:00:08. > :00:10.Hello, I'm Nuala McGovern, this is Outside Source.
:00:11. > :00:14.Nasa has made an announcement of a new discovery.
:00:15. > :00:18.The space agency says it has found seven Earth-sized exo-planets.
:00:19. > :00:22.They're located about 39 light years away from the sun.
:00:23. > :00:24.We're hearing multiple reports that the White House will revoke
:00:25. > :00:26.some Obama era rules on transgender rights.
:00:27. > :00:31.Malaysian police have named a North Korean diplomat as a suspect
:00:32. > :00:33.in the murder of Kim Jong-nam, the half-brother of
:00:34. > :00:39.And a new study shows that average life expectancy in South Korea
:00:40. > :01:04.Nasa has announced the discovery of seven Earth-sized planets
:01:05. > :01:09.They're called exoplanets - that's any planet that circles
:01:10. > :01:16.They're circling an "ultracool" dwarf star called Trappist One,
:01:17. > :01:22.located about 39 light years away from the sun.
:01:23. > :01:25.Astronomers detected three others in the system last year
:01:26. > :01:29.using Nasa's Spitzer Space Telescope.
:01:30. > :01:33.The planets are thought to be capable of having oceans,
:01:34. > :01:39.The full report has just gone live on the website of international
:01:40. > :01:44.BBC science editor David Shukman explains why this
:01:45. > :02:00.What this latest report does is look at a particular star about 40 or so
:02:01. > :02:05.light years away, it is quite faint, much smaller than our sun, so it is
:02:06. > :02:08.quite easy for astronomers to look at, they have watched it very, very
:02:09. > :02:14.carefully over a number of years and seen a slight dimming in its light
:02:15. > :02:19.on a regular basis. That tells me something is coming in front,
:02:20. > :02:23.planets. They have identified seven worlds orbiting this distant star,
:02:24. > :02:28.it is quite mind-boggling when you also think that these worlds are
:02:29. > :02:34.orbiting this start at just the right distance for liquid water to
:02:35. > :02:38.exist up the servers, not too hot or cold, the Goldilocks zone, as Nasa
:02:39. > :02:43.calls it, the holy Grail for space research. Can you find a place with
:02:44. > :02:51.liquid water? Both the question always seems to be can life exist on
:02:52. > :02:57.any other planets? Optimistic? I spoke to one of the scientists
:02:58. > :03:00.involved. We are a long way from Little Green men, we have to
:03:01. > :03:03.discount that and it is easy to get caught up in height, but the
:03:04. > :03:06.scientist I spoke to was very confident that because they have
:03:07. > :03:11.found the seven worlds and can look at them in some detail, because a
:03:12. > :03:15.big, new telescopes are coming into service in the next few years which
:03:16. > :03:19.will give a really detailed look at some of these alien worlds, we might
:03:20. > :03:25.be able to look at the Abbas beers around these planets and pick up
:03:26. > :03:29.some of the chemicals in the air -- we might be able to look at some of
:03:30. > :03:34.the atmospheres. If there is oxygen and methane, could there be life?
:03:35. > :03:38.You will not get pictures of aliens but you might get clues suggesting
:03:39. > :03:42.something is there. Nasa has given the number of press
:03:43. > :03:46.conferences, we are living in a particular age where the technology
:03:47. > :03:53.is beginning to reveal things we had not thought possible 30 years ago?
:03:54. > :03:57.Exactly like. If you go back 400 years, Galileo looked through a
:03:58. > :04:01.telescope and suddenly saw mountains on the moon, nobody knew they were
:04:02. > :04:05.there, he saw Moon is going around Jupiter, that was completely new.
:04:06. > :04:10.The more systems you have for exploration, whether it is
:04:11. > :04:15.telescopes going very big, microscopes going smaller, the Large
:04:16. > :04:18.Hadron Collider in Geneva looking at tiny subatomic particles, the more
:04:19. > :04:22.chance you have about discovering. That is why there is huge excitement
:04:23. > :04:28.about what has been discovered today, particularly combined with
:04:29. > :04:33.the new telescopes coming on screen, the James Webb telescope next year
:04:34. > :04:37.is very powerful. It will unveil things that people cannot imagine
:04:38. > :04:40.now. If they focus it on these new seven worlds, who knows what they
:04:41. > :04:44.will find? Thanks to David for that.
