04/08/2016 Outside Source

Hello this is Outside Source. It is one day before the Olympics opening

ceremony. 271 of the Russian athletes have been cleared to take

part in the games. We want to keep the cheaters away from the Olympic

Games. The message is clear, there is no place to hide for cheats.

Local elections come in and South Africa's ruling party looks set to

have its worst poll results since taking power in 1994. We would get

the latest on the stabbing in central London, one American woman

was killed and five others injured. Dropping interest rates in the UK,

there will be a change to breakfast menus in the US and why passengers

grabbed their luggage when it was a crash landing!

You are very welcome to the programme. Let's begin in Rio. The

International Olympic Committee is due to officially announce the final

number of Russian athletes that will be eligible to compete in the 2016

games. The IOC asked individual sporting federations to decide

whether the Russians should compete when the doping agency recommended

they should be banned. Then they had a 3-person panel to review those

decisions. An update in the past hour, Russia's Olympic chief has

said Russians will compete to: the IOC president hasn't confirmed

that. Before then, we can publish the final results. This procedure is

underway and once it has completed, the panel will publish its findings

to everybody. Let me give you some of the numbers that we do have about

all this. Russia's entire judo squad, they have been cleared to

fight. Let's move on to the simian team. 29 out of 67 members are now

able to compete. On to weightlifting which we mentioned last night, all

eight weightlifters have been banned. They fail to have it

overturned on appeal. That is the same for the 17 Russian members of

the rowing team. Tell us how this has been seen, the back and forth

about how many Russians will come and when on earth they will decide

the final number? It is interesting, you just showed a clip of the IOC

president at this news conference that took place in Rio not that long

ago and it has a packed news conference, many of the journalist

if not all of them were expecting the number to be confirmed right

there and then. You could feel the air come out of the room watching

the pictures when it became apparent that Thomas Bach was not going to

give the number. An hour later we heard the Russian minister did issue

a number, 271 Russian athletes, but it is yet to be confirmed. It may be

confirmed later on this evening in Rio, but now I'm hearing reports it

may not be confirmed until Friday morning, the day of the opening

ceremony. Some of the Olympians are calling this an act salute farce. It

is an incredible situation to find ourselves in. -- absolute farce. The

Russians were going to bring a team of 380 athletes and then the McLaren

report came out and that recommended that Russia should be totally banned

and now it looks... I believe the reports are accurate, that we will

have 271, perhaps nearer to 280 Russian athletes competing behind me

and around Rio at the Olympic Games. It is a situation that many within

sport did not want to happen. Have they given you a reason for the hold

up? There are still cases being heard, the Russian breaststroke

champion is still having her case decided. There is some confusion,

there was another Russian swimmer who is a bronze medallist at the

Olympics, first he was banned, then reinstated, then banned, then

reinstated. He was named in the McLaren report as perhaps having

benefited from the system that was being applied in Russia and he is in

the team. Again I have spoken to those in suing fraternity and they

are open-mouthed that he may well be competing in the pool behind me in a

few days' time. There is information still right now coming from all

different directions and we have not had absolute confirmation. We still

await that number and less than 24 hours until the opening ceremony, it

is quite amazing. Nothing like this has been seen at the Olympic Games

before. Thank you for bringing us that update as we speak to him live

from Rio. Tomorrow morning it looks like we will have the final number.

