30/03/2017 Outside Source

The welcome by Outside Source. -- welcome back to Outside Source. In

Syria, the war has entered its seventh year. The BBC has been

focusing on their daily lives of people are still there. The quest to

discover weather Russia interfered in the US election campaign

continues. Some Democrats are already convinced. Russian

propaganda on steroids. It was designed to poison the national

conversation in America. I've anchored Trump is now going to use a

White House office, she is assistant to the president. And in sport, we

will hear an interview with the Nigerian women's bobsleigh team.

It is now six years since civil war broke out in Syria and the war has

caused untold loss of life. Millions and millions of people are being

displaced both inside Syria and outside of it and it has led to the

greatest refugee crisis since World War II. A truce between the

Government and rebel groups is nominally in place but it is

continually broken. After six years of conflict, the Government is now

back in control of all the major cities in Syria and we will focus on

a few of them. The BBC has been looking at 24 hours in the life of

several people across the country. We will start in hospital.

The the Syrian army and its allies drove all rebels from Aleppo's old

city last year. That part of the city was almost completely

evacuated. Sinners, some residents have returned and here is one of

their stories. Just south of Aleppo is a place

called... The attempts to go on as normal include football games.

Finally, we will return to the old city of the capital, Damascus. It

has escaped the worst of the fighting but nearby areas are in a

rebel hands and the fighting is going on sporadically in the city's

old town. We spoke to some younger people affected.

As I said earlier, if you want background information on the Syria

conflict how it started and developed some of the situation is

now, you can find out online from BBC News. Let us turn to Outside

Source sport. Ivanka Trump has said how do we allocate places in the

next World Cup. They'll be 48 teens compared to the 32 we currently see.

-- teens. Dragon is rubbish. That means two teens go through to make

up that 48. They will go to a Play-Off system and over five

confederations. Five out of the six will be in there. If it was Brazil

in the last tournament, South America would then get two team is

going through in those six teens. The way it works is the top two

teens would miss the first round and the remaining ones would play each

other and the losers would go out at the top two would play the winners

of the last two games and then those two teens winning the last two would

go through and it will surf as a test for the World Cup coming up in

the following year. They may be the death knell of the Confederations

Cup which is normally be laid before the World Cup.

Let's talk about Greg Norman. He is a golfing legend and also good front

the Donald Trump. And the president is keen on golf. He has played a

number of times since becoming president and Greg Norman has been

talking to us about the man in the White House. His flexibility for a

70-year-old is pretty good. He hits the ball a fairly long way. I've

played with him a few times. Are you surprised Rory McIlroy got

the stick he got? Yes, but he got it wrongly. It's a great story and if I

give you an analogy, I get a call from the White House and they say

the president will be in Australia, he would love to play golf with you

and I go, I'm not a democrat. I do want to play with him. So I called

President Bush and said, Mr President, I've got to seek your

advice, it's free, right? I just get a call from the White House and

their request in the late golf with President Clinton in Australia, but

I'm a Republican. He said, Greg, just let me tell you, respect the

position of the president of the USA. Go and play golf with the

president. And I said yes, sir. And this is why I can say with complete

authority that I prejudged the president. I was an idiot because it

turned out to be one of the great friendships I have had to this day.

