13/09/2016 Outside Source

Hello, I'm Ros Atkins, this is Outside Source.

It's small steps but the Syrian ceasefire has lasted over 24 hours.

There are no reports of civilian casualties and the UN says it

Across the border in Iraq, the battle to retake Mosul

from the Islamic State group is set to begin.

Orla Guerin has been to the front line of the battle against IS.

I'll play you her report in full in a moment.

The men's 1500m at the Paralympics was so extraordinary

you have to double check you saw it correctly.

The top four all went faster than the winner

And Katty Kay will focus on four states that will go a long way

to deciding who'll be the next US president.

We've been bringing you updates on the ceasefire in Syria

Aid agencies say the need for aid supplies is urgent,

Next door in Iraq there's a related conflict which continues,

and I've a special report from Orla Guerin

The Islamic State group still controls Iraq's second

60 kilometres south of there is the town of Guyyara.

That's been taken back from IS control by the Iraqi army.

A parting gift from the so-called Islamic State. Oil wells set ablaze.

Covering their retreat from the town of Guyyara. Here, the landscape of

liberation. Defeating IS will mean a lot more scorched earth. By the

roadside, remnants of their rule. The Iraqi troops who drove them from

here still jittery. Our journey was suddenly halted, when a home-made

bomb was found up ahead. A controlled explosion. This time.

Clearing the strategic town is a key victory in the push towards Mosul.

Troops are closing in step by step, with help from US and British

bombing raids. And what happened under the dark rein of IS is now

being uncovered, we were given a tour of one of their jails. Tiny

space the prisoner were kept in. Locals said up to four men could be

crammed into a cell, forced to stand. They were even handcuffed to

the doors. Here, some of their names. And their crimes. Smuggling

and trying to escape. We don't know their fate.

For this tribal commander the fight here is very personal and it is not

over yet. His village in the distance, still

under IS control. They blew up my house, I can see

with binocular, my mother was there, I haven't seen her for more than two

years, it is very painful. My brothers are also there, in front of

me. And I can't reach them. But we hope to retake the village soon.

Then we getting a Swiss to a hidden lair, built by the extremists during

their two years in residents. -- access. Here, deep in the hillside

Islamic State carved out a network of tunnels and rooms. This was a

place where they could hide where they could take cover from coalition

air strike, it is pretty basic but we have found some food supplies

that they left behind in their hurry to escape and they did have some

Creature Comforts, there was electricity connected here. Now,

they were driven out of this town in just two days, but the decisive

battle is yet to come. The offensive for Mosul.

Many have fled, everyone before it begins. Makeshift camps and Kurdish

territory are already overflowing. Here, they are free of IS, but still

prisoners of memory. These young boys saw men hanged. And

beheaded. He was escaping so they cut his head

off, then they threw him into the water. They brought another five

people, locals took the bodies can and buried them.

In the coming weeks and months the desperation here may grow a long

with the numbers. The UN is warning that up to one million people could

flee Mosul. Mosul. A fresh catastrophe in this broken country.

You can access that report on Outside Source through the BBC News

app and the BBC News website. If you were watching yesterday we

were reporting on the beginning of the

FL season and how it was marked but protests about racial inequality.

Last night, those protests continued, with some NFL players

kneeling during the playing of the national anthem.

One of them was this man, Colin Kaepernick,

He plays for the San Francisco 49ers and his actions are getting

US NATIONAL ANTHEM. This is what fans think about this.

Being a black American I understand where he is coming from, and I

appreciate what he is trying to do, as soon as I am finishing barbecuing

I am going to get a Kaepernick Jersey. He needs to stand up. He is

talking about the Black Lives Matter and that kind of stuff and I don't

believe in that, you know, I believe in standing up for the country, and

standing for the National Anthem. I don't agree with his decision not to

stand for the National Anthem but I believe in the cause. And so I am

wearing this and supporting the cause and what he is standing up

for. He isn't the first American to take a stand on the sports feel.

At the 1968 Olympics, sprinters Tommy Smith

and John Carlos stunned the world with this gesture.

Here's what John Carlos is making of the story.

He is bringing attention to him, how does he bring attention to him, the

same we did in terms of giving it America shock treatment. That the

only way to move, when you shock them.

It's Day Six of the Paralympics in Rio.

This was the T13 category - Algeria's Abdellatif Baka won -

and he and the next three runners all recorded times that were faster

than the winner of the men's 1500 at the Olympics.

Let us bring in the BBC's correspondent. This story, she is

not there. Hopefully you can see her. I guess this story staking some

die jesting, it is making headlines round the world. Yes, it is one of

those classic examples where you have the two so close together you

really raise questions about how different each sport is, and about

the high level that Paralympic athletes can reach. So people are

talking a lot about the Algerian athlete's performance in that race.

He would have managed to beat the American runner and get gold in the

Olympics had he been part of that competition. So, really well done to

Abdellatif Baka for getting that gold and the three athletes would

have made it first in in that competition, so a remarkable feat

adding so o so many unprecedented results we have been getting here in

Rio. When the Olympics were on, we talked about India and how plans it

doesn't punch its weight in terms of medal success, there is a similar

discussion about the Paralympic, but it has its first medal.

