28/01/2016 Outside Source

The World Health Organisation says there could be up to four million

cases of Zika virus across the Americas this year.

As of today cases have been reported in 23 countries and territories in

the region. The level of alarm is extremely high.

Iran will be buying Airbus planes. The deal was

confirmed by the Iranian president who was meeting Francois Hollande

earlier today. You don't need me to tell you about

El Chapo, the Mexican drug lord who was recaptured after he escaped

jail. We will be hearing about why the Mexican Government is thinking

about pulling back on permission it has been granted to have merchandise

made in his name. We are going to have the latest on

the Australian Open, looking forward to Andy Murray's semifinal in a few

hours time. Concern about the Zika virus

escalated. The Zika Virus could affect three

to four million people just this This virus is already linked

to thousands of babies in Brazil being born with

under-developed brains. The slums of Brazil are the

frontline of what has become a global health crisis. We watch as

soldiers try to search every single home here. Because one of the very

few ways to combat the Zika virus is to hunt for the mosquitos that carry

it. And the water that they breed in. While we are with the patrol,

the soldiers find the conditions that allow mosquitos to thrive. The

challenge is that everywhere you look there are little pools of water

and because in an area like this, the supply isn't reliable, people

store it, but if there is just one little gap in a tank like this, the

mot ket owes can get in and you have got another problem. Imagine

multiplying that thousands of times. In a tiny yard, a discovery, a larva

which left alone would emerge as a mosquito within 48 hours. Health

officialster lies the water. A tiny victory in a war that's proving hard

to win. Baby Caroline is a victim. Her brain is smaller than it should

be. There is no proof the Zika caused her condition, but the

evidence is growing. Her mother says she was caught by surprise, but she

will do everything to help make her baby's life better. In this one

city, officials say up to 100,000 people maybe infected. On a map,

pins mark the cases and week after week, more are added. It is a major

public health challenge, probably amongst the most difficult

challenges we have to face in recent Brazilian history. In a Government

lab, analysis of a sample from a brain damaged child. But despite the

gleaming technology here, there are key questions about the virus that

scientists simply can't answer. We need to know the risk. If a woman

has Zika, is the risk of her having a disabled 95%? That's important for

the women's choice and we don't know if there is any viral treatment.

This is the first major city to be hit by the virus and because it was

taken by surprise, it is struggling to cope. And that means it is almost

inevitable that more babies will be born deformed and there is a lesson

in this. For all the other tropical cities around the world that are

vulnerable to Zika virus, get ready. Day after day, and street by street,

it will take real determination to turn the tide. And of course, for

many babies, and others yet to be born, the effort has come too late.

Damien saying have there been any cases in other countries? Ten people

had the virus, but none were pregnant, but I am not able to

confirm whether that happened. I can't find any evidence of women who

are pregnant having them in other countries.

It is Serena is in the final. Andy Murray has got the chance to get a

place against Novak Djokovic in the men's final. Ore is looking over

this for us. What's the challenge here in the semi, Ore, what has he

got to overcome? Hi. Well, the challenge he has got to overcome is

a guy called Ranis.

The Canadian has upped his game and upped his strategy and Andy Murray

will have a tough test against him. He will have Novak Djokovic in the

final if he gets there. Thank you very much. Ore, if Djokovic plays

like he did against Federer, it will be pretty tough for anyone to keep

up with him. We will see. Endless speculation around

Louis Van Gaal's position But look at this from our

Sports Editor Dan Roan. Louis van Gaal has

come out swinging. Stand by for a dramatic tirade

against "horrible and awful" media I think that you make your own

stories and then I have to answer all your stories. I'm not doing

that. Because I think it is awful and horrible. When you make your

stories and the people are believing that because I'm very concerned that

people are believing that you are writing. When you lose, then it is

more worse. He is not getting on well with the

Press Pack at the moment. Those pictures were him walking off Old

Trafford. Manchester United being booed after they lost 1-0 to

Southampton on Saturday. The pressure goes on.

It's the season's final world cup event this weekend

If you're not familiar with the sport, Mike Bushell has

On a winter's night in slof shire, a bike race like no other. I have

always thought that cycles are meant to be ridden, not carried on your

shoulder, but in the cross-country event that's cyclo screp cross,

getting stuck in the mud and carrying your bike is just part of

the fun! This is proof that sometimes when it is really muddy,

it is safer to get off your bike and run rather than end up in it!

One of the theories goes it was started by a French soldier in the

19th century in a way of keeping cycle fit through the winter months.

