01/06/2016 Outside Source

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

Drama at the University of California's Los Angeles campus,

it goes into lockdown as two people are shot dead.

A signal has been detected from a black box from

the EgyptAir plane, two weeks after it crashed

Mitsubishi has agreed a landmark payout to Chinese workers

who were used as forced labourers in World War Two.

The world's longest and deepest rail tunnel opens in Switzerland,

creating a major new route from northern to southern Europe.

And 2015 saw investments in renewable energy double

Matt McGrath's going to talk us through that.

I want to bring you up-to-date with a story that's been

ongoing for the last few hours.

AP say two people were confirmed dead on Wednesday following

a shooting at the University of California's Los Angeles

The campus is up here in the north of the city.

But I can take you right in and this is the area we are talking about,

Part of what we like here on the Outside Source is telling

as I came off air in the last edition of our programme,

it has been moving fast, but we have a conclusion.

Peter Bowes is in Los Angeles and been following it closer to me.

Tell us about what developed over the last few hours. This developed

over the last three hours. The alarm was raised shortly after 10am local

time. The police here received multiple calls from people who said

that there had been a shooting at the campus. There was initially a

lot of confusion, there was a huge response by the emergency services,

the police, and Mrs, heading to the university campus. It later

transpired from the head of police is that there had been a

murder-suicide, that two people had died and that one of those people

was the shooter. We don't know of any possible relationship between

these two people. We know that they were two men who died and that the

nature of what happened is currently being investigated. As I said, it

caused a tremendous amount of confusion and alarm in what is, for

many students, their final week of studies. Some of them preparing for

exams over the next few days. They had to be evacuated. Some of them

hid inside buildings, ducking under desks, locking doors of the

classrooms they were in, to try and stay safe but others were escorted

away by some very heavily armed police officers. There was a tweet

coming in from the LA Times, saying that the murder-suicide was the 186

US school shooting since Newtown, Connecticut, in 2012. Even the

scenes that you are describing, we have become accustomed to seeing

them over and over. Put a little bit in context for us. -- put it. And

having difficulty hearing what you are saying but I can confirm that in

the last hour, the all clear has been given. This has happened very

quickly but the police chief and officers investigating this are

convinced that this was a murder-suicide and that there are no

other people involved and that the campus has been declared safe. The

university has cancelled classes for the rest of the day but it seems

that from this point, the investigation will focus on those

two people to try and find out the precise details and if there is an

emotive for what happened. Thank you for joining us. Sorry we had a bit

of trouble with you hearing me. There are details on this story and

about some of the previous school shootings that there have been

across the United States on the website.

Let's move onto Egypt because a French ship has detected

signals from a flight recorder from the EgyptAir plane,

which crashed last month in the Mediterranean.

Here's Orla Guerin, with what this development means.

This is potentially a very significant development. It's the

first time that a signal has been picked up from one of the black

boxes from EgyptAir flight 804 which crashed about two weeks ago, almost,

with the loss of all 66 passengers and crew on board. The signal was

detected by specialist equipment on board a French naval vessel, the

Laplace. An acoustic microphone was lowered into the sea bed.

Interesting to point out that the search only began yesterday, and in

less than 24 hours the equipment detected a signal which according to

French officials is coming from one of the black boxes, but we don't

know which one. They are searching for the flight data recorder and the

cockpit voice recorder. An official with the French aviation safety

agency has said that this is a first step and the next step is to try and

pinpoint the exact location of the black boxes and to try and retrieve

them from the ocean floor intact. That will be a very tricky

operation, another vessel is on the way which will bring robotic

equipment that can operate at a depth of 3000 metres below sea

level. So it may bring some answers, speculation about what may have been

the cause of the crash. Can you put in context for us, so many

passengers were Egyptian, how are the Egyptian authorities and people

reacting? First of all, for the country it has been a great tragedy,

a real sense of loss across the country. Keenly felt by families in

many different areas. There have been poignant stories about the

Egyptians on the plane at why they were taking the flight. One woman

who had been receiving cancer treatment in Paris, who had beaten

the disease, and was on her way home with her husband, to her three small

children waiting at the airport. She and her husband were among the

victims. Initially in the early stages after the crash, the

authorities come at the aviation Minister in particular, said that a

terrorist attack was more likely than a technical failure. Since

then, officials have appeared to back away from that. They are saying

that all theories are still being investigated, all possibilities

being considered. All we know at this point is that there are

indications of smoke and a possible fire on board. We don't know what

started that and experts are stressing that while the black boxes

should provide some answers, they may help to move things out, for

example a bomb or an attempt to storm the cockpit, they may not

provide all of the answers that authorities need. Thank you for

joining us. Let's bring you the latest

on efforts to reclaim the Iraqi city of Falluja from so-called

Islamic State. Iraqi forces, backed by Shia

militias, are still yet to entirely encircle the city,

after their progress "There are reports from people

who left in recent days that some are being required to move

with ISIL within Falluja." The implication is that civilians

are being used human shields. This is a campaign

months in the planning. Frank Gardner has been looking

at what's at stake in The risk is that in retaking

Falluja, it is a pyrrhic victory and they flatten the City. The residents

will come back to a shattered wasteland and they will blame the

government what happened. The population that is there today is a

sexually take captive population and they have seen their City being

slowly level -- is essentially a captive population. Now, the lucky

ones got out, they've seen the men conscripted into joining Islamic

State against their will, women are not allowed to move around and

travel. Some of them are on the verge of starvation.

