12/09/2016 Outside Source

I'm Ros Atkins, welcome to Outside Source. We are now several hours

into a new truce in Syria. Already there are warnings it will fail to

hold. We have a special report from Aleppo. It has been a long, hot and

dangerous summer in Aleppo. You can see it in the fabric of the city,

the damage that has been done. Hillary Clinton is unwell, having

cancelled a trip to California and after this video of her unsteady on

her feet as she got into a vehicle, it has been revealed she has

pneumonia. We will be live in Washington to discuss this.

In June, David Cameron stood down as Prime Minister and today he

announced he is leaving politics. We will discuss what -- why that might

be. We also go to Mexico City weather

have been huge pro-and anti-same-sex marriage marches. We will explain

how the church fits into that. Any questions or comments on the

subjects we have been covering, please use this hashtag.

The new ceasefire in Syria is intended to be ten days long. It was

brokered by the US and Russia. We are now several hours into it. As

I'm sure all of you know, the war has already taken the heaviest of

tolls on this country. Over 250,000 people have died in the last five

years. Almost 5 million people have had to flee abroad. Another 6.5

million are displaced inside Syria. Aleppo is a city we have reported on

perhaps more than any other in Syria. It is the centre of the

humanitarian crisis. It used to be the largest city in Syria but

thousands of people have left and what is left, areas controlled by

the Government and by rubble groups and those people who cannot or will

not leave. Jeremy Bowen is in Aleppo, he is always worth following

on Twitter but particularly so today. He showed this picture. This

was the moment that the time of the truce came and the weapons had to

fall quiet. He points out that no side is particularly confident it

will last. Here is his report. The further you drive

north in Syria, This road is the regime's fragile

link between Damascus and Aleppo. Rebels cut it this summer where it

reaches the Aleppo suburbs. They were only driven back by

Syrian troops at the weekend. Shelling was still

going on as we drove in, government artillery hitting

rebel positions. It has been a long, hot

and dangerous summer in Aleppo. And you can see it in

the fabric of the city, The ceasefire is meant to stop

all of that. Since fighting started in 2012,

the west side of the city Armed opposition groups

control the east. Four years of fighting

have devastated Aleppo. This gives an idea of the firepower

of the Syrian Army and its Russian backers who have been making

gains around Aleppo. One of the big questions

about the ceasefire is whether they are prepared

to give their enemies On the rebel side,

there are also doubts. Groups backed by the Americans have

been told that they have to separate from more radical militias

who they regard as allies. And another important rebel group,

Ahrar al-Sham, which is backed by Saudi Arabia, has already

rejected the ceasefire agreement. TRANSLATION: The deal announced

between the US and Russia to resolve the issue in Syria does not achieve,

in our view, the basic minimum goals They will lose all their

sacrifices and gains. In Damascus, President Bashar

al-Assad chose to celebrate the Muslim festival of Eid-al Adha

by visiting and praying It was in rebel hands for five years

until they surrendered at the end of August

after what the UN called President Assad's Government

has backed the ceasefire, but his words suggested that he has

unfinished military business. TRANSLATION: The Syrian state

is determined to recover all to restore security,

rebuild infrastructure and everything else that was destroyed

in both human and material aspects. We came here today to replace

the fake freedom that they tried to promote at the start

of the crisis, like in Daraya,

with the real freedom. The holiday is being celebrated

even though there was a steady thunder of artillery fire

throughout the day. The ceasefire agreement

is complicated, potentially fragile, and all sides in the war doubt

whether it can work. At the very least,

it might be a respite There is a huge mound of information

on the Syrian conflict whenever you want to access it online from BBC

News. Let's talk about Hillary Clinton.

She has pneumonia. She was first diagnosed on Friday, but her

campaign made the matter public only after this happened at the weekend.

She had left the 9/11 commemoration due feeling unwell. She was being

supported by colleagues, you can see clearly she is unsteady on her feet

and she is helped into that vehicle. You may wonder as you watch this

what it has to do with politics. Well, it has a lot to do with

politics. He is devolved Axelrod, former chief election strategist for

Barack Obama. -- David Axelrod. A really sharp, from him. Broader

issues of privacy and health are now in play. The US networks are all

over this story. We are now running she has been diagnosed with

pneumonia. The issue coming in a 9/11 commemoration at ground zero.

She left the memorial service in New York this morning after becoming

overheated. She went to her daughter's apartment. We have

breaking news in CNN, an update on Hillary Clinton's Hell. What we have

just learned is that Hillary Clinton's doctor attended to her at

her home today. Her doctor has put her on antibiotics, suggesting it is

a bacterial infection of the lungs. It is a diagnosis that you can

understand why someone would curtail their schedule. To me it is a good

news, bad news situation. The good news is that the worst bit of it is

in the rear-view mirror. The bad news is that this is a pothole that

is not. It is the storyline of whether she has the stamina but also

the story went off, is she transparent?

Hillary Clinton's Doctor is saying she has walking pneumonia. If you

are wondering what that is, there is an article all about it on the BBC

News website. Essentially this is a mild form of pneumonia, often the

result of an inhalation of bacteria. You can get much more detail on

this. Donald Trump is laying low on this story. By the way, he also

dressed -- addressed demands for more information on his health.

