24/04/2017 Outside Source

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

These are the biggest stories in the BBC Newsroom right now.

Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen have made it into the

President Hollande has urged the country to vote

The far-right would be deeply divise for France.

They would endanger our freedoms and the founding

In the last couple of hours Marine Le Pen has said she's stepping aside

as the leader of the National Front to focus on her campaign.

President Trump says he wants the UN to back new sanctions

And North Korea has again warned that the threat

A BBC team has entered a town in Syria recently

The next big battle with the Islamic State will take place in Raqqa. That

will only happen if the opposition forces stop fighting each other

first. And it is looking good for Newcastle to make it back into the

Premier League. These are the polls looking ahead to

the second round of the French election.

The polls put Mr Macron well ahead for the second round.

They were right for the first round - but well you know

A short time ago I spoke to professor Helen Drake -

she's the Chair in European Integration

I asked her if the latest polls were good news

One thing we learned from last night is that the polls were quite

accurate. Marine Le Pen was supposed to win the first round and she came

in a quick second so the polls which are putting Macron ahead of Le Pen

in the next round, I suppose we can trust them. Macron has expressed a

lot of support for the European Union, and he has some practical and

positive messages for how to strengthen the EU. I suppose that is

true. You are supporting IAM -- you are assuming that I am a supporter

of European integration. For those who support European integration

then Macron is a Babel bet. Isn't that a fair assumption? It is a fair

assumption that Macron is polled to win and it is also true that in his

programme he is explicitly pro-what the French might call more Europe

rather than less Europe. The head of North Korea's Armed

Forces has warned that the threat He blamed what he calls "the frantic

war drills of the US imperialists". On the US side, Donald Trump has

wants the UN to impose The status quo in North Korea is

also unacceptable, and the council must be prepared to propose

additional sanctions on North Korea nuclear and ballistic missile Isle

programmes. This is a real threat to the world, whether we want to talk

about it or not. North Korea is a big world problem and it is a

problem we have to finally sold. People put blindfolds on for decades

and now it is time to solve the problem.

Barbara Plett Usher is live for us. What was the context in which Mr

Trump was speaking. That was a meeting of the security council.

They came to Washington to meet with President Trump. He took the

opportunity to talk about international issues which are

important to him. I think probably what was on the minds of those

ambassadors was that he has threatened to slash US funding for

the UN. He did seem to hold out a carrot to them. He said if the UN

does the job it is a posted then he would be much less worried about the

budget which he said was peanuts compared to the great work you are

supposed to be doing. In terms of the response to North Korea, was he

demanding new sanctions or saying please consider this? He was saying

the council should be prepared to impose new sanctions and there is

talk about that last week when the council condemned the latest missile

test. It said it would keep in mind the possibility of further measures,

Pacific Quay mentioning sanctions which is not the usual format that

they use -- specifically mentioning sanctions. We have Secretary

Tillerson who is chairing a meeting about North Korea at the UN on

Friday. The State Department said he would be focusing on enforcing the

sanctions which already exist. They have also said new ideas will be

discussed, and I think that a lot will depend on North Korea's

behaviour. If there is another test, either a missile test or a nuclear

test, the talk about sanctions will probably pick up. There was one

story I wanted to ask you about, there is a quite from BBC World News

naming Tony Kim as a US citizen who was detained in North Korea.

Tony Kim was teaching at Pyongyang University

This means three Americans are currently detained.

after being accused of trying to steal a propaganda banner.

And Korean-American pastor Kim Dong Chul who was sentenced

We were talking about this on an earlier edition of Outside Source

about how the North Koreans sometimes use this as diplomatic

leveraged to get a visit, presumably that is difficult given the

atmosphere between the two countries? Probably not likely to

happen in this case any time soon, but when these arrests are made,

even if there is a diplomatic solution, it does drag on for months

and months. In the past, sometimes senior officials have gone over and

in one case a former US president has gone over to negotiate a

release. That has been a coup for the North Korean regime. It is

something on the minds of the US administration because the

ambassador said that this arrest was probably something the North Koreans

were doing to use as a bargaining chip. Given that relationships

between the two countries are more tense than they usually are, we will

have to see, but it does complicate the issue. Barbara, as ever, thank

you. Barbara is live from the state department. Now let's go to the BBC

sports centre. We will begin with some good news if you are a fan of

Newcastle United. It sounds like it is going well?

