02/05/2017 Outside Source

I'm Nuala McGovern, this is Outside Source.

President Putin has dismissed allegations of Russian

TRANSLATION: These are just rumours used in the internal

At a meeting with Angela Merkel in Sochi, Ukraine, Syria

and the treatment of homosexuals were also on the agenda.

I'll play you a report on Sanctuary cities,

areas in the US that refuse comply with some immigration authorities.

We'll bring you a report from Syria where Islamic State militants

launched an attack on refugees as they queued at a border crossing.

And in OS Sport, the latest on the potential wipe-out

of all athletics world records from before 2005.

The leaders of Russia and Germany have been

discussing their differences on issues such as the conflicts

in Ukraine and Syria, with little sign of substantial progress.

Following the talks in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, Vladimir Putin said

both he and Angela Merkel were seriously concerned

Here is Steve Rosenberg, looking at how Russian

This report says the meeting does not mean a thaw in relations between

Russia and Germany. The paper says don't expect a breakthrough and

suggest that Angela Merkel needs this visit more than glad you put

in. This newspaper is more upbeat and says that her visit to Sochi

couldst signal a restart in German- Russian relations. This report says

it is vital for Angela Merkel to work out the correct approach to

relations with Russia, which could affect relations between Russia and

Brussels. It quotes a political pundit who says that Merkel and

Putin will decide what to do next. What's more, both Moscow and Berlin

have to deal with a variable by the name of Donald Trump and it is still

not clear how the Americans will work out their foreign policy on

Europe, including Russia. Finally, nothing about Marco's visit to

Sochi. Instead, an interview with Marine Le Pen, who styles herself as

the anti-Angela Merkel. This article is full of anti-German bile.

Comments like this from Marine Le Pen, saying Germany is the only

country to benefit from the EU, that Germany is trying to force its

viewpoint on weaker countries in the EU, and it's clear that Moscow

supports Marine Le Pen, who was the political opposite of Angela Merkel.

That was Steve Rosenberg looking at Russian media ahead of the visit.

Here's Jenny Hill with the view from Berlin after the meeting.

Angela Merkel and Vladimir Putin have an interesting relationship. He

speaks some German, she speaks some Russian. They have very different

outlooks on the world, but Bayer said nevertheless to have a rather

grudging respect for one another, despite the very fractious nature of

so many other subjects which will have been on the table. The most

important subject for Angela Merkel certainly was the situation in the

Ukraine, and while she said today that they very much differ over

their view of how that conflict began, they are at least united in

their desire to perhaps see a ceasefire, perhaps see the terms of

the Minsk agreement met. Mrs Merkel was a real leader in getting that

agreement signed in the first instance and she is at the forefront

of the continuing sanctions over Russia's involvement in the

conflict. Perhaps a little bit of an agreement in that we now know that

the so-called Normandie format, the leaders of France, Germany, the

Ukraine and Russia, will get together again once the French

elections are out of the way to try again to get the terms of the

agreement met, though I have to say that here in Berlin there is little

expectation of any great success on that particular front any time soon.

We saw a bitter backlash over the rather thorny issue of potential

Russian meddling in overseas elections. Behind the scenes in

Berlin there is a great deal of concern over whether Russia might

try to influence the German elections here in September. Mrs

Merkel today cited an example of a fake news story about a girl who was

raped in Berlin by immigrants. It turned out to be a false story. It

began in Russia. She said that is the kind of incident which we will

shut down very quickly. In response, Vladimir Putin said insistently that

we, Russia, never meddle in foreign elections. You could certainly sends

a bit of tension between the two might leaders. Sharp words from Mrs

Merkel, who said that Vladimir Putin certainly ought to make sure that

the freedom of the press and non-governmental organisations in

Russia is respected, and she also said she had asked him to use his

influence to protect the human rights of gay men in Chechnya. I

think, here in Berlin, also won the Russian side perhaps, there were few

expectations that anything particularly constructive would come

out of today's talks. But Mrs Merkel is seen as the real interlocutor

between the US and Russia, partially because of that long-standing

relationship with Mr Putin. They talked about Syria and other global

conflicts, agreed to work together on the fight against international

terrorism. As I say, very little that is constructive came out of the

dialogue today, but perhaps as Mr 's Merkel and her advisers in Berlin

would have it, it is better to be talking than not at all. -- Mrs

Merkel. They are large Democrat-led cities

that are telling officials NOT to hand over illegal

immigrants for deportation. In his first week in office,

President Trump signed an executive order to punish local governments

who didn't comply with immigration authorities

by cutting off funding - but this failed to make it

into a budget funding Usually we concentrate on cities

like New York or Chicago when talking about Sanctuary cities,

but the debate on offering sanctuary to illegal migrants

is also taking place in smaller Our correspondent Gary O'Donoghue

has been to Salem, Massachusetts. TRANSLATION: We are being persecuted

as if we were criminals or terrorists or bad people, right? But

immigrants are the foundation of every economy, no matter what

country you are in. Victoria, not her real name, is one of America's

11 million illegal immigrants. Almost two decades ago, she

outstayed her visa, and she knows she could be taken away from her

three children at any time. TRANSLATION: Loads of families have

been separated, and not because they are criminals, because he says that

he is going after criminals, but it is not just them. Salem's infamous

past as the site of the 17th-century witch trials is a huge draw to the

million or so tourists who come here each year, but its liberal New

England atmosphere is also a huge draw for outsiders of another kind.

