09/03/2016 Outside Source

I have got a report from Christian Fraser to tell you about, that is

online. Also a report from one of the main ports in Greece, where many

migrants are arriving in tending to head north, but that is not going to

be possible, because Macedonia had stopped that border. We will also be

talking about the front page of The Sun newspaper, declared that the

Queen is backing Britain leaving VE you. Buckingham Palace has denied

this and made an official complaint. We will go to the newsroom in

Washington, DC, and we will be talking about this man. He had a

very good time of it in the latest round of primaries. We will discuss

whether that leaves the race for the Republican and Democratic

nominations. The latest from the Champions League, then the car

through, Chelsea and PSG are still playing but it is looking tough for

Chelsea. As I was just mentioning, Macedonia

has shut its border to migrants looking to travel from Greece

northwards into other countries, mainly Germany and Sweden. About

14,000 people, we believe, are stranded on the Greek side this

border. Macedonia has closed it in response to other Balkan countries

also restricting the flow of migrants across their borders. Many

of these migrants come on to mainland Greece through the port of

Piraeus, they come in from the Greek islands. The BBC's Nona McGuckin

arrive there today and has been speaking to some of these people,

including an Afghan translator from the US military back in Afghanistan.

Can you imagine, because part of the deal they have talked about is

possibly sending all migrants that haven't got asylum back to Turkey,

and taking some of the Syrian refugees from Turkey to Europe, can

you imagine living in Turkey? I don't think so. Maybe I do think

about that decision, but I'd know that the Afghan people would never

accept this, because I hear that maybe they will kill themselves and

never go back to Turkey or somewhere else. Tell me a bit about that,

because Victoria square in the centre of Athens, there were two

attempted suicides there are people that were so desperate about their

situation, but people talk about it here as well? Yes, there is also

talk, too much, about what will happen if they open the border like

this. They also talking to much about yes. Wherever you are in the

world you can stream the BC World Service radio.

Let's talk about this story, a picture of the state news agency in

North Korea shared with us, Kim Jong-un and a spherical metal

object. The North Koreans are telling us this is evidence that

their scientists have miniature rise nuclear warheads to fit onto

missiles. To get an assessment of this picture and how much we may be

a water trust of it, we turn to mark Fitzpatrick, based in DC, the

instant national Institute for strategic studies. Certainly this

device is not a real nuclear warhead, it is a mock-up, but it

demonstrates the progress North Korea is making. I assessed North

Korea would be able to miniature rise a nuclear warhead and fitted on

one of the missiles that could hit Japan. North Korea is responding to

the Security Council sanctions that have been imposed, and to the US

South Korea joint exercises that have been beefed up, so there is a

tit-for-tat propaganda exercise that North Korea excels in. Do the

Americans or the South Koreans have any means to try and assess what the

North Koreans actually can do? There is very scant data. We have the

seismic readings from the four nuclear tests that have been

conducted and that gives a sense of the magnitude of the bomb, but no

indication of what it is composed of, whether plutonium or highly

enriched uranium, and little ability really to know the progress North

Korea has made in miniature as Asian. But you can look at the

progress of the countries have made, and knowing that North Korea does

have good engineers and scientists, the US intelligence community has

assessed that North Korea would be able to put such a device on a

ballistic missile. Would I be right in saying this picture takes us to

the pressure point of this whole issue, which is whether the North

Koreans can weaponised the nuclear technology they have? I think we

have to assume that they can, and that North Korea is trying to play

it up. North Korea often puts out images that are totally unrealistic,

I mean last year or so they have this map showing trajectories of

missile parts to the United States, it was totally out of the question,

they couldn't do that. In December, they said they had a hydrogen bomb,

and then they tested something that they said was a hydrogen bomb. It

wasn't, it had some elements of hydrogen perhaps. Now they have

shown a mock-up of a nuclear weapons that almost looks like a disco ball.

