:00:15. > :00:20.Hello, this is Outside Source. President Putin says he is
:00:21. > :00:25.withdrawing the main part of Russian Armed Forces from Syria. Hundreds of
:00:26. > :00:28.migrants stranded at camps in Greece are being detained in Macedonia
:00:29. > :00:32.after finding another way to cross the border. The Turkish air force
:00:33. > :00:36.hits Kurdish rebel targets in northern Iraq in response to a
:00:37. > :00:41.suicide car bombing in the capital of Turkey that killed 37 people. The
:00:42. > :00:45.next mission to Mars, the joint venture between Russia and Europe
:00:46. > :00:50.that aims to sniff out life on the red planet. And we always value your
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:01:10. > :01:15.Welcome to Outside Source. We are on air an hour earlier than the UK
:01:16. > :01:20.because the clocks have already moved forward an hour in the United
:01:21. > :01:25.States. We will be here for the next two weeks and then back to 9pm UK
:01:26. > :01:28.time. We begin with the Russian intervention in Syria which began
:01:29. > :01:33.six months ago following a formal request from President Assad for
:01:34. > :01:37.help. Starting tomorrow, the Russian intervention could be coming to an
:01:38. > :01:42.end. Earlier today the Russian president, Mr Putin, had a meeting
:01:43. > :01:53.with his foreign defence ministers and this is what he said during the
:01:54. > :01:59.meeting. TRANSLATION: I considered the Mission sat as accomplished. I
:02:00. > :02:03.therefore ordered the Defence Ministry to ordered the withdrawal
:02:04. > :02:09.of the main parts of the Armed Forces from the Syrian republic from
:02:10. > :02:14.tomorrow. Steve Rosenberg in Moscow this evening. The president says he
:02:15. > :02:18.has met many of the objectives he set out. People will look at this
:02:19. > :02:21.and say, yes, he has dismantled some of the rebel opposition but the
:02:22. > :02:30.Islamic groups are still very much intact. That's true. I asked the
:02:31. > :02:33.press Secretary of Mr Putin a short while ago on the telephone whether
:02:34. > :02:38.the announcement of a withdrawal meant that Russia had conquered
:02:39. > :02:44.terrorism. He said it doesn't mean that, and it would be a mistake to
:02:45. > :02:50.make a statement of victory. He said no country had managed to conquer
:02:51. > :02:53.terrorism. He said Russia had made important and effective steps to
:02:54. > :02:57.destroying so-called Islamic State and other terrorist groups. I think
:02:58. > :03:02.the reason President Putin announced tonight that he was going to pull
:03:03. > :03:05.out of the main part of the Russian force from Syria, the Kremlin is
:03:06. > :03:11.calculating that now is the best time to scale things down. Russia
:03:12. > :03:16.doesn't want to get bogged down in Syria and doesn't want it to become
:03:17. > :03:21.a second Afghanistan. He's exploiting the fact there is a
:03:22. > :03:26.ceasing of hostilities in Syria at the moment, to take a moment to
:03:27. > :03:30.scale back. You can always scale things up again. The Russians.