Because when I got to know him, he was just a wonderful guy. There were

times when he would phoned me up when the whole Tiger Woods thing was

going up and he would say I should go down and talk to him and help

him. This goes back to respect the

position of the president and that's all I ask of everybody out there

globally. Greg Norman talking about George Bush, Bill Clinton and Donald

Trump. It is reasonable to say bobsleighing is not a big African

sport, so this next is impressive. The Nigerian women's team is about

to qualify for the Winter Olympics in South Korea next year. This

report tells us their story. It is cold. It is really, really cold. We

are from a continent that would never imagine sliding down highs at

18 miles an hour. The idea of getting people to take to that is in

itself empowering. I'm a full time student and now I'm

trying to start a federation in their blueprints, not only for a

country, but a continent, because there has never been and other

African country with a bobsleigh federation. We have all sacrificed

our social life, it is nonexistent. But we don't care any more, we've

got each other, that is good enough. The sport in itself is an extremely

expensive one. To reach our final dull went need at least $150,000. To

do this, we have the guts of our cable, no new clothes, moved to a

place that is cheaper. For everything that gives the battle are

trying combat it. I'm determined to qualify. No matter what comes along

the way on this path I have to stay on it. Once I decide to go, just

keep going. You wouldn't bet against them, would you? Good luck to them.

We will soon be live in Washington to get the latest on the Senate

investigation overseen by these two gentlemen. It is weather Russia

interfered in the US election. Sugar limits for everyday foods such

as biscuits and chocolate bars having published by public health

officials in a bid to make British children more healthy. The aim is to

cut the sugar eaten in such foods by 20% in the next three years as our

help correspondence reports. But eating too much sugar

is rotting children's teeth A third of children

are overweight or obese Now as part of government plans

to tackle the problem, the food industry is being given

new limits for how much sugar should Companies are being urged

to reformulate their products so that they contain less sugar,

or to make them smaller. The aim is for the UK's annual diet

to contain 200,000 fewer We expect people to see over time

smaller chocolate bars, smaller cakes, smaller biscuits,

particularly when they eat away from home, in family

restaurants and so on. We also expect people not

to notice the changes, because we know if changes

are gradually made to our food, Your bread is now 40% less salty

than it was ten years ago. And there will also be

the new tax on sugary drinks, Dieticians say there's no

time to lose in trying Around one in five

10-11-year-olds are obese. We know from research that excess

sugar is linked to weight gain and when you are obese you are more

at risk of conditions like type two diabetes,

which can lead to heart disease The food industry isn't being forced

to make these changes, but trade bodies say they'll take

on the challenge and experts in nutrition think this

is the quickest way because the legal process of writing

mandatory guidelines is so awkward, so long, people resist it and try

and protect their own interests, that doing it on a voluntary basis

is actually quicker to write the regulations and quicker to amend

them if they don't work. The nine food groups announced today

account for less than half of children's total sugar intake,

so there's still work to be done on sugar that's less obvious,

in foods like pasta sauces. Health campaigners have praised

the plans, but they want the government to keep up

the pressure on food companies. We live in the BBC newsroom rumour

with Outside Source. South Korea has ousted president who has been

arrested on corruption charges. She was removed from office. Let us have

a quick look what is coming up. If you're outside the UK, it is a world

News America next. Here in the UK, the news at ten is next.

Now, the Senate intelligence committee has held its first open

hearing into the allegations that Russia interfered with the US

election. Remember, there is a separate house of representatives

investigation and it has become embroiled in a controversy because

this man who oversees it is accused of inappropriately assisting the

White House. He denies that and is overseen one investigation and these

two are overseen the Senate Inquirer. One is a Republican, one a

democrat, let us listen to the Republican. We are all targets of a

sophisticated and capable at and we must engage in a whole of Government

approach to combat Russian active measures. The language you've heard

today has been strong, explicit as you'll see in this clip. Russia's

president, Vladimir Putin, ordered a deliberate campaign carefully

constructed to undermine our election. First Russia struck at our

political institutions by electronically breaking into the

headquarters of one of political parties and stealing vast amounts of

information. Russian operatives also hacked e-mails to steal personal

messages and other information from individuals ranging from Clinton

campaign manager to former Secretary of State, Colin Powell. This stolen

information was then at weaponised. It is so frequent we hear these

allegations being made in Washington, it is important to keep

reiterating that the Russians deny having anything to do with any of

this. There is Vladimir Putin earlier.

