:00:08. > :00:13.Hello, I'm Ros Atkins, this is Outside Source.
:00:14. > :00:19.We can access all the latest information coming through the BBC
:00:20. > :00:25.newsroom and we have an hour of international news for you.
:00:26. > :00:30.President Obama has been talking about increasing gun controls and
:00:31. > :00:36.victims of gun violence. Every time I think about those kids, it gets me
:00:37. > :00:49.mad. And by the way, it happens on the streets of Chicago every day.
:00:50. > :00:55.More from Cologne, more than 100 attacks on women. The man on the
:00:56. > :00:58.latest Islamic State video is thought to be this man from East
:00:59. > :01:02.London, a relative of one of those killed in the video has been
:01:03. > :01:07.speaking to the BBC. We will report from India. I don't know if you have
:01:08. > :01:14.heard about this schoolboy who has scored over 1000 runs in one innings
:01:15. > :01:18.at a local cricket match. And also on Outside Source, if you have
:01:19. > :01:22.questions we are covering you can reach us. We have lots on the
:01:23. > :01:29.escalating row between Iran and Saudi Arabia. We have sent those two
:01:30. > :01:33.our correspondent and here are the answers he sent back. We will show
:01:34. > :01:43.you that later. Barack Obama has announced plans to
:01:44. > :01:47.increase background checks The President is doing this
:01:48. > :02:01.despite opposition from Congress. Here's what he said
:02:02. > :02:03.in the measures a few hours ago. We don't need to be talking past one
:02:04. > :02:07.another, but we do have to feel In Doctor King's words,
:02:08. > :02:15.we need to feel the fierce And the constant excuses
:02:16. > :02:28.for inaction no longer do. That's why we're here today,
:02:29. > :02:36.not to debate the last mass shooting, but to do something
:02:37. > :02:40.to try to prevent the next one. As Ronald Reagan once said,
:02:41. > :02:43.if mandatory background checks could save more lives,
:02:44. > :02:46.it would be well worth making it The Bill before Congress three
:02:47. > :02:54.years ago met that test. But unfortunately too many
:02:55. > :03:07.senators failed theirs. Every time I think about those
:03:08. > :03:13.kids, it gets me mad. And by the way, it happens
:03:14. > :03:17.on the streets of Chicago every day. So, all of us need to demand
:03:18. > :03:33.a Congress brave enough to stand up to the gun lobby's lies,
:03:34. > :03:37.all of us need to stand up and protect its citizens,
:03:38. > :03:40.all of us need to demand governors and legislators and businesses
:03:41. > :03:42.do their part, to make some of what the president said
:03:43. > :03:53.earlier. Clearly a very frustrating subject
:03:54. > :04:01.for President Obama. He alluded to the number of children
:04:02. > :04:04.dying because of gun violence in the United States.
:04:05. > :04:09.This is a list from a website called the gun violence archive.
:04:10. > :04:17.I will not read out individual cases, but you can see as I go
:04:18. > :04:21.through the long list posted online, 129 children died in gun violence in
:04:22. > :04:27.the last two years. You get an idea of the scale of the problem. The
:04:28. > :04:34.question is will what President Obama is suggesting do anything to
:04:35. > :04:40.protect these lost lives? Jane joins us. Aside from these background
:04:41. > :04:45.checks, can you run us through the other measures President Obama is
:04:46. > :04:48.suggesting? The background checks are the big one but he is also
:04:49. > :04:54.proposing extra money to treat people with mental health disorders,
:04:55. > :04:58.because of the 30,000 deaths by shootings every single day in
:04:59. > :05:02.America. 20,000 of those are suicides, so clearly mental health
:05:03. > :05:07.is an enormous issue here. He wants more funding, to treat that. But
:05:08. > :05:11.getting back to the main issue, background checks. What he wants is
:05:12. > :05:15.for all people who sell guns to perform background checks on all
:05:16. > :05:19.people who buy them. At the moment if you are a licensed gun dealer you
:05:20. > :05:23.have to perform a background check, but the Internet is pretty much
:05:24. > :05:27.unregulated and if you go to a gun show and buy a gun off a private
:05:28. > :05:31.dealer you do not need to go through a background check most of the time.
