15/09/2016 Outside Source

Hello, this is Outside Source. Hillary Clinton is back on the

campaign trail. She made her first public appearance in North Carolina

after falling ill at the 9/11 memorial. The Philippine Senate is

told that their president once shot a Government agents. He has denied

the allegation. It comes after criticism of his backing for

extrajudicial killing. And as Russia approach as Parliamentary elections,

we find out why it is still the president who is gaining support. On

sport, we will have the all Ireland football final, but even bigger, we

will talk about the 65-year-old curse on one of the clubs.

The story we touched on in the headlines there, in the Philippines,

the Senate has been hearing testimony that their president

ordered the killings of about 1000 criminals and political rivals over

25 year period. The claim came from a former hit man who insisted two

Senators whose testimony was accurate and politically motivated.

He accused the president of involvement in death squads and this

is part of that testimony. TRANSLATION: They have been ordering

us to kill and we don't know the names of the victims, they just call

us and ask us to kill someone. My conscience has been bothering me.

There are a lot of killings. We pushed one man into the water when

he was eaten by a crocodile. People were killed like chickens. They were

being killed for no reason. I'm not destroying the credibility of the

president, just telling the truth of what he asked me to do. Our Pacific

Asia editor told me more. An extraordinary testimony.

Essentially, 1000 people over a 20 year period and this happened in the

city 's South in the south of the Philippines. He promised to clean up

crying in that area and did just that and that's what he's done

afterwards since he became president, he made the same

promises. The person we just heard from there in the Senate committee

spoke about how he personally killed 50 people, Fed wants of the

crocodiles and others were dumped at sea. Extraordinary testimony. Did he

say why he'd chosen to come out with all this now? That the Senate

enquire into the present's current campaign to rid the country of

crime. 3000 also suspected drug dealers have been killed in shoot

outs by the police and vigilantes and essentially, the Senate is

looking into this and this is part of this testimony. We also heard of

this man has something of a conscience committee killed all

these people, he wants to speak out and explain exactly what happened.

Have we had in a direct response from the president himself? No, but

his spokesman said there is nothing in these allegations, they've been

investigated before and nothing has come of them. A Government minister

has said they are lies and fabrications, but I would expect the

President at some point will have to come out and make a strong statement

himself, because, as you said, they are extraordinary allegations. And

part of the present's voter appeal was people wanted to see a

no-nonsense approach to crime. But is this an approach or step too far?

Will it affect his popularity? Perhaps not. People voted him into

office knowing full well his reputation. The death toll has

continued to rise over the past few weeks and his popularity remains

high. Perhaps these revelations, shocking as they are, will not

really affect his popularity in the Philippines. Far right extremists

have clashed with asylum seekers in eastern Germany. It happened earlier

this year when people were cheering as migrant housing burned down. It

is close to Dresden where the anti-Islamisation movement began. At

last nights and 18 men and women fought with migrants and refugees.

They fled to a hostel which was placed under guard by the police.

There were differing reports about how that fight broke out. The last

time the Russians vote for a new parliament in 2011, claims of ballot

rigging caused a mass street protests. Since then, the jailing of

activist and tougher laws against restrictions has taken the wind out

of it progress -- protest movement. On the eve of Sunday's Parliamentary

election, there is widespread apathy among the electorate. A quarter of a

century after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russians losing

interest in democracy? We are on a journey to a remote part of Russia.

Speeding along the northern river. On a board our election officials.

And also ballot box. We land on a tiny island. It doesn't have a

polling station, but then there are only three registered voters living

here. It is off to find a place where the islanders can vote early

in Russia's Parliamentary election. With a few tweaks, a village kitchen

becomes a voting centre. After casting her vote, 84-year-old --

this 84-year-old woman settles down for a nice chat about cabbage patch.

This woman has two lovers in her life: her flowers and the president.

It is Vladimir Putin's party she voted for.

