29/08/2016 Outside Source

Hello, I'm Ros Atkins, this is Outside Source.

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

Brazil's suspended president Dilma Rousseff is fighting

She's been talking at her own impeachment trial -

she says the process amounts to a coup.

I cannot function in these conditions! You're making me

extremely nervous. In the last hour, we've learned of the death of the

actor Gene Wilder, who has died at 83. He starred with -- he starred in

several films by Millbrook, The Producers. -- Mel Brooks.

There's growing calls in France to alter the country's border

That could bring big changes to the migrant camp

I've got this report to show you about gypsies

They say a change in the law is threatening their way of life.

And in a moment we'll bring you up to date with events in Yemen

and talk about how much influence the so called Islamic State

Let's begin by showing you these pictures which came in earlier from

the aftermath of a car bombing in the Yemeni city of Aden. At least 60

people died in this attack. We know the target was a training camp where

men can sign up to fight for pro-government militia. The conflict

is 17 months old. Already, over 6000 people had died. 2.5 million have

been displaced. On one side, there are Government forces backed by

Saudi Arabia. On the other, Houthi rebels. Today's story does beg the

question: Where does Islamic State fit into this border conflict?

They are trying to stop the Government is spreading its

influence in southern provinces. They are taking advantage of the

fact that there is paralysis, civil war raging in most parts of Yemen.

They have been able to infiltrate certain areas. They hope to

establish some kind of authority there. Now the Government is trying

to fight back, to regain some territory. IES is not happy about

that. Does that mean that Islamic State supports the Houthi rebels? It

is different reasons. They are against the Houthis, and against the

current Government in Aden. They benefit from this, -- from this

chaotic scene. IES has been able to infiltrate and establish itself

alarm. They thrive on situations like that, when there is a complete

breakdown of law and order. Let's bring up a map. I want you to help

me out and talk me through which parts of the country are controlled

by which groups. The Houthis, who are allied with the former

president, have taken control of the North of Yemen, the capital, Sanaa.

Some forces have been forced to move into Saudi Arabia. Now they are in

Aden. This brought them on a collision course with IIS. When I

look at Yemen, I associate the South as an area where Al-Qaeda have been

strong tradition with, so where do they fit in, given that Islamic

State is growing in strength? You have to bear in mind that Islamic

State and Al-Qaeda are fighting over the same type of territory. For some

reason, when IES gains a foothold, Al-Qaeda disappears from that area,

so we can say somehow that they have inherited some of that old Al-Qaeda

installations in that part of Yemen. You can get a lot more information

on the situation in Yemen in English through the BBC's website, and a

narrow victory BBCArabic .com. The last tennis major of the year

is underway in New York. And it's already going well for one

British player. Russell Fuller, the BBC's tennis

correspondent, tells us: Let's talk to Ollie, live from the BBC sports

centre. Even his most optimistic fans would not have seen this

coming. It is the first time he has played in the draw at Flushing

Meadows. He beat Gilles Simon, another Frenchman, on his way to

Queens. Richard Gasquet, he is seeded 13th. Who would have thought

that Kyle Edmund ranked 84th in the world could win in straight sets? He

got to the quarterfinals at Queens, lost in the first round at

Wimbledon, where he was Great Britain's hero in the Davis Cup in

their quarterfinal against Serbia, winning both his singles matches.

