02/11/2016 Outside Source

Hello, I'm Nuala McGovern, this is Outside Source.

Both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton hit swing states,

we'll look why these key battlegrounds matter so much

Possible corruption at the highest level.

A long-awaited report into South African President Jacob

These people have been freed from so-called Islamic State control

As the Iraqi army secures its foothold in the city.

We will check in with stories in Syria, Israel and in India we'll

find out why a controversial Indian TV personality has quit his job.

We're now into the final week of campaigning in the US election.

Here's the BBC's poll of polls with Hillary Clinton

But at this stage, the national polls are less important

than individual state polls that's because of the way

the American electoral system is set up.

No surprise then that the candidates are focusing on those battlegrounds.

Today Hillary Clinton's focussed on Arizona and Nevada.

If Hillary Clinton was to be elected it would create an unprecedented

constitutional crisis. Haven't we just been through a lot with the

Clintons! Remember when he was impeached for lying. He can't

practice law, he doesn't have the right to practice it. Didn't we just

go through it? The last thing we need is another four years of Obama.

This would be worse. That means Isis, high taxes, bad health care,

no border. Without a border we don't have a country.

President Obama at a Democrat campaign event in North Carolina

We're being sued by the Department of Justice or denying housing

African-American families. I'm not making it up. I'm stating facts. At

that same time Hillary was going undercover school to school making

sure disadvantaged kids were getting an equal shot at a good education.

That tells you something about their respective values. Hillary hasn't

stopped fighting the Justice, the quality. Her heart has always been

in the right place. -- quality. That is President Barack Obama talking

about Hillary Clinton. One of the issues about voter turnout, in

particular African Americans. The reason swing states

are so important is because of how the electoral system

in the US works. Here's Christian

Fraser to explain it Here's Christian Fraser

to explain it. The winner is not always the pants

tipped with a bigger share of the national vote. Think of it is 51

mini elections. Each state is allocated is fixed number...

Altogether there are 538 electoral college votes. 270 get you across

the winning line. This is how it looked in 2012 when Obama was

re-elected. You will see that the Democrat little is in the corners,

in the big states. It is now all the grabs. The states with the biggest

populations that are crucial. Let's take the largest, California. If

Clinton was to win California with 50% of the vote plus one she takes

all 55. Look how many small state is Donald Trump then has to win to

equal that 55. Seven altogether. It is possible to secure the most votes

nationwide and still lose. That is what happened in 2000, Al Gore got

more votes than George W Bush button picked the White House. In this

election, we think there are 13 battle ground states. -- but he

didn't make the White House. Let's get some more of it. You have

been crisscrossing as much as the candidates. I can't keep up with

them. We're just listening to President Barack Obama live in North

Carolina. He was talking to African-Americans, pushing to get

turnout. Is that what these final bays are all about. Yes, at this

stage the messages are out there, people know who they are dealing

with. There was not much more to say about the character of either of the

candidates. It is about how good your operation is, Hammond people

you can get to the polls. Within Pusey has loaned the both of these

candidates will stop -- with in Pusey as low. Saying you are going

to vote, to actually go to vote even harder than for Barack Obama. He is

in North Carolina because there were a lot of African-Americans, a lot of

young people. He is speaking at a university. He needs to do what they

did to him in 2012. He even said in a radio interview, look there was

one more votes to be had my legacy is at stake here. -- is at stake

here. Do you think if you look at the selection, with this frenzied

pace, does it make a different to the motor? -- to the voter? Yes, it

does make a difference, every time they have a rally it is shown on

national television. It is not just the audience that is fair but all

the millions of Americans tuning in at that particular moment. Then it

is picked up online and in the newspapers. Gets a lot of

transference, big audiences. They also want to reach those battle

grounds dates. You have had Hillary Clinton in Amazonia and the Trump

team are in Michigan. -- in Arizona. At the moment trying to protect your

castle walls, those states which you feel your stronghold, but also make

forays into other states you may be helped to pick up because you are

close in the polls. Always good to speak to you.

Iraqi forces have begun to push into residential areas in the fight

to retake the city of Mosul from so-called Islamic State.

They entered the city for the first time yesterday

As troops go in, residents are coming out.

Our correspondent Ian Pannell is with Iraqi special forces

We are on the outskirts of the city, and the city centre is that way.