:05:32. > :05:34.He's just saying, I want everybody who sells guns or is in the business
:05:35. > :05:39.of selling guns, to make sure that they know who they are selling to.
:05:40. > :05:43.Please don't go anywhere. You are telling us about the proposals from
:05:44. > :05:47.the president. Next let's talk about the politics. Even as that speech
:05:48. > :05:52.was going on his critics were taking to Twitter to push back at his
:05:53. > :05:55.ideas. The National Rifle Association saying these executive
:05:56. > :06:00.orders will do nothing to improve public safety. Let me show you a
:06:01. > :06:01.couple of others. Paul Ryan, Speaker of the House of Representatives
:06:02. > :06:09.said: And Republican Presidential
:06:10. > :06:11.hopeful Marco Rubio said on his first day in the Oval Office
:06:12. > :06:20.those orders are gone. clearly the Republicans are not
:06:21. > :06:24.happy, but is there anything they can do about these proposals?
:06:25. > :06:31.Yes, there is, because the proposals are being enacted under an executive
:06:32. > :06:34.order, which means President Obama is taking unilateral action,
:06:35. > :06:39.bypassing Congress and saying as long as he is president, this is
:06:40. > :06:42.what should happen. That is the problem, because this year America
:06:43. > :06:47.elected new president and depending on who gets in his executive order
:06:48. > :06:51.could be upheld or overturned. Without action from Congress, this
:06:52. > :06:55.does not become law. So it's all very tenuous at the moment. The
:06:56. > :07:03.White House says they are acting well within the existing law and
:07:04. > :07:05.what they are actually doing is clarifying what is already on the
:07:06. > :07:09.statute books. The Republicans say that is not actually the case and I
:07:10. > :07:13.think we can expect a lot of legal challenges in the months ahead.
:07:14. > :07:17.Thank you. Don't go anywhere, we will come back to you in a moment.
:07:18. > :07:22.In an interview last year with the BBC, President Obama told us his
:07:23. > :07:27.failure to pass effective gun laws was his biggest regret. We made a
:07:28. > :07:33.report on how he has come back to this issue again and again in his
:07:34. > :07:36.presidency. People were scrambling left and
:07:37. > :07:43.right. My children got out first. With my wife. Even as we learn how
:07:44. > :07:47.this happened and who is responsible, we may never understand
:07:48. > :07:54.what leads anybody to terrorise their fellow human beings like this.
:07:55. > :07:58.As a country we have been through this too many times and we will have
:07:59. > :08:01.to come together and take meaningful action, to prevent more tragedies
:08:02. > :08:05.like this, regardless of the politics. We have two people coming
:08:06. > :08:19.out. Why did you do it? At some point we
:08:20. > :08:21.as a country will have to reckon with the fact that this type of mass
:08:22. > :08:30.violence doesn't happen in other advanced countries.
:08:31. > :08:36.There are some steps we could take not to eliminate every one of these
:08:37. > :08:44.mass shootings, but to improve the odds that they don't happen as
:08:45. > :08:47.frequently. We just had a tweet from one viewer asking what he can
:08:48. > :08:52.achieve with a relatively short period of time left in the White
:08:53. > :08:54.House. We can go back to Jane in Washington, DC. Clearly the
:08:55. > :08:58.president is concerned about his legacy. He wants is issued out with
:08:59. > :09:03.before he leaves the White House, but time is ticking.
:09:04. > :09:08.It is indeed, and this is a deeply personal issue for the president. We
:09:09. > :09:13.saw how emotional he was in his speech today, saying how the deaths
:09:14. > :09:17.of 20 schoolchildren in 2012 in Connecticut changed his life, and he
:09:18. > :09:22.hoped the country would have changed as a result of that. He was wrong.
