:00:07. > :00:08.Hello, I'm Ros Atkins, this is Outside Source.
:00:09. > :00:10.French centre-right presidential candidate Francois Fillon has said
:00:11. > :00:12.he will be placed under investigation by a French judge -
:00:13. > :00:29.TRANSLATION: I will not give up. I will not withdraw. I will take it to
:00:30. > :00:31.the end, because it is democracy being challenged.
:00:32. > :00:34.Donald Trump has addressed Congress for the first time -
:00:35. > :00:37.and he's being widely praised for striking a conciliatory tone.
:00:38. > :00:43.I am here tonight to deliver a message of unity and strength, and
:00:44. > :00:45.it is a message deeply delivered from my heart.
:00:46. > :00:48.This was a well rehearsed speech - full on promises and
:00:49. > :00:54.We'll be live in Washington to get into this.
:00:55. > :00:56.UN human rights investigators say war crimes were committed
:00:57. > :00:58.in Aleppo last year - by all parties involved
:00:59. > :01:12.This is a live feed coming in from the House of Lords, where the Brexit
:01:13. > :01:20.debate is continuing. The UK government has received the first
:01:21. > :01:27.defeat on an amendment concerning EU nationals resident in the UK. Do get
:01:28. > :01:39.in touch with us via social media or e-mail.
:01:40. > :01:41.Francois Fillon is the centre-right candidate in the French
:01:42. > :01:48.him under formal investigation over allegations he created fake
:01:49. > :01:56.You might think that's enough to sink his chances -
:01:57. > :01:59.and you'd certainly have thought so when he called a last minute
:02:00. > :02:15.TRANSLATION: A number of my political friends, and those who
:02:16. > :02:20.supported me in the primaries, and 4 million voters, are talking about a
:02:21. > :02:23.political assassination. It is an assassination because it is
:02:24. > :02:31.disproportionate and unprecedented. By the choice of this timetable,
:02:32. > :02:35.it's not only me being assassinated, but the presidential elections as
:02:36. > :02:39.well. The vote will decide who will be the next president of the
:02:40. > :02:45.Republic. I will not cede. I will not give up. I will not withdraw. I
:02:46. > :02:46.will take it to the end, because it is democracy that's being
:02:47. > :02:48.challenged. Straight after that a senior member
:02:49. > :02:54.of Mr Fillon's posted this statement That's a reference to
:02:55. > :03:02.Francois Fillon promising to step aside if he was placed
:03:03. > :03:05.under formal investigation. This is the reaction
:03:06. > :03:27.of one of the other main TRANSLATION: What is happening in
:03:28. > :03:32.the judicial domain is the concern of Francois Fillon and his judges,
:03:33. > :03:39.for issues relating to the public domain and political life, the
:03:40. > :03:42.French people will be the judge. But let's not treat the Democratic vote
:03:43. > :03:44.as a means of absolution. That is not its role.
:03:45. > :03:46.Let's remind ourselves of the allegations against Mr Fillon.
:03:47. > :03:52.In January, a French investigative newspaper broke the story.
:03:53. > :03:55.It claimed that he paid his wife more than 600,000 euros
:03:56. > :03:57.of taxpayers' money for a parliamentary assistant's job
:03:58. > :04:07.It later added another 330,000 euros to the accusation.
:04:08. > :04:10.Penelope Fillon told a French journalist last year:
:04:11. > :04:12."Up to now, I have never been involved in
:04:13. > :04:27.Mr Fillon is also accused of paying two of his five children 84,000
:04:28. > :04:34.euros for legal work while they were law students.