:03:31. > :03:39.Haven't airbase in Syria and that will not go anywhere. -- the
:03:40. > :03:44.Russians will still have an airbase. If the situation changes they can
:03:45. > :03:50.always boost their troop numbers. I suppose the main tactical game is
:03:51. > :03:54.the game for President Putin. When he went into Syria six month ago he
:03:55. > :04:00.was a pariah in international circles. Absolutely. The whole
:04:01. > :04:05.situation has changed. A few months ago he was almost an international
:04:06. > :04:10.outcast. The West had put sanctions on Russia over the annexation of
:04:11. > :04:15.Crimea. And the Moscow support for pro-Russian rebels in eastern
:04:16. > :04:19.Ukraine. It seemed Russia did not want to have much to do with
:04:20. > :04:25.President Putin. Then Russia started bombing Syria and the situation
:04:26. > :04:28.changed. It seemed as if the West, the American president and European
:04:29. > :04:32.leaders, started to realise that they had to deal with President
:04:33. > :04:37.Putin, whether they liked him or not, and whether they liked what he
:04:38. > :04:42.was doing or not. Suddenly, Russia became the solution, and not a
:04:43. > :04:46.problem. Now, President Putin is playing the role of peacemaker in
:04:47. > :04:51.Syria, saying Russia is now doing all it can to push a diplomatic
:04:52. > :04:55.solution to the problems. Things have changed and how Russia has been
:04:56. > :05:01.viewed. Some people believe that Russia has forced the West to treat
:05:02. > :05:05.it as an equal partner. The West can see that Russia is prepared in some
:05:06. > :05:08.circumstances to stand up to the west. Interesting, we will watch
:05:09. > :05:15.that closely. Thank you for joining us. She Syria conflict is the
:05:16. > :05:18.biggest driver in Europe's migrant crisis with thousands still making
:05:19. > :05:26.the perilous journey from Turkey to Greece. For many, its Germany that
:05:27. > :05:30.remains the number one destination. They are making their way through
:05:31. > :05:34.this too West Balkans route up to Germany, until the borders were
:05:35. > :05:39.closed earlier this month. For the last couple of weeks thousands have
:05:40. > :05:44.been stuck at a camp on the Greek- Macedonian border. This morning
:05:45. > :05:51.around 1000 of them left the camp on foot, eventually crossing a fast
:05:52. > :05:57.flowing river. Our correspondent has been following their progress.
:05:58. > :06:03.On the march was nothing to lose. Thousands of migrants walking
:06:04. > :06:08.towards a border they are not allowed to cross. They've had enough
:06:09. > :06:13.of waiting. For weeks they have been stuck in Greece. They are aiming to
:06:14. > :06:17.get to Germany, but all the Balkan border gates between here and there
:06:18. > :06:25.have slammed shut. But they have got this far and they are not giving up.
:06:26. > :06:34.They don't open the borders, it's a problem. People want to go to
:06:35. > :06:37.Macedonia and Germany. The march sparks alarm among the Macedonian
:06:38. > :06:45.authorities to monitor them. But on the Greek side they are not stopped.
:06:46. > :06:51.The migrants are undeterred by the obstacles in their path. At least
:06:52. > :06:55.three people drowned near here last night, but they are prepared to take
:06:56. > :07:02.the risk. Esbri people will do desperate things. -- desperate
:07:03. > :07:06.people. They have become disillusioned with the conditions in
:07:07. > :07:11.the border camp. It turned into a swamp after days of rain.
:07:12. > :07:15.Unbearable. Anywhere is better than this, they thought. Which is why
:07:16. > :07:19.they set off en masse from here this morning. When many hundreds did
:07:20. > :07:26.eventually crossed the frontier, they were rounded up and detained.
:07:27. > :07:30.Their ambitions on hold once again. The path ahead is not easy and full
:07:31. > :07:34.of risks. But it isn't putting them off trying.
:07:35. > :07:46.STUDIO: Some of you might recall that he was reporting from the camp
:07:47. > :07:51.last week, and many migrants I met were looking to reunite with family
:07:52. > :07:53.in Germany. There is still the opinion in the camp that Angela
:07:54. > :08:00.Merkel is the one voice in Europe who is sympathetic to the cause.
:08:01. > :08:04.From time to time, they show their appreciation by rallying around the
:08:05. > :08:08.German flag. A draft communication was put out by European leaders this
:08:09. > :08:15.morning, saying they wanted to close the route through Macedonia, Serbia
:08:16. > :08:18.and Croatia into western Europe, the so-called Balkan route. The word has
:08:19. > :08:22.gone around the camp that the Germans don't like the language,
:08:23. > :08:26.that it's too dramatic and sends out the wrong message over what Europe
:08:27. > :08:30.wants to do with genuine asylum seekers. That's the reason the
:08:31. > :08:35.German flag is being held aloft and is being cheered by many Syrian
:08:36. > :08:39.people here. How well are the pictures going down in Germany? Not
:08:40. > :08:46.too well at all judging by the results of the country's we can
:08:47. > :08:53.state elections will stop the anti-immigrant AFD party has done
:08:54. > :09:02.extraordinarily well. These are some of the results from the states
:09:03. > :09:12.taking part. You can see the AFD result in blue, and the ruling
:09:13. > :09:18.Angela Merkel party in black. Third in this region, not as big as the
:09:19. > :09:23.other major parties. And again, they were the third party in a third
:09:24. > :09:29.region. Jenny Hill has followed the story from Berlin.
