02/08/2016 Outside Source

Hello. This is Outside Source. President Obama calls on Republicans

to denounce Donald Trump. I think the Republican nominee is unfit to

serve as president. I said so last week. He keeps on proving it.

Also going in France, where the funeral has taken place of the

priest, killed by sympathisers of so-called Islamic State.

There's an anthrax outbreak in northern Russia. It's killed over

2,000 reindeer so far. We will hear about a study which

suggests the use of slow motion video in courtrooms could distort

the outcome of trials. President Obama has weighed

in on the row between Donald Trump and the parents of a Muslim soldier

who died serving Just to remind you -

Donald Trump has been criticised for attacking Mr and Mrs Khan,

after they spoke out against him. Here's some of what Mr Obama has

been saying in the last hour. I think the Republican nominee is

unfit to serve as president. I said so last week and he keeps on proving

it. I think what's been interesting is the repeated denunciations of his

statements by leading Republicans, including the Speaker of the House

and the Senate majority leader and prominent Republicans like John

McCain. And the question that they have to ask themselves is: If you

are repeatedly having to say, in very strong terms that what he has

said is unacceptable, why are you still endorsing him?

After the president's comments, Mr Trump responded saying Hillary

Clinton has proven herself unfit to serve in any government office. You

heard President Obama calling for Republicans not to endorse Donald

Trump. Well, one Republican representative

has decided to give his vote Speaking to a local news website,

Representative Richard Hanna said of Mr Trump that he is "unfit

to serve our party and cannot He went on to say, "I think Trump

is a national embarrassment. Is he really the guy

you want to have For more on this, lets

turn to Anthony Zurcher, our man in Washington watching

the presidential race blow by blow. Hi Anthony. Good to have you back

with us on Outside Source. Thanks. It's hard to keep up with the

back-and-forth between presidents and wannabe presidents, do you think

this will make a difference to the average voter who hasn't made up

their mind? I think his comments are targeted towards trying to pair off

some conservative support, moderate Republican support that

traditionally goes to nominees like John McCain, but may not back Donald

Trump. That may be effective. You could see Barack Obama, once again,

using Donald Trump's own words as a kudgeel to beat the Republican

establishment figures who have criticised Donald Trump but haven't

endorsed him. We'll see how it plays out. We've seen some senior advisors

to Republicans, Jeb Bush of Florida, come right out and say they will

vote for Hillary Clinton. With this, for example, like that

representative that we were showing the quote to our viewers there, when

they decide to make a vote for the Democrat in this race instead, is it

indicative of what other Republicans might do? It was such a two-party

system for so long. It's going to be tough for Republican office holders

to come right out and say they're voting for Hillary Clinton. Hillary

Clinton is a figure reviled among most Republican voters and most

Republican office holders, particularly in the House of

Representatives they're more answerable to their base than to the

general electorate. They are much more in danger of losing their jobs

if they get voted out at a primary than in a safe seat where they're

running against a Democrat who they very likely will win. You see John

McCain, who has been over the top in his criticisms of Donald Trump

recently, not go back on his endorsement of Trump. McCane has a

primary at the end of the month. There's a Conservative Trump-like

Republican who could beat him if he goes too far away from their

nominee. I should ask as well, on the other side, is it possible that

any Democrats would vote for Mr Trump? Hillary Clinton has always

struggled with likability ratings. I think that's a big question. In

certain industrial states like pencele vain ya, Ohio, where there's

a high level of working class, white, male voters, polls have shown

they have been open to Donald Trump and his anti-trade rhetoric, his

anti-immigration rhetoric. They may find that appealing. They are so

frustrated with the system, upset that their jobs are disappearing

overseas that they're ready to blow it up and embrace Donald Trump.

