07/03/2016 Outside Source

Hello, I'm Ros Atkins, this is Outside Source.

We'll devote much of the programme to the migrant crisis in Europe.

Turkish and EU leaders are meeting to thrash out new plans to help

We'll be live in Brussels in a moment to see what progress

The latest we are hearing is that there has been no agreement yet.

While that's happening in Brussels, the number of migrants stuck

We'll hear from our correspondent from one of the camps on the Greek

A really significant sports stories dog about, Maria Sharapova admitting

she failed a drugs test for the Australian Open. For ten years, this

medicine was not on Wada's banned list, and I had been taking the

medicine. This report from Brazil, about the Zika virus.

Scientists have told the BBC that they expect another spike

Please get in touch with us. Use the hashtag #BBCos.

As I was mentioning, EU and Turkish leaders have been meeting all day,

the migrant crisis is the subject, and if you look at the stories

coming in from you can see the reason why. This is the meeting

itself, a very large table for a lot of people who have very different

interests, but need to find some type of agreement. The reason is the

pressure is being applied in lots of different parts of the European

Union. These pictures from Lesbos, you can see people, children, being

collected, they have tried to cross the border from Turkey into Greece.

That has been happening from day on day four months. These pictures from

the Greek basset only on board. -- Macedonia border. Thousands of

people have ended up waiting to see if they can move north. Then, a long

way away at the top of the continent, northern France, the

jungle camp in Calais, where efforts continue to clear part of that and

protests continue as some parts object to what the French

authorities are doing. All of those European Union and Turkish leaders

trying to find agreement. It looks like it is proving elusive, this

from Reuters out of Budapest, telling us that the Hungary and

Prime Minister has rejected a EU plan to resettle migrants directly

to European states from Turkey. His spokesperson said he has vetoed the

plan, so that does appear to the end of that. We have had meetings

between the EU and Turkey, and also between Nato and Turkey. Lots of

different statements from lots of different leaders. Let's here some

of the most important ones. TRANSLATION: I just want to respond

to the question of how we can reduce migrants, for not only a few

countries but for all countries, It can't just be about

closing something. We need to find a sustainable

solution together with Turkey, which is

what we will look into today, as well as well as putting

an end to illegal immigration and improving the living

conditions for refugees. We took swift decisions to deploy

ships to the Aegean Sea. Our ships have been

collecting information Over the weekend, we

decided to step up our efforts and add our support

to assist in international efforts With this understanding,

the Nato operations agency will be helping to rescue

people from the sea and also There is no prospect

of Britain joining a common We will have our own

asylum approach, our own way of doing things,

keeping our borders. Let's speak to the BBC's Damien

Grammaticas, live from Brussels. When you read that announcement from

the Hungarians it sounds like any type of agreement will be very

difficult. That is certainly what we are hearing. Right now, as we

understand it, German Chancellor Angela Merkel is meeting with the

Turkish Prime Minister, with EU heads here as well. They are locked

in a small discussion around the table, trying to chart a way

forward. It has proved difficult to get an agreement so far in the plan

brought forward. Germany appeared to be supportive of that, but as we are

hearing, quite a lot of objections from the countries all around the

table. Hungary certainly unhappy about an idea and a plan to take

refugees directly from Turkey, and resettle them in Europe. Other

countries also having difficult issues, Italy, we are hearing,

unhappy perhaps about the speeding up process of Turkey trying to join

the EU. There are real concerns about things like press freedom.

Greece and Cyprus have always had difficult relations. They are having

difficulty with this agreement as well, France possibly too, so lots

of reasons there, and difficulties just in the whole mechanics of it.

