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Welcome to Outside Source. A few hours ago we heard President Obama | :00:11. | :00:15. | |
talking about one of the most high profile issues of his time in | :00:16. | :00:19. | |
office. I'm absolutely committed to closing the detention facility at | :00:20. | :00:22. | |
Guantanamo. I'm going to continue to make the case for doing so as long | :00:23. | :00:27. | |
as I hold this office. He'll make the case, but how practical will | :00:28. | :00:31. | |
this be? We're live in our Washington newsroom. New statistics | :00:32. | :00:37. | |
on the European migrant crisis. One migrant every minute arrives by boat | :00:38. | :00:40. | |
into Europe, according to figures for this year. Over 100,000 have | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
arrived just in January and February. That's a big jump on | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
lastory's figures. Our Europe correspondent Chris Morris has been | :00:49. | :00:51. | |
talking to me about the pressure this is applying to the European | :00:52. | :00:55. | |
Union. One person has died and three are | :00:56. | :00:58. | |
unaccounted for after the collapse of part of a power station in | :00:59. | :01:04. | |
southern England. We update you on millions of Mars bars and Snickers | :01:05. | :01:08. | |
bars being recalled around the world because of piece of plastic in one | :01:09. | :01:12. | |
bar. Details to come. It is a mouth watering night in the | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
Champions League, Juventus against Bayern and in London, Arsenal | :01:17. | :01:20. | |
against Barcelona. As soon as the final whistles go, we'll tell you | :01:21. | :01:22. | |
the scores. When Barack Obama first ran for | :01:23. | :01:43. | |
president, he promised to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility. | :01:44. | :01:47. | |
We're now eight years on, almost two terms of his presidency are | :01:48. | :01:51. | |
complete, and Mr Obama is saying once begin he's going to try and | :01:52. | :01:58. | |
close it down. In Congress I recognise, in part because of some | :01:59. | :02:01. | |
of the fears of the public, that have been fanned often times by | :02:02. | :02:05. | |
misinformation, there continues to be a fair amount of opposition to | :02:06. | :02:11. | |
closing Guantanamo. If it were easy, it would have happened years ago, as | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
I wanted. As I have been working to try and get done. But there remains | :02:17. | :02:24. | |
bipartisan support for closing it. Given the stakes involved for our | :02:25. | :02:28. | |
security, this plan deserves a fair hearing, even in an election year. | :02:29. | :02:34. | |
We should be able to have an open, honest g,-faith dialogue, about how | :02:35. | :02:36. | |
to best ensure our national security. Guantanamo Bay is a bay in | :02:37. | :02:44. | |
Cuba. But of course, it's also given its name to this detention facility | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
on the island. If you're wondering why it's in cubament the US has had | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
-- Cuba, the US has had control of this part of Cuba since the early | :02:54. | :02:59. | |
Twentieth Century. There's one detail that was highlighted, the | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
DOD, Department of Defense says, it wants to close the facility, but it | :03:04. | :03:07. | |
doesn't name a specific US site which could replace it. In fact it | :03:08. | :03:13. | |
offers a choice of 13, all the evidence suggests that Republicans | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
don't seem keen on any of those 13 options. We spotted this a little | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
while ago, posted by the Republican centre Pat Roberts. -- senator Pat | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
Roberts. This is what I think of the president's plan. 'S plan. To send | :03:28. | :03:38. | |
terrorists to the United States. That's the senator's point made. | :03:39. | :03:42. | |
Let's speak to our correspondent live in Washington DC. A pity video | :03:43. | :03:49. | |
there, does this feel at all practical or is it the president | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
just making a point? Well, he is making a point. This is clearly very | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
important to him. It was one of the very first promises he made when he | :03:58. | :04:00. | |
came into office that he would close Guantanamo Bay down within a year. | :04:01. | :04:03. | |
