10/04/2017 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.

There's renewed pressure on Russia over its role in Syria.

It's coming from a G7 meeting in Italy.

This is your choice. Stick with that guy, stick with that tyrant or work

with us to find a better solution. We've got a new report from

David Shukman on the Great Barrier. Rising water temperatures

have damaged two thirds of the corals there -

experts say there is little LSD and magic mushrooms

are illegal Class A drugs - but some people in the UK take small

amounts as part of We have a special report on what's

known as microdosing. When you're doing something that

isn't causing any harm to anybody else, there's nothing really that

needs to be justified. It's been expected for a while,

but now the US, Canada and Mexico will make a joint bid to host

the 2026 World Cup - we'll have the latest

on that in OS sport. Scientists in Australia say

two-thirds of the coral on the Great Barrier Reef have been

damaged in the past two years. The damage is called Bleaching -

it happens when corals under stress drive out the algae that

give them colour. And bleaching is caused

by rising ocean temperatures which in turn are linked

to global warming. The reef is off the Queensland

coast in Australia's north east. There's been two consecutive

years of bleaching - This is one of the

study's researchers. That means that even when mass

bleaching events happen 12 months apart there's no prospect

of recovery for reefs The BBC's Science Editor David

Shukman's latest report looks A world of brilliant

colour, teeming with life. This is the Great Barrier Reef

at its best - the largest single biological structure on earth,

but vulnerable to This is how part of reefs

look, a ghostly white. The corals more like a graveyard

than a thriving habitat. A new survey has found long

stretches of the reef have turned pale for the second year running,

giving the corals no chance to recover, and the scientist

in charge says he's worried. It seems likely that between this

event and last event roughly 50% of the coral on the Great Barrier

Reef will have died, That binding measure

is a huge blow to the reef. What is happening to

the Great Barrier Reef is deeply shocking to the scientists

who are studying the This gives you an idea

of what is at stake. On the left, this is healthy coral,

rich in colour; on the right, that's coral that's turned white,

and is at risk of dying. Healthy coral has algae growing

inside it, providing energy, but if the water's too warm,

the algae are expelled, which leaves the coral

bleached and starving. Last year, scientists found

that the northern third of the Great Barrier Reef

was most badly hit. That is where the waters

are usually warmest. This time, the central

section has suffered worst, and that's surprising

because usually the waters Being bleached two years running,

makes it all the harder Some corals are weaker

than others and are less likely to survive in warmer waters,

so scientists are trying to find out Coral can bleach but it does

not necessarily die. If a coral bleaches year after year,

then that is going to reduce The reef faces all kinds

of threats, from pollution But on top of them,

there is climate change, bringing higher temperatures,

that makes bleaching more likely. More on that story online from the

BBC News website and the BBC News app.

Next on Outside Source, we turn to South Sudan

and a report from the BBC's Africa correspondent Alastair Leithead.

This country is one one of the toughest places in the world

There are many shocking statistics, one is that a 15

year old girl is more likely to die in childbirth

Alistair's been talking to three women about

In a town run by soldiers from where most people have fled,

Janifa Poni earns a little money making alcohol out of grain.

It's a bit like percolating coffee, using a few adapted pots and pans.

Janifa left school at 12, had her first for children at 13

and is now trapped by war, making enough money

to survive but not enough to get her family out.

TRANSLATION: There are so many things that happen here.

I saw a pregnant woman who'd been killed, they cut the baby out

When you go to dig vegetables you might live, you might die.

Three million people have been forced from their homes

in South Sudan, 230,000 have ended up in sprawling UN-protected camps.

Rita Nyedeng came here when the fighting came

because she thought she was going to be killed because

TRANSLATION: Life in the camp isn't good, there isn't

But I cannot go back to my house because it was dismantled.

Now she and her team help keep the camp community

Sometimes the women, if they go outside to buy greens,

or collect wood, they can be taken by the government.

Nearly half the women in South Sudan are married before the age of 18.

And it's one of the worst places in the world to be a mother.

A 15-year-old girl in South Sudan is more likely to die in childbirth

Very few make it to secondary school.

In South Sudan here, they don't take much

Achol Majur is 19, she is head girl and this is a mentoring session.

She has made it her mission to stop girls from dropping out.

Since I know the benefit of education, I want my

girls to know about it and I talk to them every time

because I don't want to be the one benefiting alone -

She persuades parents to keep the girls in school.

If you get an education, if you educate boys and abandon

girls, that doesn't make sense - both boys and girls

Now, some of the bigger sports stories in the world. Starting off

with an announcement we were expecting but it is still

significant. The US, Canada and Mexico will announce

a joint bid to host the 2026 World Cup.

It'll be the first expanded version of the tournement -

The announcement was made at the top of One World

We have the full support of the United States government in this

project. The president of the United States is fully supportive and

encourages us to have this joint bid. He is expressly pleased Mexico

is part of this bid, and in the last few days we have had further

encouragement on that. We're not concerned about some of the issues

other people may raise. We looked bidding low and decided we wanted to

bid with our partners in North America and have a strong

encouragement from President Rampaul to that very end. Very interesting.

