01/05/2017 Outside Source

Hello, I'm Karin Giannone, welcome to Outside Source,

Six days to go until the final and decisive round of

At a rally in Paris, Front-runner Emmanuel Macron

urged his supporters to choose hope over despair and resist

the question being posed is that of the future of France, and Europe.

At her own event, Marine Le Pen launched a stinging attack

Emmanuel Macron is just Francois he is the "candidate of continuity".

Emmanuel Macron is just Francois Hollande who wants to stick around.

In the US, Congress strikes a $1 trillion budget deal to avoid

I think the rules in Congress and in the Senate are unbelievably archaic

and slow-moving. We'll be live in New York to find

out what else is missing Is Hamas attempting

to soften its image? We'll look at a new policy

document released by the Palestinian militant group -

the first since its And don't forget you can

get in touch about any of the stories we're covering

using the #BBCOS hashtag. It's the final week of campaigning

in the French presidential election. Both Emmanuel Macron

and Marine Le Pen have been holding rallies -

attacking one another. Mr Macron told his supporters

to reject the far-right policies of his rival -

while Ms Le Pen linked Mr Macron to the outgoing administration

and said they'd cost jobs All this to a backdrop

of May Day protests. Masked demonstrators threw petrol

bombs and other objects at officers, The parade was organised by trades

unions and anti-racist campaigners. Francois Fillon of divisions now.

Honoured day like today you see the divisions based on the different

protest. I was at her John Marine Le Pen rally this morning. There were

people there signing up to his particular view of France and those

here have a very different view, they were all have to pick a side at

the elections on Sunday. The danger for Emmanuel Macron is he doesn't

necessarily get all of the people who marched here. Everyone here is

against Marine Le Pen but that the does not mean they are in favour of

Emmanuel Macron. I asked our correspondent

Hugh Schofield how serious They were, in the scheme of things,

not that bad. You get used to this confrontation at the end of rallies

here. Anarchist types on the fringes engaging in stonethrowing and tear

gas is classic and will be forgotten very weakly. What are we seeing the

two candidates doing in terms of scooping up the votes of all people

who didn't vote for them the first time around? Bring a pen's tactic is

interesting. She is trying to portray Emmanuelle Macron as a

creature of finance, she is really demonising him, demonising him in

the eyes of left voters. She wants to make sure that people who voted

left in the first round, those who voted for someone else, that they

see Emmanuel Macron as a danger. She knows their first instinct will be

to form a right against her, the far right, and vote from Emmanuel Macron

but she was to spell out to them that they shouldn't do that because

Emmanuel Macron is that evil thing over international link

globalisation. She is saying Macron is as dangerous and reprehensible as

you might think that I am, hoping that these voters will either vote

for her or either abstain. If abstention is high and left wing

voters stay away, that is good news for Marine Le Pen. And Macron? He

was criticised last week for not getting out quick enough that the

starting blocks and criticised again for having a values led campaign

where he talked purely as if what mattered most was the Second World

War and memories of the Holocaust, very important things, it talking

about massacre, but hardly relevant to today. His intention was to

remind everyone of Marine Le Pen's past. I think people feel, enough of

that, what is in your programme? Today, he was more hard-hitting and

talked about how Marine Le Pen's programme would be dangerous for

France and that is what people will expect from him this week, more

debate on what he proposes, on what she proposes and why his is better

than hers. How are the polls looking, with six days to go? Fairly

steady. They were creeping up for Marine Le Pen which suggests her

campaign last week, which is so much more vital and energetic than

Emmanuel Macron's was but it hasn't been that much. 60, 40. That kind of

ratio. He is clearly the favourite with six days to go. More on the

French elections later in the programme.

Japan has sent the largest ship in its military to escort a US

Navy vessel as it sails through Japanese waters.

The deployment of the helicopter carrier Izumo is the first such

operation for Japan since it passed laws two years ago expanding

It's seen as a decisive shift away from decades of pacifism.

From Tokyo, Rupert Wingfield Hayes reports.

The Izumo is the pride of the Japanese navy.

The biggest warship the country has built since World War II.

Today's departure is hugely symbolic.

The Izumo will escort and protect this US Navy supply ship

and will respond with force if it comes under attack.

For Japan's military this is another big step away from pacifism.

Just across the Sea of Japan satellite photos show North Korea

is preparing for another underground nuclear test.

Speaking on Sunday, US President Donald Trump again warned

I would not be happy if he does a nuclear test,

And I can tell you also, I don't believe that the president of China,

who is a very respected man, will be happy.

If Pyongyang is worried, it is not showing it.

Today it vowed to go ahead with the nuclear test at any time

This all comes two days after North Korea test fired another

of its growing family of ballistic missiles.

Meanwhile the USS Carl Vinson carrier battle group has finally

arrived in waters off the Korean peninsula.

The huge ship and its escorts are a very potent symbol

President Trump is not giving many clues.

I just don't want people to know what my thinking is.

