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Hello and welcome to Outside Source. We often get good news from Iraq | :00:12. | :00:21. | |
these days, but the latest UN report is difficult reading. It details | :00:22. | :00:26. | |
despicable atrocities carried out by Islamic State. We will also hear | :00:27. | :00:32. | |
from the Pakistani boy who cut off his hand after he thought he had | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
committed an act of blasphemy. He had been telling the BBC he does not | :00:37. | :00:38. | |
regret it. Why should I pain of regret for cutting of the | :00:39. | :00:48. | |
hand that was raised against the holy Prophet? More actors are | :00:49. | :00:52. | |
joining Spike Lee over the lack of nominations for black actors in this | :00:53. | :01:00. | |
year 's Academy Awards. In mid-June can, we will be reporting on lead | :01:01. | :01:06. | |
that has been found in the water. We will be also looking at the Chinese | :01:07. | :01:10. | |
economy Before anything else, let me bring | :01:11. | :01:36. | |
you some breaking news about Jihadi John. The Islamic State group have | :01:37. | :01:46. | |
confirmed his death. He was killed on the 12th of November last year. | :01:47. | :01:54. | |
Hope the American and British governments have been claiming this | :01:55. | :01:56. | |
since it happened, but it has not been confirmed by IS until now. | :01:57. | :02:05. | |
Jihadi John was in several videos where captives were beheaded. | :02:06. | :02:12. | |
Islamic State confirming that Jihadi John is dead. Let us turn to the UN | :02:13. | :02:23. | |
report on Iraq. It is about the level of violence against civilians | :02:24. | :02:27. | |
in Iraq. The UN is calling its staggering. These are some of the | :02:28. | :02:33. | |
figures that have been produced. 18,800 civilians were killed between | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
the start of 2014 and the end of October last year. In the same time | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
period, 3 million people have been displaced internally. The Islamic | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
State group has been singled out as the single biggest cause. IS is said | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
to be holding three and a half thousand people as slaves. -- 3500 | :02:53. | :03:03. | |
people as slaves. The UN is not just concentrating on the scale of what | :03:04. | :03:07. | |
is happening in Iraq, it is concentrating on its particular | :03:08. | :03:10. | |
brutality. There are accounts of such horror, it beggars belief. | :03:11. | :03:18. | |
Prisoners being run over by bulldozers, women being offered to | :03:19. | :03:28. | |
winners of a Koran memorisation composition. Here is an account from | :03:29. | :03:33. | |
one Iraqi family. I should say this is not just the | :03:34. | :06:11. | |
Islamic State, atrocities are being carried out by other entities. The | :06:12. | :06:26. | |
UN High Commissioner says that the report starkly illustrates what | :06:27. | :06:32. | |
Iraqi refugees are attempting to flee from. If we go back to | :06:33. | :06:42. | |
2006-2007, the figures are actually higher. Close to 35,000 civilians | :06:43. | :06:50. | |
lost their lives. The numbers for hair and that coincides with the | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
surge of US troops that George W Bush signed off. If we look at these | :06:56. | :07:01. | |
figures in more detail, this bike is more pronounced. 2014 is when the | :07:02. | :07:05. | |
Islamic State groups opted to establish itself in Iraqi territory. | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
If you want evidence of that, here is a map of Syria and Iraq. Red is | :07:11. | :07:17. | |
IS controlled territory. This is the beginning of 2015. You will see the | :07:18. | :07:20. | |
difference as we go to the end of 2015. A map gets darker, the red | :07:21. | :07:26. | |
areas become darker. That is evidence of Islamic State making | :07:27. | :07:33. | |
territorial gains. Let's turn to our correspondent from BBC Arabic. The | :07:34. | :07:39. | |
situation in Iraq has been escalating. This is a country that | :07:40. | :07:45. | |
was supposed to pave the way towards more stability, but the sectarian | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