More than 80% of the votes have been counted in South Africa. The ANC

appears to be heading for its worst election results since it swept to

power after the end of apartheid more than two decades ago. Let's go

through some of these figures. The ANC still in the lead, nationwide,

but a different story when you drill down and look at some of the key

cities. This is Johannesburg, the ANC is running neck and neck with

its main rival party, the Democratic Alliance. Let's move to Pretoria, a

key cities. A similar story. When you look at the southern city of

Port Elizabeth, this is the surprise. This is the DA, they won

there. The ANC even failed to win in the home state of President Jacob

Zuma. I spoke to our correspondent in Pretoria. You can see the yellow

in the bottom of the screen, that is the colour of the Democratic

Alliance's wins. Although the ANC has a hold on the country, it is

significant that the support for the ANC seems to be ebbing. The reason

why that is is a number of factors. Some people saw this as a referendum

on President Jacob Zuma's stewardship of the party. There have

been a number of corruption scandals, also questions about his

stewardship of the economy. People are also concerned about the

delivery of basic services, water and electricity, housing. They feel

the agency are not delivering this quick enough and they worried that

there is patronage and people are jumping the queue. The DA say they

represent a new kind of politics and they once represented a party that

seemed a very white, now they have a young, black leader. He says it is

an end to racial -based politics in South Africa and what we are seeing

is a new generation, now daring to vote differently from their parents

and daring to support parties like the DA. That is so interesting, I am

glad you got to speak to him. I would being dusted to hear whether

people that you have met feel they can vote the DA where as previously

it would have been going against their history? It is really a

generational shift. I have spoken to young, black DA supporters and they

say their parents are die-hard ANC supporters, but they feel because

they do not have the same direct experience of apartheid, they still

have enormous respect the ANC, but they want delivery. It will be

interesting to see what happens in big metropolitan areas like

Johannesburg and the Tory where really we are expecting a lot of

people to stay away. -- Tory. Turnout was low. -- the city of

Pretoria. A 19-year-old man of Somali origin has been arrested in

London after a knife attack took place in central London. An American

woman was killed on Wednesday night and it happened in a place called

Russell Square, very much in central London, it is very popular with

tourists right in the centre. Five other people were also injured, two

of them still in hospital. Police say mental health is likely to have

been a significant factor in the attack. Sarah Campbell brings us

more details. a 19-year-old who had taken one life

and left others injured as he lashed out with a knife in

a busy London square. A guy just came running,

desperate, with a knife, He was not showing

his face because he He was shouting, not

saying any words. Today, other witnesses described how

the attacker fled the scene and some officers went

after him on foot. He was eventually brought down

by a Taser stun gun. There was a guy running

on this street, a policeman was He screamed every time,

"Stop, stop!" He was being shouted

at by the police. "Don't move, don't go any further.

Stop. Literally screaming at him

as he was coming down the street. They actually went out of my vision,

but I did hear the Taser. Then he goes to the floor and lay

there for 45 minutes. The woman who was killed

here was American. The injured were a mix of British,

Israeli, American and Australian. During the day, detectives

were able to establish Whilst the investigation

is not yet complete, the work we have done so far

increasingly points to this tragic incident as having been

triggered by mental health issues. I emphasise that

so far, we have found no evidence of radicalisation that

would suggest the man in our custody The way that so many police officers

poured into this area so quickly shows how the city is primed to deal

with a security threat. Instead, this was all

about the safety of a group of people of different

nationalities, who were caught up in The man in custody is a Norwegian

national of Somali origin. His victim, believed

to be in her sixties, is being remembered at the spot

where her life suddenly ended. The man in custody is of Somali

origin. The victim who is believed to have been in her 60s is being

remembered at the spot where her life suddenly ended. In a moment we

will look at Wednesday's crash landing at Dubai Airport. Our

transport correspondent tells us about the passengers who filmed the

scene and those who grabbed their bags. The full list of David

Cameron's resignation honours has been published this evening. George

Osborne will become companion of honour. A former spin doctor, and

chairman of the Conservative party will be 98. We have been casting our

eye over the list. -- will be knighted. I will rejuvenate a

description for those who are given that title. It is awarded for what

is described as servers of conspicuous national importance and

is limited to just 65 people at any one time. -- service. Sir Craig

Oliver, former director of communications in Downing Street,

Sir Oliver Letwin and Patrick McLoughlin, the Conservative Party

chairman, the former Transport Secretary also receives a

knighthood. This is Outside Source, live from

the BBC newsroom. The head of the International Olympic Committee has

said the organisation is determined to keep drug cheats away from the

Olympic Games. 271 Russian athletes have been cleared to compete. Let's

take a look at some of the stories that we are working on today. A

director of a law firm in China has been and sentenced to seven years in

prison. He is one of the group of human rights lawyers and he is known

for defending dissidents. The BBC News has more on that. We have

pictures of a plane above Miami and Florida spraying insecticide as a

plan to prevent the Zika virus. An Australian newspaper has been

criticised for showing this cartoon, it shows a aboriginal man who has

forgotten his son's name. Now, let's get an update on the Emirates plane

crash, the plane crash at Dubai Airport. I want to bring up some of

the pictures that have emerged. They are from inside the cabin. Take a

look at how the passengers react. They are reaching for their luggage,

you can see it from the overhead lockers. Apparently it can be quite

common in these situations although it may seem very surprising to us as

we watch it from theirs. It was filmed within the cabin. Our

transport correspondent has taken a closer look at the video and some of

the thinking behind it and told us some more. It has happened before.

We have seen it on plenty of accidents, a British Airways plane

last year had an engine fire in Las Vegas and photographs of people

standing outside, people there with their luggage. We had a plane in

2013 in San Francisco, photographs of people outside with their

luggage. There seems to be something in built in us that gets a luggage.

