:00:20. > :00:28.Welcome to Outside Source with Ros Atkins.
:00:29. > :00:35.We are going to start with news on the Zika virus. The World Health
:00:36. > :00:42.Organisation is saying that it is possible that it was bred throughout
:00:43. > :00:48.all of Latin America. But Putin has been accused of using corruption to
:00:49. > :00:56.amass a huge secret personal fortune. We will also bring you may
:00:57. > :01:03.just know stories, one from East Asia, particularly Taiwan and the
:01:04. > :01:11.latest from the east coast of the US as well. In sport in half an hour,
:01:12. > :01:13.we will talk about why one of Chelsea's best-known players is
:01:14. > :01:35.moving on and moving on to China. The message from the World Health
:01:36. > :01:40.Organisation is clear. The Zika virus is likely to spread across all
:01:41. > :01:47.of the Americas. It is spread by this mosquito and can cause
:01:48. > :01:54.headaches, fever and conjunctivitis. The main problem is that it can
:01:55. > :02:05.affect babies develop in the womb. It is causing babies to be born with
:02:06. > :02:11.brain damage and smaller skulls. The baby born with microcephaly has a
:02:12. > :02:14.smaller brain and a smaller skull. We have been talking to people in
:02:15. > :02:22.the worst affected area. TRANSLATION: It is really hard and
:02:23. > :02:29.he is our first child. You imagine a perfect child. But it is not his
:02:30. > :02:36.fault. He is the biggest victim of all. We will be seeking the best
:02:37. > :02:41.treatment for him and give him lots of love, affection, and patients.
:02:42. > :02:48.Children with these problems are not easy. He has unexpected behaviour
:02:49. > :02:51.and we never know whether it is to do with the disease. The doctor
:02:52. > :02:59.still don't know how the condition will develop. A family in the
:03:00. > :03:07.north-east of Brazil where the virus has been noticed most so far. But
:03:08. > :03:13.there have been confirmed cases in 21 countries, as far south as
:03:14. > :03:19.Paraguay, to Mexico and places like Martin Nico and Barbados. The World
:03:20. > :03:24.Health Organisation has been explicit saying that it could travel
:03:25. > :03:30.to every country in the Americas barring Chile and Canada. That is
:03:31. > :03:36.simply because the mosquito in question isn't found in those races.
:03:37. > :03:43.This is a story that was focused on Brazil but is now focused on two
:03:44. > :03:48.candidates. I have spoken to James Gallagher about the scale of the
:03:49. > :03:56.problem. The sheer volume of cases they are starting to see. Babies
:03:57. > :04:03.being born with this small head by the thousands. It has been detected
:04:04. > :04:06.in more countries than just Brazil. Anywhere the mosquito was found,
:04:07. > :04:13.they think they are going to find the virus. It has been around for
:04:14. > :04:19.decades so why are we now seeing a jump in the number of babies with
:04:20. > :04:28.the smaller heads. It was detected in Uganda in the 1980s and that was
:04:29. > :04:37.in monkeys. It landed in Brazil in May of last year. Exactly why it has
:04:38. > :04:41.taken off is not clear. The virus is likely to have slowly evolved over
:04:42. > :04:48.time. There are other factors at play. These huge numbers of mosquito
:04:49. > :04:53.in these countries. This is a population that has never faced this
:04:54. > :04:59.before and so is ripe for it to explode through the country. We have
:05:00. > :05:03.a major warning from the World Health Organisation. What can be
:05:04. > :05:10.done to stop those mosquitoes causing more health problems? The
:05:11. > :05:15.official advice is to try to tackle the mosquito breeding in tiny
:05:16. > :05:19.stagnant pools of water. Tapping those sources of reproduction. The
:05:20. > :05:27.other thing is to protect yourself from being bitten. Covering up,
:05:28. > :05:30.closing windows and doors and covering up with mosquito repellent.
:05:31. > :05:40.But as we know from malaria and bendy fever this is not going to be
:05:41. > :05:49.an easy problem. -- dengue fever. You can find more information on the
:05:50. > :05:54.virus online now. Last week we commented on the linking of Vladimir
:05:55. > :06:00.Putin to the murder of a former Russian spy in London. Now his
:06:01. > :06:06.finances have been looked at and we have heard from those who claim
:06:07. > :06:13.knowledge of his secret fortune. Panorama has heard that it is
:06:14. > :06:24.considered that he is corrupt. Vladimir Putin's secrets can be
:06:25. > :06:31.found beyond Russia's borders. This man says he helped Putin collect
:06:32. > :06:37.money from Russia's super-rich. They thought it was for health care. Were
:06:38. > :06:45.these oligarchs paying tribute to Vladimir Putin? TRANSLATION: I think
:06:46. > :06:49.this is exactly what they thought. This man says that the cash was
:06:50. > :06:57.diverted and ended up with Vladimir Putin. This is a recording of him
:06:58. > :07:04.talking to a Kremlin insider. They are discussing $440 million of
:07:05. > :07:19.investment belonging to Putin. They refer to him using a nickname.
