:00:08. > :00:10.Hello, I'm Christian Fraser, this is Outside Source.
:00:11. > :00:13.As the violence in Syria continues, the US says it will suspend
:00:14. > :00:18.talks with Russia aimed at ending the conflict.
:00:19. > :00:20.The last week hasn't been great for Donald Trump.
:00:21. > :00:24.Could the revelations about his tax details be a bombshell moment
:00:25. > :00:29.A show of strength from the Afghan Taliban.
:00:30. > :00:32.On the eve of a major donor's conference there are reports Taleban
:00:33. > :00:39.fighters have entered the centre of the city of Kunduz.
:00:40. > :00:43.It's been a while since we have seen one of these in the Atlantic.
:00:44. > :00:45.Hurricane Matthew crossing the Caribbean with sustained
:00:46. > :01:15.And if you want to get in touch with us at any time -
:01:16. > :01:17.The US has announced it is suspending talks
:01:18. > :01:19.with Russia on trying to end the violence in Syria.
:01:20. > :01:22.It follows weeks of tension over the Russian involvement
:01:23. > :01:29.in the conflict, in support of the Syrian government.
:01:30. > :01:36."Russia and the Syrian regime have chosen
:01:37. > :01:47.intensified attacks against civilian areas, targeting of critical
:01:48. > :01:49.infrastructure such as hospitals, and preventing humanitarian aid
:01:50. > :01:55.There has been a reaction from the foreign ministry in Russia.
:01:56. > :01:57.The TASS news agency quote officials saying they regret
:01:58. > :02:02.It goes on to say "The US is trying to blame Russia as it
:02:03. > :02:09.couldn't fulfill agreements on Syria"
:02:10. > :02:17.Let's go to Washington and speak to our correspondent.
:02:18. > :02:23.I suppose it is inevitable given the disagreement at the UN recently and
:02:24. > :02:27.events in Aleppo. Yeah, the Americans have been
:02:28. > :02:31.thinking about this since last Wednesday and we understand they
:02:32. > :02:36.were talking to the Russians through the weekend and what the state
:02:37. > :02:43.Department described as robust and a decision taken to take a break of
:02:44. > :02:50.those talks and you saw last week is aspiration from John Kerry, accusing
:02:51. > :02:59.the Russians of ignoring the terms of the ceasefire and perpetuating
:03:00. > :03:03.the sustaining Syrian regime and its attack in Aleppo in particular.
:03:04. > :03:09.Russia for its part accused the Americans of not delivering on its
:03:10. > :03:14.part of the deal to disentangle some of the jihadists elements
:03:15. > :03:18.intermingled with what they term the more moderate Serbian forces with
:03:19. > :03:25.Moscow saying the Americans had not done that and tried to deliberately
:03:26. > :03:32.sub Stephen -- sustain groups like a loser. What will happen is the
:03:33. > :03:41.Americans will -- groups like Al Nursa. Those groups are coming home
:03:42. > :03:48.but what will not happen is that they will not stop talking and
:03:49. > :03:52.cooperating over what they call the complexion. This includes where are
:03:53. > :03:57.your planes and where our planes because they do not want to start
:03:58. > :04:01.shooting at each other -- de-escalation.
:04:02. > :04:04.We are also covering the deterioration in US and Russian
:04:05. > :04:10.relations which is spilling over into other areas of collaboration.
:04:11. > :04:12.Today more school suspended an agreement on the disposal of weapons
:04:13. > :04:14.grade plutonium. The deal which was update six years
:04:15. > :04:16.ago was supposed to get rid of 34 tonnes of plutonium
:04:17. > :04:19.by burning it in reactors. At the time The US State Department
:04:20. > :04:22.said it's enough material for approximately 17,000
:04:23. > :04:23.nuclear weapons. In a decree, President
:04:24. > :04:30.Vladimir Putin accused the US of creating "a threat
:04:31. > :04:50.to strategic stability, List was the quote from President
:04:51. > :05:13.Putin. This deal that was signed at six
:05:14. > :05:17.years ago was really the cornerstone of the post-cold war relationship
:05:18. > :05:21.between the two countries, the fact it has been shelved shows just how
:05:22. > :05:27.far the relationship has deteriorated. That is right. There
:05:28. > :05:32.were other elements to the anti-proliferation rocks and other
:05:33. > :05:37.discussions ongoing, warheads but this was one of the cornerstones of
:05:38. > :05:41.that cooperation and it was 34 times on each side, an awful lot of
:05:42. > :05:46.plutonium they were meant to get rid of. The Russians have previously
:05:47. > :05:50.said the Americans have been rather tardy in rebuilding the facility to
:05:51. > :05:56.do that and the process was not really putting us plutonium beyond
:05:57. > :06:02.military use but it really is part of a bigger jigsaw, the bigger
:06:03. > :06:09.breakdown and disintegration of the relationship between Moscow and
:06:10. > :06:14.Washington, that perhaps dates from the difficulties in the invasion of
:06:15. > :06:19.Crimea, the sanctions imposed after that and now tensions in Syria and
:06:20. > :06:25.not least, we are in the throes, if anyone could doubt it, of an
:06:26. > :06:28.election here in the USA and these moments are always extremely
:06:29. > :06:32.delicate in terms of international affairs and national security. I
:06:33. > :06:35.think some Americans would believe what more school is doing is trying
:06:36. > :06:44.to take advantage of this transitional period. To put pressure
:06:45. > :06:48.on the US. -- what's Moscow is doing. Thank you, Gary.
