14/03/2016 Outside Source


14/03/2016

Similar Content

Browse content similar to 14/03/2016. Check below for episodes and series from the same categories and more!

Transcript


LineFromTo

Hello, this is Outside Source. President Putin says he is

:00:15.:00:20.

withdrawing the main part of Russian Armed Forces from Syria. Hundreds of

:00:21.:00:25.

migrants stranded at camps in Greece are being detained in Macedonia

:00:26.:00:28.

after finding another way to cross the border. The Turkish air force

:00:29.:00:32.

hits Kurdish rebel targets in northern Iraq in response to a

:00:33.:00:36.

suicide car bombing in the capital of Turkey that killed 37 people. The

:00:37.:00:41.

next mission to Mars, the joint venture between Russia and Europe

:00:42.:00:45.

that aims to sniff out life on the red planet. And we always value your

:00:46.:00:50.

input on Outside Source. Get in touch with us.

:00:51.:01:09.

Welcome to Outside Source. We are on air an hour earlier than the UK

:01:10.:01:15.

because the clocks have already moved forward an hour in the United

:01:16.:01:20.

States. We will be here for the next two weeks and then back to 9pm UK

:01:21.:01:25.

time. We begin with the Russian intervention in Syria which began

:01:26.:01:28.

six months ago following a formal request from President Assad for

:01:29.:01:33.

help. Starting tomorrow, the Russian intervention could be coming to an

:01:34.:01:37.

end. Earlier today the Russian president, Mr Putin, had a meeting

:01:38.:01:42.

with his foreign defence ministers and this is what he said during the

:01:43.:01:53.

meeting. TRANSLATION: I considered the Mission sat as accomplished. I

:01:54.:01:59.

therefore ordered the Defence Ministry to ordered the withdrawal

:02:00.:02:03.

of the main parts of the Armed Forces from the Syrian republic from

:02:04.:02:09.

tomorrow. Steve Rosenberg in Moscow this evening. The president says he

:02:10.:02:14.

has met many of the objectives he set out. People will look at this

:02:15.:02:18.

and say, yes, he has dismantled some of the rebel opposition but the

:02:19.:02:21.

Islamic groups are still very much intact. That's true. I asked the

:02:22.:02:30.

press Secretary of Mr Putin a short while ago on the telephone whether

:02:31.:02:33.

the announcement of a withdrawal meant that Russia had conquered

:02:34.:02:38.

terrorism. He said it doesn't mean that, and it would be a mistake to

:02:39.:02:44.

make a statement of victory. He said no country had managed to conquer

:02:45.:02:50.

terrorism. He said Russia had made important and effective steps to

:02:51.:02:53.

destroying so-called Islamic State and other terrorist groups. I think

:02:54.:02:57.

the reason President Putin announced tonight that he was going to pull

:02:58.:03:02.

out of the main part of the Russian force from Syria, the Kremlin is

:03:03.:03:05.

calculating that now is the best time to scale things down. Russia

:03:06.:03:11.

doesn't want to get bogged down in Syria and doesn't want it to become

:03:12.:03:16.

a second Afghanistan. He's exploiting the fact there is a

:03:17.:03:21.

ceasing of hostilities in Syria at the moment, to take a moment to

:03:22.:03:26.

scale back. You can always scale things up again. The Russians.

:03:27.:03:30.

Haven't airbase in Syria and that will not go anywhere. -- the

:03:31.:03:39.

Russians will still have an airbase. If the situation changes they can

:03:40.:03:44.

always boost their troop numbers. I suppose the main tactical game is

:03:45.:03:50.

the game for President Putin. When he went into Syria six month ago he

:03:51.:03:54.

was a pariah in international circles. Absolutely. The whole

:03:55.:04:00.

situation has changed. A few months ago he was almost an international

:04:01.:04:05.

outcast. The West had put sanctions on Russia over the annexation of

:04:06.:04:10.

Crimea. And the Moscow support for pro-Russian rebels in eastern

:04:11.:04:15.

Ukraine. It seemed Russia did not want to have much to do with

:04:16.:04:19.

