02/01/2017 Outside Source

Hello, welcome to Outside Source. At least 60 people have died in a

prison riot in Brazil. It appears a fight between local drug gangs is

behind this. These are the latest pictures to be released of the New

Year's Eve gunmen in Istanbul. We will also report on Myanmar, because

for the first time, the government has admitted Muslims have been

abused. It will also tell you about what happened to the world's major

currencies last year and what is coming up in 2017.

Whether you are watching on BBC world News or here in the UK on the

BBC News Channel, welcome to the first edition of Outside Source the

2017 and happy New Year. We begin with a story of the utmost

seriousness in Brazil. It started on New Year's Day and only ended today.

Authorities have regained control but we believe dozens and dozens of

people died. The BBC's correspondent in Brazil has this report.

Local television pictures showed women and family members crying and

screaming outside the jail. The riot apparently broke out during visiting

hours on New Year's Day. The riot involved rival gangs attacking each

other with weapons smuggled into the prison. There were horrific reports

of many gang members being tortured and even decapitated after being

taken hostage. Many of Brazil's overcrowded and underfunded and

resourced jails are in effect run by drug gangs with the prison

authorities are unwilling or unable to counteract the power and

influence of gangland bosses who run their empires from within the walls.

As night fell and armed police tried to regain control of the jail,

reports emerged of the violence being committed inside.

TRANSLATION: My son is an inmate there. The police won't care about

him. I want to know how my son is. My son is in there. This is a

bullet. A local security official said the death toll could be as high

as 60. TRANSLATION: There were deaths,

We have some outside the prison who were thrown from the prison

We're already looking for the escapees in

Riots and gang-related massacres are common at jails across Brazil

Almost 24 hours after the riot began, some sort

But this was more proof that Brazil's broken prison system

As we were explaining, the power of drugs gangs is one important factor

but so is overcrowding. Brazil has the world's fourth-largest prison

population, estimated to be around 600,000 inmates. If we look at the

map here as we go in, we have highlighted particular prison where

this riot has taken place. We understand it was built for around

500 inmates but it could be holding at least double that. In the long

term, the issue becomes more pronounced. This is one expert on

organised crime in Latin America, saying the current rate of increase,

the prison population could be 1.9 million eye to thousands 30. So a

huge jump from where it already is. Let's bring in the BBC's Nellie

Barrera, working on the story for the BBC in Sao Paulo. Before we get

the details of this story, I've seen other reports of other riots, what

can you tell me about that? Just hours after the riots that we saw,

two other riots were registered this afternoon in Manaus in other

detention centres. In one case in a prison where 1500 prisoners are held

and it was built to hold just 500. A group of prisoners tried to escape

and it was controlled by security guards. In another prison, yet

another one, some prisoners tried to push the gates of the prison and

were also controlled by security guards. But none as violent as the

one we saw yesterday and controlled by this morning. They have just

updated the information about the number of prisoners who were

actually killed and the number is actually 55. Families of prisoners

are actually waiting for some sort of information. Given that

overcrowding is creating such pressures, Nelly, why is the

government still pursuing a policy which sees the prison population

increase so much? Yeah, well, the overcrowding is a problem, not a

present problem but it goes a long way back here in Brazil. There have

been discussions and the Ministry of Justice have travelled to Manaus to

assess the situation and see if they can transfer some prisoners. What

they are trying to do now is try to move some gang members from Sao

Paulo to Rio de Janeiro, two of the country's most important cities,

where two of the most important drug gangs originated. They try to

transfer those inmates so that they could break up the gangs and that

doesn't seem to be working. The government now faces his biggest

challenge of how they are going to control the gangs that operate both

inside and outside the prison here in Brazil. And also to deal with a

now growing population in the penitentiary system. Thank you very

much for the update. We will have ongoing coverage of this online in

English in the BBC news and in Spanish on bbcmundo.com as well.

Let's switch to Turkey because there is still no sign of the gunmen

behind the attack on New Year's Eve. We do have footage released by the

authorities showing the moments the attack began. If you look here, you

will see an explosion, a bullet hitting the tarmac of the road.

