:00:11. > :00:13.Hello, I'm Ros Atkins, this is Outside Source and we're
:00:14. > :00:18.live in Paris for the start of the Euro 2016 Championships.
:00:19. > :00:24.It is a perfect summer 's evening. The City and the country looking
:00:25. > :00:27.ahead to the start of the European football Championships. But our lead
:00:28. > :00:32.story comes from Washington. President Obama has officially
:00:33. > :00:33.endorsed Hillary Clinton as his choice to take over from him in
:00:34. > :01:53.These are undoubtedly exciting times for Hillary Clinton. Earlier in the
:01:54. > :01:58.week we learned she had the delegates to secure the Democratic
:01:59. > :02:01.party's presidential nomination and now we have this from her on Twitter
:02:02. > :02:08.saying... She is referring to this endorsement
:02:09. > :03:45.by President Obama. That's President Obama's choice, but
:03:46. > :03:53.there is a butt to the story. Earlier the president met Bernie
:03:54. > :03:56.Sanders -- there is a but. We don't know the details of the conversation
:03:57. > :03:59.but you imagine that the encouraged him to stand aside and let Hillary
:04:00. > :04:06.Clinton focus on defeating Donald Trump. Not so, he says that he will
:04:07. > :04:09.not be stepping out of the race although the maths looks difficult.
:04:10. > :04:14.Hillary Clinton seems to be focusing on winning over the Bernie Sanders
:04:15. > :04:21.porters. Look at this tweet -- supporters.
:04:22. > :04:28.They are the kind of pledges aimed at winning over Sanders borders.
:04:29. > :04:40.I feel like I'd be a rich man if I got a dollar for each time I asked
:04:41. > :04:44.you whether this was definitely the end of the Democratic race, but is
:04:45. > :04:50.it this time? I think it is this time. Bernie Sanders said he would
:04:51. > :04:54.still campaign, looking ahead towards Tuesday's primary in the
:04:55. > :04:58.District of Columbia, you could tell that he was modulating his rhetoric,
:04:59. > :05:01.focusing on Donald Trump in his press conference earlier today and
:05:02. > :05:04.he said he would get in touch with Hillary Clinton to talk about how
:05:05. > :05:09.they were going to work together to defeat Donald Trump. Sanders didn't
:05:10. > :05:13.talk about contesting the convention any more, he talks about taking his
:05:14. > :05:17.issues to the convention and fighting for them, not going
:05:18. > :05:22.head-to-head to try to get the nomination from Hillary Clinton. I
:05:23. > :05:25.think we are seeing the Democratic party coalescing around Hillary
:05:26. > :05:30.Clinton. Barack Obama's statement was a big first step and we are
:05:31. > :05:34.getting word that Elisabeth Walne, the Massachusetts senator, is going
:05:35. > :05:39.to endorse Hillary Clinton later. She is a darling of the progressing
:05:40. > :05:42.left -- progressive left and if she supports Clinton it will do a lot to
:05:43. > :05:45.bring the left wing of the party behind her, which had been
:05:46. > :05:50.supporting Bernie Sanders overwhelmingly through the course of
:05:51. > :05:53.the primary campaign. I have to say that I was listening to the
:05:54. > :05:59.president and I was thinking back to 2000 and the discussions about how
:06:00. > :06:02.Al Gore used Bill Clinton as he was leaving office to try and retain the
:06:03. > :06:08.White House for the Democrats. What lessons can they learn in how they
:06:09. > :06:15.use Barack Obama in helping to get Hillary Clinton in? Al Gore didn't
:06:16. > :06:18.really used Bill Clinton in 2000, he was reluctant to campaign with him
:06:19. > :06:23.because Bill Clinton had been impeached two years earlier. When Al
:06:24. > :06:28.Gore picked Joe Lieberman as his vice presidential running mate,
:06:29. > :06:34.Lieberman was a big critic of Clinton's morality and it was seen
:06:35. > :06:38.as a rebuke. This is a rare occurrence in American political
:06:39. > :06:42.history, you have to go back to 1988 to see a popular incumbent, two term
:06:43. > :06:47.president who is surrounded by scandal, able to hit the campaign
:06:48. > :06:49.Trail and Bush for his successor as a continuation of his legacy.