President Putin. Then Russia started bombing Syria and the situation

:04:20.:04:25.

changed. It seemed as if the West, the American president and European

:04:26.:04:28.

leaders, started to realise that they had to deal with President

:04:29.:04:32.

Putin, whether they liked him or not, and whether they liked what he

:04:33.:04:37.

was doing or not. Suddenly, Russia became the solution, and not a

:04:38.:04:42.

problem. Now, President Putin is playing the role of peacemaker in

:04:43.:04:46.

Syria, saying Russia is now doing all it can to push a diplomatic

:04:47.:04:51.

solution to the problems. Things have changed and how Russia has been

:04:52.:04:55.

viewed. Some people believe that Russia has forced the West to treat

:04:56.:05:01.

it as an equal partner. The West can see that Russia is prepared in some

:05:02.:05:05.

circumstances to stand up to the west. Interesting, we will watch

:05:06.:05:08.

that closely. Thank you for joining us. She Syria conflict is the

:05:09.:05:15.

biggest driver in Europe's migrant crisis with thousands still making

:05:16.:05:18.

the perilous journey from Turkey to Greece. For many, its Germany that

:05:19.:05:26.

remains the number one destination. They are making their way through

:05:27.:05:30.

this too West Balkans route up to Germany, until the borders were

:05:31.:05:34.

closed earlier this month. For the last couple of weeks thousands have

:05:35.:05:39.

been stuck at a camp on the Greek- Macedonian border. This morning

:05:40.:05:44.

around 1000 of them left the camp on foot, eventually crossing a fast

:05:45.:05:51.

flowing river. Our correspondent has been following their progress.

:05:52.:05:57.

On the march was nothing to lose. Thousands of migrants walking

:05:58.:06:03.

towards a border they are not allowed to cross. They've had enough

:06:04.:06:08.

of waiting. For weeks they have been stuck in Greece. They are aiming to

:06:09.:06:13.

get to Germany, but all the Balkan border gates between here and there

:06:14.:06:17.

have slammed shut. But they have got this far and they are not giving up.

:06:18.:06:25.

They don't open the borders, it's a problem. People want to go to

:06:26.:06:34.

Macedonia and Germany. The march sparks alarm among the Macedonian

:06:35.:06:37.

authorities to monitor them. But on the Greek side they are not stopped.

:06:38.:06:45.

The migrants are undeterred by the obstacles in their path. At least

:06:46.:06:51.

three people drowned near here last night, but they are prepared to take

:06:52.:06:55.

the risk. Esbri people will do desperate things. -- desperate

:06:56.:07:02.

people. They have become disillusioned with the conditions in

:07:03.:07:06.

the border camp. It turned into a swamp after days of rain.

:07:07.:07:11.

Unbearable. Anywhere is better than this, they thought. Which is why

:07:12.:07:15.

they set off en masse from here this morning. When many hundreds did

:07:16.:07:19.

eventually crossed the frontier, they were rounded up and detained.

:07:20.:07:26.

Their ambitions on hold once again. The path ahead is not easy and full

:07:27.:07:30.

of risks. But it isn't putting them off trying.

:07:31.:07:34.

STUDIO: Some of you might recall that he was reporting from the camp

:07:35.:07:46.

last week, and many migrants I met were looking to reunite with family

:07:47.:07:51.

in Germany. There is still the opinion in the camp that Angela

:07:52.:07:53.

Merkel is the one voice in Europe who is sympathetic to the cause.

:07:54.:08:00.

From time to time, they show their appreciation by rallying around the

:08:01.:08:04.

German flag. A draft communication was put out by European leaders this

:08:05.:08:08.

morning, saying they wanted to close the route through Macedonia, Serbia

:08:09.:08:15.

and Croatia into western Europe, the so-called Balkan route. The word has

:08:16.:08:18.

gone around the camp that the Germans don't like the language,

:08:19.:08:22.

that it's too dramatic and sends out the wrong message over what Europe

:08:23.:08:26.

wants to do with genuine asylum seekers. That's the reason the

:08:27.:08:30.

