:00:11. > :00:17.Welcome to Outside Source. It is the first day of the new Congress in
:00:18. > :00:21.Washington. The new Republican controlled lower house has performed
:00:22. > :00:26.a sharp U-turn on a high profile reform hours after Donald Trump
:00:27. > :00:30.Syria's fragile ceasefire is under Syria's fragile ceasefire is under
:00:31. > :00:33.further pressure. One of the cubicle groups is boycotting planned peace
:00:34. > :00:37.talks organised by Russia and Turkey because, it says, the Assad regime
:00:38. > :00:46.isn't sticking to the terms of the ceasefire. -- key rebel groups. An
:00:47. > :00:48.update on this video. In 2015 a group of Chelsea fans are
:00:49. > :00:52.abused a man as he tried to get onto abused a man as he tried to get onto
:00:53. > :00:58.the Paris Metro. Some of those fans have been convicted. More details on
:00:59. > :01:01.that. First, let's find out about two vast new energy projects in
:01:02. > :01:18.India, one of which is the biggest solar panel plant in the world.
:01:19. > :01:24.Let's pick up on one story, several Syrian rebel groups have withdrawn
:01:25. > :01:28.from planned peace talks that have been organised by Russia and Turkey
:01:29. > :01:34.for later this month. One of the most significant of them is the free
:01:35. > :01:38.Syrian army, the FSA is seen as the biggest and most important of the
:01:39. > :01:43.moderate rebel groups. It says today that the Syrian revolution armed
:01:44. > :01:50.groups signatories to the ceasefire agreement of a few days ago abided
:01:51. > :01:52.by the ceasefire, but however the regime and its allies
:01:53. > :01:59.their onslaught. I have been their onslaught. I have been
:02:00. > :02:04.speaking to the BBC's correspondent from BBC Arabic for an assessment of
:02:05. > :02:09.that statement. It is useful to look back at immediately after the
:02:10. > :02:16.victory of Assad and his allies in Aleppo on the 22nd of December.
:02:17. > :02:20.Immediately after that asset, backed by Russia, Iran, and other militias,
:02:21. > :02:26.they turned into two areas near Damascus. That development
:02:27. > :02:36.important. One of the areas supplies important. One of the areas supplies
:02:37. > :02:40.almost 60% of the water supply to Damascus. It relies on a route which
:02:41. > :02:48.has been used by the Hezbollah group to get supplies from Lebanon on. The
:02:49. > :02:53.Assad regime focused on this. On the 29th, and the 30th, there was a
:02:54. > :02:58.ceasefire agreement. There was a disagreement between the rebels and
:02:59. > :03:01.the Syrian government about whether this area is included in the
:03:02. > :03:06.ceasefire. Nobody has seen the text of the agreement. There is also a
:03:07. > :03:14.disagreement about whether the affiliate 's group is present in
:03:15. > :03:18.this. The fighting is going on. It looks like the Assad government is
:03:19. > :03:23.determined on getting it back. The rebels are saying if this carries on
:03:24. > :03:27.they may call the whole thing off and the ceasefire will collapse. So
:03:28. > :03:32.it is all hanging by a thread now. The talks won't have a great deal of
:03:33. > :03:37.value unless the FSA is there, is that fair? By one of the main
:03:38. > :03:41.groups. But another thing is, we don't know who will be at the talks
:03:42. > :03:44.come if they happen, we do not know which representatives and
:03:45. > :03:50.negotiations will be there. The Saudi backed committee going to be
:03:51. > :03:54.there? They say they haven't received an invitation. Some of the
:03:55. > :04:02.rebels want them to be there. What is certain is that the Allies are
:04:03. > :04:06.focusing on these areas for now. Just a question about the people in
:04:07. > :04:10.Aleppo who we saw evacuated a couple of weeks ago. Are they now safely
:04:11. > :04:16.into Idlib province, have they managed to create some sort of new
:04:17. > :04:23.life there? The people who were holed up in this eastern enclaves,
:04:24. > :04:25.Some of them went into Some of them went into
:04:26. > :04:31.government-controlled areas, some of them went into rebel controlled
:04:32. > :04:35.Idlib areas, some went into Turkish controlled areas, and some even
:04:36. > :04:43.crossed into Turkey. If you speak Arabic you can get coverage of the
:04:44. > :04:50.If not, those English speaking If not, those English speaking
:04:51. > :04:53.website for more information. website for more information.
