:00:10. > :00:13.Hello, I'm Philippa Thomas, this is Outside Source.
:00:14. > :00:18.Let's look through some of the main stories here in the BBC Newsroom.
:00:19. > :00:20.Russia's opposition leader, Alexei Navalny, has been sentenced
:00:21. > :00:22.to 15 days in prison following nationwide
:00:23. > :00:31.Hundreds of demonstrators were detained in the biggest
:00:32. > :00:34.anti-government protests for five years.
:00:35. > :00:38.The Kremlin says they were breaking the law and provoking violence.
:00:39. > :00:41.The UN General Assembly has held its first ever debate
:00:42. > :00:51.But most of the world's nuclear powers, including the United States,
:00:52. > :00:55.There is nothing I want more for my family than a world
:00:56. > :01:00.without nuclear weapons. But we have to be realistic.
:01:01. > :01:04.Theresa May and Nicola Sturgeon meet just days before historic Brexit
:01:05. > :01:10.talks are triggered, and the two leaders do not see eye to eye.
:01:11. > :01:14.In sport, we'll hear about what may keep the US Women's hockey team off
:01:15. > :01:16.the ice for the World Championship next week in Michigan.
:01:17. > :01:32.Remember, you can get in touch at BBC OS.
:01:33. > :01:37.Talks to bring about a global nuclear arms ban are under way
:01:38. > :01:40.at the United Nations in New York, but most of the world's nuclear
:01:41. > :01:45.The US ambassador to the UN explained why the United States
:01:46. > :01:59.Is there anyone that believes that North Korea would agree to a ban on
:02:00. > :02:06.nuclear weapons? So what you would see is the General Assembly would go
:02:07. > :02:11.through, in good faith, trying to do something, but North Korea would be
:02:12. > :02:14.the one cheering, and all of us and the people that we represent would
:02:15. > :02:20.be the ones at risk. And so we've always said that the United States
:02:21. > :02:25.thinks it's important to defend the citizens of our country, but just as
:02:26. > :02:26.important to defend our friends, our allies and the rest of the countries
:02:27. > :02:28.that want peace in the world. Nada Tawfik is in New York
:02:29. > :02:40.and joins us now. I guess the fact that the US and
:02:41. > :02:45.others are not backing the treaty puts a damper on things. Absolutely.
:02:46. > :02:50.We heard from Japan, speaking in the General Assembly hall, they are the
:02:51. > :02:54.only country that suffered an atomic attack, and they put the point on
:02:55. > :02:59.this saying, if we have a nuclear ban treaty, but we have none of the
:03:00. > :03:03.nuclear powers signed up to it, and if this doesn't stop the development
:03:04. > :03:10.of even a single nuclear weapons, what is the point of all of this? We
:03:11. > :03:18.heard from other nations who support and agree with Senator Haley, and
:03:19. > :03:25.they think an international framework is in place, and they
:03:26. > :03:30.think there needs to be step by step gradual approach to nuclear weapons,
:03:31. > :03:34.because they are concerned about national security. Those supporters
:03:35. > :03:38.of this would say that it is the only weapon of mass destruction that
:03:39. > :03:43.doesn't have an international ban on it, and that should be the first
:03:44. > :03:46.step. What I don't understand here is, it was entirely pricked a ball
:03:47. > :03:47.that the US wouldn't sign up to this Treaty, so why have the debate in
:03:48. > :03:55.the first place? They are hoping to get a treaty out
:03:56. > :04:00.of this and there is an argument that it is really a treaty without
:04:01. > :04:04.any teeth if it doesn't have the nuclear powers in it. But
:04:05. > :04:09.campaigners are hoping this will at least send a message. It will show
:04:10. > :04:12.that international norms are against nuclear weapons and the
:04:13. > :04:17.proliferation of them, and they think it will force many nations the
:04:18. > :04:21.same way, the cluster ban or the landmine conventions have forced
:04:22. > :04:26.other states to change their behaviour and the way they operate.
:04:27. > :04:30.That is the main gimmick you hear from campaigners and supporters of
:04:31. > :04:35.this treaty. Their ultimate goal and ideal is for, late in the process,
:04:36. > :04:41.for the states to sign up to the treaty once they get it ratified.
:04:42. > :04:45.From speaking to the US and Britain, the UK, and others, it doesn't seem
:04:46. > :04:52.like they would be interested in that. They see the NPT as the goal
:04:53. > :04:56.of the nuclear free world. Nada Tawfik, thank you.
:04:57. > :04:58.On Wednesday, the British Prime Minister Theresa May
:04:59. > :05:01.That starts the clock on two years of negotiations
:05:02. > :05:05.But Scotland's First Minister has a deadline of her own.
