18/04/2016 Outside Source

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

An hour of international news live from right here in the BBC newsroom.

In Ecuador the death toll continues to rise.

It's reached 350 today - the search is going on for survivors.

Police in Jerusalem confirm that a device caused the explosion

There are three governments based in Tripoli these days -

the UN and the West is backing the latest one to be established.

We've the BBC's Middle East editor is in Libya to assess

The government are claiming that a vote to leave the EU would cost

every household thousands of pounds. the Amber Heard-Johnny Depp apology

video, we'll put that right. As I was mentioning, the death toll

in Ecuador from the weekend is 350. Rescue teams have been

flying into the affected region from Switzerland,

Spain and Latin America. The earthquake has devastated towns

along Ecuador's Pacific coast, We can pull up some of the picture

is coming and over the last few days. This was taken inside a shop

with things falling off the shelves and people getting it as fast as

they can. Quite hard to see these pictures because it is in the night

that followed but hundreds of emergency workers involved in trying

to get to the end you're done those who are stuck, and once the sun came

up the next day the extent of the devastation in a number of places

became clear. Also many tragedies in this story. There have been some

more positive stories as well. This is one child being rescued from a

collapsed building. Ecuador's ambassador to the UK spoke to the

BBC a few hours ago. I am still trying to contact some of my family

who are in the area of the earthquake, and until now I cannot.

We have lost around 80% of communication and we have lost also

80% of energy, so this is the problem we are facing right now.

That is the latest from Ecuador. Also at the weekend, they are worth

two earthquakes on the Japanese island in the south-west of the

country. 40 people have lost their lives that they are, and buildings,

roads and bridges have been damaged, and nearly one quarter of a million

people have been told to stay away from their homes because of fears of

another quake. These are two countries braving the terrible cost

and today in Austria a group of scientists have been meeting to put

a cost on this kind of national disasters. A huge estimate for the

cost of all national disasters since 1900, 7 trillion US dollars. We may

need more context to understand exactly what that is telling us.

Researchers have trawled through records going back to 1900, we have

digital media now and if you want to see anything older than that you

have to go through microfiches and they have analysed that data and

come up with this figure that covers the cost of things like earthquakes

and floods. Storms, that kind of thing. Looking at direct economic

losses of those kinds of events, and they have come up with the figure

for that period, 1900-2015, of 7 trillion US dollars. They have also

looked at the number of deaths and they say it is over 8 million. What

is the motivation in trying to come up with these figures? As we are

looking at what is going on in Ecuador and Japan, we can use this

type of analysis to do very quick estimates of what is likely to have

two be the response in those areas that are affected by natural

disasters. Very quickly, the seismologists put out reports was

then half an hour of any big earthquake telling you the likely

number of injuries and deaths. I get those alerts that come from the big

seismological survey groups around the world and it was very apparent

as Spooner as that in Ecuador that the death toll was likely to be in

the hundreds. You can use that type of analysis to assess the likely

economic damage of those events very rapidly, so in the case of Ecuador,

this type of analysis is suggesting they will be an impact of about $820

million, although that could rise to as much as $2 billion. To give you a

sense of the different status of Ecuador versus the highly

industrialised and advanced Japan, the impact from the events that we

saw there, those two earthquakes side-by-side, that could be about 12

billion US dollars in economic impact, and it could rise to as much

as 22 billion, so it gets the governments in those countries a

sense of how they will respond to those events to get people back on

their feet. In Brazil, President Rousseff's

problems worsened at the weekend. The lower house of parliament voted

to start impeachment Reuters uses the word crushing to

describe that particular vote. Next the upper house

will consider the idea - As you can see there

was much excitement. As there was on the streets

where big screens Certainly what that crowded went

down very well. The President is accused

of manipulating government accounts. This is also interesting from the

Financial Times who see this particular vote may be the start of

the transition. State the obvious,

if the President is suspended, then someone else will need

to step in. So those are some of the people who

could take over from the president. Inevitably this story

is raising lots of questions Stadiums are still

under construction. The velodrome is said to be

seriously behind schedule. And construction at the Deodoro

Olympic Complex has been postponed I should also say that

many of the main sites We have marked several of them.

