08/02/2016 Outside Source

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

We're going to start on the Turkey-Syria border.

Tens of thousands of Syrian refugees are there -

they're fleeing escalating violence in Aleppo -

of a state policy of extermination against thousands of detainees.

Three days after a deadly earthquake in Taiwan,

people are still being pulled from the rubble alive.

This is the moment a leopard got inside a school in Bangalore.

It took almost 10 hours to subdue the animal.

It attacked a number of people. We will show you this CCTV footage.

Plus, police in the UK are considering training birds

of prey to intercept drones being used in criminal activity.

Place from London are sending someone over to find out how it is

done. -- police. Let's start with this

tweet from last Thursday. There is considerable violence in

Aleppo. That's Aleppo there and today

the Turkish Prime Minister said around 30,000 Syrians

are already at the border region Here's a close-up of that region -

there's a breakdown of how Here's what they're

all fleeing from. These are the latest pictures

we have from inside Aleppo. President Assad's forces are close

to completely encircling the city and they're being backed

by Russian air strikes. On the border you can see here,

two Turkish aid workers have been setting up tents

and distributing supplies. An official from the Turkish

Humanitarian Relief Foundation told But the borders have

been closed to most, despite appeals by European Union

leaders to let them cross. We will hear from Angela Merkel and

the Turkish Prime Minister in a moment.

Next let me play you this - the story of one girl who has

managed to get across the border into Turkey,

but her family have been left on the other side.

That women and many others saying they would like to go back to

Aleppo. At the moment that looks like it is impossible and these

people are building up on the border between Syria and Turkey.

Hundreds of kilometers away, Angela Merkel was in Ankara to meet

Nearly 30,000 people have gathered near our border. We will meet the

needs of our Syrian brothers as usual and take them men when

necessary. We have expressed this clearly that no one should excuse to

tolerate Russian air strikes that are an ethnic massacre, presuming

that Turkey will accept Syrian refugees. No one should expect

Turkey to take all of the burden. In the past days we have become not

just alarmed at polled by the human misery that is unfolding for tens of

thousands of people cause by bombardments coming mostly from

Russia. At the same press conference,

Mrs Merkel also announced that Germany and Turkey would be asking

Nato to help police the Aegean Sea That news came as it was reported

today that at least 24 people - including some children -

have drowned off the Turkish coast trying to reach the Greek

island of Lesbos. These are pictures of some

of the victims being brought ashore. You may find these

pictures disturbing. We can see a number of bodies being

brought ashore by a number of rescue workers, one by one being put on the

shore. To give you an idea of the scale, it is estimated that 400

people have died this year trying to make the journey to Greece over the

Aegean Sea, that is according to the International organisation for

migration. We talked to Cagil Kasapoglu,

BBC Turkish, about both stories - first here she is on why Turkey

won't let those fleeing Aleppo cross Turkey says that it has reached its

capacity to accommodate Syrian refugees. There are 2.5 million

official refugees and there are also those who have passed into the

country illegally. Turkey is helping those already across the board with

food and health services. It has reached its limits in terms of what

it has to do. Now the EU pledges to give 3 billion euros to Turkey and

next week we will see how that will proceed, because in the same

conference the Prime Minister also said that there are some projects

done for the refugees, for their education and health, and these will

be presented to the EU and will mark the official process of how those

funds will be used. What is public opinion in Turkey on this issue? It

is mixed. This has been going on since 2011 and I was at the border

when the first influx of people came in. The Syrians will not be -- the

Syrians will be granted work permits and that might disturb some people.

However, many of the refugees are not want to stay in Turkey so they

are risking their lives to try and reach Europe. Some people might see

the boats coming across the Aegean Sea and think it would not be hard

to secure the border of Turkey. How are smugglers still getting people

onto boats? This is a huge problem. They say they will fight smuggling

but it is a long border and there are villages. We have seen the

video, it is hard to patrol. They are asking for EU's Resorts is

because they cannot cope with this huge influx of refugees. If you

speak Turkish you can see that story on BBC Turkish. On Saturday that was

this terrible earthquake in Taiwan. The earthquake was on Saturday

morning, the early hours, 6.4 magnitude, Taiwan

suffered the worst damage. This place was hit hardest. The

figure of 38 may go up. The outgoing President says there's

still hope for survivors: Here is his latest report.

As night fell, the excavators moved on. The hunt for survivors is not

over. The diggers will try to open a tunnel through the rubble that the

search teams can then use. Earlier in the day, there was a miracle.

