21/04/2016 Outside Source

Start with some new studies meant he -- that is being suggested around

the world. We will be looking back on the extraordinary life of, the

mild who is meant to have is -- the mild who has sold millions of albums

around the world. Also, celebrations as Queen Elizabeth turns 90. We will

have the pictures of the day. We have warnings that more than two

people around the world could be at risk of the Zika virus. We will look

at where these places are and what is being done to keep as many people

as possible say. If you have any question on the day's News, tweet

using the hashtag. Just under three hours ago this

started coming through on the news wires into the newsroom. Have very

short statement telling us that the publicist for Prince was confirming

that he had died at his home in suburban Minneapolis. He was only

57. Paisley Park is in Minneapolis. It

was his home, his studio, very closely associated with his career.

It was in Minneapolis in 1958 that he was born. Today, first we heard

that something was terribly wrong game in this news story. Last week

Prince had told the website he had been fighting the flu for several

weeks. We knew he had cancelled a couple of shows that we had no idea

that his illness was so serious. The news reverberated around the world.

It is hard to overestimate the importance of him to his fans.

Justin Timberlake saying that he is numb and stand and it can't be real.

Whoopie Goldberg saying this is what it sounds like when doves cry. It is

striking how many musicians from so many generations are celebrating

what's meant to him. -- what Prince meant to them.

# I never meant to cause you any sorrow #.

Prince, one of the greatest pop stars of the last 40 years is dead.

# I only wanted one time to see you laughing #.

Shock, disbelief - a silent vigil of fans have gathered

Some of them said they had they had seen him only a few days ago -

a reassuring sight after hearing of a medical emergency which had

forced his private jet to make an emergency landing.

It was said at the time that he was feeling better,

Then, today, police were called to his home here in Minnesota where

# Maybe I am just like my father, too bold #.

We have lost one of the pop's most creative talents.

He would sometimes play every instrument on an album.

Few could touch him as a live performer.

His sound in the 80s fusing Rock and R

But there were long periods of conflict with his record label.

He dropped his name in protest, but in recent years many

His live performances revelling in a song book

At just 57, those songs, that extraordinary creativity,

Prince recorded so many iconic track and albums with some incredibly

well-known covers. This is 1999 that went four times platinum. This is

his bestselling album, purple rain. It won an Academy award. That one

third team times platinum. Diamonds and pearls came later, then

anticipation. All of the massive sellers, not just in the US but

beyond as well. Lizo Mzimba is here. I think we are all still taking the

same. Take us right back to where this young talent emerged. For many

people, it was the early 1980s, that double album 1999, followed by

purple rain, also of them for which won an Oscar, he was an incredible

talent even at that young age. For albums in the last 18 months. He

played Atlanta last week. Shocking news for everybody. Music fans. We

have just had a statement through from President Obama saying that he

and Michelle join millions of fans morning. He described him as a

creative icon and said that his thoughts and prayers are with his

family and everybody who loved him. That sums up all the thoughts and

the tributes that have been paid to him. He is one of those artists that

nobody doubts... He could play, Sting, write, produce, and

incredible stage presence. He could fill the biggest arenas for the

smallest venues with incredible charisma and talent. Truly one of

the greats. One of the things I find interesting about him, you can talk

about him in the same breath as James Brown, also one of the great

pop writers. He managed to fuse all of these different jongleurs and

make something new. That was part of his genius, you could take so many

different kinds of music and fuse them into something that sounded

incredibly original. He experimented so much throughout his career.

Either the people didn't like his music they find it interesting

because he was succeeding in things of the succeeded in. So much of the

music you played and recorded was either whites were never released.

So much unheard Prince music. Such a tragedy that there will be no more

music from him, unless the music from his faults is released. Sad

news for his fans, but the real tragedy is with his friends and

family. It is remarkable how relevant he is to the new generation

of musicians. Everybody's name checking him. Absolutely, because he

was so influential. People looked at him not just in terms of his music.