As we often do on US election campaign matters, we have a BBC

correspondent in Washington. What is devolved Axelrod's point about

Hillary Clinton and oversee? -- David. The thing that is frustrating

Clinton supporters today is that this is another problem, they say,

of Hillary Clinton's own making. It is one thing to fall sick, but at

the campaign had treated this with full disc dollar disclosure, -- full

disclosure, there would have been some sympathy for her. The problem

is, the campaign did not do that. They did not tell the public she had

pneumonia until after she had collapsed. David Axelrod is really

referring to the e-mail scandal, were again what you're suggesting is

that there is something about Hillary Clinton that is not

transparent, that does not like to reveal everything to the public,

something kind of hidden, and that her desire, her Puncheon for secrecy

is very damaging. That is the link between getting sick and not

revealing the medical records about this pneumonia, the e-mail scandal

and why she has not been totally transparent about it. There might be

lots of people watching this who think it is slightly odd that there

is an expectation that both candidates have to put so much

private information into the public arena. Yes, we do have two

relatively old candidates running for the White House. Hillary Clinton

is 68, Donald Trump is 70. In a couple of months, one of them will

become the incumbent of the most powerful job in the country, perhaps

in the world, and the public thinks it has a right to know whether they

are fit or not. Is there something in either of their medical records

that voters should be concerned about as they make their choice

about these candidates? That is why there is also pressure on Donald

Trump at the moment for him to disclose his medical records, as

well as on Hillary Clinton to disclose her medical records. Her

campaign is saying today it is only pneumonia, there is no other issued

the public needs to be concerned about, but voters and the press want

to see the evidence of that. In terms of how disruptive this will

be, clearly she is not going to California, so very disruptive in

the short-term, but is there expectation this could have a longer

term impact? The campaign does say she will video conference into that

meeting but she has cancelled the trip. My hunch on this, and I am

going on my gut and on past campaign experience, is that this does not

need to have a long-term impact. We are two months away from the

election. We are two weeks away from the first debate and she has to

perform well so she has to be better. But I think as long as she

recovers from pneumonia, gets back on the campaign trail, there is the

potential for the health side of this, the questions about whether

she is fit or not, to recede as we get closer to the election. Thank

you very much, we will speak again soon.

We were just talking about people who want to leave the country, let's

talk about a man who once did but is not any more. It doesn't look like

David Cameron will be standing for election any time soon. He resigned

as a minister after Brexit but today he announced he is quitting as an

MP. Here he is expending choir. With the

circumstances of my resignation, it is not really possible to be a

proper backbench MP as a former Prime Minister. I think everything

you do will become a big distraction and a big diversion from what the

Government needs to do for our country. I support Theresa May, I

think she got off to a great start, that she can be a strong Prime

Minister and I do not want to be that destruction. I want Witney to

have a new MP who can play a full part in Parliamentary and political

life without being a distraction. There has been some intriguing

analysis. Nick Robinson says... And from one of the daily

Telegraph's most senior editors... Let's just remind you what David

Cameron said when he resigned. He has not made it through

September. What is going on here? But a spring in Glenn Campbell in

Westminster. I'm sure you have heard 101 degrees today. What is the

reaction and analysis you are hearing? I think David Cameron has a

point when he talks about being a distraction. It certainly would have

been the case that any pronouncement he made was measured and considered

for any criticism that might imply as regards the work of his

successor, Theresa May and her Government. But also, as somebody

who has served on the front bench in the House of Commons at the highest

level has Prime Minister, it must be pretty difficult to then carry on as

an ordinary backbench MP and watch as some of the policies you have

pursued are changed and there is a clear example of a change in

direction today here at the House of Commons, where the Education

Secretary has been setting out a new direction for education policy,

including selective schools, and expansion of the network of

selective schools, expanding them in a way that David Cameron certainly

would not have approved of. He certainly does not have to remain in

the House of Commons to vote for things that he does not like any

more, because he is no longer an MP. No sooner had he announced his

decision to go than the former -- the procedure sparked into life. It

is not particularly unusual for a former Prime Minister to opt out of

a long career on the back benches. But the reaction to this has been

quite spiky. How do we understand that? Different Prime Ministers have

chosen to do different things. When Tony Blair stood down from office,

he immediately left the House of Commons. When Gordon Brown lost the

election, he decided to stay on in Parliament until his term as an MP

came to an end. One former Conservative leader today, William

Hague, said David Cameron had done the right thing, because former

Prime Ministers tent to get criticised I therefore being that

destruction or for doing too little work. But on the Labour benches,

while there have been warm tributes to him from the current Labour

reader, Jeremy Corbyn and other senior Labour figures, Angela Eagle

said she could not bring herself to give him praise because he took the

country into the EU referendum and lost and she said that it was

effectively leaving to let others could up the mess that he had

created. Thank you very much. So we have been to Washington,

Westminster and in a few minutes we will be going to Mexico City. We

have seen two pretty different protests over the weekend. One

calling for all plans for the national legalisation of same-sex

marriage to be stopped. Another cause for much more extensive LGBT I

writes. The Education Secretary has promised

to deliver a new generation of grammar schools in England. She told

MPs in the House of Commons today that expanding grammar schools would

help families who could not afford to buy houses in the catchment areas

of good schools. Labour's Angela Rayner responded. As my right

honourable friend the Prime Minister has said, this Government is putting

the interests of ordinary working class people first. We want this

country to be a truly meritocratic country, where what matters most is

a person's individual talent and their capacity for hard work. So we

need to build a school system that works for everyone. Not just for the

privileged few. The various proposals set out today in this

consultation document all drive towards one very simple goal,

increasing the number of good school places for all children.

