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Welcome to Outside Source. It is an hour of international news. We are | :00:15. | :00:20. | |
going to start in Iraq. The Army is trying to recapture Ramadi from | :00:21. | :00:24. | |
so-called Islamic State. We will talk to a journalist who is just | :00:25. | :00:29. | |
back. This is a big moment for the space industry, a rocket launch | :00:30. | :00:34. | |
landing back on Earth. If that can be repeated, it will radically cut | :00:35. | :00:39. | |
the cost of some space operations. We will get into why Apple isn't | :00:40. | :00:44. | |
happy with the planned law on surveillance and we will talk to BBC | :00:45. | :00:49. | |
Chinese about a series of disasters in China caused by human error, the | :00:50. | :00:53. | |
latest being an enormous landslide on Sunday. Over 70 people are | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
missing. If you are watching and online at the same time, you can use | :00:58. | :01:01. | |
this hashtag. We will pick up your messages. | :01:02. | :01:18. | |
This is arguably the single biggest most important message against | :01:19. | :01:24. | |
Islamic State at the moment. He is update from the breaking feed on | :01:25. | :01:28. | |
Twitter, telling us that Iraqi forces are advancing into the centre | :01:29. | :01:32. | |
of the city of Ramadi, trying to take it from Islamic State, | :01:33. | :01:36. | |
according to Iraqi officials. Ramadi has been in control of my S -- | :01:37. | :01:43. | |
control of IS since May. It is a key transit point for Islamic State | :01:44. | :01:49. | |
fighters and it is close to the capital, Baghdad. Retaking it is | :01:50. | :01:54. | |
going to be particularly complicated because a large number of civilians | :01:55. | :01:58. | |
have continued to live there. The areas in blue are being contested at | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
the moment between the army and IS but the areas marked in red are | :02:04. | :02:07. | |
still controlled by Islamic State. The job is far from done. Ayman | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
Oghanna is a journalist just back from Ramadi full Vice News. We will | :02:13. | :02:22. | |
hear from him in a moment. Iraqi special forces have moved to take | :02:23. | :02:26. | |
the whole west of the city. Now all that separates them is the river. | :02:27. | :02:33. | |
Right now, with a sniper team exchanging fire with Isis. He spent | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
six days in Ramadi and got back on Thursday. I have been talking to him | :02:38. | :02:43. | |
about what the Iraqi army have to do to get IS out of the city. The areas | :02:44. | :02:50. | |
I was in was a bit less complicated because they were not heavily | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
populated. IS have been preventing civilians from leaving the areas | :02:56. | :02:58. | |
they are operating in now, which will make it more difficult. | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
Earlier, Iraqi security forces were reliant on intense air strikes and | :03:04. | :03:06. | |
civilians being in there makes it more difficult for air strikes. I | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
was watching the latest report and you filmed one bit where the people | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
you are with our calling in air strikes. It looked like the | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
operation was well oiled. The people on the ground said that a big | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
difference was Russian intervention in Syria earlier this year, leading | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
to a dramatic, notable increase in coalition support, US support, | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
supporting them on the ground. The people you were with were not the | :03:35. | :03:40. | |
Iraqi army. They were special forces, also known as the golden | :03:41. | :03:47. | |
division. They are a nonsectarian unit, with Sunni, Shia, Kurdish and | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
Christian commanders. While this will be a big victory for the | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
Iraqis, it will be the first they will have done since IS into the | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
country without Shia militia supporting them. That is because | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
this unit is so close to the US and is a nonsectarian unit. It is a city | :04:06. | :04:09. | |
