24/08/2016 Outside Source

Hello, this is Outside Source. An earthquake in Italy has killed at

least 120 people, with many still thought to be trapped under the

rubble. The mayor of one town told the BBC he has no hope of finding

more survivors. Turkish tanks have crossed into Syria for only the

second time since the war began. They helped take back a border town

from so-called Islamic State. One of the key figures in the campaign to

take the UK out of Europe, Nigel Farage, is going to speak at a

Donald Trump rally shortly. We will be live in Washington to find out

what he is likely to say. And we will report on a change in the law,

leading to a modern day gold rush. At least 120 people have been killed

in a powerful earthquake in central Italy. The earthquake struck while

most people were still asleep in the early hours of Wednesday morning.

The epicentre was around Accumoli. Arquata Del Tronto was level to the

ground. I have been hearing more about why earthquakes are so common

in this area. Italy is very complex, the big picture is Africa, the

tectonic plate moving into Europe, but there are other things going on

in the two rainy and basin, the big Sea to the west of Italy. I think we

can bring up a map. You have the Apennines, you have this activity

pushing in more pressure? The Adriatic Sea, the crust is rotating

in a counterclockwise direction. It is producing forces on Italy. The

Apennine Mountains develop these faults, every so often they rupture

and we get an earthquake. And that means more seismic activity as the

years go on. What can they do? They build properly. We have seen a lot

of old buildings fall over. They don't have too, they can go in and

retrofit them. That means you go in and put in social support. It

doesn't mean it doesn't move at all, what you are looking for is that it

holds its integrity and people can get out. For the new buildings, we

adopt the best codes, so we see they really do withstand shaking. Does

Italy not do that already? It does, one of the concerns about L'Aquila

that you mentioned is that some of the modern building stock did not

perform well. Some of the older stock that had been refitted stood

up pretty well. We're picky about rescue operations, aid and the

immediate financial outlay. -- we are thinking about rescue

operations. But all of this, retrofitting and engineering, it

costs money? Yes but they are well practised. They had an earthquake in

1913, they have an earthquake and 30,000 people died. We are better

prepared and can respond better. People would have died in the past

and they do not today. Donald John's campaign has found an unusual new

ally. You might recognise Nigel Farage, the outgoing leader of Ukip,

the party formed to campaign for Britain to leave the European Union.

Donald Trump back to Brexit and now Nigel Farage will be speaking to his

supporters in Mississippi. He has already been talking on US radio,

point his similarities between the movements. This is what he had to

say. I was part of a political revolution in the UK and there are

makings of a similar insurgency in the US. Let's get you more from

Anthony in Washington. Do you we know anything about what is likely

to say? He gave a preview on the radio interview, he said he's going

to point to the fact he was running against the establishment and

everybody counted him out. The polls showed that the Brexit wrote was

going to go down to defeat, but he pulled it out, he prepared --

compared himself to David and Goliath. He said the same thing

could happen in the States, that is music to their years because Donald

Trump is down in the polls and a lot of the mainstream media is counting

him out. They think maybe if it happened in the UK, it could happen

in the states in November. Who does Donald Trump needs to boost his

support amongst? Who is he targeting? You'll Amaq he has been

making overtures to minority voters, Hispanics and blacks. He has record

lows in favourability for these groups and even if he can bring them

up a bit it will be really helpful. Also, it seems like he's moderating

his views are bit. He might be able to reach out to moderate Republican

voters in key states like Pennsylvania. They have turned

against him. He needs to bring those folks back into the fold. He will

not win an election just on disaffected white working-class

supporters that he has at the moment. Does this mean he is walking

back some of his promises or pledges, or his threats, on the wall

and deportations? He says he will still build the wall and will get

Mexico to pay for it, though how he's going to do that if anyone's

gas. But he is softening his rhetoric on deportation. He said

last night he wants to be tough but fair for documented workers, the 11

million already here in the States. The proof is in the pudding. We will

see what happens when he comes up with concrete proposals. Right now,

everything he has out there is pretty hard as mandatory

deportations, softening rhetoric, it does not mean anything unless he

backs it up with a real policy proposals. Still a few weeks to pin

him down the facts. Uefa will soon have a new leader. After the

suspension of Michel Platini over claims of corruption, for whoever

takes over it is a time of uncertainty. The biggest clubs are

pushing for major change to the Champions League. Richard Conway has

been finding out what they want. It is world football's most

prestigious club competition. Celtic are bound for the group stage of the

Champions League! But the top sides are demanding changes. The English

Premier League's new ?9 billion TV deal is the main cause of concern.

