12/05/2016 Outside Source

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

We'll be live in Brasilia in a moment.

President Dilma Rousseff has been suspended -

Donald Trump could do with more support from

Well, today he met Paul Ryan - the party's most senior member.

The mood music is getting better. I do believe that we are now

planting the seeds to get ourselves unified.

Major changes to the way the BBC is regulated. We will also talk about

the Olympic Games in Rio, and this eco-virus. A health expert has

claimed the games should be cancelled because of the virus. --

the Zika virus. You can get in touch using this

hashtag. This time yesterday we were watching

the Brazilian Senate debate whether to impeach Dilma Rousseff. They

debated 20 hours, then reached a decision many thought inevitable.

This is Michel Temer - he was vice-president,

but now he has signed the official notification that

Well, earlier today Dilma Rousseff addressed the nation.

My Government has been undergoing sabotage, and the aim is to prevent

me from governing, and trying to create a propitious environment for

the coup. When an elected president is suspended because of an

accusation of a crime I haven't committed, the name we give is not

impeachment, it is coup. That is in a democratic company.

Let's go live to our correspondent. The new interim president, most

people watching will not know him very well.

Many Brazilians wouldn't really know much about the acting president, a

couple of months ago. He is actually very well-known in Congress. He was

the president of the lower house of three times, he has become -- been

the president of the largest party in Brazil for almost two decades. He

has a reputation for being a peacemaker in Congress. He promises

at this point as president to go back to a more orthodox economy, it

is still unclear though how much he will be able to go through with

this, given he will now face a divided population, and also a very

angry workers' party no backing the opposition, claiming they were

victims of a coup. He will have to prove that even though he was not

elected, he can bring economic and political stability. Recent polls

have shown that even though the majority of Brazilians wanted Dilma

Rousseff out of office, they would also favour his impeachment.

Is this the end of matters for Dilma Rousseff? Is there any realistic

prospect of her getting back to the Presidency?

Technically yes, the Senate will conduct an impeachment trial, and it

needs a two thirds majority of votes to approve the -- her impeachment.

This period will be important for acting president Michel Temer to

show that he should stay in office. So it is possible technically that

Dilma Rousseff comes back to office. It won't be easy and it looks

unlikely at the moment. I guess in some ways this is the end

of a hugely significant period in Brazil's politics.

For many Brazilians that benefited heavily by the latest Government, it

feels like the dream is over. And it did Brazil felt for a moment it was

leaving a dream. So there are many lessons I think to be learned from

this period, especially what this process has shown Brazilians, I

would say, is the necessity of economic reforms, political reforms,

so that is one of the things that many Brazilians are talking about

now, not only trying to end corruption and punish it, but also

when and who is going to be able to go through with the reforms that

Brazilian politics desperately needs.

First, he's met House Speaker Paul Ryan in an effort to get

the Republican party leadership to support him.

He's self-funded so far - spending about $47 million.

But even he will struggle to find the estimated $1 billion

to $2.5 billion it's estimated his campaign

in the Presidential election will cost.

And party support will help him to fund-raise.

It looks like that support might be a bit closer today.

Here's Ms -- here's Mr Ryan after the meeting.

I was very encouraged with what I heard from Donald Trump today. I

believe we are now planting the seeds to get ourselves unified, and

so from here we are going to go deeper into the policy areas to see

when that -- how we can make sure that we are operating off the same

core principles. Our Washington correspondent is with

us. These guys want to make a deal, don't they?