:04:45. > :04:46.Well, in the last few hours we saw this come through -
:04:47. > :04:49.White House says Education and Justice Department is reviewing
:04:50. > :04:55.Multiple sources had been reporting that President Trump will revoke
:04:56. > :04:58.the landmark guidelines instructing public schools to allow
:04:59. > :04:59.transgender students to use the bathrooms
:05:00. > :05:05.The guidelines he's referring to can be found online -
:05:06. > :05:15.This came from the US Department of Justice, US Department for
:05:16. > :05:16.Education. They said that "When a school
:05:17. > :05:17.provides sex-segregated activities and facilities,
:05:18. > :05:19.transgender students must be allowed to participate in such activities
:05:20. > :05:22.and access such facilities consistent with their gender
:05:23. > :05:23.identity," and specifically At the time, the US Attorney General
:05:24. > :05:33.said schools which didn't comply could face lawsuits or lose federal
:05:34. > :05:49.aid. Anthony Zurcher has been watching
:05:50. > :05:54.this, among other issues. How much of a political issue is this for the
:05:55. > :05:59.American public? A pretty big political issue for a very small
:06:00. > :06:01.segment of the American public, typically evangelical voters,
:06:02. > :06:06.Christian conservatives who view this as a social issue, and
:06:07. > :06:14.important social issue to resolve. When Barack Obama instituted this
:06:15. > :06:19.interpretation, he was interpreting and almost 40-year-old federal
:06:20. > :06:23.statute that said you could not discrimination, sex discrimination,
:06:24. > :06:28.in public education. He interpreted that as applying it to transgender
:06:29. > :06:35.students in schools. What Republican opponents have tended to say is that
:06:36. > :06:40.that is an old law written well before any kind of transgender
:06:41. > :06:43.movements came about. They think they are returning its back to the
:06:44. > :06:47.way it should be and of Congress wants to deal with it they should
:06:48. > :06:50.pass a law specifically about it and not have the president take
:06:51. > :06:56.unilateral actions. I just showed a letter, small print,
:06:57. > :06:59.you could see Department of Justice Department for Education, they will
:07:00. > :07:04.have to come together and agree, I imagine, to get anything changed?
:07:05. > :07:15.Yes, and I don't think there is any chance that Congress will go out of
:07:16. > :07:18.its way to pass any sort of law like this. In North Carolina did the
:07:19. > :07:20.state legislators passed a law preventing transgender access to
:07:21. > :07:21.bathrooms of their choice and it became a very hot button
:07:22. > :07:25.controversial issue, the governor who supported it got voted out of
:07:26. > :07:29.office by a very narrow margin, I don't think he will see national
:07:30. > :07:33.politicians want to touch it. Some people wonder why the Trump
:07:34. > :07:36.administration has decided to take action on this now. Press secretary
:07:37. > :07:42.Sean Spicer was asked about it today and said it was because the policy
:07:43. > :07:47.has been challenged in court and held by a judge in a federal court
:07:48. > :07:51.and they need to take a position on it and resolve it, others say that
:07:52. > :07:55.is not necessarily the case. Just one of the issues and Vinnie has
:07:56. > :08:02.been looking at for us, thank you very much. -- just one of the issues
:08:03. > :08:08.that Anthony has been looking at for us.
:08:09. > :08:13.A bit later we will talk about Mexico and Sean Spicer, Anthony
:08:14. > :08:16.Zurcher was talking about, he has particularly been speaking about
:08:17. > :08:20.Secretary of State Rex Tillerson making his way to Mexico, so later
:08:21. > :08:25.we will take a few minutes at the State Department to talk about that.
:08:26. > :08:27.Before we do that, let's talk about Iraq.
