:00:10. > :00:16.Hello, I'm Ros Atkins, this is Outside Source.
:00:17. > :00:21.We'll start with a story about human fertility.
:00:22. > :00:28.We're been talking about it for long enough. Republican and Democratic
:00:29. > :00:32.caucuses will be taking over. The World Health Organisation has
:00:33. > :00:40.declared a new global health emergency of birth defects possibly
:00:41. > :00:41.linked to disease virus. Badu sciences having given the go-ahead
:00:42. > :00:44.to genetically human embryos. the go ahead to genetically
:00:45. > :00:47.modify human embryos. We'll talk about what that could
:00:48. > :00:55.achieve, and why it's controversial. Pep Guardiola, there he is with
:00:56. > :00:58.Bayern Munich and their players but he is bound for Manchester, he will
:00:59. > :01:05.be Manchester City's manager come the summer we will report from the
:01:06. > :01:08.Manchester City Stadium. I will talk to our political correspondent in
:01:09. > :01:09.Westminster in what has been called a crucial 24 hours of negotiations
:01:10. > :01:31.over the UK's membership of the At last we are going to get some
:01:32. > :01:36.voting in this race to the White House, it is all about Iowa today,
:01:37. > :01:39.not a big state, not a big population but it is the first to
:01:40. > :01:44.select its candidates for the presidential election and that means
:01:45. > :01:49.it matters. Have a look at these two graphs, posted on the Huffington
:01:50. > :01:54.Post website. Jeb Bush is orange on this graph, if you go back to
:01:55. > :01:58.February 2015, you can see he was a front runner, a favourite with the
:01:59. > :02:02.bookmakers, now he is in and amongst the candidates, who are struggling
:02:03. > :02:06.to get traction above limit, you have got Donald Trump bleeding and
:02:07. > :02:12.below that Ted Cruz. Marco Rubio has had a good couple of weeks, starting
:02:13. > :02:15.to pull clear of Ben Carson who has dipped down, his supporters are
:02:16. > :02:18.saying, wait for the vote, they think they are doing better than
:02:19. > :02:27.this graph suggests. For the Democrats that is simpler. Two horse
:02:28. > :02:32.race, the story of the Democrats as Bernie Sanders. Olding and building
:02:33. > :02:35.and building which brings us to Iowa and the two of them are neck and
:02:36. > :02:40.neck, I don't think any of us saw that coming. In a moment we will be
:02:41. > :02:45.live from Iowa, you are welcome to tweet is now. That is if you have
:02:46. > :02:48.any questions. First of all, here is the latest report.
:02:49. > :02:54.The great thing about Iowa is that it is so traditional, it is a state
:02:55. > :02:59.as wedded to its political dos and don'ts as it is to its coalfields.
:03:00. > :03:06.Or to its small towns, when nothing seems to change from one election to
:03:07. > :03:09.the next. For example, it's a long accepted rule of political
:03:10. > :03:14.campaigning here that Iowans are nice, humble and low-key. They don't
:03:15. > :03:20.like people who are rude and brash or flashy, except this year, when
:03:21. > :03:26.maybe they do. This election, Donald Trump has defied all the IOM norms
:03:27. > :03:30.and they love him for it. He travels the state by private jet with his
:03:31. > :03:35.name screaming from the body. Private jet? That shouldn't go down
:03:36. > :03:40.well here. He whizzed into the state's biggest political gathering
:03:41. > :03:45.in a helicopter. Now this is home affair, it is not done to show up in
:03:46. > :03:49.your own chopper. How stupid are the people of Iowa? And then most
:03:50. > :03:55.cardinal of all cardinal sins, he insulted them. Once again his
:03:56. > :04:01.approval ratings went up. What is this? An abusive relationship? The
:04:02. > :04:04.question is, have Iowans just discovered there in New York
:04:05. > :04:08.billionaire, or have they concluded that the state of the country is so
:04:09. > :04:11.miserable that they are going to take their sacred political rule
:04:12. > :04:17.book and toss it into the nearest cornfield? When they are not
:04:18. > :04:23.flirting with the Donald, they are cosying up to this guy. Bernie
:04:24. > :04:30.Sanders's politics are the opposite of Donald Trump's but his appeal is
:04:31. > :04:33.almost as remarkable. How has a grumpy self-declared socialist, who
:04:34. > :04:40.doesn't even talk about his faith done well in conservative heartland?