:04:35. > :04:52.What has happened today, and what precipitated this very suspenseful
:04:53. > :04:56.day of politics in France, was Hezbollah vocation by the judge
:04:57. > :05:03.looking into this that he will want to see him on March the 15th. As you
:05:04. > :05:08.mentioned in your introduction, it was his statement months ago that
:05:09. > :05:11.you couldn't possibly conceive of an honourable candidate being in that
:05:12. > :05:17.position, placed under investigation, which is at the root
:05:18. > :05:21.of his embarrassment. If he is placed personally under formal
:05:22. > :05:25.investigation, the embarrassment will be more acute. One suspects
:05:26. > :05:32.this is what is going to happen, and one suspects the huge pressure on
:05:33. > :05:38.him. His response is this fight back, which says it is all a Mac a
:05:39. > :05:42.nation by his enemies, that the timing is being accelerated by
:05:43. > :05:48.left-wingers in the judiciary essentially, and that's why he is in
:05:49. > :05:51.such a pickle now. He is back on the attack saying that in normal
:05:52. > :05:55.circumstances this would have taken longer, and this is -- he is the
:05:56. > :05:58.victim of a plot. The first round of the election
:05:59. > :06:00.is just over seven weeks away. This "opinionway" poll predicts that
:06:01. > :06:03.far-right National Front leader, Marine Le Pen, will win
:06:04. > :06:05.the first round with centrist And in the second round, Macron
:06:06. > :06:30.is expected to be the clear winner. The suggestion is that Emmanuel
:06:31. > :06:36.Macron will be the next president. The basic fact remains that whoever
:06:37. > :06:42.gets through to the second round to fight marine Le Pen is most likely
:06:43. > :06:49.to wind, even though Marine Le Pen is apparently going up slightly in
:06:50. > :06:53.the polls in the second round, consistently the polls say she is
:06:54. > :07:00.likely to be beaten, either by Emmanuel Macron or by Francois
:07:01. > :07:05.Fillon. So the fight is to see who will be the second person in the
:07:06. > :07:12.second round. Emmanuel Macron is riding high. Francois Fillon has
:07:13. > :07:19.fallen in the polls, although they have not totally collapsed. Emmanuel
:07:20. > :07:23.Macron has had good news with his centrist agenda. He feels that he
:07:24. > :07:26.has the momentum behind him. Right now, Emmanuel Macron is the
:07:27. > :07:29.favourite to be the next president. We also heard earlier
:07:30. > :07:31.via the AFP news agency that centrist party UDI -
:07:32. > :07:33.which was allied to the Fillon campaign -
:07:34. > :07:35.is "pausing its support and the party leadership will meet
:07:36. > :07:38.next week to decide whether to fully I asked Hugh how it will
:07:39. > :07:53.affect his campaign. Up until now, his group in the
:07:54. > :07:57.parliament has stayed pretty much behind him. There have been voices
:07:58. > :08:02.saying that they should look elsewhere for another candidate, but
:08:03. > :08:07.they have come to nothing. So they have stuck by Mr Fillon. Now we have
:08:08. > :08:13.heard discordant voices from within his own camp. The UDI is a centrist
:08:14. > :08:22.party but very much attached to the Republicans party. So while... When
:08:23. > :08:27.a group, even though a small one, start breaking away, and there have
:08:28. > :08:31.been other pretty important people within his own party, that starts to
:08:32. > :08:41.embarrass him and make things more awkward. Now to American politics.
:08:42. > :08:48.This is Donald Trump on Twitter, saying simply, thank you. A lot of
:08:49. > :08:53.people have reacted well to his first speech to the US Congress.
:08:54. > :08:57.Here is some of it. Each American generation passes the torch of
:08:58. > :09:04.liberty and justice, in an unbroken chain all the way down to the
:09:05. > :09:10.president. That torch is now in our hands, and we will use it to light
:09:11. > :09:16.up the world. I am here tonight to deliver a message of unity and
:09:17. > :09:18.strength, and it is a message deeply delivered from my heart. A new
:09:19. > :09:28.chapter. APPLAUSE.
:09:29. > :09:34.A new chapter of American greatness is now beginning. Poetic at times,
:09:35. > :09:37.theatrical, emotional. This was a more measured tone
:09:38. > :09:43.from President Trump than we've seen There's the President
:09:44. > :09:50.practising as he gets It's unusual to get a glance
:09:51. > :09:52.at politicians doing this before a big speech -
:09:53. > :10:12.but you can be sure they all do it. This is the analysis of Daniel Dale.
