:00:07. > :00:10.Hello, I'm Philippa Thomas, this is Outside Source.
:00:11. > :00:13.Our top story - Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny
:00:14. > :00:16.15 days in prison following nationwide anti-corruption
:00:17. > :00:25.I stopped expecting anything but a guilty verdict
:00:26. > :00:30.Hundreds of demonstrators were detained in the biggest
:00:31. > :00:33.anti-government protests for five years.
:00:34. > :00:48.The Kremlin says they were breaking the law and provoking violence.
:00:49. > :00:50.We'll bring you a report from the front line in Iraq
:00:51. > :00:57.It might be good for the tempo of the military operation but it
:00:58. > :00:58.isn't necessarily good for preserving civilian lives.
:00:59. > :01:01.In the Syrian City of Homs, the second phase of a major
:01:02. > :01:08.Children with infants in their arms, the elderly in wheelchairs
:01:09. > :01:33.and many of the fighters carrying automatic weapons.
:01:34. > :01:36.In Russia, Alexei Navalny has been jailed for 15 days
:01:37. > :01:41.for resisting police orders during nationwide protests.
:01:42. > :01:44.Mr Navalny is one of the most outspoken opposition leaders
:01:45. > :01:49.and he's one of at least 500 people held by police.
:01:50. > :01:53.There were protests in Vladivostok in the far
:01:54. > :01:56.East and major ones in Tomsk and Novosibirsk.
:01:57. > :02:01.But it was the ones in St Petersburg and right
:02:02. > :02:03.in the centre of Moscow that drew thousands of people.
:02:04. > :02:06.The trigger for the protests was this video.
:02:07. > :02:11.claiming that the Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev controls
:02:12. > :02:25.a fortune that far outstrips his official salary.
:02:26. > :02:28.Ahead of the ruling in the court Mr Navalny tweeted @navalny: Hello
:02:29. > :02:32.The time will come when we will judge them.
:02:33. > :02:35.Steve Rosenberg was in court for the verdict and gave us this update.
:02:36. > :02:37.I'm standing outside a Moscow court house in a spring blizzard.
:02:38. > :02:41.A short while ago the Russian opposition
:02:42. > :02:44.activist Alexei Navalny was found guilty of organising Sunday's mass
:02:45. > :02:52.protests, anti-government protests across Russia.
:02:53. > :02:53.He was fined the equivalent of around $350.
:02:54. > :02:56.Then he was found guilty of disobeying
:02:57. > :03:00.police and for that was sentenced to 15 days in jail.
:03:01. > :03:02.This police van behind me has arrived to whisk him
:03:03. > :03:14.Some of Mr Navalny's supporters turned up to
:03:15. > :03:16.wave good luck signs, so that he could see them
:03:17. > :03:20.Then police officers came up to them and took them away.
:03:21. > :03:23.Earlier I managed to ask Alexi Navalny outside the courtroom how
:03:24. > :03:35.significant he thought yesterday's protest had been.
:03:36. > :03:38.It was Alexei Navalny who had called Russians onto
:03:39. > :03:40.the street at the weekend to take part in anti-government protests.
:03:41. > :03:42.And people came across the country in dozens
:03:43. > :03:43.of towns and cities in
:03:44. > :03:58.I was on Pushkin Square where there were thousands of
:03:59. > :04:01.That protest was broken up by Russian riot police.
:04:02. > :04:02.These protests have cemented Alexei Navalny's
:04:03. > :04:11.position as unofficial leader of the Russian opposition.
:04:12. > :04:16.Meanwhile the Kremlin today said it respected
:04:17. > :04:23.people's right to come out and voice their opinion but that
:04:24. > :04:28.repeated its belief that some of those protests
:04:29. > :04:30.at the weekend had been unsanctioned and therefore illegal.
:04:31. > :04:40.Olga Ivshina is following the story in Moscow.
:04:41. > :04:47.And Alexei Navalny said that, and also the range of the cities that
:04:48. > :04:51.participated. This was more than 80 cities all over Russia. In most of
:04:52. > :04:56.the city is the rallies were not allowed by the Government, which
:04:57. > :05:01.means that people didn't take those risks to come to streets, which is
:05:02. > :05:05.very interesting, but many young people, students and even
:05:06. > :05:09.schoolchildren were taking part in the valleys. This says that Alexei
:05:10. > :05:11.Navalny managed to get his message through not by traditional means of
:05:12. > :05:18.communication which are controlled by the Government, but by unusual
:05:19. > :05:21.means, internet, social media. And he is spreading the message to the
:05:22. > :05:31.masses which are not watching the TV. And of course the Prime Minister
:05:32. > :05:35.was the focus of these corruption allegations. I want to show our
:05:36. > :05:47.viewers a Tweet from The Guardian's reporter in Moscow.
