21/02/2017 Outside Source

Taliban at hello. This is Outside Source. The White House says it is

empowering agents so they can remove any undocumented immigrants

convicted of even a minor offence. There have been many immigration

raids across US cities in recent days. The numbers facing deportation

are set to be much greater. The FBI is investigating a rise in

the number of anti-Semitic threats in the United States. President

Donald Trump address did today. The anti-Semitic threats targeting our

Jewish community and community centres are horrible.

Fracking has caused thousands of oil and gas builds across the last

decade according to new research. We will find out what the environmental

impact of that might be. An Israeli soldier who shot dead a

wounded Palestinian militant has been sentenced to 18 months in

prison. The case has divided the country.

We will bring you the latest. And with less than two months to go

until the French elections, one of the frontrunners has come to London

to court French voters. Welcome to the programme. The Trump

administration has issued tough new guidelines on immigration in two

memos. You can find them online. This is one, enforcement of the

immigration laws to serve the national interest. Let me bring you

a picture about the implementation of that plan. They are designed to

widen the net for deporting illegal in from the United States and speed

up their removal. Let's bring in the BBC's correspondent in Washington. I

suppose a lot of people will be wondering exactly how this is

different from what went before with the Obama administration? What the

Obama administration focused on was on detaining and deporting

individuals caught early on within two weeks of crossing the border and

within 100 miles of the order and expediting deportation of them.

Here, this says that anyone found anywhere within two years of

entering the US is eligible for expedited deportation. The Obama

administration also focused on workers convicted of serious crimes.

But this Donald Trump memorandum says it is not just people who have

committed crimes, but people charged with crimes, people who have

committed offences that they could be charged with, in addition to

people who have abused public benefits or anyone that immigration

officials deemed a threat to national or public safety. So it is

much more sweeping. They are going to deputise local police officers to

help them enforce immigration law. They are also talking about hiring

up to 10,000 new border agents. This is a much more broad enforcement of

immigration law everywhere in the US and not just along the borders. When

you talk about those numbers, surely you would have to get congressional

improvement for the funding for those thousands of new positions?

Right, and one of the things the memorandum has said is that the

Department of Homeland Security is going to be putting in budget

requests to get more funding. They have some flexibility over spending.

They have some authorisation to hire people to increase border

performance. -- enforcement. The Barack Obama administration decided

not to use that programme. The way the Obama people talked about it was

that they had to decide, because there are 11 million undocumented

people in the country, they have to focus on a certain subset. But

Donald Trump wants to focus on illegal immigrants everywhere and

they need the resources to do that. Anthony, stay with us, because there

are other issues to do with US President Donald Trump. Today he

just condemning threats against Jewish communities and community

centres in the United States. Let's listen to him speaking earlier.

This tour was a meaningful reminder of how we have to fight bigotry,

intolerance and hatred in all of its ugly forms. The anti-Semitic threats

targeting our Jewish community and community centres are horrible, and

painful, and a sad reminder of the work that still must be done to root

out hate and prejudice and evil. Mr Trump is echoing what his daughter

was tweeting. Schir Ivanka Trump has converted to Judaism.