:10:13. > :10:17.He says, this was the same hardline nationalism, but just a different
:10:18. > :10:24.tone. A rebranding from a master salesman. Let's bring in another
:10:25. > :10:31.verdict that matters. Anthony is in Washington. Would you describe Trump
:10:32. > :10:36.as a master salesman? He was definitely trying to sell
:10:37. > :10:57.Republicans in the audience, congressional Republicans, that
:10:58. > :10:59.chaotic start to his administration chaotic start to his administration
:11:00. > :11:00.and that he can deliver a more is something he can move away from,
:11:01. > :11:01.conventional speech. That is what we saw last night. He needs to keep
:11:02. > :11:06.Republicans in the fold. His party Republicans in the fold. His party
:11:07. > :11:08.will be able to pass a lot of his will be able to pass a lot of his
:11:09. > :11:15.agenda. First and foremost, he needed to steady the ship, and that
:11:16. > :11:19.is what his speech last night did. Right now, Donald Trump and his
:11:20. > :11:24.administration is working on their budget. He sent papers to the
:11:25. > :11:28.various agencies and Cabinet departments to have them flush out
:11:29. > :11:32.the directives he was given them. The tricky thing is that a lot of
:11:33. > :11:36.those departments and agencies do not have people in the top levels
:11:37. > :11:42.right now, so it will be a challenge for them to meet the requests he has
:11:43. > :11:49.provided. By May, we should have a presidential budget ready to
:11:50. > :11:54.delivered to Congress. Then it will be the long process that involves
:11:55. > :11:59.making choices about spending, about cuts, and how to fund these large
:12:00. > :12:05.increases, like $12 billion perhaps for a wall. He talked about a
:12:06. > :12:11.massive tax cut for the middle-class. These things have big
:12:12. > :12:18.price tags. Donald, didn't speak of detail last night about where the
:12:19. > :12:27.money come from. Mr Trump certainly gave us lots of major promises. Look
:12:28. > :12:32.at this. Dying industries will come back to life. Veterans will get the
:12:33. > :12:37.care they need. Our military will be given the resources it's brave
:12:38. > :12:41.warriors so richly deserve. Crumbling infrastructure will be
:12:42. > :12:50.replaced with new roads, bridges, tunnels and railways, across a
:12:51. > :12:54.beautiful land. Our terrible drug epidemic will slow down and
:12:55. > :13:01.ultimately stop. And our neglected inner cities will see a rebirth of
:13:02. > :13:08.hope, safety and opportunity. Above all else, we will keep our promises
:13:09. > :13:12.to the American people. He is keeping a lid on expectations. I
:13:13. > :13:16.know this is the privilege of any new president, to promise a lot.
:13:17. > :13:22.There is a risk that clip could be played back to him in a year's time.
:13:23. > :13:27.He promised to solve all the problems and fix everything that was
:13:28. > :13:32.broken and heal the sick. It was almost like a messiah. That will be
:13:33. > :13:37.a real challenge for him and for Republicans in Congress, who will
:13:38. > :13:43.have to find ways of turning these promises into reality. He has set a
:13:44. > :13:49.very high bar for them. If we go forward and we see the economy hum
:13:50. > :13:59.along, and those campaign promises, we will see those words come back to
:14:00. > :14:05.haunt him, but if things have not gotten better, it will be a clip
:14:06. > :14:08.played time and time again in campaign commercials. Donald Trump
:14:09. > :14:16.also turned to the issue of violence and murder. The murder rate in 2015
:14:17. > :14:22.experienced its largest single year increase in nearly half a century.
:14:23. > :14:27.In Chicago, more than 4000 people were shot last year alone, and the
:14:28. > :14:31.murder rate so far this year has been even higher.
:14:32. > :14:35.America experienced its largest single-year increase
:14:36. > :14:40.From 2014 to 2015 there was a 10.8% increase in murders -
:14:41. > :14:44.but the murder rate - that's the number of
:14:45. > :14:49.murders per 100,000 - went up by more in 1979,
:14:50. > :15:05.And the overall trend murder rate, is down past two decades -
:15:06. > :15:09.that's since a peak in the 1970s, 80s and early 90s.
:15:10. > :15:14.'In Chicago, more than 4,000 people
:15:15. > :15:20.were shot last year alone, and the murder rate so far this year
:15:21. > :15:28.Indeed, there were 4,331 shooting victims last year.
