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Hello, I'm Karen Giannone E, this is Outside Source. Reports from Syria | :00:12. | :00:20. | |
said dozens of people have been killed in an air strike on a refugee | :00:21. | :00:26. | |
camp. Strong winds help spread the Canada wildfire, forcing three more | :00:27. | :00:31. | |
communities to evacuate. You can feel the heat commit this is insane. | :00:32. | :00:42. | |
Amazing scenes in Kennaugh, as this woman and three others are rescued | :00:43. | :00:45. | |
from the ruins of a building, six days after it collapsed. Also the | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
latest on the Europa League semifinals going on right now. | :00:50. | :01:05. | |
Let's start with that developing story coming out of Syria. Activists | :01:06. | :01:11. | |
say an air strike has hit a refugee camp in the north of the country. | :01:12. | :01:16. | |
This is the latest information we have got in. Reuters news agency | :01:17. | :01:19. | |
saying at least 28 people have been killed. They are quoting the Syrian | :01:20. | :01:23. | |
Observatory for human rights, also reporting women and children have | :01:24. | :01:28. | |
died in the attack. Already we are seeing some disturbing pictures | :01:29. | :01:32. | |
coming out, reportedly the aftermath of the attack, showing at least a | :01:33. | :01:35. | |
dozen tents burned to the ground. It is not yet clear is responsible for | :01:36. | :01:41. | |
this. Let's just show you exactly where this is taking place, a camp | :01:42. | :01:47. | |
for internally displaced people in Syria, near the Turkish border. The | :01:48. | :01:51. | |
camp is home to thousands of people who have fled from the war in Iraq | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
-- surrounding provinces. What sort of information is urging? What we're | :01:57. | :02:04. | |
hearing from activists is at least 28 people have been killed. | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
Apparently that includes women and children. Certainly what we are | :02:10. | :02:11. | |
hearing from all of the people at the camp, there are quotes from | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
people at the camp, they are saying it was an air strike, and they are | :02:17. | :02:20. | |
blaming either Russia or the Syrian military for carrying it out. At | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
this stage an OBE has come out and said it was asked? We have had no | :02:26. | :02:28. | |
confirmation of this but that is what the ball on the ground believe. | :02:29. | :02:32. | |
We have had a statement from the White House, in which they condemn | :02:33. | :02:35. | |
this attack, they say they also believe it was an air strike. The | :02:36. | :02:41. | |
softest of soft targets, a refugee camp, with people who have run away | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
from this kind of thing. We think, though we can't be sure, that over | :02:47. | :02:49. | |
the past couple of weeks a lot of people have fled from the major city | :02:50. | :02:58. | |
of Aleppo, only about 30 miles away. We understand what people under this | :02:59. | :03:01. | |
area because it is very close close to the Turkish border, a lot of | :03:02. | :03:04. | |
camps there, so it could have been people fleeing from Aleppo, where | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
there has been horrific violence over the last couple of weeks. Such | :03:10. | :03:13. | |
a sensitive time, particularly with all of the discussions over the | :03:14. | :03:21. | |
truce, such a shaky truce. It is hypersensitive right now. There has | :03:22. | :03:24. | |
been a lot of talk about this nationwide ceasefire that came into | :03:25. | :03:26. | |
force at the end of February, that it was falling apart. That actually | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
was because of that violence I was talking about in Aleppo. Then, | :03:32. | :03:35. | |
ironically over the last 24 hours or so, we have had a major push by the | :03:36. | :03:41. | |
Americans, and with the Russians. They manage to get agreement from | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
the different sides fighting in Aleppo, that they would actually | :03:46. | :03:48. | |
hold some kind of truce. That has actually worked quite well. But now | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
if this is an air strike and it has been carried out by the Syrian | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
regime or by Russia, that would be another very big blow for the | :03:59. | :04:04. | |
nationwide ceasefire. At this stage, nothing confirmed as yet. No, but | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