violence within the country was in the highlights of the political | :07:50. | :07:54. | |
activities and the people's lives. What shocked me in this report is | :07:55. | :08:00. | |
the number of casualties in Baghdad itself, but that that is sitting on | :08:01. | :08:12. | |
the top with casualties. 1875 killed within months. What is this? Some | :08:13. | :08:22. | |
areas on the outskirts of Baghdad are still controlled by Islamic | :08:23. | :08:28. | |
State. The car bombs and assassinations happen on a daily | :08:29. | :08:35. | |
basis and they are dominating the scene. However, we are focusing on | :08:36. | :08:43. | |
the areas where there is fighting with the Islamic State in the north | :08:44. | :08:49. | |
and north-west. Nevertheless, when you look at the figures, when George | :08:50. | :08:55. | |
W Bush ordered that surge, and influx of Americans troops calmed | :08:56. | :09:04. | |
the situation. When they left, the number spiked. Is that too | :09:05. | :09:09. | |
simplistic? Not really. There is still criticism and people fear the | :09:10. | :09:17. | |
violent grievances against the government and has paved the way for | :09:18. | :09:21. | |
the Islamic State to find its way into the northern part of Iraq and | :09:22. | :09:30. | |
we saw in 2014 cities falling in within hours. It's not just the | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
presence of foreign forces, it's the government efforts in order to bring | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
stability and providing people with not only military security, but | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
political security as well. Invaluable analysis of the Arab | :09:46. | :09:54. | |
world. Now, on yesterday's programme you may have seen a report on the | :09:55. | :09:59. | |
Pakistani boy who cut off his hand because the cleric told him he | :10:00. | :10:06. | |
omitted blasphemy. Our correspondence has been speaking to | :10:07. | :10:10. | |
him. The Institute does contain some disturbing descriptions. | :10:11. | :10:13. | |
It was hard to find the boy who chopped off his hand thinking | :10:14. | :10:16. | |
He is from a poor family in the North East. | :10:17. | :10:23. | |
When I met him, his identity we have changed for his protection, | :10:24. | :10:26. | |
he was in pain, but still putting religion | :10:27. | :10:28. | |
The Imam asked those of us gathered in the mosque that whoever | :10:29. | :10:35. | |
does not believe in the teachings of the holy Prophet, | :10:36. | :10:38. | |
raise your hand, so I did, but by mistake. | :10:39. | :10:40. | |
Then I realised I was being accused of blasphemy. | :10:41. | :10:45. | |
I returned home, chopped off my hand, put it on the tray | :10:46. | :10:48. | |
There were around 100 men in the mosque at that time | :10:49. | :11:04. | |
Why should I feel the pain of regret for | :11:05. | :11:13. | |
cutting off the hand that was raised against the holy Prophet? | :11:14. | :11:19. | |
The young boy put his hand under the blade of the machine | :11:20. | :11:24. | |
and chopped his own hand in a single stroke. | :11:25. | :11:33. | |
Not only he in self is part of the act, | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
the entire village is celebrating it. | :11:39. | :11:52. | |
The act has even brought admirers from surrounding villages. | :11:53. | :11:54. | |
When we heard a man had chopped off his hand for our beloved | :11:55. | :11:58. | |
Another story we have been covering concerns the ongoing row over this | :11:59. | :12:25. | |
year's Oscar nominations. Jada Pinkett Smith says we are | :12:26. | :12:43. | |
really recognise for our artistic accomplishments. If you have been | :12:44. | :12:49. | |
following this story, the hashtag has been heavily used. It was the | :12:50. | :12:54. | |
same last year. To give you some context, in the history of the | :12:55. | :13:00. | |
Oscars, only five black actors have won even lead actor or actress | :13:01. | :13:07. | |
award. Also a study done by the LA Times, those choosing the nominees, | :13:08. | :13:20. | |
94% of white and 77% are male. Earlier I spoke to Peter Bowes who | :13:21. | :13:28. | |
is in Los Angeles. The Academy has responded. The president, who is | :13:29. | :13:32. | |