Bearing in mind what Mr Trott said about Mexico, wanting to build the

wall and not happy with the free trade agreement, it's interesting he

has got right behind this idea. -- president Donald Trump. Sport is a

great leveller and brings people together. I think it will help out

with this World Cup bid. The bidding process gets under way later in the

year. If you remember the last time the North American held it in 1994,

at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, with Brazil winning 3-2 on penalties

after it finished goalless after extra time. Roberto Baggio with that

famous missed penalty for the Italians. They ended up losing and

Brazil taking the title. It was a very hot day and a hot place to be

playing football in North America, but I certainly think it will be a

fantastic tournament for going back there. Looking at a situation here

where we have 60 games that are going to be played in the US. Ten

which will be played in Canada and ten in Mexico. Canada posted the

2015 women's World Cup. In the US they have grand stadiums and can use

the NFL arenas which are state-of-the-art. Mexico have three

or four stadiums they can use. This is going to be a tournament that

would be with US Leeming, the 250th year of the independence agreement,

so be something to look forward to. You would expect around the 4th of

July the Fai would be in the USA. Thank you, we will keep an eye on

that. If you are a regular viewer you know we will bring new coverage

of sports that are underreported. The International Federation

of Sport Climbing held its first world cup event of the year

at the weekend. This particular discipline

of climbing is called bouldering. The climbers attempt

different walls or boulders of varying difficulties -

although, all variations No harness, though

they won't fall far. Their ranking depends on how many

boulders they successfully complete. Britain's Shaun Coxsey

won the women's event, We're going to be following climbing

closely - including speed climbing which is going to feature

at the Olympics. I just wanted to mention this.

Particularly those watching on the BBC News Channel in the UK.

The BBC will be showing the Women's Super League One

across TV, radio online when the Spring Series

The Women's Football Show on BBC Two will show highlights,

while games will be shown live on the BBC Sport website.

Really exciting development for BBC sport here in the UK. We will show

the best women's football in the UK. In a few minutes we will be turning

to Hungary. It has seen some of its biggest

protests in years. Its over the potential closure

of a respected university. A photo of a woman smiling

at an English Defence League protester in Birmingham,

snapped after she stepped in to defend another

woman has gone viral. The image of Saffiyah Khan has been

shared thousands of times An image that's travelled around the

world. Today, at home in Aycock screen, Saffiyah Khan was reflecting

on her moment of defiance Saturday's EDL demonstration in Birmingham. She

says she stepped in to help a Muslim woman who was being threatened.

She seemed scared, but regardless of whether or not she felt scared, the

fact of the matter is there was a group of EDL surrounding her, and I

don't think anyone should be in that position. The photograph shows

Saffiyah Khan appearing to smile at the EDL leader Ian Crossland. She

says he was poking his finger in her face but she was determined to

become. I was just looking at the guy, and

sometimes it's the best response, just to smile. Work you scared when

you interbreed? Am I afraid of the EDL? I wasn't then, I'm not now and

I don't intend to be. Ian Crosland hasn't yet commented today but he

did speak on Saturday, before the photograph was taken. It's not a

demonstration against Muslims but against radical Islam. Around 100

people took part in the rally. The EDL said it moved the protest from

Derby to Birmingham because Khalid Masood, the Westminster attacker,

lived in the city. On a site claiming to be the EDL's official

Facebook page, it said Saffiyah had been disrespectful, shouting during

a minute's silence for victims of terror attacks and then being

treated like a hero. Saffiyah Khan says there was no one-minute

silence. Saffiyah Khan also denies claims she is a member of an

antifascist group. People we spoke to were happy to photograph has been

circulated around social media. I think it's a brave act, especially

because there are a lot more aggressive and physically taller and

more threatening than she is. I think because she was so calm it

brought more awareness to it, rather than causing an argument. Saffiyah

Khan says she finds it strange she has attracted such notoriety but

hopes it will motivate people to fight racism.

This is Outside Source live from the BBC newsroom.

The G7 meeting of foreign ministers has been taking place in Italy.

Countries involved are seeking to renew pressure on Russia

If you're outside of the UK, it's World News America next.

They have more on the rumours of a battle for influence

between President Trump's chief strategist and his son-in-law.

It's being called a power-struggle of Shakespearean proportions.

Here in the UK, the News at Ten is next.

They're covering the funeral of PC Keith Palmer, the policeman killed

Thousands of police officers from all over the country lined

Let me show you these pictures that came in to the newsroom

At least 50,000 people took to the streets Budapest over

new laws that could lead to the closure of one

of the countries most prestigious universities.

There has been a further update in the last few hours. This from a news

agency in Hungary saying the president has approved the law that

regulate foreign universities and could force the college out of

Hungary. That is a reference to this. The central European

University. It will be unable to award diplomas

because it is registered in the US. That will be a problem under the new

law. The university was founded

by philanthropist George Soros. The suggestion is he is trying to

interfere in Hungarian politics. Oleg Boldyrev explained

the disagreement between The government essentially holds

George Soros accountable for at least defending the rights of those

migrants who were coming here, as part of the wave of refugees. How it

came to conflict with the Central European University is a long story.