:06:50. > :07:00.Obama's regulation popularity ratings are over 50%,
:07:01. > :07:04.which wasn't the case for George W Bush -- his popularity ratings.
:07:05. > :07:16.Lyndon Baines Johnson had Vietnam's. It is a very rare occurrence -- had
:07:17. > :07:20.Vietnam. Thank you for joining us. Use the BBC News at four analysis of
:07:21. > :07:29.the White House race. If you are just switching on, you are very
:07:30. > :07:34.welcome to the centre of Paris. This is a big moment, not just for the
:07:35. > :07:38.City but for the country, to be honest any country hosting the
:07:39. > :07:43.European football Championships would be facing an enormous test but
:07:44. > :07:47.fair to say that France is facing more than it could be expecting. If
:07:48. > :07:50.we highlight the fact that I'm speaking to you from central Paris,
:07:51. > :07:55.where 90,000 people are gathering down the road for a big concert.
:07:56. > :07:59.This isn't far from where three murderous attacks took place in the
:08:00. > :08:03.City last year, the attack on Charlie Hebdo, the Jewish
:08:04. > :08:08.supermarket and the multifaceted Paris attacks in November. It means
:08:09. > :08:16.there are particular challenges to bring 24 teams playing 51 matches
:08:17. > :08:20.and hosting the fans as well. Let's look at the numbers. We have a
:08:21. > :08:25.quotation from the president of the organising committee, this is an
:08:26. > :08:35.important point, emphasising that he wants to lift them, by which he
:08:36. > :08:39.means France, out of the negatives surrounding security. France does
:08:40. > :08:45.not want this to be dictated by the Islamic State group. This statistic
:08:46. > :08:51.gives you an idea of the scale, estimated 7 million fans will go to
:08:52. > :08:58.matches or one of the ten fan zone is. Massive event and it needs
:08:59. > :09:06.massive Geraghty. -- fan zones. -- massive security. 90,000 people
:09:07. > :09:10.deployed in security. Security is one issue but the organisers are
:09:11. > :09:15.facing others. Firstly, the weather. I'm sure you've seen this, coverage
:09:16. > :09:20.of the flooding in Paris and elsewhere, the difficulties in
:09:21. > :09:24.getting the French Open finished. It is still causing convocations for
:09:25. > :09:27.some people. Not so much in Paris where the waters have receded but
:09:28. > :09:34.the River Seine reach it highest level in 30 years -- reached. The
:09:35. > :09:41.weather has been one challenge. Next we have the ongoing protests taking
:09:42. > :09:45.exception to new Labour laws in France, allowing employers to change
:09:46. > :09:48.the nature of an employee's employment, including making it
:09:49. > :09:53.easier for people to be fired. We've seen protests of all sorts of
:09:54. > :09:57.different kinds. This was in Paris a couple of weeks ago but we've had
:09:58. > :10:01.fuel blockades, strikes of different natures and there is concern that
:10:02. > :10:14.this could disrupt the experience of fans who are here. Also, the bins
:10:15. > :10:17.are not being collected. There are centres that process the rubbish,
:10:18. > :10:20.and if they are closed the rubbish does not get picked up. That is
:10:21. > :10:26.another issue. If that wasn't enough, on Saturday, pilots from air
:10:27. > :10:30.France are going to go on strike about pay, nothing to do with the
:10:31. > :10:31.Law reforms but it gives you an idea of the things that the authorities
:10:32. > :10:42.are dealing with. Thank you for joining us. It is a
:10:43. > :10:47.long list of issues for any country to be battling with when it is also
:10:48. > :10:56.hosting a big tournament. Yes, it really looks bad and today there was
:10:57. > :11:01.a statement saying that it may not be the best idea to have a strike at
:11:02. > :11:09.the time of the year rose. He has used the idea of the year rose --
:11:10. > :11:12.the European Championships to get leveraged, that was fantastic to
:11:13. > :11:18.listen to. The programme of ongoing strikes is not flagging at all. The
:11:19. > :11:24.attendance of the strikes, now less than 8% of the unionised workers
:11:25. > :11:29.taking part in the strikes at the striking companies but they are very
:11:30. > :11:33.popular. Taking a more positive stance you could see the tournament
:11:34. > :11:37.as a huge opportunity. These have been difficult times for France for
:11:38. > :11:40.a range of reasons and this is a chance to unify and end a more
:11:41. > :11:44.positive message to the world and its people. You've been listening to
:11:45. > :11:51.President Hollande, that is exactly his message and what he is hoping
:11:52. > :11:55.for. That's the only thing he can cling to. He's the most unpopular
:11:56. > :12:02.president of the fifth Republic, ever since polls were undertaken.