which is very difficult to report from. What would you share with all | :04:10. | :04:16. | |
of us about it? What is it like their under IS control and under | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
this military pressure? The areas I saw were different from the ones we | :04:22. | :04:24. | |
are talking about now because there were not many civilians. IS have | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
been preventing civilians leaving where they want to go now. Ramadi, | :04:30. | :04:37. | |
unlike other places, like Sinjar,, the Iraqis are fighting the city. | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
The resistance there is local. Ramadi people are fighting and | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
resisting. They always have. They resisted the US, Saddam Hussein | :04:48. | :04:50. | |
found it difficult. It will not be easy. There are a large number of | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
home-made IEDs, home-made explosives. Lots of booby traps, | :04:56. | :05:02. | |
things to slow them down. And also huge piles of medication. They had | :05:03. | :05:11. | |
quite sophisticated combat outposts with flying positions and tunnels so | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
they could avoid air strikes, leading to a field hospital and | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
quite sophisticated operations. Some of the military commanders I was | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
with were impressed and said, they are operating how I would operate. | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
There seems to be some military expertise and background among some | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
of the IS fighters. Much is said about the fact that Islamic State or | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
a different kind of enemy but your impression of what some of its | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
fighters left behind, did it look like a different enemy or did it | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
look recognisably like a regulation military force? Ten years ago, | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
Ramadi was the capital of Al-Qaeda leader in Iraq, and that went on to | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
become IS, so there is a continuity between them. They are operating in | :05:55. | :06:00. | |
a way which a conventional force would. What makes them different is | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
that they use terrorism is a battlefield weapon, which is very | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
effective if you have an armoured car driving towards you full of | :06:10. | :06:12. | |
explosives. If one gets through, that can do a lot of damage. If you | :06:13. | :06:18. | |
would like to see his full report from Ramadi, just put Ramadi and | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
Vice News into any search engine. Let's turn to a really big milestone | :06:23. | :06:28. | |
for the private space industry. Elon Musk is one of the world's | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
best-known tech entrepreneurs. Space company. He is a tweet from his | :06:34. | :06:39. | |
earlier, saying that his Falcon rocket has landed at Cape Canaveral | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
and he says, welcome back, baby. He is referring to this, it is the | :06:44. | :06:48. | |
first time his company has successfully landed a space rocket | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
after a mission. In the middle of that orange glow, that is what is | :06:53. | :06:56. | |
happening. If they can pull this off on a regular basis, it will bring | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
down the cost of running operations to the International Space Station, | :07:01. | :07:03. | |
which relies on a steady stream of supplies. If you want to understand | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
the customer locations of this, the German tech journalist Stefan | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
Doerner put this online earlier. The rocket costs in the region of $54 | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
million to build but it will only cost $200,000 to refuel. If that is | :07:19. | :07:25. | |
now an option. Spacex has released a graphic explaining what it does. We | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
