22/08/2016 Outside Source

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

The leaders of France, Italy and Germany have been

exploring their vision for a future Europe.

The venue - an Italian warship off the coast of Naples.

Turkey targets Islamic State militants across the Syrian border

after a suicide bombing at a wedding party left more than 50 dead.

Nicolas Sarkozy has been President of France once,

He says he'll run to be his party's candidate for next year's election.

And we'll be looking at a huge loss in revenue for US swimmer

Ryan Lochte and a big cancer acquisition for Pfizer -

The leaders of Italy, Germany and France have been meeting

on an Italian warship in the Mediterranean.

The ship is near an island off the coast

You might think it is an odd location for meeting like this -

But first, let's hear what the leaders have been saying,

with Brexit, migration and security on the agenda.

TRANSLATION: Many people felt that after Brexit, Europe would come to

an end, but that is not the case. We respect the choice that has been

made by British citizens, but at the same time, we want to be able to

write a new page for the future will stop we are talking about internal

security and external security and collaboration between intelligence

services better integration of national industries and in

particular, defence. And those are priorities.

Absolute priorities. TRANSLATION: Europe must ensure its own defence,

and France is certainly playing its role. But Europe might also be a

reality was that it is an ideal but it must be translated into the daily

lives of Europeans and that is why we wanted to meet here and why we

met earlier in Berlin. TRANSLATION: While we respect Great

Britain's position we want to reassure the other member states

that they can cut on the prosperous and safe Europe. I'm also happy we

can visit each country again and again in order to inform ourselves

of the diversity and common ground of which this European Union

consists. I said we would get more on why

they are meeting near Ventotene. It's to do with this man -

Altiero Spinelli. He was an Italian communist

politician who was imprisoned for his opposition

to Italian fascism. The leaders visited his grave

earlier on Monday. While in prison, he used cigarette

papers to write a manifesto of European integration,

it went on to help Naomi Grimley has been

following the meeting from Naples - They were on board the Giuseppe

Garibaldi, which has been involved in some of the anti-smuggling

operations, particularly off the coast of Libya. I think that was

symbolic, because as we heard that press conference, the three leaders

were very much trying to stress that they are getting on with a host of

problems, that they are trying to ensure that they do not get knocked

off course by Brexit and that instead, they carry on coordinating

over defence and security, making sure that they provide proper

provisions for those genuine refugees who come to Europe, and

they are trying to find a way of getting those southern European

states out of their sluggish economic state. So, in a way, being

on that aircraft carrier was a way of saying, we are doing other stuff

here, not just licking our wins about Brexit. Let's talk about

Brexit. We are coming to the end of the summer, there is this looming

deadline at the end of the year, I suppose, imposed by some, but there

is no legal basis for it. What did they say about the UK and Brexit?

