:00:12. > :00:19.Hello and welcome to outside source. A number of hours ago it was
:00:20. > :00:23.confirmed that King Bhumibol of Thailand had died. Mourners had
:00:24. > :00:29.gathered and there has been nationwide outpouring of grief.
:00:30. > :00:33.Donald Trump has been responding strongly to more accusations against
:00:34. > :00:39.him. It was a real shock when all of a sudden his hands were all over me.
:00:40. > :00:47.These vicious claims about me of inappropriate conduct with women are
:00:48. > :00:52.totally and absolutely false. We have a number of stories to tell
:00:53. > :00:56.you, all relating to Brexit. One is that the Scottish Government is
:00:57. > :01:00.laying the groundwork for a second independence referendum. As he may
:01:01. > :01:04.well have seen, everyone is talking about Bob Dylan. He has been awarded
:01:05. > :01:09.the Nobel Prize for literature, the first time a songwriter has won the
:01:10. > :01:13.award. As usual, we will be here throughout the hour live in the BBC
:01:14. > :01:27.newsroom. You can get in touch in all the normal ways.
:01:28. > :01:34.Thailand's King Bhumibol has died aged 88. This is how Thai television
:01:35. > :01:58.made the announcement. As you'd imagine, there has been an
:01:59. > :02:01.outpouring of grief across the country. Crowds gathered in
:02:02. > :02:05.particular outside a hospital where the king was being treated in
:02:06. > :02:11.Bangkok. As you can see from these pictures, hundreds of people have
:02:12. > :02:17.been turning out, some holding pictures of the King, others wearing
:02:18. > :02:22.pink, which signifies good health, or yellow, the royal colour. After
:02:23. > :02:26.several hours of rumour, just after 7pm, the news was made official.
:02:27. > :02:31.They will be a year-long mourning period in Thailand and for the next
:02:32. > :02:36.30 days flags across the country will fly at half-mast. King Bhumibol
:02:37. > :02:43.has been the world's longest reigning monarch and Jonathan head
:02:44. > :02:47.looks back at his 70 year reign. King Bhumibol reigned for so long
:02:48. > :02:54.that he was the pre-eminent soul in his country yet he remained an
:02:55. > :02:57.enigma. A cultured, outwardly modern monarch with few legal powers but
:02:58. > :03:05.with the status of the semidivine feudal ruler. Throughout his reign,
:03:06. > :03:11.he enjoyed lavage -- lavish public rain yet a true assessment of his
:03:12. > :03:18.popularity was never possible because of laws about talking about
:03:19. > :03:23.the public -- about the royal family. He ascended to the throne
:03:24. > :03:28.after the shooting of his brother. The young King sat about restoring
:03:29. > :03:33.the prestige of the monarchy by travelling across the country.