:04:41. > :04:47.This government belongs to all of us, not just a handful of
:04:48. > :04:50.billionaires. CHEERING To many Americans, advocating free
:04:51. > :04:55.health care and free college tuition as Bernie Sanders does is as extreme
:04:56. > :04:58.as telling Europeans that communism is back, in a normal election and
:04:59. > :05:07.would simply be outlandish. Not this time. CHANTING
:05:08. > :05:11.He has crossover appeal. There are conservatives that are drawn for him
:05:12. > :05:16.and his ideas because of his honesty. He is not taking any money
:05:17. > :05:22.from billionaires or anybody else but us, I put on Twitter one-day
:05:23. > :05:25.that we are his super pack. On Monday night Iowans will tell us if
:05:26. > :05:28.the political norms really have been upended in America or further
:05:29. > :05:36.politics as normal is set to resume. If you are online as you are
:05:37. > :05:40.watching us, this is the live page on what is happening in Iowa, no
:05:41. > :05:43.results to tell you about but as they come through they will be
:05:44. > :05:51.posted here as well as a huge amount of analysis on what we should read
:05:52. > :05:58.into the numbers but Lex speak to Katie. I am in theirs minds. It
:05:59. > :06:07.doesn't look terribly fascinating -- in theirs minds -- in theirs
:06:08. > :06:14.hundreds of reporters from American television networks, there is a
:06:15. > :06:19.focus on Iowa every election campaign but more so this time
:06:20. > :06:21.around than usual. The New York posting a tweet saying that
:06:22. > :06:26.primaries were created in the belief that voters were last less partisan
:06:27. > :06:33.than party bosses by 2016 is challenging that. What is the New
:06:34. > :06:37.Yorker getting at? Until the 1970s they didn't have primaries, it was
:06:38. > :06:40.the party bosses who decided who the nominee was going to beat because
:06:41. > :06:45.they figured they knew best, the rules changed in the 1970s and had a
:06:46. > :06:49.Democrats and the Republicans having a long primary process where the
:06:50. > :06:53.people got to decide who the party's nominee was going to be and it has
:06:54. > :06:58.thrown up a whole load of outsiders back in the 70s and 80s and doing so
:06:59. > :07:02.this time around again. This is why you are getting people like Donald
:07:03. > :07:07.Trump, Bernie Sanders doing so well because the people in this country
:07:08. > :07:09.say that we don't want those regular politicians, we want something
:07:10. > :07:15.different and that is the mood of this election campaign. Anthony
:07:16. > :07:22.wants to ask you, is there still time for an independent candidate to
:07:23. > :07:26.enter the fray? Possibly, it is very difficult in America to run and to
:07:27. > :07:30.succeed as an independent candidate, Teddy was a dockside at the 19th, he
:07:31. > :07:35.had been president and didn't manage to win as an independent and it
:07:36. > :07:38.shows you how it is but we understand that Michael Bloomberg,
:07:39. > :07:42.the former mayor of New York, a billionaire, self-made man, he is
:07:43. > :07:46.thinking of it and this is the reason why. If the Republicans elect
:07:47. > :07:49.somebody who the mainstream of the Republican Party think is very
:07:50. > :07:53.extreme and if the Democrats do the same, that will leave a whole load
:07:54. > :07:56.of photos in the middle of the American political spectrum who are
:07:57. > :08:01.disgruntled and maybe just maybe they would turn to an independent
:08:02. > :08:05.candidate. Understandably, huge amount of attention on Iowa, we have
:08:06. > :08:09.been waiting long enough for some voting soever they will be paying
:08:10. > :08:13.close attention but in reality does this small state really matter, can
:08:14. > :08:19.we look at the history books and say that Iowa has an impact on the big
:08:20. > :08:22.race and the bigger stage? Geographically it is enormous, but
:08:23. > :08:26.it doesn't look like the rest of America, there are not many very
:08:27. > :08:29.African Americans, not very many Hispanics and for a country that is
:08:30. > :08:33.becoming less and less white woman you wouldn't know it in Iowa, this
:08:34. > :08:36.is a very white state, so not representative will stop what
:08:37. > :08:40.matters is that the candidate who wins here tonight on the Democratic
:08:41. > :08:44.side and on the Republican side will suddenly get the whole load of
:08:45. > :08:48.airtime, the journalist will want to talk to him, the kind of free
:08:49. > :08:52.candidates love. They will think that candidates have a real chance,
:08:53. > :08:56.I will donate money to him and that is why Iowa matters, it gives them a
:08:57. > :08:57.springboard, a launch pad and a bit of momentum going into the later
:08:58. > :09:07.primaries. Full coverage on the BBC News
:09:08. > :09:11.Channel and BBC world News and online through the BBC News at. That
:09:12. > :09:14.is one of the main stories. This is another.
