11/02/2016 Outside Source

Hello, I'm Nuala McGovern, this is Outside Source.

Scientists in the United States have announced they've

They're saying the discovery will usher in a new era

for our understanding of the universe.

The final member of the armed militia which has occupied a US

wildlife sanctuary on the west coast state of Oregon has

All four of the remaining occupiers are now in custody.

I'll speak to our correspondent with all the latest.

Doping in Kenyan athletics - the accusations,

the counter-accusations and the denials.

And a 94-year-old suspected Nazi guard is on trial in Germany

accused of assisting in the murders of 170,000 people at

Now to a story we've covered a lot here on Outside Source -

the armed occupation of a government building in Oregon

The last four occupiers have surrendered.

From now to give you a quick reminder, going over to Oregon, and

it was the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, close to the town of Burns.

We can speak to James Cook, with incredible developments over the

past hour. He is in Los Angeles. Tell us a little bit about those

four, and particular that last person who gave themselves up to the

police. Yes, it was a pretty dramatic end to this occupation,

which has gone on for 41 days. The last man to surrender effectively,

to walk out and surrender was a 27-year-old man from high off. In

the last iron or two of negotiations -- from Ohio. -- in the last few

hours of negotiations, some of it like us live on the Internet, there

were tense negotiations, he said liberty or die. One man and wife

walked out with their hands on the air and holding the American flag,

surrendering to the F VI. A tense but peaceful end, to something that

lasted more than one month. And it ended with one death. A man named

LaVoy Finicum. And those final hours as they were doing the stand-off. It

was interesting to see comments about this stand-off. I built a

vision about people supported them or not, put that in context for us.

-- some real division. Yes, as David Fry, the last man to surrender, was

speaking, there were some abusive comments attacking him and his

fellow militia members, were occupying this bird reserve, others

were supportive. I am back in Los Angeles but I was in Oregon and in

Burns talking to these people, including the man who was shot dead.

And there was support for them in terms of what they were looking for,

complaining about the distant federal government on the other

coast of the United States, in Washington, DC, imposing its will on

farmers, ranchers, in the western United States. And a lot of people

in this small Oregon town of Burns help that message resonated, but

many of them do not agree with the tactics and that taking over as

federal property and driving around in federal cars and brandishing

weapons in our threatening them -- in a threatening manner, as some

people alleged, but the occupier saying they were a peaceful all the

way through. Thank you very much, James, for bringing Biddy does that

story, also playing out on social media over the past hour or so.

Dozens of people are reported to have been killed in a riot

and a fire at a prison in the city of Monterrey.

It is believed specifically it happened around midnight at the Topo

Chico prison. We can see in these images the riot police getting ready

and to go into the building. The governor of the state has put the

death toll at 52. These images are the police stopping families from

entering. Katie Watson has the latest.

In addition to 52, 12 people have been injured,

Now, there is little detail about how the riot started and why,

but witnesses say that they heard shouts and explosions when a fire

started, just after midnight on Thursday morning.

The authorities said they did have it under control by about 1.30

in the morning, but nevertheless, those pictures you see now worried

family members, concerned exactly what happened and trying

So it's still an unfolding situation, but the latest

And with this, it has been an issue in prisons that there has been

riots, it's not the first time something like this has

A few years ago, in fact in the same state, 42 people died.

That was seen as one of the worst in decades,

The issue with Mexican prisons is they may well be

We've seen with El Chapo, where the most notorious drugs lord

escaped several times, so it's not necessarily a fact

you don't have good the locks on the doors,

And Mexico's prisons have been criticised for being under

the influence of cartels, of gang violence, and that is the issue

that kicks off these break-outs and riots.

The authorities have said that they are discounting

a break-out in this, but certainly not been uncommon

Thanks to Katie Watson for that. Moving on to sport on Outside

Source. We will start with this tweet from Dan Roan. He is talking

about the World Anti-Doping Agency which are said Kenny hasn't missed a

deadline to prove it is taking decisive action to fight cheating in

athletics. -- which has said Kenya. It has been put on a watchlist and

could face a banned competing in Rio. Levels of corruption were

levelled at sporting officials. We are talking about Iten and Nairobi

in Kenya. Dan Roan. -- Dan Roan reported from Iten.

It's one of sport's most unique settings.

Iten, nestled in the Rift Valley, home to Kenya's champions.

For decades, this small town has provided a high-altitude training

base to thousands of world-class athletes, many of whom have gone

on to establish their country as the dominant force

Kenya's prowess was underlined at the World Championships

in Beijing last year, when it topped the medal table.

1,500 metres winner Asbel Kiprop claiming one of his team's

Back in Iten, he is now in training for the Rio Olympics,

but doping has cast a shadow over his country's preparations.

40 Kenyan athletes have been banned to cheating in the last five years,

40 Kenyan athletes have been banned for cheating in the last five years,

and Kiprop told me of the damage it's doing.