:03:34. > :03:40.Thailand was then a poor but fast-growing nation. King Bhumibol
:03:41. > :03:49.presented himself as a caring money, interested -- a caring monarch,
:03:50. > :03:56.interested in people. He became an indispensable figure of national
:03:57. > :03:59.unity, using his revered status to reach out to remote areas during the
:04:00. > :04:06.communist insurgency of the Cold War. He gained a reputation as a
:04:07. > :04:11.mediator during periods of our people. In 1992, he famously
:04:12. > :04:15.chastised a military leader and a protest leader. It was after that
:04:16. > :04:22.that Thailand enjoyed its longest period of democratic rule. However,
:04:23. > :04:31.the buyers of this man, Thaksin Shinawatra, a tycoon turned
:04:32. > :04:37.politician proved to be a changing part -- a changing point. He was too
:04:38. > :04:41.much for the Conservative establishment around the King and
:04:42. > :04:46.King Bhumibol himself was clearly uncomfortable with him. He was
:04:47. > :04:52.ousted in a military coup in 2006. Like previous coups, it was quickly
:04:53. > :04:55.endorsed by the palace. Pro-tax in Shinawatra governments that were
:04:56. > :05:02.elected after the coup were also forced from office, angering the
:05:03. > :05:12.supporters and tarnishing the monarchy's once untouchable
:05:13. > :05:19.reputation. In later life, King Bhumibol became more distant, often
:05:20. > :05:24.hospitalised with illnesses. He was still revered and his legacy is a
:05:25. > :05:30.highly personalised monarchy. It will struggle to redefine itself now
:05:31. > :05:33.that he has gone. That was Jonathan reporting from
:05:34. > :05:39.Bangkok and it is worth telling you that our reporters are restricted in
:05:40. > :05:45.what they can save. This is because of Thailand's laws. It is a criminal
:05:46. > :05:49.offence in Thailand to defame, insult or threaten the King, the
:05:50. > :05:55.Queen, the heir apparent or the Regent. This can also apply to
:05:56. > :06:01.beaches who are dead or two royal project. Let's be clear, the
:06:02. > :06:06.definition of defame it incredibly strict. People can face up to 15
:06:07. > :06:09.years in prison. This is an Australian national who was
:06:10. > :06:19.sentenced to three years in prison for releasing a self published novel
:06:20. > :06:24.which featured a fictional crown prince and he was lucky to be part
:06:25. > :06:28.in -- pardoned. A Thai national was imprisoned for 20 years for sending
:06:29. > :06:39.text messages that were thought of as critical of the monarchy and he
:06:40. > :06:44.died in prison the next year. I'm sure we knew this but this is not
:06:45. > :06:51.necessarily related to the laws I have mentioned, more that a lot of
:06:52. > :06:53.disruption has caused to broadcasting in Thailand because of
:06:54. > :06:58.the mourning period I have mentioned. If you want to hear more
:06:59. > :07:07.about that, you can find out online on BBC News all about the reign of
:07:08. > :07:12.King Bhumibol. The BBC News app will help you with that as well. Now, we
:07:13. > :07:17.will be doing this every day an outside source for the next few
:07:18. > :07:22.weeks on the US elections. This was the cover of Time magazine and when
:07:23. > :07:25.it came out and had the words meltdown, it gained a lot of
:07:26. > :07:31.attention. They have just released this is a follow-up with the words,
:07:32. > :07:35.total meltdown. Needless to say, Donald Trump will deny that is fair
:07:36. > :07:39.and would doubtless say this is the mainstream media being dishonest and
:07:40. > :07:44.totally biased as the often claims. But what is beyond dispute is that
:07:45. > :07:48.the hailstorm of negative stories about Donald Trump continues. The
:07:49. > :07:51.polls to are not looking good. This is a prediction model from the New
:07:52. > :08:11.York Times. It gives Hillary Clinton and 89% chance of winning the
:08:12. > :08:14.presidency. Given this is a two horse race, that is as close as you
:08:15. > :08:16.are going to get to certain without one person dropping out. If you look
:08:17. > :08:19.at the BBC's latest poll of polls, the Hillary Clinton campaign has
:08:20. > :08:22.opened up a 9-point gap. This does not account for the second TV debate
:08:23. > :08:24.which was a vicious affair. We don't know how that will feed into
:08:25. > :08:27.people's opinions but you can see the gap is considerable. There have
:08:28. > :08:31.been more allegations against Mr Trump of inappropriate sexual
:08:32. > :08:35.conduct in the last 24 hours. Two women told the New York Times he
:08:36. > :08:44.groped or kissed them. This is one of those women. It wasn't until they
:08:45. > :08:51.cleared the meal that, somehow or another, the armrest in the seat
:08:52. > :08:54.disappeared and it was a real shock when all the sudden, his hands were
:08:55. > :09:01.all over me. He started encroaching MySpace. And I hesitate to use this
:09:02. > :09:06.expression, but I'm going to, and that if he was like an octopus. It's
:09:07. > :09:11.like he had six arms. He was all over the place. But if he had stuck
:09:12. > :09:17.with the upper part of the body, I might not have gotten... I might not
:09:18. > :09:23.have gotten that upset but it was when he started putting his hand up
:09:24. > :09:30.my skirt, that was it. That was it. I was out of there. Mr Trump refutes
:09:31. > :09:33.that allegation but it's not the only one. A reporter for people
:09:34. > :09:47.magazine has published this article in it, the reporter claims he kissed
:09:48. > :09:56.her -- forcibly kissed her during an interview, a claim he denies. These
:09:57. > :10:10.vicious claims about me of inappropriate conduct with women are
:10:11. > :10:16.totally and absolutely false. And the Clintons know it and they know
:10:17. > :10:24.it very well. These claims are all fabricated. They are pure fiction
:10:25. > :10:31.and they are outright lies. These events never, ever happened and the
:10:32. > :10:34.people that set them meekly fully understand. We already have
:10:35. > :10:38.substantial evidence to dispute these lies and it will be made
:10:39. > :10:45.public in an appropriate way and that an appropriate time very soon.
