:00:08. > :00:14.Hello, I'm Ros Atkins, this is Outside Source.
:00:15. > :00:18.Our lead story is both concern the Islamic state group.
:00:19. > :00:21.In Syria, it's launched a number of deadly bomb attacks in two
:00:22. > :00:22.government strongholds on the Mediterranean coast.
:00:23. > :00:25.And in Iraq, the army has begun to try and retake Falluja from IS.
:00:26. > :00:28.We'll talk to BBC Arabic on both stories.
:00:29. > :00:36.It wouldn't usually be a big story but he only very narrowly beat this
:00:37. > :00:38.man, who would have been the European Union's first
:00:39. > :00:49.Jeremy Bowen has been to investigate Kurdish claims that Turkish forces
:00:50. > :00:51.massacred 100 civilians in Southeast turkey.
:00:52. > :01:05.And then the last Manchester United has confirmed that Louis van Gaal
:01:06. > :01:21.has been sacked. Two major stories related
:01:22. > :01:24.to the Islamic State group In Iraq. A government move to retake Falluja
:01:25. > :01:29.from the militants has begun. First though to Syria MOVE
:01:30. > :01:33.because at least 78 people have been killed by a series
:01:34. > :01:36.of bombs targeting two government strongholds -
:01:37. > :01:40.the towns of Tartous and Jableh. It's a significant moment -
:01:41. > :01:43.these are places that have been largely untouched unaffected
:01:44. > :01:53.by the war. from Jableh in the moments
:01:54. > :02:00.after an attack. A hospital was among the targets -
:02:01. > :02:07.and IS has claimed responsibility. Also relevant is that Russia has
:02:08. > :02:10.a naval base in Tartous and an airbase near Jableh -
:02:11. > :02:15.it's from there that it's conducted air strikes in Syria
:02:16. > :02:22.in support of the government. Faisal Irshaid from BBC Arabic has
:02:23. > :02:38.been helping me on both stories. It's very significant because we
:02:39. > :02:46.haven't seen these attacks in the past. These two provinces have been
:02:47. > :02:50.more or less in isolation. The fact that they carried out these
:02:51. > :02:56.large-scale attacks and we have seen more than 78 people dead and even
:02:57. > :03:01.according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. It is really a
:03:02. > :03:05.large scale. It raises a lot of questions on whether there are
:03:06. > :03:08.security breaches are not, so whoever carried out the attack was
:03:09. > :03:16.able to transport weapons from neighbouring provinces without the
:03:17. > :03:21.knowledge of the Syrian forces. How far is this city from Islamic state
:03:22. > :03:24.territory? We are talking about more than 30 miles sort is quite far.
:03:25. > :03:30.Some people are saying that maybe these attacks were carried out by
:03:31. > :03:35.people in these towns, collaborators of the Islamic state. Even if that
:03:36. > :03:40.was the case, even if that is the scenario, we are still seeing a
:03:41. > :03:43.security breach because this was thought to be a stronghold and the
:03:44. > :03:47.fact it was carried out without anyone noticing is the big thing. We
:03:48. > :03:52.have seen car bombs and suicide attacks but this is the first time
:03:53. > :04:01.we have seen here and they targeted a very busy place, hospitals in both
:04:02. > :04:05.cities, and also one of the suicide bomb attackers targeted a hospital,
:04:06. > :04:10.which led to the death of women, children and men. We want to talk
:04:11. > :04:15.about Iraq as well, because the government has begun this push to
:04:16. > :04:20.take back Falluja from Islamic state. Falluja is highly symbolic
:04:21. > :04:25.and close to Baghdad, less than an hour away, and also the first city
:04:26. > :04:29.in a rack to fall to Islamic state. We knew this was going to happen for
:04:30. > :04:36.a while, what skill of operation Desert? It is quite a big operation,
:04:37. > :04:39.so since the fall of Falluja to Islamic state in January the
:04:40. > :04:44.government have tried very hard to take control of the city. It has
:04:45. > :04:48.been shelled by government forces but the field to take anything. This
:04:49. > :04:53.time it seems they are determined to take over the city. They launched an
:04:54. > :04:59.operation called break terrorism and they want once and for all to take
:05:00. > :05:03.control of the city. They believe that if they take control of Falluja
:05:04. > :05:10.it will be the first step to taking control of it all from IS. Is anyone
:05:11. > :05:13.left living in Falluja? This is really a question I have been trying
:05:14. > :05:19.to answer and we don't know the number of civilians in the city,
:05:20. > :05:24.some say 60,000, some say 90,000, but we don't know the exact
:05:25. > :05:29.estimate. The Iraqi government asked civilians to raise the white flag so
:05:30. > :05:33.that once they enter they can try to differentiate between civilians and
:05:34. > :05:40.IS operatives within the city. You can get coverage of that story
:05:41. > :05:43.through BBC Arabic. Watching any of these stories, if you use this
:05:44. > :05:47.hashtag the tweets come straight to me and I will do my best to get you
:05:48. > :05:48.answers. Ice will switch to Austria next.