can pull it up. The graphic is good. Try not to be distracted by the fact | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
that the rocket is a pencil and the Empire State Building also features! | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
Here it is taking off. The rocket goes up into the air and reaches the | :07:40. | :07:43. | |
point that Spacex calls stage separation. It has two engines, | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
stage one to do the heavy lifting to the outer parts of the atmosphere, | :07:49. | :07:53. | |
stage two after the separation when it goes deeper into space. The key | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
thing is what happens to the IS it. Play it a bit more and you will see | :07:59. | :08:01. | |
it performing what it is calling a flip manoeuvre. It is calling it a | :08:02. | :08:09. | |
flip manoeuvre because the same thruster that pushed it up into the | :08:10. | :08:15. | |
air then helps it come back down to earth and to land safely. The Empire | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
State Building doesn't help the understanding, but let's not dwell | :08:21. | :08:23. | |
on that. Spacex isn't the first company to pull off this trip. | :08:24. | :08:29. | |
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos doesn't tweet very often, this is his fifth | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
ever, clearly he feels it is important, and he says, | :08:35. | :08:37. | |
congratulations to Spacex, welcome to the club. The point he is trying | :08:38. | :08:40. | |
to make is not just that he is already in the club but that he sees | :08:41. | :08:44. | |
himself as its founding member, because last month his company | :08:45. | :08:52. | |
landed a rocket. This is what the Blue Origin New Shepherd rockets did | :08:53. | :08:57. | |
last month. It is smaller, didn't go as high, didn't perform a flip | :08:58. | :09:00. | |
manoeuvre, but nonetheless impressive. Here is the Spacex | :09:01. | :09:07. | |
Falcon coming down. Spacex has a $1.6 billion contract with Nasa and | :09:08. | :09:13. | |
big government contracts are what both of these companies are | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
interested in. Let's get the analysis from Gerry Gilmore, | :09:19. | :09:20. | |
professor of experimental philosophy at Cambridge university. Here is his | :09:21. | :09:26. | |
reaction to the videos I have shown you. Space is big business. There | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
are maybe 100 launches per year around the world in rockets and a | :09:32. | :09:37. | |
bunch of different sizes. The key goal is for commercial operators to | :09:38. | :09:40. | |
take over from governments and make a profit on these things. | :09:41. | :10:24. | |
They could in principle give people a commercial advantage, which is the | :10:25. | :10:32. | |
Gulf War. Space is a multi-hundred billion dollar industry every year | :10:33. | :10:38. | |
and growing very fast. This is potentially big business. Most | :10:39. | :10:41. | |
rockets launched by the Russians. The Chinese and Americans next equal | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
roughly. Then there is the Europeans, then Japan, not far | :10:47. | :10:54. | |
behind, and India is coming on. A lot of agencies around the world are | :10:55. | :10:59. | |
in this business. But it is a commercial business and they can | :11:00. | :11:04. | |
drop their costs by 25% and also reduce waste, which is a nontrivial | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
deal. So everybody is going for that commercial advantage. If you were | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
watching yesterday, we reported on that awful landslide in China on | :11:14. | :11:18. | |
Sunday. In a few minutes, we will update you on what is happening with | :11:19. | :11:37. | |
Here in the UK, some homes and businesses in Cumbria have flooded | :11:38. | :11:42. | |
for the third time this month after more heavy rain. The river Eden | :11:43. | :11:49. | |
burst its banks in the village of Appleby, more than 20 flood warnings | :11:50. | :11:50. | |
in place. The situation is we have had about | :11:51. | :12:04. | |
30 homes affected, five persons evacuated from a premises. | :12:05. | :12:06. | |
Thankfully it stopped raining and the water levels are now hopefully | :12:07. | :12:11. | |
starting to subside. So hopefully we will start to have some normality. | :12:12. | :12:17. | |
Green the second time in two weeks, you were in Carlisle hoping -- | :12:18. | :12:22. | |