:08:28. > :08:30.It's the fourth day of the big push to drive, so-called Islamic State
:08:31. > :08:36.Right now the operation is focused on Mosul's International Airport.
:08:37. > :08:37.Our Middle East correspondent Quentin Sommerville
:08:38. > :08:47.is on the front-line and sent us this report.
:08:48. > :08:55.This is as far forward as the federal police have advanced. Over
:08:56. > :09:03.there as their next target. Beyond that open ground and factory is
:09:04. > :09:06.Mosul's airport. IS have done a lot of damage, smashed up the runways
:09:07. > :09:10.and the terminal buildings and you might be able to hear occasionally
:09:11. > :09:14.there is artillery going on from these guys, the federal police and
:09:15. > :09:23.other forces. All-night long we heard the most incredible booms from
:09:24. > :09:27.coalition air strikes, all clearing this area so an advance can be made.
:09:28. > :09:32.The airport is important for a number of reasons, it is symbolic,
:09:33. > :09:37.but look at that land, a huge parcel of land giving much more control to
:09:38. > :09:40.Iraqi government forces. Also it will help cut off the southern route
:09:41. > :09:44.to western Mosul. Here in the UK a political row has
:09:45. > :09:47.erupted over the compensation paid to the British fighter
:09:48. > :09:50.with so-called Islamic State. Ronald Fiddler was formerly
:09:51. > :09:52.a detainee at Guantanamo Bay and is reported to have died
:09:53. > :09:55.in a suicide bombing Former Prime Minister Tony Blair
:09:56. > :09:59.has defended himself, saying the decision to award
:10:00. > :10:01.the compensation was taken Our deputy political editor
:10:02. > :10:08.John Pienaar reports. A Briton, about to die
:10:09. > :10:13.an Isis suicide bomber. Detained, then freed,
:10:14. > :10:15.and reportedly handed ?1 million Jamal Al-Harith, born
:10:16. > :10:23.Ronald Fiddler, was among the suspected terrorist detainees
:10:24. > :10:26.held at Guantanamo Bay without charge until,
:10:27. > :10:29.following British government pressure, he was freed
:10:30. > :10:31.to finally fight and die Tonight his family insisted that
:10:32. > :10:38.compensation was lower than ?1 million for what they called
:10:39. > :10:40.mental cruelty and He's gone now and I just hope that
:10:41. > :10:51.between him and his maker he is... But today the papers and some
:10:52. > :10:57.Tory MPs blamed Labour in government for letting him go
:10:58. > :11:01.and paying him off. Utter hypocrisy, said Tony Blair -
:11:02. > :11:04.the critics had demanded It is just a matter of fact that
:11:05. > :11:36.compensation was decided by the Conservative government,
:11:37. > :11:38.by Kenneth Clarke, the Justice Secretary,
:11:39. > :11:43.not by a Labour government. According to this intelligence
:11:44. > :11:45.assessment on WikiLeaks, Fiddler was a suspected terrorist
:11:46. > :11:47.associated with Al-Qaeda, There was intelligence against these
:11:48. > :11:54.people yet the only way the actions could have been defended
:11:55. > :11:57.is if the intelligence and the sources of intelligence had
:11:58. > :12:04.been brought out in open court. And that would have undermined
:12:05. > :12:06.the whole of the efforts of the intelligence
:12:07. > :12:10.and security agencies. Jamal Al-Harith travelled
:12:11. > :12:14.to Pakistan in 2001. He was arrested that
:12:15. > :12:17.year in Afghanistan, from there a transfer to Guantanamo
:12:18. > :12:18.before repatriation In 2010 he was paid compensation
:12:19. > :12:25.and in April 2014 to Syria Intelligence can now be used
:12:26. > :12:33.in court without compromising sources after a change in the law,
:12:34. > :12:35.but hundreds of Britons have travelled to Iraq and Syria
:12:36. > :12:38.as jihadists and one former minister told me that they are believed
:12:39. > :12:41.to include some who have been monitored, perhaps even detained
:12:42. > :12:47.and compensated in the past. There may be more like
:12:48. > :12:52.Ronald Fiddler, security forces can only try to keep
:12:53. > :12:56.up their guard in future. Still to come, Malaysian police have
:12:57. > :13:03.named a North Korean diplomat as a suspect in the murder
:13:04. > :13:25.of Kim Jong-nam, the half-brother The Communities Secretary has said
:13:26. > :13:28.more support will be announced on the Budget next month the companies
:13:29. > :13:31.in England and Wales facing a steep rise in business rates. The
:13:32. > :13:36.Government has come in to pressure from MPs to soften the pressure of
:13:37. > :13:41.the re-evaluation. Sajid Javid told the Commons that ministers were
:13:42. > :13:44.listening to those concerns. Businesses coming off rate relief
:13:45. > :13:49.can be faced with an alarming cliff edge. Independent retailers and some
:13:50. > :13:53.high-value areas are struggling. I have always listen to businesses and
:13:54. > :13:58.this situation is no exception. It is clear to me that more needs to be
:13:59. > :14:03.done to level the playing field and make the system fairer.