:05:49. > :05:50.We have a winner in the Austrian election.
:05:51. > :05:52.Not Norbert Hofer who would have been the EU's first
:05:53. > :05:56.Instead the independent candidate Alexander Van der Bellen won -
:05:57. > :06:11.This is Norbert Hofer's Facebook page - he has accepted defeat -
:06:12. > :06:13.and says he is sad, and that he would have taken care
:06:14. > :06:20.It's a decision which has divided Austria.
:06:21. > :06:24.Alexander Van der Bellen won the presidential election - just.
:06:25. > :06:31.He is liberal, pro-EU and wants to welcome refugees.
:06:32. > :06:33.TRANSLATION: I will represent Austria to the outside,
:06:34. > :06:40.I will represent us as best as I can.
:06:41. > :06:47.And again, I will try to stress the cooperative, what connects us.
:06:48. > :06:56.And of course I want to be an opener of doors for the economy of Austria.
:06:57. > :06:59.Mr Van der Bellen may struggle to unite his country.
:07:00. > :07:01.Earlier today, we found his nationalist opponent at home
:07:02. > :07:10.Regardless of the outcome, Norbert Hofer told us,
:07:11. > :07:18.What does it say for Austria if you do win?
:07:19. > :07:23.If I win, I have to try to keep Austria together.
:07:24. > :07:26.If Van der Bellen wins, he has to try to keep
:07:27. > :07:33.They may have lost the election, but his Freedom Party has
:07:34. > :07:39.It is anti-EU, anti-migrant and it gained momentum
:07:40. > :07:45.No wonder the eyes of Europe are on Austria.
:07:46. > :07:47.Right-wing parties are gaining ground elsewhere as well -
:07:48. > :07:49.France, Germany, Denmark, and so is disillusionment
:07:50. > :07:56.at the established political mainstream.
:07:57. > :07:59.TRANSLATION: There is a sea change in Europe, many people can't cope
:08:00. > :08:08.The FPO is the only party that addresses this problem.
:08:09. > :08:12.He tells us lies and it's not true what he says and it's not good.
:08:13. > :08:22.The presidency of Austria is a largely ceremonial role -
:08:23. > :08:24.nevertheless these elections may yet have wide reaching consequences.
:08:25. > :08:27.This vote has split Austria right down the middle.
:08:28. > :08:29.It's also exposed again the divisions at the heart
:08:30. > :08:33.Norbert Hofer came within a hair's breath of winning the presidency
:08:34. > :08:35.and for many that raises questions not just about the future
:08:36. > :08:54.direction of this country, but of Europe itself.
:08:55. > :09:02.I was mentioning our hashtag and we are in Bermuda for BBC world News
:09:03. > :09:09.saying mailing ballots seem outdated. You are right to highlight
:09:10. > :09:13.that because the postal votes were the difference. The result was the
:09:14. > :09:26.other way around before they were counted. Is it outdated? I don't
:09:27. > :09:29.think so. In the referendum on the European Union postal votes will
:09:30. > :09:30.certainly be used to list is not uncommon.
:09:31. > :09:32.Three climbers have have died on Mount Everest,
:09:33. > :09:35.About 30 others have suffered frostbite or become
:09:36. > :09:39.This is the first climbing season since the earthquake
:09:40. > :09:44.Climbers have been taking advantage of good
:09:45. > :09:46.conditions in large numbers, with nearly 400 reaching the summit
:09:47. > :09:59.A Nepalese official said snow blindness, altitude sickness
:10:00. > :10:02.and fatigue are very common health issues at high altitudes MOVE
:10:03. > :10:04.although most people recover once they descend the mountain.
