09/01/2017 Outside Source

Outside Source, these are some of the main story is here in the BBC

Newsroom Live. Donald Trump is planning to appoint his son-in-law

Jarrod Kushner as a senior adviser at the White House. In Turkey,

President Erdogan says he wants greatly expanded powers. Parliament

look set to agree. Opposition figures said Turkey's democracy is

under threat. TRANSLATION: Will it bring freedoms, strengthen

democracy, or will it bring in an authoritarian regime? Here's Meryl

Streep accepting a lifetime achievement award at the Golden

Globes. She was pretty rude about Donald Trump. Donald Trump return

the favour on Twitter. We will get into that and quickly look at the

Golden Globes as well. Fifa has named Ronaldo its Player of the

Year. We will be live at the BBC Sport Centre to discuss that and

also look ahead to a big announcement tomorrow about the

future of the World Cup. As I was just mentioning, President

Berdych man of Turkey once extensive new -- President Erdogan once

extensive new powers, the Turkish parliament looks to agree, if it

does the matter will go to a referendum. The president is saying

these powers will bring stability and develop into Turkey but not

everyone is convinced. TRANSLATION: Will these changes to the

constitution bring in price cuts? Will there be free water, will it

end terrorism, will it decrease taxes, will it strengthened pussy or

will it bring in an authoritarian regime? Do the people need this, you

ever ask them? There had been some small protests. These were pictures

from earlier outside parliament in Ankara. If you hundreds people and

they love the police as well. The crowd was eventually dispersed by

the police, which used water cannon among various other tactics. This

whole new push for new powers for the president needs to be seen in

the context of the failed coup of last summer. Since then in Turkey

there has been a state of emergency. More than 50,000 people have been

sacked or suspended from state jobs, media outlets have been shut,

journalists have been arrested. We have been covering this on Outside

Source and have also covered how Turkey has a penal code which states

that anybody who insults the president can face up to four years

in prison. So the president is already a seriously powerful figure,

but Mr Erdogan would like more powers. BBC Turkish now on exactly

what these new powers are. Right now, the party who is in power right

now is making an offer of changes to the constitution. So with these

changes if they will be approved in the parliament and then in the

referendum, they will be offering, the system will be changed from a

Parliamentary one to a presidential one, so the president will be on top

of the execution, so he or she will have more powers than the

parliament. For example right now in Turkey, Parliament has more powers

than the president. The president has been normally very symbolic role

in Turkish Republic, but with this constitutional change, he or she

will be having more powers, and also for example checks and balances, and

the separation of powers, will be in danger. And it looks like the

majority of parliament will agree with the president, but what about

public opinion? Do they like this shift in system? Pro-government

newspapers for example, they are saying it will be approved by the

public, but some companies are making some public calls, so we can

see that the margin is very small. Some public opinion are saying it

will be a no to the constitution in the public polls and some are saying

yes, but it will be very close, so the public opinion polls are showing

the margins are very small. Is there a direct connection between the

failed coup of last year and the suggestion of new powers now?

