07/03/2017 Outside Source

Hello, this is Outside Source. These are the main stories here in the BBC

News room. WikiLeaks has published documents which it says contain

details of hacking methods used by the CIA. After a long silence, the

US State Department has held its first press conference since

President Trump took office. Barbara Plett Usher was there. She will be

here live to tell us what was said. Japan says North Korea has entered a

new stage of threat, since it launched four ballistic missiles

towards the Sea of Japan. We'll do a BBC reality check on whether that

can be said to be true. And in Outside Source sport. It's been a

chastening evening for Arsenal. Thrashed at home by Bayern Munich in

the Champions League. Not long since they were thrashed at Bayern Munich

in much the same fashion. There's been a press conference ats

the US State Department. That wouldn't normally be headline news.

But let's talk to Barbara Plett Usher and she can explain, hi

Barbara, that this is an event of note. Yes, it's the first briefing

that the State Department has had in six weeks. We used to get them every

single day. Even in between transition administrations, there's

been a hiatus of a few days. The place was packed. As you can

imagine, there were questions about why the State Department had been

silent for so long. The spokesman Mark Toner put it up to the

administration finding its sea legs, he said. Presumably that means that

the Secretary of State was coming up to speed with the department and

coming up to speed with the White House. Mr Toner said he contacted

White House regularly and was building relationships with his

foreign counterparts etc, so he was busy. He didn't really address the

glaring lack of public diplomacy. Even more so, there were a lot of

questions about the State Department budget, because Mr Trump wants to

cut it. Up to 37%, which is a lot. That would not only be just the

State Department but foreign aid. Here Mr Toner talked about the

Secretary of State wanting to defend diplomacy, looking at ways to

resource the State Department. He also used words like "reassess,

reevaluate, efficiencies, avoid duplications" that kind of

discussion about budget cuts, frankly. That was quite a measured

tone, I thought, given some of the very strong opposition to the budget

cuts from former diplomats who say if you cut US soft power that's a

threat to national security. You mention Mark Toner, let's listen to

some of the things you heard him say. The State Department got a lot

of tough questions. The toughest were probably on Iran and this

revised travel ban that was released yesterday. Let me just revisit this.

My point about all of this is - I understand the power of people to

people exchanges and having Iranians come to this country and experience

this country and the cultural exchange that entails and the

broader goodwill that can build. But I think before all of that, we have

to put the safety and security of the American people. It's because of

that, that they would have been added to this list.

What did you make of that? Well, he really got a push back on the whole

logic behind the travel ban. It was very much focussed on Iran. A lot of

the people affected are Iranians. Iran is not like a lot of the other

countries on the list of banned countries. It's not a failed state.

It's not a state in perpetual conflict which has lost control of

its databases or can't control its borders. It is a rival to the US, an

enemy perceived by many as such. The policy of the former administration

was engagement. This is a real change. As many here know, a lot of

citizens of Iran don't necessarily support their government so why

punish them for the policies of their government? Mr Toner stuck to

the line. He says look, it's on the list of states that sponsor

terrorism. It has shown to be able to export terrorism. This is about

the security of the American people, but interestingly he was asked, is

this about Iran getting better vetting procedures in place, which

is what the line about the travel ban is or is it about coming off the

state sponsors of terrorists list, a whole other issue? He wasn't really

able to answer that. The next clip I want to play concerns South Korea,

or the Korean peninsula really. There's been a deployment by America

of an antimissile system in South Korea. Let's hear the response to

questions about that. We've been very clear in our conversation was

China that this is not meant to be a threat and it's not a threat to them

or any other power in the region. It is a defensive system. It is in

place, or it will be in place, because of North Korea's provocative

behaviour. This is the latest evidence that the Trump

administration doesn't seem overly concerned about upsetting the

Chinese. Yes, perhaps that, but also I think it's evidence of the sense

of the growing threat from North Korea. This is something that Mr

Toner really emphasised as well. Also the White House has been

emphasising this stepped up activity of ballistic missile tests, which

makes people in the region, also the Americans, worry about being

targeted by North Korea, its ability to hit them. This ballistic missile

defence system has been in the works for a long time. It's being moved in

now, according to the State Department, because of this

increased activities and as Mr Toner was saying, it's defensive. It's not

meant to be a threat to China. China worried about the powerful radars,

it sees that as a threat. This was brought up a lot in the briefing

today because secretary Tillerson is going to Asia next week, visiting

China, Japan, South Korea. North Korea will be a big topic. That will

be the message to China - this is not a threat to you. The message

will be, how can we come up with new ways of looking at how to deal with

this growing North Korean threat. Mr Toner said they were looking at

tougher sanctions. They were looking at implementing existing sanctions.

