:38. | :04:45. | |
places for the children are refugees, who are currently not | :04:46. | :04:46. | |
being educated. Real change and an awful | :04:47. | :04:49. | |
of money promised. We have to make sure that the money | :04:50. | :04:51. | |
that has been promised is delivered. In the last couple of years only | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
about 50% of what has been asked I was going to ask you about that | :04:56. | :04:58. | |
because I remember when I was in Egypt and are used to go to these | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
conferences for Gaza, a lot of the money that is there | :05:04. | :05:05. | |
in the headlines never materialises. Having said that, I think | :05:06. | :05:08. | |
there is a new determination and you sense that talking | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
to the delegates here, a new determination and it's really | :05:13. | :05:14. | |
self-interested you like, especially on the part | :05:15. | :05:17. | |
of the European nations like Britain for example, because of the migrant | :05:18. | :05:20. | |
crisis over the past few months, the stunning number of people | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
who have been risking their lives to make that perilous boat journey | :05:26. | :05:28. | |
from Turkey across the water into Greece and up into Europe, | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
because they want to try and stop that or reduce that as far | :05:34. | :05:36. | |
as possible, they know that they have to put more money | :05:37. | :05:39. | |
into countries like Jordan and Lebanon and Turkey to make life | :05:40. | :05:45. | |
more bearable for the refugees, the four and a half million refugees | :05:46. | :05:47. | |
who are in those countries. Ben Brown at the conference centre. | :05:48. | :05:59. | |
Let's take a look little deeper into how badly that money is needed. | :06:00. | :06:05. | |
There are 4.6 million Syrians that have fled the country so. Most of | :06:06. | :06:11. | |
them, as you can see, have stayed in neighbouring countries. Turkey | :06:12. | :06:14. | |
taking the bulk of them, but Jordan and Lebanon taking big numbers. In | :06:15. | :06:21. | |
Lebanon the population has grown by 25% since the war began. Clive Myrie | :06:22. | :06:28. | |
has been down here to the back our valley. It is on the border with | :06:29. | :06:29. | |
Syria. Earlier he sent this report. They have had a rough ride | :06:30. | :06:33. | |
in life, these children. Victims of a war they are too | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
young to understand. In this refugee camp | :06:39. | :06:41. | |
in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley, they are being given | :06:42. | :06:44. | |
back their childhoods, Meet Muhammad, who is 13, | :06:45. | :06:46. | |
and his brother Mustafa, They attend school five days a week, | :06:47. | :06:52. | |
like the 270 other youngsters But when school is out, | :06:53. | :06:59. | |
they and some of the other kids They work in the brick factory | :07:00. | :07:05. | |
that borders their home. Hard, but necessary | :07:06. | :07:12. | |
work for this family. "We work to help our father," | :07:13. | :07:27. | |
Mustafa says, "because our little brother is sick. | :07:28. | :07:36. | |
He has cancer." Then they recall the day | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
they left their home "Around sunset, when it | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
started getting dark, The next day we came | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
here to Lebanon. As they toiled and heaved bricks, | :07:51. | :07:55. | |
in London, delegates at the conference for Syria, | :07:56. | :08:04. | |
raised more money to pay for the education of refugee | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
children and create well paying job Over lunch, Mustafa and Mohammed | :08:09. | :08:11. | |
admit life is hard. These children are mature way beyond | :08:12. | :08:29. | |
their years. They have had to grow up fast. Then there are little | :08:30. | :08:36. | |
