:00:10. > :00:11.Hello, I'm Ros Atkins, this is Outside Source.
:00:12. > :00:14.Let's look through some of the main stories here in the BBC Newsroom.
:00:15. > :00:18.Two days after the deadly attack on an aid convoy in Syria,
:00:19. > :00:24.the UN says it will restart aid deliveries to the war-torn country.
:00:25. > :00:29.We've got a special report from Iraq.
:00:30. > :00:34.Kurdish peshmerga forces are getting close to pushing so-called
:00:35. > :00:40.Islamic State out of Iraq once and for all.
:00:41. > :00:46.We will show you that in a couple of minutes.
:00:47. > :00:48.Aleem Maqbool is continuing his journey across the US.
:00:49. > :00:50.He's been finding out what part climate change in Montana
:00:51. > :01:01.And in the sport, we are going to talk about some cities dropping out
:01:02. > :01:04.of the race for the Olympics and we will also tell you about the latest
:01:05. > :01:18.in the Colin Kaepernick protest. Mosul in Iraq is controlled
:01:19. > :01:23.by the Islamic State group. I've a report now from the frontline
:01:24. > :01:29.just 12 kilometres away. Iraq's Prime Minister has
:01:30. > :01:31.told the BBC that he's confident his forces
:01:32. > :01:36.will retake Mosul. Here he is with Lyse Doucet
:01:37. > :01:51.discussing the possible I have a schedule for this. I'm
:01:52. > :01:56.sticking to the schedule. I'm not going to give any information. I
:01:57. > :01:59.want to surprise Daesh abyss. We will get many messages and one of
:02:00. > :02:05.the messages we start the offensive today is to take up, to liberate all
:02:06. > :02:17.the villages on the River Tigris so that Daesh will not be able to
:02:18. > :02:24.threaten any supply route from Baghdad to Baiji to tempt even -- to
:02:25. > :02:25.Mosul. I want to make sure the International coalition is ready to
:02:26. > :02:27.provide help. Mosul is Iraq's most important city
:02:28. > :02:30.after Baghdad. Iraqi troops are advancing
:02:31. > :02:34.from the south along the Tigris. Kurdish peshmerga forces
:02:35. > :02:38.are advancing from the East. Our Middle East Correspondent Orla
:02:39. > :02:41.Guerin has visited their front line. On the front line, a tense moment
:02:42. > :02:52.for Kurdish Peshmerga fighters. They spot a car in the
:02:53. > :02:58.territory controlled They think it could be
:02:59. > :03:04.carrying explosives. The commander tells me that IS
:03:05. > :03:21.are just a kilometre ahead. "They've tried to attack us 30 or 40
:03:22. > :03:26.times", says the general. "We have defeated
:03:27. > :03:28.them here", he says. "And we will defeat them
:03:29. > :03:33.in Mosul, God willing". We drive over rough terrain,
:03:34. > :03:37.along the front line, which stretches
:03:38. > :03:40.for 1,000 kilometres. a fighter who has been
:03:41. > :03:47.here on the mountain for 18 months. But his uniform
:03:48. > :03:55.separates him from the rest. He's a former British soldier,
:03:56. > :03:58.turned volunteer sniper. He says he has no hesitation
:03:59. > :04:01.pulling the trigger on IS. It's like putting
:04:02. > :04:08.your foot on an ant. For you, personally,
:04:09. > :04:12.what was it that This isn't your country,
:04:13. > :04:17.many would say. For people to say this
:04:18. > :04:25.isn't the West's war, you've got your head stuck
:04:26. > :04:28.in the sand. If Daesh got their caliphate
:04:29. > :04:32.here, then the next step Nice, Paris would be nothing
:04:33. > :04:40.compared to what we would see. The fact of the matter
:04:41. > :04:42.is that the Peshmerga held the line, This mortar landed
:04:43. > :04:52.soon after we arrived. IS were responding to our
:04:53. > :04:57.presence, the Kurds said. Their horizon stretches
:04:58. > :05:00.beyond defeating the insurgents. The Peshmerga have been
:05:01. > :05:02.expanding their territory, They want independence
:05:03. > :05:09.for their autonomous region. But, for now, the focus
