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Hello, I'm Ros Atkins, this is Outside Source. | :00:08. | :00:10. | |
America is expanding its presence in Syria, offering support to local | :00:11. | :00:14. | |
militia trying to drive the Islamic State group out of Raqqa. | :00:15. | :00:17. | |
The new head of the US Environmental Protection Agency claims carbon | :00:18. | :00:25. | |
dioxide emissions are not a major factor in climate change. | :00:26. | :00:30. | |
Washington and New York states join Hawaii in trying to block Donald | :00:31. | :00:34. | |
Theresa May speaks at her final EU summit before triggering the Brexit | :00:35. | :00:42. | |
process and EU leaders have re-elected Donald Tusk as president | :00:43. | :00:48. | |
of the European Council, despite strong objections from his home | :00:49. | :00:52. | |
And we will go to South Korea as the Samsung scandal unfolds. It's de | :00:53. | :01:08. | |
facto leader is on trial and very soon politicians in South Korea will | :01:09. | :01:13. | |
vote on whether to uphold the impeachment of the president. | :01:14. | :01:30. | |
These pictures have been released by the US today. | :01:31. | :01:33. | |
Also today, America's confirmed it's made a separate deployment | :01:34. | :01:39. | |
They're supporting a local Kurdish-led militia as it | :01:40. | :01:44. | |
Raqqa is the Islamic State group's stronghold in Syria and as such has | :01:45. | :01:52. | |
The US marines will be firing at IS positions | :01:53. | :01:58. | |
While that's happening, the SDF militia will attempt to advance. | :01:59. | :02:06. | |
In addition to the marines, those tanks I just showed | :02:07. | :02:09. | |
you are part of a separate group of US army Rangers. | :02:10. | :02:15. | |
They're deployed near a town called Manbij, that's north-west of Raqqa. | :02:16. | :02:21. | |
And the reason for that deployment encapsulates | :02:22. | :02:23. | |
Liz Sly, a Washington Post Beirut bureau chief, calls it a mess. | :02:24. | :02:30. | |
"US troops flying US flags in empty Syrian villages to try to stop | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
What Liz Sly is talking about is that the Americans | :02:35. | :02:40. | |
are trying to stop the Kurdish backed militia being | :02:41. | :02:43. | |
attacked by fighters who are backed by Turkey. | :02:44. | :02:46. | |
Bear in mind everyone I've mentioned so far wants to defeat IS. | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
One more consequence of this situation. | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
A US military magazine says US and Russia have found themselves | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
teaming up for the first time in the war in Syria against Turkey. | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
You might ask why all sides cannot unite to defeat IS. | :03:05. | :03:07. | |
Here's Edgard Jallad from BBC Arabic. | :03:08. | :03:17. | |
It looks like in general terms, but if you look at where each party is | :03:18. | :03:25. | |
coming from, it reflects the complexity of the war. As you | :03:26. | :03:32. | |
mentioned, this town is the theatre of operations reflecting this | :03:33. | :03:34. | |
complexity. There is an interest from the Turkish to take this town. | :03:35. | :03:42. | |
You have also the Kurdish forces, known as the Euphrates shield, they | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
are trying to get this town. The United States is trying to buffer | :03:48. | :03:50. | |
between them and refocus the operation towards Raqqa were the | :03:51. | :03:57. | |
main so-called enemy is. This is why they are trying to send this strong | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
message now by deploying additional fog is in recalibrating the targets. | :04:02. | :04:07. | |
How do we understand the situation in Iraq at the moment? The situation | :04:08. | :04:15. | |
in Raqqa, it is believed so many fighters are still there. They are | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
very well prepared for this battle. But we do not know exactly if the | :04:20. | :04:25. | |
so-called Islamic State will fight the final battle in Raqqa or in any | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
other place. There are saying today, it could be sending | :04:30. | :04:58. | |
several messages that we missing a strong role for the | :04:59. | :05:01. | |
American so far in the past weeks. I put all these questions to the | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
spokesman of the US led coalition and this interview is running as we | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
speak now on the Arabic channel and he says there is no change in the | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
guidance. The number of units fighting or on the ground would not | :05:16. | :05:22. | |
exceed 500. But these 500 are Rangers and why the United States | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
decided to release these pictures when they hid them in previous | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
weeks, they are flying their flag and there is the message. A couple | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
