30/03/2017 Outside Source

Hello, I'm Ros Atkins, this is Outside Source.

A starred with some news that has come in. The hosted South Korean

president has been arrested on corruption charges. The Syrian war

is now in its seventh year. Today the BBC is focusing

on the day-to-day lives many have In Syria, in a place which has seen

some of the worst fighting of the war, now an ordinary day with

children going to school and having fun.

Lyse Doucet has returned to the Syrian city of Homs.

The UK has begun the process of repealing 40 years of EU laws -

Our laws will be made in London, Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast. And

not by judges in Luxembourg but across the United Kingdom.

We'll be live in Westminster to discuss the Great Repeal Bill -

and we'll be live in Malta, where there's been more comment

If you want to get in touch, you can e-mail us, find us on social media.

I want to begin by showing you some of the copy coming into the BBC

newsroom in the last hour. This is from the Associated Press telling us

the South Korean court has approved the arrest of Park Geun-hye over

corruption allegations. This is from Reuters, telling us that Park

Geun-hye was driven from office in March, impeached over these

allegations of bribery. And having been arrested, she can be held in a

self up to 20 days while she is being investigated. -- in a cell. We

can tell you Park Geun-hye has been arrested. Let's bring in Aidan

Foster Carter, a career expert. -- Korea. What do you make of this

news? It was not unexpected. Events have moved pretty fast. Three months

ago Park Geun-hye was the president of South Korea. The scandal broke.

She was impeached. The Constitutional Court upheld her

impeachment on March nine. That means she lost her immunity from

prosecution which she had whenever she remained as president. And since

a special prosecutor had identified no less than 13 separate matter is

that they wanted to charge with, I think it was inevitable that she

would be charged. You say she has been charged. Most of the wire

copy... Looks like his line has frozen. That's frustrating. In the

meantime, there is more information on that story on the BBC website.

Let's talk about Syria. The war in Syria has

entered its seventh year. It has taken the lives

of 300,000 people. That's according to the United

Nations. This graph from the UN shows that

at least five million people A further six million

are internally displaced. They have had to leave their homes

and go somewhere else in Syria. That's more than half

the population. And an estimated 13.5 million

people are in need of aid. The government controls

almost all of it. Three years ago she reported from

there. She has been back to meet a little girl caught up in the

fighting. Besieged and bombarded

for two years. The government finally allowed

some families to leave. One of the most traumatised children

I'd seen in this war. Baraha is now one of

the oldest in her class. The teachers say she is one of the

best students. Look at the faces. So eager to

learn. They know this matters. So many Syrian children

aren't in school. You know, in some ways of course

this is terrific to see, children just being children

here in Syria, in a place which has seen some of the worst

fighting of the war. And now an ordinary day

with children going to Through the alleyways

of the old city, now The last time I was here

it looked like this. Later a mortar almost hit

Baraha and her sister. So I met you three years ago

and now you are almost 12. You are OK, you are sleeping at

night, you don't have bad memories? TRANSLATION: Thank God

I forget everything. When I go to bed I remember

when I had a part in a play, I remember school, what I did

during the day. Hard for her father to forget,

now bringing up four TRANSLATION: God help me. The girls

make it easy. When they are in the house safe, I try to find work in

the neighbourhood. If my daughters have a good future, I am the winner.

Heading into her future, this little girl has already

It's the same for all of them, children all across this country.

Their fate still lies in Syria's hands.

Remember, you can find extensive information about the Syrian

Yesterday the UK began the formal process of leaving the EU.

Today the government is settings out its plans to ensure European law

It's being called the Great Repeal Bill -

Here's the Brexit Secretary, David Davis.

