:00:07. > :00:14.Hello, I'm Ros Atkins, this is Outside Source.
:00:15. > :00:21.A starred with some news that has come in. The hosted South Korean
:00:22. > :00:25.president has been arrested on corruption charges. The Syrian war
:00:26. > :00:27.is now in its seventh year. Today the BBC is focusing
:00:28. > :00:36.on the day-to-day lives many have In Syria, in a place which has seen
:00:37. > :00:41.some of the worst fighting of the war, now an ordinary day with
:00:42. > :00:42.children going to school and having fun.
:00:43. > :00:44.Lyse Doucet has returned to the Syrian city of Homs.
:00:45. > :00:48.The UK has begun the process of repealing 40 years of EU laws -
:00:49. > :01:01.Our laws will be made in London, Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast. And
:01:02. > :01:02.not by judges in Luxembourg but across the United Kingdom.
:01:03. > :01:05.We'll be live in Westminster to discuss the Great Repeal Bill -
:01:06. > :01:08.and we'll be live in Malta, where there's been more comment
:01:09. > :01:34.If you want to get in touch, you can e-mail us, find us on social media.
:01:35. > :01:41.I want to begin by showing you some of the copy coming into the BBC
:01:42. > :01:45.newsroom in the last hour. This is from the Associated Press telling us
:01:46. > :01:54.the South Korean court has approved the arrest of Park Geun-hye over
:01:55. > :01:58.corruption allegations. This is from Reuters, telling us that Park
:01:59. > :02:01.Geun-hye was driven from office in March, impeached over these
:02:02. > :02:06.allegations of bribery. And having been arrested, she can be held in a
:02:07. > :02:15.self up to 20 days while she is being investigated. -- in a cell. We
:02:16. > :02:25.can tell you Park Geun-hye has been arrested. Let's bring in Aidan
:02:26. > :02:31.Foster Carter, a career expert. -- Korea. What do you make of this
:02:32. > :02:37.news? It was not unexpected. Events have moved pretty fast. Three months
:02:38. > :02:42.ago Park Geun-hye was the president of South Korea. The scandal broke.
:02:43. > :02:45.She was impeached. The Constitutional Court upheld her
:02:46. > :02:49.impeachment on March nine. That means she lost her immunity from
:02:50. > :02:54.prosecution which she had whenever she remained as president. And since
:02:55. > :02:59.a special prosecutor had identified no less than 13 separate matter is
:03:00. > :03:06.that they wanted to charge with, I think it was inevitable that she
:03:07. > :03:12.would be charged. You say she has been charged. Most of the wire
:03:13. > :03:16.copy... Looks like his line has frozen. That's frustrating. In the
:03:17. > :03:19.meantime, there is more information on that story on the BBC website.
:03:20. > :03:21.Let's talk about Syria. The war in Syria has
:03:22. > :03:24.entered its seventh year. It has taken the lives
:03:25. > :03:28.of 300,000 people. That's according to the United
:03:29. > :03:30.Nations. This graph from the UN shows that
:03:31. > :03:32.at least five million people A further six million
:03:33. > :03:47.are internally displaced. They have had to leave their homes
:03:48. > :03:50.and go somewhere else in Syria. That's more than half
:03:51. > :03:57.the population. And an estimated 13.5 million
:03:58. > :04:03.people are in need of aid. The government controls
:04:04. > :04:25.almost all of it. Three years ago she reported from
:04:26. > :04:27.there. She has been back to meet a little girl caught up in the
:04:28. > :04:29.fighting. Besieged and bombarded
:04:30. > :04:36.for two years. The government finally allowed
:04:37. > :04:39.some families to leave. One of the most traumatised children
:04:40. > :04:57.I'd seen in this war. Baraha is now one of
:04:58. > :05:17.the oldest in her class. The teachers say she is one of the
:05:18. > :05:28.best students. Look at the faces. So eager to
:05:29. > :05:39.learn. They know this matters. So many Syrian children
:05:40. > :05:43.aren't in school. You know, in some ways of course
:05:44. > :05:46.this is terrific to see, children just being children
:05:47. > :05:49.here in Syria, in a place which has seen some of the worst
:05:50. > :05:54.fighting of the war. And now an ordinary day
:05:55. > :05:58.with children going to Through the alleyways
:05:59. > :06:08.of the old city, now The last time I was here
:06:09. > :06:15.it looked like this. Later a mortar almost hit
:06:16. > :06:45.Baraha and her sister. So I met you three years ago
:06:46. > :06:55.and now you are almost 12. You are OK, you are sleeping at
:06:56. > :07:06.night, you don't have bad memories? TRANSLATION: Thank God
:07:07. > :07:09.I forget everything. When I go to bed I remember
:07:10. > :07:13.when I had a part in a play, I remember school, what I did
:07:14. > :07:15.during the day. Hard for her father to forget,
:07:16. > :07:40.now bringing up four TRANSLATION: God help me. The girls
:07:41. > :07:44.make it easy. When they are in the house safe, I try to find work in
:07:45. > :07:47.the neighbourhood. If my daughters have a good future, I am the winner.
