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Hello, I'm Ros Atkins, this is Outside Source. | :00:08. | :00:14. | |
Our lead story is both concern the Islamic state group. | :00:15. | :00:18. | |
In Syria, it's launched a number of deadly bomb attacks in two | :00:19. | :00:21. | |
government strongholds on the Mediterranean coast. | :00:22. | :00:22. | |
And in Iraq, the army has begun to try and retake Falluja from IS. | :00:23. | :00:25. | |
We'll talk to BBC Arabic on both stories. | :00:26. | :00:28. | |
It wouldn't usually be a big story but he only very narrowly beat this | :00:29. | :00:36. | |
man, who would have been the European Union's first | :00:37. | :00:38. | |
Jeremy Bowen has been to investigate Kurdish claims that Turkish forces | :00:39. | :00:49. | |
massacred 100 civilians in Southeast turkey. | :00:50. | :00:51. | |
And then the last Manchester United has confirmed that Louis van Gaal | :00:52. | :01:05. | |
has been sacked. Two major stories related | :01:06. | :01:21. | |
to the Islamic State group In Iraq. A government move to retake Falluja | :01:22. | :01:24. | |
from the militants has begun. First though to Syria MOVE | :01:25. | :01:29. | |
because at least 78 people have been killed by a series | :01:30. | :01:33. | |
of bombs targeting two government strongholds - | :01:34. | :01:36. | |
the towns of Tartous and Jableh. It's a significant moment - | :01:37. | :01:40. | |
these are places that have been largely untouched unaffected | :01:41. | :01:43. | |
by the war. from Jableh in the moments | :01:44. | :01:53. | |
after an attack. A hospital was among the targets - | :01:54. | :02:00. | |
and IS has claimed responsibility. Also relevant is that Russia has | :02:01. | :02:07. | |
a naval base in Tartous and an airbase near Jableh - | :02:08. | :02:10. | |
it's from there that it's conducted air strikes in Syria | :02:11. | :02:15. | |
in support of the government. Faisal Irshaid from BBC Arabic has | :02:16. | :02:22. | |
been helping me on both stories. It's very significant because we | :02:23. | :02:38. | |
haven't seen these attacks in the past. These two provinces have been | :02:39. | :02:46. | |
more or less in isolation. The fact that they carried out these | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
large-scale attacks and we have seen more than 78 people dead and even | :02:51. | :02:56. | |
according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. It is really a | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
large scale. It raises a lot of questions on whether there are | :03:02. | :03:05. | |
security breaches are not, so whoever carried out the attack was | :03:06. | :03:08. | |
able to transport weapons from neighbouring provinces without the | :03:09. | :03:16. | |
knowledge of the Syrian forces. How far is this city from Islamic state | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
territory? We are talking about more than 30 miles sort is quite far. | :03:22. | :03:24. | |
Some people are saying that maybe these attacks were carried out by | :03:25. | :03:30. | |
people in these towns, collaborators of the Islamic state. Even if that | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
was the case, even if that is the scenario, we are still seeing a | :03:36. | :03:40. | |
security breach because this was thought to be a stronghold and the | :03:41. | :03:43. | |
fact it was carried out without anyone noticing is the big thing. We | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
have seen car bombs and suicide attacks but this is the first time | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
we have seen here and they targeted a very busy place, hospitals in both | :03:53. | :04:01. | |
cities, and also one of the suicide bomb attackers targeted a hospital, | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
which led to the death of women, children and men. We want to talk | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
about Iraq as well, because the government has begun this push to | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
take back Falluja from Islamic state. Falluja is highly symbolic | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
and close to Baghdad, less than an hour away, and also the first city | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
in a rack to fall to Islamic state. We knew this was going to happen for | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
a while, what skill of operation Desert? It is quite a big operation, | :04:30. | :04:36. | |
so since the fall of Falluja to Islamic state in January the | :04:37. | :04:39. | |
government have tried very hard to take control of the city. It has | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
been shelled by government forces but the field to take anything. This | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
time it seems they are determined to take over the city. They launched an | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