:12:03. > :12:08.About 83% unfavourable opinion. If anything happens during the Euros,
:12:09. > :12:11.his goose is cooked. A lot of articles and programmes in 1998
:12:12. > :12:16.about the transformative effect of football on France, the famously
:12:17. > :12:21.multicultural team that won the World Cup. Do you think there are
:12:22. > :12:26.any parallels or are these problems beyond the power of sport? This is
:12:27. > :12:30.different, it was new and it was the first time that France, that has
:12:31. > :12:37.this Universalist starts, it was saying that it is multicultural,
:12:38. > :12:42.they had this multicultural team and they won. But then there was the
:12:43. > :12:46.unpleasant Euro 2008, which they lost, and the result is that
:12:47. > :12:58.everyone has become more aware of the differences. I'm not sure we can
:12:59. > :13:04.be so fresh about it. A good Euros, even without a victory, would help.
:13:05. > :13:08.A quick word about the security, do you think it sucks the joy out of
:13:09. > :13:14.the experience? Is it possible to have a joyful tournament while there
:13:15. > :13:20.are so many police and soldiers? Oh, yeah. One thing when I was reporting
:13:21. > :13:25.on 2015, the Bataclan and Charlie Hebdo, was how quickly the French
:13:26. > :13:29.took on the Blitz spirit. You wouldn't think that this could do
:13:30. > :13:32.it, but the stoicism and stiff upper lip was completely French and
:13:33. > :13:39.something to be proud of, so I'm not too worried. Thank you for joining
:13:40. > :13:44.us. If you have any other questions, this is a multifaceted event for
:13:45. > :13:47.France, get in touch. Before we continue to bring you updates from
:13:48. > :13:50.France, some of the other stories. Let's start by updating some news
:13:51. > :14:01.we brought you yesterday. The Italian authorities have
:14:02. > :14:11.extradited a man from Eritrea they believe is integral to people
:14:12. > :14:16.smuggling, but some of his friends have suggested that it is a case of
:14:17. > :14:21.mistaken identity. Italian prosecutors believe that he is one
:14:22. > :14:22.of the most important people in smuggling migrants from Africa into
:14:23. > :14:25.Europe. Celebrations are being held
:14:26. > :14:28.across Thailand to mark the King's The 88-year-old king is the world's
:14:29. > :14:31.longest serving monarch. But there are concerns
:14:32. > :14:33.for his health. He had heart surgery earlier this
:14:34. > :14:42.month and has not been seen Maria Sharapova has received some
:14:43. > :14:48.support after her two-year ban for failing a drugs test. Nikkei says
:14:49. > :14:52.that it will sponsor her and her racket manufacturer, Head, is also
:14:53. > :15:03.standing by her and she is appealing against the ban. Nike.
:15:04. > :15:05.Uber's got into a bit of trouble here in France.
:15:06. > :15:31.The day the British liberated the Falklands and British troops have
:15:32. > :15:39.begun the task of disarming the enemy. In the heart of the West
:15:40. > :15:44.German capital, this was Gorby- mania, the man who has raised hopes
:15:45. > :15:49.to end the division of Europe. Michael Jackson was not guilty on
:15:50. > :15:56.all charges. The screams of the crowd, testament to his popularity
:15:57. > :16:00.and their faith in his innocence. As long as they'll pay to go and see
:16:01. > :16:06.me, I'll go out and take them down the hill. What is it feeling like to
:16:07. > :16:08.be the first person to go over by your own power? It feels pretty
:16:09. > :16:25.neat. Welcome back to Paris, we are here
:16:26. > :16:33.on the of the European football Championships. We will talk about
:16:34. > :16:35.that. But our lead story is from Washington because President Obama
:16:36. > :16:38.has endorsed Hillary Clinton in the race to succeed him.
