17/01/2017 Outside Source

Hello, I'm Ros Atkins, this is Outside Source.

Seven months after the UK voted to leave Europe,

the Prime Minister has laid out her plans for Britain's

Not seek to adopt a model already enjoyed by other countries. We do

not seek to hold onto bits of membership as we leave. No. The

United Kingdom is leaving the European Union. We will look in

detail at what Theresa May said and have reaction from across politics

and Strasbourg and Brussels as well. Simon Jacks is in Davos where the

Chinese leader has made a heartfelt case for globalisation. Our Middle

East editor is in Aleppo and we will play you the latest report from

Jeremy Bowen on the destruction he has seen there. Vladimir Putin has

made his first comments on unverified allegations that Russia

has compromising information on Donald Trump.

The UK is going to leave the EU's single market.

And you can argue that had become politically inevitable.

Many people supported Brexit because of concerns about immigration.

Theresa May was never likely to ignore that.

And the EU's most senior figures have consistently said

no membership of the single market without freedom of movement.

They were never likely to compromise.

For all the talk of soft Brexit it was hard to see what that meant in

practical terms. None the less, this speech

is a moment a huge significance. Not just for its headline

announcement - but other policy details too -

and it tone. We do not seek to adopt a model

already enjoyed by other countries. We do not seek to hold onto bits of

membership as we leave. No. The United Kingdom is leaving the

European Union and my job is to get the right deal for Britain as we do.

I want to be clear. What I am proposing cannot mean membership of

the single market. While controlled immigration can bring great

benefits, filling skills shortages, delivering public services, making

British businesses the world beaters they often are, when the numbers get

too high, public support for the system falters. I can confirm today

that the government will put the final deal that is agreed between

the UK and the EU to a vote in both Houses of Parliament before it comes

into force. I know there are some voices calling for a punitive deal

that punishes Britain and discourages other countries from

taking the same path. That would be an act of calamitous self harm for

the countries of Europe and it would not be the act of a friend. Britain

would not, indeed we could not accept such an approach.

Let's get some reaction to the speech.

Nigel Farage, one of the most vocal campaigners for Brexit.

She has said leave the single market then at the same time says she wants

to have access to the single market, I'm not quite sure how that's going

to go down in Europe. I think we have to have a deal that ensures we

have access to the market, we have British jobs dependent on that

market, that's what we'll be pushing for. Whether it is specifically this

form of single market I don't know. She seems to be wanting to have her

cake and eat it. Leader of the Liberal Democrats -

who are pro-European: "This is a theft of democracy,

a presumption that the 51.9% of people who voted to leave meant

the most extreme version Next here's foreign secretary

Boris Johnson who supported Brexit. Why should they give us all of those

things she suggested? As the Prime Minister said, we believe very

strongly that this is in our mutual interest. We are not leaving Europe,

we are disentangling ourselves from the treaties of the EU. We can

remain powerfully committed to Europe with a new European

partnership of the kind she described, whilst also going forward

with an identity as global Britain. One person who did not answer

questions was John Claude, he refused to take questions on that

speech earlier. I spoke to the BBC correspondent Rob

Watson for his analysis. Cutting through all that normal talk of soft

Brexit, hard Brexit, if you really boil this down and you slip away

some of the rhetoric, the warm rhetoric towards Europe, some of the

more harsh rhetoric, it comes to this, Theresa May is essentially

saying what Britain wants is all the bits it likes about Europe, so

things like free trade, co-operation on Security and law enforcement, and

it doesn't want the things it doesn't like, such as being part of

a supranational political entity like the European Union and having

free movement of people. So of course the question it really

raises, the really obvious one is, what are the other EU 27 really

going to make of this? Are they going to meet Britain halfway, some

part along the way? And also, crucially, what on earth are the

banks and international businesses based in Britain that make it the

fifth richest country in the world, what are they going to make of this

departure from the single market? Can you explain whether customs

union fits into this? Now we know we are out of the single market,

suddenly there's a lot of attention on that? Yes, to put it as simply as

possible, if as those who are leading the league campaign say,

that Britain is going to have this new local future, trading all over

the world, striking new deals in Asia and elsewhere, then it would

need a new arrangement with the European Union because currently if

you are part of the EU customs union, all of those 28, current 28

countries, they all have the same tariffs with the rest of the world

and deals tween the EU members of the EU and other countries like

India, for example, or the United States, or Canada, that is

negotiated as an EU level. So what Theresa May is saying is that

Britain, and again, this is part of her overall rhetoric, is that

Britain would need something, guess what, uniquely British. Not in the

single market, not in the customs union, but maybe something that sort

of looks a bit like it. Some reaction from people inside the

European Union. Article 50 has to pitch triggered by

the UK before formal negotiations can begin.

