18/02/2016 Outside Source

of around 14 Celsius, so changeable weekend on the way for most of us,

rain particularly across the centre of the UK. You are up-to-date.

David Cameron's big day has arrived, the summit has just started where he

will try to persuade all 28 countries to back his reforms before

a referendum over the membership of the UK. It is much more important to

get this right than to do any thing in a rush but with goodwill and hard

work we can get a better deal for Britain. The Pope has questioned the

Christian values of Donald Trump, we will be live in Washington. We will

also play you the response from Donald Trump. Another blast in

Turkey, this time killing six people, one day after 28 died in a

bomb attack in Ankara, the Prime Minister is blaming Kurdish

separatists. This is the type of tumbleweed that has engulfed in a

stroke in town. It has a great name as well, hairy panic! And we will

talk about why Venezuela has increased petrol prices by 6000%.

Welcome to the programme, high-stakes politics in Brussels,

Europe editor tweeting saying that Donald Tusk could be enjoying the

drama as he describes the summit as make or break ahead of the reforms

debate. What he's talking about is Britain's attempt to change its

relationship with the European Union, and then hold a referendum

about it. What changes does he want? One of the four aims for David

Cameron is allowing Britain to opt out of the EU desire to forge an

ever closer union. He would also like the EU to cut the amount of

rules and regulations that businesses face. Another big one,

restrict some of the welfare payments available to EU citizens

who are working in Britain. And also ensure that the UK is not left at a

disadvantage by not being in the European single currency. We can

hear what some of the leaders have to say before things got underway.

We have some important work to do today and tomorrow, it is going to

be hard. I will be battling for Britain, if we can get a good deal,

I will take the deal, but I will not take a deal that does not meet what

we need. It is more important to get this right than to do anything in a

rush, with goodwill and hard work we can get a better deal for Britain.

TRANSLATION: I'm going into this with the position that we would like

to do everything so that Great Britain can remain part of the

European Union. That is important from the German point of view.

TRANSLATION: Any country can ask for particular rules, at the same time,

we are talking about Britain, we have got to think about all

countries. It is the European Union that is being discussed, not simply

one country within the European Union. As you know, we are in the

middle of still very difficult negotiations. Talking about the UK

question. One thing is clear to me, this is a make or break summit, I

have no doubt. Let's speak with James, Deputy political editor. Just

reading one tweet from our colleague, " Downing Street sources

talking about and -- an impasse." What we know about what has happened

so far? Progress has been made but a lot more to go, this evening we have

heard the throat clearing of the European leaders, sitting around the

table and they have had a chance to express concerns about proposals for

reforming the relationship with the European Union, this evening was a

chance to get that off their chest. What is interesting is off the back

of that, all of those concerns are still there. There had been

expectations that one or two would fade away, but everyone has spoken

out. We know that there is substantial concerns, a lot of

detail to be sorted out, that is going to happen overnight with a lot

of officials passing paper among themselves, the leaders will come

back. This is not a done deal, not automatic, this will be plain

sailing, a lot of work to do. With this, and you mentioned if they get

this deal, you will have seen the UK Independence Party leader Nigel

Farage talking about even if he has a deal, there is no guarantee that

it will stay, that the European Court of Justice could throw it out

or it could be vetoed by Parliament. We'll David Cameron be able to push

back against any of that? This will always be a case for the Prime

Minister, he has to make a case to the British people. --

-- will David Cameron be able to push back against any of that?

A lot of these will have to be post dated in the future, they will be an

IOU, a promise that there will be change, some of it may be treaty

change, some of it may be changing legislation, but it will always be a

promise, he will never get every detail mail down. To a certain

extent, the British government was expecting that, what he needs as

strong a promise from the rest of the EU as he can. Quite a short time

between that and their potential referendum, at the end of June he

thinks. He has to get a deal in the next weekend, maybe the next week or

so. For him to have that referendum. Quite a lot of stuff that he has to

do, legislation has to go through Parliament, said periods of time

before the referendum can take place, deciding who will campaign

for leave and who will campaign to remain -- for remain, that kind of

thing. He wants to get a deal, get a political referendum, and give

opponents less time to organise. If he does not get a deal, that is

hard. Thank you very much for the update. Have you been following this

story, Pope Francis has weighed in on Donald Trump, the US presidential

candidate, on the Republican party, that is what he's trying to be.

Journalists asked the Pope about Donald Trump's stance on

immigration, which has been controversial, and whether American

Catholics should vote for Donald from. -- should vote for Donald

Trump. Person who only thinks about building walls, wherever they may

be, and not building bridges, is not a Christian. As far as what you said

about whether I would advise to vote or not to vote, I'm not going to get

involved in that, I only say that this man is not Christian if he has

said things like that, but we must see if he said things in that way

and I will give him the benefit of the doubt.