It is quite controversial, talking about a plan to send refugees back

across the water to Turkey if they come on boats to Greece. And then

resettle them directly from Turkey. That is a difficult thing for the

leaders to agree. You mentioned the mechanics, let's talk about that,

because the big argument in favour of the European Union is when you

have a crisis like this, the mechanics of the EU force an

agreement among a disparate collection of countries. What are

the mechanics here to force an the mechanics here to force an

agreement through? The leaders have gathered here for this extraordinary

summit in order to try and energise their efforts to try to get a

solution. They have had deals before, they have agreed plans with

Turkey, they have made offers of money to Turkey to try to load the

flow of people coming across on boats. None of those have delivered

at the minute for various reasons. Turkey hasn't delivered much in the

way of stopping the flow. Greece hasn't delivered much in the way of

alleging the arrivals. Other European coaches have not delivered

much, in terms of helping Greece by taking refugees directly from Greece

and redistributing them around the EU. They have met with Turkey, the

EU 28 countries have had their own meetings, and the idea is by forcing

everyone to sit around the table and confront the issues, they can try to

surmount the hurdles. But it seems what Turkey was demanding, an extra

3 billion, the speeding up of all of those things, succession talks, it

is just too much for many European countries, and that is one of the

reasons the system here works. You have 28 around a table and they'll

have two come to agreement together. It could be a long night. So while

Damien is watching the politicians in Brussels, BBC colleagues across

the continent have been following this story, primarily along the

route which many migrants are taking three Europe. We pulled together

some of their latest reports. This is the departure point for many

making the trip to Europe, Cesme in western Turkey,

where there are signs of journeys that began and perhaps

ended in tragedy. And just across the water

are the mountains of the Greek The numbers of refugees

and migrants have dwindled here, as Turkish police chased them away

under pressure from the EU, but the desperate ones

are still determined Turkey is now receiving 3 billion

euros from the EU to keep refugees here, and they will have

to accept illegal migrants But how to quash the dreams that

so many still harbour of a better The gap between Turkey

and the island of Lesbos is just six miles wide,

but it is one of the most popular routes for the migrant

boats to come across, so these volunteers

are here on the beach, watching out for them,

ready to help them if they arrive, but the latest tactic

here is for the Greek coastguard to pick up people at sea

and bring them into A thousand people

arrived here yesterday. Some 4000 people are encamped

on this one island alone. 35,000 migrants are

stranded in Greece. The government says it doesn't want

this country to become Most of those landing

on the islands are heading here to Idomeni, and the crossing

between Greece and Macedonia. This is a fence that

stretches 19 miles down the border, reinforced

by the Macedonian army. The camp is filling up

with thousands of people because barely 300

are crossing this post every day, and the majority of them

are women and children - There are not enough showers

or food, and seemingly not enough solidarity elsewhere

in Europe to help Greece We will hear from Christian and

later in the programme. If you want background on what is happening in

the EU and crisis, or you would just like to see all of our reports

collected in one place, you can do so through the BBC News website.

Let's turn to one of the biggest stories in the last hour or so in

the world, a big announcement from Maria Sharapova. We knew it was

coming, it was scheduled, most people expected her to be announcing

her retirement. Instead, this is what she said.

I wanted to let you know that if you days ago I received a letter from

the ITF that I had failed a drug test at the Australian Open. I did

fail the test, and I take full responsibility for it. For the past

ten years, I have been given a medicine by my doctor, by my family

doctor. A few days after I received the ITF letter, I found out that it

also has another name, which I did not know. It is very important for

you to understand that for ten years, this medicine was not on

Wada's banned list, and I have been legally taking the medicine for the

past ten years. But on January one, the rules had changed, and it became

a prohibited substance in which I had not known.

Let's bring in the BBC's Olly Foster from the sports centre. I am

watching that, thinking do we have any information on why this was

first a drug you could take but has now become a drug that you can't? It

has been on Wada's monitoring list for the whole of 2015. It was known

medicinal reasons, a whole lot of medicinal reasons, a whole lot of

things that it can fix, therapeutic reasons, but also it is known as a

smart drug, in that it does have performance enhancing abilities as

well. She said she was always getting the flu as a teenager every

couple of months, it was had a history of diabetes, and low

magnesium levels. She has been taking this drug for ten years, but

it was on a monitoring system, and Wada gave a heads up to all those

athletes, a lot of stops and checks obviously being a professional

sportsman now, to actually know what is allowed and what is prohibited.

