:00:07. > :00:08.Hello, I'm Ros Atkins, this is Outside Source.
:00:09. > :00:11.These are the biggest stories in the BBC Newsroom right now.
:00:12. > :00:14.Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen have made it into the
:00:15. > :00:25.President Hollande has urged the country to vote
:00:26. > :00:28.The far-right would be deeply divise for France.
:00:29. > :00:30.They would endanger our freedoms and the founding
:00:31. > :00:46.In the last couple of hours Marine Le Pen has said she's stepping aside
:00:47. > :00:48.as the leader of the National Front to focus on her campaign.
:00:49. > :00:51.President Trump says he wants the UN to back new sanctions
:00:52. > :00:53.And North Korea has again warned that the threat
:00:54. > :00:57.A BBC team has entered a town in Syria recently
:00:58. > :01:07.The next big battle with the Islamic State will take place in Raqqa. That
:01:08. > :01:14.will only happen if the opposition forces stop fighting each other
:01:15. > :01:15.first. And it is looking good for Newcastle to make it back into the
:01:16. > :01:39.Premier League. These are the polls looking ahead to
:01:40. > :01:41.the second round of the French election.
:01:42. > :01:44.The polls put Mr Macron well ahead for the second round.
:01:45. > :01:46.They were right for the first round - but well you know
:01:47. > :01:53.A short time ago I spoke to professor Helen Drake -
:01:54. > :01:57.she's the Chair in European Integration
:01:58. > :02:05.I asked her if the latest polls were good news
:02:06. > :02:15.One thing we learned from last night is that the polls were quite
:02:16. > :02:19.accurate. Marine Le Pen was supposed to win the first round and she came
:02:20. > :02:24.in a quick second so the polls which are putting Macron ahead of Le Pen
:02:25. > :02:29.in the next round, I suppose we can trust them. Macron has expressed a
:02:30. > :02:34.lot of support for the European Union, and he has some practical and
:02:35. > :02:39.positive messages for how to strengthen the EU. I suppose that is
:02:40. > :02:46.true. You are supporting IAM -- you are assuming that I am a supporter
:02:47. > :02:50.of European integration. For those who support European integration
:02:51. > :02:55.then Macron is a Babel bet. Isn't that a fair assumption? It is a fair
:02:56. > :03:01.assumption that Macron is polled to win and it is also true that in his
:03:02. > :03:03.programme he is explicitly pro-what the French might call more Europe
:03:04. > :03:06.rather than less Europe. The head of North Korea's Armed
:03:07. > :03:09.Forces has warned that the threat He blamed what he calls "the frantic
:03:10. > :03:15.war drills of the US imperialists". On the US side, Donald Trump has
:03:16. > :03:33.wants the UN to impose The status quo in North Korea is
:03:34. > :03:40.also unacceptable, and the council must be prepared to propose
:03:41. > :03:44.additional sanctions on North Korea nuclear and ballistic missile Isle
:03:45. > :03:48.programmes. This is a real threat to the world, whether we want to talk
:03:49. > :03:56.about it or not. North Korea is a big world problem and it is a
:03:57. > :03:58.problem we have to finally sold. People put blindfolds on for decades
:03:59. > :04:02.and now it is time to solve the problem.
:04:03. > :04:13.Barbara Plett Usher is live for us. What was the context in which Mr
:04:14. > :04:18.Trump was speaking. That was a meeting of the security council.