After 60 hours in the rubble, and eight-year-old girl is pooled into

the light. Many of those inside the 17th century -- 17 story block the

not have a chance. It fell into itself. The earthquake struck on the

small hours of Saturday morning. Dozens are known to have died and

more than 120 people are still missing. Why did it fall down when

other buildings remained standing? Perhaps because NT cooking oil

containers were used in its construction, revealed by the force

of the earthquake. -- NT cooking oil containers. The president visited

some of those real estate collapse. -- who escaped the collapsed. But

this doctor said that time is running out for anyone who is still

trapped. There is still a chance of rescue, but without one close, food,

and water, in the clouds and the cold, they are stark and after a

while they will die from older hunger. Hope is not yet lost. It is

nearly four days since the Loch tumbled as people were asleep. In

the ruins, in the darkness, the search for survivors goes on.

We will update you through the week here on outside source. Now for a

story that has been watched millions of times.

Kieran O'Mahony, conservationist at Cardiff University:

What he's talking about is the story of six people

who were injured at a school in Bangalore by a leopard.

This may well have happened because people are living in areas

where previously only animals had been.

The high school is close to a wood. As Indians are building more and

more in areas that used to be used only by animals, there are problems.

As you can in this report from Sanjoy Majumder the school's

secuirty camera caught what happened.

It's not what you expect to see every day, and certainly not

It apparently entered the school early in the morning,

Luckily, there were no children around.

Most people managed to flee but some had to try to capture it.

This forestry official came close to being very seriously mauled

He sustained arm injuries but, incredibly, was able to walk away,

and no one else was seriously injured.

It took the authorities ten hours to capture the animal.

The male leopard, thought to be five or six years old,

It has now been moved to a game reserve.

They are known to be shy animals but there have been a few incidents

of them straying into urban areas, especially as India's forests

are increasingly being encroached upon to build new settlements

If you would like to see that video or share with someone you can get it

on the BBC news website or on the BBC news at. In a few minutes time

we're going to talk about what is happening in Venezuela where

shopkeepers are having to open for only four hours a day to do with

energy rationing. Many parts of southern Britain have

been hit hard by Storm Imogen. The weather system brought heavy

rain and winds of up to South-west England and southern

and mid-Wales have borne the brunt of the storm -

causing major travel disruption and leaving thousands of homes

in the region without power. Our correspondent, Abigail Neal,

is on the coast in South Wales and a little earlier gave

us this update. Across South and West Wales Storm

Imogen has been causing trouble. More than 3500 homes were cut off at

some point. Engineers are now reducing that number. The only

motorway in Wales has been closed for most of the day because of an

overturned lorry. We have had cancellations to several flights and

ferries. In one town the whole centre had to close because tiles

were falling off the road. This is Outside Source live

from the BBC newsroom. Thousands of Syrian refugees

are gathering on the northern border with Turkey hoping

to enter the country. The Turkish Prime Minister has

said his country would let them BBC Afrique reports that the UN has

admitted its peacekeeping mission in the Central African

Republic needs to improve. It says it was taken by surprise

by an outbreak of violence last year President Obama says he will ask

the US Congress for $1.8bn in emergency funding to combat

the Zika virus. The virus is transmitted primarily

through mosquitoes and has spread Lots of you saw the smartphone

footage of boxing weigh-in in Dublin One man died and we have heard that

another man has been shot in an apparent retaliation.

David Cameron has suggested that refugee camps could appear in the UK

if Britain leaves the European Union.

It's because he argues that the French may end an agreement

which lets British border guards check passports in Calais.

Not everyone's convinced that will happen.

It is called the Jungle, a makeshift camp in France

with its own shops and library, mud and squalor.

Home to 6000 refugees and migrants, many of

whom David Cameron says could end up in Britain if we vote to leave

the EU, and France sends UK border staff

There are any number of opposition politicians in France who would love

to tear up the excellent agreement we have with France to make sure

we have our borders on their side of the Channel and I do not think

we should give those politicians any excuse to do that.

The deal he talks about was agreed by Tony Blair in 2003.

It allowed British border officials to check and block

Instead of deterring refugees from Calais,

Now French politicians warn they could

tear up the Treaty if Britain left the EU.

The Prime Minister is right to say that France would probably

break the treaty, and we would go back to the types of numbers we had,

80,000 plus, before the treaty was made in 2003.