Last season, Real Madrid Tigon ?81 million for winning the Champions

League. But the club finishing in last place in this season's Premier

League will receive a massive ?97 million. Europe's big clubs now want

to Uefa to deliver a significant increase in TV rights revenue,

fearing they are at a serious competitive disadvantage. Now one of

the leading contenders to be the new Uefa President says there will be

consequences if the club's breakaway to create a new Super League. A

closed Super League with a few clubs in is out of the question. It will

mean a kind of war between Uefa and the clubs. The Champions League is

the best sports product in the world, but it does not generate the

most money. We should improve with dialogue. Michel Platini was forced

to stand aside as Uefa President at a Fifa ethics inquiry. Now the race

is on to replace him. Uefa, at this moment, needs fresh blood to try to

say that only the one who is there for 30 years can lead Uefa, it is

quite silly. Slovenia may be one of the smaller countries in Europe, but

the President of its Football Association has big ambitions. His

message ahead of the elections is that only he can be a uniting force

for the European game. This summer's euros in France highlighted a number

of problems football must tackle, whoever wins the election. Tougher

action is promised and so is a hope that fixing problems will allow

greater focus on the field of play. As the Champions League goes on

pushing for reform, qualifiers for the competition are ongoing.

Manchester City and Ajax are in action. We can get the latest. What

is going on? Yes, well, City are through. They have the game pretty

much sealed after the first leg, winning 5-0. The second leg is

pretty much a formality. They put out pretty much reserve sides.

Fabian Delph got the goal ten minutes after the break to make it

6-0 on aggregate. Let's have a look at the scores. Ajax are out. It was

1-1 after the first leg in Amsterdam. They have lost 4-1 on the

night to the Russian side FC Rostov. It is the second time in a row that

Ajax have failed to reach the Champions League group stages from

qualifying. Ajax are the four time winners of the top competition.

One has gone to extra time, Salzburg and Dinamo Zagreb. You can go to the

website for more. Exciting science News, the discovery

of a new earthlike planet just four light-years away. It is roughly the

same size as birth and is called Proxima B. It is also the right

distance from its star to have water and possibly life.

And the dazzling beauty of the skies above Chile, telescopes have focused

on a pinprick of light coming from the closest star and made a stunning

discovery. They found an alien world holding around it. Nobody has seen

the play directly, but researchers know it is there because of tiny

movements in the star. It is a huge moment in the exploration of space.

The nearest planet that potentially have life and can be similar to our

planet. I think it is a big discovery. There are hundreds of

planets being discovered now, every month. But this is a special one,

the nearest one, because it has happened once and will not happen

again. It is hard to grasp distance and where it is. Let's start with

the moon. It is 239,000 miles from us. Further out, there is Pluto.

That is 4.6 billion miles away. Go beyond the solar system to the next

nearest star, and that is 24 trillion miles away. It sounds a

lot, but in space terms it is our neighbour. That is where a pilot has

been discovered, orbiting around it. The reason scientists are so excited

is that this alien world is the closest there is outside our solar

system. It is being called Proxima b. It is slightly larger than Earth.

Although the star is much cooler than our sun, it is in just the

right zone for liquid water to exist on the service. That means, in

theory, it could support life. Telescopes around the world will now

be deployed to find out more. This really changes, I think, our

perception of how many habitable planets there are in the galaxy. It

means the prospect for alien life elsewhere in the galaxy looks a lot

more rosy than they did last week. Reaching the planet with the

spacecraft we have now would take tens of thousands of years. There is

a plan, backed by Stephen Hawking, for more rapid forms of space

travel. That project now has a tangible goal to aim for. In the

meantime, it will be astronomers who hunt for clues about our nearest

neighbour in deep space. In a moment, we will join the gold rush

where people are risking everything in the hope of making a fortune.

Three men have died after being pulled from the sea at Camber Sands

in East Sussex, in what has been the hottest day of the year. Emergency

teams were called to the beach this afternoon. It is not known if the

men knew each other. Coast Guard helicopters, a lifeboat and air

ambulance have all been at the scene of the tragedy.

Three people were pulled from the water at Camber Sands at around

2:15pm. UK coastguard search and rescue helicopters were immediately

sent to the area, along with coastguard rescue teams and a

lifeboat. Paramedics in an air ambulance attended the scene. Police

confirmed that three men had died. It is a very tragic incident. We are

working with a number of agencies, the Council, the RNLI, the Coast

Guard, beach patrol. We have dedicated officers on the beach at a

daily basis throughout the summer. It is tragic, the incidents, you are

talking about a number of people on the beach that uses, 30,000 people.

The beach was busy with those enticed by the hot weather as

tragedy struck. I went in and helped carry him in. Police urged those on

the beach to stay out of the water. Last month, a 19-year-old drowned at

Camber Sands. Two other swimmers were rescued. More than 1000 people

have signed a petition calling for lifeguards to be located at the

popular beach. The District Council expressed sadness at the deaths. In

a statement, they said while it is very upsetting to see two tragic

similar incidents this summer, over the years these kind of incidents

are extremely rare. On a fine day, about 25,000 people use the beach

safely. In recent years we have seen a change in the make-up of visitors,

including more people from outside the area that are not familiar with

the sea and the dangers it can pose. We will continue to work with the

emergency services and colleagues to do more in educating people of the

dangers of the sea. The lead story: at least 120 people

have been killed in an earthquake in Italy. Many more are believed to be

trapped under rubble. The Mayor of one town said Kelly all the

buildings in the village had collapsed. Coming up shortly, if you

are watching outside the UK, it is World News America next. It is 100

years since the establishment of the National park service in the US. We

have been looking at the history of the agency devoted to preserving

numerous sites across the country. In the UK, the News at Ten is next.

