:00:08. > :00:09.Hello, I'm Ros Atkins, this is Outside Source.
:00:10. > :00:12.It's small steps but the Syrian ceasefire has lasted over 24 hours.
:00:13. > :00:15.There are no reports of civilian casualties and the UN says it
:00:16. > :00:21.Across the border in Iraq, the battle to retake Mosul
:00:22. > :00:23.from the Islamic State group is set to begin.
:00:24. > :00:26.Orla Guerin has been to the front line of the battle against IS.
:00:27. > :00:32.I'll play you her report in full in a moment.
:00:33. > :00:34.The men's 1500m at the Paralympics was so extraordinary
:00:35. > :00:40.you have to double check you saw it correctly.
:00:41. > :00:47.The top four all went faster than the winner
:00:48. > :00:53.And Katty Kay will focus on four states that will go a long way
:00:54. > :01:10.to deciding who'll be the next US president.
:01:11. > :01:13.We've been bringing you updates on the ceasefire in Syria
:01:14. > :01:17.Aid agencies say the need for aid supplies is urgent,
:01:18. > :01:24.Next door in Iraq there's a related conflict which continues,
:01:25. > :01:28.and I've a special report from Orla Guerin
:01:29. > :01:35.The Islamic State group still controls Iraq's second
:01:36. > :01:55.60 kilometres south of there is the town of Guyyara.
:01:56. > :01:58.That's been taken back from IS control by the Iraqi army.
:01:59. > :02:08.A parting gift from the so-called Islamic State. Oil wells set ablaze.
:02:09. > :02:16.Covering their retreat from the town of Guyyara. Here, the landscape of
:02:17. > :02:21.liberation. Defeating IS will mean a lot more scorched earth. By the
:02:22. > :02:28.roadside, remnants of their rule. The Iraqi troops who drove them from
:02:29. > :02:37.here still jittery. Our journey was suddenly halted, when a home-made
:02:38. > :02:46.bomb was found up ahead. A controlled explosion. This time.
:02:47. > :02:51.Clearing the strategic town is a key victory in the push towards Mosul.
:02:52. > :02:57.Troops are closing in step by step, with help from US and British
:02:58. > :03:04.bombing raids. And what happened under the dark rein of IS is now
:03:05. > :03:08.being uncovered, we were given a tour of one of their jails. Tiny
:03:09. > :03:13.space the prisoner were kept in. Locals said up to four men could be
:03:14. > :03:21.crammed into a cell, forced to stand. They were even handcuffed to
:03:22. > :03:29.the doors. Here, some of their names. And their crimes. Smuggling
:03:30. > :03:34.and trying to escape. We don't know their fate.
:03:35. > :03:37.For this tribal commander the fight here is very personal and it is not
:03:38. > :03:40.over yet. His village in the distance, still
:03:41. > :03:52.under IS control. They blew up my house, I can see
:03:53. > :03:56.with binocular, my mother was there, I haven't seen her for more than two
:03:57. > :04:00.years, it is very painful. My brothers are also there, in front of
:04:01. > :04:07.me. And I can't reach them. But we hope to retake the village soon.
:04:08. > :04:11.Then we getting a Swiss to a hidden lair, built by the extremists during
:04:12. > :04:17.their two years in residents. -- access. Here, deep in the hillside
:04:18. > :04:21.Islamic State carved out a network of tunnels and rooms. This was a
:04:22. > :04:26.place where they could hide where they could take cover from coalition
:04:27. > :04:31.air strike, it is pretty basic but we have found some food supplies
:04:32. > :04:35.that they left behind in their hurry to escape and they did have some
:04:36. > :04:39.Creature Comforts, there was electricity connected here. Now,
:04:40. > :04:44.they were driven out of this town in just two days, but the decisive
:04:45. > :04:50.battle is yet to come. The offensive for Mosul.
