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Hello, I'm Ros Atkins, this is Outside Source. | :00:08. | :00:10. | |
Stories tonight from Canada, Bangladesh and North Korea. | :00:11. | :00:13. | |
We'll start with the top story in the UK. | :00:14. | :00:16. | |
David Cameron has ruffled a few feathers with his comments | :00:17. | :00:18. | |
We have got some leaders of some fantastically corrupt countries | :00:19. | :00:33. | |
coming to Britain. Nigeria and Afghanistan, possibly the two most | :00:34. | :00:35. | |
The Nigerian government says it's shocked and embarrassed. | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
We'll hear from our Diplomatic correspondent. | :00:40. | :00:41. | |
Also Bangladesh has executed the leader of the country's largest | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
We'll hear from BBC Bengali in Dhaka. | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
A BBC investigation has discovered that over 1700 unidentified people | :00:49. | :00:51. | |
have been buried in unmarked graves, after dying while trying to cross | :00:52. | :00:59. | |
We've the BBC's latest report from North Korea. | :01:00. | :01:01. | |
The ruling party's congress has finished with this parade. | :01:02. | :01:05. | |
And the last ever match at West Ham's Boleyn Ground | :01:06. | :01:11. | |
is happening right now before they move to the Olympic | :01:12. | :01:13. | |
We were update you on the game. Last time I checked it was 1-0 to West | :01:14. | :01:40. | |
We'll go to Dhaka to hear about the execution of the leader | :01:41. | :01:45. | |
of the country's largest Islamist party. | :01:46. | :01:52. | |
That dates back to France in 1971. -- crimes. | :01:53. | :02:01. | |
Also get an update on the wildfires in Canada. | :02:02. | :02:03. | |
The better knews is that the city at the heart of them isn't | :02:04. | :02:06. | |
Later this week the British government will be hosting a major | :02:07. | :02:17. | |
international conference aimed at tackling corruption. | :02:18. | :02:19. | |
And this clip has emerged of David Cameron talking | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
to the Queen about some of the countries attending. | :02:24. | :02:49. | |
Just to explain who you can see in the clip. | :02:50. | :02:52. | |
As well as the Prime Minister and the Queen, this | :02:53. | :02:55. | |
is the Speaker of the House of Commons John Bercow, | :02:56. | :02:57. | |
the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby and Chris Grayling, | :02:58. | :03:01. | |
So what the truth to Cameron's assertions? | :03:02. | :03:10. | |
Every year Transparency International ranks | :03:11. | :03:15. | |
countries on corruption, this is the latest table. | :03:16. | :03:18. | |
Afghanistan is third worst behind North Korea and Somalia. | :03:19. | :03:21. | |
Joint 136th of the 168 countries on the list. | :03:22. | :03:28. | |
The BBC spoke to the head of Transparency International | :03:29. | :03:31. | |
who said the UK had to do more as well. | :03:32. | :03:37. | |
It is true that Nigeria and Afghanistan have had major | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
corruption problems, and they continue to have them. | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
At the same time, we have leaders in those countries that | :03:46. | :03:49. | |
have sent strong signals that they want to change that. | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
And let's remember, this is also important for the UK, | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
because the UK continues to provide a safe haven | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
for corrupt money, both here and in its | :04:04. | :04:05. | |
A couple of pictures that are relevant. This is how much the | :04:06. | :04:22. | |
British Government is giving to Nigeria, ?241 million a year, $347 | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
million, the third highest recipient of aid from the UK. Afghanistan gets | :04:28. | :04:38. | |
?145 million a year, $209 million. A Nigerian government spokesperson has | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
spoken to the BBC and they are saying they are deeply shocked and | :04:43. | :04:48. | |
embarrassed by Mr Cameron's remarks. They say the British Prime Minister | :04:49. | :04:51. | |