:05:48. > :05:54.Have we not have any official response from him? No, there was no
:05:55. > :05:58.official response. All we know is that the Prime Minister and Alexei
:05:59. > :06:02.Navalny from his Instagram account and yesterday he was asked by one of
:06:03. > :06:04.his followers on Instagram how did he spend his day, he replied, he had
:06:05. > :06:07.a nice time skiing. The United States is investigating
:06:08. > :06:09.whether a coalition-led air strike killed at least 100 people
:06:10. > :06:12.in the Iraqi City of Mosul. It happened in the city's
:06:13. > :06:16.west ten days ago. The Iraqi military disputes
:06:17. > :06:18.the death toll and blames booby-traps set by so-called Islamic
:06:19. > :06:23.State. Meanwhile the US-backed Iraqi
:06:24. > :06:25.forces are still battling He's been tweeting
:06:26. > :06:45.updates over the weekend. He's also watching residents just
:06:46. > :06:55.trying to get on with life. This is the Iraqi solution
:06:56. > :07:05.to an offensive that's stalled over It feels as if the air war over
:07:06. > :07:19.Mosul is intensifying. They seem confident
:07:20. > :07:28.they won't get shot down. And every day a few thousand more
:07:29. > :07:32.people come walking out of the areas of Mosul still held by the jihadists
:07:33. > :07:39.who call themselves Islamic State. Many said IS used them as human
:07:40. > :07:43.shields, shooting out from the cover But the response, more air
:07:44. > :07:54.strikes, horrified them. TRANSLATION: They destroyed our
:07:55. > :07:58.homes, our cars, everything. Entire families are gone,
:07:59. > :08:08.they are under the rubble. Some very sophisticated modern
:08:09. > :08:26.weapons are in this fight. Locally made rockets used over
:08:27. > :08:37.a short range, a blunt instrument. It might be good for the tempo
:08:38. > :08:45.of the military operation but it isn't necessarily good
:08:46. > :08:50.for preserving civilian lives. But they want to win
:08:51. > :08:52.this battle and they're Most of the people arriving
:08:53. > :08:59.in government-held territory Many said IS fighters forced
:09:00. > :09:10.themselves into their homes. Nine of this woman's family were
:09:11. > :09:15.killed in a big raid on the 17th. She said she wasn't escaping
:09:16. > :09:17.the jihadists but air strikes that used tonnes of bombs
:09:18. > :09:26.on a single sniper. TRANSLATION: They destroyed
:09:27. > :09:29.the houses when there are one or two or three so-called Islamic State
:09:30. > :09:31.men inside them. My children, nine
:09:32. > :09:42.of my family killed. They call them smart
:09:43. > :09:46.bombs but this is stupid. The people of Mosul have been left
:09:47. > :09:56.with impossible choices. Risk death in their own
:09:57. > :09:59.homes or risk death Iraq has been shattered by the years
:10:00. > :10:05.of war and sectarian conflict that followed the US
:10:06. > :10:07.and British invasion. It might be too late to put this
:10:08. > :10:17.country back together. I want to take you across the border
:10:18. > :10:21.now to northern Syria. It's the largest in Syria and has
:10:22. > :10:30.been under control of the so-called US-backed Syrian forces
:10:31. > :10:36.are trying to take it back. But efforts have been paused
:10:37. > :10:39.because the dam could be This image was released
:10:40. > :10:49.by the IS news agency which says it shows
:10:50. > :10:51.a burnt control room. The UN warns that would mean
:10:52. > :10:53.catastrophic flooding. We'll monitor the situation
:10:54. > :11:03.and bring you news. Meanwhile, in the
:11:04. > :11:05.Syrian city of Homs the second phase of a major
:11:06. > :11:07.evacuation is getting Thousands of rebel fighters
:11:08. > :11:12.and their families are leaving the al-Waer district as part
:11:13. > :11:14.of a deal backed by Russia. Time and again this
:11:15. > :11:25.is how battles have ended over the course
:11:26. > :11:27.of the Today it is the fighters
:11:28. > :11:41.from al-Waer and their families who are
:11:42. > :11:42.being forced to leave. Children carrying all their worldly
:11:43. > :11:45.goods that they can The elderly, the injured
:11:46. > :11:49.in wheelchairs. Many of the fighters
:11:50. > :11:52.carrying their automatic weapons. These buses will take them further
:11:53. > :11:57.north close to the Turkish border where they'll continue their battle
:11:58. > :12:02.against Syrian Government forces. The process has been
:12:03. > :12:11.supervised by the red jacketed officials of
