17/03/2016 Outside Source

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

Yesterday we reported that the former president would be

given a cabinet position, despite being caught up

Well now a court has blocked that move -

and there's been protests on both sides.

EU leaders are meeting again on the migrant crisis.

They're trying to work out the details of a plan with Turkey

to reduce the number of people reaching Greece.

We will be live in Brussels with more on that.

John Kerry has accused so-called Islamic State of committing genocide

And as ever if you have any questions on the stories we cover,

this is how to contact us. Brazil continues to be

consumed by its politics. It's all focused on the former

President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and current president

Dilma Rousseff. She wanted to appoint him

as her Chief of Staff - an unusual move - that now appears

to have been scuppered This whole matter is so potent

because if Lula were in the cabinet he'd be immune from

most prosecutions. That's relevant because prosecutors

want to charge him in relation him to a corruption scandal -

though, we must emphasise, There have been protests on both

sides in the country. There is growing tension outside the

presidential palace where groups gathered to demonstrate for a second

time. Here are people demonstrating to defend President Rousseff and the

appointment of Lula. Overhear people are calling for the impeachment of

President Rousseff and protesting against Howard Government. The

police are in the middle, on this dividing line. To prevent

competition from happening. If it was not complicated enough.

There is a further twist. The BBC's Brazilian Service,

delved deeper into past of the federal judge carrying

out the investigation On it are posts shares and pictures

supporting the opposition. The suggestion being that his

personal political leanings This account now seems to have been

taken down. This is a complicated story.

Do we know who has the greater strength, the judge or the

President? In this case it is the judge. Any

judge in Brazil, the federal judge, can suspend an administrative

decision, which is what happened. But he is only one of the judges at

the centre of this situation. He is not the main judge taking care of

the corruption investigation. He is just one judge who said, Lula has

been nominated but he should not have been. This puts into light the

problem that we have here. Many are criticising the justice system and

judges like himself, they say they are acting politically.

The next thing I want to discuss business telephone call that has

been released. It has been released by a judge, between the President

and the former President. This is how it went.

Sorry about that. Everyone is saying Sorry about that. Everyone is saying

it is important. I have looked at the transcript. I do not know why it

is so important. There is no smoking gun. It is quite

a short call. President Rousseff says to Lula that she will send

someone over with papers for him to sign in case of necessity. Those

papers were actually a that States that he will be sworn in as the

chief of staff. Opposition to the Government says that this indicates

that they were indeed trying to obstruct investigations against Lula

by making him chief of staff in case he was to be prosecuted. But the

Government says, no, they were preparing for the possibility that

he was not able to go to the ceremony.

For those of us who do not know Brazil as well as you do, it is all

this political drama, the broader corruption scandal. To what degree

does this prevent the Government going about its business?

Life in Brazil has come to a standstill. We are in the middle of

a huge corruption investigation that has seen top politicians and

executives arrested or implicated in a way. We are in the middle of one

of the worst economic recessions in decades. All of this adds to the

instability in the Government of President Rousseff and in the

country. It is like a chess board. Everybody is waiting for the other

side to make the next move. Thank you. Those of you who speak

Portuguese can follow this story on BBC Brazil. And you have got to see

all this in the context of the fact that the Rio Olympics are just

months away. They're trying to fix down this deal

with Turkey on the migrant crisis. Lest anyone thought

this would be easy. European Council President Donald

Tusk noted on the invitation to the summit that there

are a catalogue of issues The aim of all of this is to ease

the pressure on the heavily used route into Europe

though the Balkans. The proposed plan would see migrants

who arrive in Greece from Turkey And for each Syrian returned,

a registered Syrian already in Turkey would be

resettled in the EU. The idea is to dissuade people from

making the journey to these. I am looking for work to a credible

Agreement today in order to try to deduce or to stop the illegal flows

from Turkey to the Greek islands. We have said what we will do in terms

of taking Syrian refugees to Britain. That is underway. We will

not take more because of what is discussed here today. But if we get

an Agreement that will return the migrants to Turkey that with the

progress. Just to remind you since January

2015 a million migrants and refugees have entered the EU by boat

into Greece from Turkey. Over 45,000 migrants are in police.