After a little while, the gunmen took a taxi out of the boot of the

car and appears in the right of the shot as we look at it, firing as he

walks. As the video continues he turns to his left and walks towards

the entrance of the club. By the time he had finished the attack, 39

people had lost their lives. Now the Islamic State group is saying it was

responsible for this, says it was a retaliation for Turkish air strikes

in the area against IS. It's worth noting how IS claimed responsibility

for this. Charlie Winter, an expert on IS, has picked up on this issue.

This is what he says. He refers to central media, the main media

accounts of Islamic State, not Amaq, a news agency. He expands on this

point. He is saying IS sought to categorise Istanbul as an attack it

had directly organised rather than one it just inspired. It wants us to

put this attack in that first category. Let's get an update on

that manhunt. We are being told that the search

for the gunmen could actually be over soon. Deputy Prime Minister

gave a news conference earlier today and he said we are very close to

identifying who the gunmen is and they have found fingerprints and

further evidence the video footage has emerged and pictures have

emerged clearly showing the face of the gunmen. Turkish media is

broadcasting these pictures all the time. This circle, it feels like, is

getting narrower and narrower and that is what the officials here in

Turkey hope to end this manhunt. Whether he is a Turkish man, a

foreign national, whether there are people behind him or whether he was

acting on his own. So-called Islamic State have claimed responsibility

for the attack, but we still don't know whether this person, this

gunmen, acted on his own or whether he is part of a cell operating in

Turkey. As well as this attack in New Year's

Eve in the centre of Istanbul, there have been a number of significant

terror attacks in Turkey in 2016. For instance, there were bombings at

a major football stadium and also at the Ataturk International Airport in

Istanbul. We've also covered stories of attacks in Ankara, the Turkish

capital, and we should emphasise the south-east of the country where the

conflict with Kurdish militants goes on.

By my count, in the last 18 months or so, we've had a roundabout one

death every day, civilian, police, army and so on and so forth. That

causes a huge problem for Turkey and the fact that Turkey is also

responding to its coup aftermath, from what happened in July, shows

that we have a stake in a huge state of confusion at the moment. I'm not

necessarily saying it was neglect that caused this attack but it was

very challenging at the moment for the Turkish government to respond to

an attack like this. In terms of Islamic State, the Turkish president

changed tack quite markedly in 2016 as to how he would approach that. It

would be politically difficult to turn and change tack again? It would

be extremely difficult for him. He said he would not go into Syria

without American backing. He wanted this safe zone that he created in

Syria in coordination with the free Syrian army. To reverse again after

that would be a hugely problematic and politically difficult thing for

him to do. So it looks like for the moment at least he's going to stick

with it. In terms of the attack at the nightclub, as many European

governments have discovered, it is very hard to stop one person with a

powerful weapon killing people, however much money you invest in

security. Exactly. But I guess the humiliation, for lack of a better

word, is the fact that this is New Year's Eve and there were multiple

warnings from sources from Turkish sources saying this would be a

difficult day and there were thousands of police officers on the

streets of Istanbul. Turkey has got a very sophisticated intelligence

organisation but all of these did not seem to work together

effectively to stop this latest across a tee. In terms of pressure

on the security services, how much turnover has there been in staff

since the attempted coup? This is a very difficult question to answer

because a huge number of people have been new to their jobs, many others

are in prison, the problem is that this turnover in the civil service

and the judiciary is making it extremely difficult for people to

actually create a coherent strategy, so there is no scrutiny in Turkey.