:04:51. > :04:56.Many have fled, everyone before it begins. Makeshift camps and Kurdish
:04:57. > :05:02.territory are already overflowing. Here, they are free of IS, but still
:05:03. > :05:11.prisoners of memory. These young boys saw men hanged. And
:05:12. > :05:16.beheaded. He was escaping so they cut his head
:05:17. > :05:20.off, then they threw him into the water. They brought another five
:05:21. > :05:25.people, locals took the bodies can and buried them.
:05:26. > :05:29.In the coming weeks and months the desperation here may grow a long
:05:30. > :05:36.with the numbers. The UN is warning that up to one million people could
:05:37. > :05:43.flee Mosul. Mosul. A fresh catastrophe in this broken country.
:05:44. > :05:50.You can access that report on Outside Source through the BBC News
:05:51. > :05:54.app and the BBC News website. If you were watching yesterday we
:05:55. > :05:58.were reporting on the beginning of the
:05:59. > :06:02.FL season and how it was marked but protests about racial inequality.
:06:03. > :06:04.Last night, those protests continued, with some NFL players
:06:05. > :06:06.kneeling during the playing of the national anthem.
:06:07. > :06:08.One of them was this man, Colin Kaepernick,
:06:09. > :06:12.He plays for the San Francisco 49ers and his actions are getting
:06:13. > :06:30.US NATIONAL ANTHEM. This is what fans think about this.
:06:31. > :06:33.Being a black American I understand where he is coming from, and I
:06:34. > :06:39.appreciate what he is trying to do, as soon as I am finishing barbecuing
:06:40. > :06:44.I am going to get a Kaepernick Jersey. He needs to stand up. He is
:06:45. > :06:47.talking about the Black Lives Matter and that kind of stuff and I don't
:06:48. > :06:52.believe in that, you know, I believe in standing up for the country, and
:06:53. > :06:56.standing for the National Anthem. I don't agree with his decision not to
:06:57. > :07:01.stand for the National Anthem but I believe in the cause. And so I am
:07:02. > :07:05.wearing this and supporting the cause and what he is standing up
:07:06. > :07:08.for. He isn't the first American to take a stand on the sports feel.
:07:09. > :07:10.At the 1968 Olympics, sprinters Tommy Smith
:07:11. > :07:12.and John Carlos stunned the world with this gesture.
:07:13. > :07:29.Here's what John Carlos is making of the story.
:07:30. > :07:37.He is bringing attention to him, how does he bring attention to him, the
:07:38. > :07:39.same we did in terms of giving it America shock treatment. That the
:07:40. > :07:40.only way to move, when you shock them.
:07:41. > :07:44.It's Day Six of the Paralympics in Rio.
:07:45. > :07:48.This was the T13 category - Algeria's Abdellatif Baka won -
:07:49. > :07:51.and he and the next three runners all recorded times that were faster
:07:52. > :08:03.than the winner of the men's 1500 at the Olympics.
:08:04. > :08:09.Let us bring in the BBC's correspondent. This story, she is
:08:10. > :08:15.not there. Hopefully you can see her. I guess this story staking some
:08:16. > :08:23.die jesting, it is making headlines round the world. Yes, it is one of
:08:24. > :08:27.those classic examples where you have the two so close together you
:08:28. > :08:31.really raise questions about how different each sport is, and about
:08:32. > :08:37.the high level that Paralympic athletes can reach. So people are
:08:38. > :08:43.talking a lot about the Algerian athlete's performance in that race.
:08:44. > :08:47.He would have managed to beat the American runner and get gold in the
:08:48. > :08:54.Olympics had he been part of that competition. So, really well done to
:08:55. > :08:59.Abdellatif Baka for getting that gold and the three athletes would
:09:00. > :09:02.have made it first in in that competition, so a remarkable feat
:09:03. > :09:07.adding so o so many unprecedented results we have been getting here in
:09:08. > :09:11.Rio. When the Olympics were on, we talked about India and how plans it
:09:12. > :09:15.doesn't punch its weight in terms of medal success, there is a similar
:09:16. > :09:23.discussion about the Paralympic, but it has its first medal.
