31/10/2016 Outside Source

I am Ros Atkins. Welcome back to Outside Source. We start with the US

election. Hillary Clinton's campaign is on more e-mail revelations. They

say the FBI has to explain why it has chosen to announce this further

investigation so close to election day. Both candidates have been

turning to the issue during rallies in swing states.

The NFL has held three games here in London

We will look back at the matches and ahead to what it means

In sport will also speak about the World Series as well as the NFL,

because Cleveland are also there. The Chicago Cubs have come back,

almost. We will look at the sixth game with help from our London

reporter. And you can get me with the hashtag year or on social media.

-- And you can get me with the hashtag here or on social media.

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are going to be spending the last

few days before the election visiting swing states.

Over the next week on Outside Source, we're going to be talking

to journalists from some of these states -

Derek at reasons for this state being so important.

It's the seventh most populous state.

And no Republican has won the presidency without winning Ohio

since Abraham Lincoln - and that was in 1860.

Let's talk to Randy Ludlow, senior Reporter with the Columbus Dispatch

newspaper. Thank you for joining us. First of all, help us understand

Ohio full sub is this a state which easily divides into different types

of voter? Well, Hohaia has always been very much seen as a bellwether

because of its mix, it is almost a microcosm of America -- Ohio State

also we have the big industrial cities, Cincinnati, Cleveland,

Columbus. Columbus is a higher education centre with the

University. We have a lot of blue-collar manufacturing in smaller

towns. We have agriculture, the largest business and we have a slice

of Abu Aisheh across south-eastern Ohio -- Abu

people argue that Ohio is losing its bellwether status because we don't

quite have the Latino population other states have gained. Why might

you hear from American voters in places like California who feel they

are not so involved in the election because everyone knows which way

their state is going to go. Do people in Ohio feel pride in the

fact that the choice they make does matter? It is a mantle we have long

warned and they fight very hard over this state. Hillary Clinton, it

could be argued, doesn't have to have a victory including Ohio, but

Donald Trump must absolutely have a higher if he is to have any chance

of winning the presidency. What is your reading of the situation at the

moment? How are the campaign is doing in their pitch to people in

Ohio? The polls suggest that Ohio remains a toss-up and it is hard to

toss-up which way it is going. The Democrats, to their credit, are much

better organised than the Trump forces. Hillary is also out

advertising Trump here in Ohio as well as other battle ground states.

Ohio is always close either way. So I don't see the use being any

different this time around. We may not know which way the state goes

until late election night. Let me ask you about one curiosity, Randy.

Donald Trump has been taking pops at the Ohio Governor, John Kasich, a

man that you might think he wants on his side.

Well, obviously Governor John Kasich battled Trump and the other

Republican contenders in the primary and he was always critical of Mr

Trump and what he cold his divisiveness where John Kasich was

trying to speak to a more inclusive and a more moderate, if you would,

GOP while still endorsing the Conservative tenants of the party.

He refused to attend the Republican National Convention where Trump

accepted the nomination. There has been some back and forth between the

various camps. Trump will not be getting the support of Governor John

Kasich. The Trump campaign in fact this associated itself of the state

Republican chairman Matt Borders, a close ally of John Kasich. Trump

does not have the John Kasich bargaining chip in his corner going

into the election and that is not helping his election in Ohio. We

appreciate your time in such a busy stage of the cycle. Randy Ludlow

from the Columbus Dispatch newspaper.

We will stay with US politics. Just before I came up here I read an

article with Politico describing both this -- tested candidates --

detested candidates. By any measure we have

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are among the most disliked

candidates in presidential history. David Botti's latest

report looks at why. There are 320 million people in the

US and out of these just two have a chance of becoming the next

President. Sorry, third-party candidates. And also, they are very

unpopular. So, how did they rise to the top? First, what you need to

understand is that America in 2016 is ideologically very divided.