That was a message to China. China is key in that. Other options are

being examined as well, though he didn't say what they are. The fact

that Mr Tillerson is going to Asia next week shows the priority of the

Trump administration on dealing with this issue. I'm trying to understand

how the State Department fits into the Trump administration more

broadly. Did you feel this was a department in sync with the White

House? It's difficult to say. As Saif said before, this is the first

real public exchange we've had in six weeks. We have met, some of us

have met off the record with Mr Tillerson, exchanged ideas. But he's

been very quiet. The department has been very quiet. The department is

not staffed up. There are 118 senior position that's need to be filled.

Two of them have been filled. That's very key with the State Department

working together with the White House and determining whether it is

in sync with the White House. It's difficult to say. I think the bigger

question right now that we have here is how much influence does the State

Department have on the White House or just even in policy discussions

amongst the different agencies. You no, the Pentagon, the White House,

the national Security Council, the State Department. These are all

groups that work together onness stab lirk foreign policy. Because

the State Department has been so, at least, publicly absent, we can't get

a feel for it. It looks, on the face of it, that it doesn't have much of

a say. Mr Toner said that the Secretary of State did have regular

contact, personally, with the President and with people at the

White House. But there is a whole issue of the State Department as a

whole being used and publicly setting forth its agenda and being

involved in the debate here in Washington and that hasn't happened.

Thank you. We look forward to the second press conference of the Trump

administration from Mr Trump's State Department.

Time for sport. If you're an Arsenal fan, you may want to look away now.

Arsenal against Bayern Munich, second leg of the last 16 tie. Olly

foster is with us. Each time I kept checking the BBC live page, the

score had changed. Yeah they've been busy here. Waiting for the Trump

press conference with much anticipation. The final whistle has

gone at the Emirates. Arsenal have been knocked out of Europe, once

again, for the third time in five seasons by Bayern Munich. Always

likely because they got thrashed three weeks ago 5-1, in the first

leg. Bayern Munich have beaten Arsenal again 5-1 at the Emirates.

That is Arsene Wenger's biggest defeat at the Emirates. They go out

of Europe 10-2 on aggregate. Absolutely humbled and humiliated,

Arsene Wenger's Arsenal. I will give you the story of the match in a

moment. Lots of placards out at the fulltime whistle asking, "Enough is

enough, Wenger out." This was a planned protest march saying much

the same, before kickoff at the Emirates this evening. Well, this is

the story of the match. Can you believe, it Arsenal had the lead at

halftime. Theo Walcott gave them the lead. Terrible defending from Manuel

Neuer let one through at the near post. But Colcielny who was injured,

he was sent off. Goals followed from Robben, Costa. Bayern Munich winning

5-1. That is 10-2 on aggregate to them. Arsenal out and we wait to

hear from Arsene Wenger, because since they lost in that first leg,

it has been a miserable month or so for Arsene Wenger. Remember, he was

going to say exactly what his future held after what 20-odd years at the

Gunners, over 20 years. I think that could be it for Arsene Wenger. How

do you come back from that? Also 3-1 to Real Madrid against Napoli in the

other tie. They go through, the holders, 6-2 on aggregate.

Thank you very much. While Olly was speaking, I spotted this tweet from

Arsenal. This was a little bit earlier in the match. Saying that's

exactly the start we needed. They went 1-0 up. Not sure what the

Twitter account has said since then. Let's talk about cycling. The furore

around the delivery of a package to Sir Bradley Wiggins in 2011

continues. This is a letter to a British MP from the head of Team

Sky, Dave Brailsford. In it he admits mistakes were made around the

delivery. He's denied that the team broke anti-doping rules. He went on

to say: Regrettably those mistakes mean that we have not been able to

provide the complete set of records that we should have. We accept full

responsibility for this." It's also worth noting a number of Team Sky

riders have been tweeting support. "It shouldn't need saying, but we

all back Dave Brailsford 100%." That looked like it was a coordinated

push. A number of riders tweeted in a small space of time. It looks like

some people, perhaps, didn't get the memo. Because Chris Froome, the

leader of Team Sky, the man who won the Tour De France last year was

tweeting about an amazing dinner about a restaurant in Cape Town. He

didn't mention anything to do with Dave Brailsford. By the way, this is

also interesting, I spotted this. Dan Roan, the BBC sports editor

messaging the chairman of Team Sky. "Please can I ask if you're

disappointed Chris Froome is yet to tweet any support for Dave

Brailsford? I keep checking but no reply yet.

