31/03/2016 Outside Source

Hello welcome to outside source, at least 18 people are dead after a

flyover collapsed in Calcutta in India, we will hear from our Indian

correspondent who is there. South Africa's top court has ruled that

the president violated the concert you by not paying back public funds,

used to upgrade his residence. Amnesty International said that

workers building one of the flagship stadiums for Qatar 2022 World Cup

are being abused. And the British Iraqi architect Zaha Hadid has died

aged 65, she has designed iconic buildings all around the world

including the aquatic Centre for the London Olympics. Don't forget you

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Emergency services in India are working frantically to rescue people

that are trapped under a collapsed flyover. It happened in the city of

Calcutta in one of the most densely populated neighbourhoods, at least

20 people have been killed and it is still not yet clear exactly how many

more are feared trapped. One of the tweets coming in from one of the

papers, they said that the manager behind the construction called it an

act of God. We have been following this all very closely, let us hear a

little bit more, an update on this story.

This is normally one of Kolkata's busiest areas,

Shoppers had been heading to the City's largest market

at midday when the flyover collapsed and people fled for their lives,

some escaped but eyewitnesses say that many are still trapped.

Loved ones are coming here desperately seeking

information as to what has happened to their relatives.

The police are having to use wooden sticks to move

them away as they try to get more and more equipment into this area.

Every minute more ambulances are leaving the scene and taking

The Army is leading the rescue operations -

they are using thermal cameras to try to find those missing

and have brought in cranes to remove the rubble.

Many locals have described the initial

For the first few hours volunteers used

their bare hands to try to move huge slabs of concrete which had people

This rescue operation will continue into the night,

as one of India's largest cities tries to deal with what one

local politician has called a monumental tragedy.

Let us turn to South Africa, their president has been taught by the

highest court that he has to return some of the money spent on upgrading

his home. His residence has expanded significantly since he first

occupied it. It is thought that $23 million of public money has been

spent. This was taken back in 2012 and the government says that the

upgrades war for security, but critics say that doesn't explain the

summing pool, the Abbey Theatre, the Catling closure or the chicken run.

We are outside of the concert usual court in Johannesburg, and it was a

ruling that was pretty bad against Jacob Zuma has just been made. The

opposition are smelling blood and they want to impeach him, because

the judge said that President Zuma failed to uphold the Constitution.

Now as they say after all of the drama, the ball is in the Court of

the ANC. They have a few options available, they can either follow an

impeachment process, that has now been started by the opposition and

vote against their own president in Parliament, when they recalled the

former president, the other option of course is just to stick it out

and keep going with the president. Let us move to an old from Nasa list

Serbian politician who was found not guilty of war crimes during the

Balkan wars in the 1990s. The UN tribunal for war crimes in the

former Yugoslavia found that the prosecution was unable to

substantiate any of the nine counts against him. They related to the

forced removal of thousands of Croats and Muslims from their homes.

He was quoted saying, that this time:

it is what the Croatian Prime Minister said: it has been one of

the great courtroom dramas, an epic in fact, 13 years since he

surrendered to the tribunal, finally the day of judgment had arrived. The

defendant himself was absent on health grounds. Relating to crimes

against humanity, the court reached a majority verdict, one dissenting,

that the accusation was not proven beyond all reasonable doubt, that a

generalised systematic attack was launched on the non-Serbian civilian

population in the vast majority of Croatia and Bosnia. It established

there was an armed conflict between enemy military forces with civilian

components. The prosecutor in the opinion of the majority did not

paint a picture which clearly showed that civilians were targeted and

mass even though they did not take part in the combat. Acquitted on all

nine charges, it meant vindication for the radical party leader. The

poster says he is a winner and his party is running in next month

general election in Serbia. He is no longer the populist firebrand of the

1990s. He has the come a marginal figure in a country moving towards

European Union membership. Today he's not even Oakley the same as he

was before he went to the Hague tribunal, today he is the leader of

a party that will probably reach the election threshold. In public life I

would say that he is one of the weakest political figures today in

Serbia. That is reflected in lower attendance in rallies, the

ultranationalist line no longer appeals, they have seen wearing lead

them in the 1990s and the verdict in the Hague is unlikely to produce a

political revival for him and his allies. Now too sad news, the Iraqi

born architect Zaha Hadid has died after a heart attack in a Miami

hospital where she was treated for bronchitis. The 60 Five Rd was the

first person to receive a medal for her work. They have been

commissioned all over the world including the London aquatic centre,

and another one is this centre in Azerbaijan's capital backed coup,

and also what would have been a national stadium in Tokyo although

that was actually cancelled by the Japanese government. Somebody who

has a BA Honours in interior design, works at the BBC is with us on

outside source to talk to us a bit about this woman. How did you see

her work and the woman? I mean I loved her work and she was a great

inspiration to me and to a lot of other people like me, but just

architects. She was a very strong powerful woman, she was bold, she

was brave, she was unexpected and that was reflected on her design and

that is what made her so brilliant. She dared to imagine, she had

visions that she made them happen. Queen of the curb, many would say

that she was the most famous and well-known female architect. But she

might have had an issue with being described that way? Yes I mean, if I

think she was here, from having met her a few times and gone to her

lectures, if she was here right now she would have objected to that. She

wasn't just a female architect, she was an architect and she was great

at it. She would have said there was no reason to differentiate her from

the rest of her peers. She wasn't just a good architect, she was a

great architect and she was a female architect. I think that is what made

her such an inspiration. She did not see her background or her being a

female as an obstacle. She wanted to do something and she went better

than she did it. Did you have a favourite building? Not ready, I

like all of her work, the organic shapes, fluidity. I love the fact,

that her buildings reflected how modern age. We live in an age of

speed and technology and you could see that in her designs, look at the

building in Azerbaijan, the cultural centre. It was so beautiful and it

just blends in with the landscape. The colours, the textures, the

materials and it reminds me of that furniture that she'd assigned. She

did the most beautiful 3-D printed shoes. And recently, with her

jewellery collection. Thank you for speaking to us. Coming up in the

programme shortly, more about Donald Trump, the hopefuls about abortion,

he says that women should be punished about abortion, before

changing his mind, he says now the doctor should be held responsible.

Prime Minister David Cameron has said that he would do everything he

could to help the steel industry, he ruled out nationalising Tata Steel

plants, something that Labour has called for. Let us hear more from Mr

Cameron and John McDonnell of labour. Those jobs are vital to work

as families and communities and the government will do everything it

can, working with the company to try and secure the future of

steel-making in Port Talbot and across the country. It is a vital

industry. I don't believe that nationalisation is the right answer,

we wanted to secure a long-term future for Port Talbot and other

parts of the United Kingdom. If there is not a buyer it will have

two be nationalised to stabilise and then we will look at investment

strategy for the long-term future. In that way buyers make emerge, but

we have got to secure the industry in the short term to give us those

options. This is outside source live from the BBC newsroom, our top

story. At least 18 people are dead after a flyover collapsed in

Calcutta in India, dozens more people are thought to be trapped

under the rubble. Let us take a look at some of the stories, the BBC

language services covering today. Turkish news agency says that people

were killed and wounded in an explosion near the bus terminal, in

the south-east of the country. BBC Turkish has more on that. More than

60 years after the end of the Korean War, remains of the 36 Chinese

soldiers who died fighting against South Korea have been returned home,

it is seen as a sign of warming relations between the countries and

BBC Chinese is covering that story. Residents have been forced to leave

their homes in the mobile home park, after a large sinkhole appeared. It

is 18 metres wide, and ten metres deep and it is partially filled with

water. It is one of the most read stories on the BBC News application

right now. Let us turn to this story, President Obama is hosting a

nuclear Security summit in Washington. They will look at how to

respond to the threat posed by the North Korean nuclear programme John

Yang has ordered more nuclear tests. Let us look at which countries

currently have nuclear arms. let us cross over to Gary who is in

Washington, good to have you with us. We were just watching a little

explainer talking about Russia not being involved in 2014, they're not

there again. What can be achieved without one of the biggest players?

It is a crucial question ready because if you think about it,

Russia and the US account for something like 90% of the world's

nuclear weapons, most of the fissile material around the world is sited

either here in the United States or in Russia so these agreements really

should have, to have any fall should have the backing of the two big

nuclear powers like that. What because of the state of relations

between Washington and Moscow, over the last couple of years, Vladimir

Putin is not here. I think that will lead a lot of people to say to what

extent can only one of the big nuclear power is actually enforce

some of these agreements and the sanctions, and these deals around

the world, when Russia simply isn't here? It is something that President

Obama really wanted to make a mark with, the clock is ticking. What can

he do do you think? Focus on North Korea? Back in 2009 he set this as

one of his major foreign policy goals, nuclear de-escalation, a

whole tonne proliferation. He would halt on the big deal he has got on

the Iran nuclear deal, he would also tell you that around a dozen

countries have handed over their stockpiles of nuclear material. But

that does leave tonnes of this material around the world. People

are concerned that that may fall into the hands of groups like

Islamic State, they might not be able to build a weapon but they

could deliver a dirty bomb, explodes this stuff in the middle of an urban

environment and cause devastation. And as you say, North Korea testing

a nuclear weapons, testing weapons technology, a big concern for

countries like Japan and South Korea in the region. President Obama in

the last few minutes, speaking to the Chinese president about what

pressure China is prepared to put on North Korea to stop that programme.