The Frenchman, who was giving Edmund ten years. He said it couldn't get

any worse than that. He was twice a grand slam semifinals. Tell me about

the roof before we go. In 2008 and 2012, it rained and rained in New

York, push the men's final on to Monday, so they needed a roof like

the rod labour arena and Wimbledon Centre Court. It is a marvel of

engineering, not actually attached to the stadium, though it looks like

it. There are massive poles outside, so it floats on top of it. The

stadium is on dodgy ground, quite soft, and it wouldn't take the

weight, so they have the roof, but would you know, glorious sunshine,

pretty much like when Wimbledon centre court came into at. They

don't know if they will use it for the heat, just to keep the sun off

the players. Should it rained, it won't go into the Monday. -- should

it rain. Mohammed Ali is a French

football journalist. He's reporting a deal

to buy Marseille football Bear in mind Manchester United

signed Paul Pogba for You get a whole club for a lot less

than one player. He used to own former owner

of the LA Dodgers baseball team. He says he wants Marseille

to be champions again. Big job given Paris Saint Germain

and their cash reserves. The story's on the BBC

Sport app right now. I have a report for you on a bird

wind tunnel. If you haven't heard that before, it's understandable,

because there is only one of them. It is at Stamford University. The

goal of the project is to provide information that will help design

flying robots, or drones. We got exclusive access. The wonder of

flight. Only in very slow motion can we see the minuscule adjustments

this lot are constantly makes to its wings. Its body has evolved

perfectly to fly, and human engineers haven't come close to

recreating that. It is pretty big. It is huge. That is something the

researchers in this lab hope to change. They have dedicated an

entire room at Stanford University in California to building this wind

tunnel, the only one of its kind in the world. This is where you fly

neighbours? Yes. It is helping them discover some of the birds' crucial

secrets. Wind tunnel sat been used for a long time to study bird

flight, but when you think about this one -- but the new thing about

this one is that they can manipulate the airflow to create any

environment on Earth, from a gusty city to the top of a mountain. When

you see a bird flying by, you see all be small motions in the win, and

that is all it's doing to adjust to the turbulence. It is these tiny

motions, where they adapt quickly, that make the difference. We have no

idea how they make these in response to which wind flow patterns. In the

moving air, the bird remains in one place, so exactly how it shifts as

the airflow changes can be seen in unprecedented detail. The team, with

their specially trained birds, have also measured in visible

characteristics of short flights like this one. The setup is unique

because we can catch all the forces that a bird generates, taking off

and landing, during one of these flights. Most birds when they fly

generate twice as much left during the downstream to support the body

weight and during the upstroke they are in freefall. What can be done

with all of this flight insight? The next generation in small-scale

flying robots or drones will need to cope in unstable environment if they

are to be useful in military search and rescue applications. Currently,

they can't manage as smoothly as birds, so the scientists will aim to

create robotic copies of what nature has perfected over millions of

years. A few minutes ago we were talking

about how we got news that Gene Wilder has died, age 80 three. Most

of you, he needs absolutely no introduction. He was a giant of film

and television, starring in Charlie and the chocolate factory as Willy

Wonka, most famously, also in a number of Mel Brooks films. As we

knew, the tributes are now flowing in. Jimmy Kimmel is saying he was

the best. Eric MacCormack was in Will and

grace with Gene Wilder. News coming out that Gene Wilder has lost his

life. In a few minutes, we will bring you

a video that is absolutely fascinating, a report on the end of

a year-long project in Hawaii which recreated the conditions of a

potential mission to Mars. We will hear from the six scientists who

have been through that for the last year.

A test of how sticky a protein molecule is could help diagnose the

early stages of Parkinson's disease. This comes from the University of

Edinburgh. Scientists say that early work on a small number of samples

proved very accurate. Sticking clumps of the molecule found in the

brain cells of people with Parkinson's, and in the brains of

some dementia sufferers is. The Parkinson's disease charity says the

results are hugely prop -- promising but larger studies are needed.

Richard Lester has more. I went to see my GP with symptoms I thought

were arthritis. He said straightaway that he thought I had early onset

Parkinson's. Parkinson's eventually cost him his

job as a solicitor and more He does not think an earlier

diagnosis would have helped his case, but he thinks it

could help others plan their futures and take part in research to delay

the onset of symptoms. If people were diagnosed earlier

and they were given the opportunity of taking part in this research,

that is definitely a positive step. You may have more time to discuss

options with your doctor or neurologist, and decide

which is the best step for you. One in 500 people in the UK have

Parkinson's, about 127,000. The main symptoms are tremors,

rigidity and slowness of movement, symptoms that can be controlled

with drugs and therapies. Diagnosis can take time

because there is no definitive But scientists are a step closer

to developing one. Researchers are testing

for the human version The team in Edinburgh that devised

this test have now refined it It needs more work, but early

results are promising. This could be the diagnosis

technique of the future. If we had a test that could find

people right at the early stages, that would alleviate a lot

of concern, but also could be used for finding treatments that might be

able to slow or prevent Parkinson's. There is still no cure

for Parkinson's, but the hope is that if it is diagnosed earlier,

it can be treated earlier too, and could give people like Ian

a better quality of life. Welcome back to the BBC newsroom.

Our lead story is that Brazil's suspended President Dilma Rousseff

has been speaking at her own impeachment trial. She says that if

it goes ahead, it will amount to a coup. After Outside Source, if

you're watching outside the UK, it is world News America next. It has a

report from higher, a state Donald Trump really needs to win. No

Republican has ever won eight presidential election without it. He

is trailing in the polls there. In the UK, it is the August bank

holiday, and the News at ten will be on 15 minutes later than normal. It

will have more on growing calls in France for changes to be made with

the -- to the border arrangement with the UK. Let me show you the

moment when a year-long simulation of life on Mars came to an end.