operation called break terrorism and they want once and for all to take | :04:54. | :04:59. | |
control of the city. They believe that if they take control of Falluja | :05:00. | :05:03. | |
it will be the first step to taking control of it all from IS. Is anyone | :05:04. | :05:10. | |
left living in Falluja? This is really a question I have been trying | :05:11. | :05:13. | |
to answer and we don't know the number of civilians in the city, | :05:14. | :05:19. | |
some say 60,000, some say 90,000, but we don't know the exact | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
estimate. The Iraqi government asked civilians to raise the white flag so | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
that once they enter they can try to differentiate between civilians and | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
IS operatives within the city. You can get coverage of that story | :05:34. | :05:40. | |
through BBC Arabic. Watching any of these stories, if you use this | :05:41. | :05:43. | |
hashtag the tweets come straight to me and I will do my best to get you | :05:44. | :05:47. | |
answers. Ice will switch to Austria next. | :05:48. | :05:48. | |
We have a winner in the Austrian election. | :05:49. | :05:50. | |
Not Norbert Hofer who would have been the EU's first | :05:51. | :05:52. | |
Instead the independent candidate Alexander Van der Bellen won - | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
This is Norbert Hofer's Facebook page - he has accepted defeat - | :05:57. | :06:11. | |
and says he is sad, and that he would have taken care | :06:12. | :06:13. | |
It's a decision which has divided Austria. | :06:14. | :06:20. | |
Alexander Van der Bellen won the presidential election - just. | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
He is liberal, pro-EU and wants to welcome refugees. | :06:25. | :06:31. | |
TRANSLATION: I will represent Austria to the outside, | :06:32. | :06:33. | |
I will represent us as best as I can. | :06:34. | :06:40. | |
And again, I will try to stress the cooperative, what connects us. | :06:41. | :06:47. | |
And of course I want to be an opener of doors for the economy of Austria. | :06:48. | :06:56. | |
Mr Van der Bellen may struggle to unite his country. | :06:57. | :06:59. | |
Earlier today, we found his nationalist opponent at home | :07:00. | :07:01. | |
Regardless of the outcome, Norbert Hofer told us, | :07:02. | :07:10. | |
What does it say for Austria if you do win? | :07:11. | :07:18. | |
If I win, I have to try to keep Austria together. | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
If Van der Bellen wins, he has to try to keep | :07:24. | :07:26. | |
They may have lost the election, but his Freedom Party has | :07:27. | :07:33. | |
It is anti-EU, anti-migrant and it gained momentum | :07:34. | :07:39. | |
No wonder the eyes of Europe are on Austria. | :07:40. | :07:45. | |
Right-wing parties are gaining ground elsewhere as well - | :07:46. | :07:47. | |
France, Germany, Denmark, and so is disillusionment | :07:48. | :07:49. | |
at the established political mainstream. | :07:50. | :07:56. | |
TRANSLATION: There is a sea change in Europe, many people can't cope | :07:57. | :07:59. | |
The FPO is the only party that addresses this problem. | :08:00. | :08:08. | |
He tells us lies and it's not true what he says and it's not good. | :08:09. | :08:12. | |
The presidency of Austria is a largely ceremonial role - | :08:13. | :08:22. | |
nevertheless these elections may yet have wide reaching consequences. | :08:23. | :08:24. | |
This vote has split Austria right down the middle. | :08:25. | :08:27. | |
It's also exposed again the divisions at the heart | :08:28. | :08:29. | |
Norbert Hofer came within a hair's breath of winning the presidency | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
and for many that raises questions not just about the future | :08:34. | :08:35. | |
direction of this country, but of Europe itself. | :08:36. | :08:54. | |
I was mentioning our hashtag and we are in Bermuda for BBC world News | :08:55. | :09:02. | |
saying mailing ballots seem outdated. You are right to highlight | :09:03. | :09:09. | |
that because the postal votes were the difference. The result was the | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
other way around before they were counted. Is it outdated? I don't | :09:14. | :09:26. | |
think so. In the referendum on the European Union postal votes will | :09:27. | :09:29. | |
certainly be used to list is not uncommon. | :09:30. | :09:30. | |
Three climbers have have died on Mount Everest, | :09:31. | :09:32. | |
About 30 others have suffered frostbite or become | :09:33. | :09:35. | |
This is the first climbing season since the earthquake | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
Climbers have been taking advantage of good | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
conditions in large numbers, with nearly 400 reaching the summit | :09:45. | :09:46. | |
A Nepalese official said snow blindness, altitude sickness | :09:47. | :09:59. | |