:09:24. > :09:31.Yes, the Paralympic has had a crate corrupt for India so far here in --
:09:32. > :09:35.great result in Rio. Yesterday after alhigh school Leith in the shot put
:09:36. > :09:40.managed to get the first medal for a woman from India, in the shot put,
:09:41. > :09:44.she got a silver, and that was hugely celebrated, because not only
:09:45. > :09:50.was it the first medal for a woman, it was also, it made India's
:09:51. > :09:54.performance in the Paralympic overcome its performance, so so far
:09:55. > :09:59.they have three medals in the Paralympic, countering two earned in
:10:00. > :10:04.the Olympics and I spoke to her, she is hugely proud, she said that it is
:10:05. > :10:08.really important to her as a woman, to bring back this medal home, she
:10:09. > :10:12.is an act vest as well, fighting for the cause, fighting for awareness
:10:13. > :10:15.for the change of policies, to help people with impairment, and she is a
:10:16. > :10:21.strong believer that you have to show for what you are asking for, so
:10:22. > :10:24.in order to ask for change, she is showing the best performance that
:10:25. > :10:29.she can have, and she really did put on a show here in Rio yesterday and
:10:30. > :10:34.was celebrating with that Silver Medal. We are well into the
:10:35. > :10:37.Paralympics now, I am struggling to get a feel for it as an event,
:10:38. > :10:41.sometimes I watch and the stadiums are packed or the locations are
:10:42. > :10:47.packed. Other times I turn on and there is hardly any anyone there,
:10:48. > :10:52.how is it going for Brazil? It is going quite well. I think we have to
:10:53. > :10:55.keep this mind how bad the expectations were earlier on with
:10:56. > :11:00.people saying that it was going to be empty and there was going to be
:11:01. > :11:03.no attention no twict ticketed sold for the Paralympic, what we saw
:11:04. > :11:09.during the weekend was very different. We saw a record crowd
:11:10. > :11:12.here in the Paralympic park over 300 thousand people use the weekend to
:11:13. > :11:16.come over here and for the next weekend, the tickets are sold out as
:11:17. > :11:22.well, of course, during the week it is trickier in the work day, you
:11:23. > :11:26.have children are on school, Erne is working, so it is trickier, but it
:11:27. > :11:29.has been interesting to see how many school-children have been coming
:11:30. > :11:35.here, with buses packed, bringing them on field trips to be able to be
:11:36. > :11:40.part of the Paralympic. I think it is really is important to see how
:11:41. > :11:45.the change of prices has also helped to bring crowds to the Paralympic
:11:46. > :11:50.stadium, in contrast to the Olympics when there were so many empty seats
:11:51. > :11:54.and the high prices there were a factor in leaving those seats empty.
:11:55. > :11:58.Let us talk over the next few day, thank you.
:11:59. > :12:01.Stay with us for a detailed look at why Hillary Clinton
:12:02. > :12:18.and Donald Trump always seem to be visiting the same few US states.
:12:19. > :12:21.The highest September temperatures since 1911 have been recorded
:12:22. > :12:26.The mercury hit more than 34 degrees Celsius in places,
:12:27. > :12:29.and much of the south of England has been bathed in sunshine.
:12:30. > :12:33.The unusually hot weather has brought health warnings too.
:12:34. > :12:46.Duncan Kennedy is in Eastbourne, an unexpected last blast of summer.
:12:47. > :12:52.The for casters with right about the scorcher bit. But from way off on
:12:53. > :12:59.the temperatures. This was Brighton, could have been Benidorm.
:13:00. > :13:02.Next door in Eastbourne, the swimmers and sunbathers couldn't
:13:03. > :13:07.believe it what difference does it make having temperatures round 30
:13:08. > :13:12.degrees in September? It is a bonus. Is it a iron sign of things to come?