:09:23. > :09:26.Congress failed to enact any legislation to tighten gun controls
:09:27. > :09:30.that is why out of sheer frustration he is taking the action he has
:09:31. > :09:35.today. It was partly also buoyed by yet another shooting last year in
:09:36. > :09:39.Oregon. Ten people were killed at a community college. At point you
:09:40. > :09:44.proud about to make this a political issue. I think what his long-term
:09:45. > :09:48.hope is is that this is now firmly back on the political agenda. It's
:09:49. > :09:52.going to be part of the presidential campaign. We've already seen
:09:53. > :09:56.candidates weighing in on both parties. He is hoping that this will
:09:57. > :10:00.now come back into the public conversation, and that future laws
:10:01. > :10:05.will be an acted to stop thank you very much for your help in telling
:10:06. > :10:08.this story. We can switch from the US to a very disturbing story, a
:10:09. > :10:13.strange story from Germany. At least 90 complaints where made
:10:14. > :10:18.to police in Cologne about sexual assaults and thefts
:10:19. > :10:21.by male gangs on New Year's Eve. The attacks happened
:10:22. > :10:25.during celebrations around the city's Central Station and
:10:26. > :10:34.Cathedral. You can see on the satellite image
:10:35. > :10:36.the square, that is where a lot of the celebrations were taking place.
:10:37. > :10:41.Damian McGuinness has more on this from Berlin.
:10:42. > :10:50.It was a chaotic scene, with thousands of people in front of the
:10:51. > :10:53.cathedral in Cologne. Normally New Year's Eve is chaotic anyway, with
:10:54. > :10:56.fireworks being set off in all directions, but this New Year's Eve
:10:57. > :11:01.was particularly disturbing with the sexual assaults. What has got
:11:02. > :11:05.Germany talking is the comment by police officers that the men
:11:06. > :11:10.appeared to be the attackers, they appear to be of north African or
:11:11. > :11:15.Arab appearance. There is no evidence that the perpetrators were
:11:16. > :11:18.actually migrants or refugees or asylum seekers themselves, but
:11:19. > :11:22.anti-migrant far right groups have been saying that this proves that
:11:23. > :11:29.Germany has been taking into many migrants and refugees. More than a
:11:30. > :11:35.million refugees and asylum seekers and migrants came to Germany in 2015
:11:36. > :11:39.alone. This event has sparked outrage, the assaults on women, but
:11:40. > :11:45.also a lot of discussion among people in Cologne. The problem is,
:11:46. > :11:49.where did 1000 people suddenly come from? They say there were 1000 North
:11:50. > :11:53.Africans and they were not asylum seekers, but where did they come
:11:54. > :11:58.from all of a sudden, in such a large amount? You do ask yourself
:11:59. > :12:01.that. TRANSLATION: I think you should just be prepared, you should
:12:02. > :12:09.be careful and always wait for the help of the police. I would advise
:12:10. > :12:13.young people not to get so drunk that you don't know what's going on
:12:14. > :12:18.and to perhaps not be alone, and to call for help as quickly as
:12:19. > :12:22.possible. And especially at large events, there are always enough
:12:23. > :12:25.people around who hopefully are not drunk. It is worst in areas where
:12:26. > :12:29.there is nobody and where you cannot get
:12:30. > :12:32.The next challenge Germany will face is the Carnival season at the
:12:33. > :12:39.beginning of February, particularly in Cologne, where the city closes
:12:40. > :12:42.down the street parties and parades. Officials have to find out what
:12:43. > :12:45.happened on New Year's Eve and make sure it doesn't happen again. More
:12:46. > :12:49.information on that story in the next few days. In a few minutes time
:12:50. > :12:59.I will play you a report from Dave Lee, who has his hands on a bendy
:13:00. > :13:06.screen which is being released by LG in a big con pension in Las Vegas.
:13:07. > :13:12.David Cameron will allow government ministers to campaign on both sides
:13:13. > :13:15.of the upcoming referendum on Britain's membership of the European
:13:16. > :13:21.Union. Here is the Prime Minister speaking in the House of Commons.