:04:54. > :04:56.This time last year you will know that we carried a lot of reports
:04:57. > :05:00.about a huge number of women being sexually assaulted on New Year's Eve
:05:01. > :05:05.in Cologne. 12 months on we're now starting to cover a similar story
:05:06. > :05:10.that is emerging from Bangalore, India. Huge crowds gathered for New
:05:11. > :05:16.Year's Eve and many women reported being sexually assaulted by groups
:05:17. > :05:17.of men. This is one photographer describing what he saw. I should say
:05:18. > :05:27.that this clip has been voiced over. Like every year I went to cover the
:05:28. > :05:34.celebrations. This year the crowd was three times the size. Around
:05:35. > :05:39.11:45pm, people started shouting, women were calling for help. Some
:05:40. > :05:44.women were being harassed and their male friends had formed a around
:05:45. > :05:52.them because they get away. -- formed a cordon. The crowds cleared
:05:53. > :05:55.away later. Some women were on the verge of fainting. Others were
:05:56. > :06:00.running to police claiming they had been abused or groped. It was
:06:01. > :06:05.physical on their faces. Some were weeping uncontrollably. The state's
:06:06. > :06:09.home minister is taking an enlightened view on this. You might
:06:10. > :06:11.have thought that the groups of men doing the attacking were responsible
:06:12. > :06:14.but not according to this minister who said the young women were
:06:15. > :06:19.attacked because they were dressing and behaving like Westerners. As you
:06:20. > :06:24.might expect, that hasn't gone down well. We can speak to our BBC Hindi
:06:25. > :06:28.correspondent. It isn't the first time such a
:06:29. > :06:31.comment has been made by somebody that senior. Unfortunately it won't
:06:32. > :06:36.be the last time. There have been numerous incidents in the past,
:06:37. > :06:41.where those in authority has said casually that rape happens because
:06:42. > :06:47.copying Western culture, etc. copying Western culture, etc.
:06:48. > :06:51.Unfortunately it is still a part of our society that things like that...
:06:52. > :06:55.It happens many times. Even at home you will hear people say, you are
:06:56. > :07:00.being very Western. There is this growing amount of awareness, women
:07:01. > :07:04.who are standing up, and acknowledging that it isn't a
:07:05. > :07:11.woman's fault, she can dress however she wants. Even a big hit Bollywood
:07:12. > :07:15.film has been made recently on this exact issue of the mindset of men in
:07:16. > :07:21.things like that. Why it is all things like that. Why it is all
:07:22. > :07:24.right to stigmatise victims. Even in this incident the police say they
:07:25. > :07:28.haven't received any formal complaint yet for the same reason
:07:29. > :07:31.that it will be them who will be told of saying, you were wearing
:07:32. > :07:36.short clothes, it was your fault, why did you go where men were drunk
:07:37. > :07:42.and you knew there was a certain kind of people there. We are talking
:07:43. > :07:46.about Bangalore. Bangalore is the IT hub of India. Youngsters from all
:07:47. > :07:51.over the country go to Bangalore for work. A lot of big multinational
:07:52. > :07:56.companies, big computer giants are present there. It is the place for
:07:57. > :07:59.youngsters to be. If such an incident is happening there, then,
:08:00. > :08:03.you know, it's quite embarrassing. It is ridiculous that in this day
:08:04. > :08:07.and age, in a modern city like Bangalore, which is full of
:08:08. > :08:11.youngsters, and young professionals representing India's Next
:08:12. > :08:13.Generation, that women cannot go out without being touched
:08:14. > :08:18.inappropriately. That is what angers people, that one, it happens, and
:08:19. > :08:23.second, people are justifying it by blaming the women themselves. We
:08:24. > :08:27.have heard stories from India, Syria, the UK and US, next we are to
:08:28. > :08:31.Hong Kong. Its former leader has pleaded not guilty to corruption
:08:32. > :08:37.charges. He is the territory's highest ranking official to get
:08:38. > :08:43.these kinds of charges. He is charged with two counts of
:08:44. > :08:47.misconduct and one of bribery. It is Hong Kong's most high-profile
:08:48. > :08:52.corruption case ever. He was the chief executive from 2005 to 2012.