:06:49. > :06:51.Donald Trump's Republican allies say he's a genius.
:06:52. > :07:01.Whatever you think of him, this article
:07:02. > :07:04.from the New York Times is raising a lot of questions.
:07:05. > :07:06.It suggests that by declaring huge business losses in the 1990s,
:07:07. > :07:20.He says it makes him good for the job.
:07:21. > :07:24.than anyone who has ever run for president and am the only
:07:25. > :07:33.Hillary Clinton has a rather different
:07:34. > :07:46.Millions of American families, including mine and yours, were
:07:47. > :07:52.working hard and pay off their share it seems he was contributing nothing
:07:53. > :07:59.to our nation. Imagine that. Not fair, nothing for grants to help
:08:00. > :08:08.kids go to college, nothing for veterans, nothing for our military.
:08:09. > :08:13.And, you know, he has been putting down America in this whole campaign.
:08:14. > :08:20.Hillary Clinton with some strong words. Let's speak to our
:08:21. > :08:24.correspondent in Washington. No prizes for guessing what is going
:08:25. > :08:30.to be top of the agenda in the debate tomorrow. That is the vice
:08:31. > :08:35.presidential debate and I'm sure these tax returns will be brought
:08:36. > :08:43.up. It has been an extraordinary three days, I have not seen anything
:08:44. > :08:45.like it in this campaign which is flabbergasted as since the
:08:46. > :08:51.beginning. Donald Trump still getting hit on his tax returns and
:08:52. > :08:56.whether he called a former Miss universe Miss Piggy. Now Hillary
:08:57. > :08:59.Clinton trying to come back on him seeing Donald Trump puts himself
:09:00. > :09:03.first and everybody else last. It has been a bad day for the Donald
:09:04. > :09:08.Trump campaign and that is reflected in a number of polls out, the first
:09:09. > :09:14.proper polls since the debate last week and they all saw the trend is
:09:15. > :09:19.moving in Hillary Clinton's direction. I was going to ask you if
:09:20. > :09:24.it made a big difference to the support each of them has because the
:09:25. > :09:28.two camps are deeply entrenched now. We are looking swing voters in the
:09:29. > :09:33.middle and that is essential that we could be won and lost we're looking
:09:34. > :09:37.around somewhere about 8% of the electorate yet to make their minds.
:09:38. > :09:41.You and I might find that extraordinary given how well they
:09:42. > :09:45.know when and how long the campaign goes on for but I think that
:09:46. > :09:51.reflects and an ease with both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.
:09:52. > :09:55.The negative ratings are still high and those people who have not made
:09:56. > :09:59.up their minds are wondering if I hold my nose and go one way or the
:10:00. > :10:04.other and I am not happy with either. I do not know what these tax
:10:05. > :10:10.returns will have a big impact, the US is not Sweden, it is not one of
:10:11. > :10:12.those northern European countries where people feel the moral
:10:13. > :10:18.responsibility to pay their taxes. There are plenty of Americans who
:10:19. > :10:23.would like to see the revenue service abolished and agree with
:10:24. > :10:27.Donald Trump and say well done for Manning Jean -- managing to avoid
:10:28. > :10:32.paying any taxes. They might not like the fact he lost nearly $1
:10:33. > :10:37.billion that could almost have more impact than not paying taxes. I just
:10:38. > :10:52.want to show people best which in earlier.