Some people know they should get it and some know they should not, it is

instinctive. It comes down to the crew who know what they are doing,

they train all the time. You can hear them saying leave your bags,

get off. Time is clearly of the essence. Some people did not obey

those orders. That is incredible that the crew, I was reading in your

article, they have 90 seconds to evacuate the plane. All the aircraft

makers have two prove that they can get people off in 90 seconds. When

they test how fire spreads, that is a critical amount of time. After

that you have a fire bigger chance of fire in the cabin and the smoke

is what overpowers people. Every aircraft you have to get people off

in 90 seconds. The way I time it, it is 80 seconds from when that person

presses play to getting off, so it seemed to work. Some people had an

issue with the person who was filming when there is smoke or

anything out happening around him or her. But it could be a bad little

piece of evidence when it comes to situations like this. You probably

shouldn't stop filming in a dangerous situation, but

investigators will use that video, because this is the first time

anyone has filmed that real-life situation. They need to know how

people actually react. They test this all the time, they get actors

in to pretend they are getting off the plane on fire, but you cannot

recreate that life or death moment. They need to see what people are

doing and create new rules for the training in the future and to make

it safer. It looks like some people are grabbing the oxygen masks. Who

knows what any of us would do in that situation. It is invaluable for

future safety to see that film. Six weeks after Britain voted to leave

the European Union, the Bank of England has cut its main interest

rate to just a quarter of 1%. The bank also announced a large package

of measures designed to stimulate the economy. Economists fear there

is a 50-50 chance of the UK falling into a recession as a result of what

is described as the Brexit boat. Dropping rates to 0.25% is a way

they say to reduce that risk. The idea is that lower rates make saving

money less attractive while reducing the cost of borrowing. That also

brings up that it encourages people to borrow more and spend more which

would cause a boost of economic growth. With the rates already so

low, people say it is one of the last levers left to pull if things

get worse. What else can you do? Here is analysis from our economic

's correspondent. We are month on from the referendum.

We have had poor service data. The bank data has downgraded the growth

forecast. The fastest downgrade since it started doing forecasts

like those in 1993. Far faster than it downgraded forecasts in the

financial crisis. It has put in place this stimulus, not just in the

rate cut, but in quantitative easing and in more funding to pass on the

interest rate cut to say we are here to provide reassurance. We are here

to maintain confidence that businesses can invest, that

consumers can buy, they can do their house purchases and the idea from

Mark Carney, the governor of the Bank of England, action now to try

to mitigate the risk. He said that Britain can make a success of

Brexit, although the prognosis now is quite gloomy, he says with this

stimulus package, which certainly surprised most market watchers,

Brexit will be a success, the British economy is robust and he

believes growth will come back and it will be low for this year and

love of the next year, but by 2018 picking up again. More analysis from

him online. Let's stay with business, I have some news about

changing breakfast habits. I will speak to our correspondent in New

York, she went out to New Yorkers and asked them what they had for

breakfast. What did you have a breakfast? It is a green smoothie,

spinach, Apple, Ginger. No breakfast this morning. Kay Hammond cheese

bagel. It is a green smoothie. What you normally eat for breakfast?

Nothing. Does serial ever make it onto your breakfast plate? No. I

would rather get my greens and protein rather than carbs in the

morning. That is a little of what is being said. I loved hearing those. A

lot of green juice, did anyone have any breakfast cereal? Very few

people actually mentioned breakfast cereal and that is the point of all

of this. One of the big breakfast rule-makers Kelloggs recorded its

earnings today and you will see that they were really hurt by the

declining sales. -- breakfast cereal makers. And people are not eating as

much of it. It has been the moneymaker for companies like

Kelloggs. They have been doing a lot of cost-cutting and trying to move

away from processed foods and move away from solely being in the

breakfast or a real aisle and try to get into the snack food aisles. No

one is getting snap, crackle and pop any more! LAUGHTER

Let's stay with a new study suggesting millions of people in the

UK have tried spending time away from the Internet known as a digital

detox. 34% of people. They have taken a period of up to a month from

the web, could you do it? 59% say they were hooked on their devices,

40% said they were regularly ignored by a friend or relative who was

engrossed in their smartphone. Just how useful is a digital detox? Our

correspondent went to find out. Nothing beats getting

away from it all. But can we really switch off

from our phones and devices? If I Google that, we'll

be able to look today. I find it totally impossible just

to put it away and not I like to keep in touch

with everybody and I like to be able to post all my photos to Facebook

so my friends can see where we are. I'm usually on Facebook,

a bit of Instagram, Sadly, I have to admit that

I do check my e-mails. I appreciate that my family don't

always approve when I do that. I think, in industry today,

there is a requirement We're now spending on average 25

hours a week online. But we're also becoming aware

of the drawbacks. A third of adults, 15 million

people, said they'd gone on a digital detox or break

to strike a healthier balance. For instance, 16% of us have

deliberately gone on holiday Over on pitch 108, the Woodwards

from Merseyside left There's a lot going on in the world

and different things like that. Two weeks of the year,

you can just chill out Many parents are now

making their kids take Nearly two thirds have

been digitally grounded. I don't find it something

you need every day. I'm more than happy biking

up and down. We're better connected than ever

before but the challenge, it seems, is to make sure

that our obsession with the Web doesn't negatively affect our lives

beyond the screen. Some food for thought. In the second

part of the programme we will go to the Pentagon. President Obama is

expected to speak any time soon. Do stay with us for the second part of

the programme when we go to that. Good evening. Time to the latest on

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