31/03/2016 Outside Source

Hello, I'm Nuala McGovern, this is Outside Source.

At least 18 people are dead after a flyover collapsed

Emergency services continue to work frantically to rescue people trapped

Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump

This time it's for his comments on abortion.

Katty Kay will be with me to talk us through the story.

The West Indies have beaten India to reach the final of cricket's

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Donald Trump is in the news again, this time for his comments

The Republican hopeful said in an interview that if abortion

were made illegal, women should be held responsible and punished

But hours later he issued a clarification, saying

doctors should be legally responsible, not women.

So far so normal, another town hall, another interview, another highly

provacative comment from the Republican front runner.

This time on abortion, and what should happen to women

who have the procedure if it has been outlawed.

You do believe in punishment in principle?

The answer is that there has to be some form of punishment.

Yes, there has to be some punishment.

You take positions on everything else.

I take positions and it's a very complicated position.

Then things went askew, yes, he was under fire from some

To punish a woman for having an abortion is beyond comprehension.

What he said today is just among the most outrageous and dangerous

statements I have heard anybody running for president say

What he hadn't anticipated was that his own backers would pile

I don't think he was prepared and I don't think

He had to walk it back and issue a statement to clarify

It was a terrible answer, no one will defend what he said,

because the idea of, well, we have do have some punishment,

and even in his answer it looked as though he was fumbling around

The statement was a spectacular U-turn.

Donald Trump is in Washington today meeting his foreign policy advisers,

but perhaps when he needs most help is with women.

Since issuing the statement last night to has had nothing to say

about the controversy on social media - very unusual for him.

For the first time we have seen Donald Trump on the run

Let's cross to my colleague Katty Kay in Washington DC. Good to have

you back with us, Katty. Another day, another Donald Trump headline,

I don't know how many we are hitting so far, probably seven. But let's

have a look at the larger picture for the Republican field, perhaps,

to begin with. Generally speaking, I would say when

Donald Trump says something outrageous and gets nonstop media

coverage it seems to be good for his campaign. That has been the case

every time. Whatever the controversial statement, however

outrageous the press seems to think it is, the poll mums go up. I think

this may be different because women in America decide elections. They

are the swing voters, if you like. Donald Trump has a problem in the

polls with women. He has something like a 20% gap between his support

among men and his support among women. If he wants to win the

nomination and the presidency, he has to close that gap. Comments like

the one he made on abortion and the fact that women who have abortion

should be punished, do nothing to endear him to swing voters,

especially female voters. And he has changed his position when

it comes to the issue of abortion, described previously as pro-choice,

now he calls himself pro-life. How important is it as an issue in the

electorate? A decade ago, rum thrum rum described him as very, very

pro-choice. So there is some scepticism among Christian

conservatives for whom it is an issue, as to whether he is pro-

choice or pro-life. You would think that would really hurt him in the

polls but looking at the primary races, Donald Trump has done well

amongst the evangelical voters. They have seemed to have said, he is a

little squishy on the issue, we don't know what his issue is, if he

is as pro- life as we like him to be but we are voting him any way. What

is different this time around is that the pro-life community, the

Christian conservatives have come out against Donald Trump as

indignantly as the pro- choice. That has prompted this unique U-turn that

he made on a policy issue. We have eight months until the big

day. How would you describe the landscape, I know, how would you

describe the landscape now? What should our viewers be watching for?

You have to give him the odds-on favourite of being the Republican

nominee. Yes this put him in trouble, yes the poll numbers are

slipping in the next crucial primary, that is Wisconsin next

Tuesday, where he is behind Ted Cruz. But he still has the most

number of delegates so far. He is still the front runner on the

Republican race. On the Democrat side, where we have not spoken as

much, Donald Trump seems to suck up the oxygen in the race, Hillary

Clinton is getting a tough run from Bernie Saunders. He is staying in

the race longer that Hillary Clinton thought. But she mainly looks like

becoming the nom flee for the Democrat. So Clintan more likely to

be the Democrat nominee, than Donald Trump, the Republican nominee. It is

an interesting race. Katty Kay, thank you very much.

Speaking to Outside Source about that US presidential election.

Once again, Qatar is facing accusations of worker abuse leading

The country had previously been accused of treating

And Qatar has repeatedly said it's working to improve

The new accusation centres around the construction

building: the flagship Khalifa International Stadium

Amnesty International says forced labour was used in the construction.

