23/12/2015 Outside Source

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Russia has placed the former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky

They say he could be connected to a murder dating back

But Mr Khodorkovsky tells the BBC the move is politically motivated.

President Putin has decided that my potential involvement in the

campaign for the 2016 parliamentary elections is dangerous.

Various reports out of Afghanistan suggest the Taliban have taken

control of the centre of Sangin in Helmand province,

At least 200 civilians have been killed in Russian air strikes

in Syria according to a report by Amnesty International.

It says some of Russia's actions could even amount to war crimes.

If you had any doubts about the potential risks of drones,

We'll talk about how incidents like this one can be avoided

And we'll ask why the Beatles have finally decided

to release their music on streaming sites like Spotify.

That's how Mikhail Khodorkovsky describes the international arrest

warrant for him issued by Russia in an exclusive BBC interview.

The former oligarch and government critic is accused of ordering

a contract killing of a Siberian mayor in the late 90s.

He's living in exile after spending a decade in prison on fraud charges,

which he says were designed to silence him.

Let's show you some of that interview. TRANSLATION: This means

that President Putin gave the investigators thought orders to do

what they are doing now. President Putin has decided that it was me who

was behind the efforts of shareholders who are demanding $50

billion in compensation for Russia for plundering the company. It is

also obvious that resident Putin has decided that my potential

involvement in the campaign for the 2016 parliamentary elections is

dangerous. Are you a threat to the Russian president? Is your goal to

overthrow Mr Putin? TRANSLATION: It seems that trying to change the

regime in Moscow would be too optimistic, but I am convinced that

within the next ten years the regime will change, and I hope that my

efforts will play quite an important role in that regard. You can search

for your own safety if you are taking this route? TRANSLATION: --

are you concerned for your own safety? TRANSLATION: There is an

impressive history in the death of Putin's opponents, but I have spent

ten years in prison. In prison it was easy to kill me, it could have

happened any day, no problem. In London I feel safe, of course. Safer

than at any time over the last ten years. An exclusive interview by

Richard Galpin. President Putin's spokesman took

a question about the arrest warrant during his regular

evening conference-call. He said the charges this time

are not about economy It is not about Putin's concerns

but about involvement in a criminal Let's talk to Olga Ivshina from the

BBC Russian Servers. How much credibility is there behind this

claim from Mikhail Khodorkovsky that it is a conspiracy? Of course it is

a disputable case, but we should bear in mind that, really, earlier

there was a case by a former oil company which belonged to Mr

Khodorkovsky and some of its beneficiaries asked for compensation

because this company was taken by the state. Russia tried to block

this decision, but the European Court ruled that this case was

politically motivated senescent beneficiaries of that company demand

$50 million and now Mr Khodorkovsky says that this is the reason why Mr

Putin sees him both as economical and a political threat, because in a

few years the Russian presidential elections are coming, Russian

parliamentary elections, and Mr Khodorkovsky is an eminent figure

and people in Russia trust and listen to him. He said in that

interview that he believes that in ten years or so there will be a

change of regime, as he says it. How realistic is that given that

President Putin has incredibly high approval ratings, in the 80s? That

is on the one hand and, really, polls show that his approval rate is

even growing. It used to be 86%, now it is close to 90. On the other

hand, some protest rallies are emerging. There was one earlier this

month by truck drivers who disagree with the new taxation system. As

Khodorkovsky pointed out, it is quite sporadic, it was quite a

surprise. Truck drivers are one of those who most strongly support Mr

Putin, which shows there is an underground movement, there are some

protest ideas which appear from nowhere which shows there is tension

within society, especially when the economy is collapsing. Briefly

reminders of Mikhail Khodorkovsky's fall from grace? He was an

incredibly successful businessmen, then we saw him four years behind

bars. He was a very successful businessman but there are questions

about how he earned his money. He claims it was all legal, others say

that Russia in the 1990s was chaos. But then he tried to step into

politics and try to criticise Mr Putin, that was the moment when he

got problems can he got into jail for ten years. He was released,

there were no charges at the moment when he was released by a

presidential pardon, but now there are new accusations. Thank you very

much, Olga Ivshina. We've been talking about

Afghanistan's Helmand province It's in danger of

falling to the Taliban. Today we've got reports suggesting

that a key district there is now almost entirely under

Taliban control. Much of the fighting has been around

the city of Sangin - a well known hub for the region's

illegal drugs trade. Control of the city would provide

a big source of income Shaimaa Khalil reports

from Afghanistan. As the Taliban announced victory

in Sangin district Afghan troops are desperately fighting

to push them back, not just But other districts

in Helmand province. It looked as if things could get

better for the Afghan soldiers, after supplies were airdropped

and additional troops arrived. TRANSLATION: We're ready

to defend our country And when we get the order,

we will fight the enemy. Here in Kabul the acting

Afghan Defence Minister insists the Army is still resisting

and that the operation What do you say to British families

who have lost relatives in Sangin in particular, who said the British

military provided support, training, money, they paid in blood,

only for the Afghan army to fail? The British and other nations,

they have contributed with their blood and their

contributions, that is always appreciated by the people

of Afghanistan. But at the same time in just one

year we took over responsibility, we are thinly spread

throughout the country. We tried our best to

hold all those areas. The latest fighting in Helmand