:13:13. > :13:21.Did you expect to be on the beach in September. No. Gravesend in Kent hit
:13:22. > :13:24.34.4 degrees, the highest September temperature since 1911. Public
:13:25. > :13:29.Health England warned elderly people to be careful. What is the message
:13:30. > :13:34.for elderly people? To be sensible how long they sit in the sun and to
:13:35. > :13:40.put plenty cream on and to drink plenty fluids. At the zoo they were
:13:41. > :13:45.applying sun tan lotion to the Lamas' ears. While the meerkats were
:13:46. > :13:48.treated to some cooling broccoli ice lollies.
:13:49. > :13:54.And with it a message for all animal owners. Animal welfare doesn't just
:13:55. > :13:57.stop in the zoo. With your pets pressure water, ventilation, going
:13:58. > :14:01.for a walk in the cool part of the day. One striking by product of the
:14:02. > :14:05.temperatures are the numbers of daddy-longlegs round. Researchers
:14:06. > :14:12.think we could see 200 billion of them. As we have a slowly warming
:14:13. > :14:16.climate, with warmer milder wetter summers, perfect conditions. The
:14:17. > :14:21.temperatures also soared further north, in Bradford it was playtime
:14:22. > :14:24.in the park. While at Gillingham in Kent, they saw 30 degree
:14:25. > :14:30.temperatures for several hours today. But look at this. Cardiff,
:14:31. > :14:37.one area in western Britain where yellow rain warnings are in place.
:14:38. > :14:51.September 2016. Exceptional for some, forgettable for others.
:14:52. > :14:57.Hello, welcome to the BBC News room. This is Outside Source. Our lead
:14:58. > :15:02.story is that Syria's ceasefire appears to be holding. UN agencies
:15:03. > :15:05.are preparing to send aid into the hardest hit airias. This is want you
:15:06. > :15:09.have coming up. If you are watching outside of the UK it is World News
:15:10. > :15:13.America. Katty Kay will look at America's involvement in Syria, with
:15:14. > :15:19.former US Defence Secretary William Coen. Here in the UK, it is the news
:15:20. > :15:20.at ten next, radical plans for redrawing the Parliamentary
:15:21. > :15:25.constituency boundaries in England and Wales have been announced. They
:15:26. > :15:26.could affect high profile MPs including Jeremy Corbyn, George
:15:27. > :15:32.Osborne, and Boris Johnson. This is quite an exchange ahead
:15:33. > :15:37.of a major EU meeting on Friday. Luxembourgh's Foreign Minister
:15:38. > :15:39.said: away from issuing orders
:15:40. > :15:43.to open fire on refugees. Anyone who, like
:15:44. > :15:52.Hungary, builds fences should be excluded temporarily, or
:15:53. > :15:56.if necessary forever, from the EU." No chance of the Hungarian
:15:57. > :16:01.government letting that pass. He wants to exclude Hungary
:16:02. > :16:09.from the EU but he has long excluded himself from among the politicians
:16:10. > :16:11.who can be taken seriously. Bear in mind that the EU wants
:16:12. > :16:14.to introduce a quota system And Hungary is going
:16:15. > :16:17.to hold a referendum It's spent tens of millions of euros
:16:18. > :16:25.on billboards like these. They ask questions
:16:26. > :16:33.like "Did you know? Immigrants committed the Paris
:16:34. > :16:35.terror attacks" Or "Did you know? Brussels plans to settle a whole
:16:36. > :16:38.town's worth of illegal Next, here's the Luxembourg Foreign
:16:39. > :16:52.Minister explaining his comments. TRANSLATION: I think
:16:53. > :16:54.the European Union will not survive, and responsibility of all
:16:55. > :16:57.member states prevails. If these two worlds collapse
:16:58. > :16:59.we will lose the values We will lose the essence,
:17:00. > :17:03.of the European Union, and this is the debate we find
:17:04. > :17:07.ourselves in currently, we will have a first
:17:08. > :17:10.meeting in Bratislava, there is the problem of Brexit,
:17:11. > :17:13.but I will say it clearly, But we cannot solve
:17:14. > :17:17.the problem of the survival of the European Union,
:17:18. > :17:20.if we lose sight of the essence and Gavin Hewitt is our
:17:21. > :17:29.chief correspondent. I asked him if he's ever seen
:17:30. > :17:41.such a war of words. Well, I think this is extraordinary,