Damian Grammaticas is in Strasbourg where the European Parliament

Here's more on the reaction inside the EU.

The view here looking at this speed is that the first of all this has

given a little bit more clarity, at not very much, from the EU side.

What they say is that they understand that this is primarily a

political speech that Theresa May has had to give to a UK audience to

try to rally people behind the British government's view, plan, if

you like, for Brexit. But here, interestingly, the reaction coming

from the parliament chief negotiator who would be involved in some of the

negotiations, he is said that Theresa May was selling an illusion

that the UK could somehow leave the single market, leave the customs

union and still be able to enjoy all the benefits. So, privileged access

to trade, ability for British companies to have access to the

single market barrier free. He said that would of course have to change

because you wouldn't get such a good deal outside. Another senior MEP

saying that Theresa May had oversold the benefits of what could be

achieved in trade deals with distant countries, and she was also

overselling the difficulties there would be in achieving a deal with

the EU of this sort. I wonder what comments of the Prime Minister when

she said we cannot have a punitive deal here is a disincentive to

others countries to leave, has that gone down well? In a short word, no.

Many people here that we've been speaking to have been saying they

felt that the British Prime Minister came across, one said to me as

arrogant, another said that this came across as quite hostile and

wasn't the way to approach negotiations with 27 other

countries. I think there was a general sort of agreement that this

was perhaps' before the negotiation. One senior MEP said we understand

she has to make these statements but we don't believe them, we don't

think they are credible. The view here among the EU 27 is that if the

UK were to walk away from negotiations and accept no deal it

would be the UK that would be left far worse off. Interestingly as a

sort of end points to that, all from what I understand, the man

conducting negotiations for the EU whenever they begin, he has said in

a private briefing here today to MEPs, he is not seeking to punish

the UK. This, primarily, is an idea that is circulating in the UK

amongst UK commentators and viewers of the process that the EU might

seek to punish the UK. The chief negotiator two days telling MEPs he

will not seeking to punish the UK but he will be very clear eyed and

pragmatic. One more piece of news out

of the European Union this evening. This man - Antonio Tajani -

has been elected head He's Italian and is part

of the centre-right Donald Tusk and Jean-Claude Juncker

belong to the same group, which means they have the three

biggest jobs in the EU. The European Parliament can

block or amend EU laws, and will have the final say

on whether to approve We'll have more on Theresa May's

speech in OS business shortly. Plus I'll show you this report

about a town in Ohio where Chinese investment seems

to be creating jobs. The inquests into the deaths of 30

British tourists at a Tunisian beach resort 18 months

ago continued today. The court heard from a senior

Foreign Office official, who defended advice given

to travellers at the time. Our correspondent Richard

Galpin has the latest. What we've heard today is that the

Foreign Office decided not to increase its travel advisory, ie

take it to the highest level, which would be advising British nationals

against all travel to Tunisia, despite their having been the

horrific attack in Tunisia in the capital in March 2015, in which 22

mostly foreign tourists were killed. This came just three months before

the attack which is the subject of this inquest. So there has been a

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Let's look at the reaction to the speech by Theresa May in the

business world. As you'd imagine, this was a major

topic of discussion at Our business editor Simon Jack

explained the reaction there. For months now businesses have been

crying out for some clarity to help them plan what happens in the future

and they got some today. No ifs, no buts, the UK is leaving the single

market, clear enough. Talking to leaders here this is an assumption

they'd come to all by themselves, they thought it was inevitable we

would have to leave the single market because it would be

incompatible with attempts to control migration from Europe into

the UK. They feel like the confirmation was helpful but didn't

really advanced their sum of knowledge. What really got ears

twitching was the tone in the UK Prime Minister took. She said

listen, don't mess with us, we are quite prepared to walk away if we

don't get the deal we like. We may even retaliate by lowering taxes. To

be clear, what walking away means, it means walking away from a trade

deal and going towards World Trade Organisation rules, international

rules, not preferential ones like the UK has for the EU at the moment.

Many businesses, like the car industry and the agriculture

industry, are worried the tariffs that would impose would be damaging

to trade. A lot of people say this is a negotiating position and

everybody hopes the nuclear option will not be triggered. Did we get

clarity? We got some. Does everybody think leaving the single market is a

good idea? Not everyone. Are we any closer to knowing what a final deal

will look like after negotiation with 27 partners? I'm afraid not.

