05/04/2017 Outside Source

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

Let's look through some of the main stories here in the BBC Newsroom.

Russia and the West are at loggerheads over

who was responsible for the Syria chemical attack that

Donald Trump has rowed back on comments made

by his administration last week - saying this attack may

My attitude towards Syria and President Assad has changed very

much. In the US, we'll look

at President Trump's Monday was Egypt, today

he hosted the King of Jordan. Tomorrow, Donald Trump

will welcome China's president And in sport, Jose Mourinho has been

attacking some of his players, It's a big week of diplomacy

for Donald Trump. In the last few hours he met

with Jordan's King Abdullah II. That's the two of them

with their wives in the Oval Office. It's a big deal, but it's

overshadowed on Thursday. That will happen at the President's

golf resort Maralago in Florida. He has been plenty of times taking

office. This is a private members club, the

New York Times is telling us about this man, this businessman who is a

staunch critic of the Chinese government and also a member at the

golf club. He might bump into the leaders.

This was Mr Trump and Japanese PM Shinzo Abe being briefed

Both men were briefed in front of the members of the club.

The photo was taken by a member of the resort.

Rajini Vaidyanathan joins us from Washington.

It is fair to say that Xi Jinping has not done much diplomacy in an

environment like this? If we talk about the diplomacy, we remember

some of the things that President Trump has said about China, as a

candidate he said that China was responsible for taking a number of

US drops and he accused China of being a currency minute later. He

took a phone call from the leader of Taiwan's and that is one of the

adversaries of China, so when Donald Trump says it will be an interesting

talk they have, you can bet he is right. Some of the things he says he

wants to do is to riches and he describes as the massive trade

deficit US has with China but he needs the help of China on some

areas, for example when it comes to helping contain North Korea's

nuclear ambitions. Might they play some golf? I'm not sure. This is an

interesting setting. We know President Trump likes to play golf

when at his club but it is such an interesting setting and effective is

there has raised complaints from people in the Palm Beach area. I

have been to Maralago and this is a very upmarket area but locals say it

cost the taxpayer too much money. The Mayor of Palm Beach County says

that local police are having to pay something like $120,000 every day in

extra overtime every time the President is there. He has been

there on seven weekends since taking the Presidency so he has come under

a lot of criticism because when he goes there is a lot of security that

also needs to go into place and we have some of those photos whenever

the Japanese leader came to the US. There have been concerns about the

security, members free to roam around and take photos of the

President when at dinner. It used to cost around $100,000 to become a

member of Maralago and since Mr Trump became President, that has

doubled. You need some serious money to actually get there. Out of my

range before the high strike! Thank you. -- the price hike. We will have

coverage of that visit of Xi Jinping to Maralago as it happens.

Not for the first time Jose Mourinho is attacking some of his players.

Not for the first time, it's raising eyebrows.

By any measure a 21-year-old doing well - he's an

Already Mourinho's questioned his commitment and attitude -

He had a good performance. It was his body with my brain. I was making

every decision for him. And the communication was possible because

we were very close. But I was thinking for him. We went to close,

to open, went to press the opponent, I was making every decision. And at

this level, we need a fantastic body he has two play football, the

fantastic physical qualities he has, the very good technical ability he

has. But he cannot play with my understanding of the game, he must

understand and think. BBC Sport's Trevor Sinclair

is a former England international. If you were doing that to under 10s

it would be embarrassing, I can't believe what

I heard last night. Tulsen Tollett is at

the BBC Sport Centre. He has got some form? Being very

harsh? When you look at the situation with Bastian

Schweinsteiger from over a year ago, he had to apologise about the way he

treated him. He says he did not wish that he treated him that we and he

has gone on to the Chicago Fire. If you look at Luke Shaw, 21 years old,

double leg fracture, working his way back to full fitness and trying as

hard as he can and they have the luxury of playing professional sport

and I never once had a manager who publicly spoke about players like

that. Sir Alex Ferguson, when he was in charge, he was a subtle master of

criticising players if they were winning the game and if they lost,

he protected his players. He looked at this in that type of man

management, behind closed doors. I'm not sure what Mourinho is getting

at, he has had issues in the past and Chelsea he had those issues off

the field so this is a very harsh way of looking at Luke Shaw. At some

point this might come back to bite him. Thank you for that.

Four months ago, almost every player from the Brazilian side Chapecoense

was killed in a plane crash in Colombia.

They were travelling to play Colombia's Atletico Nacional

in the final of the Copa Sud Americana.

On Tuesday the two teams finally played each other.