:05:10. > :05:14.is on freeing Mosul. This IS defector surrendered
:05:15. > :05:19.to the Kurds, and claims that the extremists have
:05:20. > :05:23.dug in for a long fight. We're not revealing his identity
:05:24. > :05:25.as he has relatives They are trying to convert a cannon
:05:26. > :05:39.to fire mustard gas so that, when the army comes,
:05:40. > :05:43.people use it against them. so that, when the army comes,
:05:44. > :05:46.they will use it against them. They have underground
:05:47. > :05:49.tunnels around Mosul, They have bunkers equipped
:05:50. > :05:51.with bathrooms, Back at the front line,
:05:52. > :05:59.a distant glimpse of Mosul, the captive city, where
:06:00. > :06:04.IS proclaimed its caliphate. The UN is warning
:06:05. > :06:06.that if the militants they may want Mosul
:06:07. > :06:15.to die with them. Orla Guerin, BBC News, northern
:06:16. > :06:24.Iraq. In fact, the vast majority of the
:06:25. > :06:28.reports we play you are available online whenever you want to watch
:06:29. > :06:31.them, either through the BBC News app or website. Time for the sport.
:06:32. > :06:34.It's only 74 days since the latest European Football
:06:35. > :06:41.But it's time for me to tell you about Euro2020.
:06:42. > :06:43.It was launched in London - and this is tournament
:06:44. > :06:45.with a difference - it's going to be played
:06:46. > :06:48.across across 13 cities in Europe - with the final and the semis
:06:49. > :06:53.Richard Conway was at City Hall in London to see the new president
:06:54. > :07:03.Portugal might have lifted the trophy in France for Euro 2016
:07:04. > :07:06.only weeks ago but we have moved on and Uefa are already
:07:07. > :07:13."A Euro for Europe" is how they describe it.
:07:14. > :07:30.It will be played across 13 different cities across Europe.
:07:31. > :07:32.The new man in charge, Alexander Chefferin, was only elected
:07:33. > :07:34.Uefa president last week taking over from
:07:35. > :07:37.This was his brainchild about bringing the Euro
:07:38. > :07:38.tournament to different parts of Europe.
:07:39. > :07:41.Chefferin has adopted it wholesale and thinks it will be a good thing
:07:42. > :07:43.to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Uefa
:07:44. > :07:46.It is good for football to show diversity and
:07:47. > :07:48.friendship in Europe, to show that East, West,
:07:49. > :07:53.Yet this will be a one-off, not repeated in the future?
:07:54. > :08:02.Uefa are enthusiastic about the idea but there's
:08:03. > :08:07.the big question for fans about travel costs.
:08:08. > :08:09.It may be something the European governing body may tackle
:08:10. > :08:12.in the years ahead, given the diversity of the cities, the
:08:13. > :08:14.countries involved and the cost of following your team, especially if
:08:15. > :08:18.they make the later stages of the tournament.
:08:19. > :08:24.Could be good news for those of us who support England, supposing they
:08:25. > :08:28.get to the semifinals which I'm not assuming! Let's update you on a
:08:29. > :08:31.story we have covered a lot in the last few weeks.
:08:32. > :08:37.We've been following the protests of the NFL player Colin Kaepernick.
:08:38. > :08:43.49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick said he has received death
:08:44. > :08:49.threats for protesting during the national anthem.
:08:50. > :08:54.If you have not seen, he's not standing up to the national anthem
:08:55. > :08:58.before NFL games, as the other players and fans are comedies going
:08:59. > :09:01.down on one knee. He started it but as the season has gone on, others
:09:02. > :09:05.have joined him and it has remained very contentious. Now he is saying
:09:06. > :09:07.he is receiving death threats because of that. We will keep you
:09:08. > :09:17.up-to-date on that story. Let's talk about the Olympics, just
:09:18. > :09:20.as Rio has finished and the IOC is looking ahead to 2024.