German flag is being held aloft and is being cheered by many Syrian

:08:31.:08:35.

people here. How well are the pictures going down in Germany? Not

:08:36.:08:39.

too well at all judging by the results of the country's we can

:08:40.:08:46.

state elections will stop the anti-immigrant AFD party has done

:08:47.:08:53.

extraordinarily well. These are some of the results from the states

:08:54.:09:02.

taking part. You can see the AFD result in blue, and the ruling

:09:03.:09:12.

Angela Merkel party in black. Third in this region, not as big as the

:09:13.:09:18.

other major parties. And again, they were the third party in a third

:09:19.:09:23.

region. Jenny Hill has followed the story from Berlin.

:09:24.:09:29.

Germany's political landscape is changing. But don't expect Angela

:09:30.:09:35.

Merkel to alter her course. This is the eastern state of Saxony, where

:09:36.:09:44.

one in watch row voters backed the anti-Merkel and anti-migrant party

:09:45.:09:50.

alternative for Deutschland. This woman says she backed it because

:09:51.:09:58.

they were the only party who wanted to store order, despite not liking

:09:59.:10:03.

many of the people in the party. The German far right has found a public

:10:04.:10:09.

voice. The AFD is controversial. Its leader recently suggested border

:10:10.:10:13.

guards should shoot at immigrants. Angela Merkel had previously

:10:14.:10:17.

dismissed them as a fringe party. This afternoon she admitted it was a

:10:18.:10:25.

tough proposal. TRANSLATION: Our approach is right. We need to tackle

:10:26.:10:29.

the sources of migration and seek European solution. A controversial

:10:30.:10:35.

stance from this most divisive of leaders. Should Angela Merkel stay

:10:36.:10:42.

on as Chancellor, I asked. If it was up to me, she says, no. I used to

:10:43.:10:46.

think a lot of her but not any more. This man says he doesn't agree with

:10:47.:10:51.

the rest of her policies but he likes her position on refugees.

:10:52.:10:55.

These elections have been bruising and humiliating for Angela Merkel.

:10:56.:11:00.

But the sense here is that she will survive unscathed. First of all,

:11:01.:11:04.

nobody is calling for her resignation. And her approval

:11:05.:11:08.

ratings, while they have dipped, are still in the of other European

:11:09.:11:14.

leaders. Lastly, most importantly, there is no heavyweight political

:11:15.:11:16.

opponent waiting in the wings to snatch away her chancellorship. Mrs

:11:17.:11:22.

Merkel might just have got away with it. STUDIO: We will be focusing on

:11:23.:11:32.

another of the countries on the migrant route, Turkey, reeling from

:11:33.:11:36.

another bomb attack this weekend in Ankara that killed 37 people.

:11:37.:11:44.

The presenter of Top Gear has apologised after the programme

:11:45.:11:50.

filmed a stunt car driving near a war memorial in London yesterday.

:11:51.:11:56.

The images shown are terrible, they look so disrespectful. There are

:11:57.:12:02.

mitigating circumstances, but absolutely, no, I unreservedly

:12:03.:12:04.

apologise for stopped I saw the images this morning for the first

:12:05.:12:07.

time and felt the same way as everyone else. It's not a good start

:12:08.:12:12.

for Top Gear? It is only started in terms of production, but this is not

:12:13.:12:17.

a good story. Will the footage be used on air? I don't know. I'm not

:12:18.:12:22.

responsible for the film, but I will have a chat and find out what's

:12:23.:12:26.

going on. No doubt about it, that footage will not go on air. The

:12:27.:12:31.

Chancellor George Osborne is also a little bit miffed. I saw the treat

:12:32.:12:35.

this morning, and I think that's more light-hearted. Do you agree it

:12:36.:12:41.

should not be aired? Absolutely. So you will pull the plug? It's not my

:12:42.:12:48.

decision, but if I was in charge, I would say that scene shouldn't be

:12:49.:12:54.

shown. This is Outside Source live from the BBC News room. President

:12:55.:12:58.