It is not quite right as a nuclear weapons. But let's be serious, they

are very seriously developing a nuclear weapons that could hit its

immediate neighbours, and they aim to be able to hit the United States

at some point in the future. You are in Washington, DC, the president and

Congress are very keen to be a will to exert influence over the North

Koreans, but this is hard. What further options are there for the

Americans, when they are faced with this kind of statement from the

North Koreans? Right, most of the options that have been employed to

date have been pressure, but not the most severe pressure that could be

employed. The most recent Security Council resolution really ramped up

the pressure. South Korea has taken unilateral steps, the United States

Congress has adopted pretty strong sanctions, measures. More could be

done, more information could be directed at North Korea to inform

the people of the lies that its leadership is purporting. The other

end of the spectrum, I think one has to consider whether they are options

for engagement. Now is not a good time, right after North Korea's

provocations, but at some point you have to combine disincentives with

incentives. That is what work with the Iran case, we got a deal with

Iran, not just because of sanctions pressure but because of engagement.

You have to allow a way out. It has been tried, North Korea has violated

past agreements. So those not a lot of hope in Washington, not a lot of

political gain to be seen from trying to engage with North Korea,

but if we are going to stop the programme, it has to be some

combination of sanctions and engagement. Time for some sports

News, another day of Champions League action. We know BBC Sport is

very useful on this, two-time European champions Benfica have

already reached the quarterfinals, they beat Zenit St Petersburg, but

there is another game going on at Stamford Bridge here in London.

Chelsea against Paris Saint-Germain, let's bring in Sarah Walton live

from the BBC Sport Centre. I am doing my best to cover this while

I'm doing all the other news as well but last time I looked it wasn't

looking at the Chelsea. Definitely not, we have just had the full-time

whistle and I can tell you that the game ended in the last few minutes

at Stamford Bridge, the score being 2-1 to Paris Saint-Germain. Of

course that means PSG won 4-2 on aggregate, so it is they who go

through to the quarterfinals. This was always going to be a tough match

for Chelsea. They came into the game down 2-1 on aggregate from the first

leg. Tonight, PSG added to their lead just after 16 minutes. Diego

Costa then got one back for Chelsea, not long after. But then Zlatan

Ibrahimovic getting the nail in the Coughlin in the second-half stop

Chelsea's chance of playing in Europe next season is now all but

over, they are relying in qualifying through the Premier League but are

dumped in 10th position. They had a terrible start of the season

although since Guus Hiddink took over as interim boss, this is only

Chelsea's second loss and the first was to PSG in the first leg of this

tie, so tonight's was perhaps not unexpected. PSG are top of league

and in France by 23 points. Almost exactly a year that they knocked

Chelsea out of the condition at the same stage. The other game tonight,

the two-time European champions Benfica went through to the

quarterfinals with a win over Russia's Zenit St Petersburg. It

ended 2-1 to the Portuguese side, they won 3-1 on aggregate. Zenit

scored first. Halt the bazillion forward with a header, then an

equaliser from Nicola Gaitan, before the renegade with the last kick of

the game. Elsewhere, Real Madrid and Wolfsburg are already through to the

quarterfinals. They played yesterday and the remaining four matches in

this round will be played next week. This is an interesting story.

Premier League clubs have today announced a cap away ticket prices.

It will be ?30. There will be in place for the next three seasons. It

is in the context of various fan protests over prices, Liverpool

supporters successfully pressurising the club to drop top ticket prices

for home games. More on this from John Watson. It has been greeted as

great news among supporters, many of whom have been complaining for this.

-- campaigning for this. It is the clubs of course who will be footing

the bill. Here at Manchester City will cost them around half ?1

million next season in lost revenues. But broadly it has been

welcomed not only by the supporters but also the football clubs as well.

Everton today have said it is about time the Premier League clubs gave

something back to the football fans in light of that bumper ?8.3 billion

TV deal, which of course comes indexes. Arsenal have said on top of

that ?30 ticket price fixed, for away ticket, they will reduce that

by a further ?4, so it will be ?26 for all away tickets from next

season. Chelsea and Tottenham announced as well they will be

fixing all prices both home and away from next season. Broadly welcomed,

not only by supporters, but also supporters.