We have been clear we want a smooth and orderly exit, and the Great

Repeal Bill is integral to that approach. It will provide clarity

and certainty for businesses, workers and consumers across the

United Kingdom on the day we leave the EU. It will mean that as we exit

the EU and seek a new deep and special partnership with the

European Union, we will be doing so from a position where we have the

same standards and rules. It will also ensure we deliver on our

promise to end the supremacy of European Union law in the UK as we

exit. Our laws will be made in London, Edinburgh, Cardiff and

Belfast, and determined not by judges in Luxembourg but across the

United Kingdom. There's a guide on our website

with more details on this bill. But simply, it will repeal

an act which says EU law is supreme to the UK's,

and it will ensure the UK leaves the jurisdiction

of the European Court of Justice. It will also transfer thousands

of EU laws on everything from workers' rights

to the environment into UK law. Look at this tweet from the Times

columnist Matt Chorley. Let's bring in Mark LaBelle live from

Westminster. I guess the cut and paste was the only way the UK could

get through this in the time frame? That's absolutely right. 12,000

guidelines they have do pick up and paste into UK law. And a thousand

measures where they need a time-limited correcting fluid to go

through it and get special powers, where they have to scratch out

things that wouldn't make sense in UK law because they are based on UK

institutions or things the UK wouldn't be a part of any more. What

the government says it is because it's only got two years and it was

to provide certainty for businesses, consumers and workers, it needs to

have the same laws in place today as it will do on the 29th of March,

2019. This is the only way it says it can do that. I want to pull up a

tweet from Caroline Lucas, the co-leader of the Green Party in the

UK. What I'm hoping you can explain is,

given that this is a copy and paste job, why are some MPs concerned? I

think they are nervous on two France. The first is that the

government sticks to its promise to really just finesse the bill so it

works, and they don't change workers' rights, environmental

protections that have been brought into British law because of what the

EU has done. The second part of this, and maybe this is a brewing

political battle of which Caroline Lucas and the Green Party are taking

their side, is that all of this will be up for grabs, on the table, on

the 29th of March 2019. And so what was set in stone may now be able to

be reversed. That could be recycling targets, renewable energy targets,

the workers of is to be time directive. The idea that people

aren't meant to work more than 48 hours Awita unless they choose not

to. These are key policies that the politicians here are very nervous

maybe changed when the power is brought back to the UK. Let me ask

you about the opposition. It's not trying to stop Brexit from

happening. Is it opposed to this Bill? It's not opposed to the bill

because it sees it as necessary in order so there is no legal hiatus in

two years. It wants to make sure the government keeps its promises in

just bringing over exactly the same rights for workers that become

enshrined in UK law as they are guaranteed at the moment under EU

law. Mark, thank you. That has been happening in the House

of Commons. Let's switch our attention to Malta. Brexit is being

discussed among centre-right leaders. Let's look at what some of

the most senior people have been saying. This is Donald Tusk,

president of the European Council. We must challenge the document. We

must say loud and clear that anything that tries to weaken the EU

is the opposite of modern patriotism. Those who take aim at

European unity, thread and also their own communities. Words such as

security, sovereignty, dignity and pride must return to our political

dictionary. Donald Tusk wrestling with broader

issues for the whole of the European Union as it goes forward without the

UK. Here is Chris Morris, the BBC correspondent.

He came on area to explain more. She repeatedly spoke about the EU of 27

as if the UK had already left. It was almost a deliberate attempt to

move on. I think the focused in the next 24-hours will be on Donald

Tusk. Tomorrow morning he will issue the first formally EU response to

Theresa May's Article 50 letter, in the form of negotiating draft

guidelines, which will be sent to the yellow 27 EU capitals. I

understand he still working on document. It will focus in

particular on the sequence of negotiation. From an EU perspective

that means first, separation, the divorce, the broad outline of that.

Then, several months later, general agreement on the broad terms of a

future trading relationship. Then again, several months after that,

the transition. How do we get from full EU membership now today, to a

totally new relationship in the future? Those transition

negotiations will delve into some of the most difficult issues like

freedom of movement of people, migration and the role of the

European Court of justice. There has been a lot of speculation in the UK

about whether we might find a transition period after March 2019,

before a full exit. Is that idea being entertained in Malta? I've not

spoken to a single leader from any other European country who thinks

everything can be done in a two-year period. I know that was something

which initially the British comment put out as an aspiration, but

everybody else seems to think it is impossible. Legally it is too

complex, politically it is too complex. There has to be some kind

of transition, they argue. That means therefore that some kind of EU

rules will continue to apply to the United Kingdom. That is where it

will be so difficult. These red lines on either side, in particular

Theresa May's insistence that the European Court of Justice will no

longer play a role in British life, she will have to roll back a little

bit on that. If she doesn't, it's hard to see how there will be a

transitional arrangement, and we will have to go from full membership

one day to a totally different thing the next. A lot of people think that

would be very dangerous. In a few minutes, we'll be live

in Washington to get the latest on the Senate investigation

into whether Russia interfered Rex Tillerson has been meeting

President Erdogan in Turkey. Leading tech companies have told the

Home Secretary there are committed to doing more in the UK to combat

terror. Amber Rudd urged Facebook and Google to crack down on

terrorist propaganda, and even stop it before it appears online. Here is

our technology correspondent. She will point to their success in

removing child abuse images, something the government pressed for

and there was action by technology companies to do that, to establish a

database of these images, so they could be prevented from going up

even before they appeared. And she appears to want something similar

from the tech companies. They have written her a letter saying they are

making progress. They are going to establish this joint initiative. It

is -- there is a pointed line saying their work has been strengthened in

this effort by the engagement with the European Union.

This is Outside Source live from the BBC newsroom.

As to South Korean Park Geun-hye has been arrested on corruption charges.