:16:39. > :16:53.BBC Afrique reports that Bill Gates says he plans to donate 100,000
:16:54. > :16:54.chickens to help people in poor countries.
:16:55. > :16:57.He believes raising and selling the birds will lift some
:16:58. > :17:00.of the world's poorest families out of poverty and empower the women
:17:01. > :17:11.BBC Arabic is reporting on two suicide attacks in Baghdad.
:17:12. > :17:13.So called Islamic-State is claiming responsibility, at least 30
:17:14. > :17:17.The attacks targeted a commercial area in a mainly Shia district.
:17:18. > :17:20.On our website many of you are reading about a cache of Twitter
:17:21. > :17:23.login names and passwords that are being offered for sale online.
:17:24. > :17:43.Now, business, starting with a big story in France because Uber has
:17:44. > :17:50.been hit with a sizeable fine, $900,000, about ?600,000. The reason
:17:51. > :17:57.is to do with unlicensed drivers working for Uber's low-cost service,
:17:58. > :18:02.UberPop. It could have been worse, some commentators were expecting it
:18:03. > :18:05.to be in the millions. Two senior Uber employees could have had a
:18:06. > :18:12.prison sentence, which hasn't happened. Nevertheless it is a fine
:18:13. > :18:17.and also a German court has upheld an existing suspension of the
:18:18. > :18:24.UberPop service. Two rulings in parallel. Quite a robust response
:18:25. > :18:27.from Uber, saying that the verdict isn't going to help his business in
:18:28. > :18:34.Germany because it has been suspended for a year and it is
:18:35. > :18:35.emphasising that it is concentrating on
:18:36. > :18:40.Samira Hussein in New York can tell us more.
:18:41. > :18:48.It is a bullish response. It is, with regard to the ruling in Paris,
:18:49. > :18:53.Uber says it is disappointed and is going to appeal but what is
:18:54. > :18:56.highlighted here is something we've talked about before, the
:18:57. > :19:02.relationship between the sharing economy in these new transformative
:19:03. > :19:06.ways we are seeing the sharing economy really change the
:19:07. > :19:09.established one. In this particular case we are talking about not the
:19:10. > :19:16.regular Uber service, but the UberPop. As you pointed out, it is
:19:17. > :19:24.the lighter, cheaper version of it. It has been outlawed in other
:19:25. > :19:27.European countries because it united people with unlicensed drivers,
:19:28. > :19:34.which goes against a lot of rules in many countries. I know that $900,000
:19:35. > :19:38.is a lot of money but it reminds me of when football clubs are fined a
:19:39. > :19:44.few thousand dollars, but they worth millions. It isn't really going to
:19:45. > :19:52.touch Uber, is it? It isn't, Uber has lots of money, it is a very
:19:53. > :19:57.wealthy start-up. But what it does signal is that relationship, and how
:19:58. > :20:01.governments are relating to a company like Uber. Uber, no doubt
:20:02. > :20:08.about it, it has transformed transportation around the world. You
:20:09. > :20:12.see a lot of companies trying to mount competition to Uber. This is a
:20:13. > :20:16.space where we are seeing a lot of things happening. The fact you are
:20:17. > :20:19.seeing fines being implemented on these companies for some of their
:20:20. > :20:26.dealings may see a relationship further down the road. Thank you for
:20:27. > :20:33.joining us. If you are just joining me, is a pretty big clue as to where
:20:34. > :20:36.I am, the centre of Paris, on the EE of Euro 2016. We've been talking
:20:37. > :20:43.about the potential of strikes and protests -- on the eve. We have had
:20:44. > :20:50.a range of different objections to the new Labour laws coming into
:20:51. > :20:54.France, including rail strikes, bin collections strikes, fuel depots
:20:55. > :21:05.blockaded. The sports Minister is far from impressed.