province has exposed weaknesses in the Afghan army and

the government in maintaining a solid grip of security

after withdrawal of Nato forces. It is in that weakness

that the Taliban found the chance to regroup and deal heavy blows

to the Afghan troops Many families have fled Sangin

to the provincial capital. We left with the clothes

on our backs. Yesterday I returned to go to town,

I went to the market and saw In a statement today the Taliban

condemned the British troops for returning to Helmand province

to support Afghan forces. They said the British Government has

broken its promise to the people not More than 100 British troops

were killed in Sangin alone and as the Taliban continue

to tighten their hold on the districts of Helmand

province, many will continue to ask Lots more on Afghanistan on the

website. Tweet from @ringostarrmusic -

are you ready? Christmas Eve 12:01am,

we are coming to you from out The entire catalogue of The Beatles

will be available on streaming music The band remains one of the biggest

selling acts of all time. More than four decades

on from their break-up, but they have a history of adopting

new technology slowly. I asked Sinead Garvan

from Newsbeat. I guess it's what to do with keeping

legacy going, so give got the younger generations who go on

streaming services and to discover a lot of their music there, so by

having it on streaming it will get younger people more interested in

the Beatles. They have waited point where they realise that streaming is

now here, it is basically in the mainstream and here to stay and

labels have started to be able to make money from it as well. Warner

Brothers said earlier this year that they make more money from streaming

on digital downloads. It is not just veterans, shall we say, who have

reservations, it is of the upcoming younger acts? Intends to be the big

artists, Taylor Swift, Adele and then acts like Radiohead have all

said what they want about streaming services. They don't agree. Is that

from a financial point of view? They don't get enough money for artists?

Exactly, we don't know how much they get per play but it is not much

compared to what they make from albums. But the argument is that

many people make money from touring now, so streaming can be beneficial

for younger artists because this is how people discover them and their

music would not get to such places all over the world without

streaming. Ed Sheeran thinks streaming is amazing and he says he

would not have sold out all of those dates at Wembley Stadium without

streaming. Odell says she likes there to be some sort of sense of

occasion, she would not put her new album on Spotify, for example? --

Adele says. It is not the way of the world any more, young people don't

say up and go out to buy and album. But she used the same strategy for

19 and 21, kept it off screen -- streaming for the same amount of

time. Critics might argue that the labels are getting a lot of money

from Adele not being on streaming, she is the biggest selling artist in

the world right now. In a moment we'll talk

about the falling price of oil Oil producing countries say

they expect the price to start Hundreds of environment agency

officials and military personnel will be deployed in north-west

England over the next few days, as Storm Eva is expected to bring

gale force winds and heavy rain to flood-hit areas over

the Christmas period. After the government held

an emergency Cobra meeting today, the Environment Secretary Liz Truss

said more resources will be deployed if the situation

continues to worsen. We have very youthful rivers, there

is saturated ground, we have had further flooding in places like

Appleby, we expect more bad weather over the next few days, particularly

Boxing Day. We want to make sure we have all the resources deployed,

that every defences, sandbags, military resources and the

Environment Agency, to do all we can to protect homes and lives. We know

there will be further storms, probably on Boxing Day, so we are

making sure we have all the resources ready to go should they be

needed. This is Outside Source live

from the BBC newsroom, Our top story: Russia has put

the former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky

on an international wanted list But in a BBC interview,

Mr Khodorkovsky says the case Let's have a look at what our

language services are reporting on. The advance by Iraqi forces

against Islamic State fighters in the centre of Ramadi

is being slowed by booby traps Could face there has been a major

assault to try to drive Islamic State sources out of the city.

Drivers in Beijing are being warned they face serious fines for breaking

new driving rules during the city's pollution red alert.

Cars can only drive on alternate days.

And on the BBC News App you can see these pictures of a cargo craft

docking at the International Space Station.

British Astronaut Tim Peake and two others arrived at the space

Poland's right wing Law and Justice Party is back in power

years in opposition and now controls both the parliament

President Andrzej Duda has rejected the eurosceptic label that's applied

Mr Duda insists that Law and Justice only wants the EU to be

In an exclusive interview with the BBC's Kasia Madera,

he's also been talking about the nationwide protests

The new right-wing Polish government, only elected in October

with a majority, has already got tens of thousands of people were

testing against it, not just here in Walsall outside the parliament

building, but in 20 cities across the country -- in Warsaw.

Demonstrators angry that the governing Law and Justice party of

President Andrzej Duda is bringing in five constitutional judges

sympathetic to that party, thus undermining because situation and

threatening democracy, even. You described his vision of the

future, you talk about a future Poland and how you will help

children and families, and yet you have thousands of people on the

streets protesting against your government, why? TRANSLATION: The

case is clear, Law and Justice won the elections. It has the self

covering majority in the Polish parliament. But there is an

opposition, these demonstrations organised by an opposition. You can

smile and say that as long as these protests are taking place peacefully

and the demonstrators are not coming under attack and the protesters are

being protected by the police that there are no clashes, it means

democracy is working well. Poland has fought hard for its

democracy. Everywhere you turn there are reminders of its communist past.

