08/02/2016 Outside Source

Tens of thousands of Syrian refugees are gathering

They're fleeing an explosion of violence in Aleppo,

where regime forces have encircled the city, backed by Russian strikes.

UN investigators have accused the Syrian government of vast

They say the government has a state policy of extermination

It's 14 hours until the polls open in New Hampshire -

the latest battleground for potential US presidents.

We'll speak to Katty Kay about what to expect.

Michael Bloomberg has given an interview with the FT, saying he is

considering running for president. And if you have questions for Katty

Kay on the New Hampshire primaries, get in touch. She will be with us in

15 minutes. I'm afraid the grim news

from Syria continues. The UN has put out a report in which

it You can read t says

he report online - of killing captured Syrian soldiers

and so-called "Islamic State" the finding concerning the crime

against you Man City of extermination was reached after long

examination of verified information that the commission has been

gathering now for the last four and a half years. Over 500 interviews

regarding the conduct of state officials in government detention

facilities were examined in detail. This information helps us establish

procedures and policies over how killings were organised and carried

out. Killings and deaths described in this report occurred with high

frequency. The Assad government denies the allegations.

Murad Shishani, BBC Arabic told me the Assad government deny

This report is documenting what is happening for the first time. To put

it in context, there were many reports claiming that that was

happening in Syria, even before the Arab Spring, before 2011. This is

the first time we are documenting it. It has always been reflected in

Arab literature, novels and stories and in the accounts of defecting

people from Syria. But this is the first significant report. Secondly,

the opposition forces or so using the same brutal methods used by the

regime, which is a worrying sign that nothing has changed. I

understand the importance of documenting crimes when they occur,

but in practical terms, will this announcement have any impact on the

conflict for the diplomacy around it? I doubt that, because it is

always ongoing and it has been for many years. In later stages, it

might be used in the search for justice by both parties. But there

is no direct impact on the ground. The UN has used the phrase

extermination. What do we know about the people who have been

exterminated? There have been many accounts. I remember a long time

ago, I have personally spoken to people who have spent more than 27

years, like Mandela, under the Syrian regime, in prisons. And they

were there before 2011, which makes it a huge problem. But now it is

starting to be documented. If you want more information on this UN

report, it is one of the lead stories on the BBC news website.

They also have lots of background on the Syrian conflict, which has been

going on for five years now. Now, let's bring you some of the main

sports stories from around the world. Only one place to start.

The Denver Broncos beat the Carolina Panthers 24-10.

And there was the half-time show - with Coldplay, Bruno Mars

We didn't expect something as political as what we got. That has

become a talking point. She released a video at the same time. The

Rolling Stones reported on it. And the Atlantic described Beyonce's

radical half-time statement. Her performance, referencing

celebrated black figures of the past and recent black

history, has dominated headlines. With more than 100 million Americans

watching, Beyonce chose to make This was a black power anthem,

complete with defiant fists and berets reminiscent

of the militant Black Panther movement, born in the racial

turmoil of the '60s. After the performance,

some of the dancers held up a sign He was shot dead by San Francisco

police in December, reportedly because he refused to put

down a knife. Beyonce's new video

hammers home the message. On social media, there

was much praise for Beyonce. One person said, she is

the candidate we need. There was criticism too,

with comments such as... The Super Bowl show was a reminder

this country has not At times it felt like Beyonce

was asking a question of her fellow There is a long article about that

performance as well on the BBC news website. Football next. Liverpool's

chief executive Ian Hare was scheduled to direct question and

answer session with fans via Twitter today, but that didn't go ahead.

Here is a tweet from the club. From next season, the most expensive

ticket at Liverpool will be ?77, over $100, and the fans walked out

on Saturday towards the end of the game against Sunderland in protest.

Let's bring in the BBC's Hugh Ferris to talk about this. Is this a sign

that maybe the club is listening? I think they have to after what

happened against Sunderland. Thousands of fans left in the 77th

up at that stage and it was 2-2 up at that

after all those funds left, indicative of the ?77 price you

mentioned. A lot of fans are particularly angry not just at the

fact that there are so many tickets that are going up in price, but just

the general cost of football. So many are being priced out of the

game. They feel it represents the disconnect between clubs and their

fans. The clubs are of course getting billions of pounds' worth of

income from TV deals, not only in the UK, but also abroad. If you took

the Norwegian TV deal alone, that money next season would subsidise

more than 3500 of the most expensive season tickets at every Premier

League club. And it is not just in UK. Jurgen Klopp's former club play

in the Bundesliga. Tickets there are considered to be excellent value.