:09:21. > :09:23.Rome has pulled out of the race to host the 2024 Games.
:09:24. > :09:28.This was a process that started with a lot of European interest.
:09:29. > :09:32.Hamburg in Germany seemed like it was going to go for it and held a
:09:33. > :09:36.referendum and the majority of people said no, they did not want to
:09:37. > :09:39.do it. Rome has also announced it is withdrawing.
:09:40. > :09:42.It leaves Budapest and Paris still in the running,
:09:43. > :09:52.Of course, they have hosted the games a couple of times.
:09:53. > :09:54.The International Olympic Committee will choose the host
:09:55. > :10:05.Let's talk to John Watson about this. I'm curious as to why Rome has
:10:06. > :10:08.dropped out? Probably two reasons. Firstly, I should mention that Rome
:10:09. > :10:17.has a new chain-macro and it was clear in her manifesto -- a new and
:10:18. > :10:20.she made it clear -- a new mayor Angie medication was not going to
:10:21. > :10:24.support the bid to host the Olympics. But possibly two reasons,
:10:25. > :10:26.why is financial, she feels that Rome is still paying off the debt of
:10:27. > :10:32.hosting the Olympics the last time they did it in 1960. She feels after
:10:33. > :10:36.years of financial mismanagement that hosting the big is the last
:10:37. > :10:39.thing that the city needs when at the moment it is struggling to clear
:10:40. > :10:43.the rubbish from the streets, to be honest, and repair the potholes on
:10:44. > :10:46.the roads. She feels that perhaps the financial reasons, added to that
:10:47. > :10:51.the public appetite that she feels is not there, her reason quoted a
:10:52. > :10:55.survey that said that 70% of the Roman population were not in favour
:10:56. > :10:59.of hosting the Olympics. It is probably those two fighters,
:11:00. > :11:03.financially first and foremost, we saw that whenever it comes to
:11:04. > :11:07.hosting the Olympics, you very rarely get money back from the thick
:11:08. > :11:11.end of ?10 billion. We saw the overspend at 30 and I think she
:11:12. > :11:14.feels that Rome, with all the financial problems it has had in the
:11:15. > :11:18.past, is not ready to host the Olympics. Of course, the detractors
:11:19. > :11:21.will say that Rome needs to be restored to its glory years and
:11:22. > :11:24.hosting a huge event like the Olympics would do that but she is in
:11:25. > :11:28.the hot seat and she feels it is not the right time to do that and she is
:11:29. > :11:33.laying a marker down early in her time in office. Rome and hamburger
:11:34. > :11:38.up and I know Boston opted out of the idea of hosting the Olympics. Is
:11:39. > :11:41.anyone talking about a fixed site in somewhere like Appian is where you
:11:42. > :11:47.don't have to go through the whole cost of setting up a new set of
:11:48. > :11:51.Games every four years? Potentially although I'm not sure if that is
:11:52. > :11:55.specifically being talked about. One of the examples which proved to be a
:11:56. > :12:00.success was elated when it last posted it in 1984. -- was Los
:12:01. > :12:04.Angeles. It used existing venues which is a key way of ensuring that
:12:05. > :12:09.you don't overspend. A lot of Olympics, as you know, we see a lot
:12:10. > :12:13.of white elephants and buildings which are no longer used. Certainly,
:12:14. > :12:16.the mayor of Rome is quoted as saying she does not want to see any
:12:17. > :12:22.more cathedrals in the desert and you can understand what she means. I
:12:23. > :12:24.think those felt that Rome had existing venues which could have
:12:25. > :12:32.been redeveloped which would not have seen such a huge overspend but
:12:33. > :12:35.as for staging the games in a fixed place like Athens, I think we are
:12:36. > :12:39.some way from that because as we know, despite the overspend at Rio,
:12:40. > :12:42.it was still a fantastic party and that is what the IOC want to do,
:12:43. > :12:46.take the Olympic values around the world and that is something they