Maria Sharapova on Monday announced testing positive for the struggled

meldonium, also known by another name, and it was developed to treat

diabetes and various heart related diseases. The reason this is a story

is as of January one this year it was banned by the world anti-dumping

agency. -- anti-doping agency. He has also been talking about how

the drug is used by soldiers. If you use it you can immediately reduce

your performance capacities but it allows you to make training work as

hard as possible without damage of the heart. I think many soldiers in

many countries are using still Meldrew and eight, because -- using

meldronate, if there is lack of oxygen in the air, and mountains and

submarines, it will protect the soldiers against damages will stop

if you're looking at countries like China, India, producing hundreds of

metric tonnes of meldonium substance, it means they use on

there. I know this is a bit niche but I'm a big squash fan, and quite

often the world tour will send me rallies they will meet have a look

at, sometimes we will play them here at Outside Source. New Zealander

Paul Cole against James will strut, and Cole will just not let this

point go. COMMENTATOR: There is a fall. No

way! Another dive! This is a joke! Oh my God, that is outrageous!

Unbelievable, there again he gets the ball back.

Great stuff from the Canary Wharf classic taking place this week. In a

little while on Outside Source, we will turn our attractions to France

where thousands of high school students and workers have been

protesting in particular in Paris, about proposed labour reforms.

The third strike by junior doctors in their row with the government in

England is underway. The walk-out will last 48 hours, the longest

strike by far but medics are once again providing emergency covering

hospitals. This all comes after ministers announced last month they

would impose a new contract on junior doctors. Let's get a full

update on this story from Hugh Pym. A singing picket line outside one

hospital today, as junior doctors in England staged another strike, this

time 48 hours after talks broke down, the government said it would

impose a new employment contract, and that has angered the doctors. We

will be here for as long as it takes for the government to listen to us

and to stop threatening us with imposition. We have a democracy with

an elected parliament, they are not there to just enforced changes on an

entire workforce. What are the central issues in this dispute and

the key differences? The government says the new contract will see

higher basic pay balancing cuts to unsocial hours payments and a cap on

excessive working hours. The doctors union the BMA says have weaker

safeguards on working hours and the many doctors see the loss of the

premium paid Saturday working. More than 5000 routine operations have

been postponed nationally because of this latest strike. Hospitals like

this one in Milton Keynes say they are trying to minimise patient

disruption. The boss is hoping he doesn't have to impose the contract.

I think imposition in any contract negotiation is the very very last

resort. While junior doctors protested outside one London Central

hospital, Jeremy Hunt over at Westminster was moving over to the

agenda he wanted to talk about, unveiling new measures aimed at

making patient safety. His plans include a new health safety agency,

similar to the air accident investigation Branch, with legal

protection for those who give evidence in enquiries. My intention

is to use this reform to encourage much more openness in the way the

NHS response to tragic mistakes. Families will get the truth faster,

doctors will get support and protection to speak out, and the NHS

as a whole will become better at learning when things go wrong. The

doctors claim safety will be undermined by the new contract. That

in turn is denied by the ministers. Macedonia has completely

closed its border to migrants hoping to travel from Greece

to northern Europe. Conditions at border camps

in Greece are deteriorating. if you're watching outside of the

UK, Outside Source America is next. And on the News at ten here in the

UK, a look at why the government has abandoned its plans to relax Sunday

trading laws in England and Wales. There are currently strict laws

about how long large shops can stay open on Sundays. More US primaries

last night and more good news for Donald Trump. He won in a number of

states, Michigan in the north, Mississippi in the South, Hawaii as

well, which we can't quite squeeze onto this map. Ted Cruz took Idaho

in the Democratic race. -- in the Democratic race, Bernie Sanders won

in Michigan, Hillary Clinton took Mississippi. If we look at where we

are in the delicate count, for the Republicans still relatively close,

Donald Trump 458, Ted Cruz around 100 back. As for the Democrats,

Hillary Clinton now has double the delegates of Bernie Sanders.