:09:15. > :09:16.The World Health Organisation has been holding a crisis meeting
:09:17. > :09:29.After a review of the evidence, the committee advised that the clusters
:09:30. > :09:36.of microcephaly and other neurological complications
:09:37. > :09:41.constitute an extraordinary event and a public health threat to other
:09:42. > :09:47.parts of the world. In their view, a coordinated international response
:09:48. > :09:49.is needed to minimise the threat in affected countries and reduced the
:09:50. > :09:57.risk of further international spread. Members of the committee
:09:58. > :10:00.agreed that the situation meets the conditions for a public health
:10:01. > :10:11.emergency of international concern. I have accepted this advice, I am
:10:12. > :10:14.now declaring that the recent cluster of microcephaly and other
:10:15. > :10:19.neurological abnormalities reported in Latin America, following a
:10:20. > :10:26.similar cluster in French Polynesia in 2014, constitutes a public health
:10:27. > :10:31.emergency of international concern. Just because, as global health
:10:32. > :10:35.emergency has been declared, but it refers to the rates of microcephaly,
:10:36. > :10:40.this is the brain abnormality in babies that is believed if elated to
:10:41. > :10:45.pregnant women who have the Eton virus. The declaration matters but
:10:46. > :10:58.then -- the Zika virus. This is very much a story that is
:10:59. > :11:04.affecting countries across the Americas, but of course it has been
:11:05. > :11:05.Brazil which has been the focus because the very centre of this
:11:06. > :11:19.outbreak is a city called Recife. A young woman, four months pregnant
:11:20. > :11:25.has head she may be infected with the Zika virus. An agonising glimpse
:11:26. > :11:29.into a nightmare here in the epicentre.
:11:30. > :11:38.Another pregnant woman who asked us not to show her face says she
:11:39. > :11:43.definitely has the virus. She has red eyes, a typical symptom of Zika
:11:44. > :11:44.and is due to give birth in two months' time and is waiting for the
:11:45. > :11:55.results and tests. TRANSLATION: I'm feeling worried,
:11:56. > :11:59.she says. She has aches and a rash, which are also indicators of the
:12:00. > :12:04.virus. And what makes everybody you more anxious as the uncertainty.
:12:05. > :12:07.What is so disturbing about what is happening here is that the woman are
:12:08. > :12:12.turning up with a lot of highly personal and pressing questions that
:12:13. > :12:17.doctors cannot answer. Above all, what damage good Zika do to their
:12:18. > :12:22.babies. A painful moment when test results are handed out. Evidence is
:12:23. > :12:27.growing that the virus is to blame for deforming babies's brains but it
:12:28. > :12:33.is not certain, so there is no way of predicting the impact. When you
:12:34. > :12:37.see the ultrasound, it is with something wrong, you have to tell
:12:38. > :12:49.her. Then you know that after you tell her, she will ask you many
:12:50. > :12:53.questions, if the baby will walk, will hear properly, will see
:12:54. > :12:59.properly and we don't know. Like several dozen babies in Brazil, she
:13:00. > :13:03.was born with a small brain and unless she is rocked all the time
:13:04. > :13:10.she becomes agitated. Her mother is clearly overwhelmed. TRANSLATION: It
:13:11. > :13:15.is not the moment to get pregnant, she says, because so far nobody
:13:16. > :13:18.knows where the virus come from. All of this adds to the urgency of
:13:19. > :13:23.killing the mosquitoes that carry the virus. Reaching them is
:13:24. > :13:32.difficult, so from today officials have a new power to break into homes
:13:33. > :13:38.if they need to. The key is public support. The authorities are
:13:39. > :13:42.harnessing the Carnival spirit. A mosquito costume raises awareness of
:13:43. > :13:49.the dangers. Anything to get people to join the fight against the
:13:50. > :13:55.insects. All day, as she rocks her baby, she worries about how she is
:13:56. > :13:59.going to cope. This glance shows there is some brain function but
:14:00. > :14:05.nobody can tell how this crisis will unfold.