-- in Greece. This is how the New York Times has described the

situation. A journey across Greece, a bankrupt land at risk of becoming

a refugee prison. Those who have reached President Rousseff have

survived a fraught journey from Turkey. Just making it. -- those who

have reached Greece have survived the fraught journey.

The journey from the turkeys sure to the Greek sure was horrific -- from

Turkey. The key to any Agreement is Turkey.

It is currently home to millions of refugees. The German Prime Minister

has been praising what has been done. In return for what Turkey is

doing the EU is offering Visa three travel to Europe for citizens from

Turkey and a fresh push over the potential membership of Turkey in

the EU. We will get to potential EU membership of Turkey in a moment

that we are with the negotiations? They are underway. The leaders are

having their dinner here now and discussing the detail, then that and

bolts of this plan. There are many difficulties to overcome. We have

talked about political ones. Let us talk about other ones. Legal ones.

Going into the talks some of the leaders were very concerned that

this plan stretches to the limit what is legal under international

human rights law, Geneva Convention. On the Greek side everyone arriving

in Greece, international losses they cannot be deported en masse. They

would have to have their cases heard individually. That is one hurdle.

The second hurdle, on the Turkish side, in order to return people

legally, they have to be afforded protection in Turkey, where they are

going to, and at the moment Turkey does not do that for anyone other

than Syrians. A potential legal problem there. That is one problem

that the leaders are trying to find a formula that they can make work.

I was surprised to issue of the potential membership of Turkey came

because surely some embers of the EU simply will not where this?

There are real problems with this. Most European leaders say this as a

far of prospect, that Turkey is not likely to join the EU any time soon

but that it is important for Turkey and for adulation is with the EU to

try to see some movement in a process that has been going on for

more than a couple of decades. The difficulties particularly revolve

around the island of Cyprus. It is an EU member but the island is

divided. The northern half has Turkish troops. The type dish

Government does not represent the Government and the southern half. --

the Government of Turkey does not recognise the Government in the

southern half. Batters part of a conundrum they are trying to resolve

tonight. More migrants come into Europe from

Syria and Iraq than from any other country. Many of them are skipping a

violence from so-called Islamic State. -- many of them are escaping

violence. For the first time the United States Government has talked

of genocide. This is the message it conveys to

children under its control. Its entire worldview is based on

eliminating those who do not subscribe to its perverse ideology.

There is no question in my mind that if Daesh succeeded in establishing a

so-called caliphate it would seek to destroy what remains of ethnic and

religious mosaic once thriving in the region.

And he mentioned a long article written by a BBC correspondent about

the historical context behind the emergence of the so-called Islamic

State group. It'll give you a good idea why this group currently

exists. You can get that on their website. We have come all this way

without talking about Donald Trump. We will put that right in the next

few minutes. Eight well-known consultancy group has put the

possibility of him becoming resident in its top ten risks in the world.

Following the budget yesterday a Conservative MP has warned the

Chancellor against plans to change benefits payments for disabled

people. The MP said many colleagues have

expressed concerns and it risks hitting the wrong people.

640,000 people could be affected. People will not necessarily lose

money. The most vulnerable will be protected, says the Government. We

have to keep this under review but the proposals which are still under

consultation, go to far. They are not acceptable and they leave a lot

of people feeling concerned, people that are in receipt of it. It

affects how people feel about the system as Nixon fearful of the

system, but also financially, we do not need to make these changes.

There are other things we could do. We have been live in Brussels

already. We will be good to Washington, DC and New York in a

moment. First, the lead story. There have been protests in Brazil after a

court suspended the nomination of former President Lula to a cabinet

position. Critics say he was given the post to try and dodge

allegations of corruption. And in the World Service, a Kurdish

military group which claimed responsibility for the attack in

Ankara. The President of Russia says Russia

will continue to support the Syrian Government and could hold up

military presence within hours if needed.