and fatigue are very common health issues at high altitudes MOVE | :10:00. | :10:02. | |
although most people recover once they descend the mountain. | :10:03. | :10:04. | |
Navin Singh Khadka, Environment Correspondent | :10:05. | :10:11. | |
The thing is, what people generally tell me is they use all the energy | :10:12. | :10:29. | |
up in the quest to reach the summit, and when they come down they are | :10:30. | :10:34. | |
exhausted, so in some cases people are really exhausted coming down and | :10:35. | :10:37. | |
by that time many of them will have used their oxygen as well, so coming | :10:38. | :10:41. | |
down can actually be more difficult and that they suffer. It is an | :10:42. | :10:48. | |
amazing number of people, almost 402 weeks. Is that what authorities | :10:49. | :10:53. | |
want? That is what they want because after two years, it is a mountain | :10:54. | :10:58. | |
destination. Having mountaineers is important for the economy, but | :10:59. | :11:04. | |
accidents also matter in terms of image and all that but having said | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
that, these kinds of incidents when people die, the problem is we don't | :11:10. | :11:18. | |
get an official enquiry and although the government higher liaison | :11:19. | :11:23. | |
officers to follow the teams very few actually go there, so for | :11:24. | :11:28. | |
example almost 50 officials were supposed to be at base camp | :11:29. | :11:32. | |
monitoring, but what I am told by my sources at base camp is only five of | :11:33. | :11:37. | |
them were doing their work. Others didn't go. Never the less you will | :11:38. | :11:44. | |
never be able to minimise risk to zero, it is a dangerous mountain and | :11:45. | :11:49. | |
some people will lose their lives. Yes, and therefore the issue is, are | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
we seeing many unprepared climbers, so the risk and also tempting | :11:55. | :11:59. | |
economy and money involved, so many are willing to pay money and go up, | :12:00. | :12:06. | |
but the issue is, are they prepared and qualified, and we're hearing the | :12:07. | :12:14. | |
government that they have this criteria that someone will have to | :12:15. | :12:18. | |
have this experience of claiming such a mountain but it has not been | :12:19. | :12:21. | |
implemented and I checked with the government officials who said, yes, | :12:22. | :12:26. | |
we have been thinking about it but it has yet to be implemented and so | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
you see these risks. Last week we were talking about the problems in | :12:32. | :12:40. | |
Venezuela, I want to make time to show you this latest report in a few | :12:41. | :12:42. | |
minutes time. Councillors in North Yorkshire have | :12:43. | :13:01. | |
approved per fracking to go ahead. Councillors voted 7-4 in favour and | :13:02. | :13:05. | |
it is the first time councillors and England have approved fracking since | :13:06. | :13:10. | |
a ban on the controversial technique was lifted in 2012 but councillors | :13:11. | :13:15. | |
have been criticising the decision. This decision is disastrous for | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
North Yorkshire. We have seen over the last two days powerful testimony | :13:20. | :13:25. | |
from local residents and university professors and medical | :13:26. | :13:32. | |
professionals. The fracking industry effort is allowed to let loose | :13:33. | :13:35. | |
across North Yorkshire will decimate the countryside and ruin the local | :13:36. | :13:40. | |
economy and bring health and environmental impact for local | :13:41. | :13:43. | |
people. North Yorkshire County Council or is today have turned | :13:44. | :13:46. | |
their back on the wishes of local people to support the oil and gas | :13:47. | :13:47. | |
industry. We'll come back. Our lead story | :13:48. | :13:58. | |
concerns the The state group Islamic State | :13:59. | :14:01. | |
group says it carried on two Syrian cities | :14:02. | :14:06. | |
in President Assad's The area has been regarded | :14:07. | :14:09. | |
as comparatively safe we can quickly look at some of the | :14:10. | :14:12. | |
main stories from BBC World Service. As you expect, BBC Vietnamese | :14:13. | :14:20. | |
is reporting on President He's lifted a ban on selling weapons | :14:21. | :14:22. | |
to the Vietnamese government - saying the ban was a lingering | :14:23. | :14:26. | |
vestige of the Cold War. In Thailand, at least 17 girls have | :14:27. | :14:35. | |
been killed by a fire The cause of the fire | :14:36. | :14:38. | |
isn't yet known. A new study says that Lego products | :14:39. | :14:41. | |
are becoming increasingly violent - with toy weapons included | :14:42. | :14:51. | |
in 30% of kits. The researchers say it | :14:52. | :14:53. | |
reflects a broader trend Lego says conflict is a natural part | :14:54. | :14:55. | |
of a child's development. There's a major political | :14:56. | :15:00. | |