The council says 15% of the 40,000 plus population were, like Victoria,

born outside the United States. Salem has declared itself a

sanctuary for peace. City officials can't ask residents about their

immigration status, which is designed to reassure immigrant

groups. These residents do not want Salem to be a sanctuary city and

they are gathering names to try to force a referendum in November. They

fear that sanctuary status could lose the city money and annoy

Washington. I think it is just a way to antagonise President Trump. Our

president is doing nothing other than suggesting that our people

follow the laws. The police department knows any pressure to

cooperate further with immigration officials will fall on the shoulders

of its officers, and its chief sees big problems in alienating

immigrants. The other night we have had a few incidents of domestic

violence, whether fact that their immigration status was being used

against them, and they were reluctant to come forward. So they

went through probably several different times of abuse.

The numbers of undocumented people being deported without convictions

have risen. It has made Victoria think long and hard about the future

of her own family. TRANSLATION: I ask a friend to stay with my

children and then to send them to me in my country. We are not safe.

Practically nobody is safe, and we have to have a plan B.

That report from Gary. Let's move on to sport.

Athletes - including former champions -

have criticised proposals to overhaul the sport's world

records set before 2005, as part of an effort to clear up

The proposals come from the governing body

of European Athletics, and would mean that in future,

world records would only stand if test samples were stored for 10

Let's talk more about this with John Watson

Hi, John. For people trying to digester and understand it, it

sounds -- the people trying to digest and understand it, it sounds

complicated. It is a way of restoring trust in athletics, which

has been tainted in recent years following high-profile doping

scandals, the Russian state sponsored doping scandal of last

year, and they feel that this is one way of restoring that trust in the

sport. We had the world athletics championships around the corner in

the summer. Those watching around the world will want to believe what

they are seeing, and if records are set, they want to believe that those

records have been set without the use of drugs and doping. How do they

do that? This proposal would see any records set since 2005, when as you

say samples from athletes can be stored for ten years, they feel that

if that is the case, then records set in that time period can be

trusted. Any records before 2005 would be erased. As you can imagine,

any one of the athletes who set those records before that time

period is very unhappy with these proposals which could come into

place if the IAAF ratify the proposal. Which records could go?

Jonathan Edwards, the British triple jumper who set the record in 1995 at

the World Championships in Gothenburg, jumping over 80 metres,

his record to go. Florence Griffith Joyner, her records could go. Almost

half of the indoor and outdoor men's and women's records could go, so it

shows the scale of the records that could go if these proposals are

ratified. Lets see what happens, a lot of people unhappy. Thank you for

joining me. Voting is underway for the BBC

Women's Footballer of the Year 2017. Five nominees have their hats

in the ring and we are looking at each one over the course

of the week. Today is the turn of Norway

and Olympique Lyonnais Hegerberg scored more goals

than Cristiano Ronaldo in Uefa My name is Ada Hegerberg and people

should vote for me because that would be the first time Norway has

had success outside skiing. I remember growing up with those

Champions League nights are making some tackles and sitting down with

the whole crew. I've got a lot of good memories.

Who do you want to see win BBC Women's Footballer of the Year 2017?

You can vote at bbc.com/womensfootball.

The vote closes on Monday 15th May at 8am.

Marine Le Pen has been accused of plagiarising a speech from one

A jury at the inquest of a teenage anorexia sufferer

who took her own life have found a lack of support for the family

Pippa McManus, who was 15, died 5 days after she was

The inquest found that there was not enough planning for her discharge.

Everyone called Pippa McManus Pip. She became obsessed with exercising

and losing weight. Her family found her pacing repeatedly up and down.

Anorexia had her in its grip for three years, and she change from a

happy, healthy child to an emaciated girl weighing just four stone. At

the age of 15, she decided to end her life. Her parents were in court

today as an inquest jury found that her suicide was partly a result of

the family receiving insufficient support. Pip spent her last three

years fighting against anorexia, malnutrition, depression and self

harm. We believe the failings in our daughter's care from beginning to

end resulted in her death. Can you talk us through the difficulties you

had to cope with when she came home in those days? Instantly, getting

back into the struggle of the illness, wanting to take full

control, that put the family under quite a lot of pressure to get

through it, what you would call a normal day's living. In 2014, Pepper

was sectioned under the Mental Health Act and taken to the Priory

Hospital in Cheshire. When Pip was released from hospital, she had

reached her target weight and wasn't considered a suicide risk, but just

five days afterwards, after Ray row with her family about her obsessive

exercise, she ran out of the house, saying that she was going to kill

herself. She came to this station nearby and took her own life. The

jury found that Pip's family had not been given enough information about

her being a suicide risk, and that agency is supposed to help how

hadn't worked together. He Priory Hospital said it will consider the

jury's findings. It's parents want to open a centre to provide LA help

for other anorexia sufferers. -- Pip's parents want to open a centre

to provide early help for other anorexia sufferers.