:04:19. > :04:21.They came to Washington to meet with President Trump. He took the
:04:22. > :04:26.opportunity to talk about international issues which are
:04:27. > :04:31.important to him. I think probably what was on the minds of those
:04:32. > :04:36.ambassadors was that he has threatened to slash US funding for
:04:37. > :04:42.the UN. He did seem to hold out a carrot to them. He said if the UN
:04:43. > :04:46.does the job it is a posted then he would be much less worried about the
:04:47. > :04:53.budget which he said was peanuts compared to the great work you are
:04:54. > :04:58.supposed to be doing. In terms of the response to North Korea, was he
:04:59. > :05:02.demanding new sanctions or saying please consider this? He was saying
:05:03. > :05:07.the council should be prepared to impose new sanctions and there is
:05:08. > :05:11.talk about that last week when the council condemned the latest missile
:05:12. > :05:14.test. It said it would keep in mind the possibility of further measures,
:05:15. > :05:20.Pacific Quay mentioning sanctions which is not the usual format that
:05:21. > :05:25.they use -- specifically mentioning sanctions. We have Secretary
:05:26. > :05:28.Tillerson who is chairing a meeting about North Korea at the UN on
:05:29. > :05:37.Friday. The State Department said he would be focusing on enforcing the
:05:38. > :05:41.sanctions which already exist. They have also said new ideas will be
:05:42. > :05:46.discussed, and I think that a lot will depend on North Korea's
:05:47. > :05:50.behaviour. If there is another test, either a missile test or a nuclear
:05:51. > :05:57.test, the talk about sanctions will probably pick up. There was one
:05:58. > :06:02.story I wanted to ask you about, there is a quite from BBC World News
:06:03. > :06:05.naming Tony Kim as a US citizen who was detained in North Korea.
:06:06. > :06:07.Tony Kim was teaching at Pyongyang University
:06:08. > :06:20.This means three Americans are currently detained.
:06:21. > :06:23.after being accused of trying to steal a propaganda banner.
:06:24. > :06:25.And Korean-American pastor Kim Dong Chul who was sentenced
:06:26. > :06:31.We were talking about this on an earlier edition of Outside Source
:06:32. > :06:36.about how the North Koreans sometimes use this as diplomatic
:06:37. > :06:41.leveraged to get a visit, presumably that is difficult given the
:06:42. > :06:44.atmosphere between the two countries? Probably not likely to
:06:45. > :06:49.happen in this case any time soon, but when these arrests are made,
:06:50. > :06:53.even if there is a diplomatic solution, it does drag on for months
:06:54. > :06:58.and months. In the past, sometimes senior officials have gone over and
:06:59. > :07:02.in one case a former US president has gone over to negotiate a
:07:03. > :07:13.release. That has been a coup for the North Korean regime. It is
:07:14. > :07:14.something on the minds of the US administration because the
:07:15. > :07:17.ambassador said that this arrest was probably something the North Koreans
:07:18. > :07:19.were doing to use as a bargaining chip. Given that relationships
:07:20. > :07:23.between the two countries are more tense than they usually are, we will
:07:24. > :07:30.have to see, but it does complicate the issue. Barbara, as ever, thank
:07:31. > :07:35.you. Barbara is live from the state department. Now let's go to the BBC
:07:36. > :07:37.sports centre. We will begin with some good news if you are a fan of
:07:38. > :07:50.Newcastle United. It sounds like it is going well?
:07:51. > :07:52.They have won 4-1. They were relegated in 2009. They went
:07:53. > :08:00.straight back up at the first attempt. Ayoze Perez got the scoring
:08:01. > :08:08.underway after just seven minutes. Jordan Hugel equalised seven minutes
:08:09. > :08:15.later. But then a player on loan from Chelsea put them 2-1 up. From
:08:16. > :08:20.there Paul Gallacher got sent off. A penalty put them 3-1 ahead. Then it
:08:21. > :08:24.was Peres again who picked up the fourth goal, his second. A bit of
:08:25. > :08:30.luck with it coming off his chest when the ball ricocheted off the
:08:31. > :08:34.post. Then it was never any doubt. Look at the Newcastle support. They
:08:35. > :08:38.know they are going back up. It will be Newcastle United who are in the
:08:39. > :08:44.Premier League next season. The last time they went up the manager was
:08:45. > :08:49.Chris Hughton. Who does he look after now, Brighton and Hove Albion.