TRANSLATION: When it he raised my pension, I cried with joy. What she

think of democracy? I don't know what that is, she says. I asked the

question here. And receive so many different answers. Democracy is when

there is order and security and no litter she tells me. It is some kind

of struggle for something, she says. I don't know what is. But to these

Russians, democracy was all about free and fair elections. Here and

across Russia there were unprecedented anti-government street

protests sparked by vote rigging in the last parliamentary election.

Among the protesters was this man. The opposition movement has faded he

says and with it, hopes for Democratic change. Most of the

people they don't think about democracy in their daily life. They

go fishing or do their gardens, they are thinking about their children,

their families. They don't want to oppose the authorities. Crucially,

most Russians still trust Vladimir Putin far more than their

parliaments. The Kremlin rules Russia through a power vertical.

With Vladimir Putin at the top and all other institutions, including

the polymer, below him and subservient to him. But with

economic problems arising, the danger for the Kremlin is that if

people start to doubt the legitimacy of those other institutions, they

will appear in all their hopes on the one man at the top. At this

farmer there are as many cows as there are Russian MPs. But it is in

Vladimir Putin they trust here. TRANSLATION: Our people can ask

Putin directly for help. They solve many problems like this. Back on the

river, the ballot box is heading to another island. But Russians are not

expecting another polymer to make their lives better, they think they

have a president for that. Now for a sport we've never really discussed

before. Gaelic football, massive in Ireland. This weekend sees the all

Ireland final is Dublin take on Mayo for the Sam Maguire cup. It will be

under the spotlight, because there is the belief a curse has been put

on them since the last time they won the final in 1951. Confused? We were

too. So let us turn to Conor McNamara in the sports centre who

can tell us a bit more with some authority. Tell us about this

supposed curse. You have to go back to 1951 when a mail asked one of the

all Ireland final. Winning that is a big deal in Ireland, like winning

the Premier League and FA Cup all rolled into one. These guys are

amateur players, they don't get paid and are transfer fees. You are

representing your county and it is the chance to become a local hero.

In 1951, they won and they travelled immediately Homer to the home

account in the West of Ireland, mail, and as they were travelling

through a town on the way, they got caught up in a funeral possession.

Funerals in Ireland, even still, towns come to a standstill and

people walk slowly through the town a Coffin or funeral cortege. But in

their speed to get home, the players were making noise and they moved

quickly added respect the funeral and the priest who was in charge,

said there will be a curse on Mayo Gaelic footballers and while they

are alive, that team will never win again. Is now 65 years and they

haven't won. Have never come close? They have. They've been to the final

seven times and once it went to a replay and in 1996 there was this

freakish winning point at the end which our people feeling

superstitious. Now they've come against a fallacy Dublin team who

are the reigning champions and people are wondering, is this the

chance to enter this curse? In terms of the living members of the 1951

squad, there were three earlier this year and any priest passed away,

leaving just two surviving members and the people of Mayo would love

for them in their lifetimes to see a celebration and stamp out this

curse. You could get an attendance of something like 80 3000. This is

obviously a huge sport. Massive in Ireland. If you look at the big

stadiums in Europe including Wembley in London, which is the

second-biggest, and the Croke Park in Dublin is the third biggest. Is

the biggest dating that doesn't do football on regular basis. It is a

horseshoe stadium, the same shape as a baseball ground. Three enormous

sides and one open and it has a fantastic atmosphere. The players

are amateur and it is all about county pride and entire towns will

be taken over, they will pay in houses in the colours of the team

and it is a massive pride if you can come over as winners of the all

Ireland and win the cup for Sam Maguire. And particularly for May

after 65 years of this suppose I'd curse, what would it mean to the

ball there? Is very much a rural county, where style, huge amounts of

immigration over the years. People move to Dublin, London, America.

Even the team have to separate into two squads for training, because

some players have had to leave the county to find work in Dublin. So

they split their training sessions. For so many people, you meet them in

England and they say, ie used to go home to Mayo in the school holidays,

people have a huge affinity with it. They are good at Gaelic football.