:14:04. > :14:07.I am working closely with my right honourable friend the Chancellor to
:14:08. > :14:12.determine how best to provide further support to businesses facing
:14:13. > :14:15.the steepest increases. We expect to be in a position to make an
:14:16. > :14:26.announcement at the time of the Budget in two weeks.
:14:27. > :14:28.This is Outside Source live from the BBC newsroom.
:14:29. > :14:37.Nasa says it has found four Earth-sized exoplanets.
:14:38. > :14:42.They're located about 39 light years away from the Sun.
:14:43. > :14:46.BBC World Service reports that the personal assistant
:14:47. > :14:48.of French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen was charged
:14:49. > :14:51.on Wednesday in a scandal over fake jobs at the European Parliament.
:14:52. > :14:54.The police want to know if they were paid for jobs
:14:55. > :14:57.at the European Union that they didn't actually do.
:14:58. > :14:59.A ban on female army officers in Turkey wearing the Muslim
:15:00. > :15:03.headscarf has been lifted by the government.
:15:04. > :15:06.The military is the last Turkish institution to see the ban removed.
:15:07. > :15:08.It has long been seen as the guardian of Turkey's
:15:09. > :15:14.And among the most watched online is this footage that's emerged
:15:15. > :15:17.of Harrison Ford being involved in a near-miss with an airliner.
:15:18. > :15:20.The incident happened last week but the airport has only
:15:21. > :15:30.Malaysian police want to question a North Korean diplomat
:15:31. > :15:33.and an employee of the country's state airline in connection
:15:34. > :15:41.On the left is Kim U- Il, an employee of Air Koryo
:15:42. > :15:44.and on the right, Hyon Kwang Song, the second secretary
:15:45. > :15:48.of the North Korean embassy in Kuala Lumpur.
:15:49. > :15:52.11 people have either been detained or are wanted by police.
:15:53. > :15:57.The BBC's Paul Adams has the latest.
:15:58. > :16:01.The mystery surrounding the death of Kim Jong-nam deepens by the day.
:16:02. > :16:03.Around him, a whole constellation of suspects.
:16:04. > :16:11.And a growing conviction this was the work of North Korea.
:16:12. > :16:13.The Malaysian police have added two new North Koreans
:16:14. > :16:19.An employee of the state airline, and a senior embassy official.
:16:20. > :16:24.And, they say, they now know exactly how the attack was carried out.
:16:25. > :16:27.You know, what actually happened was these two ladies were trained
:16:28. > :16:41.Before that, the four suspects gave them the liquid.
:16:42. > :16:50.They were supposed to wipe it over the deceased's face.
:16:51. > :16:54.What was the substance smeared on Mr Kim's face?
:16:55. > :16:59.But they say surveillance footage shows the women keeping their hands
:17:00. > :17:04.away from their bodies and heading straight for the washrooms.