So eventually he will have a better delivery system and if that happens,

For the first time the US president acknowledged the terrible

consequences that could result from a military strike

Massive warfare with potentially millions of people being killed.

Tensions are now higher than at any time since North Korea's young

dictator Kim Jong Un came to power in 2011.

Despite the heated rhetoric, neither side wants a conflict.

But when tensions are high so are the dangers of miscalculation.

The Palestinian Islamist group Hamas has dropped its long-standing call

for Israel's destruction as well as its association

with the Muslim Brotherhood in a new policy document.

The move appears aimed at improving relations

To get a sense of how this has been viewed,

I spoke with Rasha Qandeel from BBC Arabic.

The first thing in the document is what you said, what seems to be a

softer stance on Israel and in between wording, trying to distance

Hamas from the Muslim Brotherhood, especially in Egypt, the very first

reaction I have just heard on Arabic news was from the spokesperson of

the Israeli Prime Minister and he said there is no change whatsoever,

everything we have been reading, they don't see, the Israeli

officials cannot see, and they still think Hamas is trying to destroy

Israel. Has this come as a surprise? That actually has been leaked for a

few days now, from Arabic sources of news. It was expected to be sharper

than this, more obvious than this. But the wording that came today is

actually a bit like the in between, the softer wording of what we were

expecting, so it wasn't a surprise in the eyes of many, but it had to

be more sharp than this to be actually something of significance

to Israel, to Egypt, to the Gulf countries who have classified the

Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organisation. It is not really as

surprising as we wished for. Why has this come and why now? The timing is

important. There is the pressure of the past billion in cash as Doully

and -- Palestinian leadership, and this comes hours before the meeting

between the Palestinian president and the American president Donald

Trump. The other thing is, there is no future for the Muslim

Brotherhood, in the eyes of many in the region, and Hamas is under the

pressure of its two main big allies, Qatar and Turkey, and this is why

the announcement has come out of Qatar to dismiss any speculation of

dispute between the Muslim Brotherhood and Qatar or the Muslim

Brotherhood and Turkey. So many of the analyst today see that this is a

kind of pressure from the allies rather than from the other side.

That is the Palestinian side, let's hear how Israel is reacting. It has

been fairly muted because this announcement out of dough heart took

time when Israel was marking Memorial Day, to remember the fallen

soldiers and picked terms of terrorism so of course government

leaders are taking part in those events and also taking part for the

celebratory holiday which follows which marks Israel's Independence

Day. We did have an Israeli official come out and say that Hamas is

attempting to fool the world that it won't succeed, he said they'd built

terror panels, meaning out of Gaza, and have lost thousands upon

thousands of missiles at Israeli civilians, this he says is the real

Hamas. Don't think this will change things too much either if you look

at the EU or the US which both classify Hamas as being a terrorist

organisation because Hamas continues in this new policy document to talk

about its commitment to what it calls armed resistance which will

mean, we imagine, more attacks on Israel, possible attacks in the

future. I think what we really need to look for is any changing

relations in the region where Hamas has seen increasingly isolated

recently. Of course, the Gaza strip which is run by Hamas does have that

border with Egypt, Egypt and several of the Gulf Arab states have

recently entered the Muslim Brotherhood to be a terrorist

organisation, so it is very interesting indeed, there is not a

single mention of the Muslim Brotherhood in this new document,

although of course Hamas was a logical offshoot of that big a

Islamist organisation. And here in the UK, the organisation

representing NHS groups has called on political parties to commit

to linking health spending The future funding of the NHS has

risen up the political agenda, and the election manifestoes should

spell out where the The NHS Confederation,

which represents health groups in England, Wales,

and Northern Ireland, has called for commitments

for a minimum fixed percentage of GDP - that's national income -

to be spent on health, as with defence and international

aid. The Confederation notes that

UK's health spending as a share of the economy,

just under 10%, is below that The organisation has also called

for an independent office, to advise ministers on appropriate

funding for the NHS. The Confederation says political

parties must recognise that without action soon,

the health and care system will be This is Outside Source live

from the BBC newsroom. The two candidates for the French

presidency have launched attacks on each other at rival

rallies in Paris. Just four full days

of campaigning are left before Turkish police have broken up

May Day demonstrations in Istanbul. They used tear gas

on a group of around 200 That's the lead story

on BBC Turkish. From today, Indian officials are no

longer allowed to use sirens and lights on their vehicles to cut

through traffic jams. India's Prime Minister said he wants

to replace VIP culture with what he called EPI -

or 'every person is important.' And among the most

read on our website - this photo is getting

lots of attention. It's Princess Charlotte's -

it's her second birthday tomorrow - and the Duke and Duchess

of Cambridge have this picture Iraq was once home to about one

and a half million Christians - now there are believed to be fewer

than a quarter of a million. A large community of

Iraqi Christians lived in, Qaraqosh, to the north

of the country. But they fled as fighters from

the so-called Islamic State arrived. Many now live in camps

in Kurdish controlled Erbil. Our correspondent Paul Adams now

reports from Qaraqosh. Waiting to go home, the Christians

of Qaraqosh came to Erbil more than We meet this couple at the door

to the cramped two-room cabin, they have agreed to take us

back to Qaraqosh to see why The area was liberated

in October, Isis have gone. Nazi's father is almost the only

person here, this is where the whole family

once lived, 30 people. When they came back last year,

they found a burned-out, TRANSLATION:

If no one cares about us, or replaces what we

lost, how can I come back? Six months after liberation,

there is no water or electricity and no plans

to repair the damage. As the battle rages on in nearby

Mosul, the people of Qaraqosh feel ignored

and vulnerable. TRANSLATION:

We are Christians, We want our own Christian province

on the Nineveh plain, to run our own affairs by ourselves,

to guarantee the future for They were married in

the Church of Saint Mary, one of the biggest

in the middle east, defaced In the courtyard, signs

of target practice. And from the roof,

a lifeless panorama. Up here on the roof

of the church, you look around in every direction,

there is no sign of movement. No one hanging out

the washing, no one walking Before Isis arrived,

there were at least 50,000 people in Qaraqosh, now

there is almost no one. On the edge of town,

a small unit of mostly Christian troops guards the entrance

to Qaraqosh but people remember how quickly Isis swept in before,

could it happen again? TRANSLATION: It's up

to the Iraqi government It's all about security.

We hope they will not come back. But if the security forces

withdraw, there is a chance IS will return,

maybe even stronger than before. Qaraqosh is an overgrown,

haunted place. The Christians who lived

here have scattered. Some are living abroad,

it is hard to see them coming back The US government won t

be shutting down - Congress struck a deal late Sunday

night which must now go The $1 trillion deal

will keep the US government What would have happened without a

deal? The Statue of Liberty would have been closed, other places would

have been closed, but they came in to agreement in the nick of time so

there won't be a disagreement about keeping the federal government open.

There's look at the deal. It does not include any money for President

Trump Ozma wall, and there was also no funding slashed but it wasn't all

bad news for resident Trump because he has one 12.5 billion dollars in

defence funding. Certain things aren't included in this deal. It was

a winds definitely for Democrats and there were some winds as well for

Republicans but overall, if you look at the reaction from both parties,

you can certainly see that Democrats were a lot more up beat about what

was in fact included. This is just a stopgap measure in terms of

spending, this keeps the federal government operating so when it

comes to some of those bigger items you are talking about why the border

wall ought defunding Planned Parenthood, those are issues that

were probably going to come up again as we get further into the budget

negotiations. The resident has given an interview saying he is

considering a possible break-up of large US banks, what else has he

said? This is very significant, even at the point at which this piece of

information was released, as a result of this interview, we saw

Anna read yet reaction by banking stocks. -- an immediate reaction by

banking stock. Because of all of the talk of scaling back a lot of these

banking balls, the fact that he even talked about the idea of breaking up

the banks came a big of a shock to banking stocks. He has been talked

about this rule put in place many years ago but then was repealed and

it really sort of created the separation between investment

banking and commercial banking, those lies blurred a bit and banks

operate in both realms so there was even talk about reviving that rule

to sort this modern era. Members of his own Cabinet have talked about

this. Thank you. Yvon Chouinard's love

of the outdoors spurned him to create his business -

billion-dollar sportswear Its rock-climbing founder even

admitted he "never wanted Mr Chouinard is passionate

about the environment and explained Over the years, I have given over

$80 million away to environmental causes. In the last couple of years,

we have given 750,000 dollars to lobby Obama to create protected

areas. With the stroke of a pen, Trump can just negate that, or

thinks he can. Because of this new administration, we're going to give

bigger grants but less of them, and they will go to lawsuits. The way we

will deal with Trump, I think, is to have a million bees around his head

so he can't concentrate on anyone being. We are going to cover our

losses. You'd imagine the strongest economy

in Europe would have great Wifi. But Germany's digital economy

is being damaged by the fact that public wi-fi is still

very hard to find. The rules and Germany are very

confusing and I have never actually heard of anyone being sued for

illegal downloads but to make sure, we have got liability insurance but

I guess the confusion could be one of the reasons why so many cafes do

not offer Wi-Fi in Germany. German politicians never miss an

opportunity to talk up this country's widget all economy so the

fact that cafes like this cannot offer public Wi-Fi is something of

an embarrassment and something that this new law sets out to fix. On the

good side, it tries to give you the section about liability and it

states very clearly that under no condition can Wi-Fi operator the

liable but there is another section where at the same time, the draft

law states that you can offer Wi-Fi operator to block certain

information related to copyright infringement and you can do that

without a court order. Whatever shape the legislation takes, the

race is now on to get something passed before the German elections

in September. Coming up, we will be live to the snooker, Whipple talk

about Brexit and the French elections. -- we will talk about.

We thought damaging weather across the weekend. Violent and storms and

tornadoes. To the north of the area of low pressure, really