01/06/2016 Outside Source

Hello, I'm Nuala McGovern, this is Outside Source.

Let's look through some of the main stories here in the BBC Newsroom.

A signal has been detected from a black box from

the EgyptAir plane two weeks after it crashed

The UN has expressed concern for the citizens of Falluja,

caught in the battel between the Iraqi army

The world's longest and deepest rail tunnel opens in Switzerland -

creating a major new route from Northern to southern europe.

And as always all the latest sports news - professional boxers will be

allowed in the Olympics, this is causing some concern.

The world's longest and deepest rail tunnel has been

The Gotthard tunnel will run from Erstfeld 57 kilometres

below the Alps to Bodio, linking northern

And it's the scale of this project that is truly staggering.

It took 17 years to build but planning started all the way

The leaders of Germany, France, Italy and Switzerland all took

a ride through the tunnel - among the first to do so.

There was also a ceremony attended by many of the visiting dignitaries.

Dancers, acrobats, singers and musicians,

all apparently celebrating Alpine culture and history.

But the tunnel is set to save millions a year

Imogen Foulkes has been finding out how.

Whether it is Italian olive oil going north or Scottish whiskey

going south, Europe's goods have got to get through these

going south, Europe's goods have got to get through these mountains. In

the middle ages they were dragged up by mules on tracks like these. Match

of the Day, Europe's freight relies on 19th-century railway tracks like

this one. And over a million heavy lorries a year are using the ageing

road tunnel. The mountain valleys are clogged with traffic, the

fragile alpine environment is at risk. Now, the new tunnel, the

world's longest and deepest is ready. Turing test runs, trains have

reached speeds of over 150 miles an hour. Hundreds of freight trains a

day are expected to use it. The price tag for Switzerland, eight .5

billion pounds. At the Swiss believe with the new tunnel protecting the

alpine environment, it will all have been worth it.

A 30-year-old man, believed to be one of the UK's

worst child abusers, is being sentenced at

Richard Huckle has admitted more than 70 offences, that he committed

His victims were aged between six months and 12 years old.

He was a Sunday school teacher. A friend to their families. And he

liked to take pictures. Richard Huckle sort out children in the

poorest areas of Kuala Lumpur. He took them on days out. Bought them

food, gained their trust. How often did he come to the house? It is also

the way he got close to this girl, who he sexually abused for years. He

took videos of me naked. I told him I wanted to go home to my mum. I

didn't realise what he was doing, because I was only three years old.

How do you feel about him now? I don't want him to come back to

Malaysia. He targeted the vulnerable, getting to know them,

staying in the slums for days on end. Huckle, was often at this

woman's home. She suspected nothing, but says when her granddaughter was

just 12, he asked to marry the child. We traced his path through

the city to charities and orphanages where he helped out and targeted

children. Look, his name in a visitor's book. We cannot show the

other entries. That day he brought one of his victims. A pattern

emerged. Days out, always with a camera. The children called him

uncle, but all too often it was a prelude to rape and abuse. All that

was captured on film, tens of thousands of images and videos. He

then posted them in secret forums on the so-called dark web. Huckle also

wrote self-help guide for other would be users called Paedophiles

And Poverty. It's not often you get intimate Access... He was finally

identified by police in Australia in one of the biggest ever

investigations into sex offenders on the so-called dark web. Paul

Griffiths is a former detective now working in Queensland. How great a

danger did he posed to children? If he hadn't been arrested and taken

out of circulation he would still be offending now, I am quite sure. He

struck me as the kind of person he would make the most of any

opportunity that arose. If he had the opportunity to offend against

the child, he would take that opportunity. Huckle's victims are

left traumatised, abused by a man who said he had come to help them.

He used his faith to seek them out and then betray them.

Tennis fans have finally had something to cheer about.

After two days of rain practically wiping out

the French Open in Paris, some of the big names were finally able

to grace centre court today and book their places

Let's speak to my colleague at the BBC Sport centre. Tell us about some

of the action that finally took place?

Roland Garros crowd were entertained even if they didn't enjoy

the outcome of the quarter final between home favourite

down to win in four in a match involving some incredible points.

First two sets very close - two and a bit hours.

The third and fourth less so - Gasquet only winning two games

Murray through to play defending champion Stan Wawrinka, who had

beating Albert Ramos Vinolas in straight sets.