As you can see, the road is now full of dozens and dozens,

possibly hundreds of families who have been living under the yoke

Many of them have been asked to leave their own safety,

many of them want to leave, because for them it's

For many of these women that you're seeing here,

this is the first time they've been out of their homes

Some of the women we've spoken to said they couldn't even go up

onto the roof tops to hang out washing for fear of being punished

These people have been trapped between two warring parties

Immediate peace isn't an immediate prospect.

But at least life for many of them will be a little better soon.

The big question is, where do they go now?

Let's take you across the Iraqi border to Syria now.

Syrian President President Bashar al-Assad has declared his intention

to remain president at least until his third seven-year term

He told foreign journalists in Damascus...

It comes as fighting continues in the city of Aleppo,

where the US has accused Russia of committing war crimes.

Russia had this to say about its relationship with the US.

TRANSLATION: Problems in our relations have been accumulating for

a long time. They started when the United States saw that we do not

take orders from then when we discuss an international problem.

The problem started when they sought that President Putin the game the

independence of our foreign policy. The BBC owned Bennett Jones is in

Aleppo. Can you talk to is a bit about the mood in Aleppo right now?

There was great tension I'm in the western part that is held by the

government. Many people here have experienced bombshells coming in in

the past week. There is considerable anger about that and also

anticipation that the government are going to launch a major assault on

Eastern Aleppo in the coming days or weeks and that that could change the

situation. There are simply two versions of the truth here, if you

like. The the rebel sides are taken in civilian casualties. But here is

the version that the people on the other side of Ireland jihadists and

any to be cleared out. With the people, it can you -- other side are

violent jihadists. So in some of the besieged areas that have already

surrendered, they call it a reconciliation process, in some of

those areas the estimate is that the number of people in besieged areas

has been far higher than what turned out to be the case. The estimates of

Eastern Aleppo range from a quarter of a million people down to 90,000

or something. A vast strategy. But it is a huge number of people and

they have taken an awful lot of punishment over the last few months.

The question is whether the president is going to follow through

on these assertions he is making Betty will clear it. He said it is

their top priority to retake Aleppo. If they do that they will have

control of all the major population centres in Syria. It looks like they

are beginning to reassert themselves. Thank you very much.

A report detailing allegations of corruption by South African

President Jacob Zuma found possible evidence of corruption,

at high levels of government, and recommended a commission

Mr Zuma had been fighting to block the release but has

It adds to growing calls for him to resign.

"If Zuma will not resign, we look forward to our Motion

of No Confidence being debated in Parliament.

Attributed to their leader Musi Mai-mane.

Here's Milton Nkosi with the details.

The pressure had been building since daybreak. Many gathered in the

country's capital, Victoria. Calling for Mr Zuma to resign. And for the

reports to be released without delay. Thousands of South Africans

have turned out on the streets, calling for the president to step

down. Calling for him to fall. It is because of the corruption

allegations that have dogged the president for a long time. And in a

packed court room the judge gave the people what they had been asking

for. The public protects the audits to publish the report forthwith and

by no later than 1700 hrs on November 2016 -- the 2nd of November

2016 the corruption report said that the president should establish a

commission of enquiry within 30 days, led by a judge which must be

appointed by the Chief Justice. It raised serious concerns that

President Sumac allowed a family of businessmen to influence the

selection of senior Cabinet ministers. -- president Zuma. This

was exactly the judgment the opposition parties had been hoping

for. It is a historic day for the people of this country. It is

significant because today South Africans of reclaim the

constitution. When we led the complaint against Zuma we knew there

was evidence that indicated that there is evidence of state

corruption. It was not just Mr Zuma's political enemies, some

groups even from his own governing party. We have asked for a meeting

with the president and we have told him that he is no longer deserving

to lead this country. This report is not good for President Zuma, but it

is not as damning as some in the opposition had hoped when they came

to court this morning. There are many who believe that with all the

corruption allegations against the president that things might be

coming to a head. Somehow it does feel like South Africa is reaching a

tipping point. Now, South Africa's attention will turn to Jacob Zuma to

see how they will respond. We're going to be looking at

Facebook and a plan from ensuring its company to view the profiles.

The Prime Minister has waded into the row over whether England

and Scotland football players should be allowed to wear armbands

featuring poppies when they face each other at Wembley on Armistice

Theresa May called the FIFA ban "outrageous".

Let's hear a little bit more of the details coming up now. I think the

stance taken by Fifa is outrageous. Our football players want to

recognise and respect those that have given their lives for our

safety and security. I think it is absolutely right that they should be

able to do so. I think a clear message is going from this House.

We want our players to be able to wear those poppies.