:12:47. > :12:50.want to do. You wonder if we will see an Olympics in Africa, of course
:12:51. > :12:55.is to mark but at the moment, I don't think the IOC will be moving
:12:56. > :12:59.towards fixing the Olympics in a particular city. Thank you for
:13:00. > :13:02.joining us. Interesting, John mentioning Africa, Cape Town threw
:13:03. > :13:05.its hat in the ring once but so far the Olympics have not got there so
:13:06. > :13:07.we will have to see if they follow in the footsteps of football in
:13:08. > :13:08.time. Three pro-democracy activists
:13:09. > :13:10.in Hong Kong have resisted Joshua Wong, Nathan Law
:13:11. > :13:16.and Alex Chow were found guilty The trio were behind these massive
:13:17. > :13:32.anti-government protests in 2014. They were initially given
:13:33. > :13:36.community service orders and suspended sentences, but
:13:37. > :13:43.prosecutors wanted them in prison. Here's one of
:13:44. > :13:52.the three - Joshua Wong. TRANSLATION: We will continue to
:13:53. > :13:54.uphold the rule of civil disobedience and not be absent from
:13:55. > :14:04.future street protests. Four stories on Hong Kong, we often
:14:05. > :14:07.turn to Helier Cheung. This case has brought around a lot
:14:08. > :14:11.of strong emotions in Hong Kong because a lot of people feel the
:14:12. > :14:14.students should be jailed for breaking the law, whether or not
:14:15. > :14:17.they have political support but to their supporters, they are a symbol
:14:18. > :14:22.of Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement. They feel the prosecution
:14:23. > :14:24.has been politically motivated. So what happened? The three students
:14:25. > :14:27.were found guilty of unlawful assembly earlier this year but the
:14:28. > :14:30.judge did not send them to jail and the government was not happy.
:14:31. > :14:33.Prosecutors were back in court today, arguing they should be jailed
:14:34. > :14:39.immediately because they have not showed remorse for a serious crime
:14:40. > :14:43.and people were hurt in the clashes. Is it politically motivated? Is
:14:44. > :14:47.there a direct connection between the judiciary, the prosecutors and
:14:48. > :14:51.authorities in Beijing? It is impossible to say but what the court
:14:52. > :14:54.decision today has shown is clearly the courts are not afraid of making
:14:55. > :14:55.decisions the government does not like Andy would never see this kind
:14:56. > :15:05.of ruling in Beijing. Turning to Yemen, you may have seen
:15:06. > :15:10.in the last 24 hours, the BBC has run a report by our Arabic reporter
:15:11. > :15:17.on the millions of people suffering malnutrition because of the conflict
:15:18. > :15:23.there. We are going to speak to the journalist who made this report.
:15:24. > :15:25.The Sinn Fein president, Gerry Adams, has denied a claim
:15:26. > :15:27.in a BBC Northern Ireland investigative programme
:15:28. > :15:29.that he sanctioned the murder of a former party official
:15:30. > :15:32.who admitted working for the intelligence service MI5.
:15:33. > :15:36.Denis Donaldson was shot dead months after it emerged that he had
:15:37. > :15:40.Denis Donaldson was shot dead at this Donegal cottage in 2006
:15:41. > :15:45.months after admitting he'd been working for British
:15:46. > :15:49.intelligence within the IRA for more than 20 years.
:15:50. > :15:52.At the time, Denis Donaldson was a Sinn Fein administrator at Stormont.
:15:53. > :15:56.In last night's BBC Spotlight, another informer who wished
:15:57. > :15:58.to remain anonymous claimed that Gerry Adams
:15:59. > :16:05.I know from my experience in the IRA that murders had to be
:16:06. > :16:08.The political leadership of the IRA and the military
:16:09. > :16:13.Who are you specifically referring to?
:16:14. > :16:21.And today, Mr Adams had his say on the allegation.
:16:22. > :16:26.And I totally repudiate it and categorically and
:16:27. > :16:31.And what will you be doing about these allegations?