:07:48. > :07:50.Heading into her future, this little girl has already
:07:51. > :07:56.It's the same for all of them, children all across this country.
:07:57. > :08:00.Their fate still lies in Syria's hands.
:08:01. > :08:17.Remember, you can find extensive information about the Syrian
:08:18. > :08:21.Yesterday the UK began the formal process of leaving the EU.
:08:22. > :08:24.Today the government is settings out its plans to ensure European law
:08:25. > :08:32.It's being called the Great Repeal Bill -
:08:33. > :08:45.Here's the Brexit Secretary, David Davis.
:08:46. > :08:50.We have been clear we want a smooth and orderly exit, and the Great
:08:51. > :08:56.Repeal Bill is integral to that approach. It will provide clarity
:08:57. > :08:59.and certainty for businesses, workers and consumers across the
:09:00. > :09:05.United Kingdom on the day we leave the EU. It will mean that as we exit
:09:06. > :09:08.the EU and seek a new deep and special partnership with the
:09:09. > :09:12.European Union, we will be doing so from a position where we have the
:09:13. > :09:17.same standards and rules. It will also ensure we deliver on our
:09:18. > :09:21.promise to end the supremacy of European Union law in the UK as we
:09:22. > :09:25.exit. Our laws will be made in London, Edinburgh, Cardiff and
:09:26. > :09:26.Belfast, and determined not by judges in Luxembourg but across the
:09:27. > :09:29.United Kingdom. There's a guide on our website
:09:30. > :09:35.with more details on this bill. But simply, it will repeal
:09:36. > :09:38.an act which says EU law is supreme to the UK's,
:09:39. > :09:42.and it will ensure the UK leaves the jurisdiction
:09:43. > :09:45.of the European Court of Justice. It will also transfer thousands
:09:46. > :09:48.of EU laws on everything from workers' rights
:09:49. > :10:07.to the environment into UK law. Look at this tweet from the Times
:10:08. > :10:17.columnist Matt Chorley. Let's bring in Mark LaBelle live from
:10:18. > :10:23.Westminster. I guess the cut and paste was the only way the UK could
:10:24. > :10:27.get through this in the time frame? That's absolutely right. 12,000
:10:28. > :10:31.guidelines they have do pick up and paste into UK law. And a thousand
:10:32. > :10:37.measures where they need a time-limited correcting fluid to go
:10:38. > :10:41.through it and get special powers, where they have to scratch out
:10:42. > :10:45.things that wouldn't make sense in UK law because they are based on UK
:10:46. > :10:49.institutions or things the UK wouldn't be a part of any more. What
:10:50. > :10:52.the government says it is because it's only got two years and it was
:10:53. > :10:57.to provide certainty for businesses, consumers and workers, it needs to
:10:58. > :11:02.have the same laws in place today as it will do on the 29th of March,
:11:03. > :11:09.2019. This is the only way it says it can do that. I want to pull up a
:11:10. > :11:17.tweet from Caroline Lucas, the co-leader of the Green Party in the
:11:18. > :11:22.UK. What I'm hoping you can explain is,
:11:23. > :11:27.given that this is a copy and paste job, why are some MPs concerned? I
:11:28. > :11:34.think they are nervous on two France. The first is that the
:11:35. > :11:42.government sticks to its promise to really just finesse the bill so it
:11:43. > :11:45.works, and they don't change workers' rights, environmental
:11:46. > :11:49.protections that have been brought into British law because of what the
:11:50. > :11:52.EU has done. The second part of this, and maybe this is a brewing
:11:53. > :11:58.political battle of which Caroline Lucas and the Green Party are taking
:11:59. > :12:05.their side, is that all of this will be up for grabs, on the table, on
:12:06. > :12:11.the 29th of March 2019. And so what was set in stone may now be able to
:12:12. > :12:13.be reversed. That could be recycling targets, renewable energy targets,
:12:14. > :12:17.the workers of is to be time directive. The idea that people
:12:18. > :12:22.aren't meant to work more than 48 hours Awita unless they choose not
:12:23. > :12:26.to. These are key policies that the politicians here are very nervous
:12:27. > :12:31.maybe changed when the power is brought back to the UK. Let me ask
:12:32. > :12:36.you about the opposition. It's not trying to stop Brexit from
:12:37. > :12:40.happening. Is it opposed to this Bill? It's not opposed to the bill
:12:41. > :12:46.because it sees it as necessary in order so there is no legal hiatus in
:12:47. > :12:49.two years. It wants to make sure the government keeps its promises in
:12:50. > :12:55.just bringing over exactly the same rights for workers that become
:12:56. > :12:57.enshrined in UK law as they are guaranteed at the moment under EU
:12:58. > :13:06.law. Mark, thank you. That has been happening in the House