A major part of this summit. Thank you very much, Gary O'Donoghue

speaking to us in Washington, DC. Let us turn to our business news and

start with Argentina, their parliament has approved a deal, to

see creditors finally repaid and make a long awaited return to

international debt markets. The default made a costly for Argentina

to borrow money, today is seen as a big win for the new president, and

for his economic policy. Good to have you with us. So they will be

able to borrow money again but they have quite a bit of money to pay

before that would be allowed? How are they gain to do that? They have

to pay a lot of money in order to be allowed to borrow money, it is about

getting the record clean abroad. There is a date for that payment to

be made, about April 14 and there is a lot of money that Argentina needs

to come up with. It hopes to go back to the bond markets as soon as

possible. The president says that Argentina will pay that debt by

April 14 and get out of the default situation. But, it is still two

weeks from now that we will see how they are edgy going to pull this

off. How might this affect the average Argentinian, will they see

their economy improved, or the day-to-day life improved with this

new deal? This is all about getting Argentina out of its inflationary

spiral, prices are going up all the time in Argentina, part of that is

because every time Argentina has internal debts coming up, it needs

to print more money in order to pay those debts. Now that they can go to

the international market, that is a way, to not have two print money and

keeping prices down in the economy. The hope is that in the medium and

the long-term Argentinians are going to have more money and prices will

be under control, that is one of the key problems of the Argentinian

economy right now. We had President Obama down in Argentina, looking for

perhaps hoping for a bit of trade when it comes to Argentina, how do

you think he is doing, what are they saying about that? Externally he was

an important element, the ruling said that the fact that this

president was showing good faith was showing a signal that the creditors

should accept a deal with the president but internally it is not

that simple. He won the election by a tiny margin and he still has a lot

of convincing to do in his own country. A lot of people see him

with suspicious eyes and part of the country did not vote for him so

there is still a long test, for Macri although he can get a deal

done that might benefit Argentina in the medium-term. Thank you very much

for speaking to us from Sao Paulo. France is facing a day of strikes

and protests, they are over proposed reforms to the country's labour

laws, at the heart of it, the government wants the end to the 35

hour working week, the shortest of any European country, which it says

is keeping unemployment levels at record levels. Let us hear more from

Lucy Williamson in Paris. For an electric that often says it wants

change, the messages can sometimes be hard to unravel. Unemployment is

running at more than 10%. The economy comes top of voter concerns.

But the government's proposed solution is not proving popular. In

several towns across France, police fired tear gas in a bid to stop

students pelting them with stones. Dozens have been arrested. The

proposed reforms will make it easier for companies to negotiate over time

and other terms with their employees, and make it easier for

them to lay off workers in the hope of encouraging them to create more

jobs. It will give us more comfort in recruiting. We need to know that

we have some flexibility when workload drops. To be able to reduce

staff. We have not done that yet. But it is an important issue for us.

But union representatives say that lay-offs have already been

happening. And that workers need more protection, not less. The

reality is that it is already easy for companies to lay off their

workers. Take a look at the job cuts that are passed as a conventional

rupture. The number of these ruptures has gone through the roof

but it was meant to be a tool for employees to leave their company. In

fact is allows for companies to get rid of their workers so the small

company boss already has all of the tools to cut jobs easily. Today's

demonstrations were the latest in a series of protests designed to block

the reforms, hundreds of thousands of thought to have marched against

the bill in dozens of towns and cities. The government has already

watered down some of its proposals but says it won't be forced to drop

them. We've had this high unemployment level for the last 30

years, it is necessary that people express their worries, some trade

unions are using the right to be on strike and demonstrate and it is

legitimate. It is also legitimate that the youth express their rigs

are spray should, but concerning protests today, there are many

different calls for protests. There is exotic array and on topics other

than labour reform. There is not a united front for trade unions

demonstrating today. The French president is keen to show that he

can get real change before Franche chooses a real new leader, he has

bad not to run unless unemployment falls. But the prospect of a

healthier economy is much easier to sell than the medicine describes to

get there. -- prescribed to get there. Today is a big day for the

entrepreneur Elon Musk, they are unveiling them all three electric

car in California. The company is touting it as the first mass-market

car and one that an everyday commuter can easily afford. Let us

hear more, standing by in New York for us. So much anticipation, tell

us more? That is right, a lot of hype surrounding this. People are

starting to compare him and Tesla to Apple in terms of the mythic product

launches. But it is fair to say that this company has a lot riding on

this success. People are talking about it as a game changer because

the company is aiming to produce a mass-market electric vehicle. The

price tag is thought to be around about $35,000. It is still not that

cheap, it puts it in competition with BMW, Acura, Mercedes, rather

than at the lower end of the market. But, Tesla will need to convince

consumers, that this is a good bet, that the sticker price is worth it,

if it is to succeed in making any money essentially off a mass-market

car which traditionally has lower profit margins. Thank you very much,

we will have to wait and see what it looks at. There are something is

being leaked online but it is all to come a bit later in the coming hours

in California. Do stay with us, outside sources back for another

half-hour. I hope you can join us. For this half-hour, goodbye.