:13:22. > :13:25.My intention is the conclusion of the renegotiation, the government
:13:26. > :13:29.should reach a clear recommendation and then the referendum will be
:13:30. > :13:33.held, but it's in the nature of a referendum that people, not the
:13:34. > :13:36.politicians, who decide. As I indicated before Christmas, there
:13:37. > :13:40.will be a clear government position, but it will be open to individual
:13:41. > :13:45.ministers to take a different personal position, while remaining
:13:46. > :13:50.part of the government. Ultimately it will be for the British people to
:13:51. > :13:56.decide this country's future, by voting in or out of a reformed
:13:57. > :14:00.European Union. In the referendum, that only we promised and only a
:14:01. > :14:02.Conservative majority government was able to deliver, and I commend this
:14:03. > :14:12.statement to the house. This is Outside Source live
:14:13. > :14:24.from the BBC newsroom. A tearful President Obama announced
:14:25. > :14:28.plans to tighten controls on firearms. He said the gun lobby
:14:29. > :14:32.could no longer hold America hostage. Some of the main stories
:14:33. > :14:39.from the BBC World Service: a journalist who was working in Turkey
:14:40. > :14:42.spent four months in prison. A journalist who was working
:14:43. > :14:44.for Vice News has been released on bail after spending more than 4
:14:45. > :14:47.months in a Turkish prison. He was arrested on charges
:14:48. > :14:50.of assisting a terrorist organisation while covering
:14:51. > :14:51.the conflict in Kurdish A new giant statue of
:14:52. > :14:55.the Chairman Mao, the Chinese community party's founding father,
:14:56. > :14:56.has been unveiled. It was built by farmers
:14:57. > :14:58.and business people. Some hold Chairman Mao responsible
:14:59. > :15:01.for millions of deaths, but many This is what a hoverboard did
:15:02. > :15:07.to a family home in Australia. You can hear a first hand account
:15:08. > :15:12.of what happened on the BBC We've had a lot of comments
:15:13. > :15:20.and questions come into us about MAP the escalating row between
:15:21. > :15:28.Saudi Arabia and Iran. We covered it in detail yesterday.
:15:29. > :15:33.It has progressed further today. Kuwait announced it is
:15:34. > :15:35.recalling its ambassador to Iran. This follows Bahrain and Sudan also
:15:36. > :15:38.cutting off their diplomatic ties Before we play you Jim Muir
:15:39. > :15:44.answering some of your questions, here are the basics
:15:45. > :16:05.of what's happening. What Iran distrust about Saudi
:16:06. > :16:10.Arabia is the belief that Saudi Arabia being a Sunni state is also
:16:11. > :16:17.supporting Sunni groups, especially Isis. The distrust is mainly about
:16:18. > :16:21.the role Iran is playing in the region. Saudi Arabia and other Gulf
:16:22. > :16:27.countries have been quite concerned about what Iran is playing in
:16:28. > :16:33.different Contra conflicts like the Yemeni conflict. Iran and Saudi
:16:34. > :16:40.Arabia. Traditional Saudi Arabia has viewed Iran as the regional power,
:16:41. > :16:46.viewed Iran as a country that tries to expand its influence in the
:16:47. > :16:50.Middle East. The geopolitical, political and economic elements
:16:51. > :16:55.definitely create a role here. It is not really about religion. It's not
:16:56. > :16:58.just about this. It's not a clash of religious narratives. There seems to
:16:59. > :17:12.be this competition between the two countries.
:17:13. > :17:20.War is quite a big word here. The cutting off of diplomatic relations
:17:21. > :17:25.might escalate into a fully fledged military confrontation. However that
:17:26. > :17:30.has been a concern about a war by accident. It is very unlikely, but
:17:31. > :17:33.it might mean that the continuation of military strikes. Is one of the
:17:34. > :17:37.parties, their proxies or their supporters on the ground make a very
:17:38. > :17:42.small mistake, that will lead in deepening and rising tension even
:17:43. > :17:47.more. In a sensor has been a cold war going on between the two. What
:17:48. > :17:52.many countries call a war by proxy, they are in effect fighting each
:17:53. > :17:53.other through groups that they are supporting in Syria and Yemen in
:17:54. > :17:58.particular. And just a reminder that this
:17:59. > :18:06.whole thing was started the Shia Muslim cleric
:18:07. > :18:08.Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr - The Saudi embassy in Tehran
:18:09. > :18:12.was then ransacked and set alight - and then Saudi Arabia
:18:13. > :18:19.cut off ties with Iran. Lots of you have sent us questions
:18:20. > :18:22.about this story. We picked some of them out on Zelem to our
:18:23. > :18:32.correspondent in Beirut. These are the answers that Jim sent back.
