:00:08. > :00:09.Hello and welcome, I'm Karin Giannone, this is Outside
:00:10. > :00:12.Russia has placed the former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky
:00:13. > :00:18.They say he could be connected to a murder dating back
:00:19. > :00:29.But Mr Khodorkovsky tells the BBC the move is politically motivated.
:00:30. > :00:35.President Putin has decided that my potential involvement in the
:00:36. > :00:37.campaign for the 2016 parliamentary elections is dangerous.
:00:38. > :00:39.Various reports out of Afghanistan suggest the Taliban have taken
:00:40. > :00:41.control of the centre of Sangin in Helmand province,
:00:42. > :00:46.At least 200 civilians have been killed in Russian air strikes
:00:47. > :00:50.in Syria according to a report by Amnesty International.
:00:51. > :00:55.It says some of Russia's actions could even amount to war crimes.
:00:56. > :00:58.If you had any doubts about the potential risks of drones,
:00:59. > :01:05.We'll talk about how incidents like this one can be avoided
:01:06. > :01:13.And we'll ask why the Beatles have finally decided
:01:14. > :01:32.to release their music on streaming sites like Spotify.
:01:33. > :01:35.That's how Mikhail Khodorkovsky describes the international arrest
:01:36. > :01:40.warrant for him issued by Russia in an exclusive BBC interview.
:01:41. > :01:43.The former oligarch and government critic is accused of ordering
:01:44. > :01:47.a contract killing of a Siberian mayor in the late 90s.
:01:48. > :01:51.He's living in exile after spending a decade in prison on fraud charges,
:01:52. > :01:59.which he says were designed to silence him.
:02:00. > :02:10.Let's show you some of that interview. TRANSLATION: This means
:02:11. > :02:14.that President Putin gave the investigators thought orders to do
:02:15. > :02:18.what they are doing now. President Putin has decided that it was me who
:02:19. > :02:22.was behind the efforts of shareholders who are demanding $50
:02:23. > :02:27.billion in compensation for Russia for plundering the company. It is
:02:28. > :02:31.also obvious that resident Putin has decided that my potential
:02:32. > :02:37.involvement in the campaign for the 2016 parliamentary elections is
:02:38. > :02:45.dangerous. Are you a threat to the Russian president? Is your goal to
:02:46. > :02:49.overthrow Mr Putin? TRANSLATION: It seems that trying to change the
:02:50. > :02:52.regime in Moscow would be too optimistic, but I am convinced that
:02:53. > :02:56.within the next ten years the regime will change, and I hope that my
:02:57. > :03:00.efforts will play quite an important role in that regard. You can search
:03:01. > :03:07.for your own safety if you are taking this route? TRANSLATION: --
:03:08. > :03:13.are you concerned for your own safety? TRANSLATION: There is an
:03:14. > :03:18.impressive history in the death of Putin's opponents, but I have spent
:03:19. > :03:23.ten years in prison. In prison it was easy to kill me, it could have
:03:24. > :03:27.happened any day, no problem. In London I feel safe, of course. Safer
:03:28. > :03:30.than at any time over the last ten years. An exclusive interview by
:03:31. > :03:31.Richard Galpin. President Putin's spokesman took
:03:32. > :03:34.a question about the arrest warrant during his regular
:03:35. > :03:35.evening conference-call. He said the charges this time
:03:36. > :03:38.are not about economy It is not about Putin's concerns
:03:39. > :03:54.but about involvement in a criminal Let's talk to Olga Ivshina from the
:03:55. > :04:00.BBC Russian Servers. How much credibility is there behind this