:14:06. > :14:13.If you would like to get background information on the Zika virus, go to
:14:14. > :14:16.the BBC News website. Two important stories, here is the third,
:14:17. > :14:21.particularly for those watching in the UK and in the rest of Europe. A
:14:22. > :14:32.tweet from Donald Tusk, the European Council president. He says a
:14:33. > :14:38.This is all about putting it on membership of the European Union,
:14:39. > :14:41.David Cameron's desire to renegotiate its terms ahead of the
:14:42. > :14:45.national referendum on whether to stay in the European Union or not.
:14:46. > :14:49.Chris Mason is following this with interest and joins us from
:14:50. > :14:52.Westminster. You are good at deciphering all of these things,
:14:53. > :14:56.what does that tweet actually mean? On ticket of stuff, in essence the
:14:57. > :15:03.bodies by Minister David Cameron has promised people in the UK has
:15:04. > :15:06.promised a referendum on EU membership before the end of last
:15:07. > :15:11.year. There have been intense negotiations going on between the UK
:15:12. > :15:15.and EU to try to strike a new relationship with Britain and the EU
:15:16. > :15:18.and the Prime Minister hopes that will be sufficient for him to
:15:19. > :15:23.persuade people here in Britain to back the UK staying in the European
:15:24. > :15:27.Union. What does it mean in terms of this tweet from Donald Tusk? He
:15:28. > :15:30.represents all of the other governments of the European Union as
:15:31. > :15:35.president of the European Council and it means tomorrow he will
:15:36. > :15:39.publish a document which effectively allows another round of
:15:40. > :15:42.renegotiations to begin and that can go on for just over two weeks and
:15:43. > :15:47.then there is a big meeting, and European summit in Brussels at the
:15:48. > :15:51.HQ of the European Union towards the middle of this month, at which the
:15:52. > :15:57.British government will hope the final deal can be arrived at and a
:15:58. > :16:01.referendum, they hope, can happen as soon as June. Do we know what the
:16:02. > :16:06.outstanding issues are? We need to know that to understand whether good
:16:07. > :16:11.progress has been made? We have at least an insight into it from leaks
:16:12. > :16:15.from the British government and from other governments around Europe. The
:16:16. > :16:18.European Union itself has been tight-lipped officially. The
:16:19. > :16:22.sticking point out that the UK wants a better relationship with the EU as
:16:23. > :16:26.the government sees it in relation to the payment of benefits to EU
:16:27. > :16:29.migrants. At the moment it is felt by David Cameron that a lot of
:16:30. > :16:32.people are drawn towards moving to the UK and elsewhere in Europe
:16:33. > :16:36.because of the prospect of being able to claim benefit payments very
:16:37. > :16:42.quickly and the government here wants to restrict those payments for
:16:43. > :16:45.benefits given to people in work for four years. There would appear to be
:16:46. > :16:50.something of a deal on the table that will be fleshed out in this
:16:51. > :16:53.document tomorrow and like the others in the EU, particularly in
:16:54. > :16:57.Central and eastern Europe and Poland who are not keen on it.