:12:12. > :12:12.the Syrian military police
:12:13. > :12:17.as well as police from Russia It's a deal the Government
:12:18. > :12:19.calls reconciliation, part of the process,
:12:20. > :12:22.they say which will bring Syria But for the fighters that
:12:23. > :12:25.amounts to a surrender Many of them are
:12:26. > :12:32.leaving their homes. Once this process in
:12:33. > :12:36.al-Waer is complete all of Homs, the country's third largest
:12:37. > :12:39.city, will be back in the A city that the opposition once
:12:40. > :12:43.called the capital of Today, in al-Waer,
:12:44. > :12:53.it is coming to an end. Stay with us - in a couple
:12:54. > :12:55.of minutes, we'll tell you about a new appointment
:12:56. > :13:02.in the Trump administration. The President's son-in-law
:13:03. > :13:04.Jared Kushner will be in charge of a new unit to overhaul Government
:13:05. > :13:20.bureaucracy. Northern Ireland's political parties
:13:21. > :13:24.have been given more time to form a power sharing Government. The
:13:25. > :13:28.Democratic Unionist Party and Sinn Fein failed to strike a deal and the
:13:29. > :13:33.Northern Ireland minister said there is only a short window of
:13:34. > :13:38.opportunity know before they can get a political deal together.
:13:39. > :13:42.Throughout this process the UK Government has been active in making
:13:43. > :13:50.positive proposals to try and bridge these gaps and help the parties move
:13:51. > :13:55.things forward. Despite these efforts, agreement at this stage has
:13:56. > :14:02.not proved possible. This will have impacts. We are rapidly approaching
:14:03. > :14:09.the point at which Northern Ireland will not have an agreed budget. This
:14:10. > :14:16.is not sustainable and will have consequences for public services.
:14:17. > :14:19.This is Outside Source live from the BBC newsroom.
:14:20. > :14:24.Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, has been sentenced
:14:25. > :14:27.to 15 days in jail after his arrest on Sunday at an
:14:28. > :14:32.Mr Navalny was one of hundreds of demonstrators detained
:14:33. > :14:43.The Metropolitan Police have told the BBC that no evidence has been
:14:44. > :14:46.found of a link between Westminster attacker Khalid Masood and so-called
:14:47. > :14:50.Masood's mother has released a statement saying she is deeply
:14:51. > :14:53.shocked, saddened and numbed by his murderous actions.
:14:54. > :15:00.Turkish citizens in six European countries have started voting
:15:01. > :15:05.in a referendum which could see Turkey move from a parliamentary
:15:06. > :15:08.republic to a presidential one, boosting President Erdogan's powers.
:15:09. > :15:10.Around three million people are eligible
:15:11. > :15:26.Two girls were barred from flying on a United Airlines flight because
:15:27. > :15:32.they were wearing leggings. The airline said they were travelling on
:15:33. > :15:42.a special pass which required if certain dress code.
:15:43. > :15:45.Donald Trump has unveiled a new unit aimed at overhauling the bureaucracy
:15:46. > :15:49.it is his son-in-law, Jared Kushner.
:15:50. > :15:51.The Office of American Innovation will reportedly have sweeping powers
:15:52. > :15:56.In a statement to the Washington Post Donald Trump said he's
:15:57. > :15:58.creating it because "Government stagnation has hindered our ability
:15:59. > :16:00."to properly function, often creating widespread congestion
:16:01. > :16:13."and leading to cost overruns and delays."
:16:14. > :16:33.How powerful does this make them? It makes him very powerful. It looks
:16:34. > :16:37.like Jared Kushner had been sidelined to people like Steve
:16:38. > :16:41.Bannon, no he seems to be having a resurgence. He has always been
:16:42. > :16:46.involved in foreign policy decisions but this gives him a wide range of
:16:47. > :16:51.four different areas. He will be co-operating with leaders of various
:16:52. > :16:57.companies, coming up with best practices, in order to try to
:16:58. > :17:00.improve Government. When he has recommendations the question will be
:17:01. > :17:03.forever executive agencies take these recommendations, how much
:17:04. > :17:07.pressure of the trumpeter illustration can apply, we will have
:17:08. > :17:10.to see how it all shapes up. This is a young man and an
:17:11. > :17:14.apparently uncomfortable spotlight. But we show our viewers a Tweet from
:17:15. > :17:23.the New York Times breaking the story.