of days ago there was a meeting in Turkey between the chiefs of staff | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
's from the United States, Turkey and Russia. This is a normal | :05:43. | :05:45. | |
procedure before a battle like this one to revisit the rules of | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
engagement. There is a lot to come but this is significant today what | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
This is from the US election campaign. | :05:55. | :06:05. | |
Which begs the question, is this latest deployment a Trump plan? | :06:06. | :06:13. | |
Our colleagues on the 100 days programme asked | :06:14. | :06:15. | |
Andrew Exum, who used to be one of President Obama's top advisors | :06:16. | :06:18. | |
Yes and no. On the one hand this does not diverged significantly from | :06:19. | :06:29. | |
the plan that was already in place. However, this address is perhaps one | :06:30. | :06:35. | |
the United States and its coalition the United States and its coalition | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
partners have in Syria versus Iraq. In Iraq you have got the Iraqi army | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
with heavy equipment. In Syria you have got the Kurds and they do not | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
have that heavy equipment. You can give them that equipment and train | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
them on that to breach those defences around Raqqa. That will | :06:54. | :06:58. | |
anger the Turks. Or you can deploy US forces to help reach those outer | :06:59. | :07:05. | |
defences. That is what they are beginning to do. Before Donald Trump | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
took office the Central command were looking at options of ways to | :07:10. | :07:12. | |
helping the Kurds and I think that is what this is. | :07:13. | :07:14. | |
There's also this from Phil Stewart, Reuters Military Intelligence | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
Correspondent: US weighs deploying up to 1,000 soldiers to Kuwait | :07:20. | :07:21. | |
to serve as a reserve force in the fight against Islamic State, | :07:22. | :07:24. | |
Let's bring in the BBC State Department correspondent Barbara | :07:25. | :07:35. | |
pleb Usher. I want to ask you about these pictures that have been | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
released by the Americans showing their vehicles on the ground in | :07:41. | :07:44. | |
Syria. They do not normally do that. They like to keep a low profile, but | :07:45. | :07:49. | |
this is a different situation and has been a deliberate decision. You | :07:50. | :07:53. | |
have this town that was liberated from the IS in August. But now there | :07:54. | :08:02. | |
is Arab forces backed by Turkey forces backed by the Syrian Kurds | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
and it is a headache for the Americans. They want to focus on | :08:08. | :08:11. | |
fighting Islamic State and they do not want another conflict area | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
flaring up and they want to get across the message that everyone | :08:16. | :08:18. | |
should focus on the battle against Raqqa and they made a decision to | :08:19. | :08:24. | |
visibly insert themselves into this, standing between rival factions. | :08:25. | :08:28. | |
This is the first time they have done this, put themselves between | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
rival factions on the ground in Syria. They have this laser focus on | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
Islamic State right now, but you cannot sweep under the carpet these | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
broader conflict which require a political solution. Thank you, that | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
is very useful. We will speak to you again I am sure. | :08:48. | :08:49. | |
The latest EU summit is under way in Brussels. | :08:50. | :08:51. | |
It is interesting for several reasons. | :08:52. | :08:53. | |
The first day has been dominated by a row over this man - | :08:54. | :08:56. | |
the European Council President, Donald Tusk. | :08:57. | :09:02. | |
But it's also the last summit before British Prime Minister Theresa May | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
She spoke about an hour ago, and says she's optimistic. | :09:08. | :09:17. | |
It is not just about what is in the UK's interest, it is also about what | :09:18. | :09:25. | |
is in the interests of the European Union. What we see in the | :09:26. | :09:28. | |
discussions and comments I hear, that increasingly, obviously we have | :09:29. | :09:34. | |
not started the negotiations and will start them when we trigger | :09:35. | :09:38. | |
Article 50 by the end of this month, but when we come to look at those | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
negotiations, I think what people will see is that the relationship | :09:44. | :09:47. | |
between the UK and the EU of the future matters not just to the UK, | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