:08:50. > :08:54.Newcastle United could possibly win the Championship. Brighton and Hove
:08:55. > :08:58.Albion more likely we'll win it but Chris Hughton and Rafa Benitez have
:08:59. > :09:05.done the jobs for their particular clubs. I don't suppose the Newcastle
:09:06. > :09:09.United fans are too worried about whether they win the Championship,
:09:10. > :09:10.they will be happy to go back to the Premier League where they feel they
:09:11. > :09:24.belong. Anthony Joshua is 14 years younger
:09:25. > :09:34.than Wladimir Klitschko. He says, he's too he is faded. Time has
:09:35. > :09:37.caught up with the former champ. That is as rude as it has been. I
:09:38. > :09:42.also want to mention Ched Evans. League One champions
:09:43. > :09:44.Sheffield United are set to re-sign striker Ched Evans from
:09:45. > :09:46.Chesterfield. Evans last played for United in 2012
:09:47. > :09:50.before he was found guilty of raping He was sentenced to
:09:51. > :09:53.five years in prison. That conviction was quashed and,
:09:54. > :09:55.following a re-trial last October, We also want to offer our
:09:56. > :10:13.congratulations to Kelly Sotherton. She retired as a heptathlon five
:10:14. > :10:17.years ago - well she just won an Olympic Bronze medal,
:10:18. > :10:19.another one - from back in 2008. The person she's hugging
:10:20. > :10:21.is Russian Tatyana Chernova, but she's been striped of her medal
:10:22. > :10:24.after testing positive It's the second time Kelly Sotherton
:10:25. > :10:36.has got a medal in this way, she had already been moved to third
:10:37. > :10:40.in the 4x400m relay after Belarus This is a picture I was sent -- a
:10:41. > :10:54.clip I was sent earlier. The Sport Climbing World
:10:55. > :10:56.Championship from the weekend. The object of this sport is simple -
:10:57. > :10:59.climb the 15 metre wall Russian Iuliia Kaplina broke her
:11:00. > :11:03.speed world record this weekend. She consistantly does the 15m
:11:04. > :11:08.in under eight seconds. I can hear a colleague asking if it
:11:09. > :11:14.was beaded up but it is not. They do go that fast. We will keep and ion
:11:15. > :11:17.speed climbing because it is a sport which is getting bigger and bigger.
:11:18. > :11:23.In a couple of minutes time we will have a new report from Quentin
:11:24. > :11:26.Somerville. He has made it to the last big city held by the Islamic
:11:27. > :11:41.State group. We will see what he has found.
:11:42. > :11:43.A 21-year-old man is being questioned by police,
:11:44. > :11:45.after a former Royal Navy officer died tackling burglars
:11:46. > :11:49.Mike Samwell who was 35, is thought to have been
:11:50. > :11:51.run over by his own car, while it was being stolen
:11:52. > :12:08.This street is still sealed off. One man is under arrest but police have
:12:09. > :12:13.said they are still seeking more suspects after what happened here.
:12:14. > :12:18.It is the circumstances which happened here which is truly
:12:19. > :12:20.extraordinary. A crime which police say crossed the line.
:12:21. > :12:22.Mike Samwell, a 35-year-old former Royal Navy officer.
:12:23. > :12:24.He and his wife were asleep in their home in Chorlton
:12:25. > :12:27.in the early hours of yesterday when they were awoken by intruders.
:12:28. > :12:31.What happened in the following few moments saw Mr Samwell run over
:12:32. > :12:38.The high-powered Audi S3 was soon found abandoned a few miles away.
:12:39. > :12:40.Where Mike Samwell was fatally injured is now the scene
:12:41. > :12:45.Leaving neighbours and friends at a loss.
:12:46. > :12:48.He was such a nice bloke, we all liked him.
:12:49. > :13:01.Mike Samwell was a weapons officer on a nuclear submarine.
:13:02. > :13:04.He left the Navy a few years ago and then worked as an engineer.
:13:05. > :13:08.The local Submariners Association came along today to offer
:13:09. > :13:14.It's a sort of thing I would have done.
:13:15. > :13:20.It's the sort of thing most people would have tried to stop.
:13:21. > :13:26.Police initially appealed to the criminal fraternity
:13:27. > :13:30.for information, saying this crime had crossed the line.
:13:31. > :13:33.Then this morning they announced that a 21-year-old man had been
:13:34. > :13:39.Neighbours say they heard Mike Samwell's wife Jessica
:13:40. > :13:43.shouting his name and screaming for help after he was run over.
:13:44. > :13:47.She returned to the scene today, escorted by police into her own home
:13:48. > :13:54.As investigations continue into what happened in this
:13:55. > :14:23.I am rather Atkins with Outside Source. --
:14:24. > :14:30.Marine Le Pen says she is stepping aside as leader of the National
:14:31. > :14:34.Front party to focus on her presidential campaign.