They have won 4-1. They were relegated in 2009. They went

straight back up at the first attempt. Ayoze Perez got the scoring

underway after just seven minutes. Jordan Hugel equalised seven minutes

later. But then a player on loan from Chelsea put them 2-1 up. From

there Paul Gallacher got sent off. A penalty put them 3-1 ahead. Then it

was Peres again who picked up the fourth goal, his second. A bit of

luck with it coming off his chest when the ball ricocheted off the

post. Then it was never any doubt. Look at the Newcastle support. They

know they are going back up. It will be Newcastle United who are in the

Premier League next season. The last time they went up the manager was

Chris Hughton. Who does he look after now, Brighton and Hove Albion.

Newcastle United could possibly win the Championship. Brighton and Hove

Albion more likely we'll win it but Chris Hughton and Rafa Benitez have

done the jobs for their particular clubs. I don't suppose the Newcastle

United fans are too worried about whether they win the Championship,

they will be happy to go back to the Premier League where they feel they

belong. Anthony Joshua is 14 years younger

than Wladimir Klitschko. He says, he's too he is faded. Time has

caught up with the former champ. That is as rude as it has been. I

also want to mention Ched Evans. League One champions

Sheffield United are set to re-sign striker Ched Evans from

Chesterfield. Evans last played for United in 2012

before he was found guilty of raping He was sentenced to

five years in prison. That conviction was quashed and,

following a re-trial last October, We also want to offer our

congratulations to Kelly Sotherton. She retired as a heptathlon five

years ago - well she just won an Olympic Bronze medal,

another one - from back in 2008. The person she's hugging

is Russian Tatyana Chernova, but she's been striped of her medal

after testing positive It's the second time Kelly Sotherton

has got a medal in this way, she had already been moved to third

in the 4x400m relay after Belarus This is a picture I was sent -- a

clip I was sent earlier. The Sport Climbing World

Championship from the weekend. The object of this sport is simple -

climb the 15 metre wall Russian Iuliia Kaplina broke her

speed world record this weekend. She consistantly does the 15m

in under eight seconds. I can hear a colleague asking if it

was beaded up but it is not. They do go that fast. We will keep and ion

speed climbing because it is a sport which is getting bigger and bigger.

In a couple of minutes time we will have a new report from Quentin

Somerville. He has made it to the last big city held by the Islamic

State group. We will see what he has found.

A 21-year-old man is being questioned by police,

after a former Royal Navy officer died tackling burglars

Mike Samwell who was 35, is thought to have been

run over by his own car, while it was being stolen

This street is still sealed off. One man is under arrest but police have

said they are still seeking more suspects after what happened here.

It is the circumstances which happened here which is truly

extraordinary. A crime which police say crossed the line.

Mike Samwell, a 35-year-old former Royal Navy officer.

He and his wife were asleep in their home in Chorlton

in the early hours of yesterday when they were awoken by intruders.

What happened in the following few moments saw Mr Samwell run over

The high-powered Audi S3 was soon found abandoned a few miles away.

Where Mike Samwell was fatally injured is now the scene

Leaving neighbours and friends at a loss.

He was such a nice bloke, we all liked him.

Mike Samwell was a weapons officer on a nuclear submarine.

He left the Navy a few years ago and then worked as an engineer.

The local Submariners Association came along today to offer

It's a sort of thing I would have done.

It's the sort of thing most people would have tried to stop.

Police initially appealed to the criminal fraternity

for information, saying this crime had crossed the line.

Then this morning they announced that a 21-year-old man had been

Neighbours say they heard Mike Samwell's wife Jessica

shouting his name and screaming for help after he was run over.

She returned to the scene today, escorted by police into her own home

As investigations continue into what happened in this

I am rather Atkins with Outside Source. --

Marine Le Pen says she is stepping aside as leader of the National

Front party to focus on her presidential campaign.

For the past two years the threat from the so-called Islamic State

group has made it almost impossible for foreign media to get

into their stronghold in north western Syria.

Now a BBC team has made it to Al Bab - Islamic State's last big

In Syria's long war there are many fronts and scores of enemies.

This is the city of Al Bab in northern Aleppo.

Here, the victory belongs to the Free Syrian Army,

and defeat to the so-called Islamic State.

This is hallowed ground for the Islamic State.

This tiny village, Dabiq, was a beacon, drawing in foreign

Dabiq was a great symbol for the Islamic State group.

It was here that the Prophet Muhammad said that Muslims

This is also the spot where Britain's "Jihadi John"

murdered the American aid worker Peter Kassig.

IS were right about one thing, though.

This is a place of reckoning, but it's the place of their defeat

and they've now been driven more than 100 kilometres from here.

And these days they don't make much mention of Dabiq.