certainly people can believe it was an air strike. What we also knows | :04:10. | :04:13. | |
that this was in the north-west of Syria, very close to the Turkish | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
border. That is mostly in the hands of rebel forces. It is a big mix of | :04:18. | :04:24. | |
rebel forces, the more moderate ones, the free Syrian army but also | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
the more radical groups, such as the Al must reference, the Al-Qaeda | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
affiliated ones. Thank you for updating us. Let's take you back to | :04:34. | :04:39. | |
the situation in Canada right now. An urgent emergency situation, a | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
state of emergency declared in the Canadian province of Alberta. A huge | :04:44. | :04:49. | |
wildfire continued to engulf the city of Fort McMurray. The entire | :04:50. | :04:53. | |
city has been evacuated, and that has forced 88,000 people to leave | :04:54. | :05:01. | |
their homes. The fire has been driven on by fierce winds. It has | :05:02. | :05:04. | |
already gutted around 1600 buildings. There is a warning that | :05:05. | :05:12. | |
the next 34 hours will be critical. One of those forced to flee, he has | :05:13. | :05:19. | |
lived in Fort McMurray for around ten years. Let's show you what he | :05:20. | :05:20. | |
filmed as he was rushing to safety. A hasty sit. It might have been the | :05:21. | :05:51. | |
last time I saw my house Rafa. -- right there. Trying to make a hasty | :05:52. | :05:58. | |
exit. The last time I ever saw my house. | :05:59. | :06:12. | |
We don't know what has happened to his house, but we know he is OK. We | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
spoke to him a short while before we came on air. Unseasonably hot | :06:18. | :06:24. | |
temperatures combined with dry conditions has transformed much of | :06:25. | :06:30. | |
Alberta into a tinderbox. They are praising the Herculean efforts of | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
the firefighters. Our primary task is preservation of life. This is a | :06:36. | :06:43. | |
very serious fire we are working with, comet has orally taken on a | :06:44. | :06:48. | |
city. Our team on the ground is getting as close as they safely can | :06:49. | :06:53. | |
to eat area. Here is our correspondence, James Cook. 20 | :06:54. | :07:00. | |
kilometres or so outside the city. Why are we here? This is the cord | :07:01. | :07:03. | |
on, no one is allowed any further than this apart from essential | :07:04. | :07:09. | |
workers. You will see in a minute I think a lorry appearing in the shop. | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
This is because the fire is still burning along this road. We can see | :07:15. | :07:20. | |
the smoke from it down there on the road. I can smell it in the, I can | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
taste it, as she is occasionally small bits of ash flowing through | :07:25. | :07:27. | |
the air. The fire very much continuing to burn. It has moved | :07:28. | :07:32. | |
south. We are south of Fort McMurray and it has threatened three other | :07:33. | :07:34. | |
communities which were evacuated last night. More people having to | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
flee down to the south to Edmonton, the main city to the south, well | :07:40. | :07:45. | |
over 80,000 evacuees. Other people effectively trapped to the north. | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
This is the only route out, Highway 63, the only to get out. But people | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
did flee to the north because they were unable to get through to the | :07:55. | :07:57. | |
city to the south. They asked at essentially in oil camps. This is | :07:58. | :08:05. | |
the oil sounds region of Alberta. We are told they are not in imminent | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
danger but there is some concern about what direction the fire might | :08:10. | :08:15. | |
take next. Why is this fire so ferocious, why does it keep going | :08:16. | :08:22. | |
like this? The conditions are simply exceptionally dry, a lot of | :08:23. | :08:26. | |
brushwood, fuel for the fire. It has been fanned by winds that die down | :08:27. | :08:29. | |
this morning but up against now. It is breezy now. It was very hot | :08:30. | :08:35. | |
yesterday, around 30 Celsius, temperature today forecast to get to | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
19 Celsius, but that is still warm for this time of year. That | :08:40. | :08:44. | |