Yes, the Paralympic has had a crate corrupt for India so far here in --

great result in Rio. Yesterday after alhigh school Leith in the shot put

managed to get the first medal for a woman from India, in the shot put,

she got a silver, and that was hugely celebrated, because not only

was it the first medal for a woman, it was also, it made India's

performance in the Paralympic overcome its performance, so so far

they have three medals in the Paralympic, countering two earned in

the Olympics and I spoke to her, she is hugely proud, she said that it is

really important to her as a woman, to bring back this medal home, she

is an act vest as well, fighting for the cause, fighting for awareness

for the change of policies, to help people with impairment, and she is a

strong believer that you have to show for what you are asking for, so

in order to ask for change, she is showing the best performance that

she can have, and she really did put on a show here in Rio yesterday and

was celebrating with that Silver Medal. We are well into the

Paralympics now, I am struggling to get a feel for it as an event,

sometimes I watch and the stadiums are packed or the locations are

packed. Other times I turn on and there is hardly any anyone there,

how is it going for Brazil? It is going quite well. I think we have to

keep this mind how bad the expectations were earlier on with

people saying that it was going to be empty and there was going to be

no attention no twict ticketed sold for the Paralympic, what we saw

during the weekend was very different. We saw a record crowd

here in the Paralympic park over 300 thousand people use the weekend to

come over here and for the next weekend, the tickets are sold out as

well, of course, during the week it is trickier in the work day, you

have children are on school, Erne is working, so it is trickier, but it

has been interesting to see how many school-children have been coming

here, with buses packed, bringing them on field trips to be able to be

part of the Paralympic. I think it is really is important to see how

the change of prices has also helped to bring crowds to the Paralympic

stadium, in contrast to the Olympics when there were so many empty seats

and the high prices there were a factor in leaving those seats empty.

Let us talk over the next few day, thank you.

Stay with us for a detailed look at why Hillary Clinton

and Donald Trump always seem to be visiting the same few US states.

The highest September temperatures since 1911 have been recorded

The mercury hit more than 34 degrees Celsius in places,

and much of the south of England has been bathed in sunshine.

The unusually hot weather has brought health warnings too.

Duncan Kennedy is in Eastbourne, an unexpected last blast of summer.

The for casters with right about the scorcher bit. But from way off on

the temperatures. This was Brighton, could have been Benidorm.

Next door in Eastbourne, the swimmers and sunbathers couldn't

believe it what difference does it make having temperatures round 30

degrees in September? It is a bonus. Is it a iron sign of things to come?

Did you expect to be on the beach in September. No. Gravesend in Kent hit

34.4 degrees, the highest September temperature since 1911. Public

Health England warned elderly people to be careful. What is the message

for elderly people? To be sensible how long they sit in the sun and to

put plenty cream on and to drink plenty fluids. At the zoo they were

applying sun tan lotion to the Lamas' ears. While the meerkats were

treated to some cooling broccoli ice lollies.

And with it a message for all animal owners. Animal welfare doesn't just

stop in the zoo. With your pets pressure water, ventilation, going

for a walk in the cool part of the day. One striking by product of the

temperatures are the numbers of daddy-longlegs round. Researchers

think we could see 200 billion of them. As we have a slowly warming

climate, with warmer milder wetter summers, perfect conditions. The

temperatures also soared further north, in Bradford it was playtime

in the park. While at Gillingham in Kent, they saw 30 degree

temperatures for several hours today. But look at this. Cardiff,

one area in western Britain where yellow rain warnings are in place.

September 2016. Exceptional for some, forgettable for others.