may have been referring to previous governments. It may have been, but | :04:52. | :04:57. | |
it did not look that way. Here are the thoughts of James | :04:58. | :04:59. | |
Landale. He clearly did not intend it to be filmed, but what he says is | :05:00. | :05:13. | |
not untrue. Afghanistan and Nigeria have a corruption problem. Both | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
countries acknowledge that and their leaders acknowledge that. That is | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
why they have come to the summit this week. They have written about | :05:22. | :05:24. | |
this problem in a group of essays that are going to be published. What | :05:25. | :05:30. | |
the Prime Minister said was not factually inaccurate. However, | :05:31. | :05:33. | |
sometimes telling the truth in such blunt terms as this can be terribly | :05:34. | :05:40. | |
undiplomatic and the Afghanistan 's and the Nigerians will be miffed. | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
Some people might be surprised to hear such a frank conversation with | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
the Queen. The Prime Minister and the Queen had their audience in | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
private every week. This was a reception to mark the Queen's | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
birthday, so it was in public in as much as there was a camera there and | :05:59. | :06:04. | |
David Cameron acknowledged there was a camera present. But when the Prime | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
Minister and the Queen get-together they talk frankly about all the | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
issues. The Prime Minister sees her every week and the Queen has the | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
right to consult, to ask questions and to give warnings in private. | :06:18. | :06:21. | |
That is a constitutional right and duty. The Prime Minister is probably | :06:22. | :06:28. | |
used to being as frank as that with the Queen, but perhaps not always in | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
public. Given the challenges the Panama papers leak has raised, I am | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
guessing there has to be more frank talk from David Cameron and other | :06:39. | :06:41. | |
political leaders when they all come together. The big test of the summit | :06:42. | :06:49. | |
is will it be a talking shop? Will they go away and say we are tackling | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
corruption, and will there be something specific? What I am | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
expecting is some kind of agreement over more transparency. This is what | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
people see as the solution to long-term corruption. For example, | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
following a property that is owed in the United Kingdom by foreign | :07:09. | :07:11. | |
companies, shell companies, who hide their ultimate owners. There is a | :07:12. | :07:20. | |
high bar for this summit. You can get full coverage of that summit as | :07:21. | :07:21. | |
it plays out later on this week. The leader of Bangladesh's largest | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
Islamist party has been The offences committed | :07:26. | :07:28. | |
by Mohteoor Rahman Nizami all date back to 1971 | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
and Bangladesh's Liberation Mohteoor Rahman was executed in | :07:33. | :07:55. | |
Dakar's Central prison. His family members met him for the last time a | :07:56. | :08:00. | |
few hours before the execution. He will be buried in his village home | :08:01. | :08:04. | |
in northern Bangladesh. The 71-year-old was convicted of rape, | :08:05. | :08:11. | |
murder and genocide during the War of independence in 1971. He was | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
accused of setting up a militia force which helped the Pakistani | :08:16. | :08:22. | |
army to identify and kill pro-liberation activists and leading | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
intellectuals. Different groups were supporting the war crimes trial and | :08:28. | :08:32. | |