brother appears. His cancer treatment and ongoing cause of | :08:37. | :08:45. | |
anguish for everyone. Our life here is difficult, says Mustafi. In Syria | :08:46. | :08:54. | |
we had everything. Millions of his countrymen now have nothing. | :08:55. | :08:55. | |
Plenty more on the BBC website if you want to look at the Syria story. | :08:56. | :09:11. | |
And also, if you have any questions and comments on what we are showing | :09:12. | :09:21. | |
you, do get in touch. The BBC understands that a UN panel | :09:22. | :09:25. | |
will report tomorrow that Julian Assange is being arbitrarily | :09:26. | :09:29. | |
detained in the Ecuador Embassy in London. He has been there since 2012 | :09:30. | :09:35. | |
to avoid extradition to Sweden over a rape allegation that he denies. He | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
submitted this document to the UN panel stating his case. | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
Consideration of the facts, the panel now seems to have found in his | :09:46. | :09:50. | |
favour. But it is controversial. Some think the panel has got it | :09:51. | :09:53. | |
wrong, like the journalist, Toby Young. | :09:54. | :09:59. | |
Well, it would be morally binding if it made sense. But Julian Assange | :10:00. | :10:04. | |
has not been detained. He went to the Ecuadorian Embassy of his own | :10:05. | :10:09. | |
volition to seek asylum, which he has now been granted. He is not | :10:10. | :10:14. | |
being detained by the British authorities. If anything, he is | :10:15. | :10:19. | |
detaining himself. If what you mean is, is he under a moral obligation | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
to stop detaining himself, I suppose you are right. | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
It is not clear what that means. Others do not agree. Here is one of | :10:30. | :10:34. | |
them, Mr Assange's close adviser talking to us earlier. | :10:35. | :10:38. | |
Britain has supported this court, it is a tribunal in fact, as has | :10:39. | :10:47. | |
Sweden, who declared eye unfairly detained. It made submissions to the | :10:48. | :10:56. | |
court. You had that adversarial thing. If Britain is lost after | :10:57. | :11:02. | |
entering into the dispute, then Britain has an obligation, as does | :11:03. | :11:10. | |
Sweden, to obey it. WikiLeaks say they are waiting on | :11:11. | :11:15. | |
the official verdict before they comment. But WikiLeaks did put out | :11:16. | :11:20. | |
this tweet in which Mr Assange said he would accept arrest by British | :11:21. | :11:28. | |
police if the UN rules against him. He also said he expects the | :11:29. | :11:32. | |
immediate return of his passport and the termination of further attempts | :11:33. | :11:35. | |
to arrest him if it rules in his favour. Earlier I spoke to Sarah | :11:36. | :11:44. | |
Campbell outside the embassy. There are news crews from various | :11:45. | :11:48. | |
organisations waiting for any movements from the embassy. | :11:49. | :11:53. | |
Certainly nothing from inside. This is where Julian Assange has been for | :11:54. | :11:58. | |
the last almost four years, since June 2012, when he was facing | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
accusations of sexual assault from two women in Sweden. He moved into | :12:03. | :12:09. | |
the Ecuadorian Embassy and ever since then he has understood that | :12:10. | :12:13. | |
because of this European arrest warrant, were he to leave the | :12:14. | :12:17. | |
embassy, he would be immediately arrested and extradited back to | :12:18. | :12:22. | |
Sweden. That is why he went to the UN working group back in 2014, | :12:23. | :12:26. | |
arguing that he felt he was being arbitrarily detained. As we now | :12:27. | :12:30. | |
know, this UN panel has agreed with him. Obviously giving his campaign | :12:31. | :12:39. | |
moral support. But is it any more than that? Well, legally this | :12:40. | :12:46. | |
judgment will not be enforceable. Statements from Sweden and the UK | :12:47. | :12:50. | |
