:00:00. > :00:00.14. A more detailed outlook with John Hammond in about half an hour,
:00:00. > :00:08.who will bring you the weather for the week ahead.
:00:09. > :00:10.Hello, I'm Ros Atkins, this is Outside Source.
:00:11. > :00:14.Let's look through some of the main stories here in the BBC Newsroom.
:00:15. > :00:16.The search for the next UN Secretary General is all but over.
:00:17. > :00:19.Portugal's former Prime Minister Antonio Guterres is likely to get
:00:20. > :00:22.the job after almost unanimous approval at the security council.
:00:23. > :00:25.There's significant news at a major donor conference for Afghanistan.
:00:26. > :00:28.Billions of dollars have been committed.
:00:29. > :00:30.That's in Brussels - back in Afghanistan, the Taliban has
:00:31. > :00:39.We will bring you up to date on that.
:00:40. > :00:41.These are troubled times for World Hewavyweight champ Tyson Fury -
:00:42. > :00:51.And the human life span might have a limit of 115.
:00:52. > :00:53.That is according to scientists in the US.
:00:54. > :01:13.James Gallagher will explain how we've got to that figure.
:01:14. > :01:15.There's been a surge in fighting in Afghanistan.
:01:16. > :01:20.It's between the Taliban and government forces.
:01:21. > :01:30.It's taking place in Helmand in the south of the country.
:01:31. > :01:32.The Taliban's making progress - and it's now grouped outside
:01:33. > :01:36.Meanwhile In Kabul, there was explosion during rush hour.
:01:37. > :01:41.And the Taliban continues to keep Kunduz
:01:42. > :01:45.Inevitably civilians are getting caught up in the fighting.
:01:46. > :01:54.One of them has spoken to Outside Source Radio.
:01:55. > :02:02.TRANSLATION: I came to visit my family. Because of the intense
:02:03. > :02:06.fighting I'm stuck here. The situation here is really bad. There
:02:07. > :02:11.is no electricity, either. We wanted to get out and go to Kaboul, but the
:02:12. > :02:17.roads are blocked and their Taliban checkpoints on the way, so we
:02:18. > :02:21.decided to stay in. -- Kabul. The Taliban are only a few roads away
:02:22. > :02:25.from us. We have been stuck in the basement of our house for three
:02:26. > :02:30.days. We hardly go up to the house because there was firing and bullets
:02:31. > :02:32.and we don't want to get risk -- and we don't want to risk getting shot
:02:33. > :02:34.at. There's a conference
:02:35. > :02:36.in Brussels designed to raise Lots of discussion over
:02:37. > :02:49.whether donations are coming We are up to 15 years now since the
:02:50. > :02:55.Americans went in after 911. There has been some debate about
:02:56. > :03:14.whether any aid comes with strings attached.
:03:15. > :03:19.That is one perspective. Here is a different one from the EU's
:03:20. > :03:27.follow -- policy chief. There is never a link between our development
:03:28. > :03:31.aid and whatever we do and migration. As you know, this isn't
:03:32. > :03:37.an issue we have on the agenda today. An agreement was signed a few
:03:38. > :03:41.days ago as a result of something separate from this one. There is no
:03:42. > :03:45.conditionality, there is no link, and I will mention this very clearly
:03:46. > :03:46.again with you today. I hope you help passing the message that there
:03:47. > :03:52.is no link between the two. Lyse Doucet is covering this
:03:53. > :03:54.conference in Brussels. I spoke to her a little earlier
:03:55. > :04:04.when she'd just news of a deal. That is a rare, nice surprise for
:04:05. > :04:09.Afghanistan. Ever since this conference started the expectation
:04:10. > :04:12.was Afghanistan would get billions in aid but about $1 billion less
:04:13. > :04:16.every year than it did four years ago. That matters a lot to a country
:04:17. > :04:21.which almost entirely depends on foreign aid. When the figure was
:04:22. > :04:26.announced, it was one of those say it moments, the number finally came
:04:27. > :04:31.out, $15.2 billion over the next four years. Much more than they
:04:32. > :04:35.expected. The president described today as a remarkable day. He said
:04:36. > :04:40.four years ago nobody would expect Afghanistan would get this money,
:04:41. > :04:43.maybe 5 billion. He says it is a testament both to the progress of
:04:44. > :04:49.the Afghan government and the confidence of its donors. The
:04:50. > :04:52.reality, I think, is that international community understands
:04:53. > :04:58.that it needs to give support to Afghanistan if it wants to avoid