They've got to the final seven times since 1951, but never over the line.

People will say Dublin are good, may you don't have a prayer, be what

they really mean is there is a superstition and maybe they are

cursed. Thank you. Still to Outside Source. The death of this young

Chinese actors from cancer has triggered debate on social media,

because traditionally -- originally she chose traditional Chinese

medicine over chemotherapy. Here in the UK, a documentary about the

Beatles premiered in London tonight. Eight Days A Week, The Touring Gears

charts their rise from the cavern club to sell-out tours of America.

Celebrities including Madonna attended as did John Lennon's widow

Yoko Ono and George Harrison's widow, Olivia. Hero Ringo Starr and

Paul McCartney. How strong were the memories and emotions it will be for

you? Well, we will find out tonight and the Rothko brought back several

memories of the Hollywood bowl footage. I haven't seen the finished

product, so I believe there's a lot more stuff in it. Balou Du Reventon

we have great memories of playing with John and George, so that's very

emotional and special, you know, to see that again. And there are some

great things we'd half forgotten, like refusing to play a show in

Jacksonville in Mississippi, because we heard it was segregated and

blacks on one side and whites on the other, and we said, that stupid, so

we won't play it and we didn't and they had to change the rules. It was

the first integrated show Jacksonville ever had. So looking

back now, that's very cool. Very proud of that. What does it mean to

you to see all these people here for a Beatles Premier after these years?

Balou Du Reventon is learned last ten years. -- it will only last for

ten years. You've finished that final performance of the top of the

Apple building. The time, you didn't know it was your last. What are your

memories of that time? It was great, but the final gig, we thought we'd

done that. That's why life is always open and then we went on the roof

and played live, which we loved to do. Balou Du Reventon looking back

on it, it was a great concert. We were enjoying playing and we had a

very good drama... It was a great little band. The memories are just

of that for us. We had two great guys to play with and it made for a

great little band... And then there was as!

Our top story: Hillary Clinton is back on the campaign trail. She has

made her first public appearance in North Carolina since falling ill at

a 9/11 a memorial event. On Friday there is a major gathering of the

European Union in the Slovakian capital. The goal is to shape the

vision of what the EU can be after Britain's vote to leave. Let us show

you where we are going. There we are. This informal EU summit will

take place in Bratislava Castle. The UK is not on the guest list, but the

other 27 members. The president of the European Council, this is an

opportunity to bring our political control and show the world a display

Poster Brexit unity and is focused on three issues. It has access to

that Brexit was in part an expression of profound disquiet

about immigration and while the EU members are not about to compromise

on freedom of movement, they do accept they need a better system for

dealing with the huge influx of migrants and refugees. The problem

is, they don't agree on what that system should be. Expect more

pressure on Hungary, Slovakia and others to accept the proposed

migrant quotas. The attacks in Paris, Brussels and Nice read that

any discussions about the EU needed to offer. Expect better controls on

external borders and also John cloudy-macro will be pushing's --

idea military quarters. More than ever,

the EU needs to show that it improves the finances of its members

and its citizens. If you look at the economic problems of Spain, Portugal

or Greece, you understand that the EU is still struggling to recover

economically. Expect more detailed plans designed to deliver stability

and growth. Here in Bratislava, all the EU flags are flying apart from

the union Jack. Of course, Brexit is going to be discussed, but we are in

the strange situation where everyone knows the UK is leaving but it has

formally told the EU, nor has it defined what it wants this new

relationship to be. So when senior EU figures say right now there's not

much to be done on the detail of Brexit, in large part, they mean it.

One last thing, the EU's tee-macro big powers, France and Germany have

elections next year and both presidents have significant

political pressure at home. Everything they do in Bratislava

will be in the context of that. As ever with the EU, for the people

walking the red carpet, it is all about balancing personal, national

and European interests. Our reporter will be live in Bratislava tomorrow

covering the summit and there'll be a special editions of this programme

on our usual time slot, The Times on the screen now.

