14/04/2016 Outside Source


14/04/2016

Similar Content

Browse content similar to 14/04/2016. Check below for episodes and series from the same categories and more!

Transcript


LineFromTo

It's two years since 276 schoolgirls were kidnapped

:00:08.:00:12.

Today a video has emerged appearing to some of the girls.

:00:13.:00:20.

We've got stark language in a new report on Chicago's police

:00:21.:00:23.

force - it's been labelled racist and biased.

:00:24.:00:27.

Big old row at BP after its shareholders rejected a proposed

:00:28.:00:29.

We'll explain both sides of the argument.

:00:30.:00:40.

Another big night of European football. Juergen Klopp against his

:00:41.:00:47.

old club. I'll keep an eye on the score. You watch, if you have

:00:48.:00:54.

questions or comments on these stories, use this hashtag and I will

:00:55.:00:56.

pick up your comments straightaway. The BBC's correspondent in Nigeria

:00:57.:01:13.

is @martinpatience reports that "a government delegation has

:01:14.:01:15.

arrived in #chibok to meet The girls were taken

:01:16.:01:18.

from their school there. Here's Tomi Oladipo on what happened

:01:19.:01:38.

after they were taken . The Secretary-General of the UN has

:01:39.:01:48.

condemned the abduction of schoolgirls. The girls are being

:01:49.:01:52.

forced to trek through a forest. The Islamist militants have caused

:01:53.:01:55.

havoc. It has been two years since Paco

:01:56.:02:01.

hacker -- Boko Haram abducted 276 girls from north-east Nigeria. 57 of

:02:02.:02:07.

the girls escaped but 219 are still missing. You might recall the

:02:08.:02:14.

campaigning that took over social media. The hashtag bring back our

:02:15.:02:19.

girls was endorsed by a wide range of celebrities. One of the campaign

:02:20.:02:23.

groups still meets in the capital Abuja everyday. The Nigerian

:02:24.:02:32.

government initially tried to sidestep the issue but they realise

:02:33.:02:35.

the world was watching and it was forced to admit this was a major

:02:36.:02:39.

crisis. Even then it remained defiant, there were times the

:02:40.:02:44.

military claimed it found the girls or signed a peace agreement only to

:02:45.:02:51.

backtrack on the statement. That has gone and there was a new

:02:52.:02:56.

government. What has changed? It was widely expected the president with

:02:57.:03:00.

his military background would do better in fighting Haram but to

:03:01.:03:07.

bring back the girls. He has been rather bullish, claiming that jihadi

:03:08.:03:11.

group has been defeated. Technically we have won the war. He

:03:12.:03:16.

has not given any good news on the girls.

:03:17.:03:18.

The hashtag is no longer a top trend but if the world moves on, the girls

:03:19.:03:22.

families cannot. They want their girls back home alive.

:03:23.:03:23.

They want their girls back home alive.

:03:24.:03:25.

@BBCAfrica A new Boko Haram video appears

:03:26.:03:29.

to "shows Chibok girls - apparently in December.

:03:30.:03:36.

There was yet another protest in Abuja today.

:03:37.:03:39.

They have come out on behalf of the girls who could not and they are

:03:40.:03:55.

marching towards the presidential palace. Some family members are in

:03:56.:04:01.

the crowd and they want answers from the government, in almost two years

:04:02.:04:08.

not a single one of the girls has been rescued and there is defiance

:04:09.:04:12.

and anger. They want the government to dedicate more resources to

:04:13.:04:17.

finding the girls. We had news of a video emerging, the first time the

:04:18.:04:22.

girls were seen in almost two years. And there is a renewed sense of hope

:04:23.:04:27.

that some of the girls maybe one day will be brought back alive. If you

:04:28.:04:33.

want more information on this story and experiences of those directly

:04:34.:04:37.

affected, go to the BBC News website. This is one article talking

:04:38.:04:44.

to some people who wish the girls would come back soon. Martin's

:04:45.:04:54.

predecessor is based in the newsroom in London. I talked to him earlier

:04:55.:04:59.

about the challenges of getting reliable information on a story like

:05:00.:05:01.

this. I don't know why but it seems to be

:05:02.:05:08.

in Nigeria whenever a story happens there will be three or five versions

:05:09.:05:12.

of it and that is the hardest thing to verify information. Looking back

:05:13.:05:18.

to that extraordinary moment when suddenly the world was told

:05:19.:05:22.

initially more than 300 girls had been abducted, it was almost

:05:23.:05:26.