:18:33. > :18:35.There are fears this crisis could impact heavily on the effort
:18:36. > :18:37.to get at Isis, both in Iraq and in Syria.
:18:38. > :18:40.In Iraq it could aggravate, and has already aggravated sectarian
:18:41. > :18:44.That will make it more difficult, probably, for the Shia dominated
:18:45. > :18:46.government in Baghdad to work with Sunni militias,
:18:47. > :18:49.tribal militias and other Sunnis who may want to turn
:18:50. > :18:52.against IS in the areas, their areas, Sunni areas,
:18:53. > :18:57.where Isis, the militants have dug in.
:18:58. > :18:59.In Syria, conversely, there are peace talks coming up,
:19:00. > :19:04.hopefully around the 25th of January or so.
:19:05. > :19:07.With Saudi Arabia and Iran at loggerheads, if the crisis hasn't
:19:08. > :19:10.eased by then, it could make it much more difficult to get
:19:11. > :19:25.I think the important thing really is to contain this crisis and stop
:19:26. > :19:31.If it gets worse, then obviously it's going to complicate things
:19:32. > :19:34.throughout the region, aggravating the kind of sectarian
:19:35. > :19:37.fault line between Sunnis and Shia and relations between the main Sunni
:19:38. > :19:46.So the main thing is to contain it, and then to try and ease tensions.
:19:47. > :19:49.That may take some time, but it doesn't mean to say that it
:19:50. > :19:53.will remain at the current level of crisis.
:19:54. > :19:56.It doesn't necessarily mean that the Saudis
:19:57. > :20:10.will send their Ambassador or restore relations.
:20:11. > :20:14.With countries like the Russians and the Americans, also even Turkey,
:20:15. > :20:16.which has been calling for restraint, it's kind of caught
:20:17. > :20:21.All of those countries are pressing Riyadh and Tehran to kind of cool
:20:22. > :20:25.it, trying to persuade them it's not in either of their interests
:20:26. > :20:33.So I think containment is the key thing, and there are a lot
:20:34. > :20:36.of voices calling for that, but pressure isn't quite the word,
:20:37. > :20:41.it's more the pressure of persuasion.
:20:42. > :20:46.Jim Muir answering those questions. And those of you who sent the men,
:20:47. > :20:48.thank you. Your questions always welcome.
:20:49. > :20:52.Outside Source Business, and let's go back to our top story.
:20:53. > :21:01.President Obama calling for increased gun controls in the US.
:21:02. > :21:08.This is interesting. Noting shares in Smith and Western are up-tempo
:21:09. > :21:12.sent today. Go back to January when President Obama was inaugurated for
:21:13. > :21:21.the first time and it shares were ?2.50. Gun sales often go like this.
:21:22. > :21:27.Take a look at this very interesting map. This shows how many background
:21:28. > :21:31.checks were done over the last nine years. That informs us how many
:21:32. > :21:36.Americans are buying guns. What's interesting is you will note spikes
:21:37. > :21:42.on the number of checks that are related to the occurrence of mass
:21:43. > :21:47.shootings. When a mass shooting happened it seems Americans buy more
:21:48. > :21:52.guns. Michelle flurry joins us. I remember right back at the beginning
:21:53. > :21:58.of President Obama's presidency, we also saw a spike in gun sales.