Thousands of you have been looking at this footage of a meteor filmed

in the skies of the UK. You can see those pictures on the UK website.

Let us begin business by talking about a report from a consultancy

that offers an analysis on global affairs. On it is today it has

posted what it considers to be a top ten risk to global stability.

Top of the list, the economy of China. We have topped about this

before. Growth is slowing. It also puts

close to the top of the list the European Union and the risk of that

institution fracturing. Go further down the list. At number six you

will find Donald Trump. He is equal number six with a jihadist violence

and the impact that can have on global stability.

Even if you are a critic of Donald Trump it still seems likely to have

him on a par with jihadist violence. Why does this thing TAC justify this

analysis? Because of over the top rhetoric on

immigration, possibly starting a trade war with China, targeting the

families of militants, bellicose rhetoric. They say all of this could

destabilise the world and they say he does not have a foreign policy

team to spell out the detail of this. He leaves a lot of it to the

imagination and people are imagining the worst.

It plays into the hands of the rhetoric of Donald Trump?

Absolutely. He will point to the global elite worrying about him and

making America strong again as taking charge. The kind of people

who are supporters of Donald Trump will not be reading this report.

An article said that Donald Trump is focusing on three cheat and he is

against free trade deals and a lot of American workers agree with that.

The Economist is keen on free trade. Perhaps it is not so keen on the

view of Donald Trump of it. Absolutely. That is probably the

main reason why he is so high on this list or on this list at all. He

has made American protectionism a key part of his message. Immigration

get a lot of the headlines but what has helped win votes in the midwest

in particular for people have seen their jobs go overseas is the idea

that. Countries like China and Mexico from taking US companies and

having them relocate there. Thank you.

Next we will start on a story about a fashion firm based in the US that

has been repute by a watchdog for feeling to point out that Instagram

postings where adverts. In their case of this post that did

not happen. We were not told that the dress was provided for free and

that the person who shared this image had been paid thousands of

dollars. Let us bring in a correspondent from

New York. I am guessing thousands of people want to get away with this,

if you want something to seem authentic the fact it has been paid

for has a negative impact. Influencers, people who are

well-connected, they have grown in popularity and in their ability to

make a living with the rise of social media whether it be Instagram

or a. The retailer was trying to capitalise on this trend. The paid

50 people to post photos of themselves. They all posted within a

certain time frame pictures of themselves wearing this paisley

print dress and apparently the dress sold out by the end of the weekend

but the problem is they fell foul of the rules in the United States and

the trade regulator picked them up on it and said you did not make it

clear that these were actually endorsements, that you were paying

these people, and therefore these posts should have had a sign an

accord saying this was advert. This is another story. Nikkei has

unveiled self leasing shoes. They are not going to unveil them to the

public until the end of the year and you have to use an app from the

company. When I saw this story I was sceptical. Is it a PR stunt? I did

not get the chance to check it out but I am told apparently there is a

sensor in your heel and you press a button and it magically lease is up.

It goes back to the movie back to the future too, the idea of self

leasing shoes. Back then it was a stunt. But the manufacturer says

these ones are. What you are saying is this fusion of where fashion or

fitness year meets technology. This company is obviously the latest but

there are other fitness and fashion companies investing heavily in

technology. You will see more of this where the technology going

forward. Thank you. If you want to see more pictures of that go to the

front page of the business section of the BBC website.

Next I want to talk about SeaWorld who have announced they will end the

killer of real breeding programme. Not long ago they said they would

stop all sorts of live shows like these. But now the bleeding

programme is going as well. The wheel is currently at the park will

stay there for the rest of their lives. The reason, say SeaWorld, as

if they were released they would not survive. They will be the last

generation at SeaWorld. There might be a business reason for this

because there was a critical film released, since then visitors have

gone down, this is what has happened to this year price. It has gone down

by almost half. It has taken a big hit. The chief executive of SeaWorld

wrote an article in the LA Times. Here are a couple of quartz.

I also mention that film that was critical of the company. The

director of that film said this. That is all for the first half of

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