The majority of big business is hoped that we would remain in the

European Union. That has not happened. So what is the big

business dream scenario intends of how this is organised? You are

right, a lot of big businesses said this was not ideal but some are

saying this is a political reality and it's time to roll up sleeves and

get on with it. I hope we can get a favourable deal, it is in mutual

interest to trade as freely as possible. In some industries we have

a big surplus with the EU, in some we have a big deficit, is there

likely to be a trade-off? Winners and losers between different

industries? Yes. But I think those businesses are taking a pragmatic

view saying, this is going to happen, we better get on with it.

I'd like to mention what happened to the pound today. What the Prime

Minister did is say, when we thrash out a deal we will give the UK

Parliament a vote on whether to accept the deal. Traders in the

pound thought that meant there is some last-ditch scenario in which

the UK does not leave the EU, because whenever there has been an

impediment thrown into the exit the pound has gone up. Other people

saying this is just another example of market very badly misreading the

political realities that are in front of them. Thank you Simon.

Staying at Davos, Something quite remarkable happened today.

Not only did the Chinese head of state attend but he made

Certainly this is a strange state of affairs.

Here's some of what President Xi Jinping said.

TRANSLATION: The Chinese tend to say honey melons hang from bitter vines.

Sweet dates grow on thistles and thorns. In a philosophical sense,

nothing is perfect in the world. It's true that economic

globalisation has created new problems. But this is no

justification to write of globalisation altogether. Rather we

should guide and adapt globalisation, cushion its negative

impact and deliver its benefits to all nations. China's leader sounding

very poetic. Let's talk to Samira

Hussain in New York. Have the roles really reversed

between US and China? Makes a good story but in reality is that what

has happened? Certainly not the kind of language that you would expect to

hear from the president of China, especially when compared to the kind

of rhetoric we heard on the campaign trail from the President-elect

Donald Trump. And unfortunately for those who believe in globalisation

and lots of free trade it was not just rhetoric, those are still the

same ideals that the President-elect has been talking about. And even

those that are shared by some of the people that are going to make up his

administration. Perhaps most pointedly is at Davos, one of the

incoming White House advisers to the president has even said that, look,

if China engages the United States with some sort of trade war,

ultimately it's going to be China that loses out and not the United

States, that the United States is in a much more powerful position. You

can remember that Donald Trump has said that he wants to get really

tough with China with regards to the currency manipulation and of course

to some of the unfair trade practices, and has threatened to

impose some pretty heavy tariffs against China. To be clear, Donald

Trump is not arguing against capitalism, he is arguing against

the current form it is taking on the international stage? What he is

arguing, really, is unfair trade deals. He says a lot of trade deals

have been negotiated that don't work in the favour of the American

people, so the big example is the North American Free Trade Agreement

which is a free trade agreement that was signed decades ago between

Canada, the United States and Mexico. After the United States

signed that agreement there was a big loss of manufacturing jobs here

in the United States. Part of what the President-elect has really

campaigned on was saying that he is going to bring back some of those

coal jobs and those manufacturing jobs. And what he wants to do is to

open up some of these free trade agreement by the North American Free

Trade Agreement and renegotiate for something that is better for the

United States. Thank you. We are very interested to see how this will

pan out in the next few months. Those comments are aimed in part

at Donald Trump who has talked extensively about the failures

of Globalisation and free trade. He's been scathing about how

they favour China over the US. Here's an interesting angle

on the economic relationship This is a report from

Laura Trevelyan who's been to a place called Moraine in Ohio

to find out about Chinese If Donald Trump's America now. Like

so many towns across the nation he won here with a pumice to bring back

jobs. Somewhat surprisingly the factory down the road is run by a

company with its headquarters in China. It has moved into a plant

General Motors closed down making windshields where cars once rolled

off the assembly line. On this Ojai factory floor Donald Trump's

anti-globalisation campaign rhetoric meets the reality. This Chinese

managed company is determined to become the biggest manufacturer of

car windshields in the world. Our goal obviously becoming number one.

And to be able to achieve our goal, obviously you have to combine all

the resources, manpower. So I believe we have to have two feet,

one in China, one in US. They are putting their money where their

mouth is, investing millions of dollars on the plant. More than 2000

jobs have been created locally. Scott used to work for General

Motors and he's still grappling with the cultural differences. Got to

find some common ground on what our goals are, our goals and our

standards. A lot of different things you don't necessarily see here that

you would in an established American company. The American dream has

taken a hit at the local tavern where there is nostalgia for the GM

days when business was brisk. Regulars say thanks to the company

things are picking up. My son is working there, building the catwalks

and stuff inside the price. Trump supporters around this bar and

across the nation hope the next president will bring business back

to their communities. They may be surprised that China has now created

manufacturing jobs, but a pay cheque is better than none. I'll be back

with you in a couple of minutes time. If you have any questions,

particularly about our lead story, you can see how e-mail on the

screen. Parts of the US planes were affected

by an ice storm earlier in the week