01/02/2016 Outside Source

Hello, I'm Ros Atkins, this is Outside Source.

We'll start with a story about human fertility.

We're been talking about it for long enough. Republican and Democratic

caucuses will be taking over. The World Health Organisation has

declared a new global health emergency of birth defects possibly

linked to disease virus. Badu sciences having given the go-ahead

to genetically human embryos. the go ahead to genetically

modify human embryos. We'll talk about what that could

achieve, and why it's controversial. Pep Guardiola, there he is with

Bayern Munich and their players but he is bound for Manchester, he will

be Manchester City's manager come the summer we will report from the

Manchester City Stadium. I will talk to our political correspondent in

Westminster in what has been called a crucial 24 hours of negotiations

over the UK's membership of the At last we are going to get some

voting in this race to the White House, it is all about Iowa today,

not a big state, not a big population but it is the first to

select its candidates for the presidential election and that means

it matters. Have a look at these two graphs, posted on the Huffington

Post website. Jeb Bush is orange on this graph, if you go back to

February 2015, you can see he was a front runner, a favourite with the

bookmakers, now he is in and amongst the candidates, who are struggling

to get traction above limit, you have got Donald Trump bleeding and

below that Ted Cruz. Marco Rubio has had a good couple of weeks, starting

to pull clear of Ben Carson who has dipped down, his supporters are

saying, wait for the vote, they think they are doing better than

this graph suggests. For the Democrats that is simpler. Two horse

race, the story of the Democrats as Bernie Sanders. Olding and building

and building which brings us to Iowa and the two of them are neck and

neck, I don't think any of us saw that coming. In a moment we will be

live from Iowa, you are welcome to tweet is now. That is if you have

any questions. First of all, here is the latest report.

The great thing about Iowa is that it is so traditional, it is a state

as wedded to its political dos and don'ts as it is to its coalfields.

Or to its small towns, when nothing seems to change from one election to

the next. For example, it's a long accepted rule of political

campaigning here that Iowans are nice, humble and low-key. They don't

like people who are rude and brash or flashy, except this year, when

maybe they do. This election, Donald Trump has defied all the IOM norms

and they love him for it. He travels the state by private jet with his

name screaming from the body. Private jet? That shouldn't go down

well here. He whizzed into the state's biggest political gathering

in a helicopter. Now this is home affair, it is not done to show up in

your own chopper. How stupid are the people of Iowa? And then most

cardinal of all cardinal sins, he insulted them. Once again his

approval ratings went up. What is this? An abusive relationship? The

question is, have Iowans just discovered there in New York

billionaire, or have they concluded that the state of the country is so

miserable that they are going to take their sacred political rule

book and toss it into the nearest cornfield? When they are not

flirting with the Donald, they are cosying up to this guy. Bernie

Sanders's politics are the opposite of Donald Trump's but his appeal is

almost as remarkable. How has a grumpy self-declared socialist, who

doesn't even talk about his faith done well in conservative heartland?