:13:07. > :13:18.of Commons. Let's switch our attention to Malta. Brexit is being
:13:19. > :13:22.discussed among centre-right leaders. Let's look at what some of
:13:23. > :13:27.the most senior people have been saying. This is Donald Tusk,
:13:28. > :13:37.president of the European Council. We must challenge the document. We
:13:38. > :13:40.must say loud and clear that anything that tries to weaken the EU
:13:41. > :13:46.is the opposite of modern patriotism. Those who take aim at
:13:47. > :13:58.European unity, thread and also their own communities. Words such as
:13:59. > :14:04.security, sovereignty, dignity and pride must return to our political
:14:05. > :14:07.dictionary. Donald Tusk wrestling with broader
:14:08. > :14:12.issues for the whole of the European Union as it goes forward without the
:14:13. > :14:22.UK. Here is Chris Morris, the BBC correspondent.
:14:23. > :14:31.He came on area to explain more. She repeatedly spoke about the EU of 27
:14:32. > :14:36.as if the UK had already left. It was almost a deliberate attempt to
:14:37. > :14:40.move on. I think the focused in the next 24-hours will be on Donald
:14:41. > :14:47.Tusk. Tomorrow morning he will issue the first formally EU response to
:14:48. > :14:50.Theresa May's Article 50 letter, in the form of negotiating draft
:14:51. > :14:54.guidelines, which will be sent to the yellow 27 EU capitals. I
:14:55. > :15:00.understand he still working on document. It will focus in
:15:01. > :15:04.particular on the sequence of negotiation. From an EU perspective
:15:05. > :15:10.that means first, separation, the divorce, the broad outline of that.
:15:11. > :15:14.Then, several months later, general agreement on the broad terms of a
:15:15. > :15:19.future trading relationship. Then again, several months after that,
:15:20. > :15:24.the transition. How do we get from full EU membership now today, to a
:15:25. > :15:29.totally new relationship in the future? Those transition
:15:30. > :15:31.negotiations will delve into some of the most difficult issues like
:15:32. > :15:36.freedom of movement of people, migration and the role of the
:15:37. > :15:39.European Court of justice. There has been a lot of speculation in the UK
:15:40. > :15:45.about whether we might find a transition period after March 2019,
:15:46. > :15:52.before a full exit. Is that idea being entertained in Malta? I've not
:15:53. > :15:54.spoken to a single leader from any other European country who thinks
:15:55. > :15:59.everything can be done in a two-year period. I know that was something
:16:00. > :16:02.which initially the British comment put out as an aspiration, but
:16:03. > :16:07.everybody else seems to think it is impossible. Legally it is too
:16:08. > :16:12.complex, politically it is too complex. There has to be some kind
:16:13. > :16:16.of transition, they argue. That means therefore that some kind of EU
:16:17. > :16:21.rules will continue to apply to the United Kingdom. That is where it
:16:22. > :16:25.will be so difficult. These red lines on either side, in particular
:16:26. > :16:29.Theresa May's insistence that the European Court of Justice will no
:16:30. > :16:32.longer play a role in British life, she will have to roll back a little
:16:33. > :16:36.bit on that. If she doesn't, it's hard to see how there will be a
:16:37. > :16:40.transitional arrangement, and we will have to go from full membership
:16:41. > :16:42.one day to a totally different thing the next. A lot of people think that
:16:43. > :16:45.would be very dangerous. In a few minutes, we'll be live
:16:46. > :16:48.in Washington to get the latest on the Senate investigation
:16:49. > :16:50.into whether Russia interfered Rex Tillerson has been meeting
:16:51. > :17:06.President Erdogan in Turkey. Leading tech companies have told the
:17:07. > :17:12.Home Secretary there are committed to doing more in the UK to combat
:17:13. > :17:16.terror. Amber Rudd urged Facebook and Google to crack down on
:17:17. > :17:22.terrorist propaganda, and even stop it before it appears online. Here is
:17:23. > :17:27.our technology correspondent. She will point to their success in
:17:28. > :17:32.removing child abuse images, something the government pressed for
:17:33. > :17:36.and there was action by technology companies to do that, to establish a
:17:37. > :17:41.database of these images, so they could be prevented from going up
:17:42. > :17:44.even before they appeared. And she appears to want something similar
:17:45. > :17:48.from the tech companies. They have written her a letter saying they are
:17:49. > :17:54.making progress. They are going to establish this joint initiative. It
:17:55. > :17:57.is -- there is a pointed line saying their work has been strengthened in
:17:58. > :18:07.this effort by the engagement with the European Union.