happen with the efforts there. Yes, it is very sad this has happened | :12:23. | :12:28. | |
again. The residents of Appleby have been devastated by these | :12:29. | :12:30. | |
floodwaters, particularly at this time of the year, it is very sad. | :12:31. | :12:41. | |
We are live here in the BBC newsroom, our lead story at the | :12:42. | :12:47. | |
moment, the Iraqi government forces are advancing into the centre of | :12:48. | :12:54. | |
Ramadi, a city held by the so-called Islamic state. Some of the main | :12:55. | :12:59. | |
stories from BBC World Service. A chartered aircraft carrying Indian | :13:00. | :13:02. | |
security staff has crashed in Delhi, killing all ten people on board. The | :13:03. | :13:09. | |
fire in Sao Paulo has destroyed parts of an historic 19th-century | :13:10. | :13:14. | |
railway station, which now houses a popular museum. One fireman was | :13:15. | :13:19. | |
killed in the blaze. BBC Brasil has the detail. Passengers have been | :13:20. | :13:22. | |
rescued after being stuck on this ride in the world, Florida. It | :13:23. | :13:27. | |
malfunctioned, evidently. They were there for two hours, far from ideal, | :13:28. | :13:32. | |
given that it is 122 metres tall. Fortunately everyone got out safely. | :13:33. | :13:39. | |
Next, we have a come session you will want to hear, our chief | :13:40. | :13:45. | |
international respondent has been speaking to the Pakistani activist | :13:46. | :13:49. | |
who became world famous after being attacked by the Caliban. We are also | :13:50. | :13:55. | |
going to hear from someone who met Moala in a Jordanian refugee camp | :13:56. | :13:59. | |
last year. They became friends and here they are together. | :14:00. | :14:21. | |
The biggest news is her family are being resettled here in Newcastle, a | :14:22. | :14:26. | |
long way from Syria. It was the happiest moment of my | :14:27. | :14:34. | |
life. The happiest moment | :14:35. | :14:38. | |
was when I heard Muzoon was here. I remember seeing the refugee | :14:39. | :14:41. | |
camp and the situation Everything is difficult | :14:42. | :14:43. | |
but I will work hard on my problems At any time and place, | :14:44. | :14:48. | |
I will fight for education. Both of you have been watching how | :14:49. | :14:52. | |
hundreds of thousands of refugees, migrants, a lot of them Syrians | :14:53. | :15:01. | |
are fleeing towards Europe. Some of us could not understand it | :15:02. | :15:04. | |
because we have not If you think of what is happening | :15:05. | :15:08. | |
in Syria, those people If we are not welcoming to them, | :15:09. | :15:12. | |
if these countries are not welcoming to them, then these people have | :15:13. | :15:17. | |
nowhere to live. If every country, for example, | :15:18. | :15:20. | |
decides to take 50,000 and there are 80 countries | :15:21. | :15:24. | |
at the decide, I took a calculator and said - | :15:25. | :15:27. | |
this is how many refugees are there. If each country take 50,000 | :15:28. | :15:32. | |
or 25,000 this number can divide. Malala was in Jordan this summer | :15:33. | :15:39. | |
to visit Muzoon in her refugee camp. The teenager who urged parents | :15:40. | :15:46. | |
to educate their daughters, A third of marriages in these camps | :15:47. | :15:52. | |
now include a child bride. More people in the camp stop | :15:53. | :16:01. | |
education and they think education not important and more parents | :16:02. | :16:04. | |
they think because they customs and traditions they think | :16:05. | :16:10. | |
when I will marry my daughter Is the problem | :16:11. | :16:14. | |
getting worse? Now that they're both in Britain, | :16:15. | :16:25. | |
they'll work more closely on their new project to educate | :16:26. | :16:34. | |
Syrian girls. There is also a lot | :16:35. | :16:36. | |
of homework to finish. Let's go back to that landslide in | :16:37. | :16:54. | |
southern China. We were talking about this yesterday, an awful | :16:55. | :16:59. | |
events. These are some of the latest pictures that we have. We know one | :17:00. | :17:03. | |
person has died. When I tell you that more are 70 people missing, | :17:04. | :17:07. | |
unfortunately it is almost certain that the death toll will rise. This | :17:08. | :17:12. | |
happened on Sunday. A huge heap of soil and Dave Greig slid across an | :17:13. | :17:17. | |
industrial park, but this is far from the first disaster that has | :17:18. | :17:24. | |
been caused by human error there in June, a ship sank in the Yangtze | :17:25. | :17:29. | |
river and 442 people died. Another significant story that we covered in | :17:30. | :17:34. | |