It's still very important to him and his legacy. I really don't think | :04:04. | :04:09. | |
he's got much chance of getting this through Congress. You saw that | :04:10. | :04:12. | |
reaction there from one Republican. But there have been reactions like | :04:13. | :04:16. | |
that across the Republican Party, but also from some within the | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
Democratic Party as well in recent years. I have to say, though we've | :04:21. | :04:23. | |
been talking about this a great deal, if feels like forever, there | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
isn't much new in what's been announced today. We were made to | :04:28. | :04:30. | |
feel, from the White House, that this wars a big deal. Actually he's | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
talking about a lot of the same things he's talking about before, | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
which is to return home, or to other countries those cleared for release. | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
Out of the 91 people left in Guantanamo Bay that's about 35 of | :04:43. | :04:45. | |
those. There are some problems there. The other thing is to try | :04:46. | :04:51. | |
those who can be tried in civilian courts, but if that was possible, it | :04:52. | :04:54. | |
might have happened already. So there are problems there. The big | :04:55. | :05:01. | |
thing he's focussed on is with those dangerous prisoners, those deemed | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
dangerous to security of the United States, they should be housed in a | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
facility which is yet to be created somewhere in the United States. He | :05:10. | :05:15. | |
is playing more, particularly to a Republican audience, by saying OK, | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
if you don't agree with closing Guantanamo Bay down for humanitarian | :05:20. | :05:22. | |
reasons, what about fiscal reasons? It is going to save money. I went to | :05:23. | :05:28. | |
Guantanamo Bay last year, it is a sprawling facility and costs | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
apparently $450 million to run last year. So his point is - this could | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
save money as well. This is all stuff that politicians here have | :05:38. | :05:40. | |
heard before and there doesn't seem to be enough in it to change | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
anyone's mind. Let's hear more about what it's like. Tell us about the | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
terrain, its size, how many staff have they got there? Even though the | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
number of detainees has come down from nearly 800 no less than 100 now | :05:54. | :05:59. | |
-- to less than 100 now, the facility has grown massively to | :06:00. | :06:02. | |
different wings, some for very high security prisoners, who are kept in | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
isolation. Then there are somewhere they're kept in less isolation, then | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
a unit that we managed to go to where you can see through two-way | :06:13. | :06:18. | |
mirrors. The detainees, who've been cleared for release, who have always | :06:19. | :06:23. | |
been compliant, sitting, watching TV, reading newspapers and having | :06:24. | :06:26. | |
access to much more facilities than those in the high security wings. | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
But it is a huge facility with a great deal of staff. You still need | :06:31. | :06:36. | |
a large amount of security. So even though the number of detainees has | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
come down, the cost per detainee has gone up. Thank you very much for | :06:41. | :06:46. | |
that update. I've got various developments with | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
relation to Europe's migrant crisis I want to bring you. First, that | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
stistics. It comes -- statistics. It comes from the international | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
organisation for migration. It says more tan 100,000 people have come | :07:00. | :07:01. | |
across the Mediterranean to Greece or Italy this year. To give you an | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
idea, that means around one person every minute is coming in. That is | :07:07. | :07:12. | |