:15:29. > :15:33.According to the most up to date Chicago Police Department data
:15:34. > :15:36.for 2017, there have been 94 murders between the start of the year
:15:37. > :15:44.That's fewer than the 98 for the same period last year.
:15:45. > :15:52.So the number of murders has gone down slightly year-on-year. I guess
:15:53. > :15:58.the question I thought when Mr Trump brought this up is why he keeps
:15:59. > :16:03.returning to Chicago, and to the issue of murder? Like many
:16:04. > :16:08.presidents and leaders, it is easier to enact the policies you want if
:16:09. > :16:15.you paint a picture of a country in crisis. When Donald Kum talks about
:16:16. > :16:24.runaway crime and runaway murder, it makes it easier to talk about his
:16:25. > :16:29.policies. -- Donald Trump. Talking about crimes committed by
:16:30. > :16:32.undocumented workers, he pointed up undocumented workers, he pointed up
:16:33. > :16:40.to the balcony and said that these were families of people who were
:16:41. > :16:45.victims of crimes committed by undocumented workers. All of this is
:16:46. > :16:50.to advance a policy end, to create an environment where he can get
:16:51. > :16:56.Congress and the American public behind his various actions to try to
:16:57. > :16:58.address what he sees as a problem. Thank you. No doubt we will be
:16:59. > :17:03.talking the same time tomorrow. The head of Uber is in trouble
:17:04. > :17:07.after this video of him verbally abusing one of his drivers
:17:08. > :17:20.is revealed. The car maker Ford could cut
:17:21. > :17:22.more than 11,000 jobs Leaked documents seen by the BBC
:17:23. > :17:26.show the company is concerned Our correspondent
:17:27. > :17:40.Brian Meechan has more. At the moment there are 655,000
:17:41. > :17:47.engines made here in Bridgend every year. But those contracts are coming
:17:48. > :17:53.to an end, and by 2021 there is only guaranteed work of hundred and 20
:17:54. > :17:57.5000. So that means that the company, the in the leaked
:17:58. > :18:01.documents, has made it clear that it will not be able to keep the
:18:02. > :18:09.workforce it has right now, and it would go down to something like 600.
:18:10. > :18:14.It has also pointed out the the inefficiencies here in Bridgend.
:18:15. > :18:20.Ford says The Only Way Is Essex can attracting new work is by getting
:18:21. > :18:27.rid of those inefficiencies to make sure that they can compete globally.
:18:28. > :18:30.This is Outside Source live from the BBC newsroom.
:18:31. > :18:34.France's centre right Presidential candidate Francois Fillon has said
:18:35. > :18:35.a judge will place him under investigation over
:18:36. > :18:51.a fake job scandal - but he won't stand down.
:18:52. > :19:03.The two accountants responsible for announcing the wrong film for best
:19:04. > :19:07.picture at the Oscars will not be working for the Academy again.
:19:08. > :19:09.The UK government has suffered its first defeat over
:19:10. > :19:12.the Brexit bill in the House of Lords - that's the upper house
:19:13. > :19:16.It's over an amendment guaranteeing the rights of EU citizens
:19:17. > :19:53.They have voted. Contents, 358. Not contents, 256, so the contents have
:19:54. > :19:56.it. That debate is still going on. This is the live feed we have coming
:19:57. > :19:59.in. The Lord is not quite as busy as it was earlier.
:20:00. > :20:01.To explain what's happened - the lower house -
:20:02. > :20:04.the House of Commons - passed this bill a couple of weeks
:20:05. > :20:08.But the upper house - the Lords - has now voted for this amendment.
:20:09. > :20:11.That means that the bill now has to go back to the Commons.