On Sunday tens of thousands of people marched on this bridge,

urging the government to reconsider, urging Parliament to reconsider,

urging the president not to sign the law, which means that CEU will not

operate. The president when the other way. There is talk in the town

that there will be protests, if not an eye on Wednesday. The dynamic of

that protest has been quite impressive. Two weeks ago it was

10,000 people, on Sunday there were 80,000 people. I spoke to a

government representative today, he said basically the government is not

changing its position. They say it is about morality. They say the CEU

only needs to be in the US to operate. Those who defend the

Central European University say this is an attack on academic freedom,

this is part of something much larger, which is the Hungarian

government's drive to have a controlled democracy. There are tens

of thousands of those who want that university to operate, or demand

academic freedom here in Hungary. The government accuses George Soros

of trying to influence Hungarian politics via this university and

other NGOs, is that fair? That is basically the entire

argument which the two sides are having. Our NGOs only helping those

in need or do they contravene government position and government

line, undermining it? Certainly the two sides are not agreeing about

that. But certainly there are dozens and dozens of those who support the

academic freedom. There are many letters sent from political leaders

around the world, by noble lawyers, saying that the university should

not be called an instrument of influence. That basically this is an

institution that is fair to make science, not to influence political

decision and nobody is doing that. The government is holding a

radically different view. We have heard from Hungary Switzerland, the

US and the UK and Sudan. Next we turn to Sweden. A minute's silence

has been helped remember those killed and injured in the truck

attack in Stockholm. These are the pictures we had a little earlier.

The Swedish Prime Minister, the Royal family and other senior

officials took part in the ceremony outside Stockholm City Hall.

Meanwhile Swedish prosecutors confirmed the man suspected of

carrying out the attack is a 39-year-old from Uzbekistan. Swedish

authorities have been trying to deport him after his asylum

application was refused. Earlier we had this statement from the police.

TRANSLATION: When it comes to the investigation I am confident we have

the right perpetrator who drove the truck. It is up to the prosecutor to

prove this in court and the court has to make its assertions. From the

police perspective, we feel great confidence. With that story and

almost all the stories we cover here on Outside Source, if you need more

information, whenever you want that information you can get it through

the BBC News app or the BBC News website. I'm pretty sure you will

know where to find that. Next we've got a report

from Catrin Nye on microdosing - that's the taking of tiny amounts

of psychedelic drugs The people here in the UK who do it

say it boosts creativity and can have medicinal benefits -

there's no scientific Psychedelic drugs,

LSD, magic mushrooms, are usually associated

with long, mind-bending trips. Some people, though, are now taking

the Class A drugs in tiny doses. They argue it improves their day

but also, in some cases, helps deal Anna, whose name I've

changed, is a mum of two. She's tried micro-dosing with LSD

and magic mushrooms in the past. I had learned that a really useful,

nice thing to do with it would be to have it on a day off and have

quite a normal day. But the quality of that day,

on all sorts of fronts, So, I would go for a walk

and I would be struck All those bits of sense data,

that I think we often just lose, to getting stuff done

and being outcome-focused, would be There's something relaxing

and grounding about it. Simpa micro-doses regularly

with LSD and says it helps Can you tell me what you're dealing

with, and how it helps? Depression and anxiety as a result

of this childhood trauma that led to borderline personality disorder

and post-traumatic stress disorder. So, all of these things together,

are currently dealt with by GPs with a large amount of different

pills, each of which causes more side effects, I find

in my personal experience, than the benefits

these drugs provide. These substances, I've found,

give me the benefits There has recently been a cautious

revival in scientific trials James Rucker was recently

involved in a pilot trial, at Imperial College London,

looking at the use of magic It did not, however,

look at micro-dosing? Micro-dosing, we know,

at a medical level, There have been no trials looking

at micro-dosing at all, so we do not know whether there

are any benefits associated with it, or indeed if there are any

harms associated with it. The only way that we can sort out

whether or not it works or it doesn't is by doing a blinded

placebo controlled randomised trial. The definition of a micro-dose

is you don't notice the subjective effect, but that doesn't mean

it is not having any effect on you. As well as this, the drugs

being used are Class A. Possession can result in up

to seven years in prison. How do you justify this fact

that it is completely illegal? When you're doing something

that is not causing any harm to anybody else there's nothing

really that needs to That report is available online if

you would like to show it to other people. One last word to put up at

the end of the programme. It is where we started, the G7 foreign

ministers meeting earlier on in Italy. You will notice there are

eight people in this photo. That is because this is the foreign policy

representative of the European Union, who joined the seven other

foreign ministers. A couple of other people to pick out, Boris Johnson,

the UK's Foreign Secretary. He chose not to go to Moscow, instead to

concentrate on building a coalition to build pressure on Russia. This is

Rex Tillerson, the US Secretary of State, he is going to Moscow. He

will be there on Tuesday, meeting Sergey Lavrov, his counterpart. It

will be very interesting to see how that conversation goes. See you

tomorrow to talk all about it. Hello. If it is your first holiday

of the year, I suppose the weather is very important.