To the south of Al Bab, the Free Syrian Army

And now that it's free from IS, displaced from Aleppo and Raqqa,

heading to the security these men offer.

Air strikes are no longer a threat but Islamic State's roadside bombs

Villages and towns here have been fought over by so many factions,

it's hard to identify who bombed where.

And for some it's even a struggle to find what remains

In the battle against IS, this village changed hands more

This war has been a shattering experience, but in many respects

The decisions to attack the next town, the next village,

They are taken in Ankara, Moscow, and in Washington.

The next big battle, the final battle with the Islamic State,

That will only happen if the opposition forces stop

TRANSLATION: Our first enemy was IS, we have defeated them.

Now we face some separatist terrorist groups that

So after the fall of Aleppo we have two enemies,

And for us there is no difference between the two.

They accuse their neighbours, and blood enemies, the Kurds,

The rebuilding of Al Babb is already underway.

In Syria it takes a lot of confidence to replace your windows.

But the damage done here isn't just to buildings.

It extends deeper, into Syria's ethnic fabric.

Amid the ruins, this was an IS headquarters,

The disappeared, the lost, and the dead.

New and rich wells of hatred are being formed.

Inside these four walls Syria's hopelessness is revealed.

When the jailer enters the cells they must stand and face the wall.

Others, no more than boys, fought for the Kurds

And some fought for President Assad, helped by Russia.

TRANSLATION: Because of the joblessness in Syria,

I had no salary to look after my children, so I had

Foreign interference here has only caused more destruction.

TRANSLATION: The different people in groups here despise

These men will likely be exchanged in a prisoner swap.

Some came to fight for IS, others to destroy it.

That war may be approaching an end but there will be no rest in Syria.

And the people who make up this country will likely find themselves

Quentin Somerville, BBC News, northern Aleppo.

You can find that video online where you can see it and share it. You may

have seen that Donald Trump is approaching his 100th day in office.

While that milestone approaches so does another marker -

the potential day the US - yet again - has

We can bring in our Washington correspondent. We have been here

before with a government shutdown and the Americans do tend to go

quite close before these things get resolved so how close is it that it

could happen? At the moment, it all comes down to what President Trump

is putting in his proposed spending bill. One of the sticking points at

the moment are his plans to build a wall with Mexico. Remember, during

the campaign he said he would build a wall and Mexico would pay for it

but now it does not look like Mexico will. He is trying to get funding

for the wall into the bill. The price tag is something like $22

billion. But some Republicans and Democrats do oppose this. That is

something that will be thrashed out as well as an increase in military

spending. They could pass a temporary resolution which could

keep the government funded for a few more months and then we would end up

having to deal with all this in October. In terms of getting the

relevant people onside, will that be a job for the president himself or

Paul Ryan or who will get involved? At all comes down to Congress so

there will be a busy week on Congress on Capitol Hill for the

Republican Party and indeed the Democrats trying to strong arm

people. It is not just when it comes to this spending bill. There is also

a new health care proposal that the Republicans are trying to push

through after President Trump failed to push through his bid to try and

repeal and replace Obamacare. On Wednesday he will be releasing his

plans for tax reform. Quite a lot to get through before we even get to

his 100th day. And in the campaign he said he had a contract with the

voters. He said he wanted to accomplish 38 different policy

pledges in the first 100 days. He has not quite got there. Things like

health care and the wall are very much a work in progress but he will

be working this week to try and get that but he say in an interview at

the weekend that 100 days was an artificial construct so he did not

buy into being measured by that anyway. One other thing to talk to

you about. Former US President Barack Obama has

spoken in public for the first time He's held a discussion

with youth leaders in Chicago. On the back-end of my presidency,

now that it is completed, I am spending a lot of time thinking

about what is the most important thing that I can do for my next job.

LAUGHTER And what I am convinced of is that

although they're all kinds of issues that I care about, and all kinds of

issues that I to work on, the single most important thing I can do is to

help in any way I can prepare the next generation of leadership to

take up the baton and to take their own crack at changing the world. He

was picking his words carefully, wasn't he? And it is what he did not

say which was most interesting. He did not comment at all on President

Trump or his policies. He went back to his days of community organiser

to try and encourage young people to get into politics. Thank you. We

have a question from Clement watching in Cape Town. He says when

does the new president take place in France? So the next round is two

weeks after the first round and it is normally a week and a half after

the result, after election day that the new president assumes power. So

certainly it will happen in May. Clement, thank you for your question

and all of you for sending in your messages. We will be back at the

same time tomorrow, hopefully you can join me. Bye-bye.