:10:46. > :10:48.Mr Trump also said he will sue the New York Times over those
:10:49. > :10:53.allegations. In the last few hours, a letter has been released from the
:10:54. > :10:58.New York Times lawyers to Mr Trump's lawyers. It is quite a long letter
:10:59. > :11:05.and I have just tweeted it out. Many of you are re-tweeting it and
:11:06. > :11:06.reading it. A couple of the key phrases:
:11:07. > :11:29.well, as always, we have plenty to discuss. I just want to put all of
:11:30. > :11:33.these different stories to one side and concentrate on the core fact
:11:34. > :11:38.here which is that Donald Trump is in real difficulty in terms of
:11:39. > :11:41.getting to the White House. Yes, you are right and there has actually
:11:42. > :11:46.been one poll that has come out since that second debate and that
:11:47. > :11:49.was the poll in Wisconsin showing that he is losing ground there,
:11:50. > :11:54.particularly in support amongst women. The combination of that video
:11:55. > :11:59.tape from Access Hollywood where he talks about wanting to grab women
:12:00. > :12:06.and that second debate performance, they seem to have, at least from
:12:07. > :12:09.this Wisconsin poll, to be having a chance -- an impact on his chance of
:12:10. > :12:15.winning an important battle ground state. All of the pollsters and
:12:16. > :12:19.their modelling suggest Mr Trump's paths for getting to the White
:12:20. > :12:22.House, to the magic number of electoral college votes, are getting
:12:23. > :12:27.narrower and narrower. What he is trying to say is this is all to do
:12:28. > :12:31.with the crooked media, to do with the Clinton campaign, it is all
:12:32. > :12:37.corruption and effectively he is taking on the world. He is saying to
:12:38. > :12:41.his supporters, it is you, me, our movement against everybody and if we
:12:42. > :12:48.don't win, it will be because the system is rigged. Not because we
:12:49. > :12:51.didn't run a good campaign, because I was not a good candidate or
:12:52. > :12:54.because of all these allegations. One of the people he is taking on is
:12:55. > :12:59.Michelle Obama. I've not seen this but she has been talking, is that
:13:00. > :13:03.right? She has been talking and she gave a powerful speech just before
:13:04. > :13:07.he spoke in Florida in which she said that this had shaken her to the
:13:08. > :13:11.core and that she hadn't been so running to speak about this abuse
:13:12. > :13:17.issues but it would be disingenuous not to. Michelle Obama is named --
:13:18. > :13:22.is an extraordinarily effective surrogates for Hillary Clinton. She
:13:23. > :13:26.is a weapon that the Hillary Clinton campaign is using sparingly but with
:13:27. > :13:31.devastating effect. She is very popular. Her poll approval ratings
:13:32. > :13:35.are high and when she sent out like this, she has an impact. For her to
:13:36. > :13:38.be speaking in this genuine, heartfelt way about how she felt
:13:39. > :13:42.about these allegations of sexual abuse and what she felt it said
:13:43. > :13:46.about Donald Trump's character is the kind of thing that will help the
:13:47. > :13:50.Clinton campaign get its message out. Isn't it extraordinary when we
:13:51. > :13:54.have Hillary Clinton trying to be the first female president of
:13:55. > :14:01.America and she must be getting ten, 15, 20% of coverage at the moment?
