28/07/2016 Outside Source

Welcome to Outside Source. Hillary Clinton will take centre stage in a

couple of hours' time. She will formally take the nomination as the

Democratic party's candidate. We will be live in Philadelphia.

Angela Merkel says refugees are still welcome in Germany after a

series of attacks over the last few days.

A new type of antibiotic has been found in human snot. Scientists say

this is really important because it can help us fight drug-resistant

bacteria. A massive nuclear investment is

confirmed. Construction could begin on a nuclear plant in the south-west

of England at Hinckley Point. The details of the few moments. If you

have any questions on what we are covering, all of your comments will

come straight to me on this hashtag. The final night of the Democratic

convention in Philadelphia beckons, and it is time for the main event.

Hillary Clinton will give a speech which is certain to be watched by

millions across the US as well as around the world. She definitely

cannot complain about the build-up. First Michelle Obama, then Bill

Clinton, then Barack Obama, night after night it installed her

virtues. This is some of what the president said. There has never been

a man or a woman, not me, not Bill, nobody more qualified than Hillary

Clinton to serve as president of the United States of America. This year,

in this election, I'm asking you to join me to reject cynicism and

reject fear, and to summon what is best in us, to elect Hillary Clinton

as the next president of the United States. And show the world we still

believe in the promise of this great nation.

You can follow this story online on the BBC News website. Let's bring in

catty -- Cattie Kay. Most will agree on the fact that Hillary Clinton has

a great deal of experience. I've been reading lots of articles from

the US press. One thing comes out, she still has laid out her vision

for America, is that fair criticism? -- hasn't laid out. I think it is,

actually. If you asked average Americans who are sort of following

this campaign, but already focused on their jobs and families and daily

lives, what Donald Trump stands for they would probably come back with a

couple of simple things, building a wall with Mexico. -- but are really

focused. Having a ban on Muslims and making America stronger. If you ask

the same question about Hillary Clinton I'm not sure they could give

you those same three very concrete, clear proposals. But I think it is a

problem for her. What we have heard a lot from her and from Barack Obama

is that this is somebody who is ready to be president. Because she

has experience in running the country and has had a life of public

service. That is a strong argument for her as a public servant. But it

is not a very clear assistant one line policy pitch. And I think that

is a problem for her. -- succinct. For all of the work that has gone

into this speech, she has given big political speeches in the past, she

ran for president eight years ago, she hasn't managed it before and a

lot of us are wondering where she will find the vision now. I think

more than the vision issue, the challenge for Hillary Clinton, that

I'm hearing from people around her campaign, is to change the narrative

about Hillary Clinton. They are not so much concerned about the Bernie

Sanders supporters who have made their voice is clear, particularly

at the beginning of this convention, but they are concerned about Hillary

Clinton's negatives. She has been in the public eye for a long time.

People know a lot about her. She has a high level of untrustworthiness

among Americans. That is that the narrative surrounding her. Between

now and November, if she is to win over those voters who might sway

either way between Trump and Clinton, she has to somehow change

that narrative. I think in her speech tonight, and what you've

heard all through this convention, has been part of that effort. Part

of it has been humanising her. We heard from Bill Clinton the mother,

the wife, the person he fell in love with. Part of it has been have

experience, we heard that from Barack Obama last night. And I think

we will have that from her tonight. It's not so much what she says

tonight it is how she says it. It is almost a question of delivery. Does

she have a regular conversation, does she reach Americans in the way

Joe Biden did so brilliantly last night? Almost with a whisper into

the microphone. They are right in front of her, in their living rooms,

she is right there with them, does she show that, or does she give that

big grand political speech? I think some of her advisers have been

suggesting that they can really hope she can do the former, she can give

an intimate, personal account of who she is. Very interesting. Thank you.