Putin says he is withdrawing the main part of Russian Armed Forces

:12:59.:13:03.

from Syria saying his country's intervention there had largely

:13:04.:13:07.

achieved its objectives. This is what the BBC's language services are

:13:08.:13:12.

coming today. On BBC Arabic, Saudi officials say a fighter jet has

:13:13.:13:16.

crashed in year and killing two pilots.

:13:17.:13:22.

A 22-year-old engineer who married above his Hindu caste in an Indian

:13:23.:13:32.

state has been hacked to death in broad daylight at a busy traffic

:13:33.:13:37.

intersection. As father has now surrendered. No group yet admitted

:13:38.:13:48.

carrying out the bombing in Ankara that killed killed 37 people. This

:13:49.:13:55.

is the city centre where the bomb went off. As we move into the city,

:13:56.:14:01.

it's right in the centre, close to the Ministry of Justice and the

:14:02.:14:04.

Department of defence. The government was quick to point the

:14:05.:14:09.

blame at the Kurdish PKK group. The Prime Minister said...

:14:10.:14:20.

Our correspondent in Ankara sent this report from outside the city

:14:21.:14:28.

morgue. Here at the morgue in central Ankara they are learning the

:14:29.:14:33.

names and identities of those killed yesterday. There is pain here, but

:14:34.:14:39.

also anger and disbelief at a third successive bomb blast in the space

:14:40.:14:42.

of five months in the heart of this city. A city once seen as safe is

:14:43.:14:47.

asking, why does this keep happening, and why our families left

:14:48.:14:52.

to mourn? Local media say that one of the bombers has been identified

:14:53.:14:59.

as a female member of the Kurdish PKK, with whom the government is

:15:00.:15:02.

fighting a renewed conflict over the last few months in the south-east of

:15:03.:15:06.

Turkey. The government says it's determined to fight terrorism, the

:15:07.:15:11.

president saying he will bring terrorism to its knees. But this

:15:12.:15:15.

country now feels extremely vulnerable, wondering when next

:15:16.:15:19.

attack might come, and how Turkey can stop this slide seething chaos.

:15:20.:15:27.

STUDIO: President Erdogan is promising retribution. Already the

:15:28.:15:32.

Turkish jets have been pounding PKK positions in northern Iraq, and

:15:33.:15:37.

curfews have been imposed on two mainly Kurdish towns in the

:15:38.:15:41.

south-east Turkey. There has been a spate of recent attacks on the

:15:42.:15:45.

capital, last month there was an attack on a military convoy, which

:15:46.:15:53.

killed 28 people. Last October, outside the main railway station,

:15:54.:15:56.

when 100 people died in a double suicide bombing. The target on that

:15:57.:16:00.

occasion was a Kurdish peace rally. I spoke to a colleague from the

:16:01.:16:09.

Turkish BBC service recently. Talking to people in Ankara, there

:16:10.:16:13.

is a growing sense of insecurity, anger and fear. It is now the third

:16:14.:16:18.

attack in the last five months. The total death toll is 169. It creates

:16:19.:16:27.

some sort of fear in the capital. It's the transportation hub, the

:16:28.:16:31.

capital of the capital, in many ways. It's like Trafalgar Square in

:16:32.:16:40.

London. It's a very central area. People criticise whether there might

:16:41.:16:44.

be a lack of security, or whether any measures could have been taken.

:16:45.:16:48.

On the other hand, people are worried about what kind of response

:16:49.:16:51.

the government will take. The immediate reaction was to bomb the

:16:52.:16:57.

PKK targets in northern Iraq. And also in the south-eastern part of

:16:58.:17:01.

Turkey in the Kurdish dominated part of Turkey where a curfew has been

:17:02.:17:06.

imposed. Two more new curfews, one in place tonight from midnight. The

:17:07.:17:12.

war with the PKK has been going on for decades, but the government now

:17:13.:17:17.

is also facing two other threats. Kurdish groups in northern Syria,

:17:18.:17:22.

and the so-called Islamic State. Exactly. Turkey is fighting on many

:17:23.:17:28.

fronts. Isis, the so-called Islamic State, and now the PKK, and also

:17:29.:17:33.

extreme leftist groups. Turkey is now in a position to prove itself as

:17:34.:17:39.

a stable country, because it's sitting at a table in the European

:17:40.:17:45.