:17:42. > :17:45.I can't remember when one senior minister a Foreign Minister calls
:17:46. > :17:50.for the exclusion of another country. And I think it testifies to
:17:51. > :17:56.the tensions that now exist not only between north and south in the EU,
:17:57. > :17:59.but between these four countries like Poland, Hungary, the Czech
:18:00. > :18:04.Republic and Slovakia on the east and other countries more to the
:18:05. > :18:08.west. What lies at the route of this? The refusal of those countries
:18:09. > :18:12.to take owe thes of refugees but I believe some of the tension goes
:18:13. > :18:17.deeper than that, it is about values, some of those countries
:18:18. > :18:22.openly question the multiculturalism of the western nations in the EU.
:18:23. > :18:27.And what is interesting that this is happening a day before we have the
:18:28. > :18:31.so-called State of the Union in the EU and -- ow and before this summit
:18:32. > :18:36.on Friday -- ewe which is supported to cart out a new direction for the
:18:37. > :18:41.EU. I am looking before I spoke to you the German Foreign Minister said
:18:42. > :18:44.the EU lacks cohesion to undertake new big integration steps at the
:18:45. > :18:48.moment. This is cautious stuff. I think this is one of the big
:18:49. > :18:53.questions about this week. Where do they go after one country, the UK,
:18:54. > :18:57.has decided to leave the EU, there are those who believe a thing about
:18:58. > :19:01.the EU is you have to keep peddling, otherwise you fall off the bike, and
:19:02. > :19:06.there are those who champion deeper integration, and others who say, you
:19:07. > :19:12.know what, why don't we do less an do it Bert? Why don't we become not
:19:13. > :19:15.the champions of ideology and ever closer union but champions of the
:19:16. > :19:21.people. That is to put it in grand terms, but I think we will see some
:19:22. > :19:29.of those tensions played out this week, is the EU going to try and
:19:30. > :19:34.back big project, perhaps to go for a Brussels army headquarters if you
:19:35. > :19:38.could put it like that, backed up by battle group, some dramatic new step
:19:39. > :19:42.or is it going to try and focus on delivering things like for instance
:19:43. > :19:46.the digital single market, just to blung small element out of the air.
:19:47. > :19:52.Those are big questions, I think one thing you will see this week,
:19:53. > :19:56.emphasis on unity although we didn't get off to a good start and other
:19:57. > :20:00.leaders wanting to show European Union is an institution with
:20:01. > :20:05.ambition. And I think that is come across during the week. We will be
:20:06. > :20:08.in Bratislava. In terms of big personalities we should look out
:20:09. > :20:12.for, shaping what is happening at this summit, who would you pick out?
:20:13. > :20:16.What is interesting at this particular moment, there are no big
:20:17. > :20:21.leaders really in Europe in terms of idea, you might come back to me and
:20:22. > :20:26.say what about Angela Merkel? She is diminished she faces an election
:20:27. > :20:30.next year, he country is divided over her refugee policy and it is
:20:31. > :20:34.openly being debated in Germany now, are we seeing the last period of
:20:35. > :20:39.Angela Merkel? I don't believe that. You have Francois Hollande
:20:40. > :20:43.remembering it is the Franco-German enjien gin that drives the EU
:20:44. > :20:46.forward. You have Francois Hollande, struggling to work out whether it is
:20:47. > :20:51.worth him putting his hat in the ring next year for the French
:20:52. > :20:55.elections. So at this particular moment, there are not the big voice,
:20:56. > :21:00.the people who are stretching out where the EU is heading, and I think
:21:01. > :21:06.going back to what you have just said, when you quoted, I think you
:21:07. > :21:09.are not necessarily going to get those big ideas coming forward this
:21:10. > :21:14.week, you may get them next year, when you have the 50th anniversary
:21:15. > :21:20.of the Treaty of Rome, at the moment it is all about survival, and it is
:21:21. > :21:26.about as I say demonstrating if they possible can, they are united.