:21:59. > :22:02.That led to comments that perhaps President Obama is the best gun
:22:03. > :22:06.salesman the industry has had. If you look at what has happened today,
:22:07. > :22:12.the share prices, it is not just Smith and Western who have seen its
:22:13. > :22:20.share price jump. Some of the other gunmakers have increased share
:22:21. > :22:25.prices. All of them seeing a lift to their share price. This is in part
:22:26. > :22:30.because investors see the announcement today from the White
:22:31. > :22:35.House is having maybe a effect on gun sales, or if anything, bringing
:22:36. > :22:39.forward gun sales as people try to make their purchases before the
:22:40. > :22:43.rules come into effect. It is a pattern we have seen before. If you
:22:44. > :22:48.look back in December, the FBI came out with the latest figures for
:22:49. > :22:52.firearms transactions. They say they saw a 37 cents jump.
:22:53. > :23:01.Very interesting. Thank you for explaining that. Las Vegas next. CES
:23:02. > :23:05.is a vast technology convention. It starts on Wednesday but we have a
:23:06. > :23:07.ready seen some of the best kit, including a fully flexible screen
:23:08. > :23:13.from LG. Dave Lee has got his hands on it. At
:23:14. > :23:18.CES it is a rush to make the finished screen as quick as
:23:19. > :23:23.possible. This one from LG, the first fully flexible LED screen. You
:23:24. > :23:26.can roll it up just like a piece of paper and the picture stays in
:23:27. > :23:33.high-definition, in fantastic quality. This screen is 18 inches.
:23:34. > :23:37.Eventually they say could be 50 inches bigger than that. Rather than
:23:38. > :23:41.having a TV in the corner of your room taking up space, you can finish
:23:42. > :23:44.watching TV, roll it up and put in the cupboard. This screen is very
:23:45. > :23:49.much a work in progress will stop you can only roll it up in one
:23:50. > :23:54.direction and if I am too rough, some of the individual pixels become
:23:55. > :23:57.dead quite quickly. Meaning there are tiny missing pieces in the
:23:58. > :24:02.overall picture. Why would somebody need a flexible screen like the one
:24:03. > :24:07.you have been working on? Today you are looking at an 18 inch
:24:08. > :24:11.prototype, but imagine you have a larger size, may be larger than 55
:24:12. > :24:18.inches, then you can roll up your TV when you don't need it and you can
:24:19. > :24:21.still look at your beautiful interior or wallpaper. This is just
:24:22. > :24:25.a concept at the moment and there is no idea how much it will cost but it
:24:26. > :24:33.is an interesting sign of what could be the future of TV.
:24:34. > :24:36.Impressive. Venezuela next. In Caracas members of Parliament have
:24:37. > :24:39.been sworn in, the first time the opposition will be the majority for
:24:40. > :24:52.17 years. This graffiti says this is their
:24:53. > :24:55.territory, just in front of the assembly in Venezuela. The
:24:56. > :24:58.Parliament from today will be controlled by the opposition for the
:24:59. > :25:01.first time in the last and teen years. The graffiti shows how
:25:02. > :25:05.difficult the day is going to be for the opposition, but also how
:25:06. > :25:09.difficult the next years are going to be for the opposition that faces
:25:10. > :25:12.a very powerful government that controls most of the institutions
:25:13. > :25:17.and the country and does not seem to want dialogue.
:25:18. > :25:22.Just the fact I'm filming here in the National Assembly of Venezuela
:25:23. > :25:26.is news because for the last years only government journalists were
:25:27. > :25:31.able to comment, because this was their territory. But now
:25:32. > :25:35.international and opposition and even me are able to get in. Some
:25:36. > :25:41.fear the majority of the opposition parliament, the Parliament the Army,
:25:42. > :25:46.could be mere symbolism, in the sense that the power of the National
:25:47. > :25:50.Assembly can be controlled by many of the institutions the government
:25:51. > :25:53.still influences, and that is the question that will be resolved in
:25:54. > :25:57.the next days and years here in Venezuela.
:25:58. > :26:08.I will speak to you again in a few minutes time.
:26:09. > :26:13.Hello, good evening. It is not only the UK that has been experiencing
:26:14. > :26:14.wet weather