:14:02. > :14:08.Donald Trump must be eating everything in terms of how the media
:14:09. > :14:11.is reporting this? It looks like we will spend the last three weeks of
:14:12. > :14:18.this campaign talking about sexual abuse when we are on verge of having
:14:19. > :14:23.first e-mail evident. We are talking about sex, sexual issues,
:14:24. > :14:27.misconduct, what Donald Trump may or may not have done, what Bill Clinton
:14:28. > :14:31.may or may not have done and I think this will dominate the end of this
:14:32. > :14:34.campaign. It has become a gutter campaign. It is phenomenally
:14:35. > :14:41.depressing in many ways that this is what the bait to elect a potentially
:14:42. > :14:45.the most powerful free world is coming down to issues of groping and
:14:46. > :14:50.sexual abuse and this kind of behaviour. I'll leave it there. We
:14:51. > :14:55.will speak again next week. Thank you for coming on, as always. In a
:14:56. > :14:59.few minutes time, we will speak about a hurricane, not hurricane
:15:00. > :15:02.Matthew but the next one to be considered. Hurricane Nicole is
:15:03. > :15:09.affecting the people of Bermuda and we will bring you up to be -- up to
:15:10. > :15:13.date. Now, a male gorilla has been
:15:14. > :15:18.recaptured after escaping from its enclosure at London zoo. Police were
:15:19. > :15:25.called to the do this evening, and the western lowland silverback
:15:26. > :15:31.gorilla had escaped into the secure keepers area. No one was hurt and he
:15:32. > :15:36.is back in his down after being shot with a tranquillising dart. It was a
:15:37. > :15:41.safe, secure keepers area so at no part -- no point did he get out into
:15:42. > :15:45.the zoo. I would like to thank our staff, keepers and vets who
:15:46. > :15:49.responded so quickly and also the support of the emergency services
:15:50. > :15:52.who are available at any London attraction to deal with incidents.
:15:53. > :15:57.This was a minor incident and after all of this coming he is back in his
:15:58. > :16:01.down and interacting happily with his family. The keepers are so
:16:02. > :16:05.professional, so caring, so they are going to stay on this evening, check
:16:06. > :16:07.how he is doing and I have also been told they will be giving him some of
:16:08. > :16:22.his favourite treats later on. We are live in the BBC newsroom. The
:16:23. > :16:26.people of Thailand are mourning king Bhumibol who has passed away at the
:16:27. > :16:31.age of 88. Let's bring you some of the main stories from BBC World
:16:32. > :16:36.Service. First of all, BBC Arabic is reporting that the US military has
:16:37. > :16:42.attacked three radar sites in Yemen after a missile was fired at a US
:16:43. > :16:47.warship in international waters. The Pentagon says the target sites were
:16:48. > :16:58.controlled by rebels. Reports that Germany's court has
:16:59. > :17:03.rejected a trade deal with Canada. The deal that we spoke about last
:17:04. > :17:08.night will remove many trade barriers. Campaigners object to the
:17:09. > :17:11.fact that parts of the deal will be implemented before all national
:17:12. > :17:16.parliaments in the EU have voted on it.