:10:05. > :10:11.Navin Singh Khadka, Environment Correspondent
:10:12. > :10:29.The thing is, what people generally tell me is they use all the energy
:10:30. > :10:34.up in the quest to reach the summit, and when they come down they are
:10:35. > :10:37.exhausted, so in some cases people are really exhausted coming down and
:10:38. > :10:41.by that time many of them will have used their oxygen as well, so coming
:10:42. > :10:48.down can actually be more difficult and that they suffer. It is an
:10:49. > :10:53.amazing number of people, almost 402 weeks. Is that what authorities
:10:54. > :10:58.want? That is what they want because after two years, it is a mountain
:10:59. > :11:04.destination. Having mountaineers is important for the economy, but
:11:05. > :11:09.accidents also matter in terms of image and all that but having said
:11:10. > :11:18.that, these kinds of incidents when people die, the problem is we don't
:11:19. > :11:23.get an official enquiry and although the government higher liaison
:11:24. > :11:28.officers to follow the teams very few actually go there, so for
:11:29. > :11:32.example almost 50 officials were supposed to be at base camp
:11:33. > :11:37.monitoring, but what I am told by my sources at base camp is only five of
:11:38. > :11:44.them were doing their work. Others didn't go. Never the less you will
:11:45. > :11:49.never be able to minimise risk to zero, it is a dangerous mountain and
:11:50. > :11:54.some people will lose their lives. Yes, and therefore the issue is, are
:11:55. > :11:59.we seeing many unprepared climbers, so the risk and also tempting
:12:00. > :12:06.economy and money involved, so many are willing to pay money and go up,
:12:07. > :12:14.but the issue is, are they prepared and qualified, and we're hearing the
:12:15. > :12:18.government that they have this criteria that someone will have to
:12:19. > :12:21.have this experience of claiming such a mountain but it has not been
:12:22. > :12:26.implemented and I checked with the government officials who said, yes,
:12:27. > :12:31.we have been thinking about it but it has yet to be implemented and so
:12:32. > :12:40.you see these risks. Last week we were talking about the problems in
:12:41. > :12:42.Venezuela, I want to make time to show you this latest report in a few
:12:43. > :13:01.minutes time. Councillors in North Yorkshire have
:13:02. > :13:05.approved per fracking to go ahead. Councillors voted 7-4 in favour and
:13:06. > :13:10.it is the first time councillors and England have approved fracking since
:13:11. > :13:15.a ban on the controversial technique was lifted in 2012 but councillors
:13:16. > :13:19.have been criticising the decision. This decision is disastrous for
:13:20. > :13:25.North Yorkshire. We have seen over the last two days powerful testimony
:13:26. > :13:32.from local residents and university professors and medical
:13:33. > :13:35.professionals. The fracking industry effort is allowed to let loose
:13:36. > :13:40.across North Yorkshire will decimate the countryside and ruin the local
:13:41. > :13:43.economy and bring health and environmental impact for local
:13:44. > :13:46.people. North Yorkshire County Council or is today have turned
:13:47. > :13:47.their back on the wishes of local people to support the oil and gas
:13:48. > :13:58.industry. We'll come back. Our lead story
:13:59. > :14:01.concerns the The state group Islamic State
:14:02. > :14:06.group says it carried on two Syrian cities
:14:07. > :14:09.in President Assad's The area has been regarded
:14:10. > :14:12.as comparatively safe we can quickly look at some of the
:14:13. > :14:20.main stories from BBC World Service. As you expect, BBC Vietnamese
:14:21. > :14:22.is reporting on President He's lifted a ban on selling weapons
:14:23. > :14:26.to the Vietnamese government - saying the ban was a lingering
:14:27. > :14:35.vestige of the Cold War. In Thailand, at least 17 girls have
:14:36. > :14:38.been killed by a fire The cause of the fire
:14:39. > :14:41.isn't yet known. A new study says that Lego products
:14:42. > :14:51.are becoming increasingly violent - with toy weapons included
:14:52. > :14:53.in 30% of kits. The researchers say it
:14:54. > :14:55.reflects a broader trend Lego says conflict is a natural part
:14:56. > :15:00.of a child's development. There's a major political
:15:01. > :15:12.and economic crisis in Venezuela. Campaigners want the president
:15:13. > :15:14.to go, inflation is And right in the middle of this -
:15:15. > :15:20.the President ordered what's thought to be the biggest military exercises
:15:21. > :15:23.ever conducted in the They were this weekend -
:15:24. > :15:36.here's Wyre Davies in Caracas. We've never been more prepared
:15:37. > :15:38.to defend our borders, said President Maduro as Venezuelan
:15:39. > :15:40.troops and civilian militias this week in Tempe
:15:41. > :15:44.did operation Independence, exercises to prepare the country
:15:45. > :15:50.for eminent invasion. Where the threats come from isn't
:15:51. > :15:52.clear but blaming foreign governments,