and economic crisis in Venezuela. Campaigners want the president | :15:01. | :15:12. | |
to go, inflation is And right in the middle of this - | :15:13. | :15:14. | |
the President ordered what's thought to be the biggest military exercises | :15:15. | :15:20. | |
ever conducted in the They were this weekend - | :15:21. | :15:23. | |
here's Wyre Davies in Caracas. We've never been more prepared | :15:24. | :15:36. | |
to defend our borders, said President Maduro as Venezuelan | :15:37. | :15:38. | |
troops and civilian militias this week in Tempe | :15:39. | :15:40. | |
did operation Independence, exercises to prepare the country | :15:41. | :15:44. | |
for eminent invasion. Where the threats come from isn't | :15:45. | :15:50. | |
clear but blaming foreign governments, | :15:51. | :15:52. | |
the US in particular, for Venezuela's economic | :15:53. | :15:54. | |
and political crisis is very much But this is a crisis made in | :15:55. | :15:56. | |
Venezuela and people are suffering. In hospitals with power cuts and | :15:57. | :16:09. | |
acute shortages, patients told me they could only have operations | :16:10. | :16:12. | |
if they provide their own supplies. Parents having to buy an ill fitting | :16:13. | :16:17. | |
mask to keep a sick child alive. Beneath a makeshift | :16:18. | :16:26. | |
accident and emergency Doctor say the system | :16:27. | :16:27. | |
is close to collapse. We have power cuts everyday | :16:28. | :16:33. | |
and we haven't had basic supplies like saline | :16:34. | :16:36. | |
solutions for months. I often buy medicines | :16:37. | :16:37. | |
with And the shortages go much | :16:38. | :16:39. | |
deeper than medicines. Household goods are scarce, | :16:40. | :16:56. | |
and a country that became so dependent on oil revenues, | :16:57. | :17:00. | |
it couldn't cope with the price This woman needed nappies | :17:01. | :17:03. | |
for her child, but didn't know if I queue every single | :17:04. | :17:06. | |
day, she tells me. These days, there are almost | :17:07. | :17:15. | |
nothing on the shelves, President Maduro blames the chronic | :17:16. | :17:18. | |
shortages of food and other basic groups on business | :17:19. | :17:24. | |
elites and foreign deliberately destabilise his | :17:25. | :17:26. | |
socialist Government. Either way, these quues | :17:27. | :17:29. | |
are getting longer, the shortages more acute and a sense | :17:30. | :17:34. | |
of foreboding even greater. The Government says it | :17:35. | :17:37. | |
will use the security forces to defend | :17:38. | :17:39. | |
the Denouncing opposition | :17:40. | :17:40. | |
protesters as stooges for business interests | :17:41. | :17:43. | |
at home and abroad. That is where it feels primed | :17:44. | :17:49. | |
to explode, and international mediators have urged both sides | :17:50. | :17:54. | |
to talk before Latin America's most unstable nation descends | :17:55. | :17:57. | |
further into chaos. If you want more background on is | :17:58. | :18:16. | |
what is happening just that Venezuela into the search on the BBC | :18:17. | :18:17. | |
website. Bayer is a huge German | :18:18. | :18:19. | |
pharmaceutical company - and it's made a bid for the US | :18:20. | :18:21. | |
seeds company Monsanto. If it's successful, this | :18:22. | :18:25. | |
would create the largest agriculture $62 billion is the | :18:26. | :18:27. | |
value of the deal. The latest in a series of massive | :18:28. | :18:40. | |
argricultural mergers. ChemChina is buying | :18:41. | :18:47. | |
Switzerland's Syngenta. Dow | :18:48. | :18:48. | |
and DuPont have already merged. Let's talk about what is happening | :18:49. | :19:01. | |
here. Those are three deals were talking about so can we say there is | :19:02. | :19:05. | |
a pattern now established? Generally, when we see a lot of | :19:06. | :19:09. | |
mergers and acquisitions it is because there are some difficulties | :19:10. | :19:14. | |
in the sector, so with regards to these particular deals we are seeing | :19:15. | :19:19. | |
companies facing some difficult times in terms of earnings, not as | :19:20. | :19:25. | |
much in terms of revenue, so they feel good way to try to combat that | :19:26. | :19:28. | |
is to put their forces together which is why we are seeing some of | :19:29. | :19:34. | |
these kinds mergers. Difficult economic conditions and as well as | :19:35. | :19:41. | |
the strong you can -- US dollar. Lots of big mergers proposed and | :19:42. | :19:44. | |
they don't always go through so what are the obstacles between where we | :19:45. | :19:50. | |
are and the deal getting done? Regulators are definitely going to | :19:51. | :19:53. | |
be taking a look at these deals and we have just spoken before about | :19:54. | :19:57. | |
regulators stepping in and preventing some deals from | :19:58. | :20:00. | |
happening, so the fact we are seeing so much happening in one sector with | :20:01. | :20:07. | |
these three big deals announced, there will certainly be a lot of | :20:08. | :20:11. | |