There is intense debate in China after a 26-year-old actress died

from cancer. She refused chemotherapy is saying she preferred

traditional Chinese medicine. Now a lot of people are wondering if that

is why she died. She documented burgeoning online and here are some

of her pictures. You can even see copping there. We saw that during

the Olympics recently. It attracted the attention of tens of thousands

of social media users, some of them critical of the therapy she had

chosen and one commented, listen to me, Chinese medicine is absolutely

useless on a cancer. Listen to a doctor if you do want to listen to

me. Another told her to abandon the treatments and to rely modern

medicine. Back in July, she announced she'd been diagnosed with

lymphoma but was reluctant to take chemotherapy. She had reasons, she

had seen her friends suffer under chemotherapy and was worried about

that and about how it would affect her looks. She was worried it would

work and about the cost. So for those reasons, she went for

traditional Chinese medicine, techniques like acupuncture, cupping

and blood-letting. Unfortunately, she deteriorated and by late August,

began chemotherapy. But perhaps too late, because, sadly, she died on

September seven. So this all happen quickly, she was diagnosed in July.

Honest question of taking Chinese medicine, traditional how attached

are the Chinese to the more traditional remedies? It is a big

thing in China. A lot of my friends go for acupuncture as well, because

Chinese medicine goes back thousands of years and our universities offer

degrees in it as well. It is considered quite well established.

But critics say the benefits have been scientifically proven and more

research is needed, but many supported and just the. Olympic

athletes like Michael Phelps have been known to use cupping and they

believe it is less intrusive and there are fewer side-effects. Having

said that, I do know anyone who would think it would be a good cure

for cancer and that's where the debate mainly been. And it's been a

frenetic debate, it has got a lot of people talking. Read my BS, added

the starter when she announced she had cancer. A lot of fans were

urging her take chemotherapy and after her death there was another

big debate and lots of people have been criticising Chinese medicine,

but supporters of it have fought back and some argued that many

cancer patients have chemotherapy and then die, but that doesn't mean

Western medicine a sham. Nearly time for London Fashion Week and although

the clovers are new, conversations are not. This year, there is a push

for designers to make tee-macro different sizes of clothes and show

them both on the catwalk. The lights, the glamour, the cheekbones.

But the catwalk as politics. The debate on model size has not been

resolved. Rosie has been campaigning for better health care for models

for a year. When she arrived in London and agency told her to lose

weight. I lost about ?10. I went back to the agency and they said we

need you to keep losing weight, we want you down to the bone. My inner

-- initial reaction was like lose any more weight, I'd been starving

myself for about four mu. Months. I didn't want to believe they had said

that to me and I do want that happen to anyone else. Outside the fashion

world, could things be changing? Social media is full of images

celebrating different body shapes. The plus size market is on the rise

and some fashion magazines say it could be worth ?6.4 billion in 2019.

This woman is a plus size model. The industry for plus size has grown in

the last five years. It is one of the most lucrative markets at the

moment, with the most potential. But creating bigger sizes is not just a

business opportunity. According to some, the fashion industry's small

size are causing a health problem. They were in's equality party won

designers to show two sizes in each range, one which must be size 12 at

least. Ready to bring attention to the fight the fashion industry pin

is the success of its industry on tiny, tiny sample size of that women

of normal size can only fit into after weeks and weeks of sustained

malnutrition. It is not healthy and it is not healthy for the industry

either. The British fashion Council say they take the issue of body

image very seriously. They support campaign supporting a positive body

image and don't let under 16 's go on the catwalk. They say they are

looking forward to speaking to the women's equality party about working

together in the future. Fashion may have many changing faces, but in the

future, will these be some of them? Lots more on all our stories on the

BBC website. Another reminder that Roz will be back on Friday with a

special edition of this programme from Bratislava where the EU is

meeting for the first time without the UK. Thank you for watching.