Countries that don't ask awkward questions of themselves are

countries that don't operate very effectively. Just on our lead story,

this prison riot in Brazil, BBC Brasil are covering this in

Portuguese. That will get you coverage in Portuguese. Now we must

turn to another very serious day in Baghdad because the Islamic State

group has struck again. We know this time at least 35 people died in the

Iraqi capital. We have highlighted a very well-known Shia district of

Baghdad, Sadr City. There were also two other car bombs in Baghdad

today, targeting or were close to Shia hospitals. What we've seen

today as part of a broader campaign from Islamic State. You may not know

this but IS has its own news agency called Amaq, which often carries

information IS wants to communicate. This is a breaking news strap

telling as that IS has claimed responsibility for today but what

we've seen is really part of a broader push. This is New Year's Eve

in Baghdad, when there were two side attacks. This was New Year's Day,

where there was another deadly attack. President Hollande of France

is visiting Iraq at the moment, with French troops close to Baghdad at a

military base and he has talked about, despite the attacks today, IS

is retreating and will be beaten. I wanted to see if our correspondent

from BBC Arabic agreed with that. He looks at the situation in the Middle

East in huge amounts of detail. We been under pressure in the

-- they have been under pressure in the Mosul area recently but they

have unable to launch attacks elsewhere and this is a trademark of

how capable they are. So it's less about territory and more about

killing people, as Al-Qaeda have done for many years? Absolutely,

it's more about guerrilla warfare and they are hitting urban areas,

particularly in crowded areas like today, the square in the southern

city where the attack took place was a very crowded area, someone brought

the truck to the square where many labourers gather, it was a suicide

bomber and their objective was to kill and maim as many people as

possible. In a few minutes' time, I will be playing you a very clever

report about the gaming industry and also about Rory becoming a computer

game character. You will see him in action as never before. See that in

a few minutes. The first 14 areas in England to be

selected for so-called Garden villages have been announced in a

bid to create tens of thousands of new homes.

Three larger garden towns have also been approved for Buckinghamshire,

Somerset and the Essex-Hertfordshire border.

The Government says that the plans will help provide vital homes.

But rural campaigners have warned there is still strong opposition

Earlier I spoke to Grant Shapps, the local MP for Welwyn Garden City,

one of the Britain's first garden cities and a former housing minister

What we have to do and I regret not doing more of it when I

was housing minister is think how we're going to produce another 1

million or 2 million homes but on a much larger scale and not

just confining it to the south-east but

looking at part of the country which need greater populations.

And would benefit from and want to have the additional housing.

Hello, welcome to the BBC newsroom at Outside Source.

Nearly 60 people have died in a prison riot in Brazil. A fight

between rival gangs is said to be behind the violence. As I'm sure you

know, 2016 brought a huge amount of attention on currencies and their

fluctuations. The fall of the pound in the aftermath of Brexit and the

rupee was also under huge amounts of pressure at different points. Here's

a report taking a look at some of the main currencies in the world,

where they are now and what 2017 may bring.

At the start of 2016 it was all about the Japanese yen. Asia's

hardest working central banker did everything in his power to weaken

the yen, but nothing, not even negative interest rates, worked.

Everyone said 2016 would be a tough year for the yen. As all this was

going on, the Chinese economy was firing. Chinese individuals began

selling more -- sending more of their cash overseas. Then came the

first big shock, the vote for Brexit. The Stirling slammed against

the US dollar after the UK unexpectedly voted to leave the

European Union in June. It's lost about 15% of its value. How has that

uncertainty led to more -- all of that uncertainty led to more value

for the yen. And then Trumpflation hit. Donald Trump won the US

election and the dollar soared. Through it all, the Chinese yuan

kept falling. So where does that bring us to at the beginning of

2017? The US dollar is at the strongest level it's seen in years

and it looks set to stay that way. The British pound has lost a fifth

of its value since the Brexit vote. A new normal, perhaps. And the

Japanese yen, what negative interest rates couldn't do, Mr Trump did, and

finally the Japanese yen is weakening against a strong dollar.

The Chinese yuan looks to continue its strong march downwards against

the US dollar, for now at least. First time I've heard the word

Trumpflation! Thanks for that. Now, a great report on the gaming

industry that also sees Rory being made into a character in a game.

We've not seen Rory pulled these kind of moves before. Have a look.

Look straight ahead, straight at this postcard,

what we are going to do is get you to do a range of emotions.

In the studio in Oxford, I'm preparing for a role

So this is the first stage in making me a character in the game

and now I'm going to have to pull a lot of funny faces.

It's going to take many weeks but eventually

I will be a character, a goodie I hope, in Sniper Elite 4.

In 2017, this will be a major release from Rebellion -

one of Britain's biggest independent games firms.

When we first visit, back in September, they have a lot

on their plate, including crucially a game for the Sony VR launch.