victims families have supported the execution. They think Justice has | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
been done after 45 years of independence. But the supporters of | :08:38. | :08:40. | |
Mohteoor Rahman think the war crimes trial was initiated to destroy the | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
Bangladesh. They say they never Bangladesh. They say they never | :08:46. | :08:52. | |
committed war crimes. The supporters of the victims' families have long | :08:53. | :08:56. | |
been demanding justice. The Prime Minister set up the war crimes | :08:57. | :09:02. | |
tribunal in 2010 to try the war criminals in Bangladesh. | :09:03. | :09:08. | |
Let's return to the wildfires in Canada and better news. | :09:09. | :09:14. | |
Alberta province has been hit hardest and the city of | :09:15. | :09:21. | |
But authorities now think 90% of its buildings have survived, | :09:22. | :09:25. | |
that's considerably more than had been expected. | :09:26. | :09:28. | |
But the scale of the fire is still huge. | :09:29. | :09:31. | |
This is an aerial shot above the city. | :09:32. | :09:37. | |
All of the grey smoke is evidence of fires. But this picture was taken at | :09:38. | :09:45. | |
a higher altitude and you can see the extent of the fires, not just on | :09:46. | :09:50. | |
one side of the city, but dotted around in all directions. | :09:51. | :09:53. | |
This image is from Fort McMurray and is taken | :09:54. | :09:57. | |
with a camera that shows healthy forest in bright red. | :09:58. | :10:03. | |
The fire is over 1,600 square kilometres. | :10:04. | :10:18. | |
And if you want to see how big that is, take a look at this. | :10:19. | :10:24. | |
Look at New York and London. The whole of Manhattan Island and | :10:25. | :10:30. | |
Brooklyn and the city would be taken up by an area of that size. If you | :10:31. | :10:36. | |
are looking at London, perhaps the entire city is covered in an area of | :10:37. | :10:37. | |
entire city is covered in an area of that size. | :10:38. | :10:40. | |
With this better news from Fort McMurray I wanted | :10:41. | :10:43. | |
to know what prospect there is of its residents | :10:44. | :10:45. | |
We got in touch with Evan Dyer from CBC News. | :10:46. | :10:48. | |
We are not expecting anyone back in Fort McMurray for a little while, | :10:49. | :11:00. | |
although the damage was less than had been feared. The critical | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
infrastructure is mostly still there, including the hospital and | :11:06. | :11:10. | |
the water treatment plant. There are a lot of issues in town. The fires | :11:11. | :11:18. | |
continue to pop up. In fact, we have seen water being poured from where I | :11:19. | :11:25. | |
am right now, flares firing up because of timbers, lots of little | :11:26. | :11:36. | |
fires continue to pop up. Within the city there is danger from exposed | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
electrical wires, from toxic substances that might be lying | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
around. So until they can get a better sense of where those are in | :11:46. | :11:51. | |
clean them up, they do not want people to come back to Fort | :11:52. | :11:55. | |
McMurray. We are told it is a question of weeks, maybe months, | :11:56. | :12:00. | |
certainly not days. In the meantime where either resident setting up | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
their lives? Are they scattered or either one or two places that they | :12:05. | :12:11. | |
can call home for the short term? There are ten big evacuation centres | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
spread around Alberta. Often people went to family and friends. Only | :12:17. | :12:19. | |
half who have registered as evacuees with the Red Cross. Many have gone | :12:20. | :12:26. | |
as far away as their home provinces, thousands of miles away in other | :12:27. | :12:34. | |
parts of Canada. Some work at a settlement 250 miles south of here | :12:35. | :12:38. | |
and we found a large group of oil workers living in a camp ground. | :12:39. | :12:43. | |
People are spreading all over the province and the country and living | :12:44. | :12:46. | |
in different kinds of conditions. Some of them are pretty good and | :12:47. | :12:53. | |
some are not so good. We saw 300 beds set up in a hockey pitch | :12:54. | :12:56. | |