Three, two, one... Quite low-key, given how long they have been in

that dumb. The scientist have been living in near isolation. It was

funded by Nasa as a way of trying to understand how humans could take

part in future Mars missions. The closest Nasa could find to something

like Mars was in Hawaii. You can see they actually chose this island, and

the largest volcano on Earth. It was on the side of that volcano that the

six scientists were living. They had to live in a number of different

situations, all within this one dome. They were in here for a year.

Since coming out, they've said the hardest thing was not the lack of

space, it was the lack of privacy for the six of them. This is one

glimpse of life inside. When they went outside, they had to wear

spacesuits before coming back in to the dome. It is estimated that if

there were to be a human mission to Mars, it could take between one and

three-year 's. This study wanted to look at how people interact in a

small area over such a long period. Here are some of the crew members

talking about that. When it comes to picking the crew, figuring out how

people are going to work on different missions, the human

factors element of space travel, colonisation, whatever it is you're

looking at. My personal impression is that a mission to Mars in the

close future is realistic. I think the technological and psychological

obstacles can be overcome. Next on Outside Source, a report on Gypsies

and Travellers in the UK. They are arguing that new planning

regulations are racist and make it increasingly hard for them to get

new sites as they move from place to place. The Government says it is

fairer and gives local councils the necessary amount of power.

This place is literally sacred to us.

Appleby Fair, a celebration of a way of life.

I am a Romany Gypsy and I am fiercely proud of my identity,

my culture, my language and my traditions.

The Gypsy community, immersed in a culture which has

Washing the horses in the river, we've been doing that ever

since we got to this country 500 years ago.

We have been coming here to the fair and ever since we've been washing

the horses in the river in the exact same way.

Today, they are enjoying their day in the sun.

Many families have now abandoned their traditional life

There is a desperate shortage of caravan sites.

That is why 80% of our people are in houses, because they got

so desperate and it got so difficult for them,

They don't want to be in houses, they want to be on a caravan site.

The pressures of modern life mean Gypsies often reluctantly move

into houses for work, school or because of age

But the law changes in England mean that once they come off the road,

even for a short time, they can now find it impossible

Trying to get planning permission for a caravan site as a Gypsy

or traveller has become more and more difficult.

Prejudice on the part of the general population

It is harder and harder and harder for people to find somewhere.

It took Nicola 12 years to win a planning battle

Just trying to settle down and give them the best in life you can and do

the best for them so that when they get older,

Everyone else is up there, travellers are down there.

It has been like that for a long time.

No matter how much you shout, people don't want to know.

Away from the romance of the summer fair, what Gypsies want is this.

We have caravans that we use for bedrooms and living rooms.

We have a smaller caravan for the children.

We have all the conveniences people have in a house.

But, at the same time, we are hanging onto our culture

These new rules only apply in England.

Ministers say that councils now have more power to stop unauthorised

camps and more freedom to decide what sites to provide.

The Government insists it treats all communities equally.

But some believe that Gypsies, far from being victimised,

I think travellers who travel probably do have a strong case.

The travellers who do not travel and are seeking a permanent

lifestyle on a particular spot in the countryside should not

have the right to build where no-one else can.

But Gypsies are feeling that they are being forced

Genuinely, people in this world today think it is a crime

And they genuinely, genuinely think we should not be able to exist.

And so England's Gypsies fear an uncertain future.

But the Government insists it is up to local communities to decide

what sites to provide for those who choose the travelling life.

Next, a strange and upsetting story from Norway. These images will be

upsetting. A large herd of reindeer, more than 300 of them, were killed

by lightning in a mountain range in Norway. A Ranger found this scene of

dead animals on a hillside. But officials say the number of deaths

is on a scale that has never been seen before. It's thought the

reindeer huddled together because of violent weather, which meant that

when the lightning strike came, so many of them were killed. There are

going to switch to talking about Gene Wilder and the tributes being

paid to him. There has been a huge outpouring of affection and upset

over the news. This man sold 100 million albums. Mexico's president

led the tributes, saying: Crowds have been gathering in Mexico

City to pay tribute. I will miss Juan Gabriel because he was a great

artist. He was my age, which makes me even more sad because he was so

young. TRANSLATION: I just got here and everyone said he died from a

heart attack. I am so upset by this news. TRANSLATION: It is truly a sad

loss for the Mexican people. He was one of our musical icons. He was so

relevant for our country, because his music and songs said so much

about the Mexican people and our way of life. We should end this edition

of the programme by playing one of his best-known songs.