A big investment with a lot hanging on it.

When they embarked on this project back 18 months ago,

there was a great deal more scepticism about how successful

So it really was a punt - or I should say a smart gamble.

These guys and girls here play games professionally

It is a quarter of a century since Jason Kingsley

and his brother Chris started Rebellion.

When my brother and I started Rebellion, we were always being

So we are grown adults with a quite a big corporation behind us

and we make entertainment that sells across the world.

I mean, China, consumers in China buy our games,

consumers in Brazil, all these emerging markets

Obviously if I see something wrong...

Roughly 200 people work here from across Europe.

I can't help noticing a lot of men, very few women.

Is it getting any easier for women to get into the games industry?

I mean, me growing up, I would not have even dreamt

but for the last ten years it seems like the doors have been more open.

Two months later, we returned to Rebellion to find out

I suppose it is quite a good likeness.

We will take this high resolution model and we will put it

into the game and we will see what you look like in that.

Yes, you are currently the hero of the Sniper Elite series.

I have been transformed into a ruthless, all-action soldier.

In in the world of video games, anything is possible!

Let's turn to a story we have covered a lot on Outside Source, the

allegations of human rights abuses against a Muslim minority in

Myanmar. Before I play the video I should say it contains upsetting

scenes. This is being filmed by a police

officer and as you can see, other police officers are beating the

person sitting on the floor. They and all of the other people sitting

on the floor are Muslims whose home is Rahane state.

The government says it is simply conducting counterterrorism. On this

video it says that footage was filmed in November, as the police

conducted an operation after police officers were shot, one fatally.

Here is Celia Hatton, with her analysis. There were some previous

videos. Around a dozen have surfaced from Rohingya themselves laying

look, there has been abused in this state and this is how the police

were treating us and they were always dismissed by the government

as fake. This is different because it shows and office are almost

taking a Selvie and casually smoking a cigarette while the abuses going

on behind him. It's clear he's there and he's part of it and there is no

dispute as to what is going on in the video. This time the government

has really not unable to ignore it. Is this part of a broader shift in

approach or just a specific response to one video? It seems it is just a

specific response to one video. At first the government said it would

take action against the police in the video. Most people don't really

feel that those police are going to suffer any serious punishments. The

stance of the government all along has been just to defend what it's

doing in that state against the wishes of people like the UN human

rights chief who has said that ethnic cleansing is going on in the

state and many of Myanmar neighbours are calling out to say that

something needs to be done, this is human rights violations on a mass

scale. We have an estimated 50,000 people who fled to Bangladesh,

according to the Bangladesh authorities. The UN has that number

around 34,000 but many of those people who fled, witnesses say

systematic torture, rape and murder are going on in Rakhine state and

the government really hasn't done much. That is it for the first half

of Outside Source, I will be back in a couple of minutes.

Good evening. It's been a fairly chilly but clear and largely dry day

too. Our weather watchers have been out snapping the weather today and

here is a beautiful scene of the sunset sitting over the river in

East Sussex there. Some clear skies around as we head through the

evening and to the overnight period. Temperatures already dropping

rapidly, a particular cult night across parts of central and southern

England and Wales. -- particular gold. Watch out for cold weather if

you are heading back to work on Tuesday. Across rural parts we could

see lows down around 5 degrees. Less in the way of frost in the

north-west, cloud rushing in and a milder started Tuesday for parts of

Scotland. Quite windy towards the north and sunlight drizzly rain

across western Scotland too. For Northern Ireland and northern

England, some drizzly rain around. As we head down the east coast of

England, clear spells allowing a cold start to Tuesday morning so a

sharp frost as well as the chance of seeing some mist and some freezing

fog patches around southern England and Wales too. During Tuesday, lots

of dry weather on the cards. A bit of rain in the west of Scotland and

perhaps into Northern Ireland but the north-west keeps most of the

cold, whereas south and east it will stay quite dry with some sunny

spells breaking through. Around six or 7 degrees. Further north,

slightly milder. As we move through into the middle of the week, it is

high pressure that dominates the forecast. A weak front pushing its

way through south as we head into Wednesday. Nothing on that front

really, producing the odd spot of rain but it will produce colder air

which starts to pile in from a northerly direction. If you expected

that wind coming in from the North Sea, it will feel pretty chilly.