far, far, faster a rate of migration than we saw last year. Next, I want | :07:13. | :07:16. | |
to show you these pictures. These are from the border between Greece | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
and Macedonia. Greece is now saying it's going to have to take some of | :07:21. | :07:23. | |
these people, Afghan migrants, back to Athens. The reason for that is | :07:24. | :07:29. | |
that Macedonia is saying Syrians and Iraqi migrants can come through, but | :07:30. | :07:34. | |
Afghans can't. Those people who are coming through are not likely to | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
stay in Macedonia. They're looking to head north, through a route we've | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
shown you many times, through Serbia, Hungary, Austria, it's | :07:43. | :07:46. | |
likely their chosen final destination will be Germany or | :07:47. | :07:50. | |
Sweden. Another element of the story is playing out in northern Europe, | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
because Belgium is now saying the border with France is going to have | :07:55. | :07:57. | |
temporary border controls introduced. The reason - it's a | :07:58. | :08:02. | |
direct response to migrants who are beginning to leave the so-called | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
Jungle camp in Calais in expectation of the French authorities clearing | :08:08. | :08:11. | |
that camp. Remember, Europe has a free movement zone, the UK is not | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
part of it. But Belgium and France certainly are. Having even | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
temporarily closed borders is definitely not part of the plan. | :08:20. | :08:25. | |
When we're talking about Europe, we turn to Chris Morris. He's based in | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
our newsroom in Brussels, but he's in London today. He explained the | :08:31. | :08:34. | |
impact these stories are having on the European Union. The problem is | :08:35. | :08:38. | |
Calais is close to the Belgian border. If migrants are pushed away | :08:39. | :08:42. | |
from there, there's a port in Belgium, which has had a problem | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
with migrants trying to get on lorries and boats heading for the | :08:48. | :08:50. | |
UK. They shut the border. That's what we're seeing across Europe. | :08:51. | :08:53. | |
People feel the policy is out of control. They're not sure what to | :08:54. | :08:56. | |
do. They go safety first and shut borders. The dream, the aspiration | :08:57. | :09:02. | |
of the European Union is that countries come together and offer a | :09:03. | :09:05. | |
unified response to the chaling engs of the day. That feels -- challenges | :09:06. | :09:08. | |
of the day. That feels like a dream at the moment. It's under real | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
threat, under threat as it never has been before. Don't underestimate the | :09:13. | :09:15. | |
political will to keep it together at the top from people like Angela | :09:16. | :09:22. | |
Merkel and Francois Hollande. They don't want to let this thing fall | :09:23. | :09:25. | |
apart. There will be massive political effort to keep things | :09:26. | :09:29. | |
together. For example, there have been real disagreements on the | :09:30. | :09:33. | |
refugee and migration issue between countries in western Europe and | :09:34. | :09:36. | |
Eastern Europe. One possibility is if those country in -- countries in | :09:37. | :09:42. | |
Eastern Europe refuse to cooperate with Germany, Germany might say | :09:43. | :09:48. | |
well, we'll create our mini Schengen with France, Austria, Belgium and | :09:49. | :09:52. | |
the Netherlands. These are dangerous times for those who believe that | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
Schengen borders is one of the EU's greatest acheements. Difficult times | :09:57. | :09:59. | |
as well for people who want to persuade everyone in the UK that a | :10:00. | :10:02. | |
vote to stay in the European Union is a good idea. The European Union | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
has looked in better health on other occasions I can think of. Yeah, | :10:08. | :10:12. | |
there are two different issues on migration. I think there's a danger | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
that we conflate the two. There are people from countries like Poland | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
looking for work in the UK, who are internal migrants within the | :10:22. | :10:24. | |