:08:53. > :08:56.He was very popular when he started. He served as a civil servant in Hong
:08:57. > :09:01.Kong both before and after the handover. He was Hong Kong's first
:09:02. > :09:04.ethnic Chinese financial secretary. And the British government awarded
:09:05. > :09:08.him a knighthood for his services to Hong Kong. Now his reputation has
:09:09. > :09:11.been badly damaged by these allegations. He has been charged
:09:12. > :09:12.with two counts of misconduct in public office and one
:09:13. > :09:19.bribery. Prosecutors allege he bribery. Prosecutors allege he
:09:20. > :09:24.rented a luxury flat from a tycoon who owned shares in a media company.
:09:25. > :09:28.They say that he was in rental negotiations with the tycoon when
:09:29. > :09:32.his government approved licence applications from the media company
:09:33. > :09:35.and that he didn't declare the conflict of interest. They also
:09:36. > :09:38.alleged he nominated an architect who have designed the interior of
:09:39. > :09:44.his flat for an award again without declaring it. Finally, they accuse
:09:45. > :09:47.him of accepting advantages from the company in the form of renovations
:09:48. > :09:51.in return for making decisions about the licence applications. He has
:09:52. > :09:58.denied all of the charges and he says he is confident he will be
:09:59. > :10:01.exonerated in court. Hong Kong has a reputation for clean government. It
:10:02. > :10:05.has a serious corruption problem in the 1960s and 70s but it cracked
:10:06. > :10:10.down seriously on it after that. A lot of people of Hong Kong are proud
:10:11. > :10:14.of the city's reputation for being transparent but this latest case has
:10:15. > :10:17.thrown up questions about the relationship between tycoons and
:10:18. > :10:21.government officials. One sport story tonight. You might remember
:10:22. > :10:29.this image of Chelsea football fans this image of Chelsea football fans
:10:30. > :10:36.in Paris back in February 20 15. -- 2015. This was filmed at a Metro
:10:37. > :10:42.station before a game between Chelsea and Paris Saint Germain. You
:10:43. > :10:46.can see repeatedly being pushed out of the carriage. The Chelsea fans
:10:47. > :10:50.who are doing that are charting "We are racist, we are racist, and
:10:51. > :10:55.that's the way we like it" well, four of those men have been given
:10:56. > :10:59.suspended prison sentences and they were ordered to pay more than
:11:00. > :11:05.$12,000 in compensation to the victim. Here is his lawyer.
:11:06. > :11:09.TRANSLATION: We are very happy. Justice has been served. It is good
:11:10. > :11:14.we are finally recognising in this country today that racist chance can
:11:15. > :11:19.In a few minutes we will return to a In a few minutes we will return to a
:11:20. > :11:22.story from Saudi Arabia about a group of workers who were late in
:11:23. > :11:28.receiving their payments. They work in the construction industry. They
:11:29. > :11:32.protested about it in violent ways. Today they have been sentenced. Some
:11:33. > :11:39.have jail terms, some have been sentenced to lashing is -- lashings.
:11:40. > :11:43.A couple in their 50s who narrowly A couple in their 50s who narrowly
:11:44. > :11:44.escaped death after a night in the Cairngorm Mountains have been
:11:45. > :11:48.speaking of their ordeal. The couple speaking of their ordeal. The couple
:11:49. > :11:53.from Leicestershire were caught out after miscalculating the length of
:11:54. > :11:56.their walk. They said the snow came up to their waste at times and they
:11:57. > :12:01.had a shelter from blizzard conditions using a light survival
:12:02. > :12:04.bag. Our correspondent has the full story.