Washington, DC, Laura Trevelyan joins us, on the face of it Ted Cruz

only 100 delegates back, it looks relatively close, in reality is it?

In reality, not so much, as Donald Trump would have said, he won huge

last night. There was no sign at all that all of these very expensive

attack ads which Republicans are now saying have made no impact at all.

Lots of negative publicity about his Trump University, how he has

employed foreign workers. None of it has made any difference at all.

Donald Trump only needs to win 54% of the remaining delegates to get

that nomination. All eyes now on Florida and Ohio. Can Marco Rubio

win his home state for Florida? If you can't do that he has to be out

of the race. Can Governor John Casey win his state of Ohio, and I should

say that Trump is polling ahead at both of those states. If he wins big

on Tuesday, this race will be all but over. A tweet here from Bernie

Sanders saying the corporate media can to this out, the pollster said

we were away behind but we won in Michigan. He did, but in the scheme

of things has it changed anything? It may not change anything strangely

enough for the Democratic nomination, because Hillary Clinton

won beat in Mississippi. She now has about half of the delegates she

needs to win the nomination, but it is worrying for her that if a state

like Michigan was to come in play in the general election, if Donald

Trump was to be the candidate, a state where his message seems to be

resonating, where he is against these big free trade deals, which

voters in Michigan have left them really stranded, so it is not a good

omen for her, that she couldn't do that well amongst working class

white voters, the kind of people who could well go over to Donald Trump

in the general election. I know Mr Trump makes a lot of claims in his

speeches after victories, he is saying he is getting turn out like

other politicians are not, he is claiming people who may not normally

vote for anyone are turning out for him, is that backed up by the

figures? Can we say he is pulling the back into politics? What we can

definitely say is that the turnout of the Republican primaries this

time around, compared to 2012 and 2008, is much, much higher, so, yes,

he is bringing out people who perhaps have voted before. Remember,

Americans don't have the best record in the world. The turnout here is

not nearly as high as it is in Britain in a general election, for

example, so again this is something worrying for Democrats because they

have assembled what they think is a winning coalition of minorities, of

college educated women for example but if Donald Trump is bringing in

these people who don't normally vote, then anything can change if he

is the nominee. From Washington to Paris, a new report from Hugh

Schofield to play you, it is all about protest that have been taking

place across France. They are objecting to a new labour law that

would give employers a lot more flexibility. No surprises, the

biggest ever was in Paris. At the end of today there will be

the normal numbers game to see how my people have turned up for this

day of protest against the government's new labour law. Here in

the plaster republic, it is a pretty big -- the Place de la Republique, a

pretty big turnout but maybe the bad weather has them to do with it. Most

of the people here in the Place de la Republique our young people,

university students, college dudes, and they are here because they say

they will be the first in line if this reform goes through. Just to

remind you what this government reform is about, it is about a

change to the labour code. Basically the government wants to reassure

business, encourage business to take on more staff by removing some of

the protection enjoyed by workers up to now. For example, there would be

a ceiling on the amount of fines labour courts can impose on

companies in wrongful dismissal. For example, the aim is to combat the

country's punishingly high unemployment, but what young people

are saying here is that when they hit the jobs market, they will be

the first to suffer. They will be condemned to a life of job

insecurity, precariousness, as they call it here, which is a long way

from the idea of social progress on which of course is so dear to the

French left. Now a story we would talking about

earlier, the sad news that Sir George Martin, one of the most

famous record producer there has ever been, has died aged 90. Mark

Ronson probably one of the best-known music producers at the

moment paying tribute. Mark Ronson behind many successful

albums, including Amy Wainhouse's. Let's finish the programme by

hearing some of the amazing music that this man helped to create.

# It's been a hard day's night, I should be sleeping like a log.

# When I get home to you, I find the things that you do make me feel all

right. # Hey Jude, don't make it bad, take

a sad song and make it better. # Remember to let her into your

heart, then you can start to make it better.

# Eleanor Rigby picks up the rice in a church where a wedding has been,

# All the lonely people, where do they all come from?

All the lonely people, where do they all