What you didn't hear earlier today was "I endorse Donald Trump". He

talked about building bridges, planting seeds, but I think Paul

Ryan realises that Donald Trump is the face of the Republican party,

whether he likes it or not. He doesn't have to be thrilled about it

but he is going to have to fall into line because as he said, the key for

the Republicans is beating Hillary Clinton, and he can't do that with

that Donald Trump. So what is on Paul Ryan's check list of things

that need to happen before he will give a full endorsement? He wants to

see Donald Trump moderate some of his positions I think, and tone down

some of the rhetoric. Paul Ryan and to worry about Republican members

getting re-elected, and it will be hard for them to do that if Donald

Trump is out there throwing very controversial positions out, because

every Republican candidate, some of them at at risk seats, are going to

have to answer whether or not they supported Donald Trump. It would

make it harder for them to get back into Congress and keep all Ryan in

power. You talk about Donald Trump

moderating his message. This is the second story. That proposed ban on

Muslims coming into the US, well, he says it is a temporary ban. So far

that matches what he said in previous interviews. Then he said,

this is just a suggestion until we find out what's going on. Anthony,

that is far more gentle language then we heard before. It is the

suggestion as opposed to a forceful recommendation. I don't think it is

any coincidence that that happened yesterday on the eve of this meeting

with congressional Republicans. I think Donald Trump is well aware

that Paul Ryan was particularly critical of his anti-Muslim

immigration ban. He said it wasn't what the Republican party was all

about, so for Donald Trump to back off a little bit, say this is just a

suggestion, I think that is something to watch closely, to see

if he keeps up that kind of rhetoric. At the moment we have

Republicans concentrating on the presidential election, but still

Hillary Clinton is battling with Bernie Sanders. He was just another

state the other day. Does that play against the Democrats? It will find

-- make it harder for her to take on Donald Trump, but at the moment,

yes, she's going to campaign in Kentucky, but she is going to

Virginia and Ohio, these are swing States that will be battle grounds

against Donald Trump. She has been talking about him in her campaign

speeches a lot more than Bernie Sanders. She only mentions Bernie

Sanders when she says we need to come together to face off against

the Republicans. So it is a distraction, and I think it keeps

somebody like Barack Obama from weighing in on the race. But it has

not prevented her from at least trying to get into the General

Election. The Government in the UK has set up major changes to the way

the BBC is going to be run, and regulated over the next decade. The

announcement had many details, these are some of the most significant.

Ofcom already regulates all other UK broadcasters, so the BBC will be

required to give greater focus to underserved minority audiences. And

anyone with salaries over ?450,000 will be made public. This is about

presenters, they are the only ones who get this kind of cash, don't

expect my name to be on the list! But Chris Evans, who hosts the Radio

2 breakfast show, spoke to journalists earlier.

It is not breaking News that people who do what I do for a living get

paid too much money. We have got jobs people would kill for, we get

to do people -- things that people would pay to do, and sometimes those

things aren't even available to buy. Most of us work part time anyway. So

just pay us less, that's what I would do. It's not rocket science.

Perhaps the biggest change in today's announcement is the way the

BBC's going to be governed. The Government says it will create what

it is calling a unitary board responsible for ensuring the

corporation's strategy, activity and output are in the public interest.

The concern is that the Government intends to appoint some of the

members of that board, and some people have said this could call

into question the impartiality of the proposed unitary board. This is

what the director general has said. I asked Rob Watson to dissect this

issue. We are a tiny bit of the BBC, there

is a huge part of the news Empire both here in the UK and abroad, and

there has been suggestion that maybe the Government might want to cut the

BBC down to size at least here in the UK. That is not happening, the

BBC is going to be a massive player for the foreseeable future. Another

key part is this issue of independence. It is true the BBC

will no longer be self-regulating, it will be overseen by another body

that looks over all the other broadcasters, and then there is this

issue of a board for the BBC, a governing board. Some of the concern

people have expressed is that some of the people on that board will be

appointed by politicians. That word "Politicians"! You can understand

why people might be uncomfortable with the Government choosing some of

the people who oversee the BBC. This isn't a done deal yet, I think

both the BBC and the Government except there will be a bit of toing

and froing. We are already hearing that this board, the majority of

people would not be appointed by the Government, and the other thing

that's being stressed is that this governing body would not get to see

what people like you and me are doing before we would do it, in

other words they don't get some kind of veto.

And how about the BBC's finances, it is currently being audited by Ernst

and Young, but it will be audited next by the Government.

It will continue to be funded in that special way, a national tax, so

the BBC will continue to be one of the best funded broadcasters in the

world. But yes, the issue of how it spends its money is going to be

overseen by the national -- audit office, and I guess the fact you are

being overseen by a bit of the Government when it comes to spending

your money is something the BBC would have preferred not to have. Is

it a killer blow to the BBC's independence Square Spagnolo, but it

would prefer not to have it. Full details on the Government's

White Paper can be found on our website. In a few minutes' time,

this report from a pop concert in North Korea.

The Bank of England has issued its strongest warning yet about the

possible risks of leaving the European Union. Its governor said a

vote to leave could trigger a recession, but leave campaigners

have accused him of bias, with one of them, a former Chancellor, saying

he had gone over the top. A vote to leave could have material

economic effects on the exchange rate, on demand and on the economy's

supply potential. This combination of influences on demand, supply and

the exchange rate could lead to a materially lower part for growth and

a notably higher path for inflation. The governor to be careful with what

he says. There is a danger he could create a self-fulfilling crisis,

warning of a crisis that need be and if there were any such crisis I

think the governor would carry a very heavy responsibility.

Our lead story is that Brazil's President's been suspended;

impeachment proceedings will begin. She has described the whole matter

as a coup. A US missile defence system in

Romania's been put into operation after the ceremony, the whole thing

cost $800 million. Nato and the US say it is to defend against threats

from the Middle East. Russia sees it as an attempt to neuter its arsenal.