:07:20. > :07:30.Mikhail Ivanovic. Then there is Britain's most famous Russian Roman
:07:31. > :07:37.Brozovic. -- Roman Abramowitz. He allegedly gave at a Putin a yacht
:07:38. > :07:40.like this one. This man says the yacht was transferred to an offshore
:07:41. > :07:55.company but the real owner was President Putin. Why would this be
:07:56. > :08:03.kept secret? Because it belongs personally to Putin and not the
:08:04. > :08:10.state. Lawyers have dismissed speculation about this as mere
:08:11. > :08:15.rumours. But others have gone further and called the Russian
:08:16. > :08:20.leader corrupt. He draws a state salary of $110,000 a year and that
:08:21. > :08:25.is not an accurate summary of his wealth. He has long time training
:08:26. > :08:35.and practices in terms of how to mask his actual well. Is Vladimir
:08:36. > :08:40.Putin correct? In our view yes. President Putin denies all the
:08:41. > :08:46.allegations and has dismissed them as pure fiction. But with one of the
:08:47. > :08:54.world's most powerful men already linked to murder he is now linked to
:08:55. > :09:00.corruption on a global scale. And you can find the full panorama
:09:01. > :09:06.programme on the BBC I player. Two major weather stories to tell you
:09:07. > :09:11.about. That's start with what is happening in South Korea, Asia,
:09:12. > :09:19.Japan, parts of China and Taiwan. They are being affected by unusual
:09:20. > :09:24.levels of snow and low temperatures. In the last few days we have seen
:09:25. > :09:29.temperatures go right down to 4 degrees. Unfortunately, over 80
:09:30. > :09:44.people in Taiwan have died from hypothermia.
:09:45. > :09:51.Most of the people who died were elderly and suffered from
:09:52. > :10:00.cardiovascular problems that were aggravated by the unusual
:10:01. > :10:04.temperatures. Tie one's home do not have indoor heating and some are
:10:05. > :10:18.poorly insulated. So why is this happening? With the whether the
:10:19. > :10:27.apartment, I was joined by then rich. For a lot of the winter, cold
:10:28. > :10:31.air is held near the Arctic. Every so often, an area of high pressure
:10:32. > :10:36.squashes down on the atmosphere and squash out the cold air. You can see
:10:37. > :10:46.that the cold air has been squashed out into the eastern side of the US
:10:47. > :10:52.and into Europe and Asia. The issue is how far south this cold air has
:10:53. > :10:56.come. Places where they are not used to whether this cold. They are not
:10:57. > :11:02.set up for it and that is why it has caused so many problems. Some people
:11:03. > :11:11.in South Asia not set up for these kinds of problems. We have seen
:11:12. > :11:15.record amounts of snow come down on the eastern side of the United
:11:16. > :11:24.States. Austin, New York and Washington all affected. Jane
:11:25. > :11:30.O'Brien is in Washington. It is Monday but not business as usual. I
:11:31. > :11:36.am needy in snow still, three days after the storm hit. According to
:11:37. > :11:40.the city, it could take several more days before side roads are cleared.
:11:41. > :11:47.The city is still in an emergency state. We are working very hard to
:11:48. > :11:52.get DC government open again tomorrow. Likewise, we are working
:11:53. > :11:58.to get our schools open and what our transportation will be available.
:11:59. > :12:03.The problem is where to put the snow. A lot of it is dumped in car
:12:04. > :12:08.parks, the river and in a local football stadium. But this here is
:12:09. > :12:15.going to have to stay put until temperatures rise and it melts. That
:12:16. > :12:20.could take a very long time. Even in the dead of winter, the White House
:12:21. > :12:26.is usually packed. Today, you can't even get close. Most of the city's
:12:27. > :12:36.attractions are closed. Although tourists are enjoying it. We have
:12:37. > :12:45.put on lots of layers. I have stuck ins and thermal pants. We are ready.