:17:24. > :17:26.This is because he became the point man on foreign contacts for the cup
:17:27. > :17:33.campaign. Exactly. He was in contact with the
:17:34. > :17:38.Russian ambassador to the US. Apparently he also had a meeting
:17:39. > :17:43.with a Russian development bank. He has been having these back Channel
:17:44. > :17:45.meetings outside the Department of the state adds traditional
:17:46. > :17:50.diplomatic channels with various foreign leaders. He will be under a
:17:51. > :17:54.bit of a spotlight like to see exactly what role he played in the
:17:55. > :17:57.Trump administration's relations with Russia. As you know during the
:17:58. > :18:01.campaign there was some questions about the kind of ties that the
:18:02. > :18:05.tramp campaign had with Russian officials, and they had been in some
:18:06. > :18:08.hot water, and that is an ongoing FBI investigation into possible
:18:09. > :18:12.Russian meddling in the elections and any influence the tram company
:18:13. > :18:15.may have had on that. Let us go back to the kind of thing
:18:16. > :18:20.that Donald Trump is promising during the campaign. One of the
:18:21. > :18:23.promises was he would build highways, bridges, dams, reform
:18:24. > :18:27.American infrastructure. As it is harder for him to get onto that no,
:18:28. > :18:32.isn't it? It is. The health care loss, failure
:18:33. > :18:36.to advance that reforming Congress, was a blow to this administration,
:18:37. > :18:41.they needed to get that taken care of quickly, they needed to get some
:18:42. > :18:44.of the taxes down that were involved, in order to tackle
:18:45. > :18:48.projects going forward such as infrastructure. It seems that
:18:49. > :18:52.infrastructure, which could have been a bipartisan issue, has been
:18:53. > :18:56.pushed back indefinitely. They are focusing on tax reform next. They
:18:57. > :19:00.can get through that, and that is a big job, then they will go on to
:19:01. > :19:07.infrastructure. They are being put under the gun here. They are on
:19:08. > :19:13.their backheel is a bit. And building infrastructure could be
:19:14. > :19:22.an issue that wins bipartisan support from Democrats as well, but
:19:23. > :19:28.as our reporter reports, that will not be an easy task.
:19:29. > :19:34.The tallest damn in the richest nation on earth is no longer a
:19:35. > :19:40.source of pride. After heavy rain as overflow channels began to crumble.
:19:41. > :19:43.Nearly 2000 Californians had to flee. Neither water level has fallen
:19:44. > :19:49.the damage is laid bear. What happened here is a wake-up call. In
:19:50. > :19:53.a country where infrastructure spending has been out of fashion for
:19:54. > :19:56.decades. The lesson is simple. The longer you put off repairs or
:19:57. > :20:02.upgrades the greater the risk and the higher the cost in the end.
:20:03. > :20:13.But that is exactly what the US has been doing. More than 2000 American
:20:14. > :20:19.dams are rated as not efficient. We clearly missed if you things. When I
:20:20. > :20:26.say we, it is the regulators, third-party independent consultants.