:09:30. > :09:35.Germany's political landscape is changing. But don't expect Angela
:09:36. > :09:44.Merkel to alter her course. This is the eastern state of Saxony, where
:09:45. > :09:50.one in watch row voters backed the anti-Merkel and anti-migrant party
:09:51. > :09:58.alternative for Deutschland. This woman says she backed it because
:09:59. > :10:03.they were the only party who wanted to store order, despite not liking
:10:04. > :10:09.many of the people in the party. The German far right has found a public
:10:10. > :10:13.voice. The AFD is controversial. Its leader recently suggested border
:10:14. > :10:17.guards should shoot at immigrants. Angela Merkel had previously
:10:18. > :10:25.dismissed them as a fringe party. This afternoon she admitted it was a
:10:26. > :10:29.tough proposal. TRANSLATION: Our approach is right. We need to tackle
:10:30. > :10:35.the sources of migration and seek European solution. A controversial
:10:36. > :10:42.stance from this most divisive of leaders. Should Angela Merkel stay
:10:43. > :10:46.on as Chancellor, I asked. If it was up to me, she says, no. I used to
:10:47. > :10:51.think a lot of her but not any more. This man says he doesn't agree with
:10:52. > :10:55.the rest of her policies but he likes her position on refugees.
:10:56. > :11:00.These elections have been bruising and humiliating for Angela Merkel.
:11:01. > :11:04.But the sense here is that she will survive unscathed. First of all,
:11:05. > :11:08.nobody is calling for her resignation. And her approval
:11:09. > :11:14.ratings, while they have dipped, are still in the of other European
:11:15. > :11:16.leaders. Lastly, most importantly, there is no heavyweight political
:11:17. > :11:22.opponent waiting in the wings to snatch away her chancellorship. Mrs
:11:23. > :11:32.Merkel might just have got away with it. STUDIO: We will be focusing on
:11:33. > :11:36.another of the countries on the migrant route, Turkey, reeling from
:11:37. > :11:44.another bomb attack this weekend in Ankara that killed 37 people.
:11:45. > :11:50.The presenter of Top Gear has apologised after the programme
:11:51. > :11:56.filmed a stunt car driving near a war memorial in London yesterday.
:11:57. > :12:02.The images shown are terrible, they look so disrespectful. There are
:12:03. > :12:04.mitigating circumstances, but absolutely, no, I unreservedly
:12:05. > :12:07.apologise for stopped I saw the images this morning for the first
:12:08. > :12:12.time and felt the same way as everyone else. It's not a good start
:12:13. > :12:17.for Top Gear? It is only started in terms of production, but this is not
:12:18. > :12:22.a good story. Will the footage be used on air? I don't know. I'm not
:12:23. > :12:26.responsible for the film, but I will have a chat and find out what's
:12:27. > :12:31.going on. No doubt about it, that footage will not go on air. The
:12:32. > :12:35.Chancellor George Osborne is also a little bit miffed. I saw the treat
:12:36. > :12:41.this morning, and I think that's more light-hearted. Do you agree it
:12:42. > :12:48.should not be aired? Absolutely. So you will pull the plug? It's not my
:12:49. > :12:54.decision, but if I was in charge, I would say that scene shouldn't be
:12:55. > :12:58.shown. This is Outside Source live from the BBC News room. President
:12:59. > :13:03.Putin says he is withdrawing the main part of Russian Armed Forces
:13:04. > :13:07.from Syria saying his country's intervention there had largely
:13:08. > :13:12.achieved its objectives. This is what the BBC's language services are
:13:13. > :13:16.coming today. On BBC Arabic, Saudi officials say a fighter jet has
:13:17. > :13:22.crashed in year and killing two pilots.