:18:08. > :18:13.This is Outside Source live from the BBC newsroom.
:18:14. > :18:22.As to South Korean Park Geun-hye has been arrested on corruption charges.
:18:23. > :18:27.She was removed from office after being impeached. Some of the other
:18:28. > :18:31.stories from BBC world service. The Chinese president will meet Donald
:18:32. > :18:36.Trump next Thursday. The Chinese Foreign Ministry says the meeting
:18:37. > :18:40.will take place in Florida. This will be the first meeting between
:18:41. > :18:46.the two since Mr Trump issued a range of sharp criticisms of China
:18:47. > :18:50.during the presidential campaign. After negotiations with North Korea,
:18:51. > :18:54.Malaysia has said it will release the body of the half-brother of
:18:55. > :19:06.North Korea's leader, assassinated at Kuala Lumpur airport last month.
:19:07. > :19:11.Let's talk about US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, who has been in
:19:12. > :19:18.Turkey today with -- for talks with the Turkish president. Top of the
:19:19. > :19:24.agenda is discussing a way forward on defeating Isis. The Islamic State
:19:25. > :19:27.group, as it is also called. With their cooperation in Syria, and in
:19:28. > :19:34.particular around the offensive on Raqqa, the Isis stronghold, is far
:19:35. > :19:37.from straightforward. You will realise why when I show you this
:19:38. > :19:42.map. This red territory is controlled by Islamic State. We have
:19:43. > :19:48.the Syrian army territory towards the West. The US is opposed to the
:19:49. > :19:52.Assad regime. This purple area George the Turkish border is
:19:53. > :19:56.controlled by Kurdish forces. The Americans are working with the
:19:57. > :20:00.Kurds. The Turks consider them to be terrorists, quite a difference of
:20:01. > :20:05.opinion. They held a joint news conference. Rex Tillerson was asked
:20:06. > :20:07.whether the US and Turkey saw eye to eye on the issue of Kurdish
:20:08. > :20:15.fighters. Here is what he had to say. Let
:20:16. > :20:19.there be no mistake. There is no space between Turkey and the United
:20:20. > :20:24.States and our commitment to defeat Isis. Not just in Syria and Iraq,
:20:25. > :20:30.but as members of the greater coalition to defeat Daesh Anni where
:20:31. > :20:34.Daesh shows its face on planet Earth. They will be confronted by
:20:35. > :20:39.the coalition. Rex Tillerson is referring to
:20:40. > :20:47.Islamic State as Daesh. Is there a united front between the Americans
:20:48. > :20:54.and the Turks? We sort out the help of our BBC Turkish correspondent.