African-American, she has issued a statement saying she is heartbroken | :13:33. | :13:37. | |
and frustrated about the lack of inclusion and she is promising | :13:38. | :13:43. | |
dramatic steps. She says that is to alter the make up of the membership. | :13:44. | :13:49. | |
Over the next days and weeks steps will be taken to review the | :13:50. | :13:52. | |
membership recruitment process to bring about diversity in 2016 and | :13:53. | :13:59. | |
beyond. This will do nothing to change the nominees for this year's | :14:00. | :14:04. | |
skirts. The question is, is it enough to prove to people like Jada | :14:05. | :14:07. | |
Pinkett Smith and Spike leaned that the Academy -- that the Academy is | :14:08. | :14:21. | |
taking it seriously and boycotting the Oscars is almost certain. It | :14:22. | :14:31. | |
will be important to the academy because on the night, it comes down | :14:32. | :14:41. | |
to the viewing figures. This hashtag has been buzzing today and if people | :14:42. | :14:45. | |
decide not to watch the Oscars, it could be a pivotal turning point. Is | :14:46. | :14:54. | |
it not that the problem does not lie with the Oscars, it lies with film | :14:55. | :14:59. | |
is being made in Hollywood? Precisely. Spike Lee says that his | :15:00. | :15:03. | |
argument is not with the Academy, it is with the studios and to some | :15:04. | :15:08. | |
extent the producers. They are the people with the powers to green | :15:09. | :15:14. | |
light projects and cars actors and actresses in those films and | :15:15. | :15:18. | |
television shows. He says it is a much wider problem for Hollywood | :15:19. | :15:24. | |
than the Academy. The Academy is the showpiece and is centre stage on | :15:25. | :15:27. | |
Oscars night, but it is a bigger issue than that. | :15:28. | :15:30. | |
Let's remind you of a story from Syria, which we brought you right at | :15:31. | :15:36. | |
the top of the programme. The Islamic State group has confirmed | :15:37. | :15:43. | |
the death of Mohammed Emwazi, better known as Jihadi John. They say he | :15:44. | :15:46. | |
was killed in a drone strike. That's what the Americans and British said | :15:47. | :15:50. | |
immediately after that drone strike in early November, but this wasn't | :15:51. | :15:56. | |
confirmed by the group. Most of you will know this, Jihadi John was | :15:57. | :16:00. | |
known because allegedly he was the person seen in several graphic | :16:01. | :16:11. | |
videos of beheadings. Islamic State confirming that Jihadi John is dead. | :16:12. | :16:15. | |
Now we turn to the ongoing slow down with the Chinese economy. And how | :16:16. | :16:19. | |
it's affecting other economies around the world, but also the steel | :16:20. | :16:20. | |
industry inside China. 48-hour strike by junior doctors in | :16:21. | :16:36. | |
England over a proposed new contract has been suspended. These talks | :16:37. | :16:41. | |
between Government representatives and the doctors have been taking | :16:42. | :16:45. | |
place behind closed doors. All that we've been told today by doctors | :16:46. | :16:49. | |
here at the British Medical Association is that they're hopeful. | :16:50. | :16:54. | |
They say there is now real room for progress and that Government has | :16:55. | :16:58. | |
started to listen to them. They say that's why they've called off this | :16:59. | :17:03. | |
two-day strike for the 26th and 27th of January, which is obviously very | :17:04. | :17:07. | |
good news for patients. But there are concerns that there are still | :17:08. | :17:10. | |
significant differences between the two sides. Now for the doctors, | :17:11. | :17:16. | |
that's around safety issues, such as working excessively long hours and | :17:17. | :17:19. | |
also, holding onto extra pay they get for working late at night and | :17:20. | :17:23. | |
also on Saturdays. For the Government it's around making it | :17:24. | :17:28. | |
more affordable for more doctors to be rotaed on shift at weekends. They | :17:29. | :17:30. | |
say that's a safety issue. This is Outside Source. The lead | :17:31. | :17:44. | |
story here: A UN report on Iraq has detailed shocking levels of violence | :17:45. | :17:48. | |
against civilians, including what it says could be acts of genocide by | :17:49. | :17:52. | |