They are both referring to the fact that since the beginning of the

year, there have been reports of threats to Jewish centres in 19

states. Just last week, there were 27 Jewish community centres that

reported receiving hoax bomb threats. On Monday, 11 more. No

bombs were found at any of the locations. Another example is in St

Louis in Missouri. They have opened an investigation into 170 headstones

that were damaged at a Jewish cemetery. Let's bring Anthony back

in to speak to us on these issues. Why do you think Trump has decided

to make the statements today? They have been getting a lot of pressure

in the last few days to come out more aggressively against these

threats to Jewish community centres. You have to view it in the context

of what happened last week, which was that Donald Trump was asked

twice during press conferences to condemn anti-Semitism. The first

time, he dodged and talked about his electoral college victory. The

second time, he got a lid on towards the reporter asking and told her to

be quiet -- he got belligerence. People within the Jewish community

look back and see the way Donald Trump conducted his campaign and

some of the supporters who were what nationalists and engaged in some

anti-Semitic rhetoric. They also looked at early in his

administration, when they sent out a press release talking about the

Holocaust and not mentioning Jews or anti-Semitism. They see it as a

pattern but they wanted the Trump administration to come out more

aggressively and to condemn anti-Semitism, although they do not

necessarily think he's doing enough even with that. Thanks for speaking

to us. Let's move on to a new study which

has revealed thousands of oil and gas builds at fracking projects

across America. Research has found more than 6500 incidents between

2005 and 2014. They looked at four states, Pennsylvania, New Mexico,

Colorado and North Dakota. 70% of the spillages were reported in North

Dakota. They had so many sites in that area but environmentalists say

spills can contaminate water sources and damage the environment. I spoke

with the BBC's environment correspondent for more on this.

There has been an oil boom, but the rules on spills in North Dakota are

different from other states. 16% of their wells are leaking every year.

Other states have to have much bigger spills before they have to

report it. Small spills in North Dakota have to be reported. But they

are not being reported in other states. So it may not be a true

measure of what is happening. Why those four states? Those four states

are prominent in fracking for oil and gas, but they also have the

better records. The difference between this and other studies is

that this looked at the long term. Others have just looked at the

fracking process, often just a couple of weeks when people put the

drill in the ground and start cracking the rocks. This looked over

the lifetime of the well and they found much more spills coming from

the liquid containers, not just the well itself. Will the report make a

difference? It will raise concern. It has been an area of great

difficulty for different states to understand what is going on.

Scientists are calling for a uniform way of measuring this across all

states. Let me turn to the head of the Environmental Protection Agency,

Scott Pruitt, a controversial nomination by US President Donald

Trump. He is speaking today. What is top of the agenda? As you say,

perhaps the most controversial appointment in the history of the

EPA. 800 former staff members wrote to the senator, saying, don't

appoint this guy. Top of his agenda is to reduce the role of the EPA.

When he was Attorney General of Oklahoma, he sued the EPA more than

a dozen times, so here's a poacher turned gamekeeper and he has been

setting out his thoughts today on what the EPA should look like. He

has been striking a conciliatory note and saying you have to listen.

But people are worried that really, there are big changes coming. What

do you think are some of the issue is particularly held by the Obama

administration that Mr Trump might want to roll back? There are two

issues clearly been reported on at the moment. One is called the waters

of the US role, which many Republicans see as an overreach of

the EPA, regulating areas they don't need to do. The other is the clean

power plant. This was the centrepiece of President Obama's

attempts to reduce carbon emissions from the US. It is likely that

President Trump and Scott Pruitt will want to overturn this. US

President Donald Trump is expected to sign an order which will lift a

ban on mining for coal. Throughout his campaign, he was clear that he

wanted to bring back coal-mining jobs to the United States, but is

that a pledge he can fulfil? The BBC's Michelle Fleury has gone to

West Virginia. This corner of West Virginia is coal

country, and after years of hardship, the people here are

breathing a sigh of relief. At this mining repair company, Donald

Trump's win has buoyed hopes of a coal revival. The day after the

election, it was like we had won the Super Bowl. The confidence we had in

the future was elevated. We had not seen that for quite a while. When

Obama came into office, he said there was a war on coal, and that is

our livelihood. And she is not alone. I met coal miner said over

coffee and cake. West Virginia has an opportunity now to stabilise and

hopefully grow in the coal industry. That optimism is tempered by realism

when to Trump's pledged to bring back coal jobs. I don't think he can

do everything he has promised. But he could cut back on regulators. He

can get industry going again. The sense of optimism here is palpable,

and I have also noticed an increase in activity since the last time I

visited the region. But whilst there is a new man in the White House, the

economic realities facing the industry have not changed. This

graph helps explain coal's decline. In the past few years, demand for US

coal has suffered because of an explosion in natural gas production

and growing competition from renewables such as wind and solar

energy. Scaling back environmental rules on the industry will not

change this massive. Not everyone is waiting for coal to come back,

though. Jamie Adams is a former miner turned computer code. Would

you think of going back to the coal industry? I probably wouldn't. The

uncertainty of worrying whether you will have a job the next day.