back that up. The Swedish prosecutors say this will make no | :12:51. | :12:54. | |
formal impact on their prosecution. A statement from the foreign office, | :12:55. | :13:01. | |
backed up by Downing Street, says that we have been consistently clear | :13:02. | :13:05. | |
that Mr Assange has not been detained in the UK but has been | :13:06. | :13:08. | |
voluntarily avoiding lawful detention by choosing to remain in | :13:09. | :13:12. | |
the Ecuadorian Embassy. Pointing out that an allegation of rape is still | :13:13. | :13:15. | |
outstanding and a European Arrest Warrant is in place. The UK has a | :13:16. | :13:20. | |
legal obligation to extradite him to Sweden. That tweet where he said | :13:21. | :13:23. | |
that he would expect them if this panel ruled in his favour, to give | :13:24. | :13:28. | |
him back his passport and allow him to leave, looks extremely unlikely. | :13:29. | :13:34. | |
Sarah Campbell. We will look at the reasoning behind this decision when | :13:35. | :13:38. | |
the report is tomorrow. There has been a heavy police presence on the | :13:39. | :13:42. | |
streets of Cologne as the city's annual carnival gets under way. More | :13:43. | :13:48. | |
than 2000 police officers are on patrol in the first major event | :13:49. | :13:51. | |
since New Year when many women were victims of sexual assault and | :13:52. | :13:54. | |
muggings, a majority of them blamed on migrants. | :13:55. | :13:55. | |
Anna Holligan is there. Today is known as ladies' night, | :13:56. | :13:58. | |
traditionally one of the most But there is something in the back | :13:59. | :14:01. | |
of everyone's minds this year, Carnival this year is being seen | :14:02. | :14:07. | |
as a big test of the authorities. TRANSLATION: This is probably | :14:08. | :14:17. | |
the safest Carnival there There is zero tolerance this year | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
for anybody who wants After those attacks at New Year | :14:23. | :14:25. | |
dozens of people of North African and Arab origin were arrested, | :14:26. | :14:30. | |
and it has led to some tension And something that we are hearing | :14:31. | :14:33. | |
from a lot of women is that they are slightly | :14:34. | :14:43. | |
anxious this year, They are determined to celebrate | :14:44. | :14:46. | |
this massive cultural event. Today it is rainy, | :14:47. | :14:53. | |
it is not too nice. It is one big party, it doesn't | :14:54. | :14:58. | |
matter where you are from, brown, white, yellow, | :14:59. | :15:06. | |
red, no problem. This is a crazy time and it's not | :15:07. | :15:10. | |
normal and we don't do So I think they know | :15:11. | :15:13. | |
what is happening here. More in a moment on the race for the | :15:14. | :15:40. | |
Democratic nomination in the US per day and -- presidential race. | :15:41. | :15:44. | |
Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders have been sparring over which of | :15:45. | :15:47. | |
them is the true progressive candidate. | :15:48. | :15:55. | |
Sad to report that a sperm whale that washed up on the beach in North | :15:56. | :16:02. | |
Norfolk has died. Rescuers in and stand and could not return it to the | :16:03. | :16:05. | |
sea. They tried to make it as comfortable as possible. Stephen | :16:06. | :16:12. | |
Marsh from the rescue group said it was unlikely the Animal would | :16:13. | :16:18. | |
survive in such conditions. Unfortunately when sperm whales do | :16:19. | :16:24. | |
get stranded there are very unlikely to survive. We felt it would die | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
tonight. It had not died during the day. I think that today the water | :16:29. | :16:34. | |
came in. They did not lifted. It did not float away. In a way we are | :16:35. | :16:39. | |
thankful that it has now been put out of its misery by an actual | :16:40. | :16:45. | |
death. This is the 29th sperm whale that has died in recent weeks in our | :16:46. | :16:47. | |
area of Europe. This is Outside Source. The | :16:48. | :17:07. | |
international donor conference in London has raised over -- placed | :17:08. | :17:12. | |