:17:17. > :17:21.The United Nations General Assembly has approved Antonio could cherish
:17:22. > :17:28.to be the next UN Secretary General. He will serve a five-year term and
:17:29. > :17:33.it is fair to say he has received a warm welcome. The Prime Minister of
:17:34. > :17:36.Canada offers his congratulations. There is also a tweet from Ukraine's
:17:37. > :17:50.evident. That has also been congratulations
:17:51. > :17:57.on Ban Ki-Moon, the man in the job at the moment. The BBC's cheap
:17:58. > :18:01.international correspondent Lisa did that has been speaking with Antonio
:18:02. > :18:09.Guterres just in the last few hours. Here they are talking. Well, the
:18:10. > :18:13.pressure, not yet, the responsibility, of course. We live
:18:14. > :18:19.unfortunately in a world where you see impugning the and
:18:20. > :18:23.unpredictability everywhere. Conflicts seem never to die and the
:18:24. > :18:26.international community has shown very little capacity not only to
:18:27. > :18:32.prevent conflict and to solve them but even to get a minimum of
:18:33. > :18:35.humanitarian assistance to people involved in conflict situations. So
:18:36. > :18:39.we are facing a very difficult moment.
:18:40. > :18:45.Chelsea football club has announced a huge deal. Let's start off
:18:46. > :18:49.business by talking about it. Here you can see them tweeting that it
:18:50. > :18:55.has a new technical partnership with Nike. Effectively it means they will
:18:56. > :18:58.be making the Chelsea kit among other things. It starts next season
:18:59. > :19:04.and the media reports the value of this is about 60 million pounds a
:19:05. > :19:10.year. That is more than $70 million a year. Perhaps more significantly
:19:11. > :19:14.this deal is going to run for 15 years, the biggest commercial deal
:19:15. > :19:19.in the club's history. I also want to play you a report
:19:20. > :19:30.about virtual reality. Here is the report.
:19:31. > :19:36.Lost in a virtual world. This is what Sony thinks is the future of
:19:37. > :19:39.virtual gaming. It's hoping many people will splash out for these
:19:40. > :19:48.headsets. The technology have come a long way since VR threaten to be the
:19:49. > :19:52.biggest craze in the 1990s and failed when people felt sick. I am
:19:53. > :19:57.trying out a game which involves being lowered into the cage deep in
:19:58. > :20:00.the ocean where dangers lurk. I've got to confess, that was pretty
:20:01. > :20:05.scary but the question is, how many people will be willing to put my
:20:06. > :20:10.headset for this and other virtual reality experiences. The competition
:20:11. > :20:16.includes oculus rift, owned by Facebook, and then there is the HTC
:20:17. > :20:20.vibe. Both offer even more experiences than Sony but at a
:20:21. > :20:29.higher price. The technology is being aimed at first act keening
:20:30. > :20:33.gamers but there is the hoped-for expansion. Obviously gaming is close
:20:34. > :20:38.to our hearts but you can talk about other applications as well, like
:20:39. > :20:45.health, education and people minds come alive when try virtual reality.
:20:46. > :20:49.It is certainly a compelling experience the first time you try
:20:50. > :20:55.it. Now we will find out whether living in virtual reality will
:20:56. > :21:01.appeal to a mass audience. As I was mentioning a few minutes
:21:02. > :21:05.ago, I want to update you on another dangerous hurricane in the
:21:06. > :21:10.Caribbean. We spoke over the last few weeks about the devastating
:21:11. > :21:17.hurricane Matthew has caused. The latest storm is hurricane Nicole and
:21:18. > :21:21.it is Bermuda that is being hit. A little bit earlier, I went behind
:21:22. > :21:25.this green well you will find our colleagues from BBC weather and I
:21:26. > :21:31.spoke to Darren bet who compared hurricane Matthew with hurricane
:21:32. > :21:37.Nicole. Not quite as powerful as hurricane Matthew. A category the --
:21:38. > :21:43.a category three hurricane with sustained winds of 200 plummet as
:21:44. > :21:49.per hour. I've just heard there are about 225,000 homes without power on
:21:50. > :21:54.the media. This is an enhanced satellite picture. This is Bermuda.