Those matches are in the half of the draw

Novak Djokovic hasn't played his quarter final yet.

Only winning his fourth round match today -

he's through to take on Tomas Berdych in the last eight.

And that makes him the first player to win over 100 million

IT was supposed to begin on Monday...

Easy win over Ukraine's Elina Svitolina.

Already in the semi-finals though are Spanish fourth seed

Apparently Roland Garros has experienced its worst

conditions since 1873 Tournament organisers been

defending their decision to play through some of the rain yesterday.

We understand if you play for two hours in front of the crowd, you

don't have to refund their tickets. So some cynical and confusing

messages from Roland Garros over the last couple of days. It seems the

rain has stopped by now. Just over two months until

the Olympic Games in Rio and today the International Olympic Committee

said it was putting more measures The budget for the pre-Olympic

testing programme has doubled. It comes on top of extensive programme

already being carried out. Special focus will be put on countries where

the testing programme is no compliant, Kenya, Russia and Mexico.

The special focus will be put on those sports that have been most

affected. And you heard Russia

mentioned there. And if you head to the BBC

Sport App you can read this from our Sports Editor Dan Roan

where he's reporting how the IOC are working on a compromise to allow

Russian athletes to compete despite the country's

doping problems. Another Olympic sport that's sparked

controversy is boxing. The governing body has upset a lot

of people by deciding to allow professionals

to compete at the Olympics. Many professional world

champions have objected, One of those is Ricky Hatton, the

former welterweight champion. Goodbye amateur boxing now

as far as I'm concerned. It raises a lot of debate. I spoke

to the head of the governing body of Olympic boxing. They said, if you

look at the amateur programme, a lot of those athletes paid for doing it.

Also basketball, tennis you have Novak Jock itch, Andy Murray, so why

should boxing be different. He said world boxing has no governing body

but there can be help for the transition from the unpaid ranks to

the paid ranks. So some of the issue is why they made this decision. It

has raised a lot of criticism because amateur boxing has a

tradition which goes back 100 years, launched the careers of many great

fighters, the likes of Muhammad Ali, sugar Ray Leonard, or want gold

medals. It is controversial. You can have an accomplished professional

against the novice amateur. You worry about the consequences of

that. It is going to be too late for many of the professionals to qualify

for Rio? Robert Smith, the general secretary of the British boxing

board of control said he doesn't expect any of the top professionals

to take part because they will have their schedule set. And why would

you take the chance when you are used to boxing 12 rounds and go

three-minute rounds and ruin your reputation if you lose to an

accomplished amateur. He doesn't expect many professionals to do it.

And then if you have won the gold in 1996, why go back and do it again.

For centuries the Berber men of North Africa have

proved their worth in the dangerous sport of Fantasia.

Teams of riders charge together, firing their rifles in unison.

But now, for the first time, women have been taking them on.

Sahar Zand travelled to Morocco to meet the Girls of Fantasia.

Fantasia, a centuries-old tradition. Wait for Berber meant to show off

their masculinity, and warfare. But in a recent years, women troops are

taking the reins, challenging the tradition. This is the leader of an

all-female troupe and today they are the only women competing in this

regional Fantasia. By doing Fantasia, how do you think the image

is you are giving out to the world what you think should be a normal

Arab girl should be? Before Fantasia, I said for women, it isn't

just cooking and keeping house. Now, we ride horses. Other people see

power girls. Did you not thing you couldn't do it

because no other girl had ever done it before? It is a challenge. Men

now respect us. Did they not respect due before?