over $10 billion to help people displaced by the war in Syria. Here | :17:13. | :17:17. | |
are some of the stories that our colleagues at BBC World Service are | :17:18. | :17:19. | |
reporting. Police have carried out raids in Berlin and other parts of | :17:20. | :17:25. | |
Germany because of a suspicion that Islamic State is planning to carry | :17:26. | :17:29. | |
out an attack in the country. BBC Brasil says the president is calling | :17:30. | :17:33. | |
on people to work together in a day of action to eliminate the mosquito | :17:34. | :17:47. | |
responsible for the Zika virus. Thousands of you are reading about | :17:48. | :17:50. | |
the sperm whale stranded on a beach in north-east England, on our | :17:51. | :17:56. | |
website. We haven't told the last hours that the whale has simply | :17:57. | :18:02. | |
died. Does anybody remember the former | :18:03. | :18:11. | |
head of Turin pharmaceuticals? He raised the price of a life-saving | :18:12. | :18:20. | |
AIDS drug by 5000%. Yes, 5000%. Now he is being investigated by US | :18:21. | :18:21. | |
Congress. This is how that went today. Do you | :18:22. | :18:30. | |
think you have done anything wrong? On the advice of counsel I invoke my | :18:31. | :18:35. | |
fifth Amendment privilege against self discrimination and respectfully | :18:36. | :18:40. | |
declined to answer your question. He pleaded the fifth. Then said it was | :18:41. | :18:46. | |
hard to accept that these imbecile to represent the people in our | :18:47. | :18:50. | |
government. I would imagine he is not very popular. Our correspondent | :18:51. | :18:53. | |
is in New York. Izzy Public enemy number one? He has been called the | :18:54. | :19:00. | |
most hated man in America before. Even though people plead the fifth | :19:01. | :19:06. | |
at these kind of hearings, I think it was the way he had that smug look | :19:07. | :19:12. | |
on his face, loving -- laughing at Congress, calling them imbecile is, | :19:13. | :19:18. | |
twirling his pencil. It gave a sense of the colourful character and his | :19:19. | :19:23. | |
attitude and his disregard for the institution and lawmakers. He has | :19:24. | :19:29. | |
been very active on social media. He is a former pharmaceutical CEO who | :19:30. | :19:35. | |
has been in the spotlight for raising drug prices. He has welcomed | :19:36. | :19:40. | |
and in the crave the love of the media attention. That is why it is | :19:41. | :19:43. | |
interesting to see the reaction of people on social media, either | :19:44. | :19:47. | |
laughing along with him are sticking to that hating him line. He is | :19:48. | :19:54. | |
totally unapologetic about doing this. He has done it with another | :19:55. | :20:00. | |
drug, a parasitic drug? Yes, he said through his lawyer that he would | :20:01. | :20:04. | |
have wanted to answer questions. He said the claims by lawmakers are | :20:05. | :20:09. | |
false and that is part -- that it is part of the industry to make profit. | :20:10. | :20:13. | |
He is completely unapologetic. When you look at the life-saving drug and | :20:14. | :20:20. | |
the fact he rose it by 5000%, he had gone back and forth over whether the | :20:21. | :20:25. | |
company would start offering it for free or whether he would cut back on | :20:26. | :20:29. | |
price. Again, very unapologetic over what he says is the right of | :20:30. | :20:38. | |
industry and businessmen. Thank you. ! Turn to Auckland in New Zealand | :20:39. | :20:42. | |
were today they signed one of the biggest global trade deals in over | :20:43. | :20:47. | |
20 years. The US transatlantic partnership includes the US, Japan, | :20:48. | :20:58. | |
Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, New Zealand, Mexico and Peru. But it | :20:59. | :21:03. | |
does not include the world's second largest economy, China. Those in | :21:04. | :21:06. | |
favour of the deal say it would free up trade and investment between 12 | :21:07. | :21:09. | |
countries. Not everyone approves. Take a look. | :21:10. | :21:18. | |
There have been these protests. Those worried about their jobs and | :21:19. | :21:22. | |