impossible to verify it. The government said no comment possible,

:05:27.:05:29.

the military said nothing has happened in the area,, the numbers

:05:30.:05:38.

were fluctuating between 150 2/300. Even the headmistress of the school

:05:39.:05:42.

who people spoke to was giving different bits of information that

:05:43.:05:47.

did not make sense when compared with other people. But it was

:05:48.:05:52.

typical that the initial breaking of the news was typical of many stories

:05:53.:05:56.

in Nigeria. The problems are more pronounced in

:05:57.:05:59.

the north-east. The north-east, the biggest problem

:06:00.:06:02.

was communication. The government shutdown mobile phone networks,

:06:03.:06:10.

almost for a year which made communication incredibly hard. It

:06:11.:06:13.

did not help the soldiers because they did not have the radios that

:06:14.:06:18.

would help with their communications to relied on mobile phones so their

:06:19.:06:24.

work was more difficult and Boko Haram was smashing the antennas and

:06:25.:06:27.

breaking down the mobile phone stations so that made it difficult.

:06:28.:06:31.

Yes, when it comes to working out what is going on in the north-east,

:06:32.:06:35.

incredibly difficult. When you are running away from a jihadist attack

:06:36.:06:39.

it is difficult to know what is going on but they came with their

:06:40.:06:43.

stories but that did not match with what the military was telling us or

:06:44.:06:47.

the government of the day. The government of the day did not seem

:06:48.:06:50.

to care much about what was going on in the north-east. The ministers in

:06:51.:06:57.

Abuja and when it came to this, it was a turning point for people in

:06:58.:07:02.

Nigeria and abroad, this feeling that this government, the previous

:07:03.:07:06.

government, it simply does not care about what is happening.

:07:07.:07:10.

When you covered this two years ago, did you imagine a Boko Haram would

:07:11.:07:15.

have the means to take a group this large and keep it away from the

:07:16.:07:19.

Nigerian military and the government for this long no, it seemed beyond

:07:20.:07:26.

anyone's imagination it could go on for two years without a single girl

:07:27.:07:30.

being found. It shows how much of -- how much

:07:31.:07:38.

value the Boko Haram put -- team put in, they realised what a bargaining

:07:39.:07:41.

chip they were because they are using them in terms of negotiating

:07:42.:07:46.

to get their commanders released and to get money and when money is

:07:47.:07:49.

involved, they need negotiations which will become modified call.

:07:50.:07:52.

Have you seen this report on Chicago Police Department?

:07:53.:07:54.

It says the force is both racist and biased.

:07:55.:07:57.

It's the work of a task force set up after a black teenager called

:07:58.:08:03.

Laquan McDonald was shot dead by police in 2014.

:08:04.:08:08.

Listen to the strength some of these lines from it.

:08:09.:08:15.

It says the Chicago Police Force has "no regard

:08:16.:08:21.

"for the sanctity of life when it comes to people of colour".

:08:22.:08:23.

"Racism and maltreatment at the hands of the police have been

:08:24.:08:26.

consistent complaints from communities of

:08:27.:08:28.

The report came out on the same day a new Police Chief took over.

:08:29.:08:35.

This is the video that led to this whole report.

:08:36.:08:56.

It's a dashboard cam capturing the death of Laquan McDonald.

:08:57.:08:58.

Laquan McDonald was 17 - and he was shot 16

:08:59.:09:05.

We highlight him but also the police officer pointing a gun in his

:09:06.:09:23.

direction. If I play the video on, I will not show when he was shot but

:09:24.:09:27.

moments later in the video we see him lying on the floor. We later

:09:28.:09:33.

learned he was shot 16 times in 13 seconds and the officer who killed

:09:34.:09:37.

him was found guilty of first-degree murder.

:09:38.:09:39.

Now to try to get a sense of how this is being

:09:40.:09:41.

viewed in Chicago - here's ABC News.

:09:42.:09:47.

It is a scathing 180 pages indictment of a department described

:09:48.:09:57.

as systemic racists. People feel like the police do not

:09:58.:10:05.

respect their humanity. The police accountability task force found

:10:06.:10:08.

African-Americans are targeted for tougher treatment, blacks make up

:10:09.:10:11.

three and four people stopped by police. And killed and injured by

:10:12.:10:18.

officers. The task force recommends the review be replaced with a new

:10:19.:10:23.

civilian agency. There needs to be more transparency, more serious

:10:24.:10:27.

about the way it approaches investigations. The reports of

:10:28.:10:32.

police cannot police themselves. The CPD fell to track complaints and

:10:33.:10:37.

identify problem officers and the report recommendations to the union

:10:38.:10:40.

contract allowing officers 24 hours to give a statement after shooting.