:12:46. > :12:53.I fell down the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. That was fun. We were out
:12:54. > :12:58.there for about an hour. Then we were tired and went home. It's not
:12:59. > :13:03.often you get the chance to walk down the middle of one of the city's
:13:04. > :13:08.main streets. Although the road is clear, nobody is here to use it. The
:13:09. > :13:14.city is now asking for federal funding to help bring the capital
:13:15. > :13:18.back to normal. If you're not one of the millions of people who have the
:13:19. > :13:27.weather app on your phone, you can download that from your app store,
:13:28. > :13:33.android or Apple. In a few minutes, sad news about the death of the
:13:34. > :13:40.explorer Henry Wesley. He was trying to get across Antarctica on his own
:13:41. > :13:46.and unaided. He nearly made it but unfortunately not. We will play the
:13:47. > :13:58.last audio message he sent back on Friday. Islamic State has developed
:13:59. > :14:06.a new aggressive combat style capability, particularly targeting
:14:07. > :14:09.Europe, according to Europe poll. Rob Wainwright said that the
:14:10. > :14:13.European Union police agency said that they will focus on sharing
:14:14. > :14:20.information among member states to help fight terror attacks. The
:14:21. > :14:25.attacks in Paris illustrated the gravity of the threat we face in
:14:26. > :14:32.Europe. We are publishing a new report drafted by leading experts
:14:33. > :14:34.from our organisation and many from national authorities on how
:14:35. > :14:40.so-called Islamic State have developed a new combat style
:14:41. > :14:44.capability to carry out a campaign of large scale terrorist attacks on
:14:45. > :14:56.a global stage with particular focus on Europe.
:14:57. > :15:05.We are live in the BBC newsroom. The lead story is that the World Health
:15:06. > :15:11.Organisation has said that the Zika virus is likely to spread to every
:15:12. > :15:17.country in the Americas. It is spread via mosquito and causes brain
:15:18. > :15:23.abnormalities in babies. Iran's president is in Italy, the first
:15:24. > :15:27.state visit to Europe by an Iranian leader for 16 years. He will meet
:15:28. > :15:34.Pope Francis and signed contracts worth billions of dollars. Security
:15:35. > :15:41.was in place in Egypt to prevent protests on the fifth anniversary of
:15:42. > :15:47.the beginning of protests that led to the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak. A
:15:48. > :15:53.fifth sperm whale has washed up on the east coast of England. Or are
:15:54. > :16:00.believed to be part of the same pod. You will find more about that on the
:16:01. > :16:18.BBC News app. A British explorer has died after failing to cross the
:16:19. > :16:25.Atlantique. He made it 48, kilometres away from his
:16:26. > :16:31.destination. It was an epic journey. Across the Antarctic. He went
:16:32. > :16:36.through the South Pole and past Shackleton and Lacey to the place
:16:37. > :16:41.where he was to finish. We knew he was in difficulty after he was
:16:42. > :16:50.picked up in Chile suffering from exhaustion and dehydration. The
:16:51. > :16:58.expedition was to raise money for sick and injured servicemen. Prince
:16:59. > :16:59.William said he was an inspiration, especially to those who will benefit
:17:00. > :17:07.from the fund. Nowhere on earth is more
:17:08. > :17:16.hostile to human life. The vast and dangerous
:17:17. > :17:18.continent of Antarctica. Crossing alone and unaided
:17:19. > :17:20.was always going to be Henry Worsley, trying something no
:17:21. > :17:26.one had managed before. Even this SAS veteran
:17:27. > :17:29.became ill and exhausted. Near his destination,
:17:30. > :17:31.he had to give up. After a trek of 900 miles,
:17:32. > :18:00.with just 30 left, he called After complete organ
:18:01. > :18:20.failure, he died. He knew the dangers of the polar
:18:21. > :18:30.world. Before a previous expedition he trained including -- in Greenland
:18:31. > :18:32.and seemed calm about everything. Last year he told us
:18:33. > :18:34.what worried him most. The biggest threat will
:18:35. > :18:36.be from the weather. Possibly from a crevasse
:18:37. > :18:43.in the final hundred miles. His hope was to follow in
:18:44. > :18:46.the footsteps of Ernest Shackleton who tried and failed
:18:47. > :18:48.to cross 100 years ago. He was distantly related
:18:49. > :18:50.to the captain of the expedition's There is a reason why these
:18:51. > :19:00.things have not been done. Going solo, unassisted,
:19:01. > :19:09.it is the purest and hardest form of travel on the surface