Hello, welcome to the BBC News room. This is Outside Source. Our lead

story is that Syria's ceasefire appears to be holding. UN agencies

are preparing to send aid into the hardest hit airias. This is want you

have coming up. If you are watching outside of the UK it is World News

America. Katty Kay will look at America's involvement in Syria, with

former US Defence Secretary William Coen. Here in the UK, it is the news

at ten next, radical plans for redrawing the Parliamentary

constituency boundaries in England and Wales have been announced. They

could affect high profile MPs including Jeremy Corbyn, George

Osborne, and Boris Johnson. This is quite an exchange ahead

of a major EU meeting on Friday. Luxembourgh's Foreign Minister

said: away from issuing orders

to open fire on refugees. Anyone who, like

Hungary, builds fences should be excluded temporarily, or

if necessary forever, from the EU." No chance of the Hungarian

government letting that pass. He wants to exclude Hungary

from the EU but he has long excluded himself from among the politicians

who can be taken seriously. Bear in mind that the EU wants

to introduce a quota system And Hungary is going

to hold a referendum It's spent tens of millions of euros

on billboards like these. They ask questions

like "Did you know? Immigrants committed the Paris

terror attacks" Or "Did you know? Brussels plans to settle a whole

town's worth of illegal Next, here's the Luxembourg Foreign

Minister explaining his comments. TRANSLATION: I think

the European Union will not survive, and responsibility of all

member states prevails. If these two worlds collapse

we will lose the values We will lose the essence,

of the European Union, and this is the debate we find

ourselves in currently, we will have a first

meeting in Bratislava, there is the problem of Brexit,

but I will say it clearly, But we cannot solve

the problem of the survival of the European Union,

if we lose sight of the essence and Gavin Hewitt is our

chief correspondent. I asked him if he's ever seen

such a war of words. Well, I think this is extraordinary,

I can't remember when one senior minister a Foreign Minister calls

for the exclusion of another country. And I think it testifies to

the tensions that now exist not only between north and south in the EU,

but between these four countries like Poland, Hungary, the Czech

Republic and Slovakia on the east and other countries more to the

west. What lies at the route of this? The refusal of those countries

to take owe thes of refugees but I believe some of the tension goes

deeper than that, it is about values, some of those countries

openly question the multiculturalism of the western nations in the EU.

And what is interesting that this is happening a day before we have the

so-called State of the Union in the EU and -- ow and before this summit

on Friday -- ewe which is supported to cart out a new direction for the

EU. I am looking before I spoke to you the German Foreign Minister said

the EU lacks cohesion to undertake new big integration steps at the

moment. This is cautious stuff. I think this is one of the big

questions about this week. Where do they go after one country, the UK,

has decided to leave the EU, there are those who believe a thing about

the EU is you have to keep peddling, otherwise you fall off the bike, and

there are those who champion deeper integration, and others who say, you

know what, why don't we do less an do it Bert? Why don't we become not

the champions of ideology and ever closer union but champions of the

people. That is to put it in grand terms, but I think we will see some

of those tensions played out this week, is the EU going to try and

back big project, perhaps to go for a Brussels army headquarters if you

could put it like that, backed up by battle group, some dramatic new step

or is it going to try and focus on delivering things like for instance

the digital single market, just to blung small element out of the air.

Those are big questions, I think one thing you will see this week,

emphasis on unity although we didn't get off to a good start and other

leaders wanting to show European Union is an institution with

ambition. And I think that is come across during the week. We will be

in Bratislava. In terms of big personalities we should look out

for, shaping what is happening at this summit, who would you pick out?

What is interesting at this particular moment, there are no big

leaders really in Europe in terms of idea, you might come back to me and

say what about Angela Merkel? She is diminished she faces an election

next year, he country is divided over her refugee policy and it is

openly being debated in Germany now, are we seeing the last period of

Angela Merkel? I don't believe that. You have Francois Hollande

remembering it is the Franco-German enjien gin that drives the EU

forward. You have Francois Hollande, struggling to work out whether it is

worth him putting his hat in the ring next year for the French

elections. So at this particular moment, there are not the big voice,

the people who are stretching out where the EU is heading, and I think

going back to what you have just said, when you quoted, I think you

are not necessarily going to get those big ideas coming forward this

week, you may get them next year, when you have the 50th anniversary

of the Treaty of Rome, at the moment it is all about survival, and it is

about as I say demonstrating if they possible can, they are united.

EU leaders will meet in Bratislava on Friday to map out the bloc's

It includes just the 27 countries who will remain when the UK's gone.

So Theresa May won't be there - we will be though.

It's in Bratislava, and on Friday there will special editions

of Outside Source on our usual time slots - 17GMT and 20GMT.

Hillary Clinton had a weekend to forget.

She was poorly with pneumonia - and that took heavy criticism

for the fact that she didn't say so for two days.

The democrats are trying to get things back on track.

What sets Hillary apart is that through it all,

And she doesn't stop caring and she doesn't stop trying

and she never stops fighting for us, even if we haven't

Look at recent polls and Donald Trump remains just

But to really understand his chances, we need to look

at certain key swing states, which is what Katty Kay has done.

The US is a big place, but you wouldn't know it by looking at where

the candidates bother to. A pain. Ohio Pennsylvania North Carolina,

Florida, they are go to test -- destinations for would be

Presidents. Over one recent weekend the candidates planes were parked

next to each other on the tarmac in Cleveland. The two almost bumped

into each other to win those votes. These swing states, also known as

battle ground states are so-called because they can go to either party.

Let us face it the Republicans have Alabama locked up and California,

well you can't get much more democratic.

But take Ohio, going back to 1976 that is ten whole election

campaigns, the state has been perfectly split. Five times for the

Republicans, and five for the Democrats.

And there in lies the I amazing fact. Even if a candidate wins a

state by one vote they chalk up the whole state, and what are known as

the electoral college votes. Each state has a different number of

votes, Ohio has 18, a candidate needs 270 in total to win the White

House. And in the game of numbers that is

American politics that is the only number that really matters.

Sometimes a candidate can lose the popular vote but win the electoral

college vote. And still get the presidency.

We learned that back in 2000. Al Gore got a bigger percentage of the

population's votes but George Bush got those electoral college votes.

It is all because of the odd complicated maths of US elections.

There are 538 electorate college votes in total. More popular states

like California and New York getting a larger share.

So the states that matter are that precious combination of population

size and party flexibility which is why some states see the candidates

far too much, and others never see them at all. That is it from me.

Bye.