somewhere near here. Facebook has had to come out today | :12:57. | :13:05. | |
and deny claims that it suppresses stories which promote | :13:06. | :13:09. | |
conservative political opinions. Police in Manchester have issued an | :13:10. | :13:27. | |
apology following a terrorism training exercise overnight. There | :13:28. | :13:32. | |
was criticism after the fake suicide bomber yelled Ord is great in Arabic | :13:33. | :13:38. | |
before detonating an explosive. The Mayor and the crime commission | :13:39. | :13:41. | |
called it ill judged, unnecessary and unacceptable. It was | :13:42. | :13:48. | |
unacceptable. We are not trying to stop the Muslims, we are trying to | :13:49. | :13:53. | |
stop the terrorists from whatever background they come from, most | :13:54. | :14:01. | |
people understand that. It is people within the Muslim community who are | :14:02. | :14:04. | |
the best defenders, who are the ones who will make sure we have the | :14:05. | :14:10. | |
robust response. This sort of stigmatisation is unnecessary and is | :14:11. | :14:15. | |
not acceptable. That message has gone out very clearly from Greater | :14:16. | :14:16. | |
Manchester Police this morning. We are alive in the BBC newsroom. | :14:17. | :14:33. | |
The Nigerian government is saying it is shocked and embarrassed at David | :14:34. | :14:40. | |
Cameron's remarks to Queen Elizabeth which described Nigeria is | :14:41. | :14:44. | |
fantastically corrupt. Some of the main stories from BBC World Service. | :14:45. | :14:46. | |
Some of the main stories from BBC World Service. | :14:47. | :14:48. | |
The political situation in Brazil becomes every more confusing. | :14:49. | :14:50. | |
Yesterday I told you about the lower house annulling a vote | :14:51. | :14:54. | |
on whether to impeach President Roussef. | :14:55. | :14:55. | |
Then we heard the Senate, the upper house, would ignore that | :14:56. | :14:58. | |
Well today the annulment was revoked - or annulled if you like. | :14:59. | :15:02. | |
Which means the vote in the senate goes on without the lower | :15:03. | :15:05. | |
If the vote is for impeachment, the President could be suspended | :15:06. | :15:09. | |
But I've long given up trying to predict what is going to happen. | :15:10. | :15:15. | |
President Obama will visit Hiroshima in Japan later this month. | :15:16. | :15:18. | |
It will be the first visit from a serving president | :15:19. | :15:20. | |
since the Americans dropped a nuclear bomb | :15:21. | :15:23. | |
An Australian mother who gave birth to quintuplets in January has | :15:24. | :15:32. | |
released a photo shoot of her babies. | :15:33. | :15:38. | |
The chances of conceiving quintuplets naturally | :15:39. | :15:41. | |
More of those pictures on the BBC News App. | :15:42. | :15:50. | |
Facebook has had to come out today and deny claims that it suppresses | :15:51. | :15:53. | |
stories which promote conservative political opinions. | :15:54. | :15:56. | |
The original story comes from tech site Gizmodo. | :15:57. | :15:59. | |
The claim is that Facebook staff chose to bury articles | :16:00. | :16:04. | |
The article tells us, quote, depending on who was on shift, | :16:05. | :16:10. | |
things would be blacklisted or trending. | :16:11. | :16:13. | |
Popular conservative topics wouldn't be trending because either | :16:14. | :16:16. | |
the curator didn't recognize the news topic or it was like | :16:17. | :16:20. | |
Ted Cruz was the man who got closest to stopping Donald Trump winning the | :16:21. | :16:38. | |
presidential nomination. One person was so worried about this and they | :16:39. | :16:39. | |
kept a log. Facebook says in response that | :16:40. | :16:43. | |
Gizmodo had "found no evidence that the anonymous | :16:44. | :16:45. | |
allegations are true". Dave Lee is live with us from | :16:46. | :16:55. | |
Facebook's headquarters. We are talking about the trending stories | :16:56. | :17:00. | |
here. What does Facebook tell us about how those trends are | :17:01. | :17:06. | |
calculated? Facebook says the trending topic section is a mixture | :17:07. | :17:11. | |
of algorithm, of things unnaturally trending because people are talking | :17:12. | :17:16. | |
about them on Facebook, but also human curators. That is where the | :17:17. | :17:20. | |
controversy lies. Those curators pick and choose some of what goes | :17:21. | :17:25. | |