Yet again Qatari authorities face accusations of human rights abuses

in their country. Now World Cup workers are affected. Amnesty

International secretly interviewed 230 of them, over allegations that

they were paid lower salaries than promised and were forced to work

against their will. Forced labour persists as employees had to hand

over power to employers, who control when they leave the country or

change jobs. The government says a law in December will change that to

allow workers to appeal if they are denied an exit permit. But the

United Nations watchdog is sceptical, giving Qatar until March

2017 to prove that the reforms work or it will launch an official

inquiry. So five years after Qatar won the chance to host the Fifa

World Cup, why aren't the workers' rights guaranteed in one of the

wealthiest countries on earth? If the new leadership of Fifa is

watching this for the next six years between now and the World Cup and

the end up there in 2022, and the World Cup is built on the back off

the exploitation of labourer it will be shameful.

Fifa say that they take the allegations seriously and action has

been taken. There have been four companies

covered. One company has been banned from the project. And they have to

make progress on delivering commitments to the standards.

Another company has become a benchmark in how to comply with the

standards and malters improved significantly.

Soon 32,000 more migrants will start work on World Cup projects where

right now serious accusations of abuse continue to play out under the

eyes of the authorities that promised things would change.

It was a defeat that silenced the crowd in Mumbai.

West Indies beat the cricket mad nation India, to deny it a chance

to go onto the World Twenty Twenty final.

India thought Virat Kohli had done enough to power them to victory.

It was a defeat the host nation didn't expect -

as our correspondent in Mumbai, Sameer Hashmi told me earlier.

The build up was huge. From the timing of qualifying to the

semi-finals. You saw people anticipating that India would go on

and reach the finals. Most people expected that. We went to the

stadium earlier in the day. We met many people there. Everyone

confident that India would be the winners. As the tournament is

happening in India, everyone thought India the favourites to win this as

the team have been playing well. After the defeat, the people here

were so disappointed that they could not believe India lost. Most thought

that they would go on. So a big disappointment for a country that

loves cricket so much. Cricket is a religion over here! How

would you describe it? Why didn't they win? They are the favourites?

They are at home? Well, T20 is a funny game. India got the danger man

Gale out in the second over. Everyone thought that they had the

match. But there was a strong partnership between Charles and

Samuels that built a foundation. And the middle order came to the

rescue and they continued. What cost India the match was two wickets.

Both time as no ball so they could not claim the wicket. That was

expensive for India. I would say that was the turning point.

I would say that was the turning point.

Five players from the United States women's football team have filed

a federal complaint alleging unequal pay.

The World and Olympic champion squad members are accusing US Soccer

of wage discrimination, insisting they should be paid

They say they are not not being treated equally with men.

Let's get more from from Kate Dailey, who has been

Good to have you with us, Kate. Talk us through some of the issues that

the women players say are unequal? They have filed a suit with the

equal employment and opportunity community in the US that looks into

whether or not men and women are paid the same amount for the same

work. What the women are saying is not only are they not paid the same

amount for the same work but are paid less for better work. The

women's television ratings for the World Cup broke records. The women's

teams won championships, World Cups, the men have not done so well. The

women are bringing in a lot more money for the 2017 year that they

$5 million profit while the men $5 million profit while the men

operating a $1 million loss. So the women saying doing better, making

more money and in some cases a lot more money. In some cases when the

men show up to games or friendlies, they are given $5,000 for showing

up, the women less than half, and only if they win. So the women are

saying that they have been patient. Waiting for the league to do the

right thing, now they are not going to wait. It is not just about the

money but many other issues in how women are treated. In the World Cup

last year, there were issues about whether or not women would play on

turf. It means more injuries, poorer ball play. So these women have said,

enough is enough. We are tired of waiting, that they want the league

to step up and do the right thing. Really trillioning, Kate thank you

very much. We'll keep an eye on that story.

Later we bring you the report on Palmyra to the programme.

Ronnie Corbett, a comic legend and one half of the Two Ronnies

double act, has died at the age of 85.

He passed away in hospital surrounded by his family.

I look down on him because I am upper-class.

I look up to him because he is upper-class.

But I look down on him because he is lower class.

By the time he recorded that famous sketch with

John Cleese and Ronnie Barker, Ronnie Corbett was already

But it was the Two Ronnies with Ronnie Barker

They brought genial comedy into peoples' homes.

