08/05/2017 Outside Source


08/05/2017

Similar Content

Browse content similar to 08/05/2017. Check below for episodes and series from the same categories and more!

Transcript


LineFromTo

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

:00:07.:00:08.

A new era is beginning in France and the country's president

:00:09.:00:13.

elect Emmanuel Macron has addressed the nation.

:00:14.:00:15.

Vive la republique. Vive la France!

:00:16.:00:22.

I'm Christian Fraser in Paris where the president-elect is getting

:00:23.:00:26.

on with the task of forming a new government.

:00:27.:00:32.

We'll be live in Paris with Christian Fraser.

:00:33.:00:35.

We'll hear from two members of the Obama administration

:00:36.:00:37.

on the alleged ties between Russia and the Trump campaign.

:00:38.:00:39.

I had two in-person meetings and one phone call with the

:00:40.:00:46.

And the latest on the release of some of the Chibok girls in Nigeria.

:00:47.:01:04.

This is what we heard today from the President Elect of France.

:01:05.:01:17.

TRANSLATION: I wanted to be in the republican spirit, Marine Le Pen was

:01:18.:01:23.

my adversarial. I know the division of our nation has led to extreme

:01:24.:01:29.

votes, and I respect that. I know the rage, I know the anxiety, the

:01:30.:01:34.

doubt that lots of you also expressed. And it is under my

:01:35.:01:40.

responsibility to hear them and to protect the weak, but weakest, and

:01:41.:01:46.

to organise solidarity better and fight against any form of

:01:47.:01:51.

discrimination and inequality, and making sure in a resolute way that

:01:52.:01:56.

your security will be guaranteed, and I will also guarantee the unity

:01:57.:01:57.

of the nation. Emmanuel Macron's

:01:58.:02:00.

victory was emphatic. There was also cause

:02:01.:02:02.

for concern for him. Around 4 million voters

:02:03.:02:13.

spoilt their ballot papers. Another 12 million

:02:14.:02:16.

didn't vote at all, together that's well

:02:17.:02:21.

over a quarter of registered voters. Christian Fraser has covered the

:02:22.:02:33.

election all the way through. We heard Mr Macron talking about

:02:34.:02:36.

unifying the country, but then all nuclear that did -- all newly

:02:37.:02:42.

elected leaders do that. What will he addressed to get the country

:02:43.:02:47.

further together? You have given a good example of why there is such

:02:48.:02:52.

division in the country. You have got those 16 million voters who

:02:53.:02:55.

didn't cast a ballot or stayed away from polling stations, and you have

:02:56.:02:59.

11 million who voted the Marine Le Pen. You should also factor in of

:03:00.:03:04.

course those who voted in the first round for Jean-Luc Melenchon, they

:03:05.:03:10.

were populist as well. They don't die die with many policies that

:03:11.:03:13.

Emmanuel Macron has been speaking about. If he wants to get policies

:03:14.:03:19.

through, he needs a majority in parliament. At the moment, he only

:03:20.:03:23.

had a movement, it is an idea. When they go to the elections in June, he

:03:24.:03:29.

has two hope he can get over 200 deputies in the National Assembly.

:03:30.:03:33.

If he can't, he has to have a Coalition of the willing, bringing

:03:34.:03:40.

politicians from right and left. As you mentioned it, let's bring up the

:03:41.:03:43.

latest poll on the parliamentary elections. Temp

:03:44.:03:54.

Christian, it might be a good time for you to give us a lesson in how

:03:55.:04:00.

the French system of government works, how much power does the

:04:01.:04:03.

president have? How much power does Parliament have? Power is split

:04:04.:04:10.

between the two. A bit like the American system, you can have a

:04:11.:04:21.

majority of 299, a simple majority out of 577 deputies. It is a two

:04:22.:04:25.

round election, much like the presidential election in June. It is

:04:26.:04:31.

spread over a week, but the thing is, it is much more tactical in the

:04:32.:04:34.

second round. Parties will is that an aside to give another party a

:04:35.:04:40.

clear run. Some won't stand aside. Therefore, you get skewed results.