:20:55. > :21:00.Rex Tillerson praised Turkey's military efforts in northern Syria
:21:01. > :21:09.against Islamic State. But he didn't really answer the journalists'
:21:10. > :21:13.question regarding PKK. The Turkish Foreign Minister said Turkey had
:21:14. > :21:20.been upset because of US support to the white PG. We should mention that
:21:21. > :21:22.Turkey accepts them as a terrorist organisation and does not want them
:21:23. > :21:28.to be included in the Raqqa operation. But the US has not called
:21:29. > :21:31.them a terrorist organisation. On the contrary, they have sorted
:21:32. > :21:38.support against Islamic State in Syria. Time for business. We begin
:21:39. > :21:42.with the North American Free Trade Agreement, Nafta. It has long been
:21:43. > :21:46.in Donald Trump's sites. The goal of the worst deal is contrary and ever
:21:47. > :21:52.signed. We were told they would be radical changes to how America trade
:21:53. > :21:56.with Canada and with Mexico. Not for the first time low, the rhetoric
:21:57. > :22:02.isn't quite managing -- matching the policy. Let's bring in Samir Husein
:22:03. > :22:11.live from New York. Where has Mr Trump got to with dismantling Nafta?
:22:12. > :22:14.So what we have is a draft sort of position, where the Trump
:22:15. > :22:18.administration is release signalling to Congress the kinds of changes
:22:19. > :22:21.they want to make to the North American Free Trade Agreement. A lot
:22:22. > :22:25.of the rhetoric we heard during the campaign from Mr Trump was that
:22:26. > :22:30.Nafta was a terrible deal, it was really bad for the United States,
:22:31. > :22:37.and if we And it renegotiated, we're going to walk away. -- can't
:22:38. > :22:40.renegotiated. When you look at some of the proposals he has presented to
:22:41. > :22:45.Congress, it is softer than some of the rhetoric we heard earlier.
:22:46. > :22:50.Things like there are these tribunal is that companies can go to when
:22:51. > :22:53.they want to make complaints. A lot of people have criticised those
:22:54. > :23:00.tribunals because they circumvent civil courts, and it could really
:23:01. > :23:08.harm the sovereignty of countries. Those tribunal 's will still exist.
:23:09. > :23:14.-- tribunals. Some wanted the president to attack currency
:23:15. > :23:18.regulators. None of that has been tackled. Mr Trump seems to be quite
:23:19. > :23:22.critical in America's relationship with America than with Canada,
:23:23. > :23:28.particularly the issue of US firms going to Mexico to make things more
:23:29. > :23:33.cheaply. Our -- are any of these proposals dealing with that? There
:23:34. > :23:38.is one proposal dealing with one of those issues. It was a proposal that
:23:39. > :23:44.actually Bill Clinton, the secretary of Nafta, wanted to get in but
:23:45. > :23:49.Mexico posted. It was to be able to reinstate tariffs. If a country has
:23:50. > :23:53.a flood of goods from another country that hurts the domestic
:23:54. > :23:57.industry, well then that country then has the right to impose tariffs
:23:58. > :24:04.on the goods coming in. There is a proposal to have that put in. More
:24:05. > :24:09.than two decades ago when it was put in by then-President Clinton, Mexico
:24:10. > :24:12.did not agree. It will be a bit of a negotiation to see of that can be
:24:13. > :24:19.worked back into the agreement. Thank you. The world's biggest
:24:20. > :24:27.insurance firm is Lloyds of London. Have a look at this tweet from Simon
:24:28. > :24:32.Jack of the BBC. Simon suggested may not go down so well at Number 10.
:24:33. > :24:36.The chief executive of Lloyd's of London has been speaking to the BBC.
:24:37. > :24:43.We wanted to have a really top robust regulator, Brussels fits that
:24:44. > :24:47.bill. We also wanted to have great access to talent. We need to hire
:24:48. > :24:51.some really good people and we felt it was an excellent place to go.
:24:52. > :24:56.Also, we have to think about accessibility. How easy is it to get
:24:57. > :24:59.to London from somewhere on the continent, and elsewhere on the
:25:00. > :25:03.continent to get to that place? We also wanted to consider the
:25:04. > :25:08.likelihood of the country staying within the EU in the future, because
:25:09. > :25:13.that is an important factor. Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, has
:25:14. > :25:19.overtaken Warren Buffet as the second richest person in the world.
:25:20. > :25:25.Bloomberg's billionaires' index counts these things. He is now worth
:25:26. > :25:30.a cool $75.6 billion. He jumped into second place yesterday because
:25:31. > :25:35.Amazon stock hit a record high. He still has a way to go before he gets
:25:36. > :25:43.top spot. Bill Gates has been there for awhile. His value is put at $86
:25:44. > :25:49.billion. Some of the latest business stories on Outside Source. Stay with
:25:50. > :25:54.me. If you have any questions, I will be back in a couple of minutes.