:04:59. > :05:02.another country falling apart. Another space for acts of terror to
:05:03. > :05:08.be incubated. And also, as you have been reporting, particularly the
:05:09. > :05:10.European Union wants tens of thousands of failed asylum seekers
:05:11. > :05:19.to go back to Afghanistan. They are not going to back and they would be
:05:20. > :05:23.supported if the country continues to deteriorate. This is undoubtedly
:05:24. > :05:26.goodness. I don't understand the connection between this money going
:05:27. > :05:32.to Afghanistan and the Taliban stopping its ongoing insurgency. It
:05:33. > :05:37.has been announced here by the foreign policy chief that she had a
:05:38. > :05:43.meeting last night at dinner with some of the regional players,
:05:44. > :05:46.Pakistan, India, China, to try and come up with an initiative because
:05:47. > :05:50.the outside players are involved in the conflict in Afghanistan. To get
:05:51. > :05:54.a regional initiative to try to get the Taliban to the table. The
:05:55. > :06:00.sceptics, of whom there are many, say it has been tried before.
:06:01. > :06:02.Pakistan is under pressure, the Taliban is based there, they need to
:06:03. > :06:08.get the table. The Chinese were involved in a rare act which never
:06:09. > :06:14.went anywhere. But they are going to try again. They are going to try
:06:15. > :06:19.again. The Taliban is divided. They are making gains on the battlefield.
:06:20. > :06:24.Although, they make gains and reverses. But they continue to
:06:25. > :06:30.attack. Even in the heart of Kabul. That scares the Afghans. They are
:06:31. > :06:36.totally selling up, selling their houses and cars. When I was on a
:06:37. > :06:40.train last week, three generations of a family were leaving because
:06:41. > :06:46.they do not see their future there. They have to reverse that. We have
:06:47. > :06:52.to help them. They are the second grid of asylum seekers after
:06:53. > :06:56.Syrians. Thanks very much. I will be in that building in a couple of
:06:57. > :06:59.weeks' time because the next EU summit is coming around. It will be
:07:00. > :07:02.a significant one. It'll be the first one Theresa May will attend as
:07:03. > :07:13.the new UK Prime Minister and the first won since she declared that
:07:14. > :07:18.article 51 needs to be triggered by the end of March. Watch out for
:07:19. > :07:20.that. Sport, and we will start with Tyson Fury.
:07:21. > :07:22.Tyson Fury is the World heavyweight boxing champion.
:07:23. > :07:25.He's already cancelled a fight against Vladimir Klishtko -
:07:26. > :07:33.He's given an interview to Rolling Stone magazine.
:07:34. > :07:54.He admits mental health problems - and says:
:07:55. > :07:58.Olly Foster, BBC Sports Centre, joins me.
:07:59. > :08:07.It seems he gave this interview in that three hour period on Monday
:08:08. > :08:12.this week. He launched into a Twitter tyros and social media. In
:08:13. > :08:16.which he said that it, I've had enough of boxing. A few hours later
:08:17. > :08:20.he retracted and said, I fooled you, don't worry, the gypsy King, his
:08:21. > :08:25.moniker, I'm going to be back. In the midst of all of this he gave
:08:26. > :08:29.this long interview, some very worrying revelations in there to
:08:30. > :08:33.Rolling Stone magazine. A great interview for them to get. But
:08:34. > :08:36.incredibly worrying because he revealed he had been taking cocaine
:08:37. > :08:41.for six months. And all of these revelations of his mental state. He
:08:42. > :08:47.said he was undergoing psychiatric treatment and he had been diagnosed
:08:48. > :08:53.with bipolar disorder. There is an awful lot of people from within
:08:54. > :08:57.boxing who are worried about his well-being at the moment. They just
:08:58. > :09:03.want him to get better. He is only 28. He is the reigning world
:09:04. > :09:08.heavyweight champion still after that remarkable victory against
:09:09. > :09:13.Wladimir Klitschko ten, 11 months ago. But he hasn't fought since. He
:09:14. > :09:17.pulled out of the first rematch in July. And most recently pulled out
:09:18. > :09:22.of the rematch at the end of this month, the 29th of October, only in
:09:23. > :09:28.the last week, amidst reports he had tested positive for cocaine. And his
:09:29. > :09:34.coaching team saying he was medically unfit to compete. But now
:09:35. > :09:38.much. One of the big questions much. One of the big questions
:09:39. > :09:39.around Tyson Fury is whether he will be stripped of those titles in time.