:12:05. > :12:06.The brutal conditions of a Scottish winter -
:12:07. > :12:08.out on the hills, 50 mile an hour winds, freezing
:12:09. > :12:20.Experienced walkers, Bob and Cathy Elmer,
:12:21. > :12:22.had become disorientated in the appalling weather
:12:23. > :12:25.and had realised their only option was to hunker down
:12:26. > :12:32.This the moment Mountain Rescue teams found them and then
:12:33. > :12:35.The snow was at times up to our waist.
:12:36. > :12:38.We eventually got out onto the plateau with the intention
:12:39. > :12:41.of trying to find the summit of Cairngorm, then my head lamp gave
:12:42. > :12:44.up, so we decided that we couldn't go on any further because we didn't
:12:45. > :12:54.You couldn't see a hand in front of your face,
:12:55. > :12:57.so we decided to get the survival bags out and get down
:12:58. > :13:00.It was a move rescuers believed saved their lives
:13:01. > :13:03.and that of their dog, Meg, who had her own
:13:04. > :13:07.Conditions were Arctic and in the area they were, you know,
:13:08. > :13:10.no matter which way they walked there was steep ground
:13:11. > :13:13.there and in the dark, with one head torch and disorientated,
:13:14. > :13:16.it would have been so easy to take a very, very serious tumble.
:13:17. > :13:18.This is one of Scotland's highest mountains and conditions further up
:13:19. > :13:21.towards the summit can close in quickly, catching out even
:13:22. > :13:33.The couple's close call underlines just how dangerous
:13:34. > :13:38.It's like they say, if we hadn't had the right equipment,
:13:39. > :13:42.It is a grim place up there in the winter time, especially
:13:43. > :13:45.You know, you can - if you're not prepared for it -
:13:46. > :13:48.you can seriously run into some serious situations.
:13:49. > :13:52.Willie's a very careful driver, he'll look after you.
:13:53. > :13:54.The Elmers say they will return to the mountains,
:13:55. > :13:57.although they added not to this one, where their New Year's Day walk
:13:58. > :14:16.Lorna Gordon, BBC News, Cairngorm mountain.
:14:17. > :14:26.Welcome back to Outside Source. It is day one of the new Congress in
:14:27. > :14:29.the US. There has already been a big U-turn from the Republican help
:14:30. > :14:33.lower house on the issue of congressional ethics. The U-turn
:14:34. > :14:39.came hours after Donald Trump had tweeted he was not keen on the
:14:40. > :14:43.reforms. Coming up after: If you're watching from outside the UK, there
:14:44. > :14:46.is a report from Yemen where there has been more fighting between
:14:47. > :14:51.pro-government forces and rebels. Here in the UK, the News at ten,
:14:52. > :14:52.leading on the resignation of Sir Ivan Rogers, Britain's most senior
:14:53. > :15:01.diplomat at the EU. We have got reports from Saudi
:15:02. > :15:06.Arabia that say a number of foreign workers have been given punishments
:15:07. > :15:11.for protests, some of which were violent, when their wages went on
:15:12. > :15:15.page. That happened last year. The development comes this week. Saudi
:15:16. > :15:20.newspapers telling us there has been a court case in Mecca and around 50
:15:21. > :15:23.workers have been sentenced by a court there. They have either
:15:24. > :15:30.received a short jail terms and in some cases 300 lashes. This is our
:15:31. > :15:37.correspondent talking about the case. These workers worked for one
:15:38. > :15:42.of the biggest companies in Saudi Arabia, a massive construction
:15:43. > :15:47.giant. It has particular problems last year. The Saudi economy faced
:15:48. > :15:51.the biggest challenges that I can remember in the last couple of years
:15:52. > :15:55.thanks to oil prices collapsing. As a part of that, a lot of contracts
:15:56. > :16:01.on construction were suspended or stopped. Also, the company got in
:16:02. > :16:05.trouble with the Saudi government over certain things. So they stopped
:16:06. > :16:10.paying the company for those contracts. The company did not pay
:16:11. > :16:15.its workers and laid off more than 50,000. That led to the protests.