:13:23. > :13:32.A 22-year-old engineer who married above his Hindu caste in an Indian
:13:33. > :13:37.state has been hacked to death in broad daylight at a busy traffic
:13:38. > :13:48.intersection. As father has now surrendered. No group yet admitted
:13:49. > :13:55.carrying out the bombing in Ankara that killed killed 37 people. This
:13:56. > :14:01.is the city centre where the bomb went off. As we move into the city,
:14:02. > :14:04.it's right in the centre, close to the Ministry of Justice and the
:14:05. > :14:09.Department of defence. The government was quick to point the
:14:10. > :14:20.blame at the Kurdish PKK group. The Prime Minister said...
:14:21. > :14:28.Our correspondent in Ankara sent this report from outside the city
:14:29. > :14:33.morgue. Here at the morgue in central Ankara they are learning the
:14:34. > :14:39.names and identities of those killed yesterday. There is pain here, but
:14:40. > :14:42.also anger and disbelief at a third successive bomb blast in the space
:14:43. > :14:47.of five months in the heart of this city. A city once seen as safe is
:14:48. > :14:52.asking, why does this keep happening, and why our families left
:14:53. > :14:59.to mourn? Local media say that one of the bombers has been identified
:15:00. > :15:02.as a female member of the Kurdish PKK, with whom the government is
:15:03. > :15:06.fighting a renewed conflict over the last few months in the south-east of
:15:07. > :15:11.Turkey. The government says it's determined to fight terrorism, the
:15:12. > :15:15.president saying he will bring terrorism to its knees. But this
:15:16. > :15:19.country now feels extremely vulnerable, wondering when next
:15:20. > :15:27.attack might come, and how Turkey can stop this slide seething chaos.
:15:28. > :15:32.STUDIO: President Erdogan is promising retribution. Already the
:15:33. > :15:37.Turkish jets have been pounding PKK positions in northern Iraq, and
:15:38. > :15:41.curfews have been imposed on two mainly Kurdish towns in the
:15:42. > :15:45.south-east Turkey. There has been a spate of recent attacks on the
:15:46. > :15:53.capital, last month there was an attack on a military convoy, which
:15:54. > :15:56.killed 28 people. Last October, outside the main railway station,
:15:57. > :16:00.when 100 people died in a double suicide bombing. The target on that
:16:01. > :16:09.occasion was a Kurdish peace rally. I spoke to a colleague from the
:16:10. > :16:13.Turkish BBC service recently. Talking to people in Ankara, there
:16:14. > :16:18.is a growing sense of insecurity, anger and fear. It is now the third
:16:19. > :16:27.attack in the last five months. The total death toll is 169. It creates
:16:28. > :16:31.some sort of fear in the capital. It's the transportation hub, the
:16:32. > :16:40.capital of the capital, in many ways. It's like Trafalgar Square in
:16:41. > :16:44.London. It's a very central area. People criticise whether there might
:16:45. > :16:48.be a lack of security, or whether any measures could have been taken.
:16:49. > :16:51.On the other hand, people are worried about what kind of response
:16:52. > :16:57.the government will take. The immediate reaction was to bomb the
:16:58. > :17:01.PKK targets in northern Iraq. And also in the south-eastern part of
:17:02. > :17:06.Turkey in the Kurdish dominated part of Turkey where a curfew has been
:17:07. > :17:12.imposed. Two more new curfews, one in place tonight from midnight. The
:17:13. > :17:17.war with the PKK has been going on for decades, but the government now
:17:18. > :17:22.is also facing two other threats. Kurdish groups in northern Syria,
:17:23. > :17:28.and the so-called Islamic State. Exactly. Turkey is fighting on many
:17:29. > :17:33.fronts. Isis, the so-called Islamic State, and now the PKK, and also
:17:34. > :17:39.extreme leftist groups. Turkey is now in a position to prove itself as
:17:40. > :17:45.a stable country, because it's sitting at a table in the European
:17:46. > :17:50.Union on the migration crisis. The West wants to see a stable country.