:16:32. > :16:33.Well, it's in the hands of my solicitor at this time.
:16:34. > :16:36.But more importantly, we have to look at what
:16:37. > :16:44.The person who made this allegation, anonymous, unnamed, self-professed
:16:45. > :16:49.This is an attempt to rewrite history.
:16:50. > :16:52.It is not the first time Gerry Adams has had to issue
:16:53. > :16:57.One of his opponents says he should now leave the political stage.
:16:58. > :17:03.I think it is time for Sinn Fein to move on.
:17:04. > :17:07.Sinn Fein are never going to be able to get away
:17:08. > :17:09.from all these accusations until Gerry Adams retires.
:17:10. > :17:13.And I think it is just about time after 33 years that he does that.
:17:14. > :17:17.Others say a simple denial from Mr Adams is not enough.
:17:18. > :17:20.He should take legal action against the BBC if he feels
:17:21. > :17:27.And if he does that then we would know that there is no
:17:28. > :17:37.If he does not, then it is clear that he has got something to hide.
:17:38. > :17:40.So I would call on him, and the ball really is in his court,
:17:41. > :17:43.for him to decide whether or not he will hold the BBC
:17:44. > :17:47.The BBC said the Spotlight programme dealt with matters of great
:17:48. > :17:49.public interest and it stood by its journalism.
:17:50. > :18:02.This is Outside Source live from the BBC newsroom.
:18:03. > :18:10.Our lead story is the UN says it will resume aid convoys to Syria -
:18:11. > :18:13.just two days after an attack on a group trying to reach Aleppo.
:18:14. > :18:20.If you're outside of the UK, it's World News America next.
:18:21. > :18:22.Much more on the accusations over Syria to come.
:18:23. > :18:25.Barbara Plett Usher has been speaking to Deputy Secretary
:18:26. > :18:32.Here in the UK, the News at Ten is next.
:18:33. > :18:35.They're looking at the thriving tech economy here in the UK
:18:36. > :18:47.Next on Outside Source, we're looking at how
:18:48. > :18:50.the war in Yemen is taking the country to the brink of famine.
:18:51. > :18:52.Around 2 million people are acutely malnourished.
:18:53. > :18:55.The conflict started early last year when Yemen's government
:18:56. > :19:08.Soon after, a Saudi-led coalition backed by Britain and the US
:19:09. > :19:25.began carrying out air strikes against the rebels.
:19:26. > :19:26.BBC Arabic's Nawal al-Maghafi has visited Hodeida,
:19:27. > :19:30.a place where major aid agencies can no longer operate.
:19:31. > :19:34.In a moment I'll speak to Nawal, but first, this is one distressing
:19:35. > :19:50.Seven-month-old Fatima is weak and severely malnourished. She is one of
:19:51. > :19:58.hundreds in this area alone. Her mother tells me she won't stop
:19:59. > :20:04.crying. "It Breaks my heart", she says. The only piece she can offer
:20:05. > :20:05.her child is water. She is so malnourished herself that she is
:20:06. > :20:22.unable to breast-feed. The report will be available in full
:20:23. > :20:24.this weekend. I've been talking to her about it.
:20:25. > :20:29.The situation has become extremely dangerous.
:20:30. > :20:30.There are air strikes, shelling, shooting indiscriminately
:20:31. > :20:36.The other reason is because of lack of funding.
:20:37. > :20:39.The situation has worsened so quickly but the funding has not
:20:40. > :20:42.kept up with how bad the situation has got.
:20:43. > :20:44.For example, the UN appeal is only 30% funded.
:20:45. > :20:46.That just means they just don't have the capacity to
:20:47. > :20:48.be facilitating the remote areas in Yemen right now.
:20:49. > :20:51.In your report, we see a number of children who are
:20:52. > :20:55.Presumably they are beginning to lose their lives
:20:56. > :20:58.Of course, most of them are dying from starvation.
:20:59. > :21:01.Yemen was already poor before the war but because of
:21:02. > :21:04.the war, the situation has got a lot worse.
