:00:09. > :00:10.Hello, I'm Ros Atkins, this is Outside Source.
:00:11. > :00:17.A man in Paris who was armed with a knife has been shot dead
:00:18. > :00:19.on the anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo attacks.
:00:20. > :00:21.He was reportedly carrying an Islamic State emblem.
:00:22. > :00:29.A huge truck bomb killed nearly 50 people at a police training centre.
:00:30. > :00:32.It's not clear who did it, but we do know that
:00:33. > :00:41.so-called Islamic State is getting stronger in the country.
:00:42. > :00:51.In football, high video technology could work.
:00:52. > :00:53.And we will have more of your questions, # BBC OS is how you can
:00:54. > :01:09.get in touch. The United Nations says the Syrian
:01:10. > :01:14.government has agreed to allow humanitarian aid into a besieged
:01:15. > :01:17.town called Madaya. It's in southwest Syria,
:01:18. > :01:21.near the Lebanese border. There have been unconfirmed reports
:01:22. > :01:27.of people starving to death there. Some people are said to be eating
:01:28. > :01:36.grass and cats to survive. And we know the last food aid
:01:37. > :01:40.to get in was in October. Since then, it's been under siege
:01:41. > :01:57.by government forces One resident in Madaya has described
:01:58. > :02:04.what has happened. Madaya has been under siege for 200
:02:05. > :02:09.days, two people have died of starvation, some people eating earth
:02:10. > :02:16.because nothing is left to eat. Many unconscious people in the hospitals.
:02:17. > :02:16.The lack of help is terrifying, no medicine, beds, ambulances,
:02:17. > :02:19.absolutely nothing. Our correspondent James Reynolds has
:02:20. > :02:21.sent this report from Istanbul. You may find some of the pictures
:02:22. > :02:37.it contains distressing. And opposition activists sent this
:02:38. > :02:41.video from Madaya. The boys answerable to questions, but it's
:02:42. > :02:48.their hollow cheekbones and their eyes that catch your attention.
:02:49. > :02:58.Medical activists have posted these pictures of this seven-year-old. He
:02:59. > :03:05.says he has not eaten for one week. We can't verify his words. These
:03:06. > :03:12.pictures from Madaya were filmed yesterday. 40,000 people live here.
:03:13. > :03:16.Amid cold and hunger. Pro-government forces surrounding the town stop
:03:17. > :03:23.anyone from leaving. They've stopped supplies from getting in. In Syria's
:03:24. > :03:29.war, both governments and rebels use the siege ends as deliberate tactic.
:03:30. > :03:35.The situation inside Madaya is indeed dire and something we have
:03:36. > :03:38.seen when we were there in October 2015, where we saw desperation in
:03:39. > :03:44.the eyes of the people, hunger in their eyes, women who were not able
:03:45. > :03:48.to lactate their babies because they were not well-known nicht enough to
:03:49. > :03:53.have milk. We called an activist in Madaya. He
:03:54. > :03:58.spoke amid gunfire. Can you get any food?
:03:59. > :04:25.GUNFIRE. Actually, there is no food. There is food in Madaya, but you
:04:26. > :04:30.have to pay extortionate amounts to smugglers or government soldiers to
:04:31. > :04:40.get it. This unidentified man says he paid four point ?5,000 -- he paid
:04:41. > :04:45.?4500 to get food. This woman we don't know her name, she says her
:04:46. > :04:49.children have not had any bread for four months. The United Nations
:04:50. > :05:00.hopes to take supplies into her besieged town in the coming days.
:05:01. > :05:04.For more information on Madaya and broadly about the conflict in Syria,
:05:05. > :05:09.find it through the BBC News application and website.