:15:53. > :15:54.the US in particular, for Venezuela's economic
:15:55. > :15:56.and political crisis is very much But this is a crisis made in
:15:57. > :16:09.Venezuela and people are suffering. In hospitals with power cuts and
:16:10. > :16:12.acute shortages, patients told me they could only have operations
:16:13. > :16:17.if they provide their own supplies. Parents having to buy an ill fitting
:16:18. > :16:26.mask to keep a sick child alive. Beneath a makeshift
:16:27. > :16:27.accident and emergency Doctor say the system
:16:28. > :16:33.is close to collapse. We have power cuts everyday
:16:34. > :16:36.and we haven't had basic supplies like saline
:16:37. > :16:37.solutions for months. I often buy medicines
:16:38. > :16:39.with And the shortages go much
:16:40. > :16:56.deeper than medicines. Household goods are scarce,
:16:57. > :17:00.and a country that became so dependent on oil revenues,
:17:01. > :17:03.it couldn't cope with the price This woman needed nappies
:17:04. > :17:06.for her child, but didn't know if I queue every single
:17:07. > :17:15.day, she tells me. These days, there are almost
:17:16. > :17:18.nothing on the shelves, President Maduro blames the chronic
:17:19. > :17:24.shortages of food and other basic groups on business
:17:25. > :17:26.elites and foreign deliberately destabilise his
:17:27. > :17:29.socialist Government. Either way, these quues
:17:30. > :17:34.are getting longer, the shortages more acute and a sense
:17:35. > :17:37.of foreboding even greater. The Government says it
:17:38. > :17:39.will use the security forces to defend
:17:40. > :17:40.the Denouncing opposition
:17:41. > :17:43.protesters as stooges for business interests
:17:44. > :17:49.at home and abroad. That is where it feels primed
:17:50. > :17:54.to explode, and international mediators have urged both sides
:17:55. > :17:57.to talk before Latin America's most unstable nation descends
:17:58. > :18:16.further into chaos. If you want more background on is
:18:17. > :18:17.what is happening just that Venezuela into the search on the BBC
:18:18. > :18:19.website. Bayer is a huge German
:18:20. > :18:21.pharmaceutical company - and it's made a bid for the US
:18:22. > :18:25.seeds company Monsanto. If it's successful, this
:18:26. > :18:27.would create the largest agriculture $62 billion is the
:18:28. > :18:40.value of the deal. The latest in a series of massive
:18:41. > :18:47.argricultural mergers. ChemChina is buying
:18:48. > :18:48.Switzerland's Syngenta. Dow
:18:49. > :19:01.and DuPont have already merged. Let's talk about what is happening
:19:02. > :19:05.here. Those are three deals were talking about so can we say there is
:19:06. > :19:09.a pattern now established? Generally, when we see a lot of
:19:10. > :19:14.mergers and acquisitions it is because there are some difficulties
:19:15. > :19:19.in the sector, so with regards to these particular deals we are seeing
:19:20. > :19:25.companies facing some difficult times in terms of earnings, not as
:19:26. > :19:28.much in terms of revenue, so they feel good way to try to combat that
:19:29. > :19:34.is to put their forces together which is why we are seeing some of
:19:35. > :19:41.these kinds mergers. Difficult economic conditions and as well as
:19:42. > :19:44.the strong you can -- US dollar. Lots of big mergers proposed and
:19:45. > :19:50.they don't always go through so what are the obstacles between where we
:19:51. > :19:53.are and the deal getting done? Regulators are definitely going to
:19:54. > :19:57.be taking a look at these deals and we have just spoken before about
:19:58. > :20:00.regulators stepping in and preventing some deals from
:20:01. > :20:07.happening, so the fact we are seeing so much happening in one sector with
:20:08. > :20:11.these three big deals announced, there will certainly be a lot of
:20:12. > :20:16.regulators talking but also, you have to look at the companies
:20:17. > :20:19.themselves and in the case of Bayer and Monsanto, investors have to be
:20:20. > :20:24.convinced that if Bill is one thing I want to point out, if you look at
:20:25. > :20:29.Monsanto and they share price it isn't trading as high as it would
:20:30. > :20:36.have been given just how money is being offered by Bayer, so possibly
:20:37. > :20:37.a signal that Monsanto investors are overly infused by the potential of
:20:38. > :20:45.the deal. Keep us posted, thank you. Japan's central bank governor has
:20:46. > :20:49.defended his controversial negative interest rate policy which he first
:20:50. > :20:51.implemented in January this year. He'd signalled that he's
:20:52. > :21:07.willing to cut rates even We announced in January that we
:21:08. > :21:14.would actually implement this policy. It is still early May so all
:21:15. > :21:25.know the impact of the financial market is quite clear already, in
:21:26. > :21:34.May, but the prices will take some more time. I don't see it will take
:21:35. > :21:44.one year or two years. It would have a clear impact on the economy soon.