:14:35. > :14:37.For the past two years the threat from the so-called Islamic State
:14:38. > :14:40.group has made it almost impossible for foreign media to get
:14:41. > :14:45.into their stronghold in north western Syria.
:14:46. > :14:49.Now a BBC team has made it to Al Bab - Islamic State's last big
:14:50. > :15:02.In Syria's long war there are many fronts and scores of enemies.
:15:03. > :15:07.This is the city of Al Bab in northern Aleppo.
:15:08. > :15:10.Here, the victory belongs to the Free Syrian Army,
:15:11. > :15:15.and defeat to the so-called Islamic State.
:15:16. > :15:31.This is hallowed ground for the Islamic State.
:15:32. > :15:34.This tiny village, Dabiq, was a beacon, drawing in foreign
:15:35. > :15:44.Dabiq was a great symbol for the Islamic State group.
:15:45. > :15:47.It was here that the Prophet Muhammad said that Muslims
:15:48. > :15:53.This is also the spot where Britain's "Jihadi John"
:15:54. > :15:57.murdered the American aid worker Peter Kassig.
:15:58. > :16:00.IS were right about one thing, though.
:16:01. > :16:03.This is a place of reckoning, but it's the place of their defeat
:16:04. > :16:06.and they've now been driven more than 100 kilometres from here.
:16:07. > :16:10.And these days they don't make much mention of Dabiq.
:16:11. > :16:13.To the south of Al Bab, the Free Syrian Army
:16:14. > :16:28.And now that it's free from IS, displaced from Aleppo and Raqqa,
:16:29. > :16:32.heading to the security these men offer.
:16:33. > :16:35.Air strikes are no longer a threat but Islamic State's roadside bombs
:16:36. > :16:45.Villages and towns here have been fought over by so many factions,
:16:46. > :16:52.it's hard to identify who bombed where.
:16:53. > :16:55.And for some it's even a struggle to find what remains
:16:56. > :17:01.In the battle against IS, this village changed hands more
:17:02. > :17:10.This war has been a shattering experience, but in many respects
:17:11. > :17:15.The decisions to attack the next town, the next village,
:17:16. > :17:22.They are taken in Ankara, Moscow, and in Washington.
:17:23. > :17:24.The next big battle, the final battle with the Islamic State,
:17:25. > :17:30.That will only happen if the opposition forces stop
:17:31. > :17:38.TRANSLATION: Our first enemy was IS, we have defeated them.
:17:39. > :17:41.Now we face some separatist terrorist groups that
:17:42. > :17:45.So after the fall of Aleppo we have two enemies,
:17:46. > :17:52.And for us there is no difference between the two.
:17:53. > :17:59.They accuse their neighbours, and blood enemies, the Kurds,
:18:00. > :18:05.The rebuilding of Al Babb is already underway.
:18:06. > :18:11.In Syria it takes a lot of confidence to replace your windows.
:18:12. > :18:14.But the damage done here isn't just to buildings.
:18:15. > :18:21.It extends deeper, into Syria's ethnic fabric.
:18:22. > :18:25.Amid the ruins, this was an IS headquarters,
:18:26. > :18:31.The disappeared, the lost, and the dead.
:18:32. > :18:37.New and rich wells of hatred are being formed.
:18:38. > :18:46.Inside these four walls Syria's hopelessness is revealed.
:18:47. > :18:51.When the jailer enters the cells they must stand and face the wall.
:18:52. > :18:59.Others, no more than boys, fought for the Kurds
:19:00. > :19:09.And some fought for President Assad, helped by Russia.
:19:10. > :19:12.TRANSLATION: Because of the joblessness in Syria,
:19:13. > :19:15.I had no salary to look after my children, so I had
:19:16. > :19:21.Foreign interference here has only caused more destruction.
:19:22. > :19:34.TRANSLATION: The different people in groups here despise
:19:35. > :19:44.These men will likely be exchanged in a prisoner swap.
:19:45. > :19:49.Some came to fight for IS, others to destroy it.
:19:50. > :19:52.That war may be approaching an end but there will be no rest in Syria.
:19:53. > :19:55.And the people who make up this country will likely find themselves
:19:56. > :20:11.Quentin Somerville, BBC News, northern Aleppo.
