17/04/2017 Outside Source

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

The BBC has spoken to a senior member of the North Korean regime

and he has this warning for the United States.

TRANSLATION: If the US is reckless enough to use military

means it would mean, from that very day,

The Americans have warnings of their own.

Vice-President Mike Pence is in South Korea.

North Korea would do well not to test his resolve or the strength of

the Armed Forces of the United States in this region.

President Erdogan has dismissed criticisms of Turkey's referendum

And says he wants his victory followed quickly by changes

A BBC team has seen evidence of mass graves in the Democratic Republic of

Congo. The rising tension between

North Korea and the America The BBC's John Sudworth

is in Pyongyang - and he's spoken to North Korea's Vice Foreign

Minister. The message is not

conciliatory, as you'll see. North Korea is all

about shows of strength. The first today came in this tae

kwon do demonstration. The next, in Kim Il-Sung Square,

close to the centre of power, TRANSLATION: If the US is reckless

enough to use military means, it would mean, from that very day,

an all-out war. Our nuclear weapons protect

us from that threat. We will be conducting more missile

threats on a weekly, Today, the US Vice President,

Mike Pence, was in South Korea, visiting the demilitarised zone that

separates the two halves It was a period of strategic

patience but the era President Trump has made it

clear that the patience of the United States and our allies

in this region has run out. But, despite the posturing on both

sides, the risks are limited. For the US and its allies,

war would be far too costly. And North Korea's threats,

although deeply alarming, If you could send one

message to Donald Trump TRANSLATION: I would tell him that

if the US encroaches on our sovereignty, then it

will provoke an immediate If the US is planning

a military attack against us, we will react with a nuclear

pre-emptive strike by our Tonight, although all options

apparently remain on the table, the US appears to be signalling that

diplomacy and toughened sanctions It's yet unclear how,

having failed before, they will persuade this most

totalitarian of states to disarm. There is strong evidence that

beyond the gloom of this city lie vast political prisons,

gulags in which all dissent, Although, in his interview,

the vice minister called Militarised, isolated

and repressive, North Korea has the right to follow its own path

and, he insisted, no-one Gary O'Donoghue is in Washington

and talked me through the options The options are limited. There is a

carrier group off the coast that the vice president standing high ball

and the North Koreans across the demilitarised zone, a lot of

rhetoric coming out of Donald Trump. There is a lot of noise and show of

force, but what can they actually do? If they strike North Korea, the

most likely outcome is that those artillery batteries embedded in the

hills and mountains north of the border just 30 miles from Seoul

could hit 10 million people, cause enormous devastation. That doesn't

seem like a good outcome. What they are hoping for, what they are

relying on, is a change of heart by China, a new attitude in Beijing

that is prepared to put real economic and political pressure on

the North Koreans. China is the only country that North Korea listens

if it listens to anyone. A lot has if it listens to anyone. A lot has

been made about the turning back of coal shipments from China. The

Chinese import a lot of oil to North Korea has North Korea don't have any

oil, and the military the size of North Korea's, you need gasoline.

The Americans are hoping that they can tie the issue of trades into the

whole debate about what to do about North Korea and have a different

relationship between Washington and Beijing and can put real pressure on

pure online -- the only. International observers say Turkey's

constitutional referendum On Sunday, a majority voted

in support of extensive These observers are from

a European mission - its report online -

and this is one of the team. The constitutional referendum took

place on a level playing field and the two sides on the campaign did

not have equal opportunities. Voters were not provided with information

about a key aspect of the reform, and organisations were not able to

participate. BBC's Mark Lowen calls this

"A pretty damning conclusion", but the Turkish government has said

this conclusion is "unacceptable". Here's President Erdogan

responding to it earlier. TRANSLATION: know your limits.

Turkey was neither listen to you or acknowledge this political report.

We will continue on our way, continue to walk our path. This

country has had the most democratic elections, the lights off with which

has never happened in any Western country.

@Marklowen "A country split down the middle,

opposition challenging result President backing death penalty.

Hard not to conclude that Turkey feels v lost".

Well, the turnout was high - and the result was close.

Here are two front pages from Turkey.

The secular S zc : "is your conscience comfortable?

The divide is geographical - most regions in the country's

interior where Mr Erdogan's always performs well - it voted yes.

The three largest cities - Istanbul, Ankara and Izmir - all voted no.

As did districts along the Aegean and Southeast Anatolia coast -

And they are no supporters of the President.

These are pictures we have from Istanbul.

These are opposition supporters banging pots and pans -

that's a traditional form of protest.