:05:10. > :05:12.And time for Outside Source sport. We will start with a story which had
:05:13. > :05:19.some inevitability about it. Michel Platini is withdrawing
:05:20. > :05:21.from the election He's banned from any
:05:22. > :05:24.football-related activities for eight years - all relating
:05:25. > :05:33.to payment he received from Fifa. he adamantly denies
:05:34. > :05:56.doing anything wrong. The issue of video technology
:05:57. > :06:04.in football never really goes away. of the International
:06:05. > :06:13.Football Association. Not an organisation I was familiar
:06:14. > :06:16.with, but I'm told it's football's independent body responsible
:06:17. > :06:30.for debating and amending laws. Some of the most talked about
:06:31. > :06:33.bombings in football -- talked about Mormons in football are often the
:06:34. > :06:41.most controversial, such as this one in 1986. And another in this World
:06:42. > :06:47.Cup final. And even mistaken identity. Taking the fall for
:06:48. > :06:52.something one player did not do. Decisions that would have changed if
:06:53. > :06:57.the use of video technology was allowed in football. All that could
:06:58. > :07:01.be about to change as the sport's rule-makers discuss whether to
:07:02. > :07:04.approve trials of video replays to assist referees who find it harder
:07:05. > :07:11.to keep up with the faster modern game. Referees have never been
:07:12. > :07:17.fitter but players are getting quicker and difficult decisions at
:07:18. > :07:21.high speed are ones we think, the English Football Association,
:07:22. > :07:22.technology could help and we just need to test that. Football League
:07:23. > :07:36.be the world's Richard used video technology for years.
:07:37. > :07:45.Beautifully demonstrated by this wonderful moment of sportsmanship
:07:46. > :07:51.from the USA's Jack Sock, who told them of officials got a decision
:07:52. > :07:57.wrong. Much to the delight of his opponent and the crowd. We will look
:07:58. > :08:02.back on 15-20 years' time about why we never had it. That is not shared
:08:03. > :08:06.by everybody, just a personal point of view, but the game is changing,
:08:07. > :08:13.getting quicker, the stakes are getting higher. It is hard for a
:08:14. > :08:16.police to keep up. They have never been fitter, never been better
:08:17. > :08:21.trained. -- hard for referees to keep up. Whether further trials are
:08:22. > :08:26.given the go-ahead at this meeting on the next, there seems to be an
:08:27. > :08:31.inevitability that football will eventually use of the tools at their
:08:32. > :08:34.disposal to get decisions right and, when that does happen, supporters
:08:35. > :08:42.around the world will need something else to talk about.
:08:43. > :08:43.That Jack Sock moment is great, find that very easily on you Tube and
:08:44. > :08:47.plenty of other places. Three major figures in athletics
:08:48. > :08:49.have been given life bans. The sport's governing body,
:08:50. > :08:54.the IAAF, has found the three men breached
:08:55. > :08:57.anti-doping rules. You can read the full 170 page
:08:58. > :09:05.report on the IAAF's website. That is if you are feeling
:09:06. > :09:10.particularly committed. I can save you some of that time.
:09:11. > :09:13.The nub of it is that they are accused of acting "dishonestly
:09:14. > :09:16.and corruptly and doing unprecedented damage to the sport'.
:09:17. > :09:18.and corruptly and doing unprecedented damage to the sport".
:09:19. > :09:26.Please give us more on what they're said to have done.
:09:27. > :09:36.The basic accident is Asians -- accusations are one of bribery and
:09:37. > :09:46.cover-ups. One goes back to 2010, and the winner of arrays being
:09:47. > :09:49.blackmailed, -- the winner of one race being blackmailed, concealing
:09:50. > :09:55.for more than three years anti-doping violations by one
:09:56. > :10:00.athlete and all three compiler did the vice of what was done by
:10:01. > :10:20.conspiring to extort what were rapes from the winner. -- what were
:10:21. > :10:24.bribes. And here are the three. One is a senior coach from the Russian
:10:25. > :10:30.athletics Federation. This may not be the end of it as a second report
:10:31. > :10:35.into allegations of systematic doping and corruption in athletics
:10:36. > :10:38.will be released next week on January 14, stand by for more.
:10:39. > :10:41.Thank you very much. I'm sure this will be a story
:10:42. > :10:44.we'll be returning to, as our Sports Editor Dan Roan has
:10:45. > :11:06.pointed out in a tweet. And of course you will get extensive
:11:07. > :11:14.coverage from BBC Sport. In a moment, what happened in Cologne on
:11:15. > :11:20.New Year's Eve, hundreds of women reporting sexual assault but it is
:11:21. > :11:28.not clear whether the police responded in an adequate way.
:11:29. > :11:41.The chief executive of Marks Spencer Marc Bolland is to step down
:11:42. > :11:46.in April. The announcement comes as the high street giant posted a poor
:11:47. > :11:51.performance in its clothing and general merchandise division over
:11:52. > :11:54.Christmas. And sales plunging by almost 6% despite a strong
:11:55. > :12:01.performance in the third part of the business.