Elsewhere, cloud tends to thin break as it shifts south-west through the

day. Temperatures by the afternoon ranging between about four and 9

degrees or so. No great changes in the weather as we look towards

Thursday. Another chilly day with wintry sunshine, slightly milder

with perhaps Tom rain in the north-west as we get to Friday.

That's how it's looking, more on our website.

This is Outside Source. These are some of our main story: In Brazil

almost 60 people have died in a prison riot. A fight between rival

drug gangs is said to be behind the violence.

TRANSLATION: There were deaths, unfortunately. We have some outside

the prison who was thrown from the prison by the inmates themselves.

Turkey says they have the identity of the gunmen who attacked an

Istanbul nightclub. These are pictures of him. IS said they

directed the attack. President Obama is back from

holiday, back in Washington, DC, he may only have a few days left in the

White House but he is working hard today to try and save Obama care for

stuff we will explain what his plan is. And the latest on the Premier

League and the final of the world darts championship which is

happening right now, Michael van Gerwen from the Netherlands is up

against Gary Anderson. -- save Obama Care.

Still no sign of the gunmen behind the Istanbul attack on New Year's

Eve. We do, though, have new footage. We just showed you it

briefly. Let's have a look in detail. It shows the moment is the

attack happened outside the nightclub. You can see the bullets

coming off the tarmac. And a few moments later, the gunmen, who

arrived by taxi, arrives just the right of shot. He is already firing.

Then he turns to his left and makes his way into the club. He killed 39

people. IS are saying this particular attack was retaliation to

Turkish air strikes against IS positions in Syria. It is worth

noting how it claimed responsibility. We were talking

about this early in the programme. Charlie Winter said it claimed it

through its central media channel, which suggests, in his assessment,

that it is trying to say it directed this. It coordinated this attack.

This wasn't just somebody who was inspired by IS. Let's talk to our

security correspondent Frank Gardner. Do you agree with Charlie's

analysis, that IS wants to position this attack as one of its bigger,

more coordinated efforts? To some extent they are still trying to say,

we are still a force to be reckoned with. The caliphate is not yet

defeated. We are still around. In a way it doesn't really matter, sort

of, whether it is directed, whether it is inspired, the fact is the

ideology is still out there. Falling this comes down to better

intelligence and better security. Let's not beat around the bush,

Turkish intelligence, which can be very good, failed to this instance.

It can fail in many countries. But they had warning the attacks were

possible. They had extra security on the streets. This was a high-profile

place. A lot of people had come from around the middle east to celebrate

New Year's Eve there, yet there was hardly any security to stop this

guy. It was a failure both of intelligence and of security. One of

the issues we've discussed before after other IS attacks has been the

issue of countries sharing intelligence. We talked about it

after Brussels and after Paris. Is there any progress in all of these

countries under threat helping each other? To some extent. The biggest

problem is in Europe, where there are attempts to try and do this. But

national intelligence agencies are very reluctant to share sensitive

intelligence, sensitive information that has come from informants,

because they do not want... This often comes down to the timely

sharing of it. A lot of the problem is different names. IS tends to use

nicknames. These are not the real names and the spellings are often

different. And that confuses western intelligence agencies. What has

marked IS as being different is that it doesn't just carry out terror

attacks it seeks to gather territory. Francois Hollande said

Mosul will fall maybe by the summer, in a few months' time, do you agree

with this assessment that despite Baghdad today, Istanbul on New

Year's Eve, IS is still being driven there? Two things are certain. IS

Will Hughes Mosul and rack. We don't know when but they will -- IS will

lose Mosul and Raqqa. Then it becomes an insurgency, as opposed to

a fixed state with a fixed army. There was a big dispute between

Al-Qaeda leader back in 2011 and so-called Islamic State. Al-Qaeda

did not approve of them declaring the caliphate. -- between Al-Qaeda

back in 2011. Osama Bin Laden always said it was too early to establish a

caliphate. He said this was a long-term game. 20 years, maybe 30

years, there will come a time, now is not the right time. Their ways --

there is a dispute amongst the group brought about this. I understand

there is a big coalition to retake Mosul. Mosul is likely to fall.