Actually, what they said about Brexit was fairly cursory. They do

not want to dwell too much on it, because of its negative

connotations, if you like. But what was interesting was Matteo Renzi

saying, this is not the EU coming to an end, some people but it was, it

is not the case, he said. Angela Merkel stressing also that they

respect the British decision but will be concentrating at the next

summit with all the member states around the table, apart from

Britain, but they will concentrate on providing prosperity for Europe

and focusing on unity. So, they are almost trying to give it away from

the distress of Brexit and sort of focus on the future. I think they

want to do that because they are worried that if they sound

disunited, if they are giving mixed signals, it will only add to that

uncertainty with Britain, of course, not yet pressing play on that whole

divorce procedure. Let's move on. Sixteen days of sporting

action officially came Of the more than 10,000 athletes

to compete in the Games, these three were

the most successful. Swimmer Michael Phelps won

six golds and a silver medal, his team-mate Katie Ledecky took

four golds and a silver, and gymnast Simone Biles claimed

four golds and a bronze. so no wonder then that America

topped the 2016 medals table. More surprising, perhaps,

to see Team GB in It's the UK's best

Olympics in 108 years. This might have

something to do with it. The dark blue line you see

there shows the amount of money The light blue line

is the number of medals won. David Ornstein from the BBC

Sport Centre told me how This all goes back to 1997, and the

point at which National Lottery funding came into play. Because at

the 1996 Atlanta Games, Britain did terribly, winning just one gold

medal. Everything changed with the new funding. At that time, Britain

only received all 28 Olympic sports are 5 million British pounds to

share between them on an annual basis from taxpayers' money. But

rocketed with the National Lottery, and the results, as you see on the

table, have been prolific. So now, 20 years later, ?247 million in

Lottery funding is awarded to the sports over a four-year cycle. They

have to earn the money with medals, essentially. And therefore, without

looking to Tokyo, can Britain go further? The decision will be

announced in December and the sports will be allocated funding. The

decisions will not be based on the... Sorry, will be based on the

performances in Rio but on the potential for medals in Tokyo. It is

not a system that is, that criticism because the likes of basketball, an

increasingly popular sport in sections of society here in Britain,

has lost all of its funding following their poor performance at

London 2012. But suddenly, the funding structure has brought

success. If you go to the UK Sport website, it sets out how the funding

works in great detail, it is very impressive and it has brought the

medals. Some saying a cold calculation because funding equals

medals, medals equals funding. And some sports that some feel have been

left out. But Australia had this model and I was reading an article

that said other countries are beginning to catch up with this

funding model. China invested a lot of money in it, but it was below

Team GB. Will it be almost like an arms race to funding when it comes

to big events like the Olympics? Quite possibly, and those countries,

Australia, China, will be gunning for Great Britain at the next

Olympics in Tokyo for years from now. Britain have brought in a lot

of coaches from overseas when the National Lottery money came in,

picking the best coaches from around the world, and it is no surprise

that many of the countries who now want to catch up with Britain are

looking possibly to recruit Britain's successful coaches.

Talking specifically China, they had a very poor Games by their

standards. They were expecting to finish second in the medal table.

But they had a lofty expectation of 36 gold medals to comfortably sit in

that second place, but they didn't achieve it. There was quite a format

in China that. Initially there was incredulity, especially in the

media, but then some understanding because 70% of the China squad were

first-time Olympians, so they would like to think that they will do

better in Tokyo with their rivals, Japan, hosting that.

Now, I just want to bring you some of the fallout from the Rio Games

concerning the US swimmer Ryan Lochte, who claimed

he and three friends had been robbed at gunpoint.

On Monday, three of his commercial sponsors have dropped him.

The fashion company Ralph Lauren and the skin care company

Syneron-Candela followed the example first set by swimwear

This is the Speedo website, just one day following the Games,

Speedo USA tweeted a full statement, saying they cannot condone

David Willis is following the story in Washington.