Their fans are currently unhappy about match day tickets going up to

about ?30, 40. So all around Europe, they are not happy about the price

rises of their tickets. I was reading that Liverpool have

introduced some much cheaper tickets for children and parents who come

with their kids. So the club could say, we are charging top dollar, but

we are also thinking about the fans. And they did make that point. Two

thirds of that gives will stay the same or go down. It is always the

way. If the most expensive are getting more expensive, it is not

only an easier line to draw in the sand, and the fans can say they are

likely to be paying for those tickets, but there is a larger

context in which to place this and the club are trying to make that

point to the fans, whether or not they hold the Twitter session with

their chief executive. Now, I have an update from the IAAF, the

athletics world governing body. This is the page where it puts all its

latest press releases and it has published a list of Russian athletes

who will be banned from international competitions. It is

quite long. It contains 4027 Russian athletes, including very well-known

athletes in the country. It is unclear for how long these people

will be suspended and whether Russian athletes will be in Rio for

the Olympics, but for the moment, over 4000 of them are being

suspended. Now back to football. Few people argue that

Marta is the best woman And excitingly for those of us

in the UK, she says she's considering playing in the Women's

Super League in England. All my life, I try to play at the

high level. So why not? You never know. I am feeling well in my club

right now, so I don't think about this right now. But one day, we may

see you playing in England? I never say no. Hopefully, she will say yes!

In a few minutes, we will turn to a story which is an extension of a

story we were covering last week. Here is a bird of prey. That is a

drug being picked up by it. This is in the Netherlands.

Police in the UK are considering training birds of prey to intercept

British Prime Minister David Cameron has promised a major shake-up

In a speech today, he called the failures of prisons

with high levels of violence and re-offending - scandalous.

Under his new proposals, six new "reform prisons"

existing institutions and prison governors would be given greater

autonomy over their prison's operation and its budgets.

Our Home Affairs correspondent Daniel Sandford has the story

David Cameron this morning, walking into a prison system

where violence is rising, murders are at record

after their jail time remains stubbornly high.

A system that sometimes works, but often doesn't.

We need a system that does not see prisoners as liabilities to be

managed, but as potential assets to be harnessed.

The failure of the system today is scandalous.

46% of prisoners will reoffend within a year of release.

Current levels of prison violence, drug-taking and self-harm

While it is not unusual for a Prime Minister to make

a speech about crime, it is unusual to commit himself

so strongly to prison reform, which is perhaps why

in the 21st century, so many inmates are held

At the heart of the proposed wholesale reform

These inmates were learning bike maintenance.

He wants to give prison governors more power to run jails as they see

best, and even for staff to have bonuses when reoffending

But prison reformers say he is avoiding the big questions,

like how many people should be in prison in the first place?

It has to look at what the purpose of prison is, what do we want

prisons to do, who should be in prisons, what are

They are failing, and that is seen in reoffending rates

The Prime Minister wants to look at a tag to allow satellite tracking

of some offenders, who would keep their jobs and only go to prison

Jails do keep offenders off the streets, but often, it is only a

temporary fix. The Prime Minister is now promising

what he called full-on This is Outside Source,

live from the BBC newsroom. Thousands of Syrian refugees

are gathering on the northern border with Turkey, hoping

to enter the country. The Turkish Prime Minister has

said his country would let them Coming up shortly on BBC

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on the campaign trail as New Hampshire gets set

to vote in the primaries. I'll be talking

to Katty in a minute. And the News at Ten has a special

report from Eastern Ukraine, where monitors say there has been

an increase in the level Now, it is Carnival time in Brazil.

Millions turned out as they do every year. There were question marks over

whether the Zika virus might change that, but it seems not.

This is what happens when you combine Carnival and the Olympics.

This school chose the Olympic Games as its theme this year, and they

started with bringing the Greek gods to Rio, this massive sculpture

representing Zeus, and the other Greek gods arriving from Mount

Olympus. There are other characters from Greek mythology and also the

Olympic sports that will be played in Rio later this year. The floats

here represent icons of the city, representing Rio to the visitors

arriving. These greenhouse fits represent the forest -- the green

outfits. There is also the famous sidewalk pattern on Copacabana beach

and the statue of Christ the Redeemer. And here is a group of

Olympic athletes from Brazil, taking part in the parade. I spoke to them

about what it means to be here. TRANSLATION: We are already feeling

the atmosphere of the Olympic Games. The party has started, and we hope

it will not only be a great Carnival, but also a great party for

the Olympics. The Carnival is one thing very important, to show the

people we can do everything, whether Zika, no Zika. The Olympics will be

great. Everyone here puts in lots of energy, hard work and money to try

to win this year's title. This venue will also be used during the Olympic

Games. This is where the archery competitions and part of the

marathon will take less. Here during Carnival, you don't see any signs of

concerns with Brazil's economic crisis the political problems or

with Zika virus. Carnival is the time when people like to celebrate

and forget all their troubles. Julia Carneiro was talking about energy,

hard work and money going into Carnival. Here is another story

which requires all of those. Tuesday - tomorrow -

is New Hampshire's day And the latest step to knowing

who'll compete for the US As ever, Katty Kay is going to help

us. She is in Washington, DC. We talk about these TV debates a lot

and we often look for those moments which will change campaigns, but

they tend not to. I got up on Sunday morning and watched Rubio versus

Chris Christie and thought maybe this was one? Yes, slips on debates

have consequences when they play into an existing narrative, and the

narrative surrounding Marco Rubio is that he is more show than substance,

and that was what you saw in that debate, when Marco Rubio got himself

into a position where he repeated verbatim, three times, the fact that

Barack Obama knows what he is doing in changing America. He was pushed

into this by Chris Christie, who was goading him and saying look, here's

a robot. He has these canned speeches and that is all he does.