the power it gives to some of the world's big corporations. But | :21:23. | :21:26. | |
getting back to the deal itself, there is plenty to look forward to. | :21:27. | :21:29. | |
Here is an explainer of who might benefit. | :21:30. | :22:37. | |
There are some in favour of it. Sweden has expressed concerns over | :22:38. | :22:44. | |
Russian military action in Ukraine. It has re-militarised and old Cold | :22:45. | :22:50. | |
War base in the Baltic Sea to combat this perceived threat from Moscow. | :22:51. | :22:55. | |
Paul Adams has travelled to the island of Scotland where he has been | :22:56. | :22:59. | |
speaking to senior Swedish commanders. | :23:00. | :23:02. | |
Sweden is spooked by Russia, jets entering its airspace, a suspected | :23:03. | :23:07. | |
submarine close to Stockholm. Russian actions in Ukraine. The | :23:08. | :23:11. | |
military is looking once more at a remote spot in the middle of the | :23:12. | :23:17. | |
Baltic Sea. Welcome to Scotland. -- Gotland. It is a former Cold War | :23:18. | :23:24. | |
stronghold. It has been a long time since the Swedish military paid any | :23:25. | :23:28. | |
attention to this place. But last year the Government said it would be | :23:29. | :23:33. | |
sending troops back to Gotland. An active service unit will eventually | :23:34. | :23:37. | |
be based here on the island. It is not very many but it is a way of | :23:38. | :23:40. | |
saying to Russia that Sweden will not leave this place undefended. | :23:41. | :23:47. | |
Meet Sweden's top general. He spends a good deal of his time wondering | :23:48. | :23:51. | |
what the Russians are up to. It is too much to say that we understand | :23:52. | :24:01. | |
it. We understand or did we know before it happened, the annexation | :24:02. | :24:05. | |
of Crimea? Did we know they were close to starting something in | :24:06. | :24:06. | |
eastern Ukraine? When it happens, it eastern Ukraine? When it happens, it | :24:07. | :24:11. | |
is obvious. But it is too much to say that we know what the next step | :24:12. | :24:16. | |
will be. This is one of the greatest challenges. What are they up to? For | :24:17. | :24:23. | |
decades this was the home of the Swedish military in Gotland. At the | :24:24. | :24:27. | |
height of the Cold War there were as many as 15 to 20,000 military | :24:28. | :24:31. | |
personnel on the island at any time. Now this is pretty much all | :24:32. | :24:35. | |
government offices. But a new chapter in Gotland's history is | :24:36. | :24:41. | |
about to begin. It is almost if you can say a dream come true. This | :24:42. | :24:46. | |
Lieutenant Colonel is back from civilian life to take charge of the | :24:47. | :24:53. | |
new battle group in Gotland. I was raised here as a lieutenant and | :24:54. | :24:56. | |
Captain and Major. I trained the soldiers. I maintain the equipment. | :24:57. | :25:04. | |
That was for about 20 years. So this is a strange time for you | :25:05. | :25:10. | |
personally? S yes, it is a comeback for me. I have been a civilian for | :25:11. | :25:16. | |
ten years. Now I have to go back to the Army again and I am very lucky | :25:17. | :25:21. | |
for that. The tanks are ready but the crews have yet to arrive. Sweden | :25:22. | :25:25. | |
says this small force could be reinforced. It is also symbolic. We | :25:26. | :25:31. | |
need to make sure that our Armed Forces are strong enough to show | :25:32. | :25:38. | |
that we could be the threshold to send signals saying that if you come | :25:39. | :25:41. | |
here, it will hurt. And it will. Gotland thought its | :25:42. | :25:47. | |
fortified days were in the past but Russia has turned back the clock. | :25:48. | :25:52. | |
Nobody expects an invasion but the Baltic is a nervous place these | :25:53. | :25:58. | |
days. Sweden does not want to be caught napping. | :25:59. | :26:00. | |
Sweden not the only country taking such precautions. We will be back in | :26:01. | :26:02. | |
a few minutes. Stay with us. Good evening. It is that time of day | :26:03. | :26:17. | |
to look at what the weather is doing elsewhere around the world. Stormy | :26:18. | :26:18. |