David, I spoke to you a couple of hours ago, and speedo were the only

ones who had dropped Ryan Lochte. A couple of hours later, down like

dominoes they go! They are queueing up to distance themselves from Ryan

Lochte right now. You mentioned Speedo USA, we also have Ralph

Lauren and this skincare company, Syneron-Candela, they have distanced

themselves saying they do not want any more to do with him. In total

that could amount to around $750,000 that Lochte is down as a result of

that. Speedo USA said it plans to donate $50,000 that would have gone

to Ryan Lochte to the Save the Children charity in Brazil. Speedo

USA has been sponsoring him for more than ten years. Ralph Lauren picked

him up for the first time this year, they are saying that they do not

want any more, thank you very much. And although it seems bad enough,

this could be just the start for Ryan Lochte. He is facing the

possibility of some sort of punishment from the American Olympic

Committee, the International committee could also levy sanctions

against him and then there is the possibility of criminal charges in

Brazil. It is very possible that at 32, we have seen the end of Ryan

Lochte's competitive swimming career. One other sponsor was a

mattress Company, who have not mentioned anything so far but have

you seen anything? No, I haven't seen anything. It is early days and

I think we may well see them fall like dominoes, because this is an

unsavoury incident. It almost caused a Gimenez -- diplomatic row and

dominated headlines at the Olympics or days as the twists and turns

unfolded. And Ryan Lochte's lies were found out. His team-mates had

to pay a fairly hefty fine, all three of them were detained after

Lochte himself had left the country. It was an unholy mess and it really

eclipsed for a long time the achievements that America had made

in the medals table. Thank you very much for coming back to us a second

time today on Outside Source. Moving away from the Olympics now, to

France. France's former leader,

Nicolas Sarkozy, announced his presidential comeback bid on Monday,

declaring he would run to be the candidate for his party

for the 2017 election. He made the announcement

on his Facebook account - saying he feels he has the strength

to lead this battle. Hugh Schofield is following in Paris

and explained what is next for Do is to be a primary in his party

in November. -- there is. Candidates for that have to announce their

candidacy by this week. About ten other candidates have thrown their

hats into the ring, and all that we were waiting for was what the actual

leader of the Republican party, Nicolas Sarkozy, to do what everyone

knew was his ambition and throw his hat into the ring. Technically, he

is not the candidate yet for the presidency, he is a candidate for

the primary of the centre-right for November. The important fact being

that whoever wins that primary is by far the most likely winner of next

April or May's election because Francois Hollande is a busted flush

and Marine Le Pen, with very much the far right going up in the polls,

will always unite more people against her than for her. So this

primary will be a very important event, and Nicolas Sarkozy, this

immensely ambitious, immensely energetic and immensely

controversial figure, is now, as you say, very much back in the centre of

the political frame. Where do you think he ranks when it comes to

public support, opinion, as the possible candidate? Well, the

primary is interesting, because primaries have different rules in

different countries, different parties. This one, the rules are

that anyone can vote, so in theory we could have a situation where

leftist voters are voting for a right-wing candidate. In practice, I

think they would sign a bit of paper saying that you would square up with

the ideals of the Republican party, but it raises an interesting issue,

because Nicolas Sarkozy isn't out of the more popular among people here

the members of the Republican party, the people who have signed up to

become members, people who go out and clap at meetings. Years popular

among men because of his energy, is much clearer stance, they would say,

on things like national sovereignty and authority and identity and so

on. Among the broader section of the public that votes with the far

right, not members, but people who identify broadly with the ideas of

the far right and the right, he is less popular. The one who is more

popular is a Mandziuk. -- Alain Shoop. He is Nicolas Sarkozy's prime

rival. More in a moment about Turkey, where

reports say that most of the 54 people killed in a bomb attack

at a wedding were children. The Justice Secretary, Liz Truss,

has spoken of the need to "root out" Islamist extremism in jails,

by holding "subversive prisoners" in specialist units

away from other inmates. Prison reformers have warned

of the dangers of grouping extremists together and said

the units should be used It is vital we make sure our prisons

are safe and places of reform. So we are first of all making sure that

staff on the front line have the training and the authority to deal

with extremism where it takes place, and to take action against it. What

we are also doing is creating specialist units for the most

subversive extremists. Those who seek to poison the minds of others

across the mainstream prison population. So, they will be

separated from the mainstream prison population so they cannot continue

to do that. So, it is a comprehensive set of measures to

prevent the spread of extremism, but also deal with those most subversive