He could do much more than that. He understood publicity and the media

is so well. At one point he cold himself a symbol. He did what many

artists wanted to do and fought for more freedom from his record label,

writing slave across himself at one point, doing something that few

other artists have the power to do. Musicians respected him not just as

a musician, but also somebody fighting for how they felt the music

industry should work. That made him so visionary. Thank you very much

for coming by. There is a light page on the BBC News website and the news

app if you want to see more reaction to the news that Prince has died in

Minneapolis at the age of 57. Want to turn to some of the

celebrations we have seen taking place around the UK to mark the

Queen's 90th birthday. All day long pictures have been coming into the

BBC newsroom. The Queen did walk through some of the streets of

winter. Thousands and thousands of people turned out. In places it was

15 people. Lots of people wanting to take photographs. These huge crowds

turning eyed, waving the union Jack. There was also 21 gun salute in the

region's capitals. The Queen let one of the 900 beacons that are burning

currently all around the country. This is the one at the Tower of

London. Annie Leibovitz was commissioned to take pictures of the

Queen and her 90th birthday. These are pictures of her with her

great-grandchildren. She was also pictured walking around the grounds

of Windsor Castle with her dogs. This one but her sitting with her

daughter, the Princess Royal. Nicholas Witchell has this report.

She may be a Queen who lives in a castle.

But there was still only one piece of music which was

There were flowers and cards by the armful and, above all, perhaps,

a great sense of gratitude for so many decades of service.

Close by, as ever, the Duke of Edinburgh.

His role in support today, to help gather the bouquets.

At Windsor Guildhall, there was that prerequisite

It had been baked specially for the Queen by Nadya Hussain,

the winner of the BBC's The Great British Bake Off.

The one thing I never set my sights on was ever meeting the Queen

And there were other 90-year-olds to meet,

men and women whose lives have moved along in parallel

I never really imagine that I would meet her.

I never imagined I would be 90, let's face it!

As the Queen stepped out in Windsor, gun salutes were fired in

Buckingham Palace issued this photograph of the Queen with two

of her grandchildren and her five great-grandchildren -

the youngest of whom, Princess Charlotte, is sitting

on her lap, next to her brother, Prince George.

The wider world has also been paying its birthday tributes,

led in the House of Commons by the Prime Minister,

who recalled the 64 years the Queen has been on the throne.

Throughout it all, as the sands of culture shift, and the tides

of politics ebb and flow, Her Majesty has been steadfast.

A rock of strength for our nation, for our Commonwealth,

and, on many occasions, for the whole world.

The Leader of the Opposition is a Republican.

Today, we are talking about a highly-respected

And, Mr Speaker, whatever differing views people across this country

have about the institution, the vast majority share an opinion

that Her Majesty has served this country and has overwhelming support

with a clear sense of public service and public duty.

Back in Windsor, on this first day of her tenth decade,

Elizabeth II was doing what she has done for so much of her long

A greatly respected monarch at close quarters with her people, receiving

Nicholas Witchell, BBC News, Windsor.

One of the most popular items online about the Queen's is a picture from

every year of her life. You can find that on the front page of the BBC

News website. We have more warnings about the Zika virus and who could

be at risk. Our third of us could be at risk. We will explain the areas

that the researchers are focusing on and what they are suggesting is to

be done to protect people. The stars and stripes at half-mast

outside Columbine high school. The bodies of the dead still inside. I

never thought that they would actually go through with it.

Some places have already had nearly as much rain as they would expect in

an entire year. For millions of Americans the death of Richard Nixon

has meant conflicting emotions. A national day of mourning next

Wednesday sitting uneasy with the abiding memories of the shame of

Watergate. And liftoff of the space shuttle discovery with the Hubble

space telescope, Arwyn Jones on the universe.

We are live here in the BBC newsroom. Our lead story is that

Prince has died at his home in Minnesota. He was 57. Let's have a

look at some of the other main stories from the World Service. This

fund BBC Chinese. The president of China has taken on new military

title, he is my commander-in-chief of the military joint operations

command centre. This means that he has even more control over the Armed

Forces. World Service radio is reporting that the Belgium Interior

Minister has come under fire for saying that a significant part of

the Muslim community danced in response to the Brussels attacks.

Fifa's former President Sepp Blatter says he intervened in Burundi's

political crisis and that he offered the president of Burundi and job as

a Fifa ambassador in an effort to get him to stand down. That offer

was declined in the president went on to win a third term.