Actually yes, they are saying there will be more stability. So as the

president will be gaining more powers, the stability will be

constructive. Those kind of event will be less in the future of

Turkey. We have had stories from Turkey, from the US, and now one of

the main ones in the UK. Martin McGuinness is resigning as Northern

Ireland's to be the First Minister. This matters not only because it

shows the depth of Northern Ireland's political crisis but

because of the man himself. Martin McGuinness was crucial to the IRA

ending its armed campaign to Northern Ireland to join the

Republic of Ireland. This resignation is over the handling of

the controversial energy scheme. More of that in a minute. Mr

McGuinness gave a statement, he says an election is needed, that seems

likely by the way. This is more of what he said. We in Sinn Fein will

not tolerate the arrogance. Sinn Fein wants equality and respect for

everyone, and that's what this process must be about. So today I

have told Arlene Foster that I have tendered my resignation, effective

from 5pm today. So I believe today is the right time to call a halt to

the DUP's arrogance. The BBC's Stephen Walker in our Belfast

newsroom has been helping me describe the controversy at the

centre of this story. What is at the heart of this dispute is a story

that has been going on in Northern Ireland for a number of months. This

renewable heating scheme was set up, the idea was it would move one form

of energy to renewable forms of energy but the tariffs were set too

high. It ended up potentially costing the executive ?400 million,

so a big mistake was made. Then there was lots of criticism over the

way that that scheme was handled. Here in Northern Ireland we have

this power sharing executive, we have the DUP as the lead unionist

parties sharing power with Sinn Fein, so we have Arlene Foster as

First Minister and Martin McGuinness as Deputy First Minister. That is

the way the government has to work, and if you haven't got a First

Minister or a Deputy First Minister, then the power-sharing can't work,

and what we have seen today is Martin McGuinness standing down as

Deputy First Minister, because he wanted the First Minister to step

aside whilst an investigation took place. She refused to step aside, so

he has now decided to step aside himself, which effectively means the

end of power-sharing in Northern Ireland. And as such, Stephen, is

this sufficiently serious that it is a threat to the longer-term

political process in Northern Ireland? It certainly means that

power-sharing will end, unless there is a replacement for Martin

McGuinness. Under the legislation there has to be a replacement within

seven days, but Sinn Fein has made it clear there won't be a

replacement. Then it. The British government, the Secretary of State

then would have to call elections. He has said today he will look at

this in terms of a reasonable time period. People are potentially

guessing that there could be elections to the Northern Ireland

assembly potentially in March, so basically unless there is the

Romantic movement in the next few days, we are witnessing the end of

this current arrangement between the DUP and Sinn Fein, and then we would

see those fresh elections to a new assembly. Much more background on

the situation in Northern Ireland available from BBC news online

whenever you wanted. Time for Outside Source sport. Let's talk

about Cristiano Ronaldo, who has won Fifa's inaugural best Player of the

Year award. Will Perry is live with us from the BBC Sport Centre. No

great surprise here, I think the thing of more interest as this is a

brand-new award when we already have one that does much the same thing.

Yes, we should explain that, because for the past six years the world's

best player has received what was called the Fifa cosmic Ballon d'Or

award. A version of that prize has been awarded from France football's

magazine since 1956. Fifa end of the Association of that, instead --

ended their association with that. 2016, what a year for Cristiano

Ronaldo, as well as scoring that decisive penalty in the shoot out to

win the Champions League, he captained Portugal to Euro 2016

glory and was recognised with his fourth Ballon d'Or in December. In

has something Messi doesn't, which he will enjoy, the honour of being

named Best Fifa men's player. The former Manchester United forward had

been the favourite in the weeks building up to this. 44 games, 42

goals, 14 assists, the top scorer in the Champions League last coracle

moustache macro classes and, and he's still only 31. The best men's

coach today, Claudio Ranieri, the Leicester City manager. What a yet

it has been, recognised -- what a year it has been, taking Leicester

City to that and precedent it Premier League title last season. I

also want to talk about something else Fifa is up to. We reported

before about its plans to expand the World Cup. This is a reporter with

the Wall Street Journal. This is what Diego Maradona thinks

about the idea. TRANSLATION: I am delighted by Gianni's initiative,

because it gives chances to teams that otherwise would start the

qualifiers knowing they had no chance of getting to the World Cup.

It gives each country the dream, and it renews the passion for football.

As far as I'm concerned, it's a fantastic idea. Diego Maradona's

keen. There are quite a few other people who aren't so keen. It is

hugely controversial, this, but we have some fresh news from Richard

Conway out in Zurich for us tonight. Fifa's council are expected as we

understand to approve that expansion of the World Cup to 48 teams

tomorrow. They have considered five different options. This is the big

new idea of the Fifa president, Gianni Infantino, making his

statement as president. Europe's big clubs, which provide around 80% of

the players at the World Cup have objected to the reforms, believing

that there are already too many games being played throughout the

course of the season. But a confidential Fifa report that has

been seen by the BBC, it proposes that an enlarged competition could

be staged in 32 days, a finalist taking part in seven games, and that

is the same number as under that current format. That analysis also

contends that the quality of football, and this is something that

has been questioned, that the quality of football on display would

not be watered down with the 16 extra teams. Fifa would expect a 1

billion US dollar increase in revenue, the huge, and interestingly

it lists how Fifa are looking to make all games including qualifying

B1 by winning or losing, now draws, so penalty shoot outs. This is a

tweet from ESPN, telling us it is Clemson against Alabama, the

rematch, a year in the making, the national championship is up for the

grabs. I know this is American college football, it is a big deal.