combination is just fuelling this fire, make it very difficult for the | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
firefighters to stop it. Dirkie's primer Nistor has urged his party | :08:50. | :08:52. | |
not to fall apart after announcing he won't stand again as its lady. | :08:53. | :09:01. | |
Ahmet Davutoglu's relationship with the | :09:02. | :09:07. | |
this could worry many Western leaders who find Dirkie's divisive | :09:08. | :09:13. | |
leader difficult to handle. In his speech today, Ahmet Davutoglu said | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
he has always supported President further one. TRANSLATION: I will | :09:19. | :09:24. | |
maintain my loyalty to our president until my last. No one has ever heard | :09:25. | :09:29. | |
a word from me against our president and never will. I would like this to | :09:30. | :09:34. | |
beat and clearly and I won't let this be exploited. The honour of our | :09:35. | :09:43. | |
president, as president of the Turkish Republic, is my honour. | :09:44. | :09:50. | |
His successor will be chosen when congress meets | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
This is one of the early contenders - | :09:56. | :09:58. | |
Transport Minister Binali Yildirim, he's known to be close | :09:59. | :10:00. | |
The other name being floated is Energy Minister Berat Albayrak, | :10:01. | :10:03. | |
So what do Turkish citizens make of this? | :10:04. | :10:06. | |
TRANSLATION: Of course this is a surprising development at it was | :10:07. | :10:20. | |
also expected. It was obvious there would be a rift between them. The | :10:21. | :10:25. | |
president wants to introduce an executive presidency, so he gets rid | :10:26. | :10:31. | |
of every obstacle in the way. TRANSLATION: At this rate, we will | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
dive into chaos. I do know how he crises we have had. The Prime | :10:37. | :10:41. | |
Minister was a good man. I love him. His departure would be good. | :10:42. | :10:49. | |
TRANSLATION: This is an excellent situation. He wasn't happy with the | :10:50. | :10:52. | |
Prime Minister. He will bring in someone who works hard. It is not | :10:53. | :10:55. | |
good to oppose everything. It was the right decision. Mark Lowen is in | :10:56. | :11:02. | |
Ankara, and I asked him whether he thought the Prime Minister jumped or | :11:03. | :11:09. | |
was pushed? There was a pretty stormy meeting last night between | :11:10. | :11:11. | |
the president and the Prime Minister to try to reconcile their | :11:12. | :11:14. | |
differences and try to heal a strong rift at the top of Turkish politics. | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
But it didn't work. Ahmet Davutoglu when he was appointed a couple of | :11:19. | :11:22. | |
years ago, it was thought he was going to be rather a puppet to | :11:23. | :11:25. | |
President erred again but has actually stood up to him on several | :11:26. | :11:36. | |
occasions. -- President further one. -- President Erdogan. As you heard | :11:37. | :11:39. | |
in that clip that person on the street he was against the idea of an | :11:40. | :11:47. | |
executive presidency. That is his pet project. The fact he did not | :11:48. | :11:52. | |
support that meant he lost the support of the president. We now | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
expect a much more obedient primary stood to take his place. Why does | :11:57. | :12:01. | |
what happens in Turkish politics matter so much also outside Turkey? | :12:02. | :12:05. | |
A very good question. This is not just internal party politicking, it | :12:06. | :12:12. | |
is defining the direction of the world's 17th largest economy, Nato's | :12:13. | :12:16. | |
second-largest army. A country negotiating its membership to the | :12:17. | :12:20. | |
European Union, the West's crucial ally in the Middle East, and what is | :12:21. | :12:27. | |
happening here is that President further one, a very divisive | :12:28. | :12:32. | |
president, who you either love all those, is tightening control of this | :12:33. | :12:40. | |
country -- President Erdogan. The critics are calling it a coup by him | :12:41. | :12:46. | |
and Stan elected Prime Minister. In the West it will be met with some | :12:47. | :12:56. | |
unease. He has an abrasive style. There will be dismay in some western | :12:57. | :13:02. | |
capitals that President Erdogan has a significant support base. European | :13:03. | :13:07. | |
leaders in particular in rather a difficult position when it comes to | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
dealing with Mr Erdogan, considering how much they need Turkey's | :13:12. | :13:15. | |