:09:40. > :09:42.We just don't know. Maria Sharapova's been talking
:09:43. > :09:44.about having her suspension for taking banned medication reduced
:09:45. > :09:46.by nine months. She is still suspended though -
:09:47. > :09:53.and she did break the rules. She won't start playing again until
:09:54. > :09:55.next year. Remember, she'd been taking the drug
:09:56. > :09:57.in question for years. And continued to do
:09:58. > :10:08.so after it was recently placed I was taking a substance that was
:10:09. > :10:11.completely legal for ten years. That a doctor had recommended for me
:10:12. > :10:18.after so many different medical tests. I was 18. I had won grand
:10:19. > :10:22.slam. All of a sudden I'm sitting in my bedroom and I get an e-mail from
:10:23. > :10:29.the ITF saying I had this violation. I thought how could I have not known
:10:30. > :10:33.this? There are so many ways I could have known and I didn't. Do you
:10:34. > :10:37.think they were trying to make an example of you? I never wanted to
:10:38. > :10:39.believe that, but I'm starting to think about.
:10:40. > :10:43.All this week the BBC is focusing on women in sport.
:10:44. > :10:51.from from Maggie Alphonsi who has been looking
:10:52. > :10:59.participating in sport, but how much participating in sport, but how much
:11:00. > :11:04.do we know about the effects of the menstrual cycle and sporting
:11:05. > :11:07.performance? In 2015, Heather Watson hit the headlines when she talked
:11:08. > :11:12.about how her period had an influence on her performance during
:11:13. > :11:15.the Australian Open. But then we see on the other side of the spectrum,
:11:16. > :11:19.Paula Radcliffe broke the world record whilst on the first day of
:11:20. > :11:25.her menstrual cycle. Kate Richardson Walsh says it is something they
:11:26. > :11:29.consider as part of their training. We started by tracking and cycles
:11:30. > :11:33.with a strength and conditioning coach so he could potentially change
:11:34. > :11:36.our training programme in line with that if necessary. We also tested
:11:37. > :11:40.our testosterone levels and oestrogen levels just to see how
:11:41. > :11:45.they fluctuated. It is based on science. The coach really educated
:11:46. > :11:51.us and how it can affect you. I think it's made a difference.
:11:52. > :11:55.Research scientist Georgy Barneveld is studying what effect the
:11:56. > :12:00.menstrual cycle has one athletes. Through doing this research I've
:12:01. > :12:03.actually discovered this menstrual cycle area and I've come to
:12:04. > :12:09.appreciate the massive lack of research that is actually being
:12:10. > :12:14.done. -- Georgie Bruinvels. More than 30% cited that their menstrual
:12:15. > :12:20.performance. What positive things performance. What positive things
:12:21. > :12:26.can we get from it? Dave 14 is ovulation. That is when oestrogen
:12:27. > :12:31.levels are very high. -- day 14. Your strength levels increase. Once
:12:32. > :12:35.you gather which day you are and you can tailor your training to meet
:12:36. > :12:39.that. We just have to start figuring out how we should tailor their
:12:40. > :12:42.training. If you have a smartphone you can access all of the coverage
:12:43. > :12:49.from my colleagues at the BBC sport centre. Picking up on what was our
:12:50. > :12:51.lead story for a number of days... Satellite imagery released by the UN
:12:52. > :12:54.agency UNOSAT has confirmed that last month's attack on an aid convoy
:12:55. > :13:01.was carried out by an air strike. This was the aftermath
:13:02. > :13:03.of the attack. At least 18 people
:13:04. > :13:05.were killed when lorries were attacked while unloading
:13:06. > :13:08.at an aid warehouse in a rebel-held The US blamed Russia -
:13:09. > :13:14.Russia dismissed this. -- This is what we heard
:13:15. > :13:31.at a UNOSAT press conference. The humanitarian convoy, we had an
:13:32. > :13:39.image of that, we could clearly see the damage. Could you tell if it was
:13:40. > :13:44.from the air? Yeah, with our analysis we determined it was an air
:13:45. > :13:47.strike. And I think multiple other sources have said that, as well.