:04:41.:04:49.

It is not simple. You will get anomalies around the country and it

:04:50.:04:52.

is by no means guaranteed that he will get anywhere near the 289 Mark.

:04:53.:04:58.

You will be joined in a moment, but before we hear from you and your

:04:59.:05:03.

guests, let's remind ourselves of several challenges facing Mr Macron.

:05:04.:05:10.

Bringing together a divided country is one task.

:05:11.:05:11.

France's unemployment currently sits at 10%.

:05:12.:05:21.

Mr Macron has promised to get it below 7%

:05:22.:05:23.

and security remains a hugely pressing issue.

:05:24.:05:26.

After the Paris attacks, the attack on the magazine, the truck attack in

:05:27.:05:36.

Nice, how the president goes about keeping everyone safe is crucial to

:05:37.:05:42.

the success of his presidency. Christian, let's bring you back in

:05:43.:05:44.

and you can introduce your guest. On security, he is seen as not as

:05:45.:05:56.

strong as Marine Le Pen was. What sort of Gutman does he formed? Let's

:05:57.:06:02.

talk about that with a political scientist here in Paris. He is

:06:03.:06:09.

inaugurated on Sunday, the next day we will get wind of who his next

:06:10.:06:15.

Prime Minister is going to be. When he looks at the assembly, because of

:06:16.:06:19.

what we just talked about, he doesn't have a majority, would it be

:06:20.:06:22.

more sensible to have a Prime Minister from the right? The

:06:23.:06:26.

nomination of the Prime Minister will be a strong symbol to give an

:06:27.:06:30.

idea of the type of Coalition he would like to form in the National

:06:31.:06:34.

Assembly. Probably, it is more likely that he will form a majority

:06:35.:06:39.

with some other MPs from the right to try to maybe nominate an MP from

:06:40.:06:50.

his own movement that came from the Republic, that is the direction he

:06:51.:06:54.

would like to go. No leader from France has risen so quickly and at

:06:55.:07:00.

such a young age, probably since Napoleon, without a political

:07:01.:07:03.

movement or a party, so how does he go about building a Coalition of the

:07:04.:07:08.

willing in the National Assembly? It is in an president it presidential

:07:09.:07:12.

election that might unprecedented. The political situation is

:07:13.:07:22.

fragmented and he hopes to take advantage of that to form a new

:07:23.:07:27.

Coalition, a new political force in the centre of the political

:07:28.:07:31.

landscape, which is new for France. If you are a Republican or

:07:32.:07:34.

socialist, can you join that movement without resigning from your

:07:35.:07:39.

own party? How does it work? On the side of Macron's movement, he is

:07:40.:07:42.

open to getting people from other parties come and run as candidates

:07:43.:07:47.

of his new political movement, but the root of the other party, it

:07:48.:07:51.

seems, people will have to choose, keeping the party or joining

:07:52.:07:56.

Emmanuel Macron. Tell us a little bit about getting a movement like

:07:57.:08:03.

this of the ground in a parliament election, I would guess like most

:08:04.:08:06.

other countries that parties are deeply embedded in towns and

:08:07.:08:12.

villages and it is difficult to get in there and start a party. It is

:08:13.:08:16.

typically more directed from the centre. They have some local

:08:17.:08:21.

candidates that have a strong historical connection, but you cant

:08:22.:08:29.

compete in the election without having a strong connection without

:08:30.:08:32.

being a local politician from there. He hopes to find enough candidates,

:08:33.:08:37.

local candidates of people from various civil societies from his

:08:38.:08:43.

movement who are willing to be candidates. 50% coming from civil

:08:44.:08:49.

society, 50% women as well. That will be a breath of fresh air in

:08:50.:08:52.

Parliament, lots of new faces. Why do you think he stood aside as

:08:53.:08:57.

leader of the movement, and why has he renamed