cooperation with the micro-crisis for instance. They do, and Turkey | :13:16. | :13:22. | |
has been the key to the migrant rivals in -- arrivals in Greece | :13:23. | :13:29. | |
coming. Down from 10,000 a day back in October. Turkey has really been | :13:30. | :13:34. | |
on board in curving that migrant crisis, but that is why there has | :13:35. | :13:38. | |
been less criticism of President Erdogan on clamping down on free | :13:39. | :13:41. | |
speech and human rights than some people would have liked. Because | :13:42. | :13:44. | |
Europe needs Turkey on board, and that is why Brussels is getting | :13:45. | :13:48. | |
criticism for not sticking to its principles, for kowtowing to the | :13:49. | :13:51. | |
president rather than holding him to account about the rather decaying | :13:52. | :13:53. | |
sense of democracy here. The head of Bangladesh's | :13:54. | :14:04. | |
largest Islamist party, has lost a final appeal | :14:05. | :14:06. | |
against the death penalty. The supreme court upheld | :14:07. | :14:08. | |
the sentence imposed He was convicted for his role, | :14:09. | :14:10. | |
in crimes committed during the country's war | :14:11. | :14:13. | |
of independence against Pakistan While some, celebrated the decision | :14:14. | :14:15. | |
- his party has called Motiur Rahman Nizami is facing | :14:16. | :14:36. | |
execution. He will be given a few days to take the decision whether to | :14:37. | :14:39. | |
ask for presidential clemency or not. The 71-year-old is convicted of | :14:40. | :14:46. | |
rape and torture. The court said he helped the Pakistani army to kill | :14:47. | :14:51. | |
leading Bangladeshi intellectuals just a few days before the country | :14:52. | :14:54. | |
got independence. Prosecutors say this is a victory for the people who | :14:55. | :14:59. | |
lost their family during Bangladesh's War of independence | :15:00. | :15:02. | |
against Pakistan. They also said Justice has been served after 45 | :15:03. | :15:06. | |
years. Motiur Rahman Nizami is leading the largest Islamist | :15:07. | :15:14. | |
political party. Motiur Rahman Nizami has denounced the verdict and | :15:15. | :15:16. | |
called for nationwide protest on Sunday. | :15:17. | :15:25. | |
The Prime Minister sat on the war crimes tribunal in 2010, since 2010 | :15:26. | :15:32. | |
three leaders of the family have been executed. Both executions have | :15:33. | :15:35. | |
been followed by nationwide protests. Still to come here on | :15:36. | :15:44. | |
Outside Source, how to cope with reality for people suffering from | :15:45. | :15:45. | |
phobias by using virtual reality. The government and striking junior | :15:46. | :15:59. | |
doctors in England have agreed to a fresh round of talks to resolve | :16:00. | :16:01. | |
their dispute over the introduction of a new contract. Health editor | :16:02. | :16:10. | |
Hugh Pym reports. Certainly a lot more so than 24 hours ago because | :16:11. | :16:13. | |
then the two sides were as far apart as ever. The BMA was planning a | :16:14. | :16:17. | |
meeting on Saturday which could have resulted in an escalation of the | :16:18. | :16:21. | |
strikes, possibly to a continuous series of strikes across hospitals | :16:22. | :16:26. | |
in England, and the government were saying we want to carry on with | :16:27. | :16:29. | |
imposition. That is the position, that is where we will be. Then | :16:30. | :16:33. | |
overnight we have this proposal from medical leaders, which initially was | :16:34. | :16:36. | |
dismissed by the government, saying we don't want to halt any of our | :16:37. | :16:40. | |
planning. Then they look hard at it this morning. Their version of | :16:41. | :16:43. | |
events at the Department of Health is that they took a look at the | :16:44. | :16:47. | |
detail, and thought if the BMA really are prepared to talk about | :16:48. | :16:51. | |
Saturday pay, a very important issue as far as the government is | :16:52. | :16:55. | |
concerned, let's go into it, the BMA having already accepted the idea. | :16:56. | :17:02. | |
You are watching Outside Source, live from the BBC. The top story, | :17:03. | :17:07. | |
there are reports that thousands of people have been killed in an air | :17:08. | :17:13. | |
strike on a refugee in Syria. Who is the other parts of the BBC are | :17:14. | :17:17. | |
reporting on right now. Zimbabwe is set to print its own version of the | :17:18. | :17:22. | |
US dollar in order to ease a cash shortage. That story has been | :17:23. | :17:28. | |
covered by BBC Africa. BBC Arabic is reporting on a concert in the | :17:29. | :17:33. | |
ancient city of Palmyra, that was recently recaptured from so-called | :17:34. | :17:37. | |
Islamic State. The Russian conductor has been performing there with his | :17:38. | :17:41. | |