It is a disgrace, especially to the sport and ourselves

It is a disgrace to hard-working athletes when an athlete is found

to have used performance-enhancing drugs.

The BBC has obtained previously unseen secretly-filmed footage

of an athlete receiving an injection from a doctor.

We cannot verify what substance was, but the athlete, who doesn't

want to be identified, told me it was a banned substance.

Have you used performance-enhancing drugs?

In Kenya, most people are using, so, if you don't use,

you will just be training, training, training all year.

-- you will just be training, training, training only.

In November, athletes staged a protest in Nairobi

against the sport's leaders amid corruption allegations.

This week, officials had to deny new accusations of extortion,

but we spoke to another athlete who said he had been blackmailed

by members of the sport's governing body after he failed a drugs test.

TRANSLATION: They asked me for 500,000 shillings.

I said I couldn't afford to pay, so they told me I would receive

The governing body said it couldn't comment as it's under investigation

by the International Athletics Federation, but did ask those

Kenya's now at serious risk of being dragged into the doping

Another of the sport's powerhouse nations, Russia, has already been

banned from international competition because of

state-sponsored cheating, and now the spotlight

The World Anti-Doping Agency has lost patience and said that Ken ya

has missed the deadline. It will now be placed on a watch list and the

consequences could be severe. I think that is the biggest threat

right now, that Kenya would be declared non-compliant should we not

meet the expectations. And any non-compliant country,

the IOC does have the right in its rules to deny it access

to the Olympics, for example? Yesterday, Kenya's top sports

officials held last-ditch talks agreeing the need for legislation

and funding for a new national anti-doping agency to finally

become operational. This is taken to the highest level,

so Kenya is serious, and the Kenyan athletes you'll see

will be running clean. In a country of limited resources,

the temptation to take short cuts is obvious, and the cost

of educating and testing Authorities insist that

cheating is not systemic, but at a time when sporting

integrity is under scrutiny like never before, Kenya

is in a race against time to prove The strange story of the dolls

in Thailand that are The rail regulator says nearly

200,000 train services were cancelled or delayed from

April 2013 to December last year. One in ten of them was blamed

on staff shortages. The unions blame companies for not

recruiting enough drivers. Our transport correspondent

Richard Westcott It's the word no-one wants to see

on the departures board. Now figures obtained by the BBC show

that one in every ten train problems is simply down to a lack

of drivers and conductors. That adds up to around 182,000

services either late Govia Thameslink had the highest

proportion of delays, followed by First Transpennine

Express and London Midland. They all say they've taken steps

to sort the problem, There's a constant demand to run

more trains, which means more drivers, but also the driver

population is ageing, along with many of the workforce

in the UK, so it's a case of trying to stay one jump ahead of time

of the number of extra trains you're running and the number of drivers

who are coming up to retirement. It takes nearly a year

to learn to do this. Before they let you loose

on the real line, you learn every Dave's one of ten drivers who has

just passed the training course. I would say it's the theory

surrounding train driving. There's a large rulebook you have

to remember for emergency situations Chiltern says it plans three years

ahead to make sure it has enough drivers to meet

the ever-growing demand. The unions blame the companies

for failing to plan ahead. But some suggest part of the problem

is drivers taking sick leave, It's incredibly unfair,

because we build into the agreements we have calculations

for average sickness, release for civic duties

such as jury service, We build in annual leave

and other factors. There should be enough

people in every company Britain's railways are

growing at a record pace. It could mean yet more staff

shortages and delays in the future. This is Outside Source,

live from the BBC Newsroom. Scientists in the US

have first the first time They're saying the discovery

will usher in a new era in our understanding

of the universe. Depending on where you are watching

decide what you will see next. World News America is taking look

at the current tensions with North Korea -

following the closing of our Health Editor has been looking

at the fallout from the government's decision to impose the terms

of a new contract on tens of thousands of junior

doctors in England. An Irish newspaper group says

it has been warned by police, that threats have been made

against a number of journalists Independent News and Media said

it was going public to illustrate the danger posed to freedom

of speech by organised crime. Chris Buckler has been giving us

the background to these threats. Last Friday, there were pictures

that came from that boxing weigh-in at the Regency Hotel being held

ahead of a proposed boxing match After an armed gang made its way

into that hotel and started to shoot inside the room, and in fact

they wounded two men On Monday night, there was another

shooting in the north of Dublin. It was very clear that the police

believed it was a retaliation for that earlier shooting,

and that has led to a lot of concerns and fear

about gangs in Dublin, groups that are armed,

involved in criminality and drugs. And there has of course in Ireland

been a huge focus on this in the newspapers, they have been

talking a lot about these criminal groups, and now it seems that two,

or at least two of the journalists from Independent News and Media

have now been threatened. It is one of the biggest

newspaper groups in Ireland, and tonight they have released

a statement in which they talk about this being an outrageous

threat to press freedom. In it, they say that safety