Couldn't do that again. Back at mining repair specialists, staff

numbers are back up to precrisis levels. We want to work. We don't

want hand-outs. People here don't necessarily believe Donald Trump can

save US coal. For them, it's about having someone in the White House

who will give the industry and the region a chance.

Still to come, we will bring you the latest on the French elections as

contenders pop up in London and Beirut to burnish their presidential

credentials. Merseyside Police are searching for

a convicted killer after he escaped custody while on a hospital visit in

Liverpool with the help of armed men. Stuart Flinders has more on

Shaun Colin Walmsley, who was serving a minimum of 30 years in

Walton prison. He was sentenced in June 2015 for

murder with a recommended tariff of 30 years for the murder of Anthony

Duffy, who died of multiple stab wounds. He was serving his sentence

in Liverpool. He was serving a sentence

in Liverpool when this afternoon, as you say, he was on a scheduled

hospital appointment at the entry university hospital,

and the appointment was over and he and two prison officers

were getting into a car to return to the prison when two

men confronted them. It is said that they were

armed with a gun and a knife and a threatened the prison

officers and demanded that Walmsley All three then disappeared

in a gold coloured We are told that neither prison

officer was hurt in this incident, but the three

men are now missing. This is Outside Source, live from

the BBC newsroom. Our top story: the White House says it is empowering

agents so they can remove any document of immigrants convicted of

even a minor offence. Let's take a look at what our language services

are covering today. The military in Ukraine has accused pro-Moscow

rebels of breaking a new ceasefire deal in the east of the country only

hours after they started the truce. They say they have seen the

residents of rebel forces pulling heavy weapons back from the line.

That is on BBC Ukraine. The BBC's other service reports that

Azerbaijan's president has appointed his wife to serve as first vice

president. Critics say this is an attempt to further tighten his grip

on power in the oil-rich republic. A British man who died while

carrying out a suicide bombing for so-called Islamic State group in

Iraq has been identified as a former Guantanamo Bay Dick Cheney. This is

a picture of Abu-Zakariya al-Britani released by Islamic State. The BBC

understands his original name was Ronald Fiddler. He was a 50-year-old

man from Manchester. Islamic State claims he detonated a car bomb at an

Iraqi base to the south of Mosul. We found out his name by going

through a recruitment document from 2014, when he crossed over the

Turkish border into Syria using the name he had changed too. His

original name was Ronald Fiddler. He then adopted an Islamic name and

later, he was given a kind of nickname, Abu-Zakariya al-Britani,

and that is the one that so-called IS death as. He spent two years in

Guantanamo Bay, a lot shorter than many people spend, but he was picked

up in Pakistan in 2001 and handed over to the Americans,

extraordinarily rendered from Kandahar to Guantanamo Bay. There,

he cooperated with US interrogators. He told them how the Taliban handle

prisoners and he was cleared for release. A British newspaper said he

was given ?1 million, about $1.5 million, of compensation by the

British government when he got out of Guantanamo and back into UK

society. But ten years later, he went off to join so-called Islamic

State, saying, I don't know much about Islam, but I want to be a

fighter. That is interesting, that he only said he had a basic

knowledge of Islam. His age also struck me. 50 years old. I am sure

that in a battle space, he was probably known as Grandad, because

that is old for a fighter. Most of the Western fighters who have gone

to join, you're right, they tend to have a skin deep, very shallow

knowledge of Islam. They just want to fight. He ate 50 would have been

30 years older than most of them. An Israeli soldier who killed a wounded

Palestinian attacker has been jailed for 18 months. This happened in

Hebron in the occupied West Bank last March. Two Palestinian man

attacked Israeli soldiers with knives.