into the trending topics column. The allegation is there was human Bias | :17:26. | :17:30. | |
in that process and conservative viewpoints were being overlooked and | :17:31. | :17:35. | |
not included, were progressive viewpoints, such as stories about | :17:36. | :17:39. | |
democratic issues or perhaps the black lives matter movement surfaced | :17:40. | :17:46. | |
when perhaps they were not trending. It is a mixture of two factors and | :17:47. | :17:51. | |
that is what is under scrutiny. It is hard to prove there is one way or | :17:52. | :17:54. | |
another without being inside Facebook. Well, yes, and that will | :17:55. | :18:01. | |
be the next step. There have been calls for Facebook to be more | :18:02. | :18:06. | |
transparent about how this trending topics feature works. It is not | :18:07. | :18:09. | |
something many people in the political scene want to see as a | :18:10. | :18:15. | |
secret any more. In fact the Senate commerce committee, like the media | :18:16. | :18:19. | |
Select Committee in the UK, have written a letter asking them to be | :18:20. | :18:22. | |
briefed on how that trending topics function works. They want to see a | :18:23. | :18:28. | |
log of stories that have been omitted or added by the human | :18:29. | :18:33. | |
curators. This will not go away for Facebook. They have responded fairly | :18:34. | :18:40. | |
robustly here in California, deny it and saying it was untrue. But that | :18:41. | :18:45. | |
will not be enough, people will expect Facebook to be a lot more | :18:46. | :18:49. | |
open about how the trending topics works and some of the other areas on | :18:50. | :18:55. | |
the site as well. Comeback to us if you get more on that. Disney is set | :18:56. | :19:01. | |
to release its results in the next few minutes and all the indications | :19:02. | :19:07. | |
are they will be through the roof. Analysts say they expect a 14% rise | :19:08. | :19:13. | |
in profits thanks to a catalogue of franchise films like Star Wars. | :19:14. | :19:22. | |
Disney has ESPN as well. Samir Hussein is live from New York. I | :19:23. | :19:26. | |
guess things do not get much better than this for Disney. You listed a | :19:27. | :19:31. | |
few of the blockbusters already, but even some more recently have been | :19:32. | :19:41. | |
released like Jungle Book. Star Wars was a big deal for Disney. When you | :19:42. | :19:46. | |
look at the cable part of its operations that is the really big | :19:47. | :19:50. | |
money maker, despite the fact the blockbusters have a lot of name | :19:51. | :19:54. | |
recognition. The cable company really makes a lot of money for | :19:55. | :19:58. | |
Disney and there has been a lot of concern with investors with regards | :19:59. | :20:01. | |
to how many people are subscribing to how many people are subscribing | :20:02. | :20:06. | |
to traditional cable television. We have seen that people have been | :20:07. | :20:11. | |
dropping off, or not subscribing to cable at all. That is something | :20:12. | :20:16. | |
investors will be looking at in these earnings. Although they will | :20:17. | :20:19. | |
be quite stellar when they are released, it should be any moment | :20:20. | :20:24. | |
now, there will be a lot of investors looking at what Disney is | :20:25. | :20:30. | |
going to do to stem the tide and look at those leaving cable | :20:31. | :20:36. | |
altogether. With films and ESPN and TV networks these are global | :20:37. | :20:40. | |
operations and they generate money globally. Is cable just a US | :20:41. | :20:47. | |
business? It counts for a giant part of how much Disney makes. So it | :20:48. | :20:52. | |
still is something of great concern when we are talking about US | :20:53. | :20:56. | |
investors for an American company that reports in the United States. | :20:57. | :21:00. | |
One other thing, the international aspect of Disney, we see it is | :21:01. | :21:06. | |
opening another one of its theme parks. They are opening another one | :21:07. | :21:11. | |
in China. That is not even open yet and it is generating a lot of bars. | :21:12. | :21:16. | |
People are already flocking to the resort and investors will be looking | :21:17. | :21:23. | |
on an update on that. I did not know so much about Disney's | :21:24. | :21:29. | |