Research found that median Democrats and Republicans have moved further

apart over the past two decades. And they also found that partisan

divisions are greatest among those who are the most active in the

political process. Most active in the political process. Guess who

those people are. They are the ones voting in the primaries and there is

the rub. The two mainstream candidates are not chosen by the

general public, they are chosen in the primaries by the parties, which

are private institutions with their own rules and agendas. So let's

break it down. Only 18% of Americans voted in the primaries. And only

half of them chose either Trump or Clinton. The rest voted for other

candidates. And those candidates stood for a huge range of positions

that are no longer represented for the voters. So a small portion of

the most polarised Americans chose the mainstream candidates, which may

explain why there's less national love for them. But here is a wrinkle

for you. Both were once upon a time pretty popular. Clinton was an

extremely popular Secretary of State whose favourability rating was 63%

when she left office. And Trump, of course, he had a top rated TV

programme in the Apprentice. But stepping into that unforgiving

presidential campaign arena tends to hurt a candidate's favourability.

For Clinton she has a 30 year record with ups and downs her opponents can

exploit and her supporters say sexism plays a role in the animosity

towards her. And forth Trump, that bombastic behaviour that won TV

viewers makes him unpopular, not just with traditional Democratic

opponents, which is obvious, but also moderate Republicans so he has

a two front war. Even now both candidates aren't very popular among

certain groups. But hardly on the national level. So what does any of

this mean? Will people just not bother to vote? And is this the year

that voters demand more than the 2-party system can provide? David

Botti, BBC News, Washington. I enjoy watching the reports from David and

we will have more coming between now and election day, I promise.

Outside Source sport, beginning with the NFL International series taking

place in London had it wrapped up on Sunday.

The Washington Redskins drew 27-27 with the Cincinnati

That doesn't happen often in the NFL.

The NFL is huge already in the UK, with popularity growing.

The NFL is doing this to spread the appeal of its sport and a thriller

like that helps, doesn't it? Absolutely and the NFL, make no

mistake, is huge with popularity growing. The international series is

into its tenth year, three matches in 2016 at Wembley and Twickenham,

three sell-outs averaging more than 80,000 fans with hour-long queues

for merchandise tents, there is a genuine anger, the Colts, the

Giants, the Bengals, the Rams and Redskins in the UK this year the

dolphins will play the Saints in the 2017 series. Wembley is committed to

hosting games until 2020 and whipped Tottenham building a new stadium

which will stage two matches per season between 2018 and 2027th, it

is being built to host both the Premier League and NFL and is set to

open in 2018, which brings us on to the

question of a London franchise. The British government wants it, the

jags have been tipped as the team most likely to relocate, London is

calling for the NFL, the new ground at Tottenham will have a retractable

playing surface pulling a grass soccer field over synthetic

footballs turf, so you can host a soccer game and a football game on

the same day and there will be the dedicated entrance for soccer and

the other one dedicated for the NFL, all of which seems a bit much for

two NFL games a year, so make no mistake, a London franchise is just

a matter of time. I get the franchise bid of the teams want to

be schlepping all the way from the US to London to play a home game or

an away game depending on which side of the game they are?

That is the big question because you are giving up their home game and

only plate 16 before the play-offs so eight of those at home and giving

up one of the home games. For the fans, you are not getting the fans

you would get if you are the Oakland Raiders, perhaps tipped to come

across the pond and the Jaguars. Such huge interest and it is key,

because they are financially rewarded for the games in the UK,

they don't give up a home game for the sake of it and the teams that

are coming over at the moment are those teams not within a play-off

shout, the Rams and the New York Giants, teams on the up, and even

the Raiders who we might see in the UK next year. Heading up a home game

but you are being rewarded for it as well.

Interesting and intriguing and we will speak again through the week.

The Chicago Cubs are still in it - they beat the Cleveland Indians

You will not be surprised to hear that.

Why not ask? -- us. I feel we play our best with our backs against the

war. We went and took care of business and hopefully we are going

to go out there and win Game six because you never know what happens

in game seven. We are all about writing our own history. This team

is a special one. You look so many times throughout the year, we have

not been playing good, but I feel we have turned that around. I saw

something, someone told me today 17 times this year we lost a game and

went on to win three in a row so why can't we do that now?

He hit the nail on the head, we are writing our own history, making

history, why not stop? This is entertaining to us, this is fun, and

we live for this. We see lots of challenges ahead of us. We embrace

them. That's what we've been talking about since spring training 2015.

That's kind of the mindset we have had and we definitely haven't lost

that. There is a different story coming out of Cleveland, you will

not be surprised to know. I think it's business as usual. We

have to take tomorrow in the same way we have taken every game up

until now. If we relax or take our foot off the gas pedal that will

allow them to gain momentum and get back into the series. In a few

minutes we are going to continue a series of reports BBC Arabic has

been making about women shamed online. This is the young woman in

Bangladesh who was raped 15 years ago and is still being shamed online

because of that. We will have a report about her experience.