Donald Trump did not take long to respond: a religious leader, to

question a person's faith, is disgraceful, I am proud to be a

Christian, and as president, I will not allow Christianity to be

consistently attacked and weakened, unlike what is happening now, with

our current president. Believe me. APPLAUSE

Very important, this has just been given out to the press two seconds

ago, no leader, especially a religious leader, should have the

right to question another man's religion or faith. Especially when

they feed all sorts of force information to them. They are using

the Pope as a pawn, they should be ashamed of themselves, that is the

Mexican government. This has been happening in the past few hours, we

can go to Washington and speak with Laura, tell us about this unusual

face-off between Pope Francis and Donald Trump, what the reaction

been? You said it, you said it very diplomatically, when you described

it as unusual, you could also say unprecedented, you could say without

parallel, having a Pope, right there in the middle of a primary election

campaign. The reaction has been one of astonishment, one of the cable

news reporters said, just when you think what is going to happen today

in this campaign, and you wake up, the last thing he would literally

dream of is that Donald Trump would be tangling with the Pope! This is

what we have, everybody is asking what impact this is going to have on

the race. When Donald Trump tangles with someone, when he called for a

big beautiful wall to be built in Mexico, when he says no more Muslims

should come into the US, when he insults a Ed decorated war hero,

needed up in the polls. Is there any suggestion it could be different

this time? Pope Francis came your last year, he was fated, thousands

turned out to see him, but what may be on the side of Mr Trump, one of

the top issue for voters in Republican primaries is the issue of

security on the border between the US and Mexico, and by going there,

the Pope, could be seen as making a politicised act, who may see that as

the Pope inserting himself into the middle of a US residential election,

and questioning the faith of one of the candidates. This could be

something that will play to his base, but we will find out soon,

voters will be going to the polls in South Carolina, interestingly

enough, a lot of evangelical voters in that state, but not Catholic

voters. Trying to figure out what weight the Pope's comments may hold,

what changes they may bring. Before I was speaking with you, I know that

you were online, people speaking about it, very much coming down

strongly, and we saw the swell of support for for Donald Trump, saying

that the Pope had no place throwing stones over the Vatican walls, as

one has put its. Over 300,000 tweets on the topic, one of the most

retweeted comment was by the social media director of Donald Trump, he

said that he was amazed by the comment, especially considering that

the Vatican City was surrounded by walls. The Vatican itself is not

exactly friendly to immigrants who may climb over those walls, that has

been hugely retweeted. A sensed as an elite that the Pope may not have

a place in the presidential race. Cannot wait to see the front pages

of the American newspapers tomorrow. Thank you very much. Quick news

update, Barack Obama has signed legislation imposing new sanctions

on North Korea for refusing to stop its nuclear weapons programmes. The

measure is specifically tightening sanctions on anybody importing goods

or technology that is related to weapons of mass destruction into

North Korea, or anyone who knowingly engaged in human rights abuses.

Turning instead to Turkey, following up on the report from yesterday, 14

people have been detained so far in connection with Wednesday's blast in

Ankara, 28 people were killed when a bomb hit a military convoy. Putting

it into geographical context, Turkish officials claim that the

attack was carried out by the Kurdish militia based in Syria, with

the help of Kurdish fighters, both groups deny being involved. On

Thursday, another blast. Six soldiers were killed in the South

east of the country. VOICEOVER: The reaction is grim, it

is a mood of alarm, not panic, I would not say people are panicking,

but of course, there are people tweeting 30 minutes after the

bombing. They were reporting about people running here and there. Today

it is much more grim, people have been posting on Facebook and Twitter

and social media sites saying they are not feeling safe. They say they

will go to work, but how are they going to be safe, if such an attack

can take place in the heart of Ankara, where it is meant to be the

safest of all places, with such proximity to the parliament and the

military headquarters, how are we going to feel safe walking down the

street? Today, the Turkish government has convened, the Foreign

Ministry has convened. The ambassadors of the permanent five

members of the UN Security Council, plus Germany and the Netherlands,

have convened to provide evidence of who was behind the attack. The

Kurdish militant group Y PT carried out the attack, according to the

authorities, with the help of the PKK. The PKK is a terrorist

organisation, but when it comes to the Syrian Kurdish group Y PT, that

is a different case, the US and other allies of Turkey see the white

BG as a very important crucial partner on the fight against the

Islamic State militants carried out by Syria. If there is evidence

proving, as the government claims, that Y PT is behind these attacks,

the Turkish president has thou retaliation. We might expect the

shelling of the targets in northern Syria to continue. -- YPG.

STUDIO: Government forces have increased their latest assault on

Aleppo with the help of the Russian air force, meanwhile, convoys

carrying urgently needed aid have reached five out of the seven agreed

procedure areas of Syria. There are thousands of people that keep

fleeing, and are trying to enter up through 30, but the Turkish border

has been closed, many have been staying in refugee camps, under very

difficult conditions. One such camp, here, you can see it, on the border.

We obtained this exclusive insight into the situation.

Later on in the programme we will have more on the hairy panic taking

over one small town. MPs could consider whether new laws

are needed after Supreme Court ruling on so-called joint enterprise

left the door open for hundreds of murder convict 's to appeal. Judges

said that the law on convicting those such as gang members who could

have foreseen a murder has been wrongly interpreted for decades.