Next the Brazilian football club which is on its first foreign trip

after a plane crash killed most of the first team. They're playing

against a Venezuelan team. Here's their coach describing what the trip

means to the club. TRANSLATION: The most important

thing is that we will play in Copa Liabertores, where the best teams of

previous year always return. I hope we can be a big team in such a big

competition. We know the difficulty was for us to stand again, to

rebuild the team. What is at stake is much more than a simple match.

What is at stake is the continuity of a team that passed through a very

difficult moment and is now standing again. I wanted to show you this.

This is a clip from a game in Brazil, featuring a game called

commercial FC. They've just conceded a goal. If we play on the video.

You'll see they're about to kick off. Concentrate on this man who

walks to the side and this guy who is about to do something special.

There was no time to wait for the equaliser. So he just did it

straight away. Pretty good, huh? Let me play you the whole thing.

It bears quite a few viewings that one. A beautiful strike. They went

on to win the game 4-1. It obviously inspired everyone. Coming up, we're

going to look at pollution in Los Angeles. There's been a huge survey

of a thousand cities around the world and it's been found that, this

won't come as a surprise, it has the worst rush-hour traffic of any of

those thousand cities. We're looking at what that's doing to air

pollution. Tomorrow the lawyer acting on behalf

of the Azidis, DYazidis will ask the UN to begin an investigation for the

crime of genocide. The wife of the actor George Clooney told Fiona

Bruce why the cause is so important to her. I have been to refuges in

Germany and I've interviewed former child soldiers and young girls who

were raped and enslaved by Isis. It's been the most harrowing

testimony I've ever heard. We know it's genocide. The UN has said so.

Isis is trying to destroy them as a group. We are allowing it to happen

without actually calling Isis to account. What do you think can be

done practically to bring Islamic State to justice? The first step

that should be taken is for evidence to be collected on the ground. We

know that it's disappearing. There are mass graves that are being

discovered, just a few days ago in Mosul, a huge mass grave which is

thought to have 4,000 bodies in it. Isis is a big bureaucracy believe it

or not, they're leaving behind documents. You need to collect DNA

and phone records. None of that is being done at the moment. You're

going to the UN this week. What are you going to be saying there? I'm

addressing the UN on the issue of accountability and saying something

needs to be done. Why do you think they're not doing it? This is

exactly the question that I'll be posing to member states. I'm going

to ask them - are the crimes not serious enough for you to

investigate? That can't be it, this is genocide. Do you think that

there's no evidence for you to collect? That's not right either.

There are mass graves whose locations are known, you can start

there. The fact that you are now not just a human rights lawyer, you are

known because of your marriage to one of Hollywood's biggest stars,

does that help in terms of giving you a bigger platform and getting

more people to listen to you? Lots of my work takes place behind closed

doors and that is not ever seen. I think if there are more people who

now understand what's happening about the Yazidis and Isis, then I

think it's a really good thing to give that case the extra publicity

that it may get. But, you know, if you don't have a good case, and you

don't have a good message, shining a light on it won't get you very far.

This is Outside Source. WikiLeaks has published thousands of documents

which it says contained doe tails of -- details of hacking methods used

by the CIA. I should say there's been no

confirmation of those claims by WikiLeaks. It's yet to be confirmed

by the CIA or any media outlets. The fallout between North Korea and

Malaysia over the murder of Kim Jock nap has -- Na -- Jong Nam has

intensified. The Malaysian Prime Minister has responded saying, this

is an abhorrent act holding our citizens hostage. It's in total

disregard of all international law. He enforced the exact same order on

North Koreans in Malaysia. It's estimated there are 11 Malaysians in

North Korea. And up to a thousand North Koreans in Malaysia. I've been

speaking to Michael Bristow to get his analysis on whether this is

legal from either country? It's perhaps not legal but who's to stop

North Korea? Over the years it's done things to contravene nuclear

sanctions, missile tests and launches, it's got away from them.

It might not be legal, but it might not matter. North Korea wants to put

pressure on Malaysia, conducting an investigation into the death of the

half brother of the North Korean leader, who was killed, Kuala Lumpur

airport in the middle of February by a nerve agent wiped on his face by

two women. North Korea wants pressure on that investigation. It's

not happy with how Malaysia is doing it. By holding Malaysian citizens

effectively hostage in North Korea, it is putting that pressure on

Malaysia. What would it like to be different about the investigation?