European Union. They are quite different from Syrians or Iraqis | :10:25. | :10:27. | |
arriving by boat in Greece or Italy, from countries Then heading further | :10:28. | :10:35. | |
north. If you see through yot the summer, scenes of chaos in the | :10:36. | :10:38. | |
Balkans. People queuing up at borders. The sense that no-one's in | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
control that. Will play a role in the UK campaign. I think people who | :10:44. | :10:47. | |
are close to the Prime Minister in the UK, people close to EU | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
institutions in Brussels are very worried that they realise those | :10:52. | :10:55. | |
images could increase the pull for the leave campaign. Here in the UK, | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
the referendum has been all consuming. You can't be unaware of | :11:00. | :11:03. | |
it. That's quite right, this vote could have an effect for a | :11:04. | :11:06. | |
generation on how this country fits into the world. Is it all consuming | :11:07. | :11:12. | |
in Brussels or are other issues overshadowing it? Migration, | :11:13. | :11:16. | |
migration. At the summit a lot of time was spent talking about the UK. | :11:17. | :11:20. | |
There wasn't an undercurrent of irritation among other leaders, why | :11:21. | :11:24. | |
spend so much time talking about David Cameron's problems when we | :11:25. | :11:27. | |
have a full blown crisis across the continent. They have two summits | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
next month to talk about migration. Only ten days apart. Why two? One of | :11:32. | :11:36. | |
them is on March 17, but four days before that, there are three | :11:37. | :11:41. | |
regional, German elections. Angela Merkel fears a battering in those | :11:42. | :11:44. | |
elections because of the way she's handled the migration crisis. She's | :11:45. | :11:48. | |
asked for another summit before those elections at which she wants | :11:49. | :11:51. | |
to produce some real sign of progress. Will they do it? Not by | :11:52. | :11:55. | |
the looks what have we've seen today. Countries still closing | :11:56. | :11:59. | |
borders. The restrictions there between Macedonia and Greece and as | :12:00. | :12:05. | |
people close borders, there is a chain of events takes place as a | :12:06. | :12:09. | |
bottleneck grows in Greece. There's a real concern that no-one's got a | :12:10. | :12:13. | |
hold of this. It's not getting any better. Time is running out to solve | :12:14. | :12:18. | |
it. Many thanks to Chris for passing by. | :12:19. | :12:24. | |
Now one of the main stories here in the UK, one person has been killed, | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
three others are missing, after the collapse of part of the Didcot power | :12:29. | :12:33. | |
station in southern England. This has been declared a major incident. | :12:34. | :12:40. | |
These images show a section of this building which has collapsed. It's | :12:41. | :12:45. | |
part of Didcot A, the power station that was decommissioned in 2013 and | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
which is in the process of being demolished. On the ground, five | :12:50. | :12:55. | |
crews, ambulances and specialist rescue teams. The emergency services | :12:56. | :13:00. | |
were called mid-afternoon, after what was thought to have been an | :13:01. | :13:07. | |
explosion. This video, posted on social media, shows dust rising from | :13:08. | :13:10. | |
one side of the building and witnesses have described hearing a | :13:11. | :13:16. | |
loud bang. You can see the power station clearly from where I am, | :13:17. | :13:20. | |
about 400 yards away. About 4pm, when I heard the explosion and the | :13:21. | :13:24. | |
loud rumbling, by the time I'd looked out the window, there was a | :13:25. | :13:30. | |
huge cloud of dust, which came through our village. When that had | :13:31. | :13:34. | |
cleared, I noticed that half of the old power station, where they used | :13:35. | :13:37. | |
to keep the generators, that half of that was missing. But the | :13:38. | :13:42. | |
authorities now say it was not an explosion. Instead, the building | :13:43. | :13:47. | |
collapsed, killing one person. Five others were taken to hospital and | :13:48. | :13:49. | |
three are still missing. The Fire Service has been speaking | :13:50. | :14:01. | |
in the last few minutes. Emergency services were called to Didcot A | :14:02. | :14:06. | |
power station about 4pm today. There was a partial collapse of a large | :14:07. | :14:11. | |
building, which is approximately 300 metres long and ten storeys high. | :14:12. | :14:15. | |