:16:58. > :17:01.Another big issue and sticking point potentially, the UK, which is
:17:02. > :17:03.outside of the single European currency, want to guarantee that
:17:04. > :17:07.those countries like the UK that have kept their own currencies
:17:08. > :17:12.cannot be ganged up on by those countries in the majority in the EU
:17:13. > :17:14.who use the single currency. Speaking to countries like France
:17:15. > :17:19.and they are a little nervous about the euro outers having too much
:17:20. > :17:23.power over those who have signed up to the central project at the heart
:17:24. > :17:27.of the European Union. We will get this document tomorrow but in many
:17:28. > :17:32.senses that in itself is a work in progress or negotiations that will
:17:33. > :17:37.last at least another fortnight and potentially longer after that.
:17:38. > :17:44.Chris said earlier that is a lot of talk about at important 24 hours but
:17:45. > :17:48.there will be quite a few important 24 hours between now and are
:17:49. > :17:52.completely signed off deal between the EU and the UK.
:17:53. > :18:02.In a little while, I will play you a BBC News the report about Jamaica
:18:03. > :18:10.and about attitudes towards people who are transgender.
:18:11. > :18:15.Junior doctors in England are to go on strike next week after talks with
:18:16. > :18:19.the government of new contracts failed to reach an agreement and it
:18:20. > :18:23.will balk at 424 overs on Wednesday 10th of February but will provide
:18:24. > :18:26.emergency care. The stoppage will be the second walk-out by junior
:18:27. > :18:32.doctors over this contract dispute. Here is our health editor. The
:18:33. > :18:35.original plan strike for next week would have affected all forms of
:18:36. > :18:39.care in hospitals like this one including emergencies and that has
:18:40. > :18:44.never happened in the history of the NHS. What is planned now there's a
:18:45. > :18:47.walk-out of routine on nonurgent care by junior doctors will still
:18:48. > :18:51.cover emergencies along with consultants. That will still affect
:18:52. > :18:56.thousands of patients whose routine treatments, operations, appointments
:18:57. > :18:59.will be postponed as happened on a similar day of action in January.
:19:00. > :19:04.Does it mean the two side are closer together? It means no on one key
:19:05. > :19:08.issue, a lot of agreement has been reached but on the issue on how much
:19:09. > :19:09.doctors are paid for working on a Saturday, there is no agreement
:19:10. > :19:24.there. Welcome back. Our lead story is that
:19:25. > :19:28.all of the US presidential hopefuls are making their final pitches in
:19:29. > :19:31.Iowa with a first votes for the party nominations will take place
:19:32. > :19:37.later. Let's pick up on some of the main stories. This is an image from
:19:38. > :19:41.a video posted on Instagram by the leader of the Russian republic
:19:42. > :19:45.church in you. It is a well-known Russian opposition figure in the
:19:46. > :19:52.cross hairs. He accuses him of taking Western money.
:19:53. > :19:54.Chinese police have arrested twenty-one people in connection
:19:55. > :19:56.with an online financial scam which allegedly defrauded almost
:19:57. > :19:58.a million investors of more than seven billion dollars.
:19:59. > :20:01.State media said ninety-five percent of the projects offered
:20:02. > :20:04.A tow line has been attached to a cargo ship which is listing
:20:05. > :20:10.Once the engineers on board have been taken to safety,
:20:11. > :20:12.the vessel will be towed away from the coast.