And then Rubio went on to do that. It is going to have voters who make

up their minds late in New Hampshire thinking, is he seasoned enough? Is

he experienced enough to take on the White House for the Republicans? We

have lots of tweets coming in. One is from a New York Times

correspondent saying Rubio may have been hurt, but Chris Christie

doesn't seem to have benefited. He didn't have a massive bump in the

polls. Rubio has come down since that debate, but Chris Christie

hasn't gone up, and that might be because Christie came across as a

bit of a bully, enjoying this moment of putting Marco Rubio in an

embarrassing position, and voters do not like that. That has always been

Chris Christie's problem. I remember when Hillary Clinton and rap first

went up against each other eight years ago, Bill Clinton used that

speech, using the word fairy tale about Barack Obama which went down

badly. Now he has made an aggressive speech against Bernie Sanders on

behalf of his wife. I wonder how you judge that? It is interesting that

they have sent Bill Clinton out to do the attack dog stuff against

Bernie Sanders, feeling perhaps that hearing Clinton is not the right

person to get aggressive with the Senator from Vermont.

of that fairy tale stuff had slightly open racial overtones and

it didn't do well in South Carolina, where there are a

African-American voters, and it's one thing is against Hillary Clinton

down there. This time, you will see such problems having

Bill Clinton out there, accusing Bernie Sanders of offering something

that is not realistic. But Hillary Clinton has another problem, which

is the big split between older women who support her and younger women

who are not feeling excited about her candidacy. That is what the

campaign's priority will be in New Hampshire. Before you go, a snap

from Reuters, quoting the Financial Times saying Michael Bloomberg is

considering running for president. We knew that anyway, didn't we? We

have heard these rumours before. This is the most concrete mention I

have seen. I have the article here, and he says he is considering his

options. He finds the level of discussion banal and he also says he

would need to start putting his name on the ballots across the United

States at the beginning of March if he is going to run. The trouble for

Michael Bloomberg is that we may not know who the Democratic and

Republican candidates are by March, and that will have a big impact on

whether he is going to run or not. Very good to talk to you.

One of the unlikely stars of the New Hampshire primaries

is a fridge in the offices of the Conway Daily Sun.

And just about all the big names have been to see it.

The refrigerator is actually our office refrigerator. It was brought

in by a local retailer ten years ago because the staff needed a

refrigerator. New Hampshire is quirky, so somebody might have a

nice fancy store, and the candidates go, so I said we have to do

something. Let's have a shtick. We have this office refrigerator, which

is basically a plane White refrigerator that everyone keeps

their lunch in. I said, how about that? We will have them ask the

candidates to sign that. We have had 31 people signed the fridge, and

three to time as, Hillary Clinton, Mitt Romney and Ron Paul. If you are

signing twice, it doesn't necessarily guarantee that you win

the election. We have had everyone except Donald Trump. But we were

told the reason he cannot come this far north is that it is not the

place for his millions. So they have to do well in New Hampshire and

Iowa, so it is that classic retail politicking. They meet the public

one-on-one and it is a joke that if they do not see their favourite

candidate three times, they haven't seen them enough yet. We have used

three sides of the refrigerator now through three election cycles. We

would like to place it somewhere, because it really is memorabilia,

and it is an incredible experience for a small-town newspaper like us.

I enjoyed seeing their handwriting as well.

Last week, we showed you Dutch police using birds of prey

The Metropolitan Police here in London are said to have been

seen the video, and been impressed by it.

When used in the right way, the results can be spectacular, such as

this drunk footage of the ceramic poppies at the Tower of London in

2014. Used in the wrong way, they are dangerous. A woman from south

London was left with a gaping hole in her roof after a drone filming a

neighbouring property crash landed. Here, a downhill skiing champion was

almost hit when a drone fell from the sky during a race in Italy. But

the Met are concerned that drones are now being used to commit crimes,

and they are looking at using eagles to bring them down. Police in

Holland are already using birds of prey. Eagles naturally attack the

drones, seeing them as other birds encroaching on their territory. They

call it a low-tech solution for a high-tech problem. The Met said in a

statement, as would be expected in an organisation that is

transforming, we take an interest in all innovative new ideas. Talks are

already in use in London to scare off pigeons at Wimbledon, Trafalgar

Square and at the BBC's New Broadcasting House, but some

falconry experts don't agree with the idea, saying that blades on the

drones could cause severe damage to the birds' clause.

So that is what they are doing when I get to work! Thank you for

watching. See you soon. Come the weekend, some of us may

experience a different side to winter. But in the last 24 hours, it

has been wild and windy