August, massive explosions in Tianjin, 173 people dying. It is | :17:35. | :17:40. | |
possible to see these incidents as part of a broader problem in China. | :17:41. | :17:44. | |
I will be talking to BBC Chinese about whether that is a widely held | :17:45. | :17:51. | |
perception. If you track social media reactions, people are | :17:52. | :17:55. | |
demanding accountability. Looking back for this year, a series of | :17:56. | :18:00. | |
man-made disasters. For these specifics, the latest one in | :18:01. | :18:06. | |
Tianjin, because the heap of soil had been put there for over a year, | :18:07. | :18:10. | |
and previously the environmental agency and even surveyors questioned | :18:11. | :18:14. | |
whether that was the right place to dump all the dirt and debris. | :18:15. | :18:22. | |
Obviously it has fallen on deaf ears, no action was taken and now | :18:23. | :18:29. | |
the public are just asking how much more -- how many more lives will be | :18:30. | :18:34. | |
lost before action is taken. The government may be forced to take | :18:35. | :18:37. | |
action by the legal service, but does it take action in terms of | :18:38. | :18:43. | |
regulation? If you look at previous disasters, we can see that | :18:44. | :18:46. | |
high-ranking officers were sacked, but obviously that didn't cure the | :18:47. | :18:51. | |
problem. China faces rapid economic growth. That is the key criteria for | :18:52. | :18:58. | |
local government officials, for their promotion, for their | :18:59. | :19:01. | |
achievements, they will be judged on their own career. But the potential | :19:02. | :19:05. | |
hazard has probably been swept under the carpet, and it has exploded down | :19:06. | :19:13. | |
the road, and we have seen there is growing awareness from the Chinese | :19:14. | :19:17. | |
public asking for the respect of life, so there is a growing | :19:18. | :19:21. | |
awareness. The Chinese public are aware of that but how much | :19:22. | :19:27. | |
culpability for the local government to take actions and heed orders from | :19:28. | :19:33. | |
Beijing, that is still a question. But the public is getting impatient | :19:34. | :19:38. | |
in a way, asking how many more lives will be lost. Time for business. | :19:39. | :19:45. | |
There are concerns Apple has about a proposed law in the UK which will | :19:46. | :19:51. | |
change how authorities access people's communication. It is called | :19:52. | :19:55. | |
the investigatory Powers Bill, and encryption is one of the most | :19:56. | :20:00. | |
important parts. Let me enlist the help of Michel flurry in New York. | :20:01. | :20:06. | |
First of all, what is Apple and other companies doing with | :20:07. | :20:11. | |
encryption? One of the things that companies offer is encryption so, | :20:12. | :20:15. | |
for example, and your iPhone, on your tablet computer, many of those | :20:16. | :20:21. | |
use encryption. If you sent an e-mail, it is very hard for somebody | :20:22. | :20:27. | |
else to get access to the data. In fact, the technology that most | :20:28. | :20:31. | |
companies in Silicon Valley use these days means that even the | :20:32. | :20:34. | |
company itself has no access to the data. What British authorities want | :20:35. | :20:39. | |
is for a back door to be created that would allow intelligence | :20:40. | :20:45. | |
services the ability to kind of get access to encrypted messages. But | :20:46. | :20:49. | |
the concern, at least from the point of view of Apple, is that this would | :20:50. | :20:54. | |
weaken security for millions of people. When you say it would weaken | :20:55. | :20:59. | |
it, that means that, if I was using encrypted messages but the new back | :21:00. | :21:02. | |
door was put in, somebody might want to hack or to access that, they | :21:03. | :21:08. | |
would find it easier? It is simple, if you are a hacker, you will focus | :21:09. | :21:13. | |
on whatever is the point of weakness. So if a back door is | :21:14. | :21:18. | |
created, the idea is, well, if that can be used for security to be | :21:19. | :21:22. | |
accessed, what is to stop them from finding a way to break through that | :21:23. | :21:26. | |
way? That is the argument Apple are using. There is another argument you | :21:27. | :21:30. | |
could put forward, which is that it raises privacy issues and worries. | :21:31. | :21:36. | |
In the meantime, other big times in Silicon Valley, like Microsoft, are | :21:37. | :21:40. | |
saying, hang on a second, wouldn't we benefit from an international | :21:41. | :21:44. | |