:21:27. > :21:29.EU leaders will meet in Bratislava on Friday to map out the bloc's
:21:30. > :21:33.It includes just the 27 countries who will remain when the UK's gone.
:21:34. > :21:36.So Theresa May won't be there - we will be though.
:21:37. > :21:38.It's in Bratislava, and on Friday there will special editions
:21:39. > :21:53.of Outside Source on our usual time slots - 17GMT and 20GMT.
:21:54. > :22:00.Hillary Clinton had a weekend to forget.
:22:01. > :22:02.She was poorly with pneumonia - and that took heavy criticism
:22:03. > :22:05.for the fact that she didn't say so for two days.
:22:06. > :22:07.The democrats are trying to get things back on track.
:22:08. > :22:10.What sets Hillary apart is that through it all,
:22:11. > :22:14.And she doesn't stop caring and she doesn't stop trying
:22:15. > :22:17.and she never stops fighting for us, even if we haven't
:22:18. > :22:24.Look at recent polls and Donald Trump remains just
:22:25. > :22:28.But to really understand his chances, we need to look
:22:29. > :22:35.at certain key swing states, which is what Katty Kay has done.
:22:36. > :22:45.The US is a big place, but you wouldn't know it by looking at where
:22:46. > :22:51.the candidates bother to. A pain. Ohio Pennsylvania North Carolina,
:22:52. > :22:54.Florida, they are go to test -- destinations for would be
:22:55. > :22:58.Presidents. Over one recent weekend the candidates planes were parked
:22:59. > :23:04.next to each other on the tarmac in Cleveland. The two almost bumped
:23:05. > :23:08.into each other to win those votes. These swing states, also known as
:23:09. > :23:13.battle ground states are so-called because they can go to either party.
:23:14. > :23:16.Let us face it the Republicans have Alabama locked up and California,
:23:17. > :23:21.well you can't get much more democratic.
:23:22. > :23:25.But take Ohio, going back to 1976 that is ten whole election
:23:26. > :23:29.campaigns, the state has been perfectly split. Five times for the
:23:30. > :23:33.Republicans, and five for the Democrats.
:23:34. > :23:40.And there in lies the I amazing fact. Even if a candidate wins a
:23:41. > :23:44.state by one vote they chalk up the whole state, and what are known as
:23:45. > :23:51.the electoral college votes. Each state has a different number of
:23:52. > :23:56.votes, Ohio has 18, a candidate needs 270 in total to win the White
:23:57. > :24:00.House. And in the game of numbers that is
:24:01. > :24:04.American politics that is the only number that really matters.
:24:05. > :24:08.Sometimes a candidate can lose the popular vote but win the electoral
:24:09. > :24:13.college vote. And still get the presidency.
:24:14. > :24:18.We learned that back in 2000. Al Gore got a bigger percentage of the
:24:19. > :24:22.population's votes but George Bush got those electoral college votes.
:24:23. > :24:29.It is all because of the odd complicated maths of US elections.
:24:30. > :24:33.There are 538 electorate college votes in total. More popular states
:24:34. > :24:38.like California and New York getting a larger share.
:24:39. > :24:43.So the states that matter are that precious combination of population
:24:44. > :24:47.size and party flexibility which is why some states see the candidates
:24:48. > :24:53.far too much, and others never see them at all. That is it from me.
:24:54. > :25:01.Bye.