She was removed from office after being impeached. Some of the other

stories from BBC world service. The Chinese president will meet Donald

Trump next Thursday. The Chinese Foreign Ministry says the meeting

will take place in Florida. This will be the first meeting between

the two since Mr Trump issued a range of sharp criticisms of China

during the presidential campaign. After negotiations with North Korea,

Malaysia has said it will release the body of the half-brother of

North Korea's leader, assassinated at Kuala Lumpur airport last month.

Let's talk about US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, who has been in

Turkey today with -- for talks with the Turkish president. Top of the

agenda is discussing a way forward on defeating Isis. The Islamic State

group, as it is also called. With their cooperation in Syria, and in

particular around the offensive on Raqqa, the Isis stronghold, is far

from straightforward. You will realise why when I show you this

map. This red territory is controlled by Islamic State. We have

the Syrian army territory towards the West. The US is opposed to the

Assad regime. This purple area George the Turkish border is

controlled by Kurdish forces. The Americans are working with the

Kurds. The Turks consider them to be terrorists, quite a difference of

opinion. They held a joint news conference. Rex Tillerson was asked

whether the US and Turkey saw eye to eye on the issue of Kurdish

fighters. Here is what he had to say. Let

there be no mistake. There is no space between Turkey and the United

States and our commitment to defeat Isis. Not just in Syria and Iraq,

but as members of the greater coalition to defeat Daesh Anni where

Daesh shows its face on planet Earth. They will be confronted by

the coalition. Rex Tillerson is referring to

Islamic State as Daesh. Is there a united front between the Americans

and the Turks? We sort out the help of our BBC Turkish correspondent.

Rex Tillerson praised Turkey's military efforts in northern Syria

against Islamic State. But he didn't really answer the journalists'

question regarding PKK. The Turkish Foreign Minister said Turkey had

been upset because of US support to the white PG. We should mention that

Turkey accepts them as a terrorist organisation and does not want them

to be included in the Raqqa operation. But the US has not called

them a terrorist organisation. On the contrary, they have sorted

support against Islamic State in Syria. Time for business. We begin

with the North American Free Trade Agreement, Nafta. It has long been

in Donald Trump's sites. The goal of the worst deal is contrary and ever

signed. We were told they would be radical changes to how America trade

with Canada and with Mexico. Not for the first time low, the rhetoric

isn't quite managing -- matching the policy. Let's bring in Samir Husein

live from New York. Where has Mr Trump got to with dismantling Nafta?

So what we have is a draft sort of position, where the Trump

administration is release signalling to Congress the kinds of changes

they want to make to the North American Free Trade Agreement. A lot

of the rhetoric we heard during the campaign from Mr Trump was that

Nafta was a terrible deal, it was really bad for the United States,

and if we And it renegotiated, we're going to walk away. -- can't

renegotiated. When you look at some of the proposals he has presented to

Congress, it is softer than some of the rhetoric we heard earlier.

Things like there are these tribunal is that companies can go to when

they want to make complaints. A lot of people have criticised those

tribunals because they circumvent civil courts, and it could really

harm the sovereignty of countries. Those tribunal 's will still exist.

-- tribunals. Some wanted the president to attack currency

regulators. None of that has been tackled. Mr Trump seems to be quite

critical in America's relationship with America than with Canada,

particularly the issue of US firms going to Mexico to make things more

cheaply. Our -- are any of these proposals dealing with that? There

is one proposal dealing with one of those issues. It was a proposal that

actually Bill Clinton, the secretary of Nafta, wanted to get in but

Mexico posted. It was to be able to reinstate tariffs. If a country has

a flood of goods from another country that hurts the domestic

industry, well then that country then has the right to impose tariffs

on the goods coming in. There is a proposal to have that put in. More

than two decades ago when it was put in by then-President Clinton, Mexico

did not agree. It will be a bit of a negotiation to see of that can be

worked back into the agreement. Thank you. The world's biggest

insurance firm is Lloyds of London. Have a look at this tweet from Simon

Jack of the BBC. Simon suggested may not go down so well at Number 10.

The chief executive of Lloyd's of London has been speaking to the BBC.

We wanted to have a really top robust regulator, Brussels fits that

bill. We also wanted to have great access to talent. We need to hire

some really good people and we felt it was an excellent place to go.

Also, we have to think about accessibility. How easy is it to get

to London from somewhere on the continent, and elsewhere on the

continent to get to that place? We also wanted to consider the

likelihood of the country staying within the EU in the future, because

that is an important factor. Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, has

overtaken Warren Buffet as the second richest person in the world.

Bloomberg's billionaires' index counts these things. He is now worth

a cool $75.6 billion. He jumped into second place yesterday because

Amazon stock hit a record high. He still has a way to go before he gets

top spot. Bill Gates has been there for awhile. His value is put at $86

billion. Some of the latest business stories on Outside Source. Stay with

me. If you have any questions, I will be back in a couple of minutes.