this is not just what is good for the UK, it is about what is good for | :09:53. | :09:57. | |
the European Union as well, and I believe that good, free trade | :09:58. | :10:00. | |
arrangement is in the interest of both sides in that negotiation. | :10:01. | :10:03. | |
But the biggest news out of the EU summit so far is summed up in this | :10:04. | :10:11. | |
Donald Tusk remains one of the most powerful people in Europe. | :10:12. | :10:23. | |
He's has just been re-elected President of the European Council. | :10:24. | :10:26. | |
The Council represents the leaders of the EU and there's a twist here. | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
Only one country opposed his re-election - his own, Poland. | :10:32. | :10:38. | |
An angry reaction from the leader of Poland's ruling party, | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
who smelled conspiracy: The EU is an organisation | :10:43. | :10:45. | |
We cannot hide this, this country is Germany. | :10:46. | :10:51. | |
If the EU does not abandon this road, it will be | :10:52. | :10:54. | |
The thing you need to know about this man is that he holds | :10:55. | :11:04. | |
Mr Tusk politically responsible for the death of the Polish | :11:05. | :11:07. | |
President in this plane crash in 2010, the Polish President | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
who also happened to be his twin brother. | :11:13. | :11:17. | |
Here's Damian Grammaticas at the summit. | :11:18. | :11:24. | |
It is interesting because Donald Tusk has chaired the council with | :11:25. | :11:31. | |
its meetings which brings together all of the EU leaders for their | :11:32. | :11:36. | |
summits here. He has been the chair for the last two and a bit years. He | :11:37. | :11:41. | |
has been reconfirmed for another two and a half, but as you say the vote | :11:42. | :11:48. | |
against him was from Poland, the country he is from, the Polish | :11:49. | :11:53. | |
government, implacable political opponents of Donald Tusk, a domestic | :11:54. | :11:58. | |
political dispute, they do not like him, it is now spilling over into | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
the European arena. But what Poland found today when the vote was called | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
to reconfirm him, Poland objectives and they found themselves totally | :12:08. | :12:13. | |
isolated. No one else sided with them. 27 other countries said they | :12:14. | :12:17. | |
were happy with Donald Tusk and with the job he was doing and he was | :12:18. | :12:22. | |
confirmed. That vote has gone through. He should be in place for | :12:23. | :12:27. | |
the next two and a half years, but the polls are still very unhappy | :12:28. | :12:31. | |
about this. They found themselves out on a political limb and it is a | :12:32. | :12:36. | |
bit of a humiliation for them to be voting against their own countryman | :12:37. | :12:39. | |
and not have support from other countries. We can access all of the | :12:40. | :12:47. | |
information coming through the BBC newsroom, including copy filed by | :12:48. | :12:52. | |
our correspondence. This is from our Warsaw correspondent who says the | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
Polish Prime Minister has said, I will not accept the conclusion of | :12:57. | :13:01. | |
this summit. It is clearly written that summit and with conclusions. If | :13:02. | :13:06. | |
a country does not accept the conclusion, it means the summit is | :13:07. | :13:10. | |
not valid. We will have to wait until tomorrow to see how this story | :13:11. | :13:18. | |
develops further. We always like to finish these summits with some clear | :13:19. | :13:22. | |
statements of intent from the European Union, so this will roll | :13:23. | :13:26. | |
over into tomorrow I am sure. Let's talk about the Dutch elections, we | :13:27. | :13:31. | |
will be covering them from The Hague next week. | :13:32. | :13:33. | |
This man - Jesse Klaver - has been called the "Dutch Trudeau". | :13:34. | :13:37. | |
He's from the Green Left alliance and has been enjoying a rise | :13:38. | :13:39. | |
in support in the polls ahead of next week's election | :13:40. | :13:42. | |
He's just held a huge rally in Amsterdam. | :13:43. | :13:47. | |
5500 people have packed this music hall and they are here to see one | :13:48. | :13:58. | |
man. Jesse Klaver! His supporters say he is young, fresh and | :13:59. | :14:03. | |
optimistic and he is receiving a rock star reception in Amsterdam | :14:04. | :14:09. | |
tonight. I think the interesting thing is that while the foreign | :14:10. | :14:17. | |
media has been focusing on the wave of populism across Europe, lots of | :14:18. | :14:21. | |
people in the Netherlands are watching this man because he is on | :14:22. | :14:25. | |
course to quadruple the number of seeds the Green left have in | :14:26. | :14:33. | |
Parliament. Donald Trump is not very popular here in the Netherlands | :14:34. | :14:36. | |
because he represents instability for many Dutch people. Donald Tusk | :14:37. | :14:41. | |
has borrowed a lot of Barack Obama's campaign slogans. Many people refer | :14:42. | :14:50. | |