The country has spent the last quarter of the century really

bracing the West. It is the success story of the European Union. But

there are now fears about the direction the country will take

because of this new Eurosceptic leadership. TRANSLATION: I look at

it through the highs of our neighbours, neighbours who find

themselves in a similar situation to Poland, who share a history similar

to ours. Behind the Iron Curtain. We were all in a similar economic

situation when communism fell. Today most of us are Nato members. Polish

people are pleased we are members of the EU. It has a big symbolic

significance for many of us. So why is your party scene is so

Eurosceptic? That is what we are known as to some, this is simply not

true. It is an attempt to build a false image of us. We're not

Eurosceptics, we you wrote realists. We want to be due to be efficient

and to function properly so it will for see any possible future problems

coming its way. It turns out that today's European Union has many

weaknesses. This needs to be fixed. As Poles get ready for Christmas and

look ahead to 2016, will the new Government be able to reassure its

critics that the suggestion and the country are safe in its hands? --

the Constitution and the country? The falling oil price has been a big

story for us this year. Opec is forecasting that demand

for its oil will rise next year - and that prices will recover

to $70 a barrel by 2020. The group accounts for about 30%

of global oil production. Opec has consistently said it will

keep pumping oil at full capacity despite prices more than halving

over the past 18 months. But now the cartel seems to be thinking again.

Opec produces over 30 million barrels of oil per day, but now

wants to cut that by a million in the coming years. It is predicting

that the oil price will rise to $70 a barrel over the next five years.

But there are still several factors weighing on a recovery. Opec points

to increased use of sustainable energy and also predicts rival

producers in the US and Canada will pump up to 20 million barrels of oil

per day over the next few years. More cost efficient production

techniques become more available. Michelle Fleury is in New York. How

realistic are the Opec predictions given the current climate? I think

people tend to lend a fair amount of weight to what this group of oil

producing countries says, they have a fairly good track record. Many

assume that some of the factors leading to this drop in price will

pass, amongst them slowing demand. If you look at the global economy at

has been weaker, but the assumption is that as things pick up and you

start to see economic activity pick-up, so we'll demand for the

black stuff. Why haven't we seen Opec cutting production this year?

What have they been trying to achieve? They have had a strategy to

try to see off, if you like, American type oil producers, in

other words shale producers. This is a fairly new group on the market, in

the past it was too expensive to get hard to reach oil out of the ground.

Those costs have come down, it is more efficient and economical so

there is more oil on the market. To try to address that problem, Opec

decided to pursue market share, to try to maintain it instead of

cutting production to maintain prices at higher levels. They

decided just to let prices fall, that plan backfired, they have

admitted themselves that shale producers will remain a strong

competitor in the years ahead. Thank you very much, Michelle Fleury in

New York. Now to a story that's been popular

on our website today from Brazil - it's about a number of job

opportunities have come up And for a country that's

going through financially tough times at the moment it's

providing a welcome Christmas TRANSLATION: My name is Pedro, I am

60 and I have been working in the oil industry for over 30 years. I

have been unemployed for a year and a half and am now doing a temporary

job as a Santa Claus at a shopping centre in Rio. I last job in the

South was building an oil rig, then the crisis hit is really hard. I owe

money to the bank so it has had an impact for me. Because I have worked

all my life and in 30 years I have never owed money to anyone. After

rear and a half of unemployment, I saw an advert for the Santa Claus

School and, joking around with my daughter-in-law, I thought, why not?

I have the right profile, a LE, maybe I shouldn't roll? As a

freshman centre in my first year I signed a contract for $1000. I have

already worked in several events and I hope to do even more. I have a

strong personality, I tend to bounce back from problems. Sitting in this

chair I feel that I have already bounced back.

TRANSLATION: My name is Luiz, I was both -- born and raised in Rio de

Janeiro. I am 53 and it is the first time I am working as a Santa Claus.

In 40 please my company was downsized to eight, then from four

and then from four it was just my partner and me, so we closed.

Everything started to fall apart. Then this opportunity came up and

everybody said, you look just like Santa Claus, why don't you try to be

a Santa Claus? You have his figure, face and good mood. Then I found out

you can make up to $5,000 from early November to Christmas Eve. At the

Santa Claus school, I realise that lots of people there for the first

time were looking for the same thing as me, to try to make ends meet at a

time of crisis. Some of the shopping centres are now using a mechanical

Santa Claus instead of a real one. I got in at a time that, you have to

laugh, the crisis has even hit centre.

A belly and a real beard, perfect qualifications!

A three-year-old girl here in the UK is being awarded for her bravery

after she phoned the emergency services when her pregnant mother

Emma managed to give her address to the responder and talk

Absolutely amazing for a three-year-old. It ended happily in

the end. All that and more stories on the BBC website. You can get into

mature this via Twitter and there is a BBC News Facebook page. The

weather is back -- next, we will be back in a few minutes.