regulators talking but also, you have to look at the companies | :20:12. | :20:16. | |
themselves and in the case of Bayer and Monsanto, investors have to be | :20:17. | :20:19. | |
convinced that if Bill is one thing I want to point out, if you look at | :20:20. | :20:24. | |
Monsanto and they share price it isn't trading as high as it would | :20:25. | :20:29. | |
have been given just how money is being offered by Bayer, so possibly | :20:30. | :20:36. | |
a signal that Monsanto investors are overly infused by the potential of | :20:37. | :20:37. | |
the deal. Keep us posted, thank you. Japan's central bank governor has | :20:38. | :20:45. | |
defended his controversial negative interest rate policy which he first | :20:46. | :20:49. | |
implemented in January this year. He'd signalled that he's | :20:50. | :20:51. | |
willing to cut rates even We announced in January that we | :20:52. | :21:07. | |
would actually implement this policy. It is still early May so all | :21:08. | :21:14. | |
know the impact of the financial market is quite clear already, in | :21:15. | :21:25. | |
May, but the prices will take some more time. I don't see it will take | :21:26. | :21:34. | |
one year or two years. It would have a clear impact on the economy soon. | :21:35. | :21:44. | |
If we judge necessary to achieve the target at the earliest possible | :21:45. | :21:52. | |
time, we can further ease monetary policy in three dimensions. | :21:53. | :22:01. | |
Quantity, quality and interest rate. Still enough room to do so. | :22:02. | :22:05. | |
Good and not so good news for Ryanair. | :22:06. | :22:07. | |
It is Europe's biggest budget airline and it's a big rise | :22:08. | :22:10. | |
But it's warning that profits will slow because of as concerns | :22:11. | :22:13. | |
about terrorism, and because of increased competition. | :22:14. | :22:16. | |
Here's one expert on the nature of RyanAir's business model. | :22:17. | :22:26. | |
They want to get 100% capacity if at all possible and over the last year | :22:27. | :22:34. | |
they reached 93% which was hired I suspect than any other airline. Most | :22:35. | :22:40. | |
of the rate at around 60-70 and are happy, but what they want is more | :22:41. | :22:44. | |
passengers per plane because for every passenger they can sell | :22:45. | :22:48. | |
additional services and they make a substantial part of their profits | :22:49. | :22:52. | |
from that, such as charging for advance booking and priority seats | :22:53. | :22:57. | |
and bags which can be very expensive, and they can sell hotels, | :22:58. | :23:01. | |
cars, insured and some lots of other things. If people hadn't there they | :23:02. | :23:04. | |
cannot sell them. Suited Booted helps vulnerable, | :23:05. | :23:08. | |
unemployed and low-income men into employment | :23:09. | :23:10. | |
by providing interview clothing. This is the story of that charity | :23:11. | :23:12. | |
and the people it helps. Our clients are all vulnerable so | :23:13. | :23:36. | |
they can be homeless, they can be long-term unemployed, and we set | :23:37. | :23:42. | |
them out with a sit, a shirt and tie and shoes before they go to the | :23:43. | :23:46. | |
interview, so people look good on the outside. I am feeling more | :23:47. | :23:59. | |
confident. My job is office-based. That is when is your interview? This | :24:00. | :24:07. | |
afternoon, one hour. With the sit I feel better. | :24:08. | :24:16. | |
We had the tailoring industry and we know how important this is for | :24:17. | :24:24. | |
confidence. All these suits are handmade and bespoke. They are just | :24:25. | :24:29. | |
four weddings, they have transformed lives. It has given me a bit more | :24:30. | :24:40. | |
confidence. Absolutely! Smash this interview hopefully. It looks great, | :24:41. | :24:56. | |
doesn't he? I quickly want to update you on the search for the Egypt Air | :24:57. | :25:06. | |
plane that is missing. There has been a development as Egyptian | :25:07. | :25:09. | |
officials say they spotted the plane on their radar one minute before it | :25:10. | :25:15. | |
crashed and the head of the National Wear navigation services has been | :25:16. | :25:19. | |
speaking to an Egyptian television channel who said they did not see | :25:20. | :25:22. | |
any swerving by the aircraft before it crashes. This raises the question | :25:23. | :25:28. | |
of why it wasn't mentioned beforehand. They say if the black | :25:29. | :25:33. | |
boxes are found intact they will be analysed in Egypt but if damaged | :25:34. | :25:39. | |
they will be found abroad. We will get you more detail on that but it | :25:40. | :25:42. | |
contradicts some reports that the plane was swerving a great deal. | :25:43. | :25:46. | |
Let's have a quick look at what is coming up in the next half of the | :25:47. | :25:51. | |
programme. We will be talking about this man, Louis van Gaal, sacked by | :25:52. | :25:56. | |
Manchester United, and a couple more reports and correspondence from | :25:57. | :25:58. | |
around the world, in a few | :25:59. | :25:59. |