21/03/2016 Outside Source

This is a source, Barack Obama is in Cuba on an historic visit, the first

time a US president has visited since the communist revolution in

1959. He has just given a joint statement with the Cuban leader Raul

Castro. Salah Abdeslam, the suspect in the

Paris attacks, continues to be interviewed by prosecutors. Footage

of what may have been his capture, certainly part of the same raid, has

emerged. You can see the man running down the street, told to stop and

when he doesn't, the police opened fire.

We will get into the big pay row that is breaking out in tennis,

first one of the biggest organisers -- one of the organisers of the

biggest tournaments in sport and ov Novak Djokovic saying male players

have the right to ask for more money than women. And if you have any

questions about the stories we are covering, we are on Twitter.

I was mentioning the hashtag, Gregory is watching us in the US and

says he is enjoying the show but while there are -- why are there

three other people on set? We have two camera crews, a floor manager

and a sound engineer, all essential and without them, you would not hear

from me. Those of the people you can see sometimes. Let me return to a

breaking story we brought a few minutes ago, we are getting more

details, out of Marley, Bamako, gunmen have attacked the base of the

European Union's training mission. In West Africa, Mali, we have marked

the capital Bamako on the map and Reuters are quoting what defence

Ministry official as saying identical -- unidentified gunmen

have attacked a hotel which has been converted into an EU training base.

They are also quoting a witness, this is what the witness told them.

We know that the defence Ministry spokesperson has confirmed that

shots were fired at the hotel. We are also hearing one person has been

killed in the attack, a number of different people corroborating that.

If you look at the social media coming in, you can see, this is the

Twitter account of the EU's training mission in Mali. So while we can't

be certain, it does seem that one of the attackers has died and not of

the personnel based in that hotel, now a training base for the European

Union, have been injured or killed, we are working on this all the time

and as we get more, we will pass it onto you. Now to one of the biggest

talking point in world sport at the moment, the issue of equal for men

and women, specifically tennis. It is back in the news for a couple of

reasons. The BNP Paribas open in Indian Wells in California has just

finished and outside of the grand slams, it is the biggest tournament

in the world and its chief has said this. They ride on the coat-tails of

the men, they don't make any decisions and they are very, very

lucky. If I was a lady player, I would go down every night on my

knees and thank God for Roger Federer and Rafa Ngaio -- Rafael

Nadal, they have carried this board. They have a lot of very attractive

players. And the standard in ladies' tennis has improved unbelievably. Gu

mean physically attractive or competitively attractive? I mean

both. They are physically attractive and competitively attractive. They

can assume the mantle of leadership once Serena decides to stop. They

really have quite a few very, very attractive players. Deary me. That

is the CEO of the Indian Wells tennis tournament. He has since come

out and apologised and called his remarks erroneous. As you can

imagine, the hundreds of professional women tennis players

were not over the moon at the idea of getting on their knees and

thanking some of their male counterparts. Let's hear from the

two biggest names, Serena Williams and then Novak Djokovic, who has

entered the arena and kicked the story on to a whole other level. I

don't think any woman should be down on her knees like that. I think

Venus, myself, a number of players, have been... If I could tell you

every day that people don't watch tennis unless they are watching

myself or my sister, I couldn't even put up that number. I think our

men's tennis world, the ATP World Tour should fight for more, because

the stats are showing that we have much more spectators on the men's

tennis matches and I think that is one of the reasons why maybe we

should get awarded more, but again, women should fight for what they

think they deserve and we should fight for what we

think they deserve and we should fight for what we think we deserve.