A lorry driver who killed a mother and three children while distracted

by his phone has been jailed for ten years.

The judge said that Tomasz Kroker might as well have had his eyes

closed when he crashed into stationary traffic in Berkshire

Four lives lost in a fraction of one second. Tracy Holton, her sons,

Ethan and Josh, and her stepdaughter Aimee Fuller stop today at Reading

Crown Court dug, the father of Josh and Ethan, and other family members,

came to hear how they died after being hit by a lorry driver using

his mobile phone. That driver was 30-year-old Tomasz Kroker, who had

been on his phone for up to 45 seconds before impact. Cameras in

his lorry show him scrawling on his phone to change the music he was

listening to. He only looks up less than one second before he hits a

line of stationary traffic in front of him. The car Tracey and her

children were in is barely visible under the back of the lorry on the

right. The judge said Tomasz Kroker might have well been driving with

his eyes closed. Tracey's partner, any's father mark, was travelling in

the car behind and saw it all. We pulled up behind some lorries, just

crawling along, everyone slowed down and then that was it.

Bang. Today any's natural mother Kate also spoke of the impact on

her. Our children lost their lives

because of the reckless actions of Thomas Croker -- Tomasz Kroker. But

we're not the only family to have suffered to what is perceived by

many as minor, inconsequential crime. A crime that takes place on

our roads every day. We urge you to make a personal commitment to stop

using mobile phones whilst driving, and make our roads safer for

everyone. Croker was jailed for a total of ten years today after

admitting dangerous driving. In the incident the family said was wholly

avoidable and has left them utterly devastated -- Tomasz Kroker. Duncan

Kennedy, BBC News, Reading Crown Court.

This is Outside Source live from the BBC newsroom. I am Ros Atkins.

Donald Trump says the FBI has done the right thing.

In the past few days we have been running a series of reports on

thousands of people in some of the world's most conservative societies

are being threatened, blackmailed or ashamed with explicitly revealing

images. 15 years ago a girl cold Purmina shill was attacked and

gang-raping. Slowly she has managed to rebuild her life, but now social

media is being used to discredit her. This is her story from

Bangladesh. In the last couple of minutes of

Outside Source let's Quebecer Anthony in the BBC's newsroom in

Washington, DC. We will not get through all of these questions.

Jeffrey wants to ask about Harry Reid's letter, a very senior

Democrat, in which he makes an allegation the FBI knows of ties

between Russia and Donald Trump's campaign. He says, is there any

proof of that? That has been rumoured in the media for a while.

There is some evidence, the FBI has said Russian hackers have been

involved in the Wikileaks hacks damaging Hillary Clinton. There is a

CNBC report out earlier today saying they decided not to commence with

the information will publicly because it could affect the

election, which is exactly what he didn't do on Friday with the Hillary

Clinton e-mail story. Down in the UK wants to know about

this CNN Democrat resignation story today. Then Brazil, the head of the

Democratic National Committee HQ but earlier this year she was a talking

head for the Democrats on CNN, and apparently thanks to these Wikileaks

revelations she is shared several questions to a Hillary Clinton town

Hall on CNN in Michigan, one of which was about the water crisis in

Flint, Michigan, it wasn't a debate, it was a town hall with Hillary

Clinton answering questions in the audience. Jess wants to ask if

Hillary Clinton can still win after the FBI investigation. I definitely

think she can still win and I would say she is still favourite. The

electoral playing field is still tilted in her favour, she still

leads in the polls by a more narrow margin, but importantly she is

leading in many key swing states and has a built-in advantage. In the

states she will win like California, New York, and Illinois, that have a

lot of electoral votes and sway in this election.

Thank you for your extra help, Anthony. Live from Washington, DC.

Interesting tweet from the BBC's North America editor Jon Sopel,

showing a quote from Harold Wilson, week is a long time in politics,

quoted a lot in the US command that applies for the next week. Stay

tuned for every twist and turn from the BBC newsroom. We will see you

tomorrow at the same time. Bye bye. Hello, I'm will Perry with the

latest from the BBC's centre.