approach rather than having individual countries trying to | :21:45. | :21:49. | |
discover -- develop different approaches? It is worth adding that | :21:50. | :21:54. | |
those who support this proposed bill in the UK argue that it is necessary | :21:55. | :21:58. | |
to provide security measures to keep everybody safe. As you may have | :21:59. | :22:01. | |
noticed, we have a big Christmas tree. Every Christmas, there is a | :22:02. | :22:07. | |
tension -- a tension between shops and online retailers. Some | :22:08. | :22:11. | |
businesses try and sit on both sides of the divide but not all of them | :22:12. | :22:15. | |
can manage it. It's an interesting report from Spencer Kelly all about | :22:16. | :22:20. | |
one shop which is trying to learn from Amazon, eBay and the others. | :22:21. | :22:25. | |
The Dandy lab in trendy east London may look like an ordinary posh shop, | :22:26. | :22:29. | |
but it is also an actual laboratory for testing the latest shopping | :22:30. | :22:36. | |
tech. I'm sure that stores in the street want to be able to do what | :22:37. | :22:40. | |
online shops do and to offer us targeted products at every | :22:41. | :22:44. | |
opportunity, but, in order to target more, they need to know more about | :22:45. | :22:50. | |
the target. Take a look at this. I note shops are interested in | :22:51. | :22:53. | |
football but here, when you walk in, you are walking in is analysed. | :22:54. | :23:00. | |
Apparently, our shoes say a lot about us. Heels, trainers, shoe | :23:01. | :23:06. | |
size, just some of the features this software is looking for. At the | :23:07. | :23:10. | |
moment, it can figure out the number of shoppers coming in, their gender | :23:11. | :23:13. | |
and whether they are coming in on their own or with family. Once you | :23:14. | :23:17. | |
know who is walking past, here is what you can do. You can change your | :23:18. | :23:22. | |
shop window to greet them, which is very cool. This is a real shop | :23:23. | :23:28. | |
display, with real objects but, in front of it, there is a transparent | :23:29. | :23:35. | |
LCD screen. This is just a normal LCD and they have ripped the | :23:36. | :23:38. | |
backlight off it and replaced it with a white box with stuff in it. | :23:39. | :23:43. | |
You can change this display depending on the time of day or who | :23:44. | :23:48. | |
is walking past. In Spain, the Christmas lottery, El | :23:49. | :23:55. | |
Gordo, has been drawn. This is the world's richest lottery with prizes | :23:56. | :24:01. | |
totalling ?2.41 billion. -- two 41 cents billion. If you are watching | :24:02. | :24:10. | |
on BBC world news in Spain, I hope it has worked out for you. | :24:11. | :24:17. | |
It is the world's richest lottery with a total prize money of $2.41 | :24:18. | :24:25. | |
billion. After a three-hour wait, the biggest ticket number, worth | :24:26. | :24:32. | |
$431,000, was announced to cheers from the Madrid audience. It is | :24:33. | :24:37. | |
going to be a bumper Christmas for the town -- this town in the | :24:38. | :24:45. | |
province of Almeria. Almost all 1600 winning tickets were sold there, a | :24:46. | :24:50. | |
windfall of more than $700 million for local residents. I was watching | :24:51. | :24:55. | |
the television and, all of a sudden, I said to myself, I'm going to | :24:56. | :24:59. | |
switch it off because I won't win. My number came up and I was stunned! | :25:00. | :25:05. | |
Like other lotteries, -- unlike other lotteries, tickets cost $220 | :25:06. | :25:12. | |
so whole villages, groups of co-workers and friends chip in. | :25:13. | :25:18. | |
Spain's Christmas lottery, called El Gordo all the big one, is a | :25:19. | :25:22. | |
long-standing tradition which began in 1812 and is hugely popular. Three | :25:23. | :25:26. | |
quarters of the population bought a ticket this year. Thousands of other | :25:27. | :25:32. | |
within -- other winning numbers were drawn from prizes, making it a | :25:33. | :25:36. | |
Christmas tradition that many in Spain can't afford to miss. | :25:37. | :25:43. | |
Good luck if you are in that drawer. A couple of stories we will be | :25:44. | :25:48. | |
covering in the next half. The ongoing problems in Helmand province | :25:49. | :25:51. | |
in the south of Afghanistan. That was the base for many British troops | :25:52. | :25:56. | |
for some time. We will also talk about new US Visa restrictions. | :25:57. | :26:09. | |
Hello. If you are planning to spend Christmas in New York on the ski | :26:10. | :26:14. | |
slopes of Europe, you will want | :26:15. | :26:16. |