:12:02. > :12:03.There was glitz and glamour in the run-up to Christmas.
:12:04. > :12:07.But it's now the exit for the boss of M after their worst Christmas
:12:08. > :12:21.People will look back and say that Marc had the courage to do some
:12:22. > :12:24.of the difficult things to really put in place the infrastructure
:12:25. > :12:36.He's modernised the business, revamped the website,
:12:37. > :12:49.food fixed, but women's fashion struggling.
:12:50. > :12:55.They are not seeing sizes and styles in regional stores and customers
:12:56. > :13:00.have found that frustrating. They had a great Christmas in food,
:13:01. > :13:04.clothing bed badly with sales falling for the fifth year in a row.
:13:05. > :13:17.It is this part of the business that is crucial to the success and what
:13:18. > :13:23.the new boss will have to focus on. He started as a Saturday boy. At the
:13:24. > :13:28.age of 15. He will need more than just a bestseller. They need to
:13:29. > :13:32.decide on market position, review all of their brands and decide we
:13:33. > :13:39.are the gaps are in their coverage. And the need to improve the quality
:13:40. > :13:44.in the classic sort of stable lines. And continue to make progress on
:13:45. > :13:49.fashion that they have been making. Trading has been tough for many
:13:50. > :13:55.retailers this Christmas, but today marks another new law for Britain's
:13:56. > :14:05.biggest clothing retailer. -- new low.
:14:06. > :14:17.A man who was shot dead in Paris while trying to attack a police
:14:18. > :14:19.station was apparently carrying an Islamic State emblem.
:14:20. > :14:22.It's a year on from the attacks on the Charlie Hebdo satirical
:14:23. > :14:29.World News America is next around the world.
:14:30. > :14:31.They're looking at the news from the besieged town
:14:32. > :14:36.The Syrian government says food will be allowed in
:14:37. > :14:40.for the first time since October. People there are starving to death.
:14:41. > :14:43.The News at Ten in the UK looks at why the Chancellor George Osborne
:14:44. > :14:51.is warning that there is a difficult year ahead for the British economy.
:14:52. > :14:55.Back once again to the events of New Year s Eve in Cologne.
:14:56. > :14:58.If you've not been following this, close to 100 women made criminal
:14:59. > :15:05.complaints about sexual assault and or robbery.
:15:06. > :15:08.Today, police says they have identified more suspects,
:15:09. > :15:10.and many are of North African descent.
:15:11. > :15:14.Remember this story is significant not just because of the appalling
:15:15. > :15:17.scale of the violence against women, but also because of the claim that
:15:18. > :15:28.Yesterday on Outside Source, we spoke to someone from the west
:15:29. > :15:35.German broadcasting Corporation. We can go back to them. Can you tell us
:15:36. > :15:42.more about the suspects? Today there were two police reports presented
:15:43. > :15:46.anonymously. We do not know who gave them out but bring the head of the
:15:47. > :15:50.police department and Minister of the internal affairs into trouble,
:15:51. > :15:56.because the reports say there was much more going on at New Year's
:15:57. > :16:01.Eve. And much more trouble than reported up until now. It states
:16:02. > :16:07.that the policemen were not able to help older women who were crying for
:16:08. > :16:13.help and also it gives evidence that most of the attackers were from
:16:14. > :16:21.northern African countries, or Arabic countries, because they say
:16:22. > :16:26.they checked some people, too sure who they are, and they gave out of
:16:27. > :16:29.official papers from the ministry, saying beware asylum seekers. And
:16:30. > :16:34.so, if some of the people carrying out
:16:35. > :16:38.these attacks are migrants who have recently arrived in Germany, this
:16:39. > :16:45.takes on a whole new dimensional, doesn't it? Yes, big discussions
:16:46. > :16:51.going on, Angela Merkel gave a statement today finding it
:16:52. > :16:55.disgusting what happened and that she cannot imagine how it feels not
:16:56. > :16:58.to feel safe on the street in Germany and she wants to check if it
:16:59. > :17:03.is possible to send migrants back to their home countries when they have
:17:04. > :17:10.been found criminals and also a big discussion going on in the society,
:17:11. > :17:16.mostly on the Internet and social media communities, some have been
:17:17. > :17:21.closed down already, and the writing populists use this story for their
:17:22. > :17:27.arguments against refugees. Can you put this in context for us? How big
:17:28. > :17:32.is Cologne and how many migrants and refugees have arrived in the last
:17:33. > :17:39.year or so? Cologne is the fourth biggest city in Germany with 1
:17:40. > :17:47.million inhabitants. We have a situation that. The migrants, or the
:17:48. > :17:54.refugees, arrived in the south of Germany and the need to be fit all
:17:55. > :18:00.over the country, so we have a train every day coming year with about
:18:01. > :18:05.1000 refugees, so that means we have 1000 refugees every day. We
:18:06. > :18:09.appreciate your help, I know you are very, very busy putting out special
:18:10. > :18:13.programmes on the story, thank you for making time for us.