:04:01. > :04:04.claim from Mikhail Khodorkovsky that it is a conspiracy? Of course it is
:04:05. > :04:12.a disputable case, but we should bear in mind that, really, earlier
:04:13. > :04:17.there was a case by a former oil company which belonged to Mr
:04:18. > :04:23.Khodorkovsky and some of its beneficiaries asked for compensation
:04:24. > :04:27.because this company was taken by the state. Russia tried to block
:04:28. > :04:32.this decision, but the European Court ruled that this case was
:04:33. > :04:40.politically motivated senescent beneficiaries of that company demand
:04:41. > :04:45.$50 million and now Mr Khodorkovsky says that this is the reason why Mr
:04:46. > :04:49.Putin sees him both as economical and a political threat, because in a
:04:50. > :04:56.few years the Russian presidential elections are coming, Russian
:04:57. > :05:00.parliamentary elections, and Mr Khodorkovsky is an eminent figure
:05:01. > :05:04.and people in Russia trust and listen to him. He said in that
:05:05. > :05:09.interview that he believes that in ten years or so there will be a
:05:10. > :05:13.change of regime, as he says it. How realistic is that given that
:05:14. > :05:18.President Putin has incredibly high approval ratings, in the 80s? That
:05:19. > :05:23.is on the one hand and, really, polls show that his approval rate is
:05:24. > :05:28.even growing. It used to be 86%, now it is close to 90. On the other
:05:29. > :05:32.hand, some protest rallies are emerging. There was one earlier this
:05:33. > :05:38.month by truck drivers who disagree with the new taxation system. As
:05:39. > :05:43.Khodorkovsky pointed out, it is quite sporadic, it was quite a
:05:44. > :05:47.surprise. Truck drivers are one of those who most strongly support Mr
:05:48. > :05:55.Putin, which shows there is an underground movement, there are some
:05:56. > :06:00.protest ideas which appear from nowhere which shows there is tension
:06:01. > :06:04.within society, especially when the economy is collapsing. Briefly
:06:05. > :06:08.reminders of Mikhail Khodorkovsky's fall from grace? He was an
:06:09. > :06:13.incredibly successful businessmen, then we saw him four years behind
:06:14. > :06:17.bars. He was a very successful businessman but there are questions
:06:18. > :06:22.about how he earned his money. He claims it was all legal, others say
:06:23. > :06:27.that Russia in the 1990s was chaos. But then he tried to step into
:06:28. > :06:31.politics and try to criticise Mr Putin, that was the moment when he
:06:32. > :06:36.got problems can he got into jail for ten years. He was released,
:06:37. > :06:39.there were no charges at the moment when he was released by a
:06:40. > :06:41.presidential pardon, but now there are new accusations. Thank you very
:06:42. > :06:43.much, Olga Ivshina. We've been talking about
:06:44. > :06:44.Afghanistan's Helmand province It's in danger of
:06:45. > :06:49.falling to the Taliban. Today we've got reports suggesting
:06:50. > :06:51.that a key district there is now almost entirely under
:06:52. > :06:56.Taliban control. Much of the fighting has been around
:06:57. > :06:59.the city of Sangin - a well known hub for the region's
:07:00. > :07:04.illegal drugs trade. Control of the city would provide
:07:05. > :07:07.a big source of income Shaimaa Khalil reports
:07:08. > :07:16.from Afghanistan. As the Taliban announced victory
:07:17. > :07:19.in Sangin district Afghan troops are desperately fighting
:07:20. > :07:22.to push them back, not just But other districts
:07:23. > :07:27.in Helmand province. It looked as if things could get
:07:28. > :07:30.better for the Afghan soldiers, after supplies were airdropped