Those were traditional Democratic voters but they could swing the

other way. Thank you very much. Our colleague said it could be the

end of party loyalty. We'll have to see what happens next. Thanks very

much from Washington. The funeral of the French priest

killed by extremists 85-year-old Father Jacques Hamel

was killed by two French teenagers during a mass in a church

in the town. They pledged their allegiance to

the so-called Islamic State group. The city of Rouen came to its Gothic

ateed ral to bury the priest killed at his altar. No-one deserves to die

like he did, they said. We knew the feather so well, it hurts us so --

father so well, it hurts us so very badly. More than 1500 mourners heard

tributes paid by the priest's family. "I love you, uncle," said

his niece. "I will miss you." The Archbishop spoke directly to the

assailants and their supporters. TRANSLATION: You who are tormented

by diabolical violence pray that God frees you from the clunks of the

demon -- clutches of the demon, we pray for you. The mourners here will

have many questions. Could the French authorities have done more to

stop the two attackers from getting to the priest in his church? And

more broadly, what can this country do to prevent further attacks? For

some here, the answer is obvious. TRANSLATION: The government must

check the prisons. It must check the mosques. It must not allow people

who try to fight in Syria to be free. Decades ago, Jacques Hamel

left his own country to go to war. He did his military service in

Algeria, where the family of one of his killers has his roots.

This family is also from Algeria. He came here to share the city's grief.

We Muslims of France, we have to be with our French citizen neighbours.

We have to be with them and with Christian, especially Christian,

because they believe in the same God as us. France is a secular state.

But this afternoon the old rituals of the Catholic Church had their

place. In the 15th century here Joan of Arc

was burned at the stake. The city knows how to grieve for those who

die for their faith. I spoke to James further and he told

me more about how the priest's city is today grieving. The priest was

someone who was known here and in areas around here, someone who spent

many years here, who will have poop tied or married or comforted a lot

of the parishioners who came along to the service to pay tribute. Each

had their memories. I think this would have been a difficult service

for them. It allowed them to grieve. The more complicated question, what

happens when the grieving finishes, how does France deal with this

attack but with others? It came so close after this Nice attack. And

when it comes to police investigations, do people feel that

they're getting answers at all? I know a lot has been focussed a lot

on the funeral and rightly so on the victims of these attacks. If you

play the report, you might have noticed one woman holding a red

umbrella who said she wanted the government to do much more to check

on prisons, mosques and to make sure that young people, potential

threats, were not trying to get to Syria. I think that's a view shared

by a lot of French people as well. The French Government was

represented in this cathedral by the interior minister. On Monday he

announced the closure of a number of mosques and really an attempt to

re-arrange the financing of mosques to make sure that foreign appointed

preachers do not get a chance to spread radical messages here. Do you

think something like that will gain public traction? Is it something

that they want? There's always that balance right after a terror attack

about whether it's religious freedom or freedom of speech and security.

Liberty and security, it's a dialogue that France, a debate, even

an argument that France is having that other countries has had to have

in recent years. Some of the mourners want France to go a lot

further with this. Bear in mind that the government in France is able to

exercise its emergency powers, which gives it much more ability to take

stringent measures than it would have had otherwise.

I want to move on to this one. 90 people are undergoing hospital

checks in a remote part of northern Russia because of an anthrax

outbreak that killed This is where it's happening -

in the Yamalo-Nenets Eight people are confirmed

as infected with the rare It is believed it could have

spread from reindeer. More than 2,300 reindeer have

died in the outbreak, Temperatures in the danger zone,

which is now under quarantine, have soared to 35 degrees Celsius

in recent days. Russia's sent troops trained

for biological warfare to help Famil Ismailov from

BBC Russian is here. What the vets and specialists think

is that the momenting uncovered the carcasses of dead animals, probably

from anthrax. Reindeer got infected. The grass got infected. The whole

area gradually got infected. That's how it gradually went into the

humans, because they were using and tending to the animals. That's how

it started. It started two months ago. Why people are asking now -

nobody thought about it before we had a dead child in the clinic. This

little boy died. Tell us about that area. I was looking at some of the

images, it's so remote. It's remote, it's huge. More than two United

Kingdoms, two Britains basically, more than that. It's very remote.