I am nervous for them. My heart is beating. The aim is for the team to

charge and shoot simultaneously. Other women can still compete in

regional competitions like this, they are still banned from competing

in the national competitions. We have a direct line

to the Space Station and we'll hear from British astronaut Tim Peake

about his journey and what Prince Harry has presented

an Invictus Games gold medal, won by a US soldier,

to UK medical staff Sergeant Elizabeth Marks asked Harry

to donate the medal to Papworth Hospital in Cambridgeshire

where she was treated after becoming The swimmer, who's from Arizona,

collapsed with a lung condition on the eve of the first

games in London in 2014. Our Royal Correspondent Peter Hunt

reports. Swimming to victory against the odds

and despite a long condition, which can leave Elizabeth temporarily

blind and faint. Here, the American swimmer clinches one of four gold

medals at last month's Invictus Games in Florida. But the

25-year-old Sergeant didn't keep all her medals. She gave this one to

Prince Harry who founded the competition for wounded service

people, to pass onto the dock as he saved her life. At Orlando, Harry

learned how Elizabeth, who was injured in Iraq and has no sensation

in her left leg, became critically ill at first games in London and was

placed on a life-support system at the Papworth in Cambridgeshire. This

saved my life there and I'm very grateful because they provided me

with excellent medical care and things might not have gone as well

had it been somewhere else. Papworth showed their appreciation. They said

she was living proof how modern medicine could help people achieve

truly amazing things. What did I say to them? Thank you... Sorry... I

will never be able to repay you. What you're doing wonderful. From

all of us it is a huge thank you to all of you. I have been asked to owe

you a quick video of her winning this medal. This morning, the Prince

kept his promise to a woman hoping to compete at the Rio Paralympics,

by meeting those who once treated her. We are always trying to recruit

nurses. This is a great way to say to the rest of the world, the NHS,

this is what we do at Papworth hospital, we help people, it is

exciting, incredible and cutting-edge medicine and what

Papworth hospital is good at. The Papworth medics are now above proud

owners of the one at the Invictus Games, a competition which

celebrates the unconquered. This is Outside Source live

from the BBC newsroom. The British astronaut

Tim Peake will be returning from the International Space Station

this month. While he's been in space

he's already presented a Brit Music Award to Adele,

launched TV coverage of rugby's Six Nations,

and engaged hundreds of thousands Not quite the final frontier,

but this place is a bit special. It's the Harwell science campus,

a ?1 billion facility that's home to a number of organisation that

call themselves the UK Space They develop and build

satellites here. It's also the UK-base

of the European Space Agency, We're here and we are going to speak

to a man who over the past six months has been residing here,

240 miles above us in Tim, this is Dan Walker

with BBC Breakfast. Thanks for joining us on BBC

Breakfast this morning. Under three weeks to go

until you return home. You know, actually, we kind of work

on a day to day basis, so although I am very conscious

of the fact that I do return in less than three weeks we have still got

a lot of work to do here. We've still got one of our cargo

vessels here and we're busy loading that and that

will actually depart before I do. So still a lot to do

and I take each day at a time. Still a lot of science

going on on a daily basis. But of course I am looking forward

to joining friends and family and looking forward to coming

back to planet Earth. What is the highlight

of your time in space? The whole experience has been

incredible and so much more But if I had to pick one thing it

would be doing the spacewalk and it would be the first moment that

I came out of the airlock and my Nasa colleague and I went

outside and did the spacewalk. We were speaking to Helen Sharman,

a trailblazer in your line of work many years ago,

we spoke to her just last week and she said the hope is that

you aren't the last. That we continue to do this

and there is a bright future for British

astronauts in space. I fully intend to continue my work

with the European Space Agency, representing the UK within human

space flight, and I hope the UK continues to participate in human

space flight in the future. We have such exciting times coming

up, so I want the UK to be a firm player in those missions

of the future and there's no reason why we shouldn't be and I certainly

hope I am not the last UK astronaut I hope there are many UK schoolkids

today who can fulfil an ambition Lots of people sending

in their questions. Steph would like to know

what the first meal is that you will have

when you return to Earth. The unhealthy version

would be pizza. The healthy version would be a nice,

fresh salad, with some fresh fruit. You've seen some remarkable things

from space, we've seen Having seen that, is there a place

you would now like to see in person, having seen them from

so many miles above? There are so many places

I would love to see and everything It has been wonderful to see

the planet changing seasons, seeing the northern hemisphere

going from snow and ice through spring and summer

and in the southern hemisphere watching places like Patagonia,

absolutely stunning countries and areas of the world that

I haven't seen before. So there are plenty of places

I would like to visit. Probably too many

than I will be able to. We hope to see you soon and we will

sort you out for pizza, OK? I spoke to him before he went up and

he was apprehensive leaving his wife and children on earth as he went up.

Marilyn Monroe would have celebrated her 90th birthday on Wednesday. We

look at her life and now we will bring some of it to you.

Marilyn Monroe, who said dreaming about being an actress was more

exciting than the one. Lots of people looking at those photographs

on would have