He devised a course with obstacles and hazards and I can vouch for the

fact that it is good for fitness. It may not be the most glum are yous

sport face down in the mud, but a rising number of us are taking up

cyclocross. How easy is it to take up? Start on road and get on to the

field and stuff and start going on to mud and start doing loads of

skills. I started in my back garden to start off. They are following

Helen who showed in training that the best can be taken down. I love

mud. It is my favourite condition. There will always be crashes. No one

gets hurt. It is always exciting to watch and there is a lot of skill

involved. Helen is now based in Belgium where

this is a national obsession and represents Great Britain around the

world including this weekend in the Netherlands and two years ago, she

won a bronze at the World Championships. The sport aims one

day to be part of the Winter Olympics to riders like Helen can

get the recognition they deserve. Until then, they don't mind getting

stuck in the mud for the fun of it! It's Horacio Llorens paragliding

under the Northern Lights in He's one of the world's top

acrobatic paragliders, and apparently doing this

is one of his life dreams. The footage was collected over 10

days in January. The temperature is

well below freezing. By the way, he's a world record

holder for the most continuous loops I'm going to tell you about a

decision by the Mexican Government to track Down on merchandising

that's either using the name of or the image of El Chapo, the infamous

drug lord who has been recently been re-arrested.

A sixth broker from the City of London has been cleared of trying

to fix the UK inter-bank lending rate known as Libor.

Darrell Read was found not guilty of conspiracy to defraud,

after five other brokers were acquitted yesterday.

The six men claim they have been made scapegoats for the scandal

while the UK Serious Fraud Office defended its decision to bring

The six city brokers emerging from court. They were accused

acquitted and they're angry. We have been scapegoated in the whole thing.

They never went to the bottom of the food chain. If there is things to be

answered, we're not the ones that should be answering the questions.

The SFO should ask should they have wasted that much time and money

bringing this case. It doesn't matter that we have been acquitted,

your reputation is tarnished, you can't work in the markets againment

we have been in there 20 years plus. What is LIBOR and why does it

matter? It is a key interest rate set in London. It determines what

banks pay to borrow, it matters to us because $450 trillion worth of

contracts are based on it and everything from credit cards to car

loans, to borrowing rates for businesses. Trader Tom Hayes was

convicted of rigging LIBOR last year, the first person anywhere to

be put on trial. The six brokers were accused of helping him, but

after a lengthy trial, the jury quickly decided the men weren't

honest. A string of big banks paid billions of pounds worth of fines

for manipulating LIBOR. The abuse was widespread. So, has the Serious

Fraud Office been pursuing the right people? The SFO hampers in

prosecuting large companies and in this instance, banks, due to

difficult legal technicalities in the law which require the Government

to change the law to allow the SFO to prosecute companies more easily.

What can happen, as we have seen in this case, is they prosecute far

more junior, individual people who in this case, didn't even work for

banks. The Serious Fraud Office stand by

their decision to prosecute. But this outcome will be a blow as they

try to secure further convictions involving the alleged manipulation

of important financial benchmarks. This is Outside Source live

from the BBC newsroom. The World Health Organisation

is warning that up to four million people could be affected

by Zika Virus this year. It has already led to a number

of birth defects in Brazil. It's looking at a film

which is getting a lot of attention It's about Barack and

Michelle Obama's first date. In the UK, the News at Ten reports

on George Osborne's decision to delay the sale of

the government's remaining stake in the Lloyds banking group,

because of the turmoil A senior Dutch politician has put

forward a proposal to reduce the number of people

reaching Greece by boat. The migrants would be immediately

sent back to Turkey by ferry. In return, the EU would accept

up to 250,000 refugees The leader of the Dutch Labour Party

who's been working on the plan said "The Aegean Sea has become a mass

grave, 3,700 people The latest of those tragedies

was late on Wednesday evening. A boat capsized off

the coast of Samos. More than 20 people drowned

including several children. The reports we're getting here in

Samos suggest the sinkings and the drownings happened overnight in the

sea behind me. Turkey is several miles in the distance, you can

barely make it out right now amid the mist and the fog. And it seems

that several people did survive the sinking of the migrant ship and at

least one of them managed to make it through here to the Greek coast

where he raised the alarm and that sent rescuers out into the sea. We

have seen this morning, several ships looking for survivors,

probably at this stage, looking for bodies. Earlier, at the port, we

watched Greek officials very carefully unload the bodies of

several of those who were involved in the sinkings and the bodies look

to be of children as well. We don't know exactly who those children

were, what their names were, who put them on the boats, who might have

been with them, nor why they undertook a journey in boats which

wouldn't make it across the sea. James is on Samos.