Our top story: President Putin has dismissed allegations of Russian

meddling in the US election. Speaking at a meeting with German

Chancellor Angela Merkel. Let's move on to the French

presidential election. The campaign is reaching its final stages, the

run-off between Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen just four days away.

They gave fiery speeches at rallies in Paris yesterday, and today, parts

of Marine Le Pen's speech are trending on social media, but not

for the reasons she intended. THEY speak French

the man on the right was Francois Fillon, who was eliminated in the

first round of boating, and he gave that speech a couple of weeks ago,

so now Marine Le Pen stands accused of plagiarism. She has not responded

directly but her campaign manager has played down the issue, saying it

was a nod and a wink and saying it was appreciated by Francois Fillon

and his supporters, no doubt. This is up close and personal as it gets.

You're watching Marine Le Pen addressing an audience. We are in

the bunker of a hotel and I am whispering because I don't want to

be talking louder than Marine Le Pen. She needs every single vote she

can get. About an hour ago, she referred to the speech we just

heard, and she said this was a deliberate nod to Francois Fillon,

nearly two minutes of exactly the same words, because, she said,

ultimately, journalist would not have paid any attention she had not

done, so the world is talking about it and they are talking about her

policies in fact, there is much more that she said that people will have

ignored, but they picked up on that bit. I think, ultimately, it has

come down to the fact that the man who seems to have written part of

that speech that she copied also took the same thing from a book he

put out several months ago. He is a right-wing author. Both of them used

it. They talked about how French as a language is used all over the

world, and how France needs to be at the top in world affairs. She

explained this a short while ago, but also explaining what she will do

for ethnic minorities here. I must say, she has not been entirely

popular, some people clapping, but some people saying, are you racist?

She said she is not but that she is here to talk about what she can

offer as president. The so-called Islamic State have

launched an attack on refugees in north-eastern Syria, killing and

wounding dozens. It happened at a border crossing between Iraq and

Syria. Sebastien Ascher brought us up to speed on what is happening.

We are hearing from activists that IS activist used suicide bombs,

detonated themselves. From other sources, we have heard that their

target in this particular attack was a group of Iraqi displaced people

coming across the border, as many have been doing in the past few

weeks. Many have come across this particular route in the past three

weeks. There is a refugee camp nearby under the control of Kurdish

militia. It used to be Isis, but the Kurdish militia drove them out of

this area a while ago, and the suicide bombers went on them. One

aid agency that has local staff there says it is still unclear how

many victims were, but they said that 22 people were buried in the

aftermath, including children. You talk about this being a targeted

attack on these refugees - what would be the motivation?

It is not something that Isis hasn't done. They have attacked people

again and again who are fleeing the areas they control. It happened in

Mosul and all the areas that they control. Essentially, it is partly

sending a message to the people still in the areas they control to

say they can't leave. It is saying that when they do get out, you think

you are going to be protected, that these other groups are going to make

sure you are safe, but they won't and they can't, and we still had

power. It is also essentially kind of lashing out, showing that even as

Isis loses territory, even as we are expecting that Mosul may finally

fall the next month or two, that Isis can hit back. And where they

have hit here is above Raqqa, which is still the focus of a campaign

that hasn't managed to get close to Raqqa.

A host of celebrities turned up of what has been described as the party

of the year. The Met Gallery is held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

It is an exclusive event, tickets costing tens of thousands of

dollars, and a flamboyant dress code. It's the hottest invitation on

New York's social calendar, and the biggest night in fashion, that draws

out only the stars. Stepping onto the red carpet is to enter a runway,

but one with a very specific theme. This year, the costume Institute is

honouring a Japanese designer who blurs the line between fashion and

art work. For Ray, there is no box. When she started, you would never

believe that passion could be as influential and powerful as music,

but it is. A lot of people say, how do you wear that? You do not weather

is close, they where you. Sleeves need not apply, and cotton candy

face and head coverings are just a few of her signatures. The bravest

dress the part. Unless you are Madonna, with your own fashion

statement. What statement are you making tonight? That... That we...

Have got to get together and start thinking about peace on Earth. The

irony of the stupidity of war. The ball is not the place to play it

safe. That unspoken rule, combined with his unconventional design's

inspiration, has made for a night of truly unique looks.

Thank you very much for bringing a little bit of glamour here! That's

it from us. Bromley, goodbye. -- from me, goodbye.