There was a warning that this was going to go on the banned list on

the 1st of January. It does have a different name. It enables oxygen to

get back into the system, and enhance stamina in athletes. That is

what she tested positive for. In competition at the Australian Open,

she lost in the quarterfinals to Serena Williams. Her whole career

has been blighted by injuries. We thought she was going to announce

her retirement. She made a joke about that, and said if I was going

to retire, it would not be in a grotty hotel like this in downtown

Los Angeles with a shabby carpet like that. She raised a laugh when

she made that joke, but this is incredibly serious, and she realises

the gravity of the mistake she has made as well. She faces a ban. She

is provisionally banned from the weekend as well after failing that

test. But as she said herself, and this seems to be what I can and

would be, this was prescribed and allowed, not on the banned list, for

ten years she was taking this drug. But she admits she made a mistake.

There is strict liability, whatever she puts into her system, she has

got only herself to blame, and she should have checked, or her

physician, or the people in a team around her checked, that whatever

medicine she is taking is OK by the Wada rules. There have been plenty

of reaction coming into this, this from the CEO of the women's tour.

to hear this news about Maria. She to hear this news about Maria. She

is a leader. I have always known her to be a woman of great integrity.

The matter is now in the hands of the tennis anti-doping programme,

and it's standard procedures, and the WTA will support the decisions

reached. She is a pin-up girl of women's tennis but she is in

trouble. Now we have reached the point where we have to see how those

negotiations go between rear Sharapova and the authorities, in

terms of what kind of ban, if any, is served. In a few minutes, outside

source business. Volvo are looking source business. Volvo are looking

for 100 people to commute to work in a driverless car for a year. Richard

Westcott has been trying out. A judge has urged -- was urged to

ignore sentencing guidelines and give long prison terms to the seven

men behind a raid on Hatton Garden in London last Easter, the largest

76-year-old Brian Vida, the eldest 76-year-old Brian Vida, the eldest

of the gang, was here on the night that they drilled their way into the

vault, and he admits being part of a gang of men who stole what the

prosecution said was ?14 million worth of cash, jewellery and gold

bullion. But he wasn't in court today. His lawyers say he is

recovering from septicaemia, a stroke and prostate cancer. He is so

unwell in fact that the part of last week he was in a critical care unit

in an NHS hospital, being guarded by six police officers with machine

guns. The men being sentenced this week have an average age of 63, but

nonetheless the prosecution are urging the judge to go beyond the

normal guidelines for burglary and impose even heavier sentences.

Welcome back to the BBC newsroom, this is outside Source, live from

London. The lead story is that Turkish and EU leaders have been

unable to find an agreement on proposals to stem the flow of

migrants from Turkey to Europe. Let's bring you some of the main

stories from BBC World Service, the US military says it has killed more

than 150 members of the Somali Islamist group, Al-Shabbab, in a

drone strike, it apparently happen on Saturday but we have only been

told about it now. 12 Chinese families whose religions were on

board of the Malaysian airlines flight flight-macro, have filed

compensation lawsuits in Beijing. Tuesday is the two year anniversary

of the disappearance and the deadline to launch legal action.

This is how a surfing festival began in Australia, surfers showing off

what they could do with their dogs on board. If you want to find this

video, it will inevitably be part of the most watched

list on the BBC website. Every year, the US and South Korea carry out a

joint military exercise. This year's is bigger though, connected to the

missile test and rocket launch by North Korea.

This is a country always under threat, these stations are

designated as bombshell tours, and there are signs saying that. All the

same, the country goes about its business. They take these

bloodcurdling threats from the North in their stride. At this time of

year, though, the tension is particularly high. Every year, the

huge joint manoeuvres. This year, huge joint manoeuvres. This year,

17,000 American troops are joining 300,000 South Korean troops. But

there is now a new, more aggressive aspect. According to the South

Korean media, one scenario involves decapitating the regime in Kong and,

by implication killing or capturing Kim Jong-un to remove the head of

the country. The North Korean media said today that the country has

weapons that can strike the US mainland. TRANSLATION: We have

cutting edge attack methods to beat up the US mainland at any time, and

from anywhere. Also, we have diligently developed and deployed

self-reliant weapons in the era of the workers party of Korea, that

enables us to fire strong artillery is. In this battle of words, the

South Korean defence minister urged North Korea to cease its threats.