The Iraqi government has been relatively careful in how it retakes

Falluja. It isn't sending in the Shia militia, who have a track

record of carrying out revenge attacks against Sunni households,

essentially ethnic cleansing. Islamic State have played on this,

by saying to the Sunni residents, we are your natural allies, stick with

us, we are your defenders against the Shia backed by Iran. The obvious

question is, why use Shia militia at all? The answer is that the Iraqi

army is not strong enough. The big challenge for the Iraqi government

is to convince the Sunni population that they have a place in modern

Iraq. Already there are people saying that Iraq is doomed, that it

will fragment. It doesn't have to be that way but they have to make

Falluja work. Japanese company Mitsubishi

Materials has agreed a deal with giving compensation to workers

who were used as forced About 40,000 Chinese were brought

to Japan in the early 1940s to make Japanese historian Janet Hunter

explained some of the The conditions were extremely bad,

particularly towards the latter stages of the war, during which

there were a cute feud sorted is -- there were food shortages, bombings

and things of that kind because many of the factories were located in

areas of industrial production. Malnutrition was very significant in

and inevitably, the more Japanese who lost out, many of them were

working under difficult conditions. It is clear that Mitsubishi was not

the only company to make use of this kind of forced Labour and I would

imagine that there are rather large companies which are looking with a

great deal of caution and working out what it may mean for them.

The settlement made to Chinese groups covers some 3,700 victims

who will receive 10,000 yuan, about $15,000 each, and an apology.

Zhuang Chen from the Chinese service explained why those numbers aren't

Many of them have been deceased, there aren't that many still

surviving today. The Chinese think it is a rare victory for them. The

case has been wrangling for over 20 years and it has become a thorny

issue not only between the victims and the company but also China and

Japan because of the war history. The Chinese government are really

asking, pushing the Japanese government to apologise. So far they

haven't, but this is a rare case and this isn't the first time. In 2000

and 2009, two Japanese construction companies paid a large sum of money

for the Chinese forced labourers who worked in Japan, in brutal

conditions in the final years of World War II. We saw some historical

pictures. $15,000 that not seam a lot of money to me when I read the

story. No, the Chinese were asking for ten times that amount of money

but they couldn't agree which is why they have settled now for this sum

of money because the survivors won't have the final result, the apology,

so -- they at least got the result from the company, the apology. How

many other cases are still questionable because companies and

the Japanese government are not willing to come forward and say

that. There will not be many cases to come forward.

Six men were convicted but their convictions were quashed.

Julie Hambleton, whose sister, Maxine, died, says the killers,

thought to be IRA members, must face justice.

They ran away like cowards and they have been hiding in full daylight

amongst their fellow citizens in Ireland, apparently, with their

freedom, while our loved ones are well dead and buried. We are not

going to allow them to die in vain, we are going to fight to find the

truth and bring some level of Justice and accountability to light.

What sort of society are we leading for future generations, when we

allow mass murderers to walk free, to come to our fantastic City, kill

with impunity, without any fear of retribution. Does that mean we are

giving a green light to future terrorist organisations to do the

same? This is Outside Source live

from the BBC newsroom. How top story. Two men have been

shot dead by a gunman who is still thought to be at large on the campus

of UCLA in Los Angeles. Let's look at some stories being covered.

BBC Chinese is reporting on comments by Philippine

He's been condemned by media groups for saying some of the many

journalists killed in the country had deserved to die.

The BBC World Service is looking at ongoing rail strikes in France,

Industrial action in the country is set to get worse.

Air traffic controllers are set to walk out later in the week.

And online, many of you are reading about a surfer in Australia

who had his leg bitten off by a shark at a beach in Western

Local media reports say he has undergone surgery and remains

The world seems to be marching relentlessly

"The world now adds more renewable power capacity

annually than it adds capacity from all fossil fuels combined".

That's according to a new UN-backed report.

Almost a quarter of global electricity comes

Hydropower is the biggest of those sources.

China was the biggest investor in renewables accounting for more

The world's biggest economy the US was next.

Well, Matt McGrath is our Enivronment Correspondent -

here's what he thinks about this zero-carbon quest.