This government belongs to all of us, not just a handful of

billionaires. CHEERING To many Americans, advocating free

health care and free college tuition as Bernie Sanders does is as extreme

as telling Europeans that communism is back, in a normal election and

would simply be outlandish. Not this time. CHANTING

He has crossover appeal. There are conservatives that are drawn for him

and his ideas because of his honesty. He is not taking any money

from billionaires or anybody else but us, I put on Twitter one-day

that we are his super pack. On Monday night Iowans will tell us if

the political norms really have been upended in America or further

politics as normal is set to resume. If you are online as you are

watching us, this is the live page on what is happening in Iowa, no

results to tell you about but as they come through they will be

posted here as well as a huge amount of analysis on what we should read

into the numbers but Lex speak to Katie. I am in theirs minds. It

doesn't look terribly fascinating -- in theirs minds -- in theirs

hundreds of reporters from American television networks, there is a

focus on Iowa every election campaign but more so this time

around than usual. The New York posting a tweet saying that

primaries were created in the belief that voters were last less partisan

than party bosses by 2016 is challenging that. What is the New

Yorker getting at? Until the 1970s they didn't have primaries, it was

the party bosses who decided who the nominee was going to beat because

they figured they knew best, the rules changed in the 1970s and had a

Democrats and the Republicans having a long primary process where the

people got to decide who the party's nominee was going to be and it has

thrown up a whole load of outsiders back in the 70s and 80s and doing so

this time around again. This is why you are getting people like Donald

Trump, Bernie Sanders doing so well because the people in this country

say that we don't want those regular politicians, we want something

different and that is the mood of this election campaign. Anthony

wants to ask you, is there still time for an independent candidate to

enter the fray? Possibly, it is very difficult in America to run and to

succeed as an independent candidate, Teddy was a dockside at the 19th, he

had been president and didn't manage to win as an independent and it

shows you how it is but we understand that Michael Bloomberg,

the former mayor of New York, a billionaire, self-made man, he is

thinking of it and this is the reason why. If the Republicans elect

somebody who the mainstream of the Republican Party think is very

extreme and if the Democrats do the same, that will leave a whole load

of photos in the middle of the American political spectrum who are

disgruntled and maybe just maybe they would turn to an independent

candidate. Understandably, huge amount of attention on Iowa, we have

been waiting long enough for some voting soever they will be paying

close attention but in reality does this small state really matter, can

we look at the history books and say that Iowa has an impact on the big

race and the bigger stage? Geographically it is enormous, but

it doesn't look like the rest of America, there are not many very

African Americans, not very many Hispanics and for a country that is

becoming less and less white woman you wouldn't know it in Iowa, this

is a very white state, so not representative will stop what

matters is that the candidate who wins here tonight on the Democratic

side and on the Republican side will suddenly get the whole load of

airtime, the journalist will want to talk to him, the kind of free

candidates love. They will think that candidates have a real chance,

I will donate money to him and that is why Iowa matters, it gives them a

springboard, a launch pad and a bit of momentum going into the later

primaries. Full coverage on the BBC News

Channel and BBC world News and online through the BBC News at. That

is one of the main stories. This is another.

The World Health Organisation has been holding a crisis meeting

After a review of the evidence, the committee advised that the clusters

of microcephaly and other neurological complications

constitute an extraordinary event and a public health threat to other

parts of the world. In their view, a coordinated international response

is needed to minimise the threat in affected countries and reduced the

risk of further international spread. Members of the committee

agreed that the situation meets the conditions for a public health

emergency of international concern. I have accepted this advice, I am

now declaring that the recent cluster of microcephaly and other

neurological abnormalities reported in Latin America, following a

similar cluster in French Polynesia in 2014, constitutes a public health

emergency of international concern. Just because, as global health

emergency has been declared, but it refers to the rates of microcephaly,

this is the brain abnormality in babies that is believed if elated to

pregnant women who have the Eton virus. The declaration matters but

then -- the Zika virus. This is very much a story that is

affecting countries across the Americas, but of course it has been

Brazil which has been the focus because the very centre of this

outbreak is a city called Recife. A young woman, four months pregnant

has head she may be infected with the Zika virus. An agonising glimpse

into a nightmare here in the epicentre.

Another pregnant woman who asked us not to show her face says she

definitely has the virus. She has red eyes, a typical symptom of Zika

and is due to give birth in two months' time and is waiting for the

results and tests. TRANSLATION: I'm feeling worried,

she says. She has aches and a rash, which are also indicators of the

virus. And what makes everybody you more anxious as the uncertainty.