They will have the latest on the 21-year-old British woman stabbed to

death as a backpacker Hospital in Australia. A French suspect, who

allegedly said the phrase Allahu Akbar shoeing attack, has been

arrested. Thousands of people are heading into a remote part of the

Sahara desert to join the world's latest gold rush. A decision by the

government in Mauritania to allow people to dig in the sand has seen

some give up everything in the hope of striking it rich.

Here, in the middle of the desert, thousands are chasing one dream, to

become rich. Tales of making tens of thousands of pounds have triggered a

gold rush. Can you show me the gold you have found? This is only today?

One gram. How about yourself? Six grams? That is a fortune. In a

country of high unemployment, being given the opportunity to dig for

gold is irresistible. Some have found enough gold to buy a house.

First, they dig the sand out of the holes, layered flat and then sweep

it with a metal detector. But whether it is a success or not is

really down to luck. In baking heat, with a little water and no using

medical access, they spend their days digging. Only their dreams make

these punishing conditions bearable. Some will risk everything.

TRANSLATION: I came back from abroad for the opportunity of working in my

country. I brought my children and my wife. I sold everything. I wanted

to get some gold and have a new life. Before making the long

journey, he needed to get a digging license and spend thousands more on

equipment. Now there are calls for the government in Mauritania to

highlight the financial risks. TRANSLATION: The equipment prices,

in comparison with average wages, are high. Some people now make less

than $1 a day. With more than a quarter in Mauritania living below

the poverty line, the government says the decision to allow digging

will improve the lives of many families. The decision was based on

popular demand. The living standard here is quite low. The government is

allowing people to take with an affordable price for the licence.

After spending 27 days here, all he has found a six grams of gold, worth

1% of what he has spent. Yes, like many others, you still comes back

hoping to turn his look around. The use of MDMA, the key component

of Ecstasy, has been steadily rising in the UK. The concern is that

increasingly strong forms of the drug are on the market and are

widely available on the Dark Web will stop our reporter spent some

time with an 18-year-old who spoke openly about his drug use.

Drugs. They have long been a part of growing up. It MDMA, the main

chemical element in Ecstasy, is having a resurgence. It is more

powerful than ever before. The users are also getting younger, able to

buy it online with relative ease. We joined up with Leslie, not his real

name, and his mates, at a festival in Somerset. He is 18 and pretty

open about his drug-taking. This weekend, he bought 24 pills. They

cost him ?85 and he bought them off the internet, the so-called Dark

Net. Do you have any idea what is in them? Because he is buying online,

he knows what he's getting. The quick answer is that you don't? You

take the word from the person who sells it? You think the level of

purity has been going up and up, because you can buy them directly

from the internet, you don't have to go to a middleman? You just logon,

click to buy them and they are delivered to your doorstep. A little

later, he has taken a pill. You see his eyes wide with the drug. I've

taken one pill. Are you feeling all right? Is it stronger than you

remember? Not as bad as yesterday. The night really begins for Leslie

and his friends. And everyone else. We lost Leslie, in the end. But he

gave me a pill and we're going to get it tested to check what is

inside these things. Two weeks later, the results are in. It had

233 mg of MDMA in it. If you go back, traditionally an average dose

in an ecstasy tablet would be somewhere between 85 and 115. So,

the one you brought in is considerably higher than that. So,

the pill was as strong as he thought it was. Trevor says it is incredibly

rare for a user to know the exact dosage like this. It seems MDMA has

come back bigger, with a greater variety of designs and colours.

Perhaps a sign of a growing market. I met a back-up with Leslie to tell

him what we have found. I have a certificate, the only active

substance was MDMA. It was 33%. So, it had pretty much exactly what you

thought was in it, 230. It is risky, buying it off the Dark Net. You

really don't know. What they have said might not be what is in it. So

it is pretty scary. But I got lucky, I think. This time, the pills that

he bought were what he thought they were. But what you actually get is

still a lottery. Probably what he wanted to make clear was that this

is an extraordinary amount of drugs to be taking. Yes. In the end, he

took ten of the pills he had bought that weekend. And he's not the only

one. For young people like Leslie, the drugs and getting stronger, the

dangers greater, yet the party continues.

That is it for now. If you are watching around the world, World

News America is coming up. In the UK, Sophie has the News at Ten. Both

programmes will have the latest what is happening in Italy and the rescue

efforts continue through night. -- through the night.