I'm warm welcome to rivals, something rarely seen in football,

but these teams have been brought together. After a plane crash last

year, Atletico Nacional awarded Chapecoense the Copa, although the

final was never played. It was the biggest prize they have everyone.

This time it was Atletico Nacional who got the hero's welcome as they

arrived in the City to face their rivals. TRANSLATION: We are sporting

Chapecoense and Atletico Nacional, we are one family, this is a party.

On the pitch, I returned with four yellow cards awarded. Both sides

doing their best to win with Atletico Nacional scoring this

stunning equaliser. There was a fairy tale ending for Chapecoense

with the winning goal near the end of an emotional match. The second

leg will be in Colombia next month, a trip that will bring back

difficult memories for Chapecoense fans.

If you're a fan of Nick Kyrgios - I appreciate quite a few people

don't fall into that category - but if you are, he's

One owner, meticulously cared for, regularly serviced, only

16,000 km, near new tyres, bone leather interior.

But he does say you can inbox him if your interested.

You know where to find him, on Facebook. If you live in Australia,

that would help! In a couple of minutes we'll look

at the Trump administration's reaction to North Korea's latest

ballistic missile test. A service of hope and reconciliation

has been held in Westminster Abbey - a fortnight after the attack

near the Houses of Parliament. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge

and Prince Harry joined families and the emergency services attending

the multi-faith service, as our Royal correspondent,

Nicholas Witchell, reports. Two weeks ago the area around

the Abbey at Westminster was caught Nearby on Westminster Bridge,

there were casualties. Closer still, just inside the gates

of the Houses of Parliament, an unarmed police officer

was killed. One of the four innocent

people who died that day. Two weeks after those events

at Westminster Abbey, Leaders of the different faith

communities from across the United Kingdom were joined

in the congregation by the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge

and Prince Harry, together with members of the emergency

services, some of the bereaved families, and some of those

who were injured. Candles were lit to represent

the light which can never be extinguished

by the darkness of terror. In his address, the Dean

of Westminster recalled that amongst those who were directly affected

by the attack were people He posed the question

so many have asked. What could possibly motivate a man

to hire a car and take it from Birmingham to Brighton,

to London, and then drive it fast at people he'd never met,

couldn't possibly know, against whom he had no personal

grudge, no reason to hate them. Prayers were offered

pledging respect between The best of Muslims is the one

who utters beautiful words. Two weeks after the Westminster

attack, from an ancient abbey which has borne witness to so much,

a message of hope. This is Outside Source live

from the BBC Newsroom. Russia and the West have clashed

over who is responsible for a deadly gas attack in Syria which left

70 people dead. President Trump has condemned

the attack and says his attitude North Korea has test-fired

a medium-range ballistic missile. It did so from an eastern

port called Sinpo. South Korea's defence ministry

said it flew about 60km. Now bear in mind that

on Thursday Donald Trump meets Also bear in mind this

is in a Financial Times interview. Donald Trump said that

if China didn't do something This is the State Department's

statement on this most recent test. If it looks short,

that's because it is. "North Korea launched yet

another intermediate The United States has spoken

enough about North Korea. Earlier I spoke with Jenny Town

from John Hopkins University. I asked her what she made

of the State Department's response. It was a very disappointing

statement coming from the State Department, it lacked clear

messages, any clear direction and any clear leadership on this issue

and it is indicative of the foreign policy statements coming aren't

throughout this administration. They tend to be very ambiguous,

inconsistent and open to wide interpretation. Which causes more

anxiety at these times and more anxiety than necessary, especially

when tensions are already high. Given how many times America has had

to condemn North Korea for actions like this, is a law of diminishing

returns? Visit more fitting to consider a more public approach?

Yes, to some degree, but this was much too short and brief. There

still has to be condemnation and the leadership and there has to be some

consistency in what is said and that is what is lacking right now. In

terms of the missile test and what it told us about the capabilities of

North Korea, what did we learn? It is early to tell. There are

conflicting stories as to what the missile was, exactly, and in order

to tell from a technical standpoint, but this is a clear signal from

North Korea that they are continuing to move forward with their WMD

development programme and this is an issue that needs to be addressed.

Assuming the Americans and Chinese fashion a joint response when they

meet tomorrow and Friday, what do you think that should be? Ideally,

this will come down to a mixture of possibilities, including further

sanctions and bolstering of defences but there has to be some diplomatic

track and dramatic off ramp to get us away from the situation and had

this in a different direction, before this gets out of control.