Many people felt that the test of foresight, it was not a test of

intention, it was a test as to what they could foresee. That is at the

heart of this. That is why many people were concerned. That it was

perhaps too low a bar for the prosecution, too easy for the

prosecution to throw the net over a group of people.

The British Prime Minister David Cameron has said that with hard work

and good will, we can achieve a deal at the European Union summit to try

to stop his country from leaving the EU. This is what some of the

language services are covering today: scientists say a study

involving pregnant women in Brazil strengthens the theory that the Zika

virus is linked to brain defects in babies, BBC Brasil has details on

the story. The European Union has warned Austria that it is in danger

of breaking EU laws over plans to introduce a daily cap on asylum

applications and the number of migrants transiting through to other

countries, BBC Arabic as that story. One of the biggest UK supermarkets

is relaxing rules on selling in perfect vegetables, every year

farmers in the UK throw away thousands of tonnes of produce

because they think it does not look right. There is more from the BBC

news app on that story if you would like to see some of the pictures.

Time for the business news. Venezuelan is raising petrol prices

are the first time in 20 years, by 6000%! It is that much because

previously, it was the equivalent of... Look at some of the figures, 1

cent per litre. It is going up to 60 cents a litre. Showing you some of

the pictures that have been coming in as well, from Venezuela, courtesy

of Reuters news agency, this is, basically, they have been seeing

queues for petrol stations outside some of the gas stations in

Venezuela, we expect those tanks and gas tanks and cars to me there until

the new pricing comes in. Earlier I spoke with our correspondent in

Miami. It is very politically important for Venezuela, free oil

was considered a birthright for the Venezuelans. Country sits on the

largest reserves of oil in the world. The government is facing

enormous economic difficulties, referring to the situation is almost

disastrous, they had to make a tough call, they had to accept the need to

increase the price of oil for the first time in nearly 20 years. It

remains very cheap, of course, and some people are saying, if it is

going to be enough. They also refer to the possibility of removing price

controls, a number of measures that the government was trying to

implement to try to keep the people from the worst consequences of

inflation, it also has one of the worst inflation in the world. A very

competent at situation in Venezuela, forcing the government to take

unpopular measures. People in China will be able to use

Apple pay from this week onwards, the chief executive of Apple, Tim

Cook, has been speaking out. -- Apple Pay. He did it in English and

in Chinese, he says it is launching today for the first-time. -- first

time. Crossing to Michelle, in New York, hello, tell us about why Apple

is trying to break into that Chinese market, when there is already giants

there, that are doing just what they are doing. That is the question that

everyone wants to know, Apple obviously has benefited hugely from

the Chinese market, it has been one of its top markets in terms of

selling iPhones and now it hopes to achieve some degree of success with

Apple pay, but as you point out, it is entering a crowded market,

Chinese consumers have already got access through two big Internet

companies. -- Apple Pay They can already access these kind of

services. It is providing a solution to a problem which is not really

necessary there. People can keep across that story also on BBC news's

website. Turning to an outbreak of a kind of Tumbleweed, that has been

causing problems in Australia, hairy panic, clogging up homes in

Victoria. Outside source radio spoke with a local journalist in the

VOICEOVER: It is a town of about region.

VOICEOVER: It is a town of about 17,000 people... In Australia it is

also known as Tumbleweed, it began to roll in from a paddock across the

road, it is about two metres, really beginning to impact on their lives,

they cannot get in or out of their homes at the moment, and it is up to

about eight hours a day, almost like a full-time job, picking up all of

this hairy panic. It looks like the clouds, in front of some of the

houses, some days it is worse than others. It has been happening every

day since Christmas, these people are clearing their homes every

single day, depending upon which way the wind is blowing the severity

changes. It is a full-time job, clearing Tumbleweed from their

homes. Can you believe that is Tumbleweed!

In Britain, experts have said it is unusual. It is to do with land

management, a farmer who is no doubt very unpopular locally now(!)

appears to have let the grass grow, when the tumbleweeds get to a

certain size, they detach themselves at the base and become windborne.

Quite a common phenomenon, wherever there is steps and prairies and

deserts, a classic example, the Russian vessel, as you can imagine,

it comes from erasure, introduced into North Dakota in 1870 and

intimidated flax seed. -- steppes. Looking at Weston is now, you see

tumbleweeds growing around the scenery, that is often giant Russian

this all, it has become a very invasive and damaging weed. That is

one of the reasons why here at the Royal horticultural Society we are

so interested in wage, when they get out of their natural place, they can

become very invasive. By the name, -- by the way, the name, hairy

panic, is to do with the type of plant! It is not because it creates

panic! The head of the Russian Orthodox

church has made a rare visit to Antarctica, meeting with penguins.

This is going viral. Russia has ten research stations in the Antarctic,

one of which is an Orthodox Church, and so he decided to make the trip,

and some unusual pictures are coming out of it.

Stay with us, another 30 minutes coming up.

Starting with an image from Europe, Bosnia-Herzegovina, this is