Let's go live to Sao Paulo to talk about all of this. Starting with the

crisis rather than the Olympics, help me understand why so many of

the President's most loyal supporters have turned on her, that

has been surprising to see? The keyword coming from the President's

camp is betrayal. Many of them met with the former president just a few

hours before the vote and they were promising to vote from the

government and then turned against them. It is a situation where all

the smaller parties that are part of the ruling coalition, they have

autonomy to decide what they want to do and for a long time they were

with the government because they held ministerial positions and had

good jobs and access to big budgets, and it is how the Brazilian

political system works. Now they have a vice president who could

become the next president and he could offer the very same things, so

people basically jumping from one ship to another, and it has been

interesting to see the International coverage for the story which keeps

referencing the Olympics. I look at the coverage inside Brazil and it

doesn't seem to be mentioned as often. Is it being linked, these two

stories together? The Olympic Games were awarded to Brazil a long time

ago and it seems like a completely different country back then. Brazil

was a very strong economy back then, an emerging star in the developing

world, and it fell into a very different narrative than right now.

This is a country in crisis but a lot of the infrastructure has been

built already and the a lot of the planning has already been executed,

so the Olympic Games are not too much centre stage right now. The

central question in Brazil is how can the country recover from its

worst political and economic crisis in over two decades. And it is

proving a complicated story to cover, tell us the chronology. What

happens from the? In a few hours, President Dilma Rousseff will give a

statement to the press, she will even speak to some journalists and

take some questions, the first time we will hear from our about what

happened last night, but we may have a period of about three weeks before

this is voted on by the Senate and that promises to be very slow in

terms of management Brazilian problems, because Congress is not

going to do anything. After that, if the Senate approves the motion,

Dilma Rousseff asked to immediately stepped down for six months and work

on her defence. Appreciate the updates, live from Sao Paulo. Next

we come to a really important health story in China. Just about the most

followed in the country today. Lots of questions being asked

about why a school was built on a site previously used

by three chemical plants. Hundreds of its pupils have become

sick - some with coughs, others with far more serious

illnesses like lymphoma This is Jiangsu Province -

the school opened in September That was reported this

Sunday by CCTV News, the state broadcaster,

saying that five out of every six children that

were tested had severe illness. But that kind of report

is counter-reported by the city government,

saying, we have done our assessment this March, and the result is saying

there aren't many cases where students got illness,

so I think there are Obviously the education

minister says we take the matter very seriously,

we sent a team to investigate, then we need to wait

and find the result, but obviously this is an issue

that is so sensitive with the Chinese people,

it has really touched on raw nerves. And that is why the contaminated

school is the biggest story 37 million people are reading

the story and 100,000 people are talking about that,

because people are putting it in the context of saying,

OK, President Xi Jinping, you launched your anti-corruption

campaign, and that is all very well, but how how does this scandal

and scare fit into your agenda? More on that story from BBC Chinese

online. If you have spent any time on social media today it was very

difficult to avoid this. Those are a little bit of a video released by

Johnny Depp and Amber Heard, saying sorry for bringing their dogs into

Australia and an incorrect way. Here in the

Here in the UK - the Court of Appeal have said that an injunction

which barred the media from reporting the details

of a celebrity's private life should be lifted,

but we still can't report the details of the celebrity

involved, as our media correspondent David Sillito explains.

This will almost certainly go to the Supreme Court sought will remain

secret until then, why does this matter? Imported was described as a

battle between the new rule of law and the role of the press. What has

changed is the information has got out in places where the injunction

has got no force, Scotland, America, the intranet. This means the legal

landscape has changed and many have said that it is finally lifted

because of this, injunction, a major shift in the law

of privacy. Welcome to the BBC newsroom. Our

lead story. Rescuers are still pulling people

from the rubble in Ecuador. BBC Arabic is reporting

on the Syria Peace talks. Opposition representatives

are threatening to walk out. Rebel groups have attacked

government forces in the north-western saying the army

is violating the truce. It's been revealed that last year,

the Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov had a salary four times more

than Vladimir Putin's. Mr Peskov says he inherited a large

amount of money from his father. One of these top stories on the BBC

News website. There will be a very important dinner party hosted by

William and Kate, hosting President Obama and Michelle Obama.

At the end of March, a new Libyan government

Now the UN and the West is trying to shore it up.

The British foreign secretary is there.

Philip Hammond says he's in Tripoli to welcome important progress.

French, Italian and German officials are doing the same thing.

The situation in Libya is impossibly complex.

It has had two other governments since 2014.

One in Tripoli controlled by Islamists.

The other in Tobruk - 1000 kilometres away -

Then between the two is Sirte which is controlled

That's not the only place where they operate.

Last month the US carried out air strikes on IS positions close

to Sabratha, and French special forces are known to be

It is an incredibly complex situation.

Our Middle East Editor Jeremy Bowen is in Tripoli.

Here are his thoughts on the challenges faced by Libya.