:05:06. > :05:07.Nicola Sturgeon wants a second independence referendum
:05:08. > :05:10.for the people of Scotland before Brexit.
:05:11. > :05:11.Theresa May says it's not the right time.
:05:12. > :05:20.The two leaders met today in Glasgow.
:05:21. > :05:23.has the formerly warm relationship gone cold?
:05:24. > :05:36.Theresa May knows this could be awkward. She's here to talk about
:05:37. > :05:40.her Article 50 letter. She's here to press her demand for a referendum on
:05:41. > :05:43.independence. So no handshakes, no press conference, just a couple of
:05:44. > :06:06.souvenir photographs that neither woman looks like they're enjoying.
:06:07. > :06:08.By stark contrast, their first meeting, eight months
:06:09. > :06:11.ago, then it was called a good working relationship, now, Nicola
:06:12. > :06:13.Sturgeon says the PM has not listened to her on Brexit, Theresa
:06:14. > :06:17.May says that she will reject any request for a vote on Scottish
:06:18. > :06:20.My position is not going to change, now is not the time
:06:21. > :06:23.to be talking about a second independence referendum, because it
:06:24. > :06:26.would not be fair on the Scottish people to make them make that
:06:27. > :06:29.decision when the facts are not clear and also because now is the
:06:30. > :06:32.time when we need to pull together to make sure we get the best
:06:33. > :06:35.possible deal for the UK, including the people of Scotland.
:06:36. > :06:36.I'm told the meeting inside this hotel
:06:37. > :06:38.was businesslike, cordial, and probably
:06:39. > :06:40.the longest meeting yet between them, the Scottish Government were
:06:41. > :06:43.expecting an offer of more powers for the Scottish parliament after
:06:44. > :06:45.Brexit, but they say they got no detail on that.
:06:46. > :06:47.When Nicola Sturgeon told the Prime Minister how she
:06:48. > :06:50.plans to make a formal request for a Scottish referendum, the Prime
:06:51. > :06:52.Minister said simply, you know my position on that.
:06:53. > :06:57.The First Minister says Mrs May agreed, the shape
:06:58. > :07:06.of the Brexit deal should be clear in 18 to 24 months' time,
:07:07. > :07:08.which is when the Scottish Government want to
:07:09. > :07:12.We both agree, now is not the time to ask people to
:07:13. > :07:15.make the choice, but since we both appear to be in agreement as to when
:07:16. > :07:18.the terms of Brexit will become clear on the timetable, that would
:07:19. > :07:20.underline my view that that is the right time.
:07:21. > :07:24.In a speech to staff in East Kilbride, she says she wants to
:07:25. > :07:27.build a more United Nations. But it is Scottish independence on the
:07:28. > :07:30.agenda at the Holyrood parliament tomorrow, and they will almost
:07:31. > :07:40.certainly vote to call for a second referendum.
:07:41. > :07:44.USA Hockey, that's the US association for ice hockey,
:07:45. > :07:48.That's because their women's team is threatening to boycott
:07:49. > :07:50.the World Championships, here's the captain explaining why.
:07:51. > :08:15.USA hockey has been desperately searching for replacements, in case
:08:16. > :08:19.it needs them. Look at this, for example:
:08:20. > :08:31.There has been support from sponsors and politicians, and we will see
:08:32. > :08:42.from the men's national team, Alan Walsh, let me show you his tweet:
:08:43. > :08:49.Somebody who knows a lot about this, a lot more than me, AJ Perez, sports
:08:50. > :08:54.writer for USA Today, who's been following this story. How much
:08:55. > :09:02.support would you say this boycott has? It is pretty much massive
:09:03. > :09:06.support. You mentioned the senators that came out in support, all over
:09:07. > :09:12.social media, the trending hashtag, and so much support, it has been
:09:13. > :09:17.impossible for them to field a team of replacement players. This is a
:09:18. > :09:22.big issue because the championships are being held in the United States,
:09:23. > :09:27.and the American women's team might not play. Exactly. USA hockey would
:09:28. > :09:32.have to pay a fine if they don't play. It would look bad in front of
:09:33. > :09:42.all the international teams in Michigan. Not having a host team, it
:09:43. > :09:46.has been going on for 4.5 hours. There has been no progress and time
:09:47. > :09:49.is ticking down. I know that technically, the men don't earn that
:09:50. > :09:57.much more than the women, but actually the male players have a lot
:09:58. > :10:01.more cash, don't they. Yeah, 98 NHL players have played in the Olympics.