The building was due to be demolished in the coming months. | :14:16. | :14:21. | |
Oxfordshire Fire Rescue Service has commanded the incident, | :14:22. | :14:25. | |
supported by South Central ambulance and Thames Valley Police. Sadly, one | :14:26. | :14:28. | |
person has been confirmed to have died at the incident. Of course, if | :14:29. | :14:34. | |
we get more on that, we'll bring it to you here on Outside Source. In | :14:35. | :14:40. | |
business, we will talk about a very big day for Mars. There's the | :14:41. | :14:43. | |
company, but it makes Mars bars and Snickers bars. There have been a | :14:44. | :14:48. | |
huge number of recalls around the world, 55 countries affected, all to | :14:49. | :14:51. | |
do with one bar which may have had pieces of plastic in it. We will | :14:52. | :14:54. | |
give you all the details. Junior doctors in England have | :14:55. | :15:04. | |
announced that they're going to hold three more strikes, each taking | :15:05. | :15:08. | |
place over 48 hours. The British Medical Association also announced | :15:09. | :15:12. | |
that it will seek a judicial review into the Government's plans to | :15:13. | :15:16. | |
impose controversial new contracts. Ministers say the contract will | :15:17. | :15:20. | |
improve services. Downing Street says the announcement of more | :15:21. | :15:26. | |
strikes was regrettable. These strikes are going to be longer | :15:27. | :15:31. | |
than the ones before, those still affecting routine and nonurgent | :15:32. | :15:34. | |
care, not emergencies. Junior doctors will cover those. The BMA | :15:35. | :15:37. | |
are going to go to court to challenge the legality of the | :15:38. | :15:41. | |
imposition of the new contract. They and their members seem as resolved | :15:42. | :15:45. | |
as ever to carry on with this. They say they're very angry with the | :15:46. | :15:48. | |
decision by the Government to impose the new contract. The Government say | :15:49. | :15:53. | |
they have a long way -- they've gone a long way to make compromises. They | :15:54. | :15:58. | |
are frustrated with the BMA's tactics and they have to introduce | :15:59. | :16:10. | |
the new contract. We're live from the BBC Newsroom. Our lead story: | :16:11. | :16:14. | |
President Obama has unveiled his latest plan to close the Guantanamo | :16:15. | :16:20. | |
Bay detention centre. He's appealed to Congress to support it. Based on | :16:21. | :16:24. | |
Republican reactions, wouldn't bank on that happening. | :16:25. | :16:27. | |
The main stories from the World Service. First from BBC Hindi. The | :16:28. | :16:33. | |
water supply from Delhi has been partially restored. Ten million | :16:34. | :16:37. | |
people were without water because a canal was sabotaged. But it could | :16:38. | :16:41. | |
still take two weeks to get back to normal. | :16:42. | :16:44. | |
There are reports of celebrations in the streets of Benghazi in Libya. | :16:45. | :16:50. | |
It's believed that forces loyal to the internationally recognised | :16:51. | :16:53. | |
government have made significant progress against Islamist militants. | :16:54. | :16:58. | |
These pictures from BBC Arabic. Around 160 passengers and crew | :16:59. | :17:04. | |
escaped down those emergency chutes after engine smoke forced a Japan | :17:05. | :17:09. | |
airlines to abort. Four passengers were taken to hospital with | :17:10. | :17:13. | |
injuries. This video is in the most watched list on the BBC News app. | :17:14. | :17:21. | |
As I mentioned, Mars bars, Snickers bars in 55 countries are being | :17:22. | :17:25. | |
recalled. This is all because one customer reported finding bits of | :17:26. | :17:29. | |
plastic in one bar. Mars, the company, is one of the world's | :17:30. | :17:33. | |
biggest confectionary producers. It's told us today that the bar in | :17:34. | :17:37. | |
question was made in the Netherlands. We know the initial | :17:38. | :17:42. | |
recall was made in Germany. As I mentioned, very quickly, it widened | :17:43. | :17:46. | |
far beyond there. Our business correspondent has been covering this | :17:47. | :17:49. | |
all day. He's been giving me more details. With this kind of thing, | :17:50. | :17:55. | |
it's all about damage limitation. Mars presumably doesn't yet know | :17:56. | :17:58. | |
whether this could be a widespread problem. It says that the plastic | :17:59. | :18:02. | |
found in one chocolate bar represented a choking risk and | :18:03. | :18:06. | |
therefore, as a matter of precaution, it's voluntarily issuing | :18:07. | :18:10. | |
a recall. These products come from a factory in the Netherlands. Most | :18:11. | :18:15. | |