What is so disturbing about what is happening here is that the woman are

turning up with a lot of highly personal and pressing questions that

doctors cannot answer. Above all, what damage good Zika do to their

babies. A painful moment when test results are handed out. Evidence is

growing that the virus is to blame for deforming babies's brains but it

is not certain, so there is no way of predicting the impact. When you

see the ultrasound, it is with something wrong, you have to tell

her. Then you know that after you tell her, she will ask you many

questions, if the baby will walk, will hear properly, will see

properly and we don't know. Like several dozen babies in Brazil, she

was born with a small brain and unless she is rocked all the time

she becomes agitated. Her mother is clearly overwhelmed. TRANSLATION: It

is not the moment to get pregnant, she says, because so far nobody

knows where the virus come from. All of this adds to the urgency of

killing the mosquitoes that carry the virus. Reaching them is

difficult, so from today officials have a new power to break into homes

if they need to. The key is public support. The authorities are

harnessing the Carnival spirit. A mosquito costume raises awareness of

the dangers. Anything to get people to join the fight against the

insects. All day, as she rocks her baby, she worries about how she is

going to cope. This glance shows there is some brain function but

nobody can tell how this crisis will unfold.

If you would like to get background information on the Zika virus, go to

the BBC News website. Two important stories, here is the third,

particularly for those watching in the UK and in the rest of Europe. A

tweet from Donald Tusk, the European Council president. He says a

This is all about putting it on membership of the European Union,

David Cameron's desire to renegotiate its terms ahead of the

national referendum on whether to stay in the European Union or not.

Chris Mason is following this with interest and joins us from

Westminster. You are good at deciphering all of these things,

what does that tweet actually mean? On ticket of stuff, in essence the

bodies by Minister David Cameron has promised people in the UK has

promised a referendum on EU membership before the end of last

year. There have been intense negotiations going on between the UK

and EU to try to strike a new relationship with Britain and the EU

and the Prime Minister hopes that will be sufficient for him to

persuade people here in Britain to back the UK staying in the European

Union. What does it mean in terms of this tweet from Donald Tusk? He

represents all of the other governments of the European Union as

president of the European Council and it means tomorrow he will

publish a document which effectively allows another round of

renegotiations to begin and that can go on for just over two weeks and

then there is a big meeting, and European summit in Brussels at the

HQ of the European Union towards the middle of this month, at which the

British government will hope the final deal can be arrived at and a

referendum, they hope, can happen as soon as June. Do we know what the

outstanding issues are? We need to know that to understand whether good

progress has been made? We have at least an insight into it from leaks

from the British government and from other governments around Europe. The

European Union itself has been tight-lipped officially. The

sticking point out that the UK wants a better relationship with the EU as

the government sees it in relation to the payment of benefits to EU

migrants. At the moment it is felt by David Cameron that a lot of

people are drawn towards moving to the UK and elsewhere in Europe

because of the prospect of being able to claim benefit payments very

quickly and the government here wants to restrict those payments for

benefits given to people in work for four years. There would appear to be

something of a deal on the table that will be fleshed out in this

document tomorrow and like the others in the EU, particularly in

Central and eastern Europe and Poland who are not keen on it.

Another big issue and sticking point potentially, the UK, which is

outside of the single European currency, want to guarantee that

those countries like the UK that have kept their own currencies

cannot be ganged up on by those countries in the majority in the EU

who use the single currency. Speaking to countries like France

and they are a little nervous about the euro outers having too much

power over those who have signed up to the central project at the heart

of the European Union. We will get this document tomorrow but in many

senses that in itself is a work in progress or negotiations that will

last at least another fortnight and potentially longer after that.

Chris said earlier that is a lot of talk about at important 24 hours but

there will be quite a few important 24 hours between now and are

completely signed off deal between the EU and the UK.

In a little while, I will play you a BBC News the report about Jamaica

and about attitudes towards people who are transgender.

Junior doctors in England are to go on strike next week after talks with

the government of new contracts failed to reach an agreement and it

will balk at 424 overs on Wednesday 10th of February but will provide

emergency care. The stoppage will be the second walk-out by junior

doctors over this contract dispute. Here is our health editor. The

original plan strike for next week would have affected all forms of

care in hospitals like this one including emergencies and that has

never happened in the history of the NHS. What is planned now there's a

walk-out of routine on nonurgent care by junior doctors will still

cover emergencies along with consultants. That will still affect

thousands of patients whose routine treatments, operations, appointments

will be postponed as happened on a similar day of action in January.