:21:06. > :21:12.The big protests we saw in Paris a couple of weeks ago, these are
:21:13. > :21:15.pictures from the time, some of them turning violent. Illustrating the
:21:16. > :21:21.passion that the minority of people feel. The pros and cons of these
:21:22. > :21:24.reforms, the government argues that employers need more flexibility for
:21:25. > :21:28.their businesses to flourish and that by allowing them to change the
:21:29. > :21:32.terms of employment more easily, it will help them to create jobs and
:21:33. > :21:36.successful business and address the problems with unemployment. The
:21:37. > :21:37.counterargument is that it makes it easier to hire and fire and that
:21:38. > :21:53.workers' rights are being eroded. Are you surprised that these reforms
:21:54. > :21:57.have proven so divisive? It is not only the reforms, it is the way that
:21:58. > :22:02.the government tried to bring them through. A presidential decree. A
:22:03. > :22:07.presidential decree and the fact that he chose a minister who wasn't
:22:08. > :22:12.well-known to actually pass such a major tax and the fact that, you
:22:13. > :22:17.know, he is money for the presidency soon, even though he hasn't declared
:22:18. > :22:23.it yet. It is a blurred message to the French people. I think one thing
:22:24. > :22:27.those of us on the outside looking in have trouble understanding is how
:22:28. > :22:30.representative the protesters are. There is a tradition of protest in
:22:31. > :22:35.France but many people are not going on the streets. Where is the public
:22:36. > :22:41.opinion? It is quite strong for the strikers. It is going down a bit but
:22:42. > :22:45.six out of ten people were supporting the strikers and if not
:22:46. > :22:51.exactly supporting them, saying it is the fault of the government if we
:22:52. > :22:57.have this industrial action, not the fault of the union. People going on
:22:58. > :23:02.strike work for the state, basically, the public services. It
:23:03. > :23:11.is public transport, it is oil refineries. They are half owned by
:23:12. > :23:16.the state. Yes, I would say that the people don't like the law. The bill,
:23:17. > :23:22.as it is being introduced, try to make Labour in France more flexible,
:23:23. > :23:26.but it is scaring people because they have a feeling that every right
:23:27. > :23:31.they have as workers are going to be taken away or given to the hands of
:23:32. > :23:34.bosses, and the French bosses are the most reactionary in the world,
:23:35. > :23:39.very old-fashioned compared to other countries. They have management
:23:40. > :23:45.methods that are often very old-fashioned, very hierarchical and
:23:46. > :23:49.there is no trust. The leader of the bosses's union is very unpopular
:23:50. > :23:55.with the effect that people feel threatened, their children may be
:23:56. > :23:57.threatened and there is a code addiction between the unionised
:23:58. > :24:01.workers protecting jobs from which they cannot be fired and the young
:24:02. > :24:07.people who are demonstrating in favour but cannot get jobs because
:24:08. > :24:11.those jobs are... You say that the unions and President Hollande are
:24:12. > :24:15.unpopular, I don't know how Nicolas Sarkozy is going, but is anybody
:24:16. > :24:20.popular and offering solutions to the economic pressure? The irony is
:24:21. > :24:29.that when you talk to experts and even journalists who work on this
:24:30. > :24:33.kind of very complex bills, they say that they were supposed to give more
:24:34. > :24:37.power to the people on the ground in their own companies, as a
:24:38. > :24:44.negotiation with the people who actually manage the company would be
:24:45. > :24:52.stronger because there wouldn't be decisions coming from the top down,
:24:53. > :24:56.but would come from the down up. This law is trying to bring more
:24:57. > :24:59.power to the hand of the people but the way that it was explained, and
:25:00. > :25:04.the fact that not many people like being in unions and negotiate like
:25:05. > :25:07.this, then this law is not understood as something that will
:25:08. > :25:12.free the people and allow them to have more power with their local
:25:13. > :25:16.company and their work. I was mentioning how angry the sports
:25:17. > :25:20.Minister is about it, do you agree with him? Do you think even if you
:25:21. > :25:25.have an issue, you should wait until the tournament is over? Mr Martinez
:25:26. > :25:29.from the CGT union, the main union, said that maybe it isn't good for
:25:30. > :25:35.the image of the unions. That's interesting. Two hours ago, he said
:25:36. > :25:40.that supporters shouldn't be able to go to the venues. Thank you, we have
:25:41. > :25:46.to leave it now. We appreciate you joining me. If you have any
:25:47. > :25:52.questions about Euro 2016 and the issues that France is hosting, get
:25:53. > :25:54.in touch. I'm going to step out of the way so that you can see this
:25:55. > :25:57.beautiful view that we've got.