We will have to see what if anything they can do to reverse this result.

Just to quickly go over what exactly people were voting on.

The draft constitution would effectively concentrate power

in the President's hands in an unprecedented way.

He or she will be given sweeping new powers to appoint ministers,

prepare the budget, choose the majority of senior judges

The president alone would be able to announce a state of emergency

Mark Lowen is in Istanbul - here's his take on what will happen next.

I think what lies ahead in the short-term is intense division and

instability. Today the international observer mission capable salmon

verdict, saying the referendum was not held on a level playing field

and it fell of international standards. The opposition will see

that as an emboldening of their attempts to challenge this result.

They say they will take the results to referendum on electoral boards

and they want the results nullified. The result is a very divided country

The result is a very divided country today.

No question was posed - voters just stamped yes or no.

So how the campaigns framed the vote was absolutely crucial.

And they did this under emergency rule which is in place after last

Since then, many opposition figures have been jailed and there have been

There was also a procedural change at the last minute.

My colleague Seref Isler noted: "Election Council decides to count

envelopes without a seal unless proven to have been brought

Critics say this increased the chance of fraud.

Now reaction from the European Union.

First, The European Commission: "In view of the close referendum

result and the far-reaching implications of the constitutional

amendments, we call on the Turkish authorities to seek

the broadest possible national consensus."

Not clear what that means in practice.

Next, this is Austria's foreign minister saying this is "a clear

The fiction of joining must be ended."

I'm not sure any of us are expecting that to happen any time soon.

And this is is President of the European Parliament.

of possible on death penalty in Turkey.

That's a reference to President Erdogan saying

after the result that Turkey could now hold a referendum

This came in just before we went on air.

This is from Reuters. The Turkish National Security Council advises

extension of state of emergency by three months. This again from

Reuters, Donald Trump as has called Recep Tayyip Erdogan to congratulate

him on winning the referendum, that is according to sources within the

Presidential Palace in Turkey. Still to come - we'll have more

on the Turkish Referendum. The result will be seen as a win

for President Erdogan - we'll be finding out what's next

for the country's Prince Harry has revealed he has had

counselling to help them get over the death of his mother, Princess

Diana. He told the Daily Telegraph that he spent 20 years not thinking

about her death and eventually got help after two years of what he

called Chaos. Paul Farmer, the chief executive of the UK's mental health

charity, welcomed the decision by the Prince to speak so candidly.

Every time somebody in the public eye speaks candidly about the mental

health problems it encourages ordinary people to talk to

family member, but it also might family member, but it also might

encourage that friend to seek help from a GP or a charity. It is

helping more people to talk, but it is also helping more people to seek

help. That is a fundamental first step.

This is Outside Source live from the BBC newsroom.

North Korea's Deputy Foreign Minister says that North Korea will

continue to test the limits of despite international condemnation

and says that an all-out war would be the result of any US military

action. Clashes have broken out between

Israeli forces and Palestinians during a rally held in Bethlehem.

The rally was to support Palestinian prisoners who are in Israeli jails.

In Arkansas there is a planned execution of seven prisoners in ten

days with the first schedule today. This video is among the most watched

on the BBC website. President job on the White House balcony. There is

the Easter Bunny. There were hosting the 139th Easter egg roll.

China's economy is growing faster than expected.

We've got new figures for the first three months of this year -

This is the world's second biggest economy so it impacts on us all.

Here's the analysis of the BBC's Asia business

China's GDP figures have shocked people, astonished a lot of analysts

I have spoken to. The game above what many people expected. It is

important to point out that whilst we should always remain sceptical

about these official figures from Beijing, it is important to look at

the number as a whole as a sign that China's growth rate is stabilising.

The trajectory seems to be stabilising. The growth rate last

year was the lowest in 26 years, but if you look closer at the things

that have helped China's economy to grow this time around, it is the

same old tricks, state investment, the property market. Where is the

transition that Beijing has talked about over the last few years?

Moving from the old tricks to a new modern economy. We are not seeing

that as the main drivers of growth just yet.