TRANSLATION: North Korea should immediately stop its rash behaviour

that leads to harsh corruption. China condemned the joint US- South

Korean military exercise and stop it is unhappy about North Korea's

nuclear ambitions, but would be even less happy about the collapse of the

regime in Pyongyang, with those same American and South Korean troops

filling the vacuum. On the best estimate, North Korea has enough

material to make perhaps ten crude nuclear devices, but not the

missiles or the technology to deliver them to far-away places. All

the same, Kim Jong-un is making relentless progress towards having a

sophisticated nuclear arsenal, and that is something the US has said he

will simply not be allowed to have. Let's begin OS business by talking

about Wall Street bonuses. The average figure is that they were

down by 9%. Before you get out your hankies, the average bonus for all

these people on Wall Street is still a cool $146,000. That there is a

story here, let's bring you Michelle Fleury in New York. None of us will

be feeling too synthetic, given the size of these bonuses, but

nonetheless it is still a surprise nonetheless it is still a surprise

to see them fall that much? That is right. The last time they were this

low, I can't believe I'm saying that, it was actually back in 2011.

Some people are looking at this as a Some people are looking at this as a

sign of how Wall Street is changing, certainly since the financial

crisis, that you are starting to see profits being eaten into in part by

the vulnerability -- volatility we have talked about often in the stock

market, but also in terms of increased legislation some of the

banks faced. Some of it moving away from some of the traditional big

Wall Street firms. The other thing is they are still paying the some of

the malfeasance, if you like, that grows out of the financial crisis.

That also has dented profits. I get the impression this is just the

amount of money coming through businesses, rather than any major

shift in culture, where people have reflected this bonus culture has

gone too far? This is where it gets interesting. After the financial

crisis, there was a lot of hand-wringing, people starting to

talk about whether or not the incentives were right. It depends on

who you talk to, people are split. Some say this is a sign that

cultures are changing, the big banks cultures are changing, the big banks

are not able to make the kind of outsized bonuses we have seen in the

past. Others will say no, it is just business as usual, and this just

happens to be a bit of a down year, in terms of profits, which is why

bonuses are down. The reason people worry about it is our traders

incentivised to take big risks? Because as we have seen in the past,

that can go very wrong. It certainly can.

This next gig looks like easy money to me, Volvo is looking to recruit

100 people to commute to work next year. You have to do it in a

driverless car. If you are interested, here is Richard

Westcott. Gothenburg in Sweden, Holm of the

vote, a place where drivers need to be aware of the Elks. On a test

track, the company is showing me its unique experiment, and they will

need members of the public to help. They are going to ask 100 ordinary

people to commute in a car, but it is not an ordinary car, it is an

autonomous car. They will tell those people they are free to do anything

else instead, so perhaps someone to send an e-mail. From the tract of

the evening commute, where next year Gothenberg's hundred volunteers will

be driverless on specially picked roads. That is roads with no

cyclists or pedestrians, and bearing in mind it is Sweden, no snow. The

computer needs to see the white lines. About as hands-free as you

can get, the man in charge of the technology told me what would happen

in an emergency. If something unexpected happens, the car needs to

be put do that. We can't count on the driver to visually take over, so

the car will be able to detect it and it will slow down in order to

prevent an accident. So the car will do that, it will not suddenly showed

control back to the driver? The driver might be sitting back,

relaxed, reading, we cannot cut on him or her, so the car needs to do

it. Things look a bit different in the UK. There are four major

projects. In Milton Keynes, public transport pods will eventually use

the pavements to shuttle people between the shops and the station.

Would you happily share a pavement with one of those driven by a

computer? No, I wouldn't. It has to decide in an instant whether it has

got to stop or carry on going, the safety of who is if it all the

outside? Not worried about it bumping into you? No, not at all,

because you could know that away. In the US, Google leading driverless

vehicles. They have just had their first crash, were the computer was

partly to blame. You will see this technology in forklift trucks,

imports, one feels, down mines, and that for me is extremely

interesting, that this technology is not just about transport, it is

about all things that move. Back on the test track, time to enjoy a

drama on the telly. It could still take a decade or even two, but

eventually children will marvel at the idea that people actually used

to drive their own cars. Let's finish this half of Outside

Source with some beautiful images of the Northern might here in the UK.

They have and when electrically charged particles from the Sun enter

the Earth's atmosphere. Here are some of the best photos people have

been sharing. Thank you for joining me, let's have

a whizz around the globe and see what the weather has been doing with

some forecast. Across California, it is all go.