TRANSLATION: Did the Russian Government attempt to influence the

outcome of the US election? At one time, I think about taxes and

addressing the Americans, Reagan said Read my lips. We all live to

Washington now. Somebody is not telling the truth. As the Senate

inquiry going to go about finding out what happened? And they spoke

with a number of academic experts today to try and gather more

information. They are reviewing thousands of documents provided by

the intelligence services that have evidence of support the conclusion

reached earlier this year that Russia was to influence the US

election. There will also be talking to former officials in the above an

illustration, the intelligence community, about their views and

allegations they have made about Russian involvement, as well as

members of Donald Trump's administration. I want to point out

that Vladimir Putin's wrong, that was not Ronald Reagan, but George W

Bush. A reporter quoted a senior Democrat on the lower house and

their investigation and said this... I've heard of money-laundering, but

never information laundering. What precisely is the allegation here?

There was an article in the New York Times today that said the

information was gotten about incidental surveillance from members

of the Trump administration itself two members of the national security

council who apparently gave documents which were taken to the

capital, and I went back to the White House and inform Donald Trump.

The idea of this laundering is that the White House itself gave it and

was presented as something that was discovered and taken back to the

White House. This was all an attempt to advance the White House

administration line backing of Donald Trump's assertion that he was

watched by the Obama illustration. That's one story I want to ask you

about. First of all, an extraordinary attack by the

president on certain Republicans. There is Donald Trump saying the

Freedom caucus will hurt the entirely Republican agenda if they

do not get on the team and fast. We must fight them at the Democrats in

2018. This must be related to the that did not go through last week.

-- is their health care. It was probably the most organised

opponents of the health care bill within a house of representatives

when they were debating it. They were a group of around 30 hard-core

libertarian leading conservative true believers in their objections

were that the repeal did not go far enough. Donald Trump and his

administration try to put the pressure on the freedom caucus to

bring them around and say this was the way Obamacare was going to be

repealed and they dug in their heels and it appears now that Trump is

following through on threats to challenge freedom caucus members,

call them out and possibly undermined every election in 2018

the same way his administration would oppose Democrats. It's

astounding and an escalation of the rhetoric within the Republican

party. On are less talk about the President's daughter, Ivanka Trump.

She is now the Assistance of the President. We've already seen her in

a number of high-profile meetings, this picture was used an awful when

Angela Merkel visited. She was also involved with meetings with the

Japanese leader before President Trump was inaugurated. On one level,

we saw it coming, but lots of people are saying this is nepotism. Is it

out of the ordinary or regular for a president to do this? It is

certainly out of the ordinary for a president to elevate one of his

offspring to a formal role within the West Wing of the White House.

Ivanka Trump had been given prime office space already within the

White House, so this is in effect putting her in a position where she

has to be applied to the ethics rules that govern White House

employees. We've seen presidential spouses are prominent, informal

roles. Hillary Clinton, Joe in the Bill Clinton administration was

probably the most prominent of that, maybe going back to Woodrow Wilson

and his wife in the 1920s. But this is remarkable as far as presidential

children go. There's no modern presidents for it. Ivanka Trump is

taking on this role and melodia Trump is being very, very low-key.

We've talked a bit a number of times. The judge in Hawaii who

temporarily blocked President Trump us revised travel ban has now issued

a longer lasting order. Erie is explaining why. -- here he is

explaining why. You have this flashing light behind you saying...

If the jump administration wants to get this through it will have to

fight. All the indications that it has the energy? They have said they

will appeal the decision. The idea they may do it again is probably too

much. They will see this fight to the Supreme Court. They feel they

have legal grounds that the first immigration order. You saw from this

Hawaiian judge that the original order and campaign statements about

a so-called Muslim ban as evidence of the unconstitutionality and

religious discrimination that was intrinsic in this new order. The

order will be suspended until the court fight. Thank you. Our lead

story on Outside Source today has come from South Korea where the

former president has been arrested on charges relating to that

corruption scandal we have covered many, many times. If you want more