Just a few people living there. Most of them are nomads. A reindeer is

their livelihood. Losing reindeer for most of them is really bad news.

What also happened, we could see the Russian authorities are bringing in

soldiers, in full has mat suits from special units from chemical warfare

in order to contain the outbreak and burn the carcasses of dead animals

and try to clean the area. News just coming in right now,

coming from Libya. Security forces there say a car bomb in the city of

Benghazi has killed at least 15 people. The bomb went off in a

residential area, which was west of the city, where there's been

fighting between security forces that are loyal to Libya's government

and an alliance of Islamists and other opponents. More on that as we

get it. Business is coming up, we will look

at oil prices, which dropped today below $40 a barrel. Why are they

falling so low? It's all coming up. The court rejected an argument made

by the Health Service that the treatment known as PrEP should be

paid for by local cowboy illers. It's a game changer in the fight

against HIV AIDS. Deborah Gold spoke to the BBC a little earlier.

It's the first time that there's been something, a drug that you can

take, one pill, every day, if you're at high risk of getting HIV and it

will prevent you from being able to get HIV, even if you're in a risky

situation. It's game changing. The HIV epidemic has gone quiet in the

news, but it hasn't gone away. It continues to grow every year. About

17 people every day acquire HIV. This is really the first time

there's been an exciting new technology that could make the

difference. President Obama has said

Donald Trump is unfit to be president, and has called

on Republicans to denounce him. The Pope has set up a commission to

study whether women can become Deacons in the Catholic Church. They

are a clergy rank one level below priests.

The Supreme Court in Beijing has ruled that anyone caught fishing

in China's designated area of the South China Sea could be

It comes after a legal decision in the Hague last month which found

that China had no historic claim over much of the South China Sea.

An elderly couple have lost part of their garden

It started as a one-etre wide hole, but swelled to this huge

water-filled crater, around eight metres in diameter.

Its thought it might be related to an ancient mining shaft.

Lots of people watching those pictures on the BBC News App.

Time for the business news now. Oil prices fell around 1% on

Tuesday. This graph illustrates what is happening. You can see, this is

over the past month. Going steadily down. We have the BBC's

correspondent in New York to explain a little more to us about what is

behind the falling figures. Good to have you with us. Well, really what

it is, it's something that we've talked about for several months now.

We just have too much oil on the market. There's what we call an oil

glut. As a result, that's really pushing prices down. But that

doesn't tell the entire story. The other part of it has to do with the

demand for that oil. When we see that economies are not producing as

much, they're not going to be asking for as much oil. We're seeing a bit

of a slow down happening in China, for example. That's a big purchaser

of oil. As a result, we're seeing that we're not having as much

purchasing of oil and there's too much oil on the market. It means

that prices are really being pushed down. Why is the fascination are the

round figures. It used to be $50 barrel an oil, some are talking

about could it go to $35 a barrel? It's interesting that you say that.

There are analysts that are saying that it's probably going to go

around $35 a barrel, before the price of oil could pick up. When are

we going to see that pick up? Well, most analysts aren't predicting that

we'll see prices start to hover around $50 a barrel until some time

in 2017. As for the joy of those round figured numbers, well, they're

just easy to conceptualise. Thank you very much. Bad news for

Volkswagen. South Korean government have taken the step of suspending

sales of certain models of VW cars. Let's get more details from our

South Korea correspondent, Steve Evans.

The South Korean authorities are going for Volkswagen with a vigour

unmatched anywhere else. Apart from today's ban on sales of the products

here in South Korea, there's also a fine. On top of that, prosecutors

here want to arrest executives from Volkswagen. They say for serious

crime. That serious crime, they say, is deceiving the authorities with

false information. South Korea is not a huge market for Volkswagen.

But it is one of the world's few big car economies, not just as

consumers, but also as producers. Some sceptics might say that the

South Korean government going for Volkswagen helps South Korean

manufacturers. Volkswagen remains the world's biggest car company.