to him as the Dutch Justin Trudeau. We should put this in context. | :14:51. | :15:03. | |
Geert Wilders is leading in the polls. The Progressive party is | :15:04. | :15:11. | |
doing well as well. There are so many undecided voters and that is | :15:12. | :15:14. | |
why so many people are predicting that next week could decide who is | :15:15. | :15:18. | |
We will be live on Tuesday, and Wednesday, which is election | :15:19. | :15:24. | |
A man in Australia who posed online as | :15:25. | :15:36. | |
Justin Bieber has been charged with more than 900 | :15:37. | :15:38. | |
The Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has told NHS hospitals in England that | :15:39. | :15:59. | |
they must get back to meeting the targets swiftly in A now that | :16:00. | :16:03. | |
extra money has been put into social care is announced in the budget. He | :16:04. | :16:08. | |
said it is essential for patient safety that A waiting times are | :16:09. | :16:16. | |
reduced. A departments and their performance is a fundamental matter | :16:17. | :16:22. | |
of patient safety. If we are leaving people to log in A departments, if | :16:23. | :16:27. | |
we are not getting the flow right through hospitals, it is bad for | :16:28. | :16:31. | |
patient safety and that is why it is absolutely essential that we get | :16:32. | :16:36. | |
back to the 95% target. I am personally not a great fan of | :16:37. | :16:41. | |
targets and I am not a fan of having too many targets, but this one is | :16:42. | :16:55. | |
This is Outside Source live from the BBC newsroom. | :16:56. | :17:00. | |
Our lead story is the US is expanding its presence in Syria. | :17:01. | :17:03. | |
400 extra marines will offer support to local militia trying to drive | :17:04. | :17:06. | |
the Islamic State group out of Raqqa. | :17:07. | :17:13. | |
And we can pick up from the stories from BBC World Service. | :17:14. | :17:20. | |
Guatemala has declared three days of national mourning after a fire | :17:21. | :17:32. | |
killed at least 20 teenage girls at a children's care home. | :17:33. | :17:34. | |
Other children are not accounted for and we know hundreds | :17:35. | :17:37. | |
Hospitals in Kenya have begun sacking doctors who have been | :17:38. | :17:42. | |
The government says they will be replaced by Cuban | :17:43. | :17:49. | |
An Egyptian woman who is believed to be the world's heaviest woman has | :17:50. | :17:57. | |
undergone weight reduction surgery in Mumbai. | :17:58. | :18:01. | |
In Australia, a law professor who posed online as Justin Bieber | :18:02. | :18:04. | |
online has been charged with more than 900 child sex-related offences. | :18:05. | :18:08. | |
He's based in Brisbane, but his alleged offences | :18:09. | :18:12. | |
Authorities say 50 come from the United States. | :18:13. | :18:18. | |
An idol to millions, Justin Bieber, the pop star with an adoring young | :18:19. | :18:40. | |
fan base across the globe. But now a 42-year-old law professor in | :18:41. | :18:43. | |
Brisbane is accused of sexually abusing children by pretending to be | :18:44. | :18:49. | |
the Canadian star. Gordon Douglas charmers allegedly used social media | :18:50. | :18:52. | |
to win the trust of fans, including up to 20 in the UK, and got them to | :18:53. | :18:59. | |
send him explicit images. He was already facing charges of grooming | :19:00. | :19:03. | |
children and after police went through his computer, more than 900 | :19:04. | :19:08. | |
new charges have been added. They include three of rape, five of | :19:09. | :19:12. | |
indecent treatment of children and hundreds of making child | :19:13. | :19:18. | |
exploitation material. Justin Bieber is touring Australia and some of his | :19:19. | :19:23. | |
teenage fans say they can understand why young people may be tempted to | :19:24. | :19:29. | |
speak to their fake celebrity online. Sometimes maybe the | :19:30. | :19:33. | |
excitement might get them like, oh, wow, this is so amazing. I am going | :19:34. | :19:40. | |
to go with him. Queensland police say the arrest was made after two | :19:41. | :19:44. | |
pups from the US and German authorities and they are warning | :19:45. | :19:46. | |
parents to protect their children online. It is my rules, it is my | :19:47. | :19:52. | |
house, and there is a lot out there and I want to be on top of it. | :19:53. | :20:01. | |
Charmers is due in court next month. Let's go to South Korea. | :20:02. | :20:02. | |
Lee Jae-Yong is the de facto boss of the entire Samsung Group | :20:03. | :20:07. | |
and he's on trial in South Korea charged with bribery | :20:08. | :20:09. | |
At the centre of the story is this woman. | :20:10. | :20:19. | |
The allegation is that Samsung donated $36 million to foundations | :20:20. | :20:22. | |
It also donated a horse, not this one, to help her | :20:23. | :20:27. | |
The prosecution will also be detailing how | :20:28. | :20:31. | |
she is very good friends with South Korea's | :20:32. | :20:34. | |
Next we need to note that Samsung's Lee Jae-Yong met the President. | :20:35. | :20:42. | |
The allegation is that they discussed donations being made | :20:43. | :20:46. | |