:17:05. > :17:06.A further twist, Malaysian special forces guarding the mortuary
:17:07. > :17:14.Police say there have been attempts to break in.
:17:15. > :17:16.North Korea has denied any involvement.
:17:17. > :17:19.On Monday, the ambassador in Kuala Lumpur said the investigation
:17:20. > :17:23.That drew a measured, but distinct rebuke,
:17:24. > :17:32.We have good relations with North Korea all this while.
:17:33. > :17:36.The statement by the ambassador was totally uncalled for.
:17:37. > :17:40.It is considered diplomatically rude on his part.
:17:41. > :17:42.The death of Kim Jong-nam is testing relations between two
:17:43. > :17:47.The Malaysian authorities have asked to interview
:17:48. > :17:50.the new suspects, and have warned the North Korean Embassy
:17:51. > :18:05.Let's turn to outside source business. I want to begin with his
:18:06. > :18:11.tweet from Andrew Walker, our business economic 's correspondence,
:18:12. > :18:15.the World Trade Organisation agreement on trade facilitation
:18:16. > :18:19.comes into force, important but admittedly unglamorous stuff. He
:18:20. > :18:23.talks about an international agreement called the trade
:18:24. > :18:27.facilitation agreement, or TFA, which involve streamlining customs
:18:28. > :18:32.procedures. The reason it is so important is it is meant to boost
:18:33. > :18:37.global trade by $1 trillion a year. Let's bring in Michelle Fleury in
:18:38. > :18:44.New York. Good to have you back. Can it really do that, $1 trillion a
:18:45. > :18:48.year? Economists within the World Trade Organisation have been poring
:18:49. > :18:53.over the documents, trying to figure out what these changes would mean,
:18:54. > :18:59.how simplifying and clarifying rules, cutting red tape when it
:19:00. > :19:03.comes to customs and getting goods through customs, how that could
:19:04. > :19:09.help. They believe it could help boost economic growth by half a
:19:10. > :19:14.percent in the global economy. Part of the reason or one of the ways
:19:15. > :19:18.they think this will work is that small businesses, especially in
:19:19. > :19:22.developing countries, will find it easier to gain access to other
:19:23. > :19:27.markets. That is just one of the ways they think this will help.
:19:28. > :19:32.Whether or not it turns out to be the case, we have seen calculation
:19:33. > :19:34.is in the past that have not always materialised, specifically in the
:19:35. > :19:40.United States I am thinking about trade deals like Napster and what
:19:41. > :19:44.benefits they will bring, in reality when things go into place and time
:19:45. > :19:49.things can turn into little bit different. -- I am thinking of trade
:19:50. > :19:56.deals like Nafta. But the idea is that by simplifying the procedure it
:19:57. > :19:59.should boost economic growth. A new administration, the Trump
:20:00. > :20:05.administration, has been very vocal about other trade agreements. Will
:20:06. > :20:12.the US accept this latest one? Here is the interesting part, this
:20:13. > :20:19.agreement, the specific agreement, was agreed upon by the US under the
:20:20. > :20:24.Obama administration. The way the WTO works is this was first part of
:20:25. > :20:28.the negotiation dating back to 2012 something known as the Joe Hart
:20:29. > :20:33.talks because of the capital city weather is trade negotiations were
:20:34. > :20:40.taking place -- known as the Doha talks. It was not agreed upon until
:20:41. > :20:45.2013 and it was ratified as a result of more than 110 countries agree on,
:20:46. > :20:49.the US being one. It comes at a time that the US president has put
:20:50. > :20:53.himself forward as an anti-globalisation figure. We will
:20:54. > :20:57.have to wait and see, thank you very much, Michelle Fleury.
:20:58. > :20:59.I want to bring you some new research on life expectancy.
:21:00. > :21:02.A university in the UK and the World Health Organisation
:21:03. > :21:04.have analysed life spans in some of the world's richest
:21:05. > :21:06.countries to examine how they'll change by 2030.