the Islamic State group. We can bring you some of the main stories | :17:53. | :17:55. | |
from my colleagues at BBC World Service. First, thousands of | :17:56. | :17:59. | |
students have demonstrated on university campuses across India | :18:00. | :18:04. | |
after a student committed suicide because of caste discrimination. | :18:05. | :18:11. | |
BBC Russian on its mobile app has these pictures of a very brave | :18:12. | :18:21. | |
people dipping into cold water. Stephen Hawking says humanities is | :18:22. | :18:27. | |
at risk from dangers of its own making, including nuclear war, | :18:28. | :18:33. | |
global warming and genetically engineered viruses. Let's talk about | :18:34. | :18:37. | |
the Chinese economy. It's now growing at the slowest rate for 25 | :18:38. | :18:41. | |
years. These are the latest figures we have for 2015, it grew by 6. 9%. | :18:42. | :18:46. | |
You can compare that with the year before, 7. 3%. It's worth mentioning | :18:47. | :18:51. | |
these figures are from the Chinese Government. Some people would say | :18:52. | :18:55. | |
actually this data unreliable and growth is even slower than this. | :18:56. | :18:58. | |
Either way, these are the headline figures: We've asked BBC Chinese to | :18:59. | :19:02. | |
give us more context on them. China's economic growth has been | :19:03. | :19:13. | |
slowing down for some time now. The government says China has entered a | :19:14. | :19:18. | |
new normal with slower economic growth powered by domestic | :19:19. | :19:22. | |
consumption rather than investment, in the old days. The annual GDP | :19:23. | :19:31. | |
growth figure is widely expected, actually Chinese stock markets | :19:32. | :19:34. | |
rallied despite the slow down in growth. Investors expect Beijing | :19:35. | :19:39. | |
would unleash more stimulus measures to support the economy. Given the | :19:40. | :19:44. | |
recent turmoil on China's stock market, how effective these measures | :19:45. | :19:52. | |
are remains to be seen. Beijing says the growth rate force | :19:53. | :19:59. | |
within the 7% target set last March, it says Chinese economy has great | :20:00. | :20:07. | |
resist yens, huge potential and -- resilience, but the numbers might | :20:08. | :20:10. | |
continue to look undesirable in years to come. | :20:11. | :20:13. | |
Thanks to BBC Chinese for that. The effects of the Chinese slow down | :20:14. | :20:17. | |
are felt all over the world and in all sorts of ways. Let's focus on | :20:18. | :20:21. | |
China as an export market for a moment. For instance, Australia | :20:22. | :20:25. | |
exports huge amounts of iron ore to China. We switch to southern Africa, | :20:26. | :20:30. | |
Angola's export sector is heavily reliant on China, in particular oil | :20:31. | :20:35. | |
and gas consumption. Then finally if we switch to South America, this is | :20:36. | :20:39. | |
all about agricultural exports, things like soy beans and all of | :20:40. | :20:44. | |
these countries suffer when the Chinese economy weakens because | :20:45. | :20:47. | |
China then slows the rate at which it buys the exports. Of course, the | :20:48. | :20:52. | |
most immediate impact is on Chinese people themselves. Steve Evans has | :20:53. | :20:55. | |
been making a report about just that. | :20:56. | :20:58. | |
This is the glut that's swamping the world. | :20:59. | :21:01. | |
China's produced so much steel, it leaves it rusting, | :21:02. | :21:05. | |
And closes steelworks, bricking them up. | :21:06. | :21:12. | |
This steelworks couldn't compete as steel prices crashed | :21:13. | :21:34. | |
from $10,00 a tonne at the peak to $200 a tonne today. | :21:35. | :21:42. | |
Redundant steel workers gamble, as they ponder the sudden uncertainty | :21:43. | :21:48. | |
of their lives. 9,000 jobs have gone. These men | :21:49. | :21:54. | |
compete with each other for work in a slackening labour market. He says | :21:55. | :22:01. | |
the shut down has greatly affected each and every one of us. | :22:02. | :22:07. | |
"We've all lost our jobs. We've got old parents and young children that | :22:08. | :22:12. | |
we have to provide for. We need that salary. Of course, we complain." | :22:13. | :22:19. | |
This steel glut is not going away. China's Communist government warns | :22:20. | :22:26. | |