:10:41.:10:45.

We believe collective bargaining agreements help institutionalise a

:10:46.:10:49.

code of silence. It is easy to point fingers and because we are the union

:10:50.:10:54.

protecting the police officers, we are the bad guys. I don't agree. The

:10:55.:10:59.

report presented to the mayor. The question isn't do we have racism. We

:11:00.:11:06.

do. The question is what to do about it. Many thanks to ABC News for

:11:07.:11:14.

sharing that report. We thought this story would happen on Wednesday.

:11:15.:11:20.

@AP "The speaker of the Ukrainian parliament

:11:21.:11:21.

is elected prime minister amid a months-long political

:11:22.:11:26.

He takes over from Arseniy Yatsenyuk who's done the job since

:11:27.:11:38.

Here's a briefing on the new man from Tom Burridge in Kiev.

:11:39.:11:51.

He is 38, the youngest prime minister in Ukrainian history. He is

:11:52.:11:59.

a close ally of the president Poroshenko. His appointment as prime

:12:00.:12:04.

minister will sharpen the focus on the record of Mr Poroshenko in the

:12:05.:12:10.

role of president. The two men have a Herculean task, they have to get

:12:11.:12:13.

on top of corruption, they have to push reforms through and streamline

:12:14.:12:17.

the bureaucracy of this country which is a hangover from Soviet

:12:18.:12:21.

times. They have to reduce the amount of people working in the

:12:22.:12:25.

government and kick-start an economy which is failing. Not to mention the

:12:26.:12:30.

conflict in the east and the Russian annexation of Crimea. President

:12:31.:12:36.

Putin has had a busy day. doing his annual phone in -

:12:37.:12:39.

we'll pick over the most important We will show you some of the most

:12:40.:12:44.

interesting answers. Here in the UK the leader

:12:45.:12:51.

of the Labour party Jeremy Corbyn has urged his supporters to vote

:12:52.:12:59.

to remain in the European Union in Britain's referendum

:13:00.:13:02.

on membership in June. Mr Corbyn is well known for having

:13:03.:13:04.

criticised many aspects of the EU in the past,

:13:05.:13:06.

but he later denied that his call for the UK to remain

:13:07.:13:09.

a member was half hearted. There is nothing half-hearted about

:13:10.:13:15.

what we are doing or the campaign. There is nothing half hated --

:13:16.:13:21.

half-hearted. I have attended meetings, I have had lengthy

:13:22.:13:25.

conversations with prime ministers and party leaders across Europe on

:13:26.:13:30.

the social justice case, the environmental case, the issues of

:13:31.:13:34.

climate change, trade and steel and those issues. I have made numerous

:13:35.:13:39.

speeches on the subject, there is a big half-hearted about what we are

:13:40.:13:42.

doing, we are putting forward a political agenda about social

:13:43.:13:45.

justice in this country could driving down tax evasion, but were

:13:46.:13:50.

also putting the international case on human rights and justice and

:13:51.:13:52.

social justice across Europe. There's renewed hope

:13:53.:14:03.

for the schoolgirls abducted from the Nigerian town of Chibok two

:14:04.:14:08.

years ago after the uncovery of a video believed

:14:09.:14:11.

to show fifteen of them. BBC World Service is carrying claims

:14:12.:14:22.

by a German media network that documents about a German nuclear

:14:23.:14:25.

research centre were found at the home of Paris attacks

:14:26.:14:27.

suspect Salah Abdeslam. BBC Brasil reports that US health

:14:28.:14:31.

officials have confirmed that the Zika virus in pregnant

:14:32.:14:36.

women does cause birth defects A mother in Wales has been banned

:14:37.:14:39.

from naming her baby Cyanide. The woman also chose the name

:14:40.:14:52.

Preacher for the girl's twin brother saying she had a human right

:14:53.:14:55.

to name her own children. She said Cyanide was a "lovely,

:14:56.:14:58.

pretty name" with positive "connotations as it was the poison

:14:59.:15:06.

taken by Hitler. That story is true, check the BBC

:15:07.:15:13.

website! Vladimir Putin has been holding his

:15:14.:15:17.

annual televised phone in. No-one's short-changed -

:15:18.:15:20.

it's very long. Questions come from

:15:21.:15:24.

members of the public - We watched it all -

:15:25.:15:29.

just in case you didn't want to. We left the Syrian army in a

:15:30.:15:48.

position where with the support of part of the contingent left it could

:15:49.:15:53.

carry out serious offensive operations. Or ready after the

:15:54.:15:57.

withdrawal it has taken pal Meera. It is taken other important

:15:58.:16:02.

strategic settlements. TRANSLATION:

:16:03.:16:11.