Raqqa Is in Syria, a more complex country than Iraq with different

security elements pulling in different directions. Why are you so

sure that Raqqa is going to fall? I don't think it will be in the next

three months. I wouldn't put a date on it. But it cannot survive.

Especially with Donald Trump, to the White House, taking on the

presidency, and he has vowed to, you know, stamp them out, as it were.

For as long as they have got a de facto capital, that claim is going

to look pretty silly, it will undermine his, sort of, thrust of

his overseas foreign policy in the Middle East, you know, as it forms.

The number of groups that are lining up there, I think eventually will

provide an overwhelming force. The Syrian Civil War, which has

sustained IS, ironically, isn't going to go on forever. It has taken

a terrible toll on that country. It has driven refugees out of the

country in their millions. But it cannot go on forever. Even if the

current Russian Turkish peace deal, the ceasefire, doesn't hold, are the

ones will eventually come to the fore that well. And there will be an

accommodation of the regime in some form and eventually Raqqa will fall.

Thanks very much. Let's bring you up-to-date with all

of the main sport stories. The Premier League first, games coming

thick and fast this time of year. The latest round was today. Ollie

Foster has been following everything from the BBC sport Centre. Pick some

out. The European leagues are their

winter breaks. We've had just one day in the last eight weather hasn't

been a Premier League match. We had six today. Leaders Chelsea not

playing until Wednesday against Spurs. It is a chance for the other

teams to play catch up a little bit. Liverpool were six points behind in

second place, surely they will get a win at Sunderland. They twice took

the lead by Daniel Sturridge and Mane. But it ended in a draw. They

are five points away from Chelsea now. Manchester City up to third,

they beat Burnley. Fernandinho was sent off in the first half, their

captain, it is the third time in six games he has got a red card. Gael

Clichy and Aguero helped them to a 2-1 win against Burnley. Pep

Guardiola, should he be happy? He gave a very awkward interview to BBC

sport's Damien Johnson after the match. We won against a lot of

circumstances and a tough game. We are happy for that. What was your

view of the red card for Fernandinho? You are the

journalists, not me. You don't seem that happy you have won. --

journalist. More than you believe. You are not showing it. I am so

happy, believe me, happy New Year. Our Manchester City still in the

title race? Yesterday no, today, yes. -- are. Another interview he

gave to an American broadcaster was released after that match against

Burnley. He said he would be in Manchester for the next three

seasons, maybe more, but I am coming towards the end of my coaching role,

I feel the process of my goodbye has already started. One other notable

result, Manchester United beat West Ham 2-0. Are still in sixth

position, but level on points with spas in this position. -- with

Tottenham in fiveth position. I hope they don't beat Tottenham, because I

am a Tottenham fan. CHUCKLES

Thanks very much. More sport information on the website.

Now, the cricket, the Supreme Court has ordered the head of the cricket

board to resign, this is following a whole range of match fixing scandal,

we have more on this story. What we have seen today is a major

development but it isn't entirely unexpected. We sing the stand-off

between the Indian Supreme Court and the cricket board of India go on the

several months. -- we have seen the stand-off. The Supreme Court ordered

the BCCI to implement major changes in the way the body was being run.

The changes they asked for included restricting government ministers and

bureaucrats from contesting elections, limiting the number of

terms for which officials can be appointed, bringing the BCCI under

the right information act, which is a law in India, which allows

ordinary citizens of the country to make an application at ask for

information about anybody. It could be things about finances. It could

be information about how certain appointments have been made. The

BCCI was always reluctant in permit these reforms. They did make some

changes but they didn't implement everything. That's the reason why we

have seen this decision taken by the Supreme Court today. The man in the

spotlight, who until this morning was the president of the BCCI has

perhaps one of the most powerful cricket administrators in the world,

did come out with a statement. He defended his record. He said the

BCCI was the best managed sports body in India, but that he respects

the Supreme Court's decision. What happens for the BCCI now? The

Supreme Court said over the next few months it'll appoint a new committee

to run the board but every member, every official, will have to sign an

undertaking, saying they will implement the reforms that the

Supreme Court has asked bowl. -- asked for.