She will be back in about 25 minutes time. If you have any questions for

her and use the hashtag and we will get into that. In the meantime let's

talk about what Angela Merkel has been saying today. She has set a

clear message. That Germany will not be abandoning its policy of

welcoming refugees. The reason she has had to reiterate this is because

there has been a series of attacks in Germany over the last couple of

weeks. We have talked about them a lot on this programme. Many have

been carried out by a silent seekers or people with migrant backgrounds.

-- asylum seekers. In 2015 alone over 1 million people arrived in

Germany. Here are some of what Angela Merkel had to say.

TRANSLATION: The terrorists want us to lose the focus on the things that

are necessary. They want to undermine our solidarity and our

togetherness. They want to damage our way of life, our openness, and,

yes, our readiness to taking people in distress. They want to spread

hatred and fear between the cultures. And they want to spread

hatred between the religions. We stand decisively against this.

Those words were never going to please everybody in Germany. We

travelled to Cologne to find out more about Frauke Petry.

There was an axe attack near Wuerzburg on a train and there was a

suicide bombing on a train in Ansbach. There was also a deadly

shooting in Munich. All of these are not thought to be connected to

radical Islam. If we go from Germany to France. There was that horrific

attack in Nice with the truck two weeks ago. And two days ago a priest

was murdered. Both of those attacks were also linked to IS and that has

provoked a passionate security debate. The former president,

Nicolas Sarkozy, the man who wants the job back, has said:

This is a counter from the current interior Minister saying:

On Outside Source we often turn to the BBC's chief correspondent for

his analysis. Here are Gavin's thoughts on what Angela Merkel said

today. Today she showed I think some

courage. She is under attack from certain quarters in Germany. There

are people saying we got to know who is in the country. We don't know

who's in the country. We don't they who has been assigned the

deportation, and they need to be removed. She has doubled down on her

original policy. She has said we can manage this. The idea is she put

forward, about making it more difficult to buy arms on the

Internet, that is not what her critics are looking for. They want

her to make a tougher line. Moving towards pushing out those who have

failed to get asylum. Is she in a stronger position than where

Francois Hollande finds himself in France? He is struggling at the

moment. After the attacks in Nice a lot -- whatever truth there has been

broke down. Critics tore into him and the government. -- truce there

was there has been a breakdown. They have come across with much, much

tougher language. Today Francois Brummer and has been talking about

setting up a National Guard. -- Francois Hollande. I'm not sure how

quickly that would come into effect. Perhaps by the autumn. But he is in

a weak position. He, too, rather like Angela Merkel, doesn't want to

turn this into a clash of civilisations. He doesn't want, in

the end, compromise the basic freedoms of France or Germany in

order to deal with this. That is the dilemma. He may not want to

compromise but there is a huge amount of pressure on the core ideas

behind these great European nations, freedom of movement, freedom of

speech, multiculturalism, they are all come in different ways, under

pressure. They are. You hear European leaders talking about

differing values. They feel under pressure. They feel some of the

things they are most proud of our at risk at the moment. And certainly in

fighting terrorism, which is very much on people's minds, what they

don't want to go further is to put a big fence around Europe and curtail

some of those freedoms. But if these attacks, attacks by lone wolves, or

attacks by people connected to IS continue, then that political

pressures will continue. And even in Germany some of her more

conservative allies are saying, you know, the current state of things

isn't working. Today, as I say, Angela Merkel took a responsible,

courageous stand. But she will come under further pressure if these

attacks continue. Let's talk about the EU. We have looked at it from a

nation by nation perspective. But over Western Europe, it will become

the dominant institution. Do you think it needs a unified response?