That is what Novak Djokovic has to say. Let's have a look at some of

the statistics. Clearly I could give you some between now and tomorrow

and you could prove the .1 way or another. The 2015 Wimbledon final

watched by over 9 million people, the women's just over 4 million. The

2014 US open, the men's final, less than two million and with Serena in

the final for the women's 4 million tuned in to you can find statistics

to back up the argument either way. Let's bring in John Watson. One

thing I would like you to explain is while the grand slams have equal

pay, across the year, the male players are already earning quite a

lot more. Yes, that is right. The four grand slams, the four majors,

it is equal pay for men and women but at the other events, put on by

the WTA and the ATP, who run the men's game, the prize-money differs

and over the course of a calendar year, throughout those tournaments,

then do earn more from playing in those tournaments run by the ATP

than women do for the WTA. But it is interesting, those examples, the

Wimbledon final, but the men and the ladies' final last year and the US

Open finals played back in 2014, let's take the one in 2014 as an

example, where viewing figures were higher for those watching the

women's final as opposed to the men's. That final was between Serena

Williams and Caroline Wozniacki, Serena Williams winning, whereas the

men's final was played between Marian Cilic and K Nishikora, two

lesser-known players, so the viewing figures were higher during a match

being played by players outside of the top four in the men's game so

perhaps what Novak Djokovic is referring to when he says he feels

the ATP should be chasing more, perhaps it is a sense that the

sporting rivalries amongst the men's game, at the top, with the likes of

Federer, Djokovic, Andy Murray, Rafael Nadal, it has a strong for a

number of years, and perhaps in the women's competition, it is Serena

Williams, as we know, who has been carrying the mantle for many years

and it is perhaps those sporting rivalries that the women's game

perhaps is lacking to some degree as opposed to the men's game. We know

Maria Sharapova and Serena Williams top the women's game, but it is

those sporting rivalries that perhaps lacking a little bit in the

women's side of the game. But is this thing, those rivalries require

us to buy into narratives about the players and to understand that, we

get information through the media and the media covers men's sport, I

don't know the difference, but it is a huge sway. On the BBC website,

there will be a huge number of men's sport stories compared to the

women's so how much must a sport like tennis and acknowledge that and

try and fix the problem and to what degree do players just want to get

whatever their value is? Absolutely, I think we all know that outside of

what you learn as prize-money in those tournaments, you can make

through marketing, sponsorship deals, so prize-money, in a sense,

is one point of the argument but we know that the money available

outside of playing in those majors, the tournaments run by the WTA and

the ATP, it is the sponsorship deals that are on offer to players, so you

are marketing yourself in a sense and we all know Maria Sharapova, she

earned more money, the top grossing female sportswoman last year, as she

has been for a number of years, so you are marketing yourself in a

sense and the coverage in newspapers and across the media certainly helps

to boost your profile as a sports man and a sportswoman, so it is as

much down to yourself as it is your team in securing those rather

profitable marketing deals and sponsorship deals but it is

interesting the way the stories are being covered and perhaps the

argument here isn't just about the players, let's say, but it is the

way this story is being covered and comments, of course, by the likes of

Raymond Moore in this instance is certainly doing nobody any favours

in the game whatsoever. John, thank you very much. Lots of different

people wading in on this issue. Billie Jean King, one of the giants

of the sport. John is watching us on the BBC News

Channel and just treated maybe the best argument is that men play 5

cents, women play three sets but we don't measure how much we pay

sportspeople by how long they play for, boxers earn more than anyone

and sometimes their bags last six minutes, so I am not sure that is

the way to judge this. Let's move on to a story by one of John's

colleagues, she has been to visit Spain's oldest football club, but it

is in danger of going out of business. This is where it is in

south-western Spain. It was once in the top tier. Not any more, not even

close. Sometimes football is more than just

a game for these fans, there is more than just three points at stake. It

is the oldest story in Spanish football, when two Brits founded the

club for overseas Mineworkers in the province, the country's first ever

football team was born, but now Recreativo is on the brink of

extinction and although the club was founded two centuries ago, it has

fallen victim to a very modern problem. The club is now owing 20

million euros in taxes. We are eight months now without being paid, so we

are surviving with this money that comes from ticket sales, we just use

it for the most basic things, paying the referees and for travelling,

because otherwise, we can't compete anymore. Antonio is the president of

a local supporters' club and has seen the history of his team passed

down through generations, from Spain's top flight down to the third

tier. Now they are in danger of falling further.