:21:07. > :21:09.South Korea is set to become the first country to have an average
:21:10. > :21:16.France saw a big increase - it will have the second longest
:21:17. > :21:25.The data also forecasts that Japan, once the picture of longevity, will
:21:26. > :21:36.Earlier I spoke with the BBC's online health
:21:37. > :21:41.I asked him what South Korea was doing right.
:21:42. > :21:46.Lots of little things or add up to make this difference across an
:21:47. > :21:51.entire population, where you are pushing past the 90 barrier. One of
:21:52. > :21:53.the big things as they have incredibly low rates of obesity
:21:54. > :21:58.compared with other similar countries around the world. Things
:21:59. > :22:02.like high levels of education and nutritional awareness and great
:22:03. > :22:06.medical care. You might ask, don't lots of other countries have that?
:22:07. > :22:11.The key thing South Korea seems to do on top of that is make sure the
:22:12. > :22:18.whole nation benefits. This figure is not saying no other country will
:22:19. > :22:21.have people living past 90, it is that the average person will live
:22:22. > :22:25.that long. This is about the rich, the middle-income and the poor in
:22:26. > :22:29.South Korea benefiting from medical improvements. I was looking at the
:22:30. > :22:36.life expectancy for a South Korean man, it is still less, I think 84,
:22:37. > :22:41.why is there still the disparity? It is a global pattern that has emerged
:22:42. > :22:45.during the 20th century, men started smoking more than women, drunk more,
:22:46. > :22:50.when cars came around men drove cars more aggressively and died in more
:22:51. > :22:55.car crashes than women. That started to make death rates around the world
:22:56. > :22:59.higher for men than women, men died younger. What is happening is that
:23:00. > :23:03.is starting to close over time as men and women have equal roles in
:23:04. > :23:08.society, smoking, drinking and driving around about the same.
:23:09. > :23:12.Things come back together over time. A country that perform badly that
:23:13. > :23:18.you would like to tell viewers about? Japan tumbling down the list
:23:19. > :23:24.surprise me. Japan, it is like the picture of healthy long life in the
:23:25. > :23:29.whole world. It has all changed? It is not entirely clear, France and
:23:30. > :23:33.South Korea over taking it on the women's front and drops outside the
:23:34. > :23:36.top ten for men. Something interesting going on. Smoking
:23:37. > :23:40.probably quite important, but certain.
:23:41. > :23:44.Thanks to James. The White House says it will soon publish a new
:23:45. > :23:48.trouble order to replace the one set aside by the appeals court in San
:23:49. > :23:53.Francisco. The key parts suspended travel from seven predominantly
:23:54. > :23:54.Muslim countries. Before we end this half of the programme, let's remind
:23:55. > :24:17.you about how we got here. Our president doesn't get it. This
:24:18. > :24:27.is wrong and we're going to fight it.
:24:28. > :24:34.We will have a very, very strict ban, we will have extreme setting,
:24:35. > :24:45.which we should have had in this country for many years.
:24:46. > :24:55.This executive order... Was mean-spirited and un-American.
:24:56. > :25:03.This is not, I repeat, not a ban on Muslims. The church ruled a
:25:04. > :25:07.decision, effective immediately, effective now, it puts a halt on
:25:08. > :25:11.President Trump's on constitutional and unlawful executor border -- the
:25:12. > :25:32.judge ruled a decision. We will be doing something very
:25:33. > :25:35.rapidly having to do with additional security for our country, you'll be
:25:36. > :25:39.seeing that sometime next week. In addition we will continue to go
:25:40. > :25:44.through the court process and ultimately I have no doubt that we
:25:45. > :25:48.will win that particular case. Betis US president Donald Trump. We
:25:49. > :25:51.will delve into the relationship between the United States and Mexico
:25:52. > :26:07.in the next half-hour, stay with us if you can.
:26:08. > :26:14.Thanks very much for joining me. I'll update you on the UK weather
:26:15. > :26:17.prospects, albeit briefly, in a couple of minutes, but let me take
:26:18. > :26:21.you to a couple of weather stories that have caught my eye across the
:26:22. > :26:22.world. Not for the first time