Several stolen paintings worth more than $18 million have

Border guards reportedly discovered them wrapped

in plastic bags and hidden near the border with Moldova.

They were stolen from an Italian museum in 2015.

A car has fallen into a large sinkhole which opened up

It was discovered by police on Thursday morning.

The French Government survived a vote of no-confidence, forced by

opponents new Labour reforms. These reforms are controversial, but so is

the fact that the president pushed them through without parliamentary

approval. What's happening here is what the

Government did last year, which is to force through reforms that it

believes are absolutely essential to improve the French economy and not

least to allow President Hollande to stand again for election next year,

but in doing so they have had to force it through without

parliamentary approval and against the opposition of many of the choral

groups of Socialist party supporters in France. So it is quite a tough

call, and even though they won the no-confidence vote today, there was

a move yesterday from some of the own backbench MPs, socialist

backbench MPs, to bring a second vote of all -- no confidence. They

narrowly failed to do that, but it was still pretty embarrassing, so

you can see that the headline is they want, but they still have an

awful lot of competition to contend with. -- the headline is they

goal-macro. US oil prices have hit a six-month high today. The IEA is the

International energy agency, supply is closely linked to price levels.

One of the reasons oil prices have gone down so much is that order oil

producers cannot agree on reducing supply, but the IEA is predicting

solid growth in prices in 2016. India will be responsible for nearly

a third of that global increase. Nissan is buying 34% of its rival

Mitsubishi motors, this will cost them over $2 billion. Here is its

CEO. At Nissan, we are determined to

preserve and nurture the Mitsubishi motors brand. And we will help this

company address the challenges it faces, particularly in restoring

consumer trust in its fuel economy performance. The next report is from

Christian Fraser, who is on a search and rescue boat in the middle of the

Mediterranean. In the last 12 months, much of our coverage has

focused on how more and more people have chosen to come through Turkey

and Greece to travel further into Europe.

But now the particular number of people making that

But at the same time, the number of people

It is not often that we broadcast from a ship, particularly not in

wind like this. It is gusting six, seven, a big swell and the

Mediterranean, and even though I am on the leeward side, I am attached

and so is our cameraman. But this underlines why it is a ridiculous

idea to leave the Libyan coast in a rubber boat, but that is what

hundreds of people are doing every week, in ways such as this, and they

are dying in big numbers, 1000 have drowned so far this year. Record

numbers left in the first three months this year according to the

Italian Government, and this week the numbers are picking up again.

You might be able to see these poor souls, there are 233 of them on the

stern, they have blankets and clothes distributed by charities,

and they are going to be transferred to Sicily where they will be

processed food, fingerprinted and obviously many of them will be

claiming asylum. -- processed, fingerprinted. But I have to say a

lot of these migrants are from west Africa, largely economic migrants.

It has surprised me, the stories we have heard from Libya. People ask

all the time why would people risk everything on a rickety old boat at

sea? Many of them tell us because Libya is such a racist country for

black Africans, they are put in detention centres, there is

kidnapped, murder, rape, and it seems to me the experience that many

of these people have had is that it is rational to get on one of these

boats rather than remain in Libya. Kristian has been sharing pictures

of his time on Twitter, if you want more details.

The BBC has had several journalists in North Korea recently to cover

John Sudworth was one of them - and he was invited to a concert.

We've been given these tickets, and we have been brought to a concert

hall. For the past week or so North Korea has been showcasing itself to

the outside world. We have had the politics, the parades, now it is

time for the pop music. This band is the supreme leader's

personal pop project. He reportedly hand-picks the members himself. In

fact, North Korea is so convinced of the strategic need for official girl

bands, but there are two of them. To mark the end of the workers' party

Congress, the delegates are treated to a double act. Both bands,

performing together in a heady mix of catchy tunes and potent

propaganda. Do you speak English? As always, there are fans lurking

backstage. Not very rock star. South Korea of

course has K-Pop. A vast outpouring of cultural creativity. In a country

where all South Korea's music is banned as a capitalist acts bought,

this is North Korea's and serve. It is, if you like, the sound of

socialism with synthesisers. Its global success is still, you would

have to say, a work in progress. We can access all the feeds coming into

the BBC newsroom, I want to pull up a couple. We are waiting for a

speech from the new interim president of Brazil, formerly the

Vice President, and an ally of Dilma Rousseff, not an ally any more. He

is about to speak about what he hopes to achieve. The Senate voted

to begin an impeachment process against Dilma Rousseff.

Couple of other stories, this is also Brazil, but where the real

Olympics are going to be taking place. We will speak to one health

expert in the US who says the whole event should be cancelled because of

the Zika virus. We will speak to you in a moment.