When we asked Anthony circa about US politics, he said he had spent his

whole life gathering enough expertise to help us out on this.

Hello, let's leave Donald Trump to one side for a moment. For people

watching who know nothing about college football, tekkers from the

start of this game. All right, as you said, this is a rematch from

last year, where Alabama defeated Clemson in a high-scoring shoot out.

Both teams are a year wider and Clemson has a quarterback who is a

junior, a runner-up for the highest level Trophy in college athletics.

Alabama are still considered the favourite, they have won four

National Championships in the past eight years, but a lot of wags are

picking Clemson to pick an upset. This is only the third year that

there has been a play-off in college football, so you are talking about

the World Cup going to 48 teams. Well, three years ago there were no

teams, just two teams playing in a quasi national championship. Now it

is a four team two-game play-off, so I am going to be watching tonight,

I'm looking forward to it. Where does college football fit into

America's sporting pecking order? Everyone knows the National Football

League is the most popular, most watched sport in the US, but number

two isn't baseball or NBA basketball, it actually is college

football. Last year, the National championship game, 35mm Americans

watched the year before when Ohio state won their national

championship. -- 35mm Americans. It is very popular, the stadiums across

the country regularly draw upwards of 90,000, 100,000 fans. My of box

-- -- my hometown, they sell it out regularly in Texas. Across the south

it is a very big sport where professional sports are not quite as

prominent, at least in Austin, the University of Texas longhorns where

the game in town. It is the longhorns, I have been there once

and everyone is wearing the T-shirt. Enjoy the game, we have asked quite

enough view on this programme. Anthony live in Washington, DC. In a

feud minutes, actually we will be hearing from someone else based in

the newsroom, because Jon Sopel, the BBC's North America editor has made

two special reports on President Obama's legacy. I will play you the

first of those in a minute. Here in the UK, the girlfriend of a missing

RAF serviceman Corey McKeag says he is due to become a father. He

disappeared after a night out with friends in Bury St Edmunds. April

Oliver, his mother, had been speaking to the BBC. We started off

seeing each other, and it was quite casual. We were both seeing other

people at the time, and then we sort of lead on to have, stations whereby

we thought it was getting serious, and what we going to do, and what

plans we had. We know he disappeared at the end of September, how

recently had you seen him before then? I had seen him near enough the

same week that he had gone missing. Apart from the RAF boys, I think I

was one of the last people to see him. Which is quite hard. When he

went missing you happen to be away abroad with your family, so when did

you here had gone missing? I had only been there literally a few days

when I got a call from the RAF boys, asking if I had seen him or heard

from him, on the Monday, I think it was. And then that's when I knew

that he was obviously missing, and then I very quickly got a plane

home. And then how long after that did you then discover that you were

pregnant? I found out I was pregnant a couple of weeks after I came back,

obviously after going through police interviews. Unfortunately I have had

to make a massive decision by myself. I mean I was hoping and

praying that we would find out some information that he would come home

so we could make the decision together. We have had, stations

about children and what we wanted in the past, and it was something that

I hope that he would be here to help me make the decision, but

unfortunately he isn't. And this will be first grandchild? It will,

yeah. Should be a occasion for you. Can you feel any joy about it at the

moment? I was at the scan with April the other day, and I don't think

anybody could see that and not be affected by it. But it is incredibly

difficult to bounce my head, as it is for April as well, from the

excitement of a new baby, to what we're actually trying to focus on

just now, and that is Cory. Our lead story comes from

Washington, DC. The US president elect Donald Trump intends to

appoint his son-in-law Jared Cook Schmid as a senior adviser to the

White House. This is what you have got coming up after Outside Source.

If you're watching outside the UK, World News America next with a

report on Brazil's government's plan to build dozens of huge

hydroelectric dams in the Amazon. If you are watching here in the UK, the

news at ten with Huw Edwards, who will have more on Northern Ireland

was Mac deepening political crisis. Barrett Obama's presidency ends on

January 20. Our North America editor Jon Sobel has made two special

reports to look at his legacy. Tomorrow's will consider foreign

policy. Today's is about what the president has achieved at home.