Does it mean the two side are closer together? It means no on one key

issue, a lot of agreement has been reached but on the issue on how much

doctors are paid for working on a Saturday, there is no agreement

there. Welcome back. Our lead story is that

all of the US presidential hopefuls are making their final pitches in

Iowa with a first votes for the party nominations will take place

later. Let's pick up on some of the main stories. This is an image from

a video posted on Instagram by the leader of the Russian republic

church in you. It is a well-known Russian opposition figure in the

cross hairs. He accuses him of taking Western money.

Chinese police have arrested twenty-one people in connection

with an online financial scam which allegedly defrauded almost

a million investors of more than seven billion dollars.

State media said ninety-five percent of the projects offered

A tow line has been attached to a cargo ship which is listing

Once the engineers on board have been taken to safety,

the vessel will be towed away from the coast.

Last year Google created alphabet, the parent company that owns Google

and the idea was to structure the company in a way that it was easier

to see how each part of it was performing. We have just got

Alphabet's first set of results. What's the story? Before we get into

the actual report, I have to say that Alphabet has surpassed Apple as

the most valuable company and that is because investors were very

pleased with this earnings report out from Alphabet. If you look now,

Alphabet is about $568 billion, surpassing Apple and if you look at

the report on what is in it, the report was in line with what they

were expecting. The revenue was up 17% for the quarter and that was off

the back of its core Google business and the strength air with mobile,

adverts and YouTube adverts, that was to be expected. What we were

looking for in this report was how the other part of Alphabet, their

other ventures, how that was affecting the company's revenue and

Outlook and it was interesting to see that investors had thought that

those ventures which include things like self driving cars, locals

monitoring contact lenses, -- glucose monitoring, smart home

services, all of these things they are trying to build into the future

of the company, these cost Alphabet a bit more than investors thought,

$3 billion. Again, just to note that aftermarket trading, investors were

so happy, it has bumped Apple out of the top spot. It is not rolling off

the tongue, Alphabet, he doesn't feel right, was this aimed at

consumers are at investors?? It was aimed at investors. We still want to

see Google, but what investors were looking for was a bit more

transparency. That is why Alphabet was created, if you talk to analysts

a lot of this was about the new chief financial officer to say we

have a strong core business with Google and we will be very

cost-efficient, we will not just keep spending on some of these

projects that might not be profitable, we will rein in those

costs, so that was the whole idea behind creating Alphabet, to

separate the two ideas. A report from BBC News beat, there has been a

significant rise in the UK of people seeking medical advice on changing

gender and this report features Romario, born as a girl in Jamaica

who fled to Britain seven years ago to escape his father had physically

attacked him when he learned he was attracted to woman. He goes back to

Jamaica and sees his father for the first time since his transition. How

do you feel going back there? Anxious. Life is very different for

Romario since he fled to the UK seven years ago, is homophobic

abuse. He is transgender, by taking on Muncie has transitioned from

female to male, an option still unavailable in Jamaica. He had been

living there as a gay woman but had suffered violence, some at the hands

of his father. You like it is my opportunity to close the book.

Jamaica has a reputation for being hostile to gay and transgender

people, they are not protected by anti-discrimination laws will stop

homosexuality is illegal. The thing about being male in Jamaica, it is

about being an alpha man. I remember the nights when I run

away and was constantly about surviving, trying not to be killed

for being gay or lesbian. Asked your campaigners held their first ever

gay pride event here. They didn't march on the streets but they say

being able to host any event as a sign of growing acceptance. I feel

like I'm walking into Judgment Day. Romario's father has been told about

his transition before the meeting but this is the first time they have

seen or spoken to each other in almost a decade.

Are you disgusted by me? I never used to think that something like

that was for real. Deep down I always felt like I wanted a son.

You've got what you wanted, it just was not physically there. I can

never make any promise to refer to you as plan, but you are my child, I

still love you no matter what. After filming and to Romario's amazement,

his father posted a photo of his new son on social media and assign of,

perhaps, attitudes changing. I stick a look at some of the

interesting weather events currently happening around the world. We will

head to the US because it is a winter storm which could cost

significant disruption. We have had plenty of heavy snow and rain