:20:12. > :20:24.You can find that video online where you can see it and share it. You may
:20:25. > :20:27.have seen that Donald Trump is approaching his 100th day in office.
:20:28. > :20:29.While that milestone approaches so does another marker -
:20:30. > :20:32.the potential day the US - yet again - has
:20:33. > :20:40.We can bring in our Washington correspondent. We have been here
:20:41. > :20:44.before with a government shutdown and the Americans do tend to go
:20:45. > :20:50.quite close before these things get resolved so how close is it that it
:20:51. > :20:56.could happen? At the moment, it all comes down to what President Trump
:20:57. > :21:02.is putting in his proposed spending bill. One of the sticking points at
:21:03. > :21:06.the moment are his plans to build a wall with Mexico. Remember, during
:21:07. > :21:10.the campaign he said he would build a wall and Mexico would pay for it
:21:11. > :21:16.but now it does not look like Mexico will. He is trying to get funding
:21:17. > :21:22.for the wall into the bill. The price tag is something like $22
:21:23. > :21:25.billion. But some Republicans and Democrats do oppose this. That is
:21:26. > :21:29.something that will be thrashed out as well as an increase in military
:21:30. > :21:32.spending. They could pass a temporary resolution which could
:21:33. > :21:37.keep the government funded for a few more months and then we would end up
:21:38. > :21:41.having to deal with all this in October. In terms of getting the
:21:42. > :21:46.relevant people onside, will that be a job for the president himself or
:21:47. > :21:51.Paul Ryan or who will get involved? At all comes down to Congress so
:21:52. > :21:54.there will be a busy week on Congress on Capitol Hill for the
:21:55. > :22:00.Republican Party and indeed the Democrats trying to strong arm
:22:01. > :22:03.people. It is not just when it comes to this spending bill. There is also
:22:04. > :22:07.a new health care proposal that the Republicans are trying to push
:22:08. > :22:14.through after President Trump failed to push through his bid to try and
:22:15. > :22:18.repeal and replace Obamacare. On Wednesday he will be releasing his
:22:19. > :22:23.plans for tax reform. Quite a lot to get through before we even get to
:22:24. > :22:29.his 100th day. And in the campaign he said he had a contract with the
:22:30. > :22:33.voters. He said he wanted to accomplish 38 different policy
:22:34. > :22:37.pledges in the first 100 days. He has not quite got there. Things like
:22:38. > :22:43.health care and the wall are very much a work in progress but he will
:22:44. > :22:46.be working this week to try and get that but he say in an interview at
:22:47. > :22:51.the weekend that 100 days was an artificial construct so he did not
:22:52. > :22:54.buy into being measured by that anyway. One other thing to talk to
:22:55. > :22:55.you about. Former US President Barack Obama has
:22:56. > :22:58.spoken in public for the first time He's held a discussion
:22:59. > :23:09.with youth leaders in Chicago. On the back-end of my presidency,
:23:10. > :23:13.now that it is completed, I am spending a lot of time thinking
:23:14. > :23:22.about what is the most important thing that I can do for my next job.
:23:23. > :23:29.LAUGHTER And what I am convinced of is that
:23:30. > :23:35.although they're all kinds of issues that I care about, and all kinds of
:23:36. > :23:43.issues that I to work on, the single most important thing I can do is to
:23:44. > :23:51.help in any way I can prepare the next generation of leadership to
:23:52. > :23:57.take up the baton and to take their own crack at changing the world. He
:23:58. > :24:02.was picking his words carefully, wasn't he? And it is what he did not
:24:03. > :24:07.say which was most interesting. He did not comment at all on President
:24:08. > :24:13.Trump or his policies. He went back to his days of community organiser
:24:14. > :24:19.to try and encourage young people to get into politics. Thank you. We
:24:20. > :24:24.have a question from Clement watching in Cape Town. He says when
:24:25. > :24:31.does the new president take place in France? So the next round is two
:24:32. > :24:37.weeks after the first round and it is normally a week and a half after
:24:38. > :24:41.the result, after election day that the new president assumes power. So
:24:42. > :24:45.certainly it will happen in May. Clement, thank you for your question
:24:46. > :24:51.and all of you for sending in your messages. We will be back at the
:24:52. > :24:58.same time tomorrow, hopefully you can join me. Bye-bye.