prisoners. This is Outside Source,

live from the BBC newsroom. The leaders of Italy,

France and Germany have held They also paid a visit to the grave

of one of the founding fathers Some of the other stories are

language services are looking at. Iran says that Russia is no longer

using an Iranian base to launch It criticised Russia

for publicising its use of the base, Russia and Iran both support Syria's

President Assad in the conflict. Vandals in Australia let loose

three saltwater crocodiles This CCTV footage shows

the animals being pushed A gang of masked intruders then

vandalise the office. The crocodiles were said to be

in poor health. There's more about that

on the BBC News App. You might have heard

about the bombing at a wedding One reporter for the

New York Times tweeted the ages It happened here in Gaziantep,

not far from the border with Syria. the so-called Islamic State group is

responsible. We have had some strong words today

from the Turkish Foreign Minister, who says that, "Our border must be

completely cleansed from Daesh," Now in the last couple of hours,

we've had this update. Turkey's military hit Syrian Kurdish

targets 20 times with artillery at Manbij in northern Syria,

a Turkish official said, adding that the military continues

to hit Islamic State targets in the Syrian town of Jarablus

on the border with Turkey. Let's cross to my colleague Enis

Senerdem. Good to have you back with us. You mentioned a couple of hours

ago that that was the time to watch. Tell us what has happened. Hours

after we had seen the Foreign Minister stated that Islamic State

had been targeted at the border with Syria, are seeing Turkish artillery

shelling Jarablus. A descendant, showing Manbij, but as a town which

has come under global attention, it was freed from Islamic State

militants by the Syrian Democratic forces, which is basically formed by

the Kurdish militant group and some Arabic entities. Now we're seeing

Turkey targeting Kurdish militants and Islamic State militants. It is

quite startling. We are seeing a major step coming from tracking and

that might change the whole game plan of Syria. We mentioned that the

Prime Minister said they needed to rid themselves of Daesh or Islamic

State. At the Exning five they would target Manbij, or why they would

target also Kurdish militants? But after these showings, but we have

the Prime Minister and President Reagan himself saying that the

Turkish militia group, Kurdish militia group and the the Somme

estate who, there is no difference, they are terrorist organisations

according to Turkey. We are now seeing over the last couple of weeks

the Turkish -- Kurdish militants advancing towards the Turkish Syrian

border and capturing village after village, town after town from

Islamic State and creating a bill of Kurdish entities. Turkey does not

want to see any kind of Kurdish formation over there. They do not

want to see Islamic State either. So, it is more concentrated than

just the two sided conflict. Thank you very much, Enis Senerdem from

BBC Turkish. Business News now. The US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer

has confirmed it will buy a cancer drug firm called Medivation

for about $14 billion. Pfizer has agreed to pay

about $81.50 per share, which is a 21% premium based

on closing price on Friday. Good to have you with us. This looks

like a huge deal. I think what this really shows is just how much

pharmaceutical companies are willing to invest in finding cancer

treatment drugs, so that is what Medivation does. Right now, it has a

cancer treating drug which has been used for prostate cancer, which has

proven to be very effective. They also have a drug that is currently

being tested, which would address breast cancer. That is also been

shown in preliminary tests to be valuable. That is why Pfizer wants

them because that will bring them into Pfizer's already pretty large

arsenal of oncology drugs, one of which is another breast cancer

treatment drug which has been proving quite valuable for Pfizer.

Is there ever any pushback for one giant pharmaceutical company to have

so much control over so many important cancer drugs? So, all of

these kinds of mergers are subject to regulatory approval. So, if there

are incidences in which you may see that perhaps one company has gone to

have a lot of one drug in its arsenal, then the Federal

regulators, they would look at that. Thank you very much for speaking to

us. We try to bring you

the BBC series CEO Secrets, some tips from the heads

of major corporations. Today's is Dennis Nally,

who has just stepped down as head of accountancy network

PricewaterhouseCoopers. Here is the advice he wishes he had

been given before he started out. The world is moving so fast today,

it requires a different type of mindset, a need for risk-taking is

really critical. 42 years ago, I think it was, steady as you go. Be

cautious in terms of how you think about opportunities or how you think

about career decisions. Think about and focus on mobility. Having

international experience, taking different types of assignments

outside the core business. I wish 42 years ago I would have had a much

different appreciation for the need for the diversity agenda. What I

mean by that is, by having an appreciation of people with

different backgrounds, different cultures, different ways of

thinking, having that really guide your thinking, I think that would

have made me a better leader earlier in my career.

More chips can be found online on the BBC website. -- more chips. All

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