They are looking at seeing if they can actually decarbonise the world's

markets. It is difficult to do that with the established networks that

we have forced up it is looking at a mixture of energy going forward,

that is what most countries seem to be in for. I mentioned China and the

United States, tell us how, why they are deciding to make such a push on

renewables? China and America are interesting in being investors. It

is a mixed picture. The European Union has cut back on support for

renewables, but Brazil and India, emerging economies have gone forward

quite substantially, down to countries like Bangladesh, who are

the biggest solar home market in the world. It is a best picture and what

is driving it is the cheapness of these technologies, solar and wind

-- mixed picture. And the speed with which they can be deployed. People

are saying, should we build a coal-fired power station which may

take ten years, or should we invest in solar and get the same number of

people within a year? They seem to be going with that argument. I

mentioned the hydropower, where do you think renewables will go, will

it be so lucky, wind, hydro? The interesting thing is the global

market, solar has done well, over half of the investment is in that

because it is a global market and countries all over the world are

buying it. Manufacturers can sell them at low prices. Wave

technologies haven't really token off -- taken off. Sola has the

global capacity. Brazil's economy contracted 5.4%

in the first quarter The BBC's Daniel Gallas

is in Sao Paulo for us. Great too happy with us. Seeing the

figure of 5.4, and also 0.3 compared to the final of 2015. When people

look at these figures, what does it mean for the average Brazilian?

Well, for the average Brazilian, what they are looking at mostly is

inflation and unemployment. Unemployment has risen quite sharply

in the past year, 40% more people unemployed than a year ago. The 11

million people are currently without a job and also inflation, Brazil has

recently had double-digit inflation over the period of a year, meaning

that people are losing their jobs, but the money they are able to make

if they keep their jobs isn't as valuable as it was before. That's

what this recession means for most Brazilians. What we have been

looking at on the programme previously was the suspension of

President Dilma Rousseff. What does this mean for the acting president

in the coming months? Well, he is trying to push some economic reforms

and get Brazil going again but his answer to the problem is quite a

long-term solution. He would like to approve many laws in Congress that

would cut down on government spending, to keep inflation down and

get consumers buying again and investors putting their money in

Brazil. It's a very long-term project. This is a man who may just

be in power for six months, if President Rousseff is absolved in

her trial or just two and a half years if she doesn't come back and

he stays in power. He has a short time span and many uncertainties

about what happens to him. Very ambitious plans. Thank you for

joining us. Reversal of fortune, couple of the headlines I saw in

reaction to that story. From one country trying to mitigate

the effects of a recession, to another trying to resist

falling into one. Earlier today the Japanese Prime

Minister Shinzo Abe announce a delay The sales tax is one of the key

planks of Mr Abe's promised reforms, aimed at kick-starting his

country's ailing economy. A glass of good wine, or a single

malt scotch on the rocks? Juliana Liu met one investor

in China who's switched which is seeing

unprecedented demand. Is it for drinking or investing?

That's the question for Ted Hodgkinson, a lifelong lover of fine

wine. About ten years ago I saw the prices of wine going up and I

thought I needed to invest, primarily for consumption and to

protect my position but also looking at the long-term gains as an

investor. At his peak he had 1000 bottles of Australian and French

wines in his portfolio. In 2011, the wine investment market slumped

because of an anti-corruption campaign in China. Ted still drinks

wine but he no longer buys it for an investment. Instead, he has bet

$250,000 on another tipple, single malt whiskey. It is a market even

smaller than the one for investment grade wine but over the last five

years, benchmark fine wine prices have fallen by one third. At the

same time, rare whiskey prices have more than doubled. It is a niche

sector but with potential for big gains and losses.

It seems as though we're doing a story every day

But they are all different and all intriguing,

today's comes from this editorial, it's North Korea's

state-run media offering high praise for the presumptive US

Russian President Vladimir Putin, who called him a "colourful

I spoke with Anthony Zurcher, who's on the campaign

It is a lot of laughter, people thinking it is another part of

Donald Trump 's strange man for the presidency. He has been backed by

Mike Tyson, so North Korea, why not? Let me put it in a larger context

because I know that he manages to grab the headlines. Yesterday was

about veterans and fundraising and today it is about this editorial

from a North Korean newspaper. When it comes to the general election

between Democrat Hillary Clinton and the public and Donald chubb, how is

it shaping up today? Two Donald Trump. He is going to wrap it up in

California today, you can see the Republicans rallying around him. A

surge in the polls, drawing him close to Hillary Clinton, is because

most Republican voters say that they will support him now. Hillary

Clinton hasn't consolidated her place. Bernie Sanders, the Democrat

contender, is trying to eat into her lead in California. He won't be able

to capture but his supporters say that they don't know if they can

support Hillary Clinton. That is holding her back and keeping her in

a dead heat with Donald Trump so far. The Priory will be next week in

California and we will check in with Anthony then -- the primary. That is

the end of this half an hour of Outside Source. Come and join us for

the second half.