Last night in France there was the latest

As she would have expected, the right-wing National Front

leader, Marine Le Pen, was attacked from all sides

TRANSLATION: I want to give the people their voice back,

I want the French people to get their money back.

I want to straighten France out again and to do it

I have a manifesto that's clear and precise.

I would like to tell the French people that voting to really take

back power is the only tactical vote that counts.

What I'm offering is a real, radical alternative.

The total renewal of our political life, with new faces, new practices.

Because I believe we can overcome modern problems,

And I want to get back the optimism of the French people,

Over the next ten years my objective is to make our country

A power whose economic, scientific and cultural energy

You need strength to be the president of France.

I have that strength and I'm ready to put it at the service

The first round of voting is on the 23rd of April.

Marine le Pen is polling well enough to win that.

But not to win the second round, at the moment.

And there are some interesting distinctions between her support

and the support we saw for outsider causes like Brexit and Donald Trump.

Marine le Pen performing very well here.

You can see young people are overwhelmingly behind Marine le Pen.

At the radical end of this movement are groups roughly equivalent

And what's striking is how effective they are online.

These are page views to French political websites

The dark blue are described as far right.

The sites for political candidates are far lower.

I'm joined by BBC News journalist, Henri Astier.

He has written a long article about the right France. To accept

comparisons that are helpful or is this a distinct movement? There are

comparisons, all of these themes you could see in the American vote and

in the Brexit vote, mistrust against the elite, opposition to mass

immigration, a sense that we want to return to traditional values and

this is French land. This is what this alt-right stands for. It goes

even beyond the fringe movement, it resonates among many, many sectors

of the electorate, even the left. Is this new? It is not new, this

rationalist, patriotic movement started in France before it spread

to other European countries, as far back as around 2000. All of those

websites began about ten or 12 years ago and one of the reasons why they

are so big online, why alt-right is so big, is that these views have

been shunned by the establishment and the media. You do not have in

France the equivalent of the press, maybe borderline xenophobic or

against mass immigration or politically incorrect tabloids or

against the EU, you do not have that in France in the mainstream. If you

hold those views, you have to go online. Do the aspire to making

Marine Le Pen President? Is that their goal? That is interesting,

there is a large sector of these fringe groups that are quite wary of

Marine Le Pen because recently she has gone more mainstream, appealing

to the left-wing vote, so they are trying to hold her to this hardline

position but what they will try to do is to get people to vote for her.

A couple of weeks ago we were in the Netherland 's covering the election

and it was possible to see how the had influenced the agenda of main

politicians. Is the alt-right impacting across the spectrum? It

is, it is so young. As you could see in that graph, almost 40% of under

30s are going to vote for Marine Le Pen and beyond that, you have many

people on the left, on the hard left, people voting in the first

round, the equivalent of Jeremy Corbyn, even further to the left,

and assuming he is not there in the second round, it is reckoned that

50% of his voters will not vote for the mainstream candidate and many

will vote for Marine Le Pen because she is Eurosceptic, she speaks for

the people as well. It is the extremes meeting. Very interesting.

Thank you for that. And you can get his analysis on the BBC website on

just those subjects. Back to America...

Ivanka Trump's given her first interview alone since her

She's now formerly called an assistant to the President

and she's been present in a number of high profile meetings.

Japan PM Shinzo Abe, German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Last week her role ws made official - Assistant to the President.

Now she has given her first

You say you are your father 's daughter and you have critics, but

people say, where is she on Planned Parenthood and gay rights? On the

rights of women and climate change? It is like you are being held

personally accountable for not speaking up. What do you say? I

would say not to conflate a lack of public denouncement with silence. I

think there are multiple ways to have your voice heard. In some cases

it is through protest and going onto the nightly news talking about or

denouncing every issue on which you disagree, at other times it is

quietly and correctly and candidly. Where I disagree with my father, he

knows that and I will express myself with total candour. Where I agree, I

fully leaned in and support the agenda and hope that I can be an

asset to him. And make a positive impact. But I respect the fact that

he always listens. This is how he was in business, how he is as the

President. What are the issues that Ivanka Trump champions? She was

pressed on this and this is the answer. For me, this is not about

promoting my viewpoint, I was not elected by the people to be

President, my father will do a tremendous job. And I want to help

them. But I do not think it will make me a more effective advocate to

constantly articulate every issue publicly where I disagree. And that

is OK, I will take hits from some critics who say that I should take

to the street. And others will, in the long-term, respect where I have

got things done. But I think most of the impact I have over time, most

people will not actually know about that. Time is up. Thanks for