in exchange for government support for a restructuring of Samsung. | :20:47. | :20:52. | |
Both deny anything improper occurred. | :20:53. | :20:58. | |
But remember the President has already been impeached | :20:59. | :21:00. | |
It's at this point, I'm going to enlist the help | :21:01. | :21:04. | |
His lawyers were be and in denial of the accusations. We had legal | :21:05. | :21:15. | |
hearings today, a bit of a wrangle between the two sides about whether | :21:16. | :21:19. | |
they could use PowerPoint and that kind of thing. This trial will go on | :21:20. | :21:24. | |
until May. Vanstone argued that firstly it was not corruption. We | :21:25. | :21:30. | |
give money to good causes all the time. There was no deal done. They | :21:31. | :21:35. | |
are not disputing there was a meeting, but what they are saying is | :21:36. | :21:39. | |
that was no quid pro quo for the money. That would be crucial. Very | :21:40. | :21:44. | |
difficult to prove corruption when there is no evidence in terms of | :21:45. | :21:49. | |
documents or anything like that, and only two people involved. It is a | :21:50. | :21:54. | |
complex case, but there is a bigger trial if you like, and that is the | :21:55. | :21:58. | |
trial of the way in which the biggest companies in this country | :21:59. | :22:04. | |
and government relate to each other. A lot of people literally on the | :22:05. | :22:08. | |
streets say it is far too cosy, far too close, and it needs to change. | :22:09. | :22:13. | |
You have looked at this from a political angle and a legal angle. | :22:14. | :22:18. | |
Let's look at this from a business angle? Is this having an impact on | :22:19. | :22:25. | |
Samsung's business? From a business perspective. If you recall the | :22:26. | :22:31. | |
Galaxy known seven, the smartphones with reports of them catching on | :22:32. | :22:36. | |
fire, that caused more damage to them financially than this case has | :22:37. | :22:44. | |
so far. I am basing this on Samsung's day-to-day operations. | :22:45. | :22:47. | |
They are still showing of new gadgets, tablets, virtual reality. I | :22:48. | :22:53. | |
have received an invite to an event here in New York for the unveiling | :22:54. | :23:00. | |
of a new smartphone, perhaps a chance for them to put the fire | :23:01. | :23:04. | |
prone smartphones behind it. But the question longer term is something to | :23:05. | :23:10. | |
go back to what Steve was talking about, how South Korean companies, | :23:11. | :23:14. | |
these family run enterprises, how they do business. Is that under | :23:15. | :23:19. | |
threat? That potentially could be the worry for Samsung investors. We | :23:20. | :23:23. | |
will talk to you next week I am sure. I want to talk about Lego. It | :23:24. | :23:31. | |
has just reported the highest full-year sales in its history, all | :23:32. | :23:38. | |
85 years of it. In 2016 Lego sold more than 26 billion parts. It also | :23:39. | :23:45. | |
launched over 300 new sets. Strong sales were partly thanks to | :23:46. | :23:48. | |
deals with businesses like Star Wars. | :23:49. | :23:52. | |
In case you're wondering, the Millennium Falcon | :23:53. | :23:54. | |
But, and there is a but, overall growth has slowed | :23:55. | :23:57. | |
Bali Padda is the first non-Dane and non-family | :23:58. | :24:02. | |
Here's his analysis of how the company's doing. | :24:03. | :24:11. | |
If you look at the growth in the last five or ten years, it has been | :24:12. | :24:19. | |
what we call supernatural and it has sometimes surprised us. When we look | :24:20. | :24:24. | |
at the future, we are seeing sustainable levels in 2016 and we | :24:25. | :24:29. | |
expect to grow in the low to mid single digits in the future. But for | :24:30. | :24:35. | |
us at the heart of Lego is how do we ensure that we continue to innovate | :24:36. | :24:42. | |
around these and augment it with digital? If you look at new products | :24:43. | :24:46. | |
coming out in August and September, the heart of it is the building | :24:47. | :24:50. | |
system, so you build with the Lego bricks and you can also code with it | :24:51. | :24:54. | |
and this is for children seven upwards. The core building | :24:55. | :24:59. | |
experience is what we continue to focus on and we were augmented with | :25:00. | :25:04. | |
digital. We will watch out for that. We will be live from the Netherlands | :25:05. | :25:07. | |
next week covering the Dutch elections. They are always | :25:08. | :25:12. | |
interesting, but they are relevant because of the way Geert Wilders has | :25:13. | :25:25. | |
been performing. Some of the polls are putting him ahead of everyone | :25:26. | :25:29. | |
else. That does not mean he will form the next government because | :25:30. | :25:36. | |
they have coalitions. We will be there to describe the election and | :25:37. | :25:43. | |
analyse it for you. Coming up, what the head of the US Environmental | :25:44. | :25:46. | |
Protection Agency has said. He says he does not feel that man produced | :25:47. | :25:50. | |
carbon dioxide is responsible for climate change. We will go into what | :25:51. | :25:56. | |
he has said and how people have been responding. | :25:57. | :26:04. |