:13:48. > :13:49.Part of today's press conference by UNOSAT was also to talk
:13:50. > :13:53.about the damage being done to the rebel-held parts of Aleppo.
:13:54. > :13:58.These are the satellite images they released.
:13:59. > :14:05.This one shows a destroyed home and damage to a local school.
:14:06. > :14:15.Another of an athletics field - a huge crater nearby.
:14:16. > :14:17.This one shows three craters along a road
:14:18. > :14:30.UNOSAT says its imagery shows that the bombing in Aleppo has been
:14:31. > :14:33.significantly worse in the past year than during the rest
:14:34. > :14:50.what the American scientists are what the American scientists are
:14:51. > :14:59.saying about the limit of the human life span. They are saying 115 maybe
:15:00. > :15:00.as far as we can go. James Gallagher will reveal what is behind the
:15:01. > :15:09.research. This time last night we got news
:15:10. > :15:15.that Diane James was resigning as leader of Ukip. Her predecessor,
:15:16. > :15:23.Nigel Farage, has agreed in the short term, to hold the fort. Diane
:15:24. > :15:27.James! The enthusiastic Victor just three weeks ago. Diane James knew
:15:28. > :15:31.she had big shoes to fill as Ukip's new leader. And after a period of
:15:32. > :15:41.bitter infighting she urged members to rally behind her. I ask you,
:15:42. > :15:45.support me, work with me, win with me. But some suspected she was
:15:46. > :15:48.quietly reluctant to take the helm. An 18 days and she stepped down,
:15:49. > :15:54.suggesting some in the party were never fully behind her. Along with
:15:55. > :16:00.family illness and some personal abuse the job proved to date, the
:16:01. > :16:04.risks too deep. So this man who has returned after resigning twice
:16:05. > :16:07.before is back in charge. I keep trying to escape. I keep getting
:16:08. > :16:11.over the wall and running for the hills. Before I'm finally free they
:16:12. > :16:17.dragged me back. Insisting it is only temporary. I think I've done my
:16:18. > :16:22.bit. I have no intention of ever coming back to lead Ukip or any
:16:23. > :16:26.political party. I'm done. The leadership contest will be rerun
:16:27. > :16:31.with some new contenders, MEP Stephen Wolf is the first to
:16:32. > :16:33.declare. Other former candidates are hedging their bets. One said, rather
:16:34. > :16:39.than a shambles this was good PR for than a shambles this was good PR for
:16:40. > :16:45.the party. This is positive for PR. And people enjoy the excitement. It
:16:46. > :16:50.is almost like being a part of Dynasty. Can any new leader match
:16:51. > :16:57.when winning the referendum they when winning the referendum they
:16:58. > :17:02.lost their main reason for being. Some wonder what is the point of
:17:03. > :17:06.Ukip. The party must not just overcome its internal turmoil, but
:17:07. > :17:09.convince voters it is still relevant in post-Brexit Britain. Ukip drives
:17:10. > :17:14.the political agenda and far more than just the European question.
:17:15. > :17:18.Irrespective of our position in the EU, we are delighted we are going to
:17:19. > :17:21.leave but there is no doubt Ukip will have a solid future in driving
:17:22. > :17:25.that political agenda for common-sense policies moving
:17:26. > :17:28.forward. The next leader, whoever that may be, must heal divisions
:17:29. > :17:44.comments that their authority, and set out what Ukip now stands for.
:17:45. > :17:52.The former Prime Minister of Portugal, Antonio Guterres, looks
:17:53. > :18:04.set to be the new UN secretary-general.
:18:05. > :18:12.This is what we were seeing in Johannesburg. Violent clashes...