Latest on a rowing race across the Atlantic. Tim Moffat has met people

taking part. Why embark on a journey as arduous

as this? 3000 miles unsupported, rowing across the Atlantic. For

some, Toby, Rory and Harry, the answer is clear, as they explain

before setting off. Ten years ago my brother passed away. -- Sam. He took

his life. I've always wanted to do something in his memory. That is why

we are here. When he died I was really unaware of what a major

problem suicide was, particularly among young men. The idea is to get

more young men talking about any problems they might have. The

problem with guys is they see opening up about their feelings as a

feminine thing. They almost want to curate their lives and cast an image

of themselves that may interest others, or something others might be

interested by. The reality is there was a lot going on underneath all of

that and guys find it difficult to do so, because they don't want to

ruin that image they have built up. Last year Nikki, Helen, Frances and

Jeanette, the Yorkshire Rose, completed the same journey and

became the first all-female crew to do so. We took a lot of inspiration

from the Yorkshire Rose. Incredible what they achieved. Money raised

will fund new crisis centres, places where people who need help can find

it. The first to open will be in Liverpool and will be called James'

Place. I know when times are tough, when we are rowing, I can always

remember exactly why we are doing it. And I know that my brother,

James, will be looking at all four of us and will be our guiding light.

Let me update you on the darts. It is the BBC world darts championship

final happening right now. Unless something very strange happens, this

man, Michael van Gerwen, will become the new world champion. He has won

it once before. He has been focused on this all year. He has won 25

tournaments. He says none of them matter if he doesn't win tonight. He

is looking good. He is 6-2 in sets, he need seven to win the whole

thing. It'll need a big comeback from Gary Anderson, who is trying to

win three world titles in a row. It is looking unlikely because this guy

is playing amazing. We've never seen anything like it. In the semifinal

he hit the highest average ever seen in the World Championship. Quite

something. One of our regular viewers, and a well-known US news

anchor, has sent a message asking if we can perhaps throw darts at the

screen. I don't think so. If you want to follow the final and you

cannot get access to live TV coverage, follow it through the live

page, excellent coverage on the BBC News sport page.

In a few minutes we will be going live to Washington, DC to talk

about, well, two stories, Russian diplomats who have been expelled by

Barack Obama who has arrived back home. But also President Obama is in

Washington to try and do more work to save Obama Care, so we will talk

about that, too. The British art critic, writer, and

painter John Bird has died. His best-known work was ways of seeing,

a criticism of Western cultural athletics, and he also one -- won

the Booker prize. Our arts correspondent met him at his home.

The activity of riding has been, for me, a helpful one. It allows me to

make sense of things and continue. I want to question that some of the

assumptions... John Burda, a young artist, who became a writer, who

persuaded the BBC to make him -- let him make a television programme

about how the way we view art has changed. His programmes turned out

to be as iconic as the art he talked about. Today he lives in Paris with

an old friend and a bad back. We had four months to make these

programmes. With nobody ever coming to see us. After four months, and an

incredible amount of editing and reediting, we offered it to them as

a fait accompli. In the circumstances of making television,

these things could never happen again, and it was miraculous. The

process of seeing paintings or anything else is less spontaneous

and natural than we tend to believe. A large part of seeing depends upon

habit and intervention. Is there a right way and therefore a wrong way

of looking at art? It's quite disturbing... To watch the public.

People come in. They stand in front of a painting. They take a picture.

And they move on. A fellow Booker prizewinner said John Burda teaches

us how to think, how to feel, and how to stare at things until we see

what we thought wasn't there. -- John Burger.