:10:53. > :10:58.That sounds technical but one of the question is where the money from
:10:59. > :11:03.that foundation is going. There was a lot of reporting on
:11:04. > :11:07.Donald Trump's foundation. It is not uncommon for wealthy people in the
:11:08. > :11:10.USA to have charitable foundations and it has been extensive reporting
:11:11. > :11:15.in the Washington Post suggesting Donald Trump has used his foundation
:11:16. > :11:19.to prop up his own business interests and questioning where the
:11:20. > :11:25.money has come from and where it is going to. Now you have the New York
:11:26. > :11:29.Attorney General saying cease and desist, that the plump foundation is
:11:30. > :11:34.not allowed to carry on raising money in the new York area -- the
:11:35. > :11:39.Donald Trump addition. Donald Trump has not given very much money to the
:11:40. > :11:43.foundation in recent years but it does not look great for the
:11:44. > :11:49.campaign, all of this questioning whether or not if he is as
:11:50. > :11:53.charitable as he suggests he is and whether he is somehow dodging his
:11:54. > :11:57.responsibilities to society by doing something dodgy with his foundation.
:11:58. > :12:01.It adds to this portrait and the questions about Donald Trump's
:12:02. > :12:06.business dealings. People who support from, I do not think this
:12:07. > :12:10.will make any difference to them whatsoever -- people who support
:12:11. > :12:12.Donald Trump. It is without discs with the people in the middle one
:12:13. > :12:17.way or the other. Thank you. I want to show you a newswire
:12:18. > :12:31.we received from our Kabul This is from an MP in Kunduz, a city
:12:32. > :12:39.in the north. He says the city has fallen to the Taliban. On that one
:12:40. > :12:46.source but certainly cause for concern. Let me show you on the map
:12:47. > :12:51.where Kunduz is. Up their way north of Kabul but in quite a strategic
:12:52. > :12:58.area. Militants launched it attack in the middle of the night without
:12:59. > :13:02.-- from outwith and within the city. The Taliban briefly captured it last
:13:03. > :13:07.September but it was quickly retaken by Government forces supported by
:13:08. > :13:10.Natal. The latest strike comes on the eve of a meeting between
:13:11. > :13:16.Afghanistan's president and world power was in Brussels. He wants more
:13:17. > :13:22.aid for his country. Here is our cannibal editor.
:13:23. > :13:26.To Taliban may have planned it to send two messages, militarily they
:13:27. > :13:30.are strong and are significant player and also politically to show
:13:31. > :13:34.they can challenge the Afghan Government. What impact it will have
:13:35. > :13:39.for the Afghan Government in the Brussels conference, I could see
:13:40. > :13:42.this depends on how the Afghan Government uses this, both positive
:13:43. > :13:49.and negative. Positive could be dug us more money and support -- give us
:13:50. > :13:58.more money and support. Because the Taliban is a threat to the democracy
:13:59. > :14:03.and to the Government. Then of international assistance, be that
:14:04. > :14:11.financial militarily, they are all conditional. To good governance and
:14:12. > :14:16.wheat seek a year after Kunduz felt once to the Taliban it falls again.
:14:17. > :14:22.Or is at the brink of collapse or control to the Taliban.
:14:23. > :14:29.Plenty more still to come. We will talk about the woman in Poland who
:14:30. > :14:30.took to the streets to protest proposed new laws which would
:14:31. > :14:35.completely outlaw abortion. The operator of troubled
:14:36. > :14:44.Southern Railway has said conductors will be sacked unless the RMT union
:14:45. > :14:50.accepts changes to their Fourteen more days of strikes
:14:51. > :14:54.are planned in what has been a long running dispute testing
:14:55. > :14:57.commuters' patience. Our Transport Correspondent
:14:58. > :15:09.Richard Westcott has more. There are plenty of angry customers
:15:10. > :15:13.are just want this resolved. It has got nastier today and has been
:15:14. > :15:18.dragging on since the spring but today the company give the RMT union
:15:19. > :15:22.and ultimatum, they want to change what the guard does on the train and
:15:23. > :15:26.the unions are unhappy and the company has said by Thursday at
:15:27. > :15:30.midday you either accept the deal and postpone the strikes or put it
:15:31. > :15:33.to your members are we stuck doing it anyway and people could then
:15:34. > :15:35.start losing their jobs. We will see what happens when the deadline
:15:36. > :15:41.passes on Thursday. This is Outside Source live
:15:42. > :15:45.from the BBC newsroom. Our lead story: The United States
:15:46. > :15:47.has announced the suspension The Russian foreign ministry says it
:15:48. > :15:58.regrets the decision. Ethiopia's prime minister has blamed
:15:59. > :16:00.rioters for a stampede in the Oromiya region
:16:01. > :16:03.in which he said at least He denied reports that the security
:16:04. > :16:08.forces opened fire at a religious festival attended by hundreds
:16:09. > :16:11.of thousands of people. And among the most read online -
:16:12. > :16:20.New Zealand has announced an ambitious plan to boost
:16:21. > :16:22.the population of Once numbering in the millions -
:16:23. > :16:27.predators have decimated their numbers and there are now only
:16:28. > :16:30.an estimated 68,000 kiwis remaining Women in Poland are holding strikes
:16:31. > :16:53.to protest against a planned law that would impose a complete
:16:54. > :16:55.ban on abortion. In cities across the
:16:56. > :16:56.country,thousands marched through the streets,
:16:57. > :16:59.dressed in black, as a sign Poland already has one of the most
:17:00. > :17:02.restrictive abortion The country's foreign minister
:17:03. > :17:05.is among those who support We do not expect happenings,
:17:06. > :17:30.dressing in costumes and creating here is what some of those
:17:31. > :17:35.protesters on the street had to say about it. Why am I here? These are
:17:36. > :17:40.matters concerning my future, my children. It concerns by nieces, my
:17:41. > :17:46.friends, all people, not only women. It concerns everyone.