:10:02. > :10:07.If you are 18 USA player, you make millions in the NHL, there is a leak
:10:08. > :10:15.here that has been around for two years for the women, and it has a
:10:16. > :10:22.top pay of 20,000 or $30,000. It is not really apples and apples. If
:10:23. > :10:25.women don't get the living wage that they are asking for, and the
:10:26. > :10:31.championship is in a few days, what does American hockey do? It's been
:10:32. > :10:41.tough. They've been trying since last Thursday to fill the team with
:10:42. > :10:48.players they have gotten from the under 18 's and under 16 's. They
:10:49. > :10:51.have gone down to high school and reached out of players that have
:10:52. > :10:59.been out of the game for a few years. They are paying women around
:11:00. > :11:02.the nation, and so far have come up pretty far short of filling an
:11:03. > :11:07.entire team. There is so much support for the boycotting women,
:11:08. > :11:09.they may not have a team and may have to pay the fine. Thanks for
:11:10. > :11:14.bringing us up-to-date. He was a member of Ghana's
:11:15. > :11:20.football coaching team That ended in February,
:11:21. > :11:27.but Mr Nus hasn't left Ghana yet. He's been staging a sit-in
:11:28. > :11:30.at a hotel, because he wasn't Now though, the Ghana football
:11:31. > :11:33.association says it has "finally Gerard Nus all his outstanding
:11:34. > :11:57.bonuses on Saturday." More sport to bring you. We have
:11:58. > :12:01.some extraordinary pictures from Motocross.
:12:02. > :12:02.They're from the Freestyle Motocross World Championships,
:12:03. > :12:05.the fourth round took place in Poland on Saturday.
:12:06. > :12:10.This event is known as 'night of the jumps.'
:12:11. > :12:15.One competitor broke his femur only six months ago,
:12:16. > :12:18.But it was Spain's Maikel Melero who won.
:12:19. > :12:27.Quite extraordinary pictures. I have rather got my heart in my mouth
:12:28. > :12:30.watching that. We will move onto political story. European politics
:12:31. > :12:33.this time. You might remember Dutch
:12:34. > :12:35.voters went to the polls Almost two weeks on,
:12:36. > :12:38.Prime Minister Mark Rutte is still trying to form
:12:39. > :12:40.a new centre-right coalition. Four parties will enter
:12:41. > :12:45.talks this week. Including left-wing
:12:46. > :12:46.environmentalists GroenLinks, That's the Dutch and what is going
:12:47. > :12:56.on there. It's Germany's turn to hold general
:12:57. > :12:58.elections in September. Christian Democrats leader
:12:59. > :13:01.Angela Merkel will try for a fourth term as chancellor and she's just
:13:02. > :13:07.had some good news. It's about Saarland,
:13:08. > :13:12.a small German state which had an election
:13:13. > :13:14.this weekend seen as a significant test
:13:15. > :13:16.of voter sentiment. Saarland was run by a coalition
:13:17. > :13:18.whose makeup mirrors national government,
:13:19. > :13:20.that's a mix of Merkel's CDU The Christian Democrats won
:13:21. > :13:31.with 40.7% of the vote. That's UP by more
:13:32. > :13:37.than 5% since the last election. The SDP, led by former EU president
:13:38. > :13:40.Martin Schulz, polled 29.6%. Here's a somewhat
:13:41. > :13:47.relieved Angela Merkel. TRANSLATION: Obviously, the citizens
:13:48. > :13:52.have seen that this Coalition is a Coalition that governs well. We have
:13:53. > :13:57.a lot of hard work to do. It is going to be a difficult campaign,
:13:58. > :13:59.but we have all the chances. I have always said, it is in the hands of
:14:00. > :14:02.the CDU. Stay with us, in a couple of minutes
:14:03. > :14:06.we'll bring you a report from India about the wildly popular
:14:07. > :14:08.but divisive new leader The mother of the Westminster
:14:09. > :14:18.attacker has expressed her anguish Police also say they have found
:14:19. > :14:23.no evidence to link Khalid Masood to so-called Islamic state.
:14:24. > :14:39.Daniela Relph reports. The moment Khalid Masood began his
:14:40. > :14:44.attack. We now know he was driving at up to 76 miles per hour across
:14:45. > :14:48.Westminster Bridge, killing and injuring as he drove. This
:14:49. > :14:53.afternoon, his mother has issued a statement condemning the attack.
:14:54. > :15:14.Emphasising he does not condone his son's action. Janet Joa said:
:15:15. > :15:24.those victims included Curt Cochran and his wife Melissa Cochran Payne.