This happened after one of the Palestinians, Abdel Fattah

al-Sharif, is still alive. Then the Israeli soldier, Elor Azaria, comes

up, circled in red. This is the moment before he shoots that wounded

man in the head. The case has divided opinion in Israel. Let me

bring you some of the people who were outside the court today. They

were protesting in support of Elor Azaria, the Israeli soldier. They

were demanding his release and condemning the trial. Donnie Dymond

spoke to me about it earlier. For a lot of Israelis, Elor Azaria

was a young construct caught in a hostile military situation without

clear orders from his commanding officers, who saw a friend of his

being injured by a Palestinian attacker and who snapped. The other

side of the argument from the Israeli defence force is that the

Army has a moral standing that needs to be upheld. But many Israelis felt

he should never have faced trial and should not have been found guilty of

manslaughter and that he should not be facing 18 months in prison. Those

were represented by the small but vocal group of protesters that I

spent much of the day with today in Tel Aviv. There are significant

disquiet amongst Israelis about the sentence. There is also enormous

hostility from Palestinians towards the sentence, because they see a

very different situation. They see this as an example of what they say

goes on the whole time, which is the Israeli military over reacting and

killing Palestinian citizens, some of whom are involved in attacks,

some of whom are potential attackers, but many of whom they say

are badly treated by the military and suffer from what they would call

trigger-happy attacks from Israeli soldiers. Do you feel there will be

run again this is -- ramifications from this incident? There are

definitely divisions in Israeli society. It was a vigorous and at

times bitter debate about what should happen to Elor Azaria and

whether or not the prosecution should go ahead. The Palestinians

were angry. There was a presumption that a good kick things off again

and that the Palestinians were so angry that it could turn into

something, but that has not really happened. Yes, there are

Palestinians who are upset, but I don't think it has changed anything

on the ground. The Palestinians are in the same position they were in

before. The Israelis are in the same position. The Israeli defence force

will be pleased that this case has concluded. The sentence is probably

lighter than many expected. There will be an appeal. I don't think it

is changing anything radically in the balance between Israel and the

Palestinians. To be honest, you have a dead attacker, Abdel Fattah

al-Sharif. You have got Elor Azaria, who is going to prison, and the

conflict between Israelis and Palestinians grinds on. The

accountancy firm PwC has released its annual gender equality

scorecard. Iceland, Sweden and Norway were the standout winners.

Let's look at the graphic to show who got it better. PwC says the gap

is closing and it could happen for the first time in Poland within a

decade. Time to meet a businessman turned reality television star with

his eyes set on politics. I am not speaking about the US president, I

am talking about Kevin O'Leary, who some have dubbed Canada's Donald

Trump. He has just announced his run to lead Canada's Conservative Party.

Kevin O'Leary is best known for his appearance on the American reality

television show shark tank. The successful Canadian businessman is

now trying his hand at something different - politics, running for

the leadership of Canada's Conservative Party. A businessman

turned reality star becoming a politician. Sound familiar? It

should. Kevin O'Leary is even being called Canada's Donald Trump. There

is a similarity. We have both gained notoriety on reality television,

remarkably through the same producer, Mark Burnett. That is

where it ends. I am a half Lebanese, half Irish immigrant. If there was a

wall around Canada, I wouldn't exist. His policies are not mine.

Your former colleague on Dragons' Den called you opportunistic and

said that this leadership bid has to do with you seeking fame and

attention. How do you respond to that? People are tired of

politicians spinning them BS. There are done. They would like to hire an

operator, someone with execution of excellence that puts in place great

people to perform and deliver results. You seem very aware of the

populist wave that is through different countries. Is that what is

carrying you as well? I don't think it is a short-term phenomenon. The

fact that we are seeing this around the world, for different reasons,

but the Canadians have a choice now. Do you want another politician, or

would you prefer Kevin O'Leary? Am not going to run this as usual.

Trudeau, I was very optimistic with, but now I realise along with many

other Canadians that he doesn't know what he's doing. The chance that I

am going to let him plunge my country into 1.5 trillion of debt is

zero. Not a chance in hell. I am going to win the leadership. I will

shine the light of transparency on him for the next two years, and then

in 2019, we are going to have an exorcism. I am going to unwind

everything he did. That is it for this half-hour of

Outside Source. We have some windy weather on the

way here in the UK over the next couple of days. Firstly, let's look

at the weather in Indonesia. Jakarta