:07:31. > :07:34.and additional troops arrived. TRANSLATION: We're ready
:07:35. > :07:46.to defend our country And when we get the order,
:07:47. > :07:52.we will fight the enemy. Here in Kabul the acting
:07:53. > :07:55.Afghan Defence Minister insists the Army is still resisting
:07:56. > :07:58.and that the operation What do you say to British families
:07:59. > :08:03.who have lost relatives in Sangin in particular, who said the British
:08:04. > :08:10.military provided support, training, money, they paid in blood,
:08:11. > :08:15.only for the Afghan army to fail? The British and other nations,
:08:16. > :08:18.they have contributed with their blood and their
:08:19. > :08:24.contributions, that is always appreciated by the people
:08:25. > :08:33.of Afghanistan. But at the same time in just one
:08:34. > :08:36.year we took over responsibility, we are thinly spread
:08:37. > :08:37.throughout the country. We tried our best to
:08:38. > :08:40.hold all those areas. The latest fighting in Helmand
:08:41. > :08:43.province has exposed weaknesses in the Afghan army and
:08:44. > :08:47.the government in maintaining a solid grip of security
:08:48. > :08:51.after withdrawal of Nato forces. It is in that weakness
:08:52. > :08:53.that the Taliban found the chance to regroup and deal heavy blows
:08:54. > :08:56.to the Afghan troops Many families have fled Sangin
:08:57. > :09:06.to the provincial capital. We left with the clothes
:09:07. > :09:08.on our backs. Yesterday I returned to go to town,
:09:09. > :09:12.I went to the market and saw In a statement today the Taliban
:09:13. > :09:20.condemned the British troops for returning to Helmand province
:09:21. > :09:25.to support Afghan forces. They said the British Government has
:09:26. > :09:28.broken its promise to the people not More than 100 British troops
:09:29. > :09:34.were killed in Sangin alone and as the Taliban continue
:09:35. > :09:37.to tighten their hold on the districts of Helmand
:09:38. > :09:40.province, many will continue to ask Lots more on Afghanistan on the
:09:41. > :09:53.website. Tweet from @ringostarrmusic -
:09:54. > :09:58.are you ready? Christmas Eve 12:01am,
:09:59. > :10:01.we are coming to you from out The entire catalogue of The Beatles
:10:02. > :10:06.will be available on streaming music The band remains one of the biggest
:10:07. > :10:10.selling acts of all time. More than four decades
:10:11. > :10:12.on from their break-up, but they have a history of adopting
:10:13. > :10:15.new technology slowly. I asked Sinead Garvan
:10:16. > :10:26.from Newsbeat. I guess it's what to do with keeping
:10:27. > :10:31.legacy going, so give got the younger generations who go on
:10:32. > :10:35.streaming services and to discover a lot of their music there, so by
:10:36. > :10:39.having it on streaming it will get younger people more interested in
:10:40. > :10:43.the Beatles. They have waited point where they realise that streaming is
:10:44. > :10:46.now here, it is basically in the mainstream and here to stay and
:10:47. > :10:51.labels have started to be able to make money from it as well. Warner
:10:52. > :10:56.Brothers said earlier this year that they make more money from streaming
:10:57. > :11:01.on digital downloads. It is not just veterans, shall we say, who have
:11:02. > :11:06.reservations, it is of the upcoming younger acts? Intends to be the big
:11:07. > :11:12.artists, Taylor Swift, Adele and then acts like Radiohead have all
:11:13. > :11:16.said what they want about streaming services. They don't agree. Is that
:11:17. > :11:21.from a financial point of view? They don't get enough money for artists?