:15:25. > :15:28.It had been their first time in London, and their first ever visit
:15:29. > :15:32.outside the USA. They had been on a tour of Europe to celebrate their
:15:33. > :15:35.25th wedding anniversary. Kurt was killed after being thrown from the
:15:36. > :15:40.bridge onto the pavement below. A single bunch of flowers marks where
:15:41. > :15:45.he fell. Melissa suffered multiple injuries and is still in hospital.
:15:46. > :15:51.Today, 13 members of their family spoke publicly for the first time.
:15:52. > :15:55.From Utah, they are a Mormon family that have found strength in their
:15:56. > :15:58.faith. It is hard for most of us to imagine what it is like to lose
:15:59. > :16:02.somebody in this way. Can you give us some sense of the impact on the
:16:03. > :16:05.family? I think it has brought us really
:16:06. > :16:09.close together. Our family has always been close together and we
:16:10. > :16:15.have had wonderful times together. We just love and support each other
:16:16. > :16:19.so much and I think it makes it that much longer. None of us harbour any
:16:20. > :16:29.ill will or harsh feelings towards this. So we love our brother, we
:16:30. > :16:32.love what he brought to the world. Today, Tobias Ellwood was in
:16:33. > :16:36.Parliament Square to pay his respects and see the tributes. The
:16:37. > :16:40.Foreign Office minister had tried so hard to save the life of PC Keith
:16:41. > :16:41.Palmer last week. This was a chance for him to remember all of those
:16:42. > :16:53.killed. This is Outside Source
:16:54. > :16:55.live from the BBC newsroom. Russian opposition leader
:16:56. > :17:02.Alexei Navalny, has been sentenced to 15 days in jail after his arrest
:17:03. > :17:05.on Sunday Mr Navalny was one of hundreds
:17:06. > :17:08.of demonstrators detained He's just been appointed
:17:09. > :17:26.as head of Uttar Pradesh, India's most populous
:17:27. > :17:28.state, home to more than He's a divisive figure,
:17:29. > :17:32.because he's a Hindu nationalist, in a state where 18%
:17:33. > :17:34.of the population is Muslim. One of his first acts was to order
:17:35. > :17:38.police officials to close down slaughterhouses deemed
:17:39. > :17:42.as illegal in the state. Critics say the ban
:17:43. > :17:44.is being unfairly applied, and that it targets Muslims,
:17:45. > :17:47.who own most of the slaughterhouses. Justin Rowlatt has more
:17:48. > :18:01.on this appointment. The crowd celebrates the return of a
:18:02. > :18:08.conquering hero. Yogi Adityanath wears a saffron robe of a Hindu
:18:09. > :18:14.priest, but he is also a firebrand politician. They wouldn't know it
:18:15. > :18:18.today. TRANSLATION: I promise to stamp out
:18:19. > :18:27.corruption, to work for everybody, and to end Mafia rule.
:18:28. > :18:33.Out on the streets, you see the passion he inspires. Yogi Adityanath
:18:34. > :18:38.has been repeatedly accused of stirring hatred between Hindus and
:18:39. > :18:43.Muslims. He was once imprisoned for incitement to riot, and has a
:18:44. > :18:51.history of inflammatory remarks, and he is now one of the most powerful
:18:52. > :18:55.politicians in India. Yogi Adityanath is a man who once said,
:18:56. > :19:03.if one Hindu is murdered, 100 Muslims should die. There are 170
:19:04. > :19:09.million Muslims in India, and not surprisingly, many are worried. They
:19:10. > :19:14.shouldn't be, says one of the top leaders of the ruling party. Some
:19:15. > :19:20.people have apprehension, I do appreciate. Why only advise them,
:19:21. > :19:26.whatever is in the background remains in the background. You
:19:27. > :19:31.cannot change it. It remains. Yogi Adityanath will prove that he is
:19:32. > :19:37.committed to the same agenda that the Prime Minister is pursuing. Yogi
:19:38. > :19:42.Adityanath was appointed by the Prime Minister after a landslide
:19:43. > :19:47.victory in the state elections earlier this month. The choice is
:19:48. > :19:51.being seen as a decisive moment in Mr Modi's leadership of India. You
:19:52. > :19:56.wonder whether the veils have fallen, and whether or when you
:19:57. > :20:00.remove the moss, what you see behind this Prime Minister that harps on
:20:01. > :20:07.about development and this inclusive paradigms, actually the mask is a.