orchestra. Among the most read stories online, Craig Wright, the | :17:42. | :17:45. | |
entrepreneur who claims to be the inventor of bit coin reneging on a | :17:46. | :17:49. | |
promise to present new proof to support his case. An amazing story | :17:50. | :17:58. | |
about how psychologists have found that virtual reality can be used to | :17:59. | :18:03. | |
treat people with severe paranoia. Researchers at Oxford University and | :18:04. | :18:10. | |
courage patients wearing headsets to enter computer-generated | :18:11. | :18:11. | |
environments that would make them anxious in real life, like walking | :18:12. | :18:17. | |
into a crowded lift. This is the kind of everyday situation that | :18:18. | :18:19. | |
someone with severe paranoia would avoid. They fall sleep believed | :18:20. | :18:27. | |
others are trying to harm them. This virtual choo journey could be a way | :18:28. | :18:33. | |
of combating those fears. I tried out the system, designed by | :18:34. | :18:37. | |
psychologists at Oxford University, funded by the medical research | :18:38. | :18:43. | |
council. I will turn around, and go back to a chap here with a red | :18:44. | :18:51. | |
shirt. DDR is an immersive experience. It feels realistic but | :18:52. | :18:56. | |
you know it is not reality -- the VR. The team found was no successful | :18:57. | :19:02. | |
in reducing the participants's sense of paranoia when they were | :19:03. | :19:05. | |
encouraged to lower their defences, go to advertise -- avatars and | :19:06. | :19:10. | |
realise they did not pose any threats. Toby knows what it is like | :19:11. | :19:15. | |
to suffer severe paranoia. Diagnosed with schizophrenia more than 20 | :19:16. | :19:19. | |
years ago, he is now being successfully treated, but even | :19:20. | :19:23. | |
walking down a street used to make anxious. They were what people call | :19:24. | :19:29. | |
persecutory voices, so basically they were having a go at me and it | :19:30. | :19:32. | |
made it very difficult to go outside, to interact with people. I | :19:33. | :19:39. | |
found, session is very difficult. Toby agreed to try out the VR system | :19:40. | :19:44. | |
for us. What did he make of it? Go toe to toe with that person. Toe to | :19:45. | :19:52. | |
toe? How are you feeling? I feel OK actually now. I think if I go on a | :19:53. | :19:59. | |
Tube train now I will certainly remember the virtual reality | :20:00. | :20:01. | |
spurious, yes, so I suppose that will stay with me. And be a positive | :20:02. | :20:08. | |
experience, yes. The study in the British Journal of psychology, | :20:09. | :20:12. | |
showed that after just half an hour in the virtual setting, many of the | :20:13. | :20:16. | |
30 patients who took part showed substantial reductions in their | :20:17. | :20:22. | |
delusions. There is a revolution in VR at the moment, many headsets | :20:23. | :20:26. | |
going on at the moment, it is very good and affordable and that we can | :20:27. | :20:29. | |
use in psychiatric wards and clinics but also people's homes. And with | :20:30. | :20:35. | |
virtual reality getting increasingly realistic, many believe it may | :20:36. | :20:39. | |
eventually play a major role in the treatment of mental health. We | :20:40. | :20:44. | |
wanted to share with you some of the amazing pictures coming from | :20:45. | :20:48. | |
Kennaugh, where four people have been pulled from the rubble alive | :20:49. | :20:51. | |
today, that is six days after a building collapsed. This is the | :20:52. | :20:56. | |
moment we saw one person being rescued a little earlier today. And | :20:57. | :21:01. | |
there is one more to come. They have been taken to hospital by the Kenyan | :21:02. | :21:07. | |
Red Cross. 36 people are known to have died in Nairobi when that | :21:08. | :21:11. | |
6-storey block of flats collapsed last Friday. Many more are still | :21:12. | :21:20. | |
missing. It happened in the densely populated Huruma neighbourhood. The | :21:21. | :21:23. | |
building's presumed owners have been released on Bale after being | :21:24. | :21:27. | |
arrested on Monday. And soy sent us this scene. You get a sense of the | :21:28. | :21:33. | |
huge excitement. This is the second person here, he has just been | :21:34. | :21:37. | |
removed from the Dave Real I have, and the people here are cheering. | :21:38. | :21:42. | |
They are very excited. The rescuers are saying they are not giving up, | :21:43. | :21:45. | |
they are still hoping for more survivors, and today has been a | :21:46. | :21:50. | |
great day for them. They have managed to pull out several people | :21:51. | :21:53. | |
from the day three, and this, they say, is a miracle. Just two days | :21:54. | :22:03. | |