:17:51. > :17:53.Seeing these attacks take place in the capital, the centre of
:17:54. > :17:58.everything, it kind of creates some concerns. On an international level,
:17:59. > :18:03.Turkey has problems with its neighbours and is about to sit on
:18:04. > :18:09.the table for negotiation with Europe. It's a very sensitive moment
:18:10. > :18:14.for Turkey. Turkey is supposed to be the safe haven for refugees, so big
:18:15. > :18:18.implications for Europe. Focusing on business, or oil prices have been
:18:19. > :18:24.rallying in recent weeks. Here is the evidence, the upward trend over
:18:25. > :18:30.the course of the last month, albeit from pretty low beginnings. Today
:18:31. > :18:34.they fell back 3%, cutting back on some of those games. That's because
:18:35. > :18:38.Iran has put off plans to join the nations who want a freeze on
:18:39. > :18:43.production. In February Saudi Arabia struck a deal with Russia and other
:18:44. > :18:49.Opec nations to freeze or oil output at January levels. We can find out
:18:50. > :18:54.what the market is made of it from New York. Not an awful lot, they
:18:55. > :18:57.don't like it at all. I think there's a couple of factors that
:18:58. > :19:03.have driven down the price of oil today. You mentioned Iran pulling
:19:04. > :19:07.out of a deal. That was one way of addressing the problem we have seen,
:19:08. > :19:11.which is that the market is oversupplied with oil, and the fact
:19:12. > :19:16.that Iran has dropped out of this deal means that they will continue
:19:17. > :19:22.to put out as many oil barrels as they want and drop out of the
:19:23. > :19:25.problem of oversupply. When you talk to investors, the problem is that
:19:26. > :19:30.many of them feel that the rally we have seen recently, the fact we have
:19:31. > :19:35.seen oil prices climbing recently, that actually got a bit overdone,
:19:36. > :19:41.and this was a way to walk back from that. On the oil prices, I said it
:19:42. > :19:45.was from low beginnings, but is this the start of improving fortunes for
:19:46. > :19:51.oil producing countries? It's hard to see at the moment. If you look at
:19:52. > :19:56.most forecasts, the anticipation is that oil will remain low for a
:19:57. > :20:00.while. In part, one of the reasons, I mentioned oversupply as being a
:20:01. > :20:05.factor, but the other side of the equation is demand. We have talked
:20:06. > :20:10.in the past about what is happening in China and Europe, generally with
:20:11. > :20:15.fears of a global slowdown, and that means people will potentially need
:20:16. > :20:20.less oil at a time when there is too much supply. The other side of the
:20:21. > :20:26.equation is demand. Is the demand there for oil? If it isn't, there is
:20:27. > :20:31.nothing to drive the prices up. We still need oil for our cars, but how
:20:32. > :20:36.long will we need the drivers? There is a lot of talk about the
:20:37. > :20:44.technology going into driverless cars at the moment. We can talk
:20:45. > :20:52.about the Google car, this is it on many advertised and see might have
:20:53. > :20:55.seen. -- on many advertisements will stop it was all going pretty well
:20:56. > :20:59.until this happened. The Google car is over here on the right-hand side,
:21:00. > :21:06.and it apparently tries to turn into another lane at a time when this bus
:21:07. > :21:10.goes past, it seemed to rub up against it and you can see some
:21:11. > :21:15.commotion on the bus, more animated from the driver! We have some
:21:16. > :21:19.pictures of the damage done. Fortunately nobody was hurt, but you
:21:20. > :21:24.can see a big dent in the side of the car, and a big scratch on the
:21:25. > :21:27.side of the bus. Our North American technology correspondent has been
:21:28. > :21:32.talking to the US secretary of transport about it. I think there is
:21:33. > :21:38.no question that driverless technology presents a lot of
:21:39. > :21:44.potential for disruption on a number of fronts. It's unclear to me now
:21:45. > :21:50.exactly how that future unfolds. What I do know is that we have the
:21:51. > :21:53.potential to reduce 80% of the crashes and accidents that occur.