:20:12. > :20:22.Here is a quote from David Davis, the Brexit minister. He said he was
:20:23. > :20:29.expecting Parliamentary ping-pong. That is a good phrase, because this
:20:30. > :20:34.bill could go back and forth several times. Let's get some help
:20:35. > :20:37.describing what has happened. Tom Bateman is live for us in
:20:38. > :20:42.Westminster. Is the government in the Commons is likely to back down
:20:43. > :20:46.on this amendment? I don't think they have any intention of giving
:20:47. > :20:51.ground on this. That's because it was always their aim, their hope and
:20:52. > :20:57.their desire to get this bill through the UK Parliament, that
:20:58. > :21:03.authorises Theresa May to start the Brexit process, to go on and begin
:21:04. > :21:07.those Brexit negotiations. They wanted to do that without any
:21:08. > :21:11.conditions being slapped on them by MPs or members of the House of
:21:12. > :21:17.Lords. They wanted to go to other member states with a completely free
:21:18. > :21:21.hand to negotiate. That is why the bill to authorise them to do this is
:21:22. > :21:26.a single sheet of paper, simply saying that the government have the
:21:27. > :21:31.right to start this process. You are seeing members of the House of
:21:32. > :21:36.Lords, unelected members of the second house, trying to gain some
:21:37. > :21:40.control of this process, particularly on the issue of the
:21:41. > :21:45.rights of EU citizens, which they think should be guaranteed in the
:21:46. > :21:50.UK, for practical and moral reasons. Some people watching might wonder
:21:51. > :21:55.what it has got to do with them. Those in the House of Commons were
:21:56. > :22:00.elected. They are acting on a referendum that was voted on by the
:22:01. > :22:07.whole country. And here are people who were not elected trying to push
:22:08. > :22:12.the course of an elected government. The House of Lords has an important
:22:13. > :22:16.constitutional role, because it is fair to revise laws. They are
:22:17. > :22:22.unelected, but people who are there on the advice of the Prime Minister,
:22:23. > :22:28.effectively -- effectively appointed by the Queen. They tend to be people
:22:29. > :22:33.from business, industry or journalism who are very experienced.
:22:34. > :22:38.They would argue that their role in revising laws has been successful
:22:39. > :22:44.over the years. They would say that is all they are attempting to do
:22:45. > :22:47.here. Once it goes back to the House of Commons, it is possible that the
:22:48. > :22:56.MPs wiped off that amendment and then it could go back to the House
:22:57. > :22:58.of Lords. A couple of viewers in the UK have been asking why the Lords by
:22:59. > :23:01.getting involved, so hopefully that helps to explain it.
:23:02. > :23:06.A video has emerged of its boss Travis Kalanick swearing at an Uber
:23:07. > :23:14.The driver is a man called Fawzi Kamel -
:23:15. > :23:16.and he raised the issue of the company dropped prices
:23:17. > :23:33.I am bankrupt because of you. You keep changing it every day. Hold on
:23:34. > :23:42.a second. What have I changed about Black? You dropped the prices. We
:23:43. > :23:54.started with $20. How much is the mile now? To 75? Some people don't
:23:55. > :23:56.like to take responsibility. Good luck.
:23:57. > :23:58.Travis Kalanick has emailed Uber staff.
:23:59. > :24:01."It's clear this video is a reflection of me -
:24:02. > :24:04.and the criticism we've received is a stark reminder that I must
:24:05. > :24:07.fundamentally change as a leader and grow up.
:24:08. > :24:10.This is the first time I've been willing to admit that I need
:24:11. > :24:14.leadership help and I intend to get it."
:24:15. > :24:17.It seems less about leadership of a company -
:24:18. > :24:20.more about not being hot-headed and rude to people you've just met
:24:21. > :24:22.and who have the temerity to disagree with you.
:24:23. > :24:29.Either way, we're promised some changes.
:24:30. > :24:33.All this is in the context of extensive allegations of sexual
:24:34. > :24:35.harassment that were made by a former Uber employee
:24:36. > :24:45.This is Alan Greenspan - he was the Chairman of the US
:24:46. > :24:49.Federal Reserve for 19 years, and under four presidents.
:24:50. > :24:52.He's spoken to the BBC's "100 Days" programme.
:24:53. > :24:55.Here he is with Katty Kay - talking about about Donald Trump's
:24:56. > :25:11.That was not a speech that was meant to be taken literally, because there
:25:12. > :25:18.is double entry book-keeping in the world, and one must ask, how do you
:25:19. > :25:21.fund of various things? There was nothing in there except some vague
:25:22. > :25:34.notions about strong economic growth. Well, where is that coming
:25:35. > :25:46.from? That is Alan Greenspan. Some breaking sports news