:11:22. > :11:25.Exactly, we don't know how much they get per play but it is not much
:11:26. > :11:29.compared to what they make from albums. But the argument is that
:11:30. > :11:33.many people make money from touring now, so streaming can be beneficial
:11:34. > :11:36.for younger artists because this is how people discover them and their
:11:37. > :11:40.music would not get to such places all over the world without
:11:41. > :11:44.streaming. Ed Sheeran thinks streaming is amazing and he says he
:11:45. > :11:48.would not have sold out all of those dates at Wembley Stadium without
:11:49. > :11:54.streaming. Odell says she likes there to be some sort of sense of
:11:55. > :12:01.occasion, she would not put her new album on Spotify, for example? --
:12:02. > :12:05.Adele says. It is not the way of the world any more, young people don't
:12:06. > :12:11.say up and go out to buy and album. But she used the same strategy for
:12:12. > :12:15.19 and 21, kept it off screen -- streaming for the same amount of
:12:16. > :12:19.time. Critics might argue that the labels are getting a lot of money
:12:20. > :12:21.from Adele not being on streaming, she is the biggest selling artist in
:12:22. > :12:26.the world right now. In a moment we'll talk
:12:27. > :12:28.about the falling price of oil Oil producing countries say
:12:29. > :12:32.they expect the price to start Hundreds of environment agency
:12:33. > :12:37.officials and military personnel will be deployed in north-west
:12:38. > :12:40.England over the next few days, as Storm Eva is expected to bring
:12:41. > :12:43.gale force winds and heavy rain to flood-hit areas over
:12:44. > :12:47.the Christmas period. After the government held
:12:48. > :12:49.an emergency Cobra meeting today, the Environment Secretary Liz Truss
:12:50. > :12:51.said more resources will be deployed if the situation
:12:52. > :13:07.continues to worsen. We have very youthful rivers, there
:13:08. > :13:11.is saturated ground, we have had further flooding in places like
:13:12. > :13:16.Appleby, we expect more bad weather over the next few days, particularly
:13:17. > :13:21.Boxing Day. We want to make sure we have all the resources deployed,
:13:22. > :13:25.that every defences, sandbags, military resources and the
:13:26. > :13:30.Environment Agency, to do all we can to protect homes and lives. We know
:13:31. > :13:33.there will be further storms, probably on Boxing Day, so we are
:13:34. > :13:34.making sure we have all the resources ready to go should they be
:13:35. > :13:42.needed. This is Outside Source live
:13:43. > :13:44.from the BBC newsroom, Our top story: Russia has put
:13:45. > :13:49.the former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky
:13:50. > :13:50.on an international wanted list But in a BBC interview,
:13:51. > :13:57.Mr Khodorkovsky says the case Let's have a look at what our
:13:58. > :14:06.language services are reporting on. The advance by Iraqi forces
:14:07. > :14:08.against Islamic State fighters in the centre of Ramadi
:14:09. > :14:20.is being slowed by booby traps Could face there has been a major
:14:21. > :14:23.assault to try to drive Islamic State sources out of the city.
:14:24. > :14:27.Drivers in Beijing are being warned they face serious fines for breaking
:14:28. > :14:29.new driving rules during the city's pollution red alert.
:14:30. > :14:31.Cars can only drive on alternate days.
:14:32. > :14:36.And on the BBC News App you can see these pictures of a cargo craft
:14:37. > :14:37.docking at the International Space Station.
:14:38. > :14:40.British Astronaut Tim Peake and two others arrived at the space
:14:41. > :14:50.Poland's right wing Law and Justice Party is back in power
:14:51. > :14:53.years in opposition and now controls both the parliament
:14:54. > :14:57.President Andrzej Duda has rejected the eurosceptic label that's applied
:14:58. > :15:02.Mr Duda insists that Law and Justice only wants the EU to be
:15:03. > :15:07.In an exclusive interview with the BBC's Kasia Madera,
:15:08. > :15:09.he's also been talking about the nationwide protests
:15:10. > :15:22.The new right-wing Polish government, only elected in October
:15:23. > :15:26.with a majority, has already got tens of thousands of people were
:15:27. > :15:30.testing against it, not just here in Walsall outside the parliament
:15:31. > :15:34.building, but in 20 cities across the country -- in Warsaw.
:15:35. > :15:39.Demonstrators angry that the governing Law and Justice party of
:15:40. > :15:43.President Andrzej Duda is bringing in five constitutional judges
:15:44. > :15:46.sympathetic to that party, thus undermining because situation and
:15:47. > :15:50.threatening democracy, even. You described his vision of the
:15:51. > :15:54.future, you talk about a future Poland and how you will help
:15:55. > :15:58.children and families, and yet you have thousands of people on the
:15:59. > :16:04.streets protesting against your government, why? TRANSLATION: The
:16:05. > :16:08.case is clear, Law and Justice won the elections. It has the self
:16:09. > :16:14.covering majority in the Polish parliament. But there is an
:16:15. > :16:18.opposition, these demonstrations organised by an opposition. You can
:16:19. > :16:22.smile and say that as long as these protests are taking place peacefully
:16:23. > :16:25.and the demonstrators are not coming under attack and the protesters are
:16:26. > :16:34.being protected by the police that there are no clashes, it means
:16:35. > :16:36.democracy is working well. Poland has fought hard for its
:16:37. > :16:40.democracy. Everywhere you turn there are reminders of its communist past.