It wasn't just the hope when Barack Obama came to office, it was the

wild expectation too. That the country's problems would be solved

at a stroke. That the first African-American president would

usher in a post-racial era. No more black America or white America, just

the United States of America. But the lingering vestiges of that dream

disappeared in the summer of 2014, in clouds of tear gas in a

nondescript suburb of St Louis Mazzarri called Ferguson. An unarmed

black man had been shot by a white police officer. It was a pattern

that would become all-too-familiar. In Charleston, South Carolina,

Walter Scott had been pulled over for a minor motoring offence.

Footage captures the white police officer who stopped shooting him in

the back several times before he dies. The policeman claimed self

defence. At his trial, which ended last month, the jury was unable to

reach a verdict. The court therefore must declare a mistrial. Another

symbol for the black community that things haven't changed. I think his

legacy to him is more important right now to paint a picture that he

did a real good job in America. But most black folks are very

disappointed, because they feel otherwise. The issue of race and

another of America must migrate intractable social problems, gun

violence, came together to horrific effect inside this famous

African-American church in Charleston. A white supremacist who,

with his string of drug convictions, should have never been able to

purchase a gun, walked inside a Bible study group and killed eight

worshippers and the pastor in cold blood. Barrett Obama had always

seemed reluctant to define himself as a black president, preoccupied by

racial issues, but after these shootings, that changed, as he came

to Charleston and showed how he felt the community's pain.

# Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me.

Obama's two terms in office perpetuated by the crack of

gunshots. I think there are some of a shooting in here. An endless

series of random mass killings that started with the slaying of 20

children and six of their teachers at Sandy Hook elementary school. The

President's famously cool demeanour was gone after this. Every time I

think about those kids, it gets me mad. And, by the way, it happens on

the streets of Chicago every day. I refuse to act as if this is the new

normal. This is not something I can do by myself. Such violence, such

evil, is senseless. Again and again, you wanted tougher legislation on

gun control. But he failed to his evident consternation when we sat

down and spoke. If you ask me where has been the one area where I feel

that I've been most frustrated and most stymied, it is the fact that

the United States of America is the one advanced nation on earth in

which we do not have sufficient common sense gun safety laws. That

there have been some legislative successes. Millions more Americans

now have health insurance than was previously the case, although

Obamacare has created many losers too, and the economy, which was flat

on its back eight years ago, is starting to bloom, and people are

spending their money again. We have not just come back stronger from the

great recession, we have actually built an economy that is the envy of

the world, and that is an important part of President Obama's legacy.

Happy New Year! But it proved to be a fruitless recovery when it

mattered, there will be no Democrat succeeding him in the White House,

so one of his final acts was to make a last journey to Capitol Hill to

urge his party's lawmakers to fight off Republican attempts to dismantle

Obamacare and the rest of his domestic legacy. Lookout for the

American people. Jon Sopel, BBC News, Washington.

We will finish Outside Source by talking about what Meryl Streep had

to say about President Obama's successor, Donald Trump. This was a

speech he gave at the Golden Globes. She didn't mention Donald Trump by

name but then she didn't really need to. Disrespect invites the suspect,

violence insides violence. When the powerful use their position to bully

others, we all lose. So Hollywood is crawling with outsiders and

foreigners, and if we kick them all out you will have nothing to watch

but football and mixed martial arts, which are not the arts. She might

not have mentioned him by name but Donald Trump knew who she was

talking about and was not going to let it pass of course. He took to

twitter saying that this. Queue a huge media storm and a

stand-off between a very well-known actress and the President-elect.

Some say this is all a distraction from far more important issues. We

spotted this from a law professor in Minnesota.

We have reported it, so we haven't ignored it, but we will leave it

there. Thank you very much indeed for watching. Remember our lead

story that Donald Trump intends to appoint his son-in-law, Jared

Kushner, as a senior adviser in the White House. That is it for the

first Outside Source of the week. See you tomorrow at the same time.

Hello, not a great start the week from any part of