ago, it lifted their spirits. Today they have been removing more people | :22:04. | :22:06. | |
and it is very exciting, not just for the rescuers but for the people | :22:07. | :22:12. | |
here. It is a difficult process of recovery. We saw that the building | :22:13. | :22:20. | |
had collapsed totally, and so they have had huge rubble on top of them, | :22:21. | :22:26. | |
so to be able to be removed here is something that many people are | :22:27. | :22:30. | |
finding just unbelievable, and they are very happy for the survivors. We | :22:31. | :22:34. | |
are told at least 70 people are still reported missing and the | :22:35. | :22:38. | |
rescuers said they are not giving up hope, still hoping for more | :22:39. | :22:41. | |
survivors. They are working around the clock to make sure anyone still | :22:42. | :22:45. | |
breathing can be removed out of the day three safely. | :22:46. | :22:53. | |
Alibaba - it's the world's biggest e-commerce firm - | :22:54. | :22:55. | |
handling more transactions than Amazon and eBay combined. | :22:56. | :22:57. | |
For the year to March it reported a net income of 11-billion dollars - | :22:58. | :23:00. | |
that's up 193-per cent on the previous year. | :23:01. | :23:02. | |
But despite a strong rise in sales, the company has struggled to reach | :23:03. | :23:05. | |
the growth levels it recorded before it became a public | :23:06. | :23:08. | |
Alibaba's main business is to link up buyers and sellers, and charge | :23:09. | :23:28. | |
traders a fee for the service. It is by far China's dominant player in | :23:29. | :23:34. | |
online commerce. And, in the last three months, Alibaba's revenues has | :23:35. | :23:40. | |
surged, rising by nearly two fifths to three and three quarters billion | :23:41. | :23:44. | |
dollars. But investors are worried about the state of China's economy, | :23:45. | :23:49. | |
which has slowed to its lowest pace of growth in quarter of a century, | :23:50. | :23:57. | |
and Alibaba's stock price has suffered. Shortly after the company | :23:58. | :24:02. | |
held its record public offering two years ago, shares have lost more | :24:03. | :24:06. | |
than a third of their value. There is also the growing threat of | :24:07. | :24:10. | |
smaller competitors eating into Alibaba's market share. So the | :24:11. | :24:14. | |
company has been fighting back. By reaching out to China's rural | :24:15. | :24:19. | |
consumers, who access the inter-via their phones, and expanding outside | :24:20. | :24:22. | |
the country with the ambition that it will in future be able to source | :24:23. | :24:29. | |
half of its income from abroad. Michelle Fleury is in New York, what | :24:30. | :24:36. | |
is behind these numbers? It is interesting, the company basically | :24:37. | :24:39. | |
did very well, you heard Tanya talking about some of the figures, | :24:40. | :24:46. | |
$3.7 billion in revenue, a 39% increase from a year earlier. The | :24:47. | :24:49. | |
problem is profits were still slightly below what Wall Street was | :24:50. | :24:52. | |
expecting. You would have thought that would hit the share price | :24:53. | :24:55. | |
negatively, that was not the case. The reason for that is because it is | :24:56. | :25:00. | |
forecast for the rest of the year look much brighter. Briefly, what | :25:01. | :25:05. | |
does this say about China's economy at the moment? People always talk | :25:06. | :25:10. | |
about this company as a bit of a proxy for the Chinese consumer. It | :25:11. | :25:16. | |
certainly reflects the aspirational Chinese middle class, and that is | :25:17. | :25:20. | |
where I think investors on the outside, who basically own shares in | :25:21. | :25:23. | |
this company, are essentially betting on China's middle class. The | :25:24. | :25:27. | |
fact the company has come out and said the forecasts at least going | :25:28. | :25:32. | |
forward look fairly good for online retail sales, people are seeing this | :25:33. | :25:36. | |
as a good sign, at a time when there have been growing concerns about the | :25:37. | :25:42. | |
health, if you like, of China's economy forced Michelle Fleury | :25:43. | :25:45. | |
reporting live from New York. Just to remind you, you can get in touch | :25:46. | :25:51. | |
with us twitter. All of our stories are on the BBC website and the news | :25:52. | :25:55. | |
app. We will be back after the weather with more Outside Source. | :25:56. | :26:08. | |
Hot and dry weather are definite contributing factors to the | :26:09. | :26:15. | |
wildfires in Alberta, but it is not always like that in Alberta in May. | :26:16. | :26:20. | |
Just two years ago on the 3rd of May, 20 centimetres of | :26:21. | :26:23. |