Instead of gathering in one camp as in Calais,

officials claim many of these migrants would

probably spread out across the south of England, with only some held

David Cameron is making the warning because he wants

people to be aware of what he sees as a risk of leaving the EU.

The danger is if it backfires and people think

he is exaggerating the threat and no longer making a positive case

In Calais this week, there were more protests against migration.

In London today, the Prime Minister's critics dismissed

what they called his sad and disappointing tactics.

Not only is it irresponsible scaremongering, it

It is a treaty between Britain and France and nothing to do

And the French government said were they to have an open

border with the UK it would be a humanitarian disaster in Calais

There is nothing in the renegotiation that restricts

the free movement of people from Europe.

So a referendum that many thought would focus on the economic risks

of leaving or remaining in the EU will

involve a debate about migration and the future of camps like these.

Let's turn to India first of all - its official growth figures

for the end of 2015 have been released.

They suggest India grew at an average rate of 7.5% in 2015.

Faster than China, which grew by 6.9% in 2015.

All very positive, but some economists aren't

-- are questioning those official numbers.

It is fair to say there has been sketched is about India's economic

growth data ever since the government revised how it calculates

those numbers January last year. That was firmly sought the 5% growth

shoot up to 7%. But I don't think anyone is disputing the fact that

the economy is expanding, one of the bright spots among emerging

countries around the world. We have seen manufacturing and mining pack

up, offsetting a drop in agricultural output due to bad

rainfall. We have also seen a government spending increase and

that has been driving the economy. There is a limit to how much the

government can dip into its own pocket, so what the country really

needs is private investment and that is not something we are yet seeing.

The government is pushing for its and the Prime Minister has been

travelling around the globe asking companies to come and manufacture in

India, but it is a difficult place to do business and several laws that

could help it get easier are still to be cleared by the Parliament. The

private investment is critical here considering India's large population

needing a job. Only when we start to see more factories and shops opening

here will we see the fast-paced growth reflected on the ground.

Staying with India - problems for Facebook

as the country's telecoms regulator blocks its Free Basics internet

We are joined from New York. What is the idea behind the scheme?

The idea was to try and connect people who could not otherwise get

connected to the Internet. They were offering is part of the free package

unlimited access to the Internet. You could see websites like the BBC,

Wikipedia, some health sites and whether sites. This was agreed to

buy this and local providers, but the Indian regulators have stopped

it. Why would Facebook not offer the

Internet servers allow people to look up what they want?

The point is that you have to pay to connect to the Internet. This book

was trying to provide it for free but in a stripped down version. --

Facebook. The idea behind the Internet was that this should be

free access to the information for everyone, but by offering this

limited offering it made Facebook the gatekeeper and that is what

troubled the regulators and those who stand by the principle of net

neutrality. Facebook said it would be too expensive for it to pay for

everyone to receive full access to the Internet. The idea of knowing

the charity comes under pressure often but for the moment it is

holding. Next to Venezuela, where shop

keepers are halving their opening Here's BBC Mundo's Arturo Wallace

with the reason why. Although it is a big oil producer,

most of the electricity is produced by hydropower and a lack of rain has

resulted in many of the dams operating below their normal

capacity. The government has decided to ration energy and has at

shopkeepers to do their bit. The government is asking them to do this

and it will only open from TPM until 7pm.

If they open anyway? They will not have any power. The

government is asking them to generate their own electricity by

installing a portable generator. Some people might be surprised that

Venezuela is so vulnerable to power shortages.

It is a big oil producer but 70% of the eligible city is produced by

hydropower. Part of the problem is to do with the lack of maintenance

and repairs on the great and the dams and that is part of the

problem. It is one of the many issues that Venezuela is facing.

Recently we were covering the election in Venezuela and the defeat

of the socialist movement. How is that starting to work with the

President? The president still controls many

things. They have not been able to pass any laws so far but they are

exerting some control and there is more openness in the debates and

discussion about what is going on. Just quickly, an online archive

of old computer malware has attracted more than 100,000 visitors

since it launched four days ago. There it is - it's on archive.org,

and it's called The Malware Museum - as you can see a lot of the viruses

date from the 1980s and 90s. It includes one called Casino,

which overwrote a crucial part of the computer's file system

but took a copy of personal files and then offered the user

the opportunity to win them back That is it for the first half of the

programme. I will see you in a moment.

Thank you for joining me. Here is our look at conditions around the

world. First to the United States were stormy conditions have been

brought to Bermuda and there is winter across