:19:10. > :19:17.of the Earth. Only one week ago he believed
:19:18. > :19:22.he was still on course. I am hungry, tired, and I've
:19:23. > :19:27.got a deadline to meet But friends said he will be
:19:28. > :19:38.an inspiration and will be remembered for coming so close
:19:39. > :19:50.to making Antarctic history. Russia has released it's
:19:51. > :19:53.latest economic figures. The economy contracted
:19:54. > :19:58.by 3.7% in 2015. The current budget is based
:19:59. > :20:02.upon a predicted oil price Crude is currently
:20:03. > :20:30.hovering around $31 - Is this just about oil? It is
:20:31. > :20:37.complicated, of course but oil is a factor because the Russian economy
:20:38. > :20:42.is strongly dependent on oil. The Russian economy up 94% in the last
:20:43. > :20:48.15 years but the government have failed to use that time to build
:20:49. > :20:52.infrastructure and reduce the dependence on oil and gas and so
:20:53. > :20:59.Russia is facing this problem, combine with Western sanctions over
:21:00. > :21:07.Ukraine. So up to last year it was growing and this is a reverse? It
:21:08. > :21:12.was growing up to last year but the dramatic drop in the oil price and
:21:13. > :21:18.Western sanctions are having an effect and the government is talking
:21:19. > :21:24.about cutting the budget by up to 10% and maybe even further. What
:21:25. > :21:31.else is Vladimir Putin planning to try and fix this? A good question
:21:32. > :21:37.but nobody really knows the answer. Some economists are saying that the
:21:38. > :21:42.best strategy is not to do anything. They are trying to substitute
:21:43. > :21:48.contractors with internal production and develop infrastructure. It is a
:21:49. > :21:55.little bit too late because the crisis is already there. Now it is
:21:56. > :21:58.time to reduce the crisis but people are suffering, of course. Thank you,
:21:59. > :22:01.Olga. Naturally the news was
:22:02. > :22:36.confirmed in a tweet. His statement essentially says that
:22:37. > :22:45.these four are leaving and have done very well and deserve some time off.
:22:46. > :22:53.The statement leaves some questions. This is nearly half of the company's
:22:54. > :22:58.senior levers leaving in one go. The head of product, media, the head of
:22:59. > :23:03.human resources all leaving at the same time. That is why investors
:23:04. > :23:08.have had a knee jerk and negative reaction. The share price is down
:23:09. > :23:16.4%. They are concerned about the vacuum leaving behind. There was a
:23:17. > :23:24.fifth person leaving the company who worked at Vine, the short video
:23:25. > :23:31.service, returning to Google. A big personnel change at a company that
:23:32. > :23:38.has been in flux for a while. Google and Facebook tend to hoover up most
:23:39. > :23:44.of the medium and large tech companies but Twitter seems to want
:23:45. > :23:49.to go it alone. Jack Dorsey had gone back to Twitter last year. He had
:23:50. > :23:54.promised to make the product more mainstream. While you and I may use
:23:55. > :24:01.it a lot and enjoyed it, the problem that has beset the company is that
:24:02. > :24:12.it is a fairly niche audience. They have tried to bring out products
:24:13. > :24:22.like Moments and longer tweets to widen its audience but the effect of
:24:23. > :24:27.that house are far -- has so far been limited. The price of oil is
:24:28. > :24:30.causing problems everywhere. While the World Economic Forum
:24:31. > :24:33.was going on in Davos last week, the BBC asked a number of business
:24:34. > :24:49.leaders to assess where this I could see as, a price of 30 to 40
:24:50. > :24:56.by the middle of the year. By the end of the year it could be in the
:24:57. > :25:05.50s. The oil price in six months will be 35- $40 a barrel. It will be
:25:06. > :25:12.about $35 in the next six months. There is oversupply. Nobody knows
:25:13. > :25:22.where the oil price will be that my prediction is $30. I'm going to do
:25:23. > :25:27.that at $20. In the six months, it will be $15 a barrel because of the
:25:28. > :25:35.extraordinary glut of oil on the planet. It might even go as low as
:25:36. > :25:41.$5 per barrel. I'm sure it is going to keep on going down and down. Can
:25:42. > :25:48.it go down to $5 a barrel? What a story that would be. A couple of
:25:49. > :25:54.stories that we are going to cover. A story on Islamic State in
:25:55. > :25:59.Afghanistan. And this is a report on taking venom out of the world's most
:26:00. > :26:15.dangerous spiders. All that coming up in a few moments.
:26:16. > :26:16.Hello there. Snow and ice is the theme across the globe at the