sold in Germany, France and the Netherlands itself. But some are | :18:16. | :18:19. | |
sold overseas as well. Even though it's 55 countries, all the bars | :18:20. | :18:23. | |
recalled come from this one source? Yes, just from one factory. That | :18:24. | :18:27. | |
means there are limited numbers in other countries. Here in the UK for | :18:28. | :18:33. | |
example, it only concerns fun-sized Snickers, fun-sized Mars bars, packs | :18:34. | :18:37. | |
of celebrations that kind of thing. It doesn't include the full-sized | :18:38. | :18:40. | |
product. In the UK, Mars bars are made in the UK. It's only the | :18:41. | :18:44. | |
products from this one factory in the Netherlands. In terms of its | :18:45. | :18:49. | |
business how much of a hit will it take? It has a large number of | :18:50. | :18:52. | |
factories in the United States alone, I think more than 35. It | :18:53. | :18:57. | |
makes a vast range of products. It makes things like pet foods. This is | :18:58. | :19:01. | |
the output of one factory. It's not the only factory that makes these | :19:02. | :19:06. | |
products, far from it. There is a large number of companies, countries | :19:07. | :19:09. | |
involved. There will be a lot of chocolate bars, but compared to what | :19:10. | :19:13. | |
the company actually makes worldwide, a fairly small affair. | :19:14. | :19:16. | |
And reputation is at stake. A company like Mars cannot afford to | :19:17. | :19:22. | |
see its reputation damage.ed. Think back to Nestle with Maggie noodles | :19:23. | :19:26. | |
in India. If you don't issue the recall at the first opportunity, | :19:27. | :19:29. | |
consumers will take that very, very badly. | :19:30. | :19:33. | |
Just to reiterate what was said, these are only bars being recalled | :19:34. | :19:37. | |
because they were made in one factory in the Netherlands. | :19:38. | :19:44. | |
Someone's watching closely. A tweet to say, perhaps Messi deserves a | :19:45. | :19:49. | |
chocolate bar, he's just scored. Yes, Barcelona now lead 1-0. Arsenal | :19:50. | :19:53. | |
hosting, but they're down. We'll keep you up to date on that game. | :19:54. | :19:58. | |
Time for an update on the battle between the FBI and Apple. We have | :19:59. | :20:03. | |
been talking about this a lot. The FBI wants Apple to help it access | :20:04. | :20:08. | |
the data on a phone that belonged to one of the attackers in the San | :20:09. | :20:15. | |
Bernardino attacks. Bill gates has been commenting on the case. He told | :20:16. | :20:17. | |
the Financial Times this: He did say later that he doesn't | :20:18. | :20:35. | |
mean by Tha'it he's backing the FBI -- by that, that he's backing the | :20:36. | :20:39. | |
FBI. Let's speak to Michelle, live in New York. We talked about it last | :20:40. | :20:43. | |
night. It's feeling more and more like this is a lightning rod for a | :20:44. | :20:49. | |
far greater issue in the US. Well, it depends on which side you sit. | :20:50. | :20:53. | |
Some people are characterising this as a case of security versus | :20:54. | :20:58. | |
privacy. Others are saying no, this is a case of security versus | :20:59. | :21:04. | |
surveillance. Bill Gates was trying to be backed, if you like, into one | :21:05. | :21:09. | |
particular position that he supported the FBI. He came out to | :21:10. | :21:14. | |
say, no, what I wanted to express was a more nuanced view that there | :21:15. | :21:19. | |
are instances where authorities should be able to get hold of | :21:20. | :21:24. | |
information, no different than, for example, in the past where law | :21:25. | :21:29. | |
enforcement might ask for access to your bank records or to phone | :21:30. | :21:32. | |
information. He was saying, at the same time, it shouldn't be a blanket | :21:33. | :21:37. | |
agreement. It's taking a different view that say some of his peers in | :21:38. | :21:43. | |
Silicon Valley, who've gone for a more blanket support of Apple. You | :21:44. | :21:46. | |
don't have to look hard to find evidence this is playing out in the | :21:47. | :21:50. | |
court of public opinion. I am curious to know, once we've heard | :21:51. | :21:53. | |
everyone having their say on this, that's got nothing to do with it. | :21:54. | :21:58. | |
How is this thrashed out whether Apple has to cooperate? There is a | :21:59. | :22:03. | |
legal procedure in place. But there is no doubt that the PR side of this | :22:04. | :22:08. | |
is very significant. If you look at the Justice Department, Apple's | :22:09. | :22:11. | |
preference would have been to resolve this issue behind closed | :22:12. | :22:16. | |