Damian Grammaticas is our Europe correspondent, he told me more

At the minute, it is an idea, as we understand it, being discussed and

floated by as you say this politician. He is the leader of the

party that is a junior coalition in the Government in the Netherlands

and the Netherlands at the minute hold a key role because it chairs

the country meetings that take place in the EU, in the decision making

meetings, but it is only an idea that he has floated in a newspaper

interview. The difficulties with it and there are quite a few, it hasn't

been submitted formally. The European Commission here hasn't it

had r it presented and the idea the commission said and Human Rights

groups of turning around refugees and putting them straight back is

illegal. You are not allowed to do it under international law, the

Geneva conventions mean that people who arrive seeking refugee status,

have to have their cases heard and determined. So it would have to

cross that hurdle. But the timing Damien is interesting. This time

yesterday, I was telling our viewers about Greece being told in no

uncertain terms that it is not meeting its duties to the European

Union and how it is dealing with refugees. So clearly, the European

Union wants some shift in approach in Greece?

Yes, and the European Union is quite clear actually about what it wants

which is that countries in the EU, Greece included, to do much more to

sift out those who are not eligible for asylum, those who are not deemed

refugees and return them quickly. This addresses part of that issue.

This attempts to address part of that. But that's one thing that the

European Commission here is very clear about and it believes that is

very important that Europe sends signals that it doesn't have an open

door there, is what they were saying today and that people do understand

that if they try to migrate to the European Union without being in a

position to claim genuine refugee status, if they don't have a proper

visa or aren't properly processed, well then they would be sent back

and that is something that the commission is clear about. It wants

to see along with, of course, measures to tighten up on the

processing, the registering and the distribution of refugees around

Europe. Thanks to Damien for that.

Mexico's government is going to reassess a decision to allow

the alleged daughter of the druglord El Chapo to trademark his name.

Her plan was to sell lots of branded products.

I say the alleged daughter as no one knows how many kids he has

The applications were put in in 2010.

This is one that includes Christmas tree decorations -

watches, jewellery and umbrellas are on the agenda too.

The shirt he wore in that interview with Sean Penn

And the BBC's Lourdes Heredia has some El Chapo merchandise

I got the mask. I heard that in Hallowe'en, everyone wanted this

mask. I asked my family to buy it. They sent it to me. I thought it

was, it is incredible that this guy who, is a criminal and he is accused

of a lot of things and he was really one of the most well-known

druglords, now he has become a celebrity and he has become a

celebrity because of the way he escaped and people just find it

really amazing. Everyone else outside Mexico, well the Mexicans go

like, "How can it be possible that this guy, you know, escaped from a

tunnel from the most secure prison in Mexico?" How much did it cost

you? I think it was 350, but it was a present from my family. Nothing to

you. Is he popular? Is he infamous? Can we divide the two? I think some

people will find him popular because he is putting a lot of problems

within the Government, lighten it up, like the corruption, how it is

possible like a criminal with less crimes and less violence behind

them, they have to pass so much in the prison and a guy like this can

walk away in a tunnel. So, lots of people say he is not actually as bad

and he has given some money. He is not just the daughter who tried to

do that, the alleged daughter who tried to have the trademark, there

are other people who have put a lot of, through the Government, trying

to get the trademark of El Chapo because they are going to sell

stuff. The son put on sale some clothes. And the Government said no,

no trademarks. I think Mexico will do the same thing. I asked if she

wore it on Hallowe'en and the answer was a firm no.

It was nearly wiped out in Britain last century,

As you'll see in this report from Rebecca Morelle.

With its distinctive markings, the polecat is a secretive creature

and it is a vital part of Britain's wildlife heritage.

But these animals were once pushed to the brink of extinction by us.

These little fellows scrambling out of their hideout to say how

But in the wild, thanks to their appetite for chickens

and game birds they were considered a major pest and killed

Polecats became really, really rare at the start of the 20th

century, and were basically confined to a stronghold in mid-Wales.

But a new survey shows they are returning to the countryside

and Suffolk is just one area where they are making a comeback

Here at the British Wildlife Centre, we are incredibly lucky to get

a close look at what are normally very shy animals.

Conservationists are thrilled at their success story,

but now they fear that new threats could be looming on the horizon.

In the wild, growing numbers are dying after eating poisoned

rats, and more are being killed on the roads.

Some are also crossbreeding with their domestic

But many are optimistic that the animals can continue

I love the idea that polecats could be living out there.

I don't necessarily need to see them, I just need to know

Sometimes when you just see their poo or a footprint or some

prey remains, it means they are there.

That's good, and the fact that they are back in England

in my lifetime has to be counted as a success.

This comeback is a rare natural recovery.

Now conservationists say they want to ensure that the polecat

Let's hope it is. Thanks for watching. See you next week.

Hello there. With February just around the

corner, a colder flavour may well be the story, but before that, we close

out our final days of January on a wet and windy