TRANSLATION: For us, it would be as though our fathers, grandfathers

disappeared, we would lose the education and knowledge. It is where

football was born in Spain. For us, it would be like a tsunami coming

through here and destroying everything. A club that used to be

owned by the town is now surviving solely on gate receipts and after

the current owner refused an offer to sell, and SOS was sent to the

fans warning that this could be their last ever game. Tickets were

sold for 1 euro and the town was urged to fill the stadium. The

rallying call was heard throughout Spain. We have come all this way

because football is our passion and Recreativo de Huelva could disappear

and it is not possible at the 126 years, so we are here to support

them. I think maybe because this might be the last match of the club

and the club needs the support, as you can see here. The stadium holds

nearly 21,000 but in its decline, crowds have been dulled to around

5,000. With buffers Valladolid buses and taxis offering discounts this

weekend for the first time in recent memory, the game was sold out. A 1-0

victory has helped lift spirits and the gate money could buy time, but

what Recreativo de Huelva needs fast new investment, otherwise 126 years

of history could finish before the season does.

Now, in a few minutes, on Outside Source, we will get you the update

of a trial for a Ukrainian pilot, in Russia, accused of the complicity in

the death of two Russian journalists.

Now to really upsetting story, baby girl is the sole survivor of a crash

that killed her father, grandmother, aunt and two brothers when their car

slid off a pier in Donegal in Ireland. The four-month-old girl was

saved by a passer-by who jumped in to help her when he spotted the car

sinking. He has been speaking about the moment he saw the family in the

water. I looked out and I could see the distress in the family, the

father and the mother, the two women and the children were all screaming,

help, help. I just didn't think, you said just go and help them, so I

took off my clothes, down to my boxers and swam out as fast as I

could. I got out to the family and just when I got out there, the

father, the window was half a jar, he was able to break it. I am

guessing the electrics broke, I was saying, please get out, the car is

going to go down and the father sat out on the ledge of the window and

the water started to seep in and he then handed me the baby infant and

he said, take the baby. I took the baby and I said someone else, I want

to help more people, but the water started going in and he just looked

at me and said... He just said saved my baby and then I took the baby. I

held it above my head and I swam back to shore. And that is what

happened. It must have been awful to have to leave them behind but at the

same time, you were saving a life. It was terrible. When I was

swimming, I didn't know how I was going to help them. I didn't know

what was going to happen. The baby was handed to me and when it

happened, the father looked at me and he had to make a decision. He

could have saved himself because he was out of the car but he went back

in to his family and I couldn't do anything else, the car went down,

the whole lot of it went down and then it was so fast and I took the

baby infant back into short, my girlfriend was waiting and have the

baby. I was exhausted and I just lay there on the algae, my girlfriend

took it, stripped the baby down and got her warm with the blankets on

her. So we saved the baby's life. The lead story tonight, President

Obama continues his trip to Cuba, he has met the President Raul Castro

and have agreed that despite the warming of relations, there are

still many differences between the two countries. Let's have a quick

look at what we have coming up. If you are watching outside of the UK,

there is a special live from Havana covering all elements of President

Obama's visit. Coming up next, expect much more on the political

infighting that is gripping Westminster following the dramatic

resignation of Iain Duncan Smith on Friday.

Well, there was confusion earlier at the trial of a Ukrainian pilot in

Russia. She's called Nadiya Savchenko, she is accused of killing

two Russian journalists with artillery fire in 2014. Quite a few

people thought the judge had delivered a guilty verdict during

his summing up but we must wait until tomorrow. The trial is taking

place in Donetsk. Very close to the border with Ukraine, definitely not

to be confused with the large Ukrainian city called Donetsk as

well. A TV journalist died near eastern Ukraine and Ukraine and some

Western countries have condemned the case as a show trial.

There has been a lot of confusion this morning because the judge

started to announce the verdict from summing up prosecutors' point of

view and some news channels perceived this as actually the

verdict itself and so they started announcing that she was found

guilty. This is not the case. The judge continues to announce the

verdict, so while they announcing procedure is on hold until tomorrow

morning, he will resume announcing the verdict, but he has not yet

announced whether or not she is guilty. I spoke to her lawyers today

and they both said they are expecting the court to announce her

being guilty and this case is highly politically motivated and both

Nadiya Savchenko and her lawyers stated that that they are not

expecting anything else from this trial, they are calling it a show

trial and they hope that she will be exchanged for two Russian

ex-military servicemen who are now on trial in Kiev. Very quickly, the

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