we have been reporting from North Korea throughout the four-day | :21:30. | :21:37. | |
congress by the ruling party. It all ended in a parade. John Sudworth was | :21:38. | :21:43. | |
there. Adoration, loyalty, few societies in | :21:44. | :21:46. | |
history have built a cult of leadership quite like this. For the | :21:47. | :21:51. | |
past four years North Korea has been in the throes of a tricky power | :21:52. | :21:56. | |
transition. This week's party congress followed by these | :21:57. | :22:01. | |
extraordinary scenes leader, Kim Jong-Un's way of showing that he has | :22:02. | :22:07. | |
consolidated his grip on power. This is politics as religious devotion, | :22:08. | :22:11. | |
the very definition of mass mobilisation and totalitarianism in | :22:12. | :22:17. | |
a fledgling nuclear state. Many outside observers thought he could | :22:18. | :22:22. | |
not do it. Barely 30 years old at the time of his father's death, the | :22:23. | :22:29. | |
risks loomed large. Factional infighting, crisis, or even | :22:30. | :22:33. | |
collapse. All of this is meant to send a message to the outside world. | :22:34. | :22:40. | |
Wherever Kim Jong-Un leads, these people will follow. But this is a | :22:41. | :22:44. | |
choreographed expression of loyalty from a government that still | :22:45. | :22:48. | |
struggles to feed its own people. No one knows what uncertainties may | :22:49. | :22:58. | |
still lie beneath the surface. Next, a brilliant report from Nigeria. It | :22:59. | :23:03. | |
is about a British actress who has landed her first part in a Nigerian | :23:04. | :23:09. | |
film. Claire Eden's success is in part due to the fact that she can | :23:10. | :23:16. | |
speak pidgin English. She is a former air hostess now | :23:17. | :23:21. | |
gracing the red carpet. A first-time British actress with a starring | :23:22. | :23:30. | |
role. Claire Eden has a secret weapon up her sleeve. She speaks | :23:31. | :23:39. | |
fluent pidgin English. What does she make of her first role? I am so | :23:40. | :23:45. | |
excited, like I could burst right now. I cannot explain how excited I | :23:46. | :23:52. | |
am. It means the world to me. How did you get involved? With pidgin | :23:53. | :23:56. | |
English I was surprising myself about how much I could pick up from | :23:57. | :24:01. | |
watching something. That is where the spark came, realising it was not | :24:02. | :24:08. | |
that different to what I am used to. She is starring in a romantic comedy | :24:09. | :24:15. | |
filmed by one of their best-known directors. He says he found Claire | :24:16. | :24:20. | |
performing on Facebook and her language skills filled him with joy. | :24:21. | :24:28. | |
It is a big motivation for us. Most people here do not even feel proud | :24:29. | :24:35. | |
to say I speak pidgin English. The fact is we do not follow what we | :24:36. | :24:41. | |
have like others. Claire has taken Nigeria to heart. You have to eat | :24:42. | :24:45. | |
the local food, that is the thing. Oh, my word. Give me right there. | :24:46. | :24:58. | |
What is the best reaction? One lady cried, but it was not sad, it was | :24:59. | :25:03. | |
enjoyment. That was very exciting and quite moving for me to | :25:04. | :25:10. | |
experience that kind of thing. She was crying out of joy? She was | :25:11. | :25:15. | |
laughing and she had tears down her face and she was saying, this is | :25:16. | :25:20. | |
amazing, my son needs to marry you. For clear this is a dream come true. | :25:21. | :25:25. | |
Many western actors want to break Hollywood, but she has found her | :25:26. | :25:32. | |
home right here in Nigeria. The first time you see that, you think | :25:33. | :25:36. | |
you would show it to other people, so you can find it online and share | :25:37. | :25:42. | |
it on the BBC News app. These are our stories in the second half. This | :25:43. | :25:50. | |
will be Eurovision, and this man is favourite to win, the Russian. He | :25:51. | :25:54. | |
has got to get the semifinals. We will talk about the difference of | :25:55. | :25:59. | |
opinions between Donald Trump and the new Mayor of London. | :26:00. | :26:08. | |
This is where we look at some of the weather story is happening right now | :26:09. | :26:14. | |
around the world and first of all we are off to the United States. Monday | :26:15. | :26:17. | |
brought us an | :26:18. | :26:18. |