Union on the migration crisis. The West wants to see a stable country.

:17:46.:17:50.

Seeing these attacks take place in the capital, the centre of

:17:51.:17:53.

everything, it kind of creates some concerns. On an international level,

:17:54.:17:58.

Turkey has problems with its neighbours and is about to sit on

:17:59.:18:03.

the table for negotiation with Europe. It's a very sensitive moment

:18:04.:18:09.

for Turkey. Turkey is supposed to be the safe haven for refugees, so big

:18:10.:18:14.

implications for Europe. Focusing on business, or oil prices have been

:18:15.:18:18.

rallying in recent weeks. Here is the evidence, the upward trend over

:18:19.:18:24.

the course of the last month, albeit from pretty low beginnings. Today

:18:25.:18:30.

they fell back 3%, cutting back on some of those games. That's because

:18:31.:18:34.

Iran has put off plans to join the nations who want a freeze on

:18:35.:18:38.

production. In February Saudi Arabia struck a deal with Russia and other

:18:39.:18:43.

Opec nations to freeze or oil output at January levels. We can find out

:18:44.:18:49.

what the market is made of it from New York. Not an awful lot, they

:18:50.:18:54.

don't like it at all. I think there's a couple of factors that

:18:55.:18:57.

have driven down the price of oil today. You mentioned Iran pulling

:18:58.:19:03.

out of a deal. That was one way of addressing the problem we have seen,

:19:04.:19:07.

which is that the market is oversupplied with oil, and the fact

:19:08.:19:11.

that Iran has dropped out of this deal means that they will continue

:19:12.:19:16.

to put out as many oil barrels as they want and drop out of the

:19:17.:19:22.

problem of oversupply. When you talk to investors, the problem is that

:19:23.:19:25.

many of them feel that the rally we have seen recently, the fact we have

:19:26.:19:30.

seen oil prices climbing recently, that actually got a bit overdone,

:19:31.:19:35.

and this was a way to walk back from that. On the oil prices, I said it

:19:36.:19:41.

was from low beginnings, but is this the start of improving fortunes for

:19:42.:19:45.

oil producing countries? It's hard to see at the moment. If you look at

:19:46.:19:51.

most forecasts, the anticipation is that oil will remain low for a

:19:52.:19:56.

while. In part, one of the reasons, I mentioned oversupply as being a

:19:57.:20:00.

factor, but the other side of the equation is demand. We have talked

:20:01.:20:05.

in the past about what is happening in China and Europe, generally with

:20:06.:20:10.

fears of a global slowdown, and that means people will potentially need

:20:11.:20:15.

less oil at a time when there is too much supply. The other side of the

:20:16.:20:20.

equation is demand. Is the demand there for oil? If it isn't, there is

:20:21.:20:26.

nothing to drive the prices up. We still need oil for our cars, but how

:20:27.:20:31.

long will we need the drivers? There is a lot of talk about the

:20:32.:20:36.

technology going into driverless cars at the moment. We can talk

:20:37.:20:44.

about the Google car, this is it on many advertised and see might have

:20:45.:20:52.

seen. -- on many advertisements will stop it was all going pretty well

:20:53.:20:55.

until this happened. The Google car is over here on the right-hand side,

:20:56.:20:59.

and it apparently tries to turn into another lane at a time when this bus

:21:00.:21:06.

goes past, it seemed to rub up against it and you can see some

:21:07.:21:10.

commotion on the bus, more animated from the driver! We have some

:21:11.:21:15.

pictures of the damage done. Fortunately nobody was hurt, but you

:21:16.:21:19.

can see a big dent in the side of the car, and a big scratch on the

:21:20.:21:24.

side of the bus. Our North American technology correspondent has been

:21:25.:21:27.

talking to the US secretary of transport about it. I think there is

:21:28.:21:32.

no question that driverless technology presents a lot of

:21:33.:21:38.

potential for disruption on a number of fronts. It's unclear to me now

:21:39.:21:44.

exactly how that future unfolds. What I do know is that we have the

:21:45.:21:50.

potential to reduce 80% of the crashes and accidents that occur.