:16:41. > :16:44.The country has spent the last quarter of the century really
:16:45. > :16:49.bracing the West. It is the success story of the European Union. But
:16:50. > :16:53.there are now fears about the direction the country will take
:16:54. > :16:58.because of this new Eurosceptic leadership. TRANSLATION: I look at
:16:59. > :17:03.it through the highs of our neighbours, neighbours who find
:17:04. > :17:11.themselves in a similar situation to Poland, who share a history similar
:17:12. > :17:15.to ours. Behind the Iron Curtain. We were all in a similar economic
:17:16. > :17:20.situation when communism fell. Today most of us are Nato members. Polish
:17:21. > :17:31.people are pleased we are members of the EU. It has a big symbolic
:17:32. > :17:38.significance for many of us. So why is your party scene is so
:17:39. > :17:41.Eurosceptic? That is what we are known as to some, this is simply not
:17:42. > :17:48.true. It is an attempt to build a false image of us. We're not
:17:49. > :17:54.Eurosceptics, we you wrote realists. We want to be due to be efficient
:17:55. > :18:01.and to function properly so it will for see any possible future problems
:18:02. > :18:09.coming its way. It turns out that today's European Union has many
:18:10. > :18:13.weaknesses. This needs to be fixed. As Poles get ready for Christmas and
:18:14. > :18:18.look ahead to 2016, will the new Government be able to reassure its
:18:19. > :18:23.critics that the suggestion and the country are safe in its hands? --
:18:24. > :18:24.the Constitution and the country? The falling oil price has been a big
:18:25. > :18:27.story for us this year. Opec is forecasting that demand
:18:28. > :18:31.for its oil will rise next year - and that prices will recover
:18:32. > :18:33.to $70 a barrel by 2020. The group accounts for about 30%
:18:34. > :18:42.of global oil production. Opec has consistently said it will
:18:43. > :18:48.keep pumping oil at full capacity despite prices more than halving
:18:49. > :18:52.over the past 18 months. But now the cartel seems to be thinking again.
:18:53. > :18:57.Opec produces over 30 million barrels of oil per day, but now
:18:58. > :19:04.wants to cut that by a million in the coming years. It is predicting
:19:05. > :19:10.that the oil price will rise to $70 a barrel over the next five years.
:19:11. > :19:14.But there are still several factors weighing on a recovery. Opec points
:19:15. > :19:21.to increased use of sustainable energy and also predicts rival
:19:22. > :19:26.producers in the US and Canada will pump up to 20 million barrels of oil
:19:27. > :19:31.per day over the next few years. More cost efficient production
:19:32. > :19:36.techniques become more available. Michelle Fleury is in New York. How
:19:37. > :19:41.realistic are the Opec predictions given the current climate? I think
:19:42. > :19:46.people tend to lend a fair amount of weight to what this group of oil
:19:47. > :19:50.producing countries says, they have a fairly good track record. Many
:19:51. > :19:55.assume that some of the factors leading to this drop in price will
:19:56. > :19:59.pass, amongst them slowing demand. If you look at the global economy at
:20:00. > :20:04.has been weaker, but the assumption is that as things pick up and you
:20:05. > :20:10.start to see economic activity pick-up, so we'll demand for the
:20:11. > :20:13.black stuff. Why haven't we seen Opec cutting production this year?