:21:45. > :21:52.If we judge necessary to achieve the target at the earliest possible
:21:53. > :22:01.time, we can further ease monetary policy in three dimensions.
:22:02. > :22:05.Quantity, quality and interest rate. Still enough room to do so.
:22:06. > :22:07.Good and not so good news for Ryanair.
:22:08. > :22:10.It is Europe's biggest budget airline and it's a big rise
:22:11. > :22:13.But it's warning that profits will slow because of as concerns
:22:14. > :22:16.about terrorism, and because of increased competition.
:22:17. > :22:26.Here's one expert on the nature of RyanAir's business model.
:22:27. > :22:34.They want to get 100% capacity if at all possible and over the last year
:22:35. > :22:40.they reached 93% which was hired I suspect than any other airline. Most
:22:41. > :22:44.of the rate at around 60-70 and are happy, but what they want is more
:22:45. > :22:48.passengers per plane because for every passenger they can sell
:22:49. > :22:52.additional services and they make a substantial part of their profits
:22:53. > :22:57.from that, such as charging for advance booking and priority seats
:22:58. > :23:01.and bags which can be very expensive, and they can sell hotels,
:23:02. > :23:04.cars, insured and some lots of other things. If people hadn't there they
:23:05. > :23:08.cannot sell them. Suited Booted helps vulnerable,
:23:09. > :23:10.unemployed and low-income men into employment
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:23:13. > :23:36.and the people it helps. Our clients are all vulnerable so
:23:37. > :23:42.they can be homeless, they can be long-term unemployed, and we set
:23:43. > :23:46.them out with a sit, a shirt and tie and shoes before they go to the
:23:47. > :23:59.interview, so people look good on the outside. I am feeling more
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:24:08. > :24:16.afternoon, one hour. With the sit I feel better.
:24:17. > :24:24.We had the tailoring industry and we know how important this is for
:24:25. > :24:29.confidence. All these suits are handmade and bespoke. They are just
:24:30. > :24:40.four weddings, they have transformed lives. It has given me a bit more
:24:41. > :24:56.confidence. Absolutely! Smash this interview hopefully. It looks great,
:24:57. > :25:06.doesn't he? I quickly want to update you on the search for the Egypt Air
:25:07. > :25:09.plane that is missing. There has been a development as Egyptian
:25:10. > :25:15.officials say they spotted the plane on their radar one minute before it
:25:16. > :25:19.crashed and the head of the National Wear navigation services has been
:25:20. > :25:22.speaking to an Egyptian television channel who said they did not see
:25:23. > :25:28.any swerving by the aircraft before it crashes. This raises the question
:25:29. > :25:33.of why it wasn't mentioned beforehand. They say if the black
:25:34. > :25:39.boxes are found intact they will be analysed in Egypt but if damaged
:25:40. > :25:42.they will be found abroad. We will get you more detail on that but it
:25:43. > :25:46.contradicts some reports that the plane was swerving a great deal.
:25:47. > :25:51.Let's have a quick look at what is coming up in the next half of the
:25:52. > :25:56.programme. We will be talking about this man, Louis van Gaal, sacked by
:25:57. > :25:58.Manchester United, and a couple more reports and correspondence from
:25:59. > :25:59.around the world, in a few