doors, in court, with lawyers. The Justice Department chose - or the | :22:17. | :22:21. | |
FBI chose to make it a public matter to force Apple's hands in the public | :22:22. | :22:26. | |
domain. There are signs, at least in the public court of opinion, that | :22:27. | :22:30. | |
it's working. A survey, we talked about this yesterday, suggested that | :22:31. | :22:35. | |
most Americans side with the FBI. The latest thing we've heard is that | :22:36. | :22:40. | |
the Justice Department is trying to get victims, family members to | :22:41. | :22:44. | |
support them in their efforts. This will continue to play out alongside | :22:45. | :22:51. | |
the legal proceedings, at the same time supporters of Apple will | :22:52. | :22:54. | |
protest outside some of their stores in the United States and in other | :22:55. | :22:56. | |
parts of the world, certainly here if New York, I think that is | :22:57. | :22:59. | |
scheduled to happen in an hour from now. Amazing how this story is Greg | :23:00. | :23:05. | |
and growing and the -- growing and growing. Thank you, Michelle. | :23:06. | :23:14. | |
Let's look at the business side of the European Union referendum, the | :23:15. | :23:17. | |
EU referendum that's going to be held here in the UK, specifically in | :23:18. | :23:21. | |
this report, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. Northern | :23:22. | :23:24. | |
Ireland is the only part of the UK that has a land border with the | :23:25. | :23:28. | |
eurozone. That's because the Republic is a member of the European | :23:29. | :23:32. | |
Union but it uses the euro as its currency as well. As you can | :23:33. | :23:36. | |
imagine, people on both sides of the border are watching this debate very | :23:37. | :23:43. | |
closely. Through this land there is a border, | :23:44. | :23:47. | |
which marks where the UK ends and the Republic of Ireland begins. Not | :23:48. | :23:53. | |
that you'd know it. Most people in this area are used to travelling | :23:54. | :23:57. | |
across the invisible line marked somewhere in this ground to work, | :23:58. | :24:02. | |
shop and socialise. There are advantages to living at the edge of | :24:03. | :24:05. | |
two states - there's often a choice of paying in pounds or euros and | :24:06. | :24:10. | |
across the border, you might find a bargain. If it's petrol, then at the | :24:11. | :24:15. | |
moment it's better to go to the south. Exchange to euros and go to | :24:16. | :24:22. | |
the south. A definite difference doesn't worry some companies in | :24:23. | :24:25. | |
Northern Ireland who feel the UK is too wrapped up with Europe. They | :24:26. | :24:29. | |
exported 90 billion more to us than we actually bought from them last | :24:30. | :24:33. | |
year. Are they actually going to stop that? All the fear is complete | :24:34. | :24:36. | |
nonsense. We need to be free to trade with the rest of the world. | :24:37. | :24:42. | |
Yet companies like Ovo are used to operating both sides of the border. | :24:43. | :24:45. | |
The hotel there is in the south of Ireland. We're in the north. At its | :24:46. | :24:50. | |
offices, which are in the north an the south, it develops and | :24:51. | :24:55. | |
manufactures products that allow flat-pack furniture to simply snap | :24:56. | :24:59. | |
together. It's already considering its options, should the UK not stick | :25:00. | :25:04. | |
with Europe. For us, if the UK were to pull out, we would definitely | :25:05. | :25:08. | |
consider moving all our business into the south. Why? We do fear that | :25:09. | :25:14. | |
it will make life awkward and it would make more sense for us to move | :25:15. | :25:19. | |
the entire company into a European company. There are some in Ireland | :25:20. | :25:23. | |
thinking of the possible opportunities offered by the UK's | :25:24. | :25:28. | |
exit to strengthen trading links across these islands. We've a lot | :25:29. | :25:32. | |
more in common with the UK than we have - what do we have in common | :25:33. | :25:37. | |
with Croatia, you know, Lithuania, Germany? On both sides of this | :25:38. | :25:43. | |
referendum debate, there is a reluctance to make any change to the | :25:44. | :25:46. | |
open roads and open border shared by these nearest of neighbours. | :25:47. | :25:54. | |
Thanks, Chris for that. I'll speak to you in a couple of minutes. | :25:55. | :26:06. | |
We'll update you on the European weather in a couple of minutes. | :26:07. | :26:10. | |
First, I want to take you across the world to show you the latest on | :26:11. | :26:18. | |
tropical cyclone Winston, which as I'm sure you've seen from the news | :26:19. | :26:19. |