I give a Jonny May. This is Outside Source. -- thank you for joining me.

Our lead story comes from server at the latest ceasefire has begun. It

was brokered by the Americans and Russia. It is designed to last for

ten days. The main stories from BBC World

Service. It has been warned that North Korea is preparing for another

nuclear weapons test. There were reports of another test last Friday.

Officials are saying these aerial photographs of the test site

indicate that only two of three test tunnels have so far been used.

This is believed to be a piece of the missing flight, from the Xhosa

Madagascar. It was discovered by an American who has helped find nearly

half of the pieces of suspected -- half of the pieces.

Let's go to Mexico, I want to show you two demonstrations for and

against gay marriage. First of all, this is from Saturday. This code is

against the idea, they are chanting things like, wake up and defend the

family, children need a mother and a father. But this protest is from the

Sunday, in support of the idea of gay marriage being legalised across

the country. One banner read, I respect your family, respect mine.

The reason I mentioned the push for the national law is because the law

is quick confiscated. Gay marriage is legal in Mexico City and in nine

other state, but the President wants to change the constitution to allow

it nationally. Hence the marchers. The BBC correspondent is there in

Mexico City now. Aside from thinking this is the right thing to do, why

has the President chosen to pick a political fight on this now? To give

you more context, it was last year that the Supreme Court in Mexico

ruled that any marriage that was restricted to just the man and a

woman would be hung -- unconstitutional. So that is a big

step to open doors to equal marriage. A lot of states have been

slow in announcing that, and that is why back in May the President

started an initiative to say they should change the constitution to

allow anyone who wants to get married to get married. So that has

been the sticking point because if you're not in one of those ten

states, then everybody in terms of equal marriage has to go to get a

legal challenge. That has been the biggest problem. Why is he picking

this battle now? It is certainly not a good time for President Pena Nieto

because he had the visit of Donald Trump, he is not getting a very good

approval rating. He has come under a lot of criticism. But this is

interesting to see people on both sides of the debate arguing for what

they want when it comes to equal marriage. Where is the Catholic

Church fitting into this? The Catholic church has officially said

they have not been backing the marchers, but there have been

bishops who have been getting involved. Mexico is a secular state

and has been since the revolution. People have been angry about bishops

being involved in politics but the counter argument has been, this is

not a national law yet this is a proposal. So those members of the

clergy have been involved in the marchers are doing so as private

citizens. But September the 24th is expected to be another march and a

counter march for those who believe in equal marriage. So the debate

could carry on. Buds begin the business section by

talking about Tata Steel. It has posted a third consecutive quarterly

loss than a shrug of more than ?350 million. This is the company that

sold some of its UK operations in April and that appears to have had a

negative impact. Tata Steel reported a net loss of

?358 million in the first quarter of this year. This was primarily due to

its discontinued businesses, including operations in the UK.

However, the company expects its prospects to improve in the coming

months due to a weakening pound after the Brexit though. This is

expected to boost the UK's competitiveness when it comes to

exports. However, the management acknowledged that this will be just

a short-term gain and more needs to be done to make this a viable

business in the long-term. And to achieve that, one of the options

there is exploring is to form a joint venture with other interested

companies. But one of the biggest stumbling blocks for the sale of its

European business has been the legacy of the British steel pension

fund. Tata Steel inherited that when they took over the business.

Currently, it has 130,000 members and a deficit of ?700 million. The

company said it is in touch with all the stakeholders, including the

Government, the trustees and the unions, to find a viable solution to

this problem. Better news for Manchester United.

It has become the first UK football club to make over half ?1 billion of

revenue in a single year. In comparison, Barcelona's equivalent

figures were ?570 million. Let's bring in Samir Hussein. How does

this number breakdown? What is pushing the number up? Well, it has

been particularly good in terms of financials for Manchester United

because they have had a few really lucrative commercial deals that have

come through, which has pushed up how much they are making on things

like merchandising and how much they make in terms of ticket sales. There

was also a profitable new agreement that went into effect with Adidas,

which also proved to be quite lucrative for the company. But it is

not all rosy. Although the company has said that it had recognised any

use, they are not expecting this kind of record-breaking revenue in

the next few years. A big reason has to do with the fact that the team

did not make it into the Champions League. And they have listed on the

New York Stock Exchange, why is that? It does. But just in terms of

the company was my financials, a big reason why the fact they did not get

into the Champions League is having such a big impact, one figure put it

at ?30 million loss for the company. Just by not being in that league.

Thank you very much. That's it for the first half of

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