:20:08. > :20:13.Four is behind this mask, you have a very divisive man, who believes that
:20:14. > :20:17.India is a country of Hindus only. Yogi Adityanath's political career
:20:18. > :20:21.began a quarter of a century ago in the unrest that followed the
:20:22. > :20:30.destruction of a 16th century mosque by a Hindu mob. He's vowed to build
:20:31. > :20:33.a Hindu temple on the site, and that is a move that risks reopening one
:20:34. > :20:38.of the deepest wounds in modern Indian history.
:20:39. > :20:43.Scientists from New York University have published a new theory
:20:44. > :20:49.which could explain why our brains are so large.
:20:50. > :20:53.Their new study, which examined the skulls
:20:54. > :20:55.of primates including monkeys, lemurs and humans,
:20:56. > :20:57.claims its down to diet, not social behaviour.
:20:58. > :20:59.Our Science reporter Melissa Hogenboom has been
:21:00. > :21:04.to New York where they carried out the research.
:21:05. > :21:10.For the last couple of decades, a key idea has been that the social
:21:11. > :21:14.brain hypothesis was the reason, the key driving factor for a big brain.
:21:15. > :21:19.This suggests that social factors are the main thing that helped us
:21:20. > :21:23.grow such complex lead large brains. You and I conversing right here, we
:21:24. > :21:28.can do that because our brains have complex language abilities, and we
:21:29. > :21:30.are allowed to do this because in human evolution, there were large
:21:31. > :21:35.groups of us that supported each other and help each other find food.
:21:36. > :21:39.We need a complex communication, so do social abilities were the key
:21:40. > :21:44.binding factors of our group. The idea being that the group drove the
:21:45. > :21:49.developing brain. What about the new theory now? The study looked at 140
:21:50. > :21:56.primate species, including monkeys, apes and asked, and advertised what
:21:57. > :22:00.they ate, social structures. They found that when they put these ideas
:22:01. > :22:07.together, the key driving factor was actually food. It wasn't just food,
:22:08. > :22:10.the fact that animals that eight calorie high food such as fruit,
:22:11. > :22:15.tended to have bigger brains. That came first, then social groups
:22:16. > :22:20.became important. And you had the outlier, the orangutan, who has a
:22:21. > :22:25.big brain, but not big families. They are solitary creatures that go
:22:26. > :22:31.round in small groups to avoid predators and to hunt together, but
:22:32. > :22:37.usually roam alone. They don't have large groups. That takes away from
:22:38. > :22:41.the social brain, because they have very large brains, one of the
:22:42. > :22:47.largest primates around. They were not included in the original
:22:48. > :22:54.analysis of the social brain analysis.
:22:55. > :22:59.25,000 people have been told to evacuate as a major cyclone bears
:23:00. > :23:03.Cyclone Debbie is expected to cross the north Queensland coast sometime
:23:04. > :23:12.It's currently a category four system but forecasters say it
:23:13. > :23:14.could go to category five - the highest level.
:23:15. > :23:16.The Whitsunday region will be hardest hit.
:23:17. > :23:18.Winds of up to 275 kilometres an hour are expected,
:23:19. > :23:21.as well as tidal surges up to seven metres high.
:23:22. > :23:23.This is what Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said
:23:24. > :23:37.For those in the path of tropical Cyclone Debbie, take care and stay
:23:38. > :23:40.safe. If you have received an official evacuation order, you and
:23:41. > :23:44.your family must leave home immediately. Seek shelter with
:23:45. > :23:49.friends or family who are inland or on higher ground. If you decide to
:23:50. > :23:53.shelter at home, make sure you are prepared, have you or emergency kit
:23:54. > :23:58.ready, and listen to the radio for cyclone updates. Check on your
:23:59. > :24:00.neighbours and vulnerable friends, and family, help them get to an
:24:01. > :24:01.evacuation centre. The worst is still to come but this
:24:02. > :24:07.is one picture that caught our eye. A huge tree
:24:08. > :24:13.was toppled by the winds. And this is the scene right along
:24:14. > :24:16.the impacted coast line. People sandbagging
:24:17. > :24:27.their homes and businesses We will keep you up-to-date on that.
:24:28. > :24:33.We have reported recently on floods in per room said to be the worst in
:24:34. > :24:36.two decades. Just to update you, today, we have heard that farms and
:24:37. > :24:41.cut branches in the country have been particularly badly hit, and
:24:42. > :24:48.have not received enough support from the government. -- cattle
:24:49. > :24:53.ranchers. Many farms have been turned into mud swamps after the
:24:54. > :24:57.heavy rain and flooding. That is the situation in per roof. That is all
:24:58. > :24:59.your round-up of news from the outside source team. Think you very
:25:00. > :25:02.much for being with us.