Thanks for joining me for the first Outside Source of the year. Our lead

story: Almost 60 people have died at a prison riot in Brazil. A fight

between rival gangs is said to have started the violence. Let's have a

quick look at what you have coming up after Outside Source. World News

America will introduce you to a young man whose Down's syndrome

isn't holding him back. His journey has inspired many. You will find out

how. In the UK, the News at ten, the report from Northern Ireland on an

attempt to get Catholic and Protestant schools to share

facilities. There are two stories I want to talk

to Laura about, she is in Washington, the first is that in the

last few hours Barack Obama has got back to Washington after a holiday

in Hawaii. Donald Trump is going to take over on the 20th, but it seems

there is still plenty of work for the president to do. There is a

tweet from a good source, telling us that Obama is heading to Capitol

Hill to save Obama Care. Happy New Year, good to have you here again on

Outside Source. What can he do in the remaining days to make sure he

can shore up this health care programme?

What he is trying to do is exploit the split and the Republicans. They

are split on what should replace Obama Care. Critically, there are

Republicans in areas where Trump voters are worried about losing

their coverage and lawmakers are responding to that pressure. This is

the president going to Capitol Hill. Remember, he's been talking to

Donald Trump a lot on the phone about this. We know he has suggested

a couple of things Trump could keep in Obama Care. So this is the

president trying to rally Democrats and saving what he sees as his key

achievement, 20 million people have signed up, people who didn't have

health insurance before, and the president desperately trying to keep

it. It feels like President Obama is

working furiously, taking out major policy decisions right up to the

end. I don't recall George W Bush or Bill Clinton doing that, or is my

memory playing tricks on me? It isn't uncommon. What is uncommon

here is the chasm that exists between Democrats and Republicans

over things like the environment. Donald Trump says he wants to roll

back all of those regulations President Obama has introduced. And

on affordable health care. We've also seen on that question of

Russia's interference with the US election. The president rushing to

slap new measures on Russia in his closing days.

You mentioned Russia, let's talk about them now. I will show

everybody watching some pictures we have got. This is a plane carrying

the 35 Russian diplomats President Obama has expelled. This is then

coming home, landing in Moscow. They have been kicked out because Barack

Obama believed Russia hacked the Republican party and leaked --

hacked the Democratic party and leaked those e-mails connected to

Hillary Clinton. Why has he done this so close to the end of his

term? It is because he has received a

unanimous assessment from the intelligence agencies saying that

they believe Russia was behind this hacking of the Democrats' e-mails.

He wants to do something now. Donald Trump has clearly that he wants a

warmer relationship with Russia. And he's also cast doubt on the idea

Russia was behind the hacking. The president feeling urgently he must

do something. But there has been a new tweet from Donald Trump. He has

said that I know things other people don't know about this alleged

hacking. He said he will reveal what he knows in the next couple of days.

Already his incoming spokesman to the White House has had to walk back

from that saying it won't be revelatory what Donald Trump will

come up with. But the key here is that Donald Trump resent any idea

that Russia intervened to help him win the election, because that casts

doubt on his victory. He is pushing hard against that one.

Just tell us about the transition of power. On the 20th, is very straight

moment where President Obama stops having the power and Donald Trump

receives it? It's the swearing in. It's the

moment Donald Trump is sworn in. That's the moment he moves from

being President elect to being POTUS president of the United States.

Already the transition is happening. The White House cannot process the

entire staff leaving on the same day. In the next two and a half

weeks Obama staff will be handing in their security. They will be signed

out. All of that. A big moment in Washington as we move from one

administration to a very, very different one indeed. These are

going to be exciting times. And as the vice president elect would say,

strapped in, it's going to be quite the right.

I'm sure it is. You will be helping us through it. Thanks very much.

Needless to say, whether you are watching in the UK, or anywhere else

in the world, you will have extensive coverage of Donald Trump's

inauguration on the 20th of January. Just one last word on the darts...

In the last few moments Michael van Gerwen has won the world darts

championship in what is being widely held as one of the greatest darts

matches we've ever seen. He beat Gary Anderson, the reigning

champion, so there will be delirium in parts of the Netherlands. There

is definitely delirium in north London where the event is taking

place. Quite an atmosphere. You can get much more on the darts on the

BBC sport app. I will be back tomorrow night at the same time.

Goodbye. Happy New Year. 2016 ended on a

relatively mild and cloudy note. 2017 has kicked off with a different

feel. It has been clearer and colder. We have had views like one

of -- like this one