:18:14. > :18:29.Ferguson, Baltimore and Chicago are three cities which became
:18:30. > :18:31.synonymous with racial tensions, all because of incidents
:18:32. > :18:33.in which police killed unarmed black men and women -
:18:34. > :18:43.And like many other America cities, these are very, very segregated.
:18:44. > :18:45.We talk to Rajini Vaidyanthan a lot on Outside Source.
:18:46. > :18:47.She's been making a documentary about this issue -
:18:48. > :18:59.Lets bring her end. And viewers in Europe may be surprised just how
:19:00. > :19:03.segregated cities can be in the US? That's right, legal segregation may
:19:04. > :19:09.have ended more than 50 years ago in the civil rights movement, but
:19:10. > :19:13.statistics and data show that many Americans of different races still
:19:14. > :19:18.don't mix. If you look at zero being the measure for perfect integration,
:19:19. > :19:25.100 being complete segregation, this new analysis of data from
:19:26. > :19:30.Washington, DC suggests the majority of big cities in America have
:19:31. > :19:35.segregation levels of around 50-70 on that scale, incredibly high.
:19:36. > :19:46.Before we carry on, I want to show viewers this chart you sent, first
:19:47. > :19:53.of all the areas cities. Green is the black population, and the white
:19:54. > :19:58.population, and this is Baltimore. This is seen Lewis, even more
:19:59. > :20:07.segregated, with a big black population in the centre. -- this is
:20:08. > :20:13.St Louis. And the last one was Kansas. And that was one you
:20:14. > :20:19.particularly focused on? Yes, I spent some time in Kansas City. The
:20:20. > :20:26.main debating lice is one avenue, white neighbourhoods on one side,
:20:27. > :20:34.some homes costing $1 million, and houses boarded up on the other side,
:20:35. > :20:43.containing black inhabitants. -- the mean dividing line. This is related
:20:44. > :20:49.to some policies from the 1930s, some mortgages not given to black
:20:50. > :20:53.families, so excluded from certain neighbourhoods. And another thing
:20:54. > :20:58.that might seem shocking is there where a perfectly legal contracts in
:20:59. > :21:02.the 1940s and 1950s which explicitly said that in the contract that black
:21:03. > :21:07.families could not buy those houses. Whilst those practices have been
:21:08. > :21:10.outlawed today it is still the case and government research shows there
:21:11. > :21:15.is that estate agents are more likely to show nice houses and
:21:16. > :21:19.neighbourhoods to white families than black families. I met one
:21:20. > :21:31.African American professional called Lewis
:21:32. > :21:35.Anderson in Atlanta who said there are still some issues at stake, some
:21:36. > :21:42.people don't want here is to be integrated. Atlanta. If we see a
:21:43. > :21:51.white family moving into a neighbourhood, we are fine with
:21:52. > :21:57.that. Unfortunately, for a lot of white America, they are not happy
:21:58. > :22:02.with that. And good access to schools and facilities, it can play
:22:03. > :22:06.into economic differences. What I find in this documentary, this
:22:07. > :22:11.4-part series, much of this is down to some of the problems, causing
:22:12. > :22:15.some of these racial problems, because of a difference in
:22:16. > :22:18.opportunity. Thank you very much indeed.
:22:19. > :22:21.You can listen to the first part of America in Black and White on BBC
:22:22. > :22:31.You can hear it live on BBC World Service.
:22:32. > :22:32.Search for America in Black and White.
:22:33. > :22:37.The four part series on air through January.
:22:38. > :22:43.It is playing out across the month of January. That is it for this week
:22:44. > :22:50.on Outside Source. Thank you for watching. Next on the BBC News
:22:51. > :23:10.Channel is the news at ten. Next on BBC news is -- next on BBC World
:23:11. > :23:11.News is World News America. Now for a look at some of