We have talked about the Zika virus a lot and there is a new warning

about it today. More than a quarter of the world's population is living

in areas that are at risk. The areas are marked in red. We're talking

about certain parts of Asia, some parts of Africa and some parts of

South America. Last week the US Centre for disease control concluded

that the Zika virus when a pregnant woman has a ten cars microcephily

and other fatal brain defects in the baby. The World Health Organisation

is saying there may have been over 200,000 suspect cases just in the

Americas since the start of last year. There have only been six and a

half thousand confirmed cases. To get more help on this story we can

turn to James Gallagher. The research that compiled these maps,

I'm not saying that every single person in an area of the world

highlighted in red are going to get the Zika virus, but those are the

areas where the Zika virus could be transferred from one person to

another. The huge swathes of Africa and the coastal areas of Asia. A fit

of cases develop physical symptoms. Four fifths of case that you could

not confirm them. Even if everybody in this room have the virus to could

only tell a few because they would show signs. The brain defect has

been confirmed by the US authorities. I was interested that

one of the researchers highlighted African megacities as being an area

that would pose particular risk. One of the things they have done in the

studies is looking at where the Zika virus has managed to drive so far.

They've looked at the density of human populations, the temperature,

the climate and then looked at where in the world could do well. Africa

comes out as one of these places that has dense populations and that

is something that the Zika virus does well in. It seems to need

densely packed human populations to spread easily. If you go to more

sparsely populated areas doesn't at all. Has been in Africa before? It

was first detected decades ago. We don't know if Africa has high levels

of immunity to the Zika virus and that is why we haven't seen these

you judge the survey have seen in South America. For all we know,

Africa and Asia would be affected by it at all. Progress in understanding

the risks. Any progress in stopping the virus? Dealing with the

mosquitoes at source? There is on that development to go on to try to

get a vaccine. At the moment, the main effort around controlling the

mosquito. There are some climate changes that are helpful as we head

into a drier part of the year. That reduces the number of mosquitoes.

That is still a huge issue and is almost impossible to eliminate them

completely. We will stay focused on South America because we have the

latest for you on the earthquake in Ecuador. It happened on Saturday and

we know at least 570 people have died but others missing. The

president of Ecuador is saying repairing the damage will cost in

the region of $3 billion. Here is his suggestion of how to pay for it.

In accordance with what the state of emergency allies we were add 2% of

the sales tax for one year. Also there will be a one-time tax of 3%

on profits and a one-time tax on .9% on individuals with assets over $1

million. We will take a of salary from those who earn over $1000 a

month. That is the long-term plan to pay for the problems created by this

earthquake. The search goes on for survivors. Katy Watson has this

report. The death toll keeps rising. One of

the's children has asthma but with no home to go to and the fear of

after-shocks, sleeping out in the open air is the only option.

TRANSLATION: it is too terrible. I have never thought of meeting such

things. My family barely escape from the disaster that night. The police

officers gave a couple of mattresses to my children. There is nothing

left. My house and the articles inside have been damaged by the

earthquake. The country's president has called for people to be patient.

TRANSLATION: the country must make move the stake -- make no mistake.

This will take years. Opportunistic polluters have started picking two

people's belongings, taking what they can. Residents I spoke to hear

taught me that the thieves were in the community too. TRANSLATION: I

was littered with good at it with me everything that is left because my

whole house is destroyed. As people tried to pick up their lives there

was another earthquake on Wednesday, 6.1. There were no reports of damage

but, then again, no cities in the area -- cities in the area have

already been destroyed. Search and rescue teams have not given up hope.

Night and day they are looking for any signs of life. This week the

Indian government has stated that at least 330 million people are

affected by the current drought. A BBC pop-up team is in India. It has

visited one village in utter Pradesh to learn about the struggles of

living away from water. I... It is the driest it has been in

California in a years of recorded history. India has seen more than 40

severe droughts in the last 200 years. If I want you to my friends

have to request a glass of water, not immediately served with that. In

India, they have to go for miles for a glass of water.

We will have more coverage of the news that temp three has died in the

next 30 minutes. -- Prince has died. We will give you a flavour of the UK

weather seen in a couple of minutes. First, let's head over to India

where at the tail end of 2015 many hundreds were killed and thousands

displaced from their homes