:21:51.:21:53.

That's not to say there will not be disruption along the way. Recently,

:21:54.:21:59.

the Google car crashed into a bus. It was the first time Google

:22:00.:22:04.

accepted that it was the fault of the on-board computer, that it made

:22:05.:22:08.

the wrong call in pulling out into the boss. Is that a setback for the

:22:09.:22:15.

technology? It's not face a prize that at some point there would be a

:22:16.:22:21.

crash of any technology that's on the road. But I would challenge want

:22:22.:22:25.

to look at the number of crashes occurring on the same day that were

:22:26.:22:29.

the result of human behaviour. I think the question here isn't

:22:30.:22:34.

comparing the automated car against perfection. I think it's a relative

:22:35.:22:38.

comparison to what we have now on the roads, you and I with our

:22:39.:22:43.

eyeballs and brains. Whenever we do a story about self driving cars,

:22:44.:22:47.

everybody says they love driving, they love being out on the open

:22:48.:22:51.

road. How do you feel about that personally? I think there will be an

:22:52.:22:56.

appetite for those of us who have grown up driving vehicles to

:22:57.:22:59.

continue to have them and have fun doing that. But my kids don't know

:23:00.:23:04.

what a typewriter is. This generation doesn't know what it's

:23:05.:23:10.

like to roll up a window on a car, because all cars have automatic

:23:11.:23:14.

windows. Some of this will be generational. STUDIO: Speaking to

:23:15.:23:21.

the secretary for transportation. Nigeria is Africa's's biggest

:23:22.:23:25.

economy but growth is at its slowest pace for a decade. We can head to

:23:26.:23:32.

the north of the country, which used to be a big manufacturing hub, but

:23:33.:23:36.

how easy is it to revive the industry? This is a city that mixes

:23:37.:23:44.

tradition with trade. This is a parade for a royal wedding. This was

:23:45.:23:50.

one of Africa's great commercial hubs, famed for its fabrics, true

:23:51.:23:58.

merchants from across the continent. In recent decades, the winds of

:23:59.:24:03.

global trade blew through the city, leaving devastation in its wake.

:24:04.:24:10.

This factory employed 5000 workers, churning out African prints for

:24:11.:24:16.

traditional dress as well school and military uniforms. Now the blooms

:24:17.:24:22.

are. Once the engine of the textile industry is now a symbol of decline.

:24:23.:24:31.

Competition from China, large scale smuggling and high production costs

:24:32.:24:36.

killed the industry. Just a handful of businesses remain in production.

:24:37.:24:43.

A battle between bureaucracy and constant power cuts. Now the

:24:44.:24:46.

government is offering support to make sure they survive. But one of

:24:47.:24:51.

the managers tells me that they face enormous challenges. There is no

:24:52.:24:57.

food for lazy people, as they say. We have to wake up from our deep

:24:58.:25:03.

slumber, and work hard to ensure that things are happening for

:25:04.:25:09.

economic survival, and economic productivity. Nigeria desperately

:25:10.:25:17.

needs to create jobs. For every worker here, there are dozens on.

:25:18.:25:23.

With almost 2 million young people entering the job market every year,

:25:24.:25:29.

the pressures are building. -- dozens on employed. This university

:25:30.:25:35.

student is confident of getting work because he has contacts. This

:25:36.:25:40.

unemployed man says the Nigerian leaders have done nothing for the

:25:41.:25:46.

younger generation. That's the challenge for the government, either

:25:47.:25:50.

fix the economy or face growing unrest. The past year was glorious,

:25:51.:25:54.

its future is less certain.

:25:55.:25:58.

Download Subtitles

SRT

ASS