At the moment there is an incentive to hold the line. They've just have

a referendum here in the UK. Today, the economic sentiment in the

Eurozone was pretty good. Some sense the immediate crisis has passed. But

people understand that the migrant crisis has not gone away. You have a

Chancellor increasingly dependent on a lead in Turkey. You also have

these terrorist attacks and the threat they pose. -- leader in

Turkey. The sense of not just being under pressure, but feeling a little

bit weak at the moment, and people asking questions about the future of

the EU. They have been doing it for some time. But I think that is ferry

much the feeling in places like Brussels at the moment. That they

are circling the wagons. And they want to hang on as much as they can

to what they consider to be their successes, achievements, and basic

beliefs. On yesterday's programme we were

looking at Facebook's spectacular quarterly results. Later on in the

programme we will be talking about Google and Amazon. Two companies

that deliver impressive results. We will be live in New York to talk

about that. The Prime Minister, Theresa May, is

holding talks in Slovakia and Poland or part of her tour of European

capitals. She's been stressing the importance of maintaining a strong

relationship with member states after the UK leads the European

Union. Speaking at a news conference with the Polish Prime Minister she

emphasised the importance of the relationship between the two

countries. Let me play you a little of what she said in Warsaw. It is a

partnership that goes back a long way. We will never forget the Polish

pilots who braved the skies alongside us in World War II. To

stand up for freedom and democracy across Europe. And it is a

partnership that we will endure long after the UK has left the EU to stop

indeed today we have discussed how we can continue to deepen our

cooperation following on from the agreement made last year to work

more closely together. -- UK has left you.

Welcomes Outside Source. Our lead story: After three days of

Democratic stars like Michelle Obama, Bill Clinton as Barack Obama,

tonight is the turn of Hillary Clinton. She is hours away from

making her bid for the presidential office with a speech to the

Democratic convention. Let's look at some of the main stories. Their

reports that about 50 animals in one of the Venezuelanmain zoos have died

in the last six months because of hunger. Venezuelan is suffering a

severe economic crisis. There are chronic food shortages in some

areas. These are pictures of flash floods

in Nepal that have killed at least 75 people. One river causing a huge

amount of damage, or caused by monsoon rains. -- all.

This story is scarcely believable. The city of Hiroshima has had to ask

the creators of Pokemon Go to key their characters out of the

cemeteries of those who died. -- to keep.

The al-Nusra Front is based in Syria. Today it has announced that

it has split from al-Qaeda. We've already been getting some reaction

from Washington. Laura, can you help us understand the relationship

between these two organisations? The al-Nusra Front formed in 2012. They

are allied with our Kyel Reid. There had been rumours in the last few

months they were going to split. -- with Al-Qaeda. The al-Nusra Front

have a very powerful force. They are well equipped. They are known as

powerful fighters. They have been affiliated with Al-Qaeda. Now

Al-Qaeda has said they can go. The al-Nusra Front decided to go. The

reason perhaps for this is because the US in Russia refused to name the

al-Nusra Front outside the truce. It means they are still a target for

bombing in Syria. It could be that this has been part of their

decision-making. However, in briefings by both the State

Department and the White House today there is a great deal of scepticism

when it comes to this decision. The US State Department says it sees no

reason so far to change its view of al-Nusra Front after the

announcement and will judge it on its actions, goals, and ideology.

They will remain a target. We know IS aspires to create a caliphate

using territory that it seizes. What is al-Nusra Front trying to achieve

in Syria? It is trying to get rid of the Assad regime in Syria. It is

also not friends with the Islamic State. The two sides don't like each

other despite the IS trying to at various times get al-Nusra Front to

join its ranks. What al-Nusra Front has tried to do is perhaps join with

the more moderate groups. Certainly that is what it seems to imply with

its statement this afternoon. This provides a real headache for those

in Washington. They've already urged moderate groups in Syria, some of

whom that Payback, to step away from al-Nusra Front. If many of the

moderate groups are looking at al-Nusra Front and seeing how strong

the fighters are and how well equipped they are, as they are all

trying to fight the Assad regime, they might be attracted by it. Josh

Ernest said during his White House briefing today, here's the White

House spokesman, he said it is very difficult for the US military to

distinguish, and very complex to distinguish them between moderate

and serious groups in Syria. Thanks very much. We some from the

Americans describing al-Nusra Front as moderate.