:18:13. > :18:17.That wasn't the one I was expecting. This is the right video. There were
:18:18. > :18:23.clashes between students and police. They were protesting about fees. The
:18:24. > :18:29.protesters want free tuition. They say the current costs prohibit poor
:18:30. > :18:35.students. They say classes will be cancelled for the week. Mediation
:18:36. > :18:39.will continue. And we understand some individuals may not be entirely
:18:40. > :18:43.happy about this decision but it will be in the broader interests of
:18:44. > :18:48.all stakeholders and saving the 2016 academic year. That is a reference
:18:49. > :18:53.to a warning that the entire academic year will be cancelled if
:18:54. > :18:57.this trouble continues. Our correspondent was there yesterday
:18:58. > :19:00.and he's gone back to the campus today.
:19:01. > :19:08.Today is a different scene altogether. No tear gas, no stun
:19:09. > :19:12.grenades, no rubber bullets. There are no students this site, or the
:19:13. > :19:18.police this site, but today we met some of the students, one of whom
:19:19. > :19:25.whose card was torn yesterday -- placard. These are the students to
:19:26. > :19:31.want -- who want to finish the academic year of 2016. This is what
:19:32. > :19:37.he told us. We want our opinion as the student body to be acknowledged
:19:38. > :19:41.during this. We are not against the fees. We want free education. We
:19:42. > :19:48.want our opinions to be acknowledged. Both the university
:19:49. > :19:51.management and students are locked in negotiations. They want to open
:19:52. > :19:57.the doors of learning here. They want to get this university and its
:19:58. > :20:00.feet again. We are hoping that through engagement with the
:20:01. > :20:05.mediators that we can get classes started on Monday again. That's our
:20:06. > :20:06.first priority. We have already put in place new plans for the academic
:20:07. > :20:10.programme. We have extended our programme. We have extended our
:20:11. > :20:14.examination dates. This means we have a contingency plan. Our
:20:15. > :20:17.priority for the next few weeks is to get the programme back on track,
:20:18. > :20:22.gets re-examinations and graduations. If we don't we will
:20:23. > :20:29.suffer and there will be dire consequences for a number of people.
:20:30. > :20:33.As the protests continue here at the campus, remember this is not
:20:34. > :20:35.uniquely confined to this university. This discussion is
:20:36. > :20:38.happening throughout the country in happening throughout the country in
:20:39. > :20:42.many other universities, as well. But everyone is hoping that this
:20:43. > :20:43.situation will normalise sooner situation will normalise sooner
:20:44. > :20:50.rather than later. We're going to talk
:20:51. > :20:52.about the human life span now. Life expectancy -
:20:53. > :20:54.which is the average time we all live for -
:20:55. > :20:56.has been increasing very quickly But US scientists say
:20:57. > :21:03.the human life span will not I asked James Gallagher how
:21:04. > :21:22.they came to this figure. They have looked at decades worth of
:21:23. > :21:29.longevity data from people from around the world. Life inspect and
:21:30. > :21:34.see his -- life expectancy is going up. The trend has improved over
:21:35. > :21:36.around 100, you notice there hasn't around 100, you notice there
:21:37. > :21:42.been any significant improvement in been any significant improvement in
:21:43. > :21:44.that age group. Then they looked at another set of data, licking at the
:21:45. > :21:52.oldest point at which people are dying. That seems to be stuck at
:21:53. > :21:58.around about 115. -- looking. We are pushing against the ceiling of human
:21:59. > :22:05.life. Why does that ceiling exist around 110, 115 years old? Living as
:22:06. > :22:11.long as very recent. It is novel. It is part of our evolutionary history.
:22:12. > :22:17.Our bodies are designed to grow and have children. There has been no
:22:18. > :22:20.changes that have pushed us to live into old age. Ageing is a
:22:21. > :22:25.consequence of being able to survive and thrive while you are young. It
:22:26. > :22:29.is just an inevitable part of life. It is happening in every single cell
:22:30. > :22:34.of your body. It is something that eventually just runs out of time. If
:22:35. > :22:39.you want more information on that, if you go to the front page of the
:22:40. > :22:42.BBC News website it is at the top, hit the health tab and you will be
:22:43. > :22:46.able to pick up the coverage of James and his colleagues on the
:22:47. > :22:52.reasons behind that life span. That is it for this edition of Outside
:22:53. > :22:53.Source. Thank you for watching. I will be back at the same time
:22:54. > :23:18.tomorrow. See you then. Good evening. Tyson Fury could have
:23:19. > :23:20.his boxing licence taken away next week. The world heavyweight champion
:23:21. > :23:21.revealed he's