:16:16. > :16:22.Are these punishments in line with previous punishments? Protests are
:16:23. > :16:27.very rare in Saudi of this kind. Some of the pictures that came out
:16:28. > :16:32.of those protests back in May out of Mecca were unprecedented in Saudi
:16:33. > :16:35.Arabia. There were buses belonging to the company that were set alight.
:16:36. > :16:40.That isn't something that you see often in Saudi Arabia. These are the
:16:41. > :16:46.people who have been accused, basically, or writing. In a sense, a
:16:47. > :16:53.four month prison sentence is not a lot in Saudi Arabia. But 300 lashes
:16:54. > :16:58.is a terrible punishment and it can exact to a huge physical toil. But
:16:59. > :16:59.in one sense these are not the most extreme punishments you might
:17:00. > :17:06.expect. We talk to Rebecca Morrell all the
:17:07. > :17:10.time on Outside Source on science stories. She has made a report on
:17:11. > :17:16.one of the big science stories for the New Year and here it is.
:17:17. > :17:24.Here is what to look out for in 2017. China will once again be
:17:25. > :17:27.heading for the moon. After the success of their robotic lander in
:17:28. > :17:32.2013 they have decided it is time to go back. This time their rover will
:17:33. > :17:36.grab moon rock and bring it back to Earth. This sample return mission
:17:37. > :17:40.could help China to lead the way in lunar mining.
:17:41. > :17:46.In the US, the sun will put on a spectacular display. From the west
:17:47. > :17:50.Coast to the east in August a total solar eclipse will be visible,
:17:51. > :17:54.moving across the whole of the US. It'll be visible to an estimated 12
:17:55. > :17:59.million people. Fingers crossed for clear skies. We are going to cancel
:18:00. > :18:05.billions of payments to the UN climate change programmes. In 2017,
:18:06. > :18:09.all eyes will be on Donald Trump and global warming. He wants tweeted
:18:10. > :18:13.that climate change was a hoax. During the election he said he would
:18:14. > :18:19.pull out of the Paris climate deal. Nobody yet knows what he will do. He
:18:20. > :18:22.has recently met with Al Gore. He has also just appointed key cabinet
:18:23. > :18:30.members who have expressed sceptical views about climate change. And
:18:31. > :18:35.could we see the land speed record broken? After funding setbacks, the
:18:36. > :18:38.supersonic car will finally be put to the test. The team will be
:18:39. > :18:45.heading to South Africa where they are hoping to reach speeds of 1600
:18:46. > :18:51.kilometres per hour. And it is time for a last look at Saturn as the
:18:52. > :18:54.Cassini mission comes to an end. Nasa's spacecraft has transformed
:18:55. > :18:58.our understanding of this giant world. And for its grand finale
:18:59. > :19:02.it'll fly closer to Saturn than ever before, swooping in between its
:19:03. > :19:06.rings before diving into the thick atmosphere to bring the mission to a
:19:07. > :19:13.close. Here are a couple of stories I am
:19:14. > :19:25.sure Rebecca is following closely. There are many clean energy projects
:19:26. > :19:30.that have opened in India. This is the world's biggest solar plant. It
:19:31. > :19:35.is ten square kilometres. This picture only gives you a slight feel
:19:36. > :19:39.of how big it is. It is already designed to power 150,000 homes
:19:40. > :19:46.close to the site. The second project is about 100 kilometres
:19:47. > :19:51.away. It is an industrial plant which specialises in removing carbon
:19:52. > :19:55.dioxide from a coal powered boiler. They are using the carbon dioxide to
:19:56. > :20:01.make baking powder. It is a holy make baking powder. It is a holy
:20:02. > :20:04.Grail, this. We are pumping all of this carbon dioxide into the
:20:05. > :20:11.atmosphere. It is warming the atmosphere, causing climate change.