And I have to say to Fifa, that before they start

telling us what to do, they jolly well ought

Both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are campaigning

in key swing states, as the polls narrow in the race

Let's take a look at some of the stories the BBC language services

are working on today. Our Vietnamese service report

on a fire in a karaoke bar in Hanoi, Vietnam's Prime Minister has called

for anyone found to have broken Fire-fighters took five hours

to put out the blaze. The President of The Gambia

has faced a harsh Human Yah-ya Jammeh is accused

of using violence to silence critics He is seeking a fifth term

and for the first time facing a single opposition

candidate. And Glamour magazine has been

criticised for naming U2 frontman Bono on its annual Women

of the Year list. The magazine said he was the first

man to be included on the list because of his campaigning

for women's rights. The authorities in Calais have moved

around fifteen hundred unaccompanied children from the migrant camp known

as The Jungle. They were left behind after the camp

was dismantled last week. Our correspondent Peter Whittlesea

has spent the day in Calais Hour by hour youngsters have been

moved out of these converted shipping containers into coaches,

when they got into the coaches they were met by officials

from the British Home Office who will assess their eligibility

to come to Britain. Many of them claim they have family

links with Britain and therefore They've been sent to centres

across France, in total 60 centres. Some of the furthest afield are 650

miles away in the south-west of France in Carcassonne

and the Pyrenees. The French authorities

achieved their goal to evacuate In total, they went on 38 buses that

left here this morning, and the operation

finished this afternoon. Tonight, only around 300 women

remain in what is left The rest of the camp was dismantled

throughout the week. French authorities have said locally

today's operation was successful and the French president

Francois Hollande always promised this camp would be clear

by the end of the year. The Chinese e-commerce company has

exceeded expectations Revenue reached 5 billion

dollars in the three months Last year, transactions

on Alibaba sites totalled some That's more than eBay

and Amazon combined. A case that is just coming in at the

moment. Reuters reports Gawker Media LLC has

reached a proposed $31 million cash settlement with Hulk Hogan,

who obtained a $140 million I want to play you a tape. Hillary

Clinton's move away from fossil fools has made her unpopular with

the locals. These mountains in West Virginia with a thick canopy of

trees. Hard to believe that this is the heart of America whole company.

David Green lost his cold job in April, now he runs a farm stand. The

minds is for the money, and guaranteed money. You might get

wages, little whiskey. It is really good money. I would not support

Hillary because she is dead against call. Donald is the best of the two

evils. Many here feel left behind forgotten. Coal 's have been crushed

by technology. With each mine closure and each bankruptcy there

have been more jobs lost meaning more pain in communities like this.

Pro Bill Clinton was the last

presidential candidate for the Democrats to win the state. There is

a lot of talk in these parts of President Obama's war on coal. Many

like out of work minor blame him mine closures. When you have a

president who says we're not going to make an illegal Manco it is

pretty personal. And when you have a candidate who says things like we're

going to put a lot of coal businesses and coal miners out of

business, that is very personal here. There is no compromise. Many

people in the region feel abandoned by politicians, even those fighting

against the coal industry like this activist. We built this country from

the coal that has been mined out of the roundabout is made the deal and

powered the country throughout the country. We are owed something back.

We are owed something more than pollution and poverty. Few here

expect the coal industry to return to its glory days, but Donald Trump

is offering hope to a group who don't feel politicians in Washington

speak for them. That is one story that Michelle has

been following. Facebook has blocked plans

by a British insurance company Admiral was going to offer

young people a special insurance deal in exchange

for viewing their profile in order Quite a story but Facebook says it

is not going to happen. The heart of this is about who has access to your

social media and what they can do with that information. Facebook here

is blocking the insurance company he wants to assess the way you like

posts, how you write your posts is, to figure out if you are a risky bet

or not and whether you should get discounts on your premium. Facebook

said no to that. Interestingly, even Facebook users peoples data to

target advertising towards you. This won't be the last time you see a

financial company trying to use your data in this way. Question but

Facebook is does this present a business opportunity silica make

more money in the future. And Ings, were out for Facebook? Yes, I

mentioned about how it sells targeted advertising. It has been

very successful in the last three months. Its revenue rose 558%. A lot

of this has to do with ads on your mobile devices. If you regularly use

Facebook on your mobile that is where the company is making most of

its money. It has had great success there and no doubt that means we

will see more and more targeted ads on our small screens. Thank you very

much, always good to speak to you. Very interesting, couple of ideas

about Facebook, insurance companies and their earnings coming together.

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