What's the outcome it would like to achieve from the pressure? It's

difficult to say. Because North Korea's a secretive state. It

doesn't really say what it wants. Essentially it doesn't like the

postmortem examination verdict, results which said that Kim Jong Nam

was killed by a nerve agent. It suggests that he was perhaps died of

a heart attack, which would lead people to suspect it was natural

causes, there wasn't a conspiracy to kill him in the first place. It

would lead people not to point the finger at North Korea. Essentially,

they want people not to say that they killed this half brother, but

of course, they haven't said that publicly. The US has announced it's

begun deploying a missile defence system to South Korea. This is it,

the terminal high altitude area defence system or THUD. China is not

happy about this. TRANSLATION: We oppose the

deployment of this in South Korea. We are definitely taking necessary

measures to safeguard our own security interests. China has

expressed its position to the US and South Korea on many occasions,

through multiple channels. Here's Michael on that story. It's

political really. By deploying this defence shield in South Korea,

advanced weaponry, even though it's defensive, it's aimed at

counteracting any potential attack from North Korea, China doesn't like

it. It's on its own doorstep. It believes it tilts the balance of

power in Asia. It shows America's commitment towards South Korea and

commitment to east Asia. It doesn't want America pouring in more arms

and men into the region. It wants to push them away. That is essentially

why it's angry about this thing. Yesterday we were talking about

North Korea launching four ballistic missiles towards the Sea of Japan.

We were saying three of them fell into what is called Japan's

exclusive economic zone. You can see that area highlighted, marked in

white and marked in red. The Japanese prime minister had

responded to those missiles by saying, this clearly shows North

Korea has entered a new stage of threat. Well, let's assess that

claim with the BBC reality check. First of all, has a North Korean

missile travelled this close to Japan before? Well, it has. It

happened last August. You can see the BBC reporting on it online.

Second, has North Korea's weaponry become more advanced? We don't know

what type of missiles were used. This is the picture the North

Koreans released of the launch. Many experts believe the missiles are

likely to have been medium range, which wouldn't suggest North Korea

has advanced its capabilities. But all four were fired at the same

time. According to Mark Fitzpatrick from the international institute of

strategic studies, that is significant. The latest tests

yesterday weren't a new system. They were a well tested system. But the

fact that they fired a salvo of four at once shows a good skill at

combination firing. And that they were directed against Japan, into

Japan's exclusive economic zone. What they even said that they were

directed against American bases in Japan. That's pretty threatening.

I'd say that's a lightening of the threat, yes. It appears the military

threat from north cee to its neighbours has -- North Korea to its

neighbours has increased even if the following is not new.

Next, a report from James Cook, our correspondent in Los Angeles, which

is a city that out of a thousand looked at in a survey has been found

to have the worst rush hour. James has been looking at how that impacts

on air quality The City of Angels is bedevilled by

traffic. Every year commuters here spend more than 100 hours going

nowhere in rush hour jams As bad as this looks right now, with every

passing hour it's going to get worse. Eeconomists reckon it costs

LA $10 billion annually. Now technology is fighting back. We're

looking at the road network in Los Angeles... This company uses live

data from 300 million cars around the world to poipt drivers in the

right direction -- point. Increasingly the information it

gathers in this control room is used to shape policy too. Instead of

building an entirely new highway, maybe it's targeted investment,

targeted spending in bottle necks, targeted spending on solutions like

smarter parking or intelligent traffic signals. With the data we

collect public officials can customise what has the maximum bang

for the buck in their cities. All of which sounds a long way from this.

# I get around... LA's love affair with the car is the stuff of legend.

Free wheeling lifestyle had a deadly result. # from the 50s to the 70s

smog choked this city causing premature deaths. The outlook now is

much brighter. Modern day California has some of the toughest emissions

standards in the world and smog has been vastly reduced. But there's

still work to do. Our air quality is nowhere near where it needs to be.

It's still not healthy to breathe on perhaps 100 or more days every year.

Essentially, Los Angeles and the greater surrounding area still has

the worst air quality in the United States. Public transport is part of

the answer, compared to other big cities, the LA Metro is quiet in

rush hour. It's becoming more popular for a sum pull reason.

Because traffic is totally insane. Traffic. Because of the traffic. Too

much traffic. The traffic's horrible. Horrible. I would be

sitting in traffic for like hours instead. So I take the subway. More

from the BBC, so I can breathe series tomorrow. Thanks for

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