:20:12. > :20:16.What if you could find a good purpose for it? That is what they've
:20:17. > :20:21.dioxide, you rained on chemicals dioxide, you rained on chemicals
:20:22. > :20:24.which will absorb carbon dioxide. Two young Indian entrepreneurs could
:20:25. > :20:29.not get funding in India, they are funded in the UK and the US, what
:20:30. > :20:33.they have done is they have devised a new chemical which has brought
:20:34. > :20:37.down the cost of doing this. They are using it in conjunction with a
:20:38. > :20:44.chemical making plant, so what they are doing is, a steam boiler, a
:20:45. > :20:47.coal-fired boiler, that produces steam, that is taken through to the
:20:48. > :20:52.chemical plant to help make the chemicals. And the chimney which
:20:53. > :20:55.gives off the carbon dioxide, the carbon dioxide is stripped out of
:20:56. > :20:59.the chimney and then fed into the chemical plant. They will make
:21:00. > :21:03.baking soda out of it. This particular plant cost ?3 million. It
:21:04. > :21:06.is completely without subsidy. That surprised me because so far
:21:07. > :21:09.governments have been forced to governments have been forced to
:21:10. > :21:11.capture the carbon dioxide. It just capture the carbon dioxide. It just
:21:12. > :21:17.isn't realistic. They appear to have found a way to do it commercially. I
:21:18. > :21:20.asked the factory owner. I said you seem to be a reluctant
:21:21. > :21:25.environmentalist. They said it was accidental. He said it made good
:21:26. > :21:30.business sense and it is cutting emissions almost to zero. We will
:21:31. > :21:35.see how that performs in a few months' time. A story that keeps
:21:36. > :21:40.coming, record sales in the UK are at their highest levels for 25
:21:41. > :21:44.years. I mean vinyl records. The strange twist to this story is that
:21:45. > :21:53.a lot of these records being bought are not being played.
:21:54. > :21:55.MUSIC: Whole Lotta Love by Led Zeppelin.
:21:56. > :22:09.For Phil Barton of Sister Ray Records, there is no debate,
:22:10. > :22:12.music just sounds better when it comes on a 12 inch disk.
:22:13. > :22:16.However, things have begun to change.
:22:17. > :22:18.Listen, ten years ago, I would have given you the keys
:22:19. > :22:21.the shop and said, look, I can't make any money out of this.
:22:22. > :22:23.I didn't realise this stuff was still going
:22:24. > :22:26.David Bowie was the biggest seller last year.
:22:27. > :22:29.Prince was also in the top ten, along with Amy Winehouse,
:22:30. > :22:39.A recent survey has found that nearly
:22:40. > :22:42.Of course it is worth putting this into
:22:43. > :22:45.context, imagine that each of these records represents 1 million sales,
:22:46. > :22:48.if you add in streaming, digital download, CDs, about 123 million
:22:49. > :22:57.The number of vinyl album sold last year...
:22:58. > :23:01.But both are dwarfed by the real music titan,
:23:02. > :23:09.Streaming is a totally different beast, 45 billion streams,
:23:10. > :23:12.at the other end of the spectrum, not really recorded music in the
:23:13. > :23:19.It is felt that streaming can help younger
:23:20. > :23:36.listeners to eventually try the hard stuff...!
:23:37. > :23:38.What a lot of people at university by vinyl.
:23:39. > :23:43.For some, this was an entirely new experience.
:23:44. > :23:49.And it goes on the thing that goes round.
:23:50. > :23:56.You really have never touched or handled this ever before?
:23:57. > :23:59.Even Drake, the world's most streamed artist has
:24:00. > :24:02.issued his back catalogue on vinyl, after discovering they were being
:24:03. > :24:08.But for most fans of Justin Bieber and other kings of
:24:09. > :24:18.streaming, this way of listening is finished.
:24:19. > :24:34.We're into the last moments of Outside Source. Take's parliament on
:24:35. > :24:38.Tuesday has backed the motion to extend a state of emergency by three
:24:39. > :24:41.months. It has been in place since the back-end of July when there was
:24:42. > :24:47.that failed coup attempt against President Erdogan. The state of
:24:48. > :24:50.emergency has been a place since then and will continue for at least
:24:51. > :24:51.another three months in Turkey. Thank you for watching, I will see
:24:52. > :25:14.you tomorrow. It is early days but so far January
:25:15. > :25:15.weather hasn't been troubling. We have seen Winter features.