:17:47. > :17:50.I think tightening the lot by our Government is wrong. Every woman
:17:51. > :17:57.should have choice deciding for women is inhumane.
:17:58. > :18:00.I do not agree it a raped woman must give birth to the children of her
:18:01. > :18:06.torturer and they are forced to do that.
:18:07. > :18:07.I am sure you might have strong feelings on that yourself. Do get in
:18:08. > :18:08.touch. Britain's finance minister,
:18:09. > :18:10.Philip Hammond, has scrapped plans to balance the books by 2020 -
:18:11. > :18:16.it was a key election pledge The UK's national debt is eye
:18:17. > :18:26.watering well over $2 trillion, but Mr Hammond says
:18:27. > :18:28.he needs all options open, such is the challenge that
:18:29. > :18:33.will be posed by Brexit. The fiscal policies of George
:18:34. > :18:39.Osborne would the right ones for that time. But when times change we
:18:40. > :18:47.must change with them. We will not longer target a surplus at the end
:18:48. > :18:54.of this Parliament. Make no mistake, the task of fiscal consolidation
:18:55. > :18:59.must continue. Our political correspondent is at the Conservative
:19:00. > :19:02.Party conference. Divorce is always expensive, it tends to be, so the
:19:03. > :19:08.chance of not wanting to keep its options open. -- the Chancellor
:19:09. > :19:12.wanting to keep his options open. This Government was going to be all
:19:13. > :19:18.about austerity and balancing the books and getting a surplus by 2020
:19:19. > :19:24.until the referendum happened and Britain voted to leave the EU. That
:19:25. > :19:28.changed everything in British politics and means Philip Hammond
:19:29. > :19:33.came to the conference yesterday and said theGovernment 's existing
:19:34. > :19:38.fiscal targets will be scrapped, adjusted to take account of what he
:19:39. > :19:43.called the turbulence likely to hit the British economy. As Britain
:19:44. > :19:47.begins to extricate itself from the EU will stop I think he struck a
:19:48. > :19:50.different tone to many of the other speeches promising yet ministers who
:19:51. > :19:57.are very optimistic and confident but had a glorious free trading
:19:58. > :20:02.future outside the EU. Philip Hammond whilst signed up to the plan
:20:03. > :20:05.of Brexit sounded a bit more cautious and is telling the party
:20:06. > :20:10.and the country there must be more flexibility in terms of the
:20:11. > :20:14.financial rules going forward so but might need to borrow more money if
:20:15. > :20:20.there is some sort of contraction in the economy. People said precisely
:20:21. > :20:26.what that will be in a month or two's time. Some interesting things
:20:27. > :20:32.going on today with the FT-SE 100 and also the condensate with the
:20:33. > :20:38.pound dropping to a three-year low. -- but the currency.