of journalists is of paramount importance, and it is disturbing

threats of this nature approach as we approach the 20th anniversary

death of our colleague Vernonica Guerin who was killed

by criminals she was exposing A 94-year old former Nazi SS guard

has gone on trial in Germany accused of assisting in the murders

of 170,000 people at Auschwitz. Prosecutors believe Reinhold Hanning

met Jewish prisoners as they arrived at the camp and may have escorted

some to the gas chambers. He denies any involvement

in the mass killings. Such cases are not unusual

in the recent years. He's an elderly widowed man who ran

a cheese shop until he retired. But 70 years ago,

this was Reinhold Hanning, His job, prosecutors claim,

to meet Jewish prisoners as they arrived at the camp

and to escort some of them More than a million people

were killed at Auschwitz, yet few have faced justice

for their part in mass murder. A recent court ruling means that

anyone who worked in the camp, regardless of their role,

can now be brought to trial. Prosecutors have only identified

a handful of suspects. The justice system is doing

that what is possible. And I think these few cases

are a signal, a signal for a country and a signal for humanity,

and for justice. He's 94, the same age

as Reinhold Hanning. Very important to me,

because I like to...see him talking, I think, at one point today,

you addressed him directly. I addressed him directly.

I asked him to tell the truth. The trial is taking place,

here in the north-western town of Detmold, near to where

Reinhold Hanning It is of course about trying

to determine one-man's culpability, This is one of the last

opportunities for Germany Because Reinhold Hanning is one

of the last surviving Nazis An Iranian news anchor for Press TV

says she has fled the country to escape years of repeated

sexual harassment She posted an online a recording

of a phone conversation in which a man believed

to be her boss repeatedly She shared what appeared to be

a screen grab from a text exchange in which he asked her

to take the audio down. I asked Nicholas Niksadat from

BBC Persian to tell us more. Any some sort of sexual undertones

would have sparked a lot of debate and caught a lot of attention,

but again, here we have a bit of a David and Goliath story,

where you have the employee taking on a very mighty

organisation and big bosses. And more importantly,

you have a TV channel, Press TV, which is at the forefront

of the publicity campaign for the Iranian government,

for the Iranian state. Obviously, they broadcast

in English all over the world, they have a lot of following

overseas, and this TV, by definition and by mission,

is supposed to give the best of the values and the ideals

of the Islamic Republic of Iran. So whether or not the allegations

have any substance, it's going to be very embarrassing for Iran

and for Press TV in particular. And, with Press TV, they have

taken the action of suspending the two members, that there are

still allegations against. They were also saying in a statement

issued via Iran's government that, although the audio file

that we spoke about is not legally admissible, and no complaint has

been made, but it is a serious matter, and the relevant officials

are investigating the case to clarify the issue,

because, as we mentioned, she has actually fled

and did not file a case? The statement somehow

blames her for not having taken the official, or the routine

legal procedures, saying that, even going further to accuse her

of having resorted to giving such interviews, to even people that,

according to the statement, are against the Islamic Republic,

in order to create a scenario. And this scenario is one of those

where it is popular with the Iranian establishment, whenever

they want to take somebody out. Thanks to him for that. And we

finish with this story. When a Thai airline began offering

to sell seats for life-sized dolls last month, it brought attention

to a strange obsession which appeared to have gripped

hundreds of the country's adults. Inside this locked room

are the discarded remnants They're called Luk Thep,

or Angel Children. Dolls which their owners believed

had the power to bring them luck. TRANSLATION: You see,

when things are going well, But when things turn bad,

they throw them away. so the abbot that keeps them

in an appropriate place. The sudden appearance of these dolls

seems like a bizarre, almost eccentric fad that maybe

is connected to the political But in fact it taps into a deep

tradition here of investing inanimate objects

with spiritual power. As we walk through the temple,

you will see it as cluttered As we walk through the temple,

you will see it is cluttered with representations

of animals and people. And there is one group in particular

which seems to have a strong link These are like the Luk Thep dolls,

and they represent children. But in this case, inhabited

by the spirit of an unborn foetus. This is a tradition that

goes back 300 years and is In fact, in the old days,

practitioners would try to obtain This temple is known

for its collection of these dolls. And there is a steady stream

of people coming here to pray to them for improvements

in their business or personal lives. So, are the Angel dolls part

of the same eerie tradition? She believes she started

the Luk Thep craze after collecting these child-sized dolls

for several years. And then finding a way, she says,

to impart a soul into them. TRANSLATION: Once we own a Luk Thep

dolls, we can lean on them mentally. They make us happy,

as if they were alive. And we can take them

with us everywhere. I love dressing them up

and talking to them. They make us happy,

but this is a personal belief. And, if you look

after them properly, She's now assembling these

dolls with soul at home. And selling them,

often for hefty prices. And it's hard to see this

as anything else but yet another side of the persistent belief

in the presence of the supernatural. And its potential

to change your fortune. Thanks very much for spending some

of your day with Outside Source, we will be back on Monday. From me and

the team, goodbye. Hello there, after a reasonably mild

and unsettled start to February