:20:14. > :20:21.What have they been trying to achieve? They have had a strategy to
:20:22. > :20:24.try to see off, if you like, American type oil producers, in
:20:25. > :20:30.other words shale producers. This is a fairly new group on the market, in
:20:31. > :20:35.the past it was too expensive to get hard to reach oil out of the ground.
:20:36. > :20:38.Those costs have come down, it is more efficient and economical so
:20:39. > :20:44.there is more oil on the market. To try to address that problem, Opec
:20:45. > :20:47.decided to pursue market share, to try to maintain it instead of
:20:48. > :20:52.cutting production to maintain prices at higher levels. They
:20:53. > :20:56.decided just to let prices fall, that plan backfired, they have
:20:57. > :21:00.admitted themselves that shale producers will remain a strong
:21:01. > :21:01.competitor in the years ahead. Thank you very much, Michelle Fleury in
:21:02. > :21:04.New York. Now to a story that's been popular
:21:05. > :21:08.on our website today from Brazil - it's about a number of job
:21:09. > :21:10.opportunities have come up And for a country that's
:21:11. > :21:13.going through financially tough times at the moment it's
:21:14. > :21:40.providing a welcome Christmas TRANSLATION: My name is Pedro, I am
:21:41. > :21:44.60 and I have been working in the oil industry for over 30 years. I
:21:45. > :21:48.have been unemployed for a year and a half and am now doing a temporary
:21:49. > :21:52.job as a Santa Claus at a shopping centre in Rio. I last job in the
:21:53. > :21:57.South was building an oil rig, then the crisis hit is really hard. I owe
:21:58. > :22:01.money to the bank so it has had an impact for me. Because I have worked
:22:02. > :22:06.all my life and in 30 years I have never owed money to anyone. After
:22:07. > :22:11.rear and a half of unemployment, I saw an advert for the Santa Claus
:22:12. > :22:16.School and, joking around with my daughter-in-law, I thought, why not?
:22:17. > :22:20.I have the right profile, a LE, maybe I shouldn't roll? As a
:22:21. > :22:24.freshman centre in my first year I signed a contract for $1000. I have
:22:25. > :22:30.already worked in several events and I hope to do even more. I have a
:22:31. > :22:34.strong personality, I tend to bounce back from problems. Sitting in this
:22:35. > :22:46.chair I feel that I have already bounced back.
:22:47. > :22:55.TRANSLATION: My name is Luiz, I was both -- born and raised in Rio de
:22:56. > :23:00.Janeiro. I am 53 and it is the first time I am working as a Santa Claus.
:23:01. > :23:06.In 40 please my company was downsized to eight, then from four
:23:07. > :23:10.and then from four it was just my partner and me, so we closed.
:23:11. > :23:14.Everything started to fall apart. Then this opportunity came up and
:23:15. > :23:19.everybody said, you look just like Santa Claus, why don't you try to be
:23:20. > :23:24.a Santa Claus? You have his figure, face and good mood. Then I found out
:23:25. > :23:29.you can make up to $5,000 from early November to Christmas Eve. At the
:23:30. > :23:32.Santa Claus school, I realise that lots of people there for the first
:23:33. > :23:36.time were looking for the same thing as me, to try to make ends meet at a
:23:37. > :23:44.time of crisis. Some of the shopping centres are now using a mechanical
:23:45. > :23:49.Santa Claus instead of a real one. I got in at a time that, you have to
:23:50. > :23:53.laugh, the crisis has even hit centre.
:23:54. > :23:55.A belly and a real beard, perfect qualifications!
:23:56. > :23:58.A three-year-old girl here in the UK is being awarded for her bravery
:23:59. > :24:00.after she phoned the emergency services when her pregnant mother
:24:01. > :24:04.Emma managed to give her address to the responder and talk
:24:05. > :25:37.Absolutely amazing for a three-year-old. It ended happily in
:25:38. > :25:43.the end. All that and more stories on the BBC website. You can get into
:25:44. > :25:50.mature this via Twitter and there is a BBC News Facebook page. The
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