:20:27. > :20:32.This is a catastrophic event but we are all learning from this. With
:20:33. > :20:36.bands and parading troops, the celebration over the Lincoln
:20:37. > :20:41.Tunnel... In the last century the US or two big building booms, the first
:20:42. > :20:45.game in the 1930s, Roosevelt's new Deal puts millions of Americans to
:20:46. > :20:50.work on projects like this, the second was in the 1950s in 1960s
:20:51. > :20:53.with the construction of interstate highway system. Minutes after he was
:20:54. > :21:02.elected president, Donald Trump, see third. They are going to rebuild our
:21:03. > :21:09.infrastructure. It will become second to none. Mr Trump is
:21:10. > :21:14.particularly scathing about America's airports, once icons of
:21:15. > :21:19.progress, he now calls them third world. But Los Angeles International
:21:20. > :21:23.is already spending billions on more dates, new railways, smarter
:21:24. > :21:28.terminals, funded not by Government, backed by passenger fees and private
:21:29. > :21:32.capital. RB really wants to be? We certainly are not. But as the
:21:33. > :21:38.experience third World? Absolutely not. We are a airport. We have
:21:39. > :21:42.fantastic facilities already but we are digging into that next level
:21:43. > :21:45.which will be the gold standard airport. Showcase projects are one
:21:46. > :21:51.thing but when it comes to more mundane repairers to roads and
:21:52. > :21:56.bridges and dams, the US is to trillion dollars short. Life as we
:21:57. > :21:58.knew it in the 21st-century in the United States is going to
:21:59. > :22:03.increasingly look like what is moral and other parts of the world,
:22:04. > :22:09.especially in Latin America. It is not going to be a 21st-century
:22:10. > :22:18.Western country. The challenge it seems as not to make America a great
:22:19. > :22:24.again to stop it from falling apart. Let us renew their business. The oil
:22:25. > :22:28.price is dropping again after a recent rally. You can see the
:22:29. > :22:33.turbulence in the prices. At the start of last year prices went to 13
:22:34. > :22:38.year laws, but the rebound at following a landmark deal between
:22:39. > :22:41.members of the Opec cartel to limit production rises. That group met
:22:42. > :22:44.again at the weekend and there are questions over whether the
:22:45. > :22:50.agreements will be extended. Let us find out what is happening from our
:22:51. > :22:56.correspondent in New York. We are seeing West Texas
:22:57. > :23:00.intermediate crude fell again, four tenths of 1%, is concerned that we
:23:01. > :23:05.continue to see, which is there are worries about too much supply is
:23:06. > :23:08.hitting the market, there are worries about what this she'll boom
:23:09. > :23:12.that we have seen here in America is doing to the price of oil. Speaking
:23:13. > :23:16.to people in the past there have been a sense of optimism that
:23:17. > :23:21.perhaps by 2018 we would see the price of oil climbing back to $60
:23:22. > :23:25.per barrel. At the moment that is hard to imagine. Let us broaden
:23:26. > :23:29.things out and talk about how the markets are feeling about the Trump
:23:30. > :23:34.presidency. Health reform goes by the wayside. He wants to get onto
:23:35. > :23:42.tax reform but can he? All eyes on Wall Street just a short
:23:43. > :23:46.distance from here, was on how the markets would open this Monday.
:23:47. > :23:51.There has been concern, certainly amongst investors, about what
:23:52. > :23:57.happens next to Donald Trump's legislative agenda. Can he pushed
:23:58. > :24:02.through on things like tax reform, infrastructure spending? All of
:24:03. > :24:06.these things that investors had assumed would come to pass, given
:24:07. > :24:11.that they had a president famous for the art of the deal. That is why you
:24:12. > :24:15.have seen this tremendous run-up in the stock market since the election
:24:16. > :24:20.in November. Over the last few days you have seen the Dow Jones falling.
:24:21. > :24:25.It seems to have broken that street. It calls just slightly down, having
:24:26. > :24:28.recovered a lot of the losses from earlier in the day, but there are
:24:29. > :24:33.definitely questions know about how effective he can be, and whether or
:24:34. > :24:36.not he can get things done, specifically on tax reform, whether
:24:37. > :24:39.he will perhaps have two dial down his ambition to get some of that
:24:40. > :24:43.through. There has been some good news for
:24:44. > :24:47.Apple, the Silicon Valley giant, it has won an important copyright
:24:48. > :24:54.ruling in China which means it will not be banned from selling the
:24:55. > :24:56.iPhone six in the country. A Chinese firm sought a ban last using this
:24:57. > :25:00.particular smartphone model infringed its intellectual property.
:25:01. > :25:05.Today a court ruled there was not enough evidence. China is an
:25:06. > :25:09.important market for Apple, research suggests they sold 44 million
:25:10. > :25:13.smartphones are there in 2016. Our business reporter explains why
:25:14. > :25:19.Apple is struggling to increase its market share.
:25:20. > :25:21.It has particular ways of operating and often Western companies find
:25:22. > :25:26.that difficult but it is not impossible. There are still strong
:25:27. > :25:31.sales of devices like the Apple, but last year they were down by 33%, so
:25:32. > :25:35.it does seem like a local companies are coming up with budget phones,
:25:36. > :25:39.and they are really taking off in the country. Apple was allowed to
:25:40. > :25:43.continue to sell the iPhone six during the appeal process so it is
:25:44. > :25:46.never really been banned, but it does go to show that if you take on
:25:47. > :25:50.Apple when you had to be very sure about what you are fighting because
:25:51. > :25:53.it is a huge machine and it will keep pushing, it has the resources
:25:54. > :25:55.and the money to really fight these cases.
:25:56. > :26:10.Much more to come. Do stay with us. The most significant weather story
:26:11. > :26:11.across the globe at the moment as