:21:55. > :22:00.Follow the grey dot in the middle, if you like. That is the eye of the
:22:01. > :22:05.hurricane. It got very, very close. It is now moving away and the winds
:22:06. > :22:08.and rain will start to ease. Hurricane is our common in the
:22:09. > :22:13.Caribbean but are they common in Bermuda? On average, you would
:22:14. > :22:19.expect to find six or seven storms that would hit Bermuda. They are
:22:20. > :22:23.usually weaker than this one. We are uncertain as to whether the very
:22:24. > :22:29.centre of the eye swept across Bermuda but the last time a category
:22:30. > :22:34.three hurricane made a direct hit in Bermuda was 1926, 90 years ago.
:22:35. > :22:39.Lots of you will already have been talking about this story. Bob Dylan
:22:40. > :22:44.has been awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. The first musician to
:22:45. > :22:49.receive the literature award, and we will speak about that in a minute.
:22:50. > :22:52.We should also mention this. 11 people have won Nobel prizes in the
:22:53. > :22:57.last few days. You will notice they all share one thing in common. They
:22:58. > :23:04.are all men. In fact, 900 Nobel prizes awarded in the Novell 's
:23:05. > :23:07.history, 49 have gone to women, so no prizes for gender equality to
:23:08. > :23:12.those choosing the winners. Of course, that doesn't take away from
:23:13. > :23:17.the achievements of the individual awarded prizes. In terms of Bob
:23:18. > :23:20.Dylan, he has won this for having created new poetic expressions
:23:21. > :23:23.within the great American tradition. Lots of people from the world of
:23:24. > :23:28.literature have been commenting on this as well. Salman Rushdie says:
:23:29. > :23:43.I think most people agree with that. I think it came as a surprise to
:23:44. > :23:48.most of us as well. He has been talked about for the last few years
:23:49. > :23:52.as possibly somebody who stood an outside chance of getting the award
:23:53. > :23:55.but it did seem to be a genuine shock to people when that
:23:56. > :24:00.announcement was made. You could hear all the journalists in the room
:24:01. > :24:05.as his name was read out actually gasping, in admiration, and even
:24:06. > :24:08.though it is a shock to many people, there are very few people out there
:24:09. > :24:15.that don't think it's a very well-deserved reward. Are his words
:24:16. > :24:24.judged as words on a page or words to be sung? I think you can look at
:24:25. > :24:30.it whichever way you like. When you look at his lyrics, they have the
:24:31. > :24:34.density of poetry, however you define a poem. It has the extra
:24:35. > :24:39.dimensional of it being music, but if you go back to people like Homer,
:24:40. > :24:43.their words have been put to music as well. Perhaps there is an area in
:24:44. > :24:47.the middle that whether something is set to music or not, if you look at
:24:48. > :24:51.it as a piece of work, look at the words and the emotional impact they
:24:52. > :24:58.have, if you think it is a poem, it is a poem. I guess this is immense
:24:59. > :25:08.him as a voice of a generation we associate with the 60s.
:25:09. > :25:21.He was the voice of the civil rights movement and this is very much
:25:22. > :25:24.another award to reflect that. Does this signal a change in direction
:25:25. > :25:30.for the Academy? That question was actually put to them today and the
:25:31. > :25:36.secretary said, the Times, they are changing. We will have to see how
:25:37. > :25:39.this goes over the next few years. This could be admiration because of
:25:40. > :25:44.his exceptional talent but maybe there are opening up to other areas.
:25:45. > :25:52.In a few minutes time, we will be talking about Nick Kyrgios to played
:25:53. > :25:56.several points in the Shanghai Masters and wasn't trying. Now he
:25:57. > :25:58.will have to hand over some cash. We will speak about that in a few
:25:59. > :26:11.minutes. See you then. Thanks for tuning in. Let's have a
:26:12. > :26:16.look at the international weather now and the big story of today has
:26:17. > :26:18.been hurricane Nicole battering Bermuda. The IRB