:20:13. > :20:27.Last year Google created alphabet, the parent company that owns Google
:20:28. > :20:30.and the idea was to structure the company in a way that it was easier
:20:31. > :20:38.to see how each part of it was performing. We have just got
:20:39. > :20:47.Alphabet's first set of results. What's the story? Before we get into
:20:48. > :20:52.the actual report, I have to say that Alphabet has surpassed Apple as
:20:53. > :20:55.the most valuable company and that is because investors were very
:20:56. > :21:05.pleased with this earnings report out from Alphabet. If you look now,
:21:06. > :21:08.Alphabet is about $568 billion, surpassing Apple and if you look at
:21:09. > :21:14.the report on what is in it, the report was in line with what they
:21:15. > :21:17.were expecting. The revenue was up 17% for the quarter and that was off
:21:18. > :21:22.the back of its core Google business and the strength air with mobile,
:21:23. > :21:26.adverts and YouTube adverts, that was to be expected. What we were
:21:27. > :21:35.looking for in this report was how the other part of Alphabet, their
:21:36. > :21:38.other ventures, how that was affecting the company's revenue and
:21:39. > :21:43.Outlook and it was interesting to see that investors had thought that
:21:44. > :21:51.those ventures which include things like self driving cars, locals
:21:52. > :21:54.monitoring contact lenses, -- glucose monitoring, smart home
:21:55. > :21:59.services, all of these things they are trying to build into the future
:22:00. > :22:11.of the company, these cost Alphabet a bit more than investors thought,
:22:12. > :22:15.$3 billion. Again, just to note that aftermarket trading, investors were
:22:16. > :22:20.so happy, it has bumped Apple out of the top spot. It is not rolling off
:22:21. > :22:29.the tongue, Alphabet, he doesn't feel right, was this aimed at
:22:30. > :22:37.consumers are at investors?? It was aimed at investors. We still want to
:22:38. > :22:41.see Google, but what investors were looking for was a bit more
:22:42. > :22:48.transparency. That is why Alphabet was created, if you talk to analysts
:22:49. > :22:51.a lot of this was about the new chief financial officer to say we
:22:52. > :22:54.have a strong core business with Google and we will be very
:22:55. > :22:57.cost-efficient, we will not just keep spending on some of these
:22:58. > :23:02.projects that might not be profitable, we will rein in those
:23:03. > :23:10.costs, so that was the whole idea behind creating Alphabet, to
:23:11. > :23:14.separate the two ideas. A report from BBC News beat, there has been a
:23:15. > :23:18.significant rise in the UK of people seeking medical advice on changing
:23:19. > :23:22.gender and this report features Romario, born as a girl in Jamaica
:23:23. > :23:26.who fled to Britain seven years ago to escape his father had physically
:23:27. > :23:31.attacked him when he learned he was attracted to woman. He goes back to
:23:32. > :23:42.Jamaica and sees his father for the first time since his transition. How
:23:43. > :23:47.do you feel going back there? Anxious. Life is very different for
:23:48. > :23:52.Romario since he fled to the UK seven years ago, is homophobic
:23:53. > :23:55.abuse. He is transgender, by taking on Muncie has transitioned from
:23:56. > :24:01.female to male, an option still unavailable in Jamaica. He had been
:24:02. > :24:06.living there as a gay woman but had suffered violence, some at the hands
:24:07. > :24:13.of his father. You like it is my opportunity to close the book.
:24:14. > :24:17.Jamaica has a reputation for being hostile to gay and transgender
:24:18. > :24:23.people, they are not protected by anti-discrimination laws will stop
:24:24. > :24:27.homosexuality is illegal. The thing about being male in Jamaica, it is
:24:28. > :24:40.about being an alpha man. I remember the nights when I run
:24:41. > :24:45.away and was constantly about surviving, trying not to be killed
:24:46. > :24:48.for being gay or lesbian. Asked your campaigners held their first ever
:24:49. > :24:53.gay pride event here. They didn't march on the streets but they say
:24:54. > :24:59.being able to host any event as a sign of growing acceptance. I feel
:25:00. > :25:03.like I'm walking into Judgment Day. Romario's father has been told about
:25:04. > :25:06.his transition before the meeting but this is the first time they have
:25:07. > :25:25.seen or spoken to each other in almost a decade.
:25:26. > :25:34.Are you disgusted by me? I never used to think that something like
:25:35. > :25:38.that was for real. Deep down I always felt like I wanted a son.
:25:39. > :25:42.You've got what you wanted, it just was not physically there. I can
:25:43. > :25:51.never make any promise to refer to you as plan, but you are my child, I
:25:52. > :25:55.still love you no matter what. After filming and to Romario's amazement,
:25:56. > :26:01.his father posted a photo of his new son on social media and assign of,
:26:02. > :26:11.perhaps, attitudes changing. I stick a look at some of the
:26:12. > :26:16.interesting weather events currently happening around the world. We will
:26:17. > :26:21.head to the US because it is a winter storm which could cost
:26:22. > :26:22.significant disruption. We have had plenty of heavy snow and rain