:20:39. > :20:42.That casts a shadow over what is a very buoyant party conference. It is
:20:43. > :20:46.there to say most of the Conservative Party members here
:20:47. > :20:51.wanted Britain to leave the EU, it has been this divisive issue in the
:20:52. > :20:56.party for so long as it is now settled, Theresa May told us
:20:57. > :21:00.yesterday formal talks will begin by the end of next March and that's
:21:01. > :21:05.starts a two-year negotiating process with the EU. Most people are
:21:06. > :21:09.quite upbeat about the future that awaits but what we want from this
:21:10. > :21:12.conference is detail and clarity on the negotiating position Britain
:21:13. > :21:16.will take into those negotiations and the balance between controlling
:21:17. > :21:22.migration and access to the European Union's single market. Currently,
:21:23. > :21:26.the lines of the negotiation of faintly drawn. The Prime Minister
:21:27. > :21:27.make a speech on Wednesday which may give us more clarity but I would not
:21:28. > :21:31.bet on it. Thank you. The US and Europe have entered
:21:32. > :21:34.the latest round of talks aimed at pushing through
:21:35. > :21:35.the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, or TTIP -
:21:36. > :21:40.It's hoped that it will boost growth However, many Europeans are opposed
:21:41. > :21:49.to both TTIP and another trade deal signed between Canada
:21:50. > :21:51.and the EU called CETA. The BBC's Jenny Hill
:21:52. > :22:05.reports from Berlin. You look's Street, barrier free
:22:06. > :22:10.trade beans in wall of resistance. -- meets a wall. The voice of
:22:11. > :22:15.protest is perhaps loudest in Germany. It is claimed is TITP will
:22:16. > :22:23.generate opportunity, wealth for Europe. Here they say it is at the
:22:24. > :22:29.expense of democracy. That is a price which for this trade is simply
:22:30. > :22:33.too high. My concern and it is the same for all businesses here is
:22:34. > :22:37.standards will be lowered. The quality which we and our customers
:22:38. > :22:45.value will suffer and we will not know what is in our food and what
:22:46. > :22:50.effect it will have on our health. How Europe chooses to hammer out the
:22:51. > :22:54.deals will be keenly observed. The EU is reshaping its future after
:22:55. > :23:00.Britain's position to leave and they are aware of the benefits of a good
:23:01. > :23:03.trade agreement. It means no bureaucracy, I can buy and sell what
:23:04. > :23:08.the problem is, no tariffs and whatever you do the one currency. It
:23:09. > :23:13.is much easier. Many wonder whether the agreement,
:23:14. > :23:17.especially TITP, will never be signed. German voters are especially
:23:18. > :23:23.uneasy about a deal with America. The spying scandal and the shadow of
:23:24. > :23:28.the Iraq war still linger here. Even the German economy Minister
:23:29. > :23:31.described TITP as dead in the water. Voices high up in the French
:23:32. > :23:38.Government said similar. That is because this is now about so much
:23:39. > :23:41.more than trade. In France, Germany, it is heavily politicised issue
:23:42. > :23:47.because both countries face in general next year.
:23:48. > :23:52.Even its supporters acknowledge TITP is not a word vendor. -- vote
:23:53. > :23:57.winner. I was in Brussels and we said we put it in the deep freeze
:23:58. > :24:01.and get it out after the US and French and German elections. By the
:24:02. > :24:06.end of next year we will see the progress so it is more or less put
:24:07. > :24:10.on hold but again it is the right thing to do, to not stopping
:24:11. > :24:14.negotiations. Officially the German Government
:24:15. > :24:16.wants both trade deals and believe the benefits outweigh the risks but
:24:17. > :24:23.the electorate asks, at what cost? The Nobel prize in medicine has been
:24:24. > :24:26.awarded to Yoshinori Ohsumi, a Japanese biologist who has
:24:27. > :24:31.discovered how our cells regenerate, by recycling "or canabilising"
:24:32. > :24:33.their own components. It is known as autophagy,
:24:34. > :24:35.and it's a process scientists believe could be harnessed to fight
:24:36. > :24:37.cancer and dementia. Here is Dr Ohsumi, on learning
:24:38. > :24:48.that he had won this I spoke to our health correspondent
:24:49. > :24:51.to find out more. Right now you're cannibalising yourself, deep inside
:24:52. > :24:56.your body. Waste and effective products are not thought out, they
:24:57. > :25:01.are broken down and used all over again. The body uses this all the
:25:02. > :25:06.time and imperious of starvation it is even more important. But also
:25:07. > :25:10.when things start to go wrong it leads to all kinds of diseases so
:25:11. > :25:13.loads of cancerous cells appear in your body and are killed by this
:25:14. > :25:18.process but when they do not get caught they become tumours. This is
:25:19. > :25:21.responsible for a whole load of diseases.
:25:22. > :25:26.So why does he deserve the Nobel Prize? What applications doesn't
:25:27. > :25:31.have? His work is like the foundations. It is up to the next
:25:32. > :25:37.generation to build this skyscraper, as it were. The idea is this process
:25:38. > :25:42.is responsible or key and sold many diseases that maybe you can start to
:25:43. > :25:47.tweak it and treat them. Things were dementia, cancer, type two diabetes,
:25:48. > :25:55.we know that process is implicated in all of those. One former Nobel
:25:56. > :25:58.Prize winner described this black octopus, its tentacles everywhere.
:25:59. > :26:02.If you can dial it up or dry about indirect presses or speed it up
:26:03. > :26:05.maybe you can be to new disease treatments.