Chosen subject is to answer the question before.

When they reunited for a Royal Variety Show

years later it was clear how much they had been laughed.

years later it was clear how much they had been loved.

We always say a one-off, and he certainly was a one-off

His particular contribution were the monologues he delivered

from an easy chair, often including jokes about his own height.

The younger generation of comics like Harry Enfield viewed him

And many grew up watching one of Britain's's most loved comedy

For the last time, it is good night from me...

This is Outside Source live from the BBC newsroom.

Our lead story is: At least 18 are dead after a flyover collapsed

Dozens more people are thought to be trapped under the rubble.

The president of Afghanistan, Ashraf Ghani has told the BBC he has

no sympathy for the thousands of people trying

Afghans are the second largest group of migrants trying

This graph shows the number of asylum applications by country

Yalda Hakim has been speaking to the Afghan president.

They began by talking about the country's future.

We will survive. We survived in 2015. 2015 was a test of you are

vial. Is survival what Afghanistan is

measured again? No. No. It is measured vis-a-vis Syria,

vis-a-vis... The bar, unfortunately, has been lowered but that is not the

bar Which? Our people measure themselves. Why is there a mass

exodus in this country? As I explained, we are a poor society.

This is not the first time these people have moved. We have to make a

commitment. 549 young men and women graduated from the military academy.

They are making a commitment to defend this country. Others on whom

we have spent... Hundreds of millions of dollars want to leave

under the slightest pressure. It is not the slightest pressure,

though, the last year has seen the worst form of violence.

Is it better elsewhere? Well they seem to think so. They are making

that very dangerous journey. Please. The journey is made

voluntarily. They are paying $10,000, $30,000. They are

impoverishing their families in order to make the journey as that

journey was based on false assumptions. But they have made a

choice to leave. When they leave they break the social contract. This

needs to be understood. Theirs have an existential choice. Countries

don't survive by their best attempting to flee. So I have no

sympathy. My goal is to make sure that my

people live with dignity, with hope and with determination.

Is this a country at war? Yes. It's a country that is become the

platform for a regional and global war.

We are at war but we are not at Civil War. The war between our

fronts is a very small component of regional and global. Al-Qaeda,

unfortunately, has gone deep and dark but it is fully alive. While

Daesh captures the news we need to focus, otherwise, God forbid we will

have another surprise. How is it that the Taliban are

stronger than ever today in Afghanistan? Because their regional

support work is in tact. So is Pakistan playing a double

game? It is for others to react. Do you think that they are playing a

double game. We engage with Pakistan. We defined

the problem. I have said from the time of my visit last year to

Pakistan, that it is an endeclared war between us. It is an undeclared

state of hostility between us, we need to end it. We have made

significant progress on paper to the quadry lateral process, now we need

to see whether there is going to be a clearance to those commitments or

whether what you call a double game is being played.

On Monday we brought you the news that the Syrian town of Palmyra had

been retaken by the Syrian army, after 10 months of occupation

The area is home to many historically important

Islamic State made headlines around the world

by destroying many of the best known.

Assaf Abboud from BBC Arabic was one of the first journalists

Last month, a gorilla was born at Bristol Zoo in England.

What was special about her delivery was that it happened

Staff say she's doing well, and has even been given

The Zoo said we could take our cameras to film her,

Lindsey looks like any proud mum, carrying a newborn through the park.

But look closely in her sling, this is a seven-week-old baby

It was on a Friday last month that she was born in a rare

Caesarean operation when her mother became unwell.

Until Mum has fully recovered, Afia needs to be hand reared

by staff at Bristol Zoo.

Which even involves taking her home with them at night.

Lindsey told me that she sleeps with Afia downstairs

while her husband and two human children sleep upstairs.

I get my bed set up for the evening, I might watch a bit of telly

and have a cup of tea, but I'm always aware of feeds

and trying to get myself some sleep in between them.

Just like you are when you have young babies at home.

You are snatching sleep where you can.

My husband jokes, we could have a third one,

Zookeepers say the priority is to get Afia back with her gorilla

family where the public can see her, but it will take time,

first she has to get to know her relatives like Dad,

Jock, and if her real mum can't bring her up then Auntie Remina

is said to be showing maternal interest.

In the meantime, though, she has got Lindsey.

Outside Source is back with you on Monday, I do hope you can join us

then but for me and the team in London, goodbye.