It is a part of a media holding belonging to the US financial

:16:12.:16:15.

Corporation Goldman Sachs. The ears of the instigator are sticking up

:16:16.:16:20.

everywhere but they don't even read it.

:16:21.:16:28.

I don't think in the near future our partners will cancel restrictions

:16:29.:16:33.

and limitations towards our country. They will make something up and keep

:16:34.:16:38.

these restrictions. And this means we will keep relevant restrictions

:16:39.:16:41.

on access of their fast goods to our market. It is interesting, we turn

:16:42.:16:54.

to BBC Russia to find out more. I have been following these direct

:16:55.:17:01.

lines for more than 14 years from the first one back in 2001. And in

:17:02.:17:08.

the beginning there were a lot of reports about how people were

:17:09.:17:11.

carefully selected and the questions were carefully selected for those

:17:12.:17:17.

two people were herded into the cameras to ask the President by

:17:18.:17:22.

questions and the whole show was well orchestrated. And that is quite

:17:23.:17:30.

obvious and the show is meant to show the president is perfectly in

:17:31.:17:34.

control of everything. But he answered questions on a range

:17:35.:17:38.

of subjects. He did not dodge the big issues.

:17:39.:17:42.

No, but in a way, yes, some people accuse him. The format of, one

:17:43.:17:50.

question, one answer. It allows the president to evade answers. And if

:17:51.:17:57.

there are questions on issues of a delicate nature, the president

:17:58.:18:03.

sometimes does not tell the whole truth and people do not have the

:18:04.:18:08.

opportunity to enquire further. Were you surprised he was asked

:18:09.:18:12.

about his marriage? No, sometimes they do ask him but

:18:13.:18:18.

there was no answer. No answer. He just said he has great relationship

:18:19.:18:23.

with his former wife who read it first three years ago.

:18:24.:18:28.

Is it popular, it is very long, not as long as Hugo Chavez did on his TV

:18:29.:18:38.

show but it is very long. Now he looks somehow tired of the

:18:39.:18:48.

shows. But, yes, as we know from people do believe him. He spits out

:18:49.:18:53.

a great number of various figures, he says the industrial output is

:18:54.:19:01.

growing and economy is growing. No, it is not. Your official statistics

:19:02.:19:06.

tell if it is not growing but he tells people industrial output is

:19:07.:19:12.

growing and the Russian currency and gold reserves are growing which is

:19:13.:19:16.

simply not true. People do believe it. If you speak Russian, get your

:19:17.:19:21.

news at BBC Russian .com. BP is in the middle of a massive

:19:22.:19:23.

pay row - with itself. The board proposed a pay rise

:19:24.:19:27.

for CEO Bob Dudley of around 20%. That'd mean taking home

:19:28.:19:32.

$19.6 million dollars. BP made a loss of $6.5bn-dollar

:19:33.:19:36.

loss last year. At BP's AGM earlier 60% of

:19:37.:19:46.

shareholders rejected the pay rise. One said "We think it sends

:19:47.:19:53.

the wrong message. That vote's non-binding by the way -

:19:54.:19:55.

so the board doesn't have to listen. BP's chairman has already said

:19:56.:20:02.

'Let me be clear. We hear you.' It's important

:20:03.:20:08.

to note that in 2014, If you compare to BP with its

:20:09.:20:30.

closest rivals, the CEOs of other companies, they get more. I should

:20:31.:20:36.

say their salary has gone down a little and so has the salary of

:20:37.:20:41.

Shell CEO. It went down 77 last year. Clearly, still a lot of money

:20:42.:20:57.

and a controversial topic. He has had something of a bad press, but

:20:58.:21:02.

this is the sky who came into BP at its worst time in the wake of the

:21:03.:21:06.

deep water rising disaster. He steadied the ship, he made it

:21:07.:21:10.

financially viable and did a good job. He has improved safety and

:21:11.:21:16.

environmental standards but remember 2015 was a really bad year for BP.

:21:17.:21:22.