This is the naval base in Tripoli, the Libyan capital. At at the moment

it is about as far as the power of the new government runs. They had to

sail end because opponents here in Libya close the airspace. The

challenge is to try to make alliances with the different militia

groups and drives that control this country and try to spread their

influence out. It is going to be a tall order. The idea is that this

can bring stability of some sort to Libya, a country which has pretty

much been an chaos ever since the uprising that toppled Colonel

Gaddafi in 2011. President Obama in a recent interview said that perhaps

the biggest regret of his presidency was the fact that after 2011 the

Americans didn't work harder to stabilise Libya, and he hoped the

Europeans, the British and French, would have done more of what he

called the heavy lifting. Maybe that is starting somewhat belatedly now.

Let's start on business. It's too simplistic to say

they are caused by oversupply - but reducing supply remains

the easiest and quickest solution - and once again producers have

failed to agree to do it. Given that many of these countries

need higher oil prices to balance their budgets,

this all begs the question - why? Let's go live to New York to talk

about this. What is the motivation to not reduce supply? Apparently,

Iran refused to sign up to any deal and Saudi Arabia made a condition

that without Iran's involvement it wouldn't. This left essentially cox

falling apart, as one person put it, geopolitics rearing its ugly head

again when it comes to Saudi Arabian oil policy, and this comes at a

difficult time because as you see many Opec countries are on the

brink, countries like Angola, who have had to go to the IMF for help.

Others, Venezuela, the economy has been so crippled in part due to

problems with the falling oil price that they have even had to cut hours

of the work week, so for some members, they can ill afford to see

low oil prices continue. But is this just about supply, or is it about a

fundamental shift in the nature of the energy consumption habits of the

world? In this particular case, a lot of focus has been on supply more

than OnDemand. The other aspect of this, and I was in North Dakota

recently and from we are set, American oil producers see it as a

price war between Saudi Arabia and the US shale producers who have

helped to flood the market and help drive some of the price shifts we

have seen. Interestingly, what people are now saying is that he

will start to see market forces taking effect and worth the price so

low you will see the US and other non-OPEC countries begin to produce

less oil land that could help achieve what Opec in this particular

instance has not, which is to freeze output. An interesting tweet saying

the Opec failure to reach a deal shows Saudi Arabia hates ran even

more than it hates losing money. A quick report for you about two

sisters in America, huge fans of romantic fiction, and they have

taken that to another level opening a book shop dedicated to the genre.

The fact that up till now the bestselling genre in America didn't

have its own book store didn't seem fair to us. You have comic book

stores and science stories, all of which combined, Romance sells more

than. We deserve our own book store to.

It is a really interesting when you look at teenage girls, you look at

things like Twilight, and the is just an inherent dismissal of

whatever teenage girls like, despite the fact they have huge buying power

and should not be dismissed and I think that extends to women of all

ages. And even if there is not a dismissal there is a demeaning of

what young women enjoy, as though by enjoying it it somehow doesn't have

worth. Just trying to work out if that was a cardboard cutout of a

naked man in the background. I will have to watch that report again.

Let's turn to Australia because things have been getting strange.

At least they have in a place called Southport on the Gold Coast.

The American actress Amber Heard and her husband Johnny Depp

Here they are making their way through the scrum.

declaring their two dogs when she flew in last year to visit

Amber Heard admitted falsifying quarantine documents and has been

She will not be in the country so we are not sure what that will mean.

The two of them also released a bizarre video apology.

If you're not one of the millions who've already watched it.

Australia is free of many pests and diseases that are found around the

world. When you disrespect as Julian la they will get you for it. I am

truly sorry that it was not declared. Protecting Australia is

important. They cleared everything if you go to Australia. Thank you.

And that was that. Very, very surreal indeed,

one wonders whether that is going to be featuring

in the Australian Tourism Board's promotional videos at

sometime in the future. That actually went out on YouTube

yesterday and one wonders whether it went some way to what seems to have

been a deal that has been done The two more serious charges

of illegally importing Just one charge which

she pleaded guilty to - falsifying quarantine documents,

which basically means ticking the wrong box on those pieces

of paper you get when flying That was apparently blamed on one

of her personal assistants. I think there are people asking,

you know, given the enormous expense of this - I mean,

these two flew in on a private jet from Hawaii yesterday,

they'll be jetting out tomorrow, there is all the big expensive legal

teams, a huge amount of police here and security today -

was it really worth it, when all we have got out

of it is a one-month probation period, which is pretty meaningless

really, given that she's not going to be spending much time

in Australia over the next month, and I wouldn't imagine she'd be

bringing those two dogs, Pistol and Boo, back

here any time soon. Let's look at some of the stories we

will cover in the next half an hour. We have got Bernie Sanders and the

New York primary is to speak about in the next few minutes and also

snake charmer is in India.