As we were talking about earlier, when I was telling you about what

Angela Merkel has been saying today, millions of migrants and refugees

have been travelling into Europe for the past couple of years. Most of

them take two routes. Either through Turkey, Greece, and up through the

Balkans towards countries like Germany, or from Libya across the

Mediterranean to Italy. We have one former people smuggler in our next

report claiming the European Union's actions, particularly in the

Mediterranean, are encouraging people to make the journey. Before

we see that, bear in mind that 3000 people have already died trying to

cross the sea this year. And that Libya is now the main point of

departure. The main destination for those who leave Libya, well, there

are two. Cicely is one of them and so is another small Italian island.

Over 10,000 of these migrants who tried to make it across were

unaccompanied children. We pick up the story in Tripoli.

As the sun goes down we set out with the Tripoli Coast Guard. Facing the

perils of the Mediterranean, which has claimed so many. This

inflatable, battered by the waves, is their only seaworthy vessel. From

their fleet of four three need repairs. Later, in pitch darkness,

they are on the lookout for migrants in distress. Not easy without

night-vision goggles. All they can do is listen for their vessels. It

is 1:30am. We are in a stretch of water where smugglers' boats pass

regularly. Usually between one and three. The engine is off, the lights

are off, the Coast Guard do not want turn that anybody to their presents.

But if a rescue was needed tonight they have just this one small

vessel. By daybreak, no trouble on the horizon. They say it is the

traffickers who rule the waves. TRANSLATION: Smugglers have more

boats and more weapons. They have long-range guns. They can escort the

migrants to European waters and we can't do anything to stop them. The

state doesn't support us. We have not been paid since March. Coast

Guard officials say there is another problem further out to see just

beyond Libyan territorial waters. Operation Sofia. They say the EU

mission supposed to shut down smuggling routes is ferrying

migrants to Italy like a taxi. There is agreement from a smuggler, now

detained, who the authorities say is a big fish. I encourage people to

try one more. They are rescued when they are very close to Libya. I

encourage more people to enter the route. They think the ships will

pick them up quickly. Quickly. And thousands need to be picked up every

month. This was in late June. The Coast Guard coming to the rescue.

Pregnant women among those scrambling for places. But many here

are still determined to get to Europe to find work. FT from Nigeria

told us she has no choice. -- Betty. My children don't need to suffer

like this. We need to go. It will be better than Nigeria. My children

need to go to school, they need to have a better life. She knows that

some who set out from here washed up on the beaches. But she says her

best hope of a new life is to risk death at sea.

That, along with most of the reports I show you one Outside Source, is

available online, as well. If you were watching about this time

yesterday you will know we were talking about Facebook's quarterly

profits. They were breathtaking. A very big jump in profits. A hard act

to follow. Amazon and Google are doing that today. Look at this from

Google, not quite the same numbers, but hugely impressive.

Before we get into the numbers, Michelle, explain to us why we

always have to use two names. Well, alphabet is the parent company of

Google. -- Alphabet. Not only is their Google in the company, but it

also houses many of the company's other projects, when you think about

driverless cars, allsorts of things, they all come under the umbrella

called Alphabet. Revenue jumped, profits jumped. All of this in part

still on the strength of its search engine and performance of Android,

its operating system on mobile phones. That's been attractive to

digital advertisers. We are seeing a similar trend from Facebook's

results yesterday to Google's when a strong earnings are being powered by

their dominance, really, of the digital advertising market.

Investors liking what they are hearing because the shares have

risen off the back of this news. All talking about Amazon exceeding

expectations. Can you give us any more. They reported a 30% jump in

profits. A lot of it has to do not read the online retail giant's

traditional business, what perhaps most consumers think of when you

talk about Amazon, but actually it is the growth in its Cloud

infrastructure service. Cloud, as we've seen in other places like

Microsoft, has really been a big area of growth for technology

companies. That is certainly true for Amazon. But it hasn't grown as

quickly as investors hoped, so that is why the trade price -- share

price is trading lower. Thanks very much.