They racked up an operating loss of three points ?6 billion and they're

:21:23.:21:27.

getting rid of 7000 jobs so is now the time to reward the Chief

:21:28.:21:31.

Executive a pay packet of ?14 million? Picking up the live feed

:21:32.:21:39.

from Washington, a statement made by Finance ministers from Europe who

:21:40.:21:46.

are at a World Bank meeting. Five of the largest economies confirmed they

:21:47.:21:51.

will clamp down on tax havens and urging G20 countries to remove the

:21:52.:21:57.

secrecy of shell companies and these countries are agreeing to share

:21:58.:22:01.

information of secret owners of businesses. We will keep listening

:22:02.:22:06.

to that feed and when further news comes out I will share them.

:22:07.:22:12.

Speaking of the World Bank, leaders of the International Monetary Fund

:22:13.:22:15.

have been meeting in Washington and the top of their agenda is the state

:22:16.:22:18.

of the global economy. Michelle Fleury spoke

:22:19.:22:34.

to the World Bank president. The notion you can hide illicit

:22:35.:22:43.

wealth or avoid paying taxes, I hope that will be an idea that gets

:22:44.:22:48.

eroded more and more. For us it is straightforward, when a state

:22:49.:22:51.

officials take state resources or when people don't pay taxes or when

:22:52.:22:57.

corporations don't pay taxes it is bad for the poorest. Even in the

:22:58.:23:02.

official tax systems in many countries they are more aggressive

:23:03.:23:07.

in developing countries than in the developed countries which is the

:23:08.:23:11.

opposite of what you want to see. Oxfam revealed this week that 84% of

:23:12.:23:20.

loans from the private sector go to sub-Saharan Africa but end up in

:23:21.:23:26.

offshore tax havens. What do you say to taxpayers in developed nations

:23:27.:23:30.

who are worried about where their development money ends up?

:23:31.:23:35.

When the money is given to us, we ordered every project, we have an

:23:36.:23:39.

entire team looking at corruption, most of the reports of corruption in

:23:40.:23:43.

the projects come from our own staff, our own staff know we have to

:23:44.:23:48.

watch out for these corrupt practices so if you want to look at

:23:49.:23:51.

an organisation that follows the money carefully, we are best

:23:52.:23:57.

equipped to do it because so many other people are finance people and

:23:58.:24:02.

follow the accounts so I would say to taxpayers you have nothing to

:24:03.:24:06.

worry about in terms of the World Bank group. Staying in America

:24:07.:24:07.

are... 40,000 workers of Verizon -

:24:08.:24:08.

the largest American telecoms company -

:24:09.:24:10.

remain on strike. They're protesting cuts

:24:11.:24:13.

to health care and pensions. Live from New York, I mentioned the

:24:14.:24:25.

core issues but give us more details about why they feel a strike is

:24:26.:24:28.

necessary? Well, basically these 40,000 workers

:24:29.:24:36.

have been out of contract since August because they have not been

:24:37.:24:40.

able to come to an agreement with the management about health care

:24:41.:24:45.

payments and pensions. The workers say the company is trying to make it

:24:46.:24:48.

easier to lay them off to replace them with contract workers, despite

:24:49.:24:57.

the company making a quite a decent profit and if anything, the protest

:24:58.:25:01.

which started yesterday got quite a lot of publicity when Bernie

:25:02.:25:05.

Sanders, one of the presidential candidates, joined the rally

:25:06.:25:10.

yesterday calling it the poster child of corporate greed. The

:25:11.:25:13.

company CEO has been fighting back saying that Bernie Sanders's

:25:14.:25:19.

comments are based on ignorance about how the company does not pay

:25:20.:25:23.

tax, the CEO has been paying millions in taxes and the comments

:25:24.:25:31.

are nonsense but that kind of heated debate got quite a lot of publicity,

:25:32.:25:36.

even though despite the protest we have not seen any of the service

:25:37.:25:40.

disruptions to much although I should say the protest is ongoing,

:25:41.:25:44.

there are more events being planned for late in the week. We could see

:25:45.:25:50.

some real impact. Good to talk to you. Thank you. We end this half in

:25:51.:25:55.

New York. I will speak to you in a few moments time.

:25:56.:26:07.

We will update you on the European weather seen in a moment but firstly

:26:08.:26:14.

towards the Middle East when not for the first time in recent days some

:26:15.:26:18.

areas have seen torrential rain, flash floods, the good news is drier

:26:19.:26:22.

conditions are

:26:23.:26:23.

Download Subtitles

SRT

ASS