The world's biggest oil exporter, Saudi Arabia, says it plans to get

ten percent of its electricity from renewable sources

The new focus on green energy is part of a ?50 billion programme

that's intended to wean the Saudi economy off its almost complete

The Saudi Energy Minister, Khaled al-Falih, made

TRANSLATION: among the renewable energy projects we lunch today I30

projects to be implemented in the next seven years to add close to ten

gigawatts of electric energy, produced from renewable sources, to

the kingdom's electricity supply. So, the percentage of renewable

energy by 2023 will represent 10% of the total electricity in the

kingdom. The latest movie in the Fast

and Furious franchise has grossed an estimated $532 million

dollars since Friday. That's an international record,

making it the make it the highest It's made less money in the US

than other Fast and Furious films. But that was more than

compensated by the $190 Samir, what is this film doing so

right? The entire franchise is doing something quite successful given

that we have seen eight films in the franchise already. Part of the

success of this film is because it is just not very complicated. People

sometimes just want to go to the cinema and be entertained and this

honour to those basic level is cars smashing into each other and blowing

up. That kind of simplicity has garnered a lot of attention. It is

something that people like. It is not as though didn't get high-value

actors playing in the films. Helen Mirren made and appearance in this

latest movie. Clearly, the recipe is going down well in China, that

figure is quite something. It is absolutely outstanding. If you look

at the movie that had been dyed in biggest global box office success,

it beat out Star Wars. Star Wars did not debut at the same time in China,

whereas this felon debuted in China as well as everywhere else in the

world. China is a big market and we have talked about how big China is

in terms of its market for a variety of products, and cinema is in fact

one of those as well, that is why you're seeing more Chinese

references and films, China being part of plotlines, because there is

a lot of potential in that market. Thank you.

Let's talk to the Democratic Republic of Congo. There has been

evidence of mass killings here. The government is trying to put down

Arab rebellion in the central province. We know that for hundred

people have died in the fighting and the UN has identified at least 23

mass graves. Louis's wife and children are

missing. They ran off when shooting began. Most people in his community

have left. The United Nations has stepped up patrols. At a neighbour's

home he shows us a makeshift grave. TRANSLATION: in this great is the

father of this house. I don't know who killed him. Everything can

change in an instant. We are just in this neighbourhood and we have come

under fire. We have been interviewing people here and there

has been shooting. We couldn't tell he was firing and left. This is a

conflict in the middle of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Fighting began when the government killed a local chief last August was

that his supporters retaliated and started a rebellion. To UN experts

were killed here last month whilst investigating violations by both

sides. This is one of over 20 mass graves the United Nations has found

since starting began here. It is Colin for an international enquiry

into what has happened. We met the man who told us he was forced to dig

a mass grave by government soldiers after they raided his time looking

for a militia. We have hidden his identity and changed his voice to

protect him. They kill people and rape women. The next day we saw a

general who said, out of your house we are not going to kill any more.

He asked us to bury people, even members of my family, even people I

knew. The Army has launched investigations into crimes committed

here, but its chief prosecutor says both soldiers and militia should be

blamed for the mass graves and killings. TRANSLATION: these mass

graves are not just the work of the Armed Forces. Members of the militia

also go on killing sprees. They dig mass graves and dumped the bodies

there then people blame the authorities. Nevertheless, these

things are happening and can't be ignored. Those who can't flee the

fighting remained trapped in a conflict that is proving both

volatile and hard to resolve. Police in Cleveland, Ohio,

say a gunman, suspected to be this man Steve Stephens,

who killed a man on the street and posted the footage

on Facebook could be anywhere. this man Steve Stephens,

who killed a man on the street and posted the footage

on Facebook could be anywhere. They have asked residents of Ohio,

Indiana, Michigan, New York this man Steve Stephens,

who killed a man on the street This is the moment just

before he shot dead He was walking home after having

lunch with his family on Sunday. The video was on Facebook for three

hours before it was removed. Speaking on his phone

and broadcasting the conversation live on Facebook, this is the moment

Steve Stephens makes I just snapped, dog. I just killed

13 people, man. That is what they did, I'd killed 13 people. Moments

earlier he had approached an elderly man picked at random and shot him

dead. He later posted footage of the violent killing on Facebook. His

victim 74-year-old Robert Goodwin, reports say he just finished an

Easter meal with his family and was walking home when he was killed.

Visibly distraught, this is his son and daughter's reaction. This man

right here was a good man and I hear that he has gone. Stevens appears in

the video to confess to multiple killings. Cleveland Police say they

are only aware of one death. Currently there are no other victims

that we know. We have checked several positions that were in the

post or that we know about and there are no other victims that we know

about. This isn't the first time that a fatal shooting has been

streamed on Facebook. Last year our man was shot dead well latest

grooming himself in Chicago. Facebook said it was an horrific

crime and their policy was to contact the police went there were a

direct threats to physical safety. His warning that temp one is armed

and dangerous and the FBI have now joined the hunt for him.

Thanks for watching the first half of the programme. We will get to

your questions in the second half of the programme.