Figures just out show in the first six months of this year, sales in

the United States fell by 7% but in China, they rose by the same amount.

A story a lot of you have been reading about.

More and more crime footage is being used in court. Studies say it could

be used to distort the outcome of trials. Researchers found that

slowing down footage of violent acts cause viewers to see them with

greater intent to harm than when viewed at normal speed. Here's some

of the footage used for the study. First at regular speed and then in

slow motion. It begins at regular, you can see

the crime taking place here in this particular one. Then as we move on

instead, this is it in slow motion. You can see the same crime taking

place, but just at a different speed, which the study says could

lead to a different result. Our science correspondent told us what

happens to jurors when you slow down the video in court. It's seen as

changing our perception of what's in the mind of the perpetrator. That's

the key thing here. Because as you say, video is ubiquitous in court

now. It's being used in slow motion replays more and more. These

researchers set out to find was, if you slow that video down, does it

impact the people's perception of the action? Did you see more intent

in it? They found that certainly that was the case. When they took

900 or so potential jurors and just showed them the slowed down version

of the tape, they were three times more likely to see this as a first

degree murder, seeing the deliberateness, the ability of the

person using the gun there to pull it out and slowly take it. It's the

slowing down that is the key. It is very much with murder cases in

particular. Absolutely. Yes, nobody is saying this shouldn't be, tapes

shouldn't be used in court, but when it comes to something premeditated,

that's the key word here, when you slow that down, somehow in the minds

of observers, ourselves, the jurors, whom ever, it seems to be we seem to

see much more evil in that moment when it's slowed down rather than

when run at regular speed. Even when people saw it at regular speed and

slow speed, they still have a bias towards seeing more guilt there,

even though they knew that it could run at normal speed as well. This is

a study that will have ramifications. Was there a push back

against it? I was thinking various groups that disagree with the

science. People don't necessarily disagree with the conclusions here.

They would obviously see the use of videotape in court as an important

step forward. Moving into the sporting arena, there's more

controversy about the use of video analysis there, particularly for

referees. And one of the authors of this said referees should make their

minds up on the spot. They should not use replays.

There have long been mixed views over getting a tattoo. In a mum

country like Tunisia -- Muslim country like Tunisia that's still

there. But the country has also seen a rise in tattoo arg tastes

challenging the -- artists challenging the status quo.

He did not think he would be working from a small room in a beauty salon

six years after he went into this business. He had a bigger dream, but

it nearly cost him his life. Shortly after he opened Tunisia's first

licensed tattoo parlour in April, people condemned a lowingo he used

for -- logo he used for his business which was like a free masons sign. A

gang of men ambushed him on a public street and beat him unconscious.

Though unpopular with some, he has clients on a near daily basis.

Tunisians from all walks of life want to get inked these days. It's

slowly breaking the social taboo of body art. Before he started getting

his tattoo, he told me this was a decision six years in the making.

It's quite a big one, because it's permanent. He's getting a stop,

record and play, pause tattoo. What are you going to tell your family? I

understand they don't particularly know about this. I will just tell

them it's semipermanent. This is one of the first woman tattoo artists

here. She mostly does house calls for clients. She tells me the public

attitude towards tattoos has change aid lot since she was a teenager.

Some just follow fashion. Some try to, well, come for personal reasons.

There is a lot of veiled women that come to me, they want to get

tattooed by a woman. Some still hide it. Even me, I still hide it. Even

I'm tattoo artist. I hide it from my family. They know about it, but

never accepted it. Nvment Tunisians may still face a combination of

religious, social and cultural obstacles when it comes to body art,

but perhaps the rise in demand for tattoos means public perception is

proving to be a little less permanent than this ink.

Very interesting. We have another half hour of Outside Source coming

up. We hope that you'll stay with us here on the BBC. That's the end of

this half hour. From me, goodbye.