:21:05. > :21:07.A lot of these children were already malnourished but now
:21:08. > :21:16.they are suffering from something called severe acute
:21:17. > :21:19.malnutrition which means it stunt their growth and yes,
:21:20. > :21:22.The people you spent time with, do they
:21:23. > :21:25.have a view on the conflict beyond the fact they wanted finished?
:21:26. > :21:26.They don't know much about the conflict.
:21:27. > :21:28.They just want security, food and peace.
:21:29. > :21:30.They don't have very much political views.
:21:31. > :21:34.In terms of the help they require, clearly they need food as
:21:35. > :21:36.soon as possible and I'm guessing medical supplies as well.
:21:37. > :21:38.Yes, one of the stories we are following in
:21:39. > :21:41.the report is a child who is suffering from a bacterial infection
:21:42. > :21:45.The antibiotic he needed, which is very simple,
:21:46. > :21:58.The full report is online at the moment.
:21:59. > :22:01.All this week we've been following Aleem Maqbool's journey
:22:02. > :22:07.He's covering the election - and has already been
:22:08. > :22:17.It is one of the most spectacular settings in the entire country
:22:18. > :22:20.but this landscape's under the most serious threat it has ever faced.
:22:21. > :22:23.We start this leg of our journey, though, around 500 miles to the
:22:24. > :22:27.east, in what has been at the heart of a massive oil boom that hit its
:22:28. > :22:30.It totally changed the little town of Williston.
:22:31. > :22:33.There were a lot of companies and a number of my friends
:22:34. > :22:35.themselves that were shutting their businesses down.
:22:36. > :22:37.They were on the border of bankruptcy, really, for
:22:38. > :22:41.They have been able to make more money than they have
:22:42. > :22:43.made in the last 30 years running their businesses.
:22:44. > :22:45.People who have made fortunes and made the money
:22:46. > :22:48.have been able to help put that money back into the community.
:22:49. > :22:53.We have a new rec centre which my kids play at three times a week.
:22:54. > :22:56.In a town where oil brought such riches, there is frustration
:22:57. > :22:59.when the government gets in the way of business on the grounds
:23:00. > :23:05.Then we get an outside influence on the federal aspect that comes
:23:06. > :23:08.in and at the stroke of a pen, a pipeline shuts down
:23:09. > :23:10.or at the stroke of a pen, suddenly you have to worry
:23:11. > :23:19.It is tough to see that happen because you are left
:23:20. > :23:30.We travelled by rail, seven hours left and we left behind Wells and
:23:31. > :23:41.the oil trains and the landscape dramatically.
:23:42. > :23:43.The beauty of the national park is breathtaking.
:23:44. > :23:46.But it is far harder to find a glacier than it once was.
:23:47. > :23:48.This is what the edge of a glacier looks like.
:23:49. > :23:56.The position of this, and the position it used to be in is
:23:57. > :23:58.exactly what the climate change debate boils down to.
:23:59. > :24:01.Say if we came here in 1911, what would this look
:24:02. > :24:06.Right here? Yeah.
:24:07. > :24:08.Some glaciers have basically ceased to become glaciers.
:24:09. > :24:14.They are now permanent snowfields that are stagnant.
:24:15. > :24:17.Do you see that there could be a time when, in the
:24:18. > :24:19.near future decades, Glacier National Park may
:24:20. > :24:23.I believe mankind is contributing to the warming.
:24:24. > :24:26.Climate has always warmed and cooled and warmed and
:24:27. > :24:36.It is the rate of warming is so much faster.
:24:37. > :24:41.Disappearing glaciers are already having an impact on the water supply
:24:42. > :24:45.is here and the forests and on the wildlife.
:24:46. > :24:48.But as with many issues in America, climate change has been politicised
:24:49. > :24:59.and facts can often give way to emotion.
:25:00. > :25:10.And I will see you at the same time tomorrow. Thank you for watching.
:25:11. > :25:14.Low-pressure systems, whether France, isobars, some sunshine and
:25:15. > :25:15.some early