:21:54. > :21:59.That's not to say there will not be disruption along the way. Recently,
:22:00. > :22:04.the Google car crashed into a bus. It was the first time Google
:22:05. > :22:08.accepted that it was the fault of the on-board computer, that it made
:22:09. > :22:15.the wrong call in pulling out into the boss. Is that a setback for the
:22:16. > :22:21.technology? It's not face a prize that at some point there would be a
:22:22. > :22:25.crash of any technology that's on the road. But I would challenge want
:22:26. > :22:29.to look at the number of crashes occurring on the same day that were
:22:30. > :22:34.the result of human behaviour. I think the question here isn't
:22:35. > :22:38.comparing the automated car against perfection. I think it's a relative
:22:39. > :22:43.comparison to what we have now on the roads, you and I with our
:22:44. > :22:47.eyeballs and brains. Whenever we do a story about self driving cars,
:22:48. > :22:51.everybody says they love driving, they love being out on the open
:22:52. > :22:56.road. How do you feel about that personally? I think there will be an
:22:57. > :22:59.appetite for those of us who have grown up driving vehicles to
:23:00. > :23:04.continue to have them and have fun doing that. But my kids don't know
:23:05. > :23:10.what a typewriter is. This generation doesn't know what it's
:23:11. > :23:14.like to roll up a window on a car, because all cars have automatic
:23:15. > :23:21.windows. Some of this will be generational. STUDIO: Speaking to
:23:22. > :23:25.the secretary for transportation. Nigeria is Africa's's biggest
:23:26. > :23:32.economy but growth is at its slowest pace for a decade. We can head to
:23:33. > :23:36.the north of the country, which used to be a big manufacturing hub, but
:23:37. > :23:44.how easy is it to revive the industry? This is a city that mixes
:23:45. > :23:50.tradition with trade. This is a parade for a royal wedding. This was
:23:51. > :23:58.one of Africa's great commercial hubs, famed for its fabrics, true
:23:59. > :24:03.merchants from across the continent. In recent decades, the winds of
:24:04. > :24:10.global trade blew through the city, leaving devastation in its wake.
:24:11. > :24:16.This factory employed 5000 workers, churning out African prints for
:24:17. > :24:22.traditional dress as well school and military uniforms. Now the blooms
:24:23. > :24:31.are. Once the engine of the textile industry is now a symbol of decline.
:24:32. > :24:36.Competition from China, large scale smuggling and high production costs
:24:37. > :24:43.killed the industry. Just a handful of businesses remain in production.
:24:44. > :24:46.A battle between bureaucracy and constant power cuts. Now the
:24:47. > :24:51.government is offering support to make sure they survive. But one of
:24:52. > :24:57.the managers tells me that they face enormous challenges. There is no
:24:58. > :25:03.food for lazy people, as they say. We have to wake up from our deep
:25:04. > :25:09.slumber, and work hard to ensure that things are happening for
:25:10. > :25:17.economic survival, and economic productivity. Nigeria desperately
:25:18. > :25:23.needs to create jobs. For every worker here, there are dozens on.
:25:24. > :25:29.With almost 2 million young people entering the job market every year,
:25:30. > :25:35.the pressures are building. -- dozens on employed. This university
:25:36. > :25:40.student is confident of getting work because he has contacts. This
:25:41. > :25:46.unemployed man says the Nigerian leaders have done nothing for the
:25:47. > :25:50.younger generation. That's the challenge for the government, either
:25:51. > :25:54.fix the economy or face growing unrest. The past year was glorious,
:25:55. > :25:58.its future is less certain.