of more closures. It's brutal competition out there. A slowing | :22:27. | :22:31. | |
economy only intensifies that competition between countries and | :22:32. | :22:35. | |
between workers. Steve Evans reporting. Now China's | :22:36. | :22:41. | |
slowdown is one of the reasons that the International Monetary Fund has | :22:42. | :22:44. | |
gown graded its global forecast for 2016. Here's their chief economist | :22:45. | :22:49. | |
speaking to the BBC. For now, it's apparent that we may have been | :22:50. | :22:55. | |
overoptimistic about potential growth in some recent years for much | :22:56. | :23:00. | |
of the emerging world. For much of the emerging world, growth was | :23:01. | :23:06. | |
driven by high investment in their commodity export sectors, driven in | :23:07. | :23:11. | |
large part by China's very high demand for those commodities, | :23:12. | :23:17. | |
because it was running on a construction and manufacturing base | :23:18. | :23:21. | |
model. So that is all changing. Let's go live to New York. We talk | :23:22. | :23:29. | |
about the IMF an awful lot in the news. We don't often take time to | :23:30. | :23:34. | |
explain what role it performs. Can you help us with that? Yeah, sure. | :23:35. | :23:41. | |
It's an organisation that basically consists of 188 countries. It was | :23:42. | :23:45. | |
founded basically to avoid another Great Depression. So it does quite a | :23:46. | :23:52. | |
few things. It monitors economic and financial development and offers | :23:53. | :23:56. | |
guidance. Its primary focus is to ensure the stability of the | :23:57. | :23:59. | |
international monetary system, so the system of exchange rates and | :24:00. | :24:02. | |
international payments. We hear a lot about the IMF lending. It's also | :24:03. | :24:07. | |
a lending agency. They give money to countries who are in trouble so that | :24:08. | :24:11. | |
they can rebuild their economy, but by forcing them to basically adopt | :24:12. | :24:14. | |
policies to correct those underlying problems. It's an organisation that | :24:15. | :24:17. | |
does quite a few things. It provides these forecasts. It's saying 2016 is | :24:18. | :24:20. | |
not shaping up so well. It China, but what are the other | :24:21. | :24:27. | |
reasons? Yeah, it mentioned China and also mentioned a slowing in the | :24:28. | :24:33. | |
developing world, slow growth there, which I heard you talk a lot about, | :24:34. | :24:37. | |
the issue about commodity prices falling and the demand from China | :24:38. | :24:40. | |
decreasing. That affects the developing world. Really | :24:41. | :24:42. | |
interesting, we've been looking at the markets and the volatility these | :24:43. | :24:49. | |
last few weeks. Basically, the IMF says that global financial markets | :24:50. | :24:53. | |
seem to be overreacting to the falling oil prices and the Rick of | :24:54. | :24:58. | |
dot -- risk of the downturn in China. That could lead to slower | :24:59. | :25:02. | |
growth. Investors continuing to pull out of stocks. And they warned about | :25:03. | :25:07. | |
geopolitical tensions and they cut their forecast for US growth because | :25:08. | :25:11. | |
of possibly increased interest rate rises in 2016. So they painted a | :25:12. | :25:16. | |
pessimistic picture, of course, with the Chinese downturn leading that, | :25:17. | :25:20. | |
but with all these other issues to consider as well. Thanks for | :25:21. | :25:25. | |
explaining that to us. Now this is an interesting bits of | :25:26. | :25:30. | |
newed r news, just -- news, just breaking. We heard whispers about | :25:31. | :25:33. | |
this. The New York Times has gone public in saying it's definitely | :25:34. | :25:39. | |
going to happen. Sarah Palin is going to endorse Donald Trump in his | :25:40. | :25:43. | |
campaign for the Republican nomination for the presidential | :25:44. | :25:47. | |
election. Big news. We'll get into that more in the second half of the | :25:48. | :25:51. | |
programme. Sarah Palin saying Donald Trump is her pick for the next | :25:52. | :25:53. | |
president of America. Hello. Coming up, I have drought in | :25:54. | :26:11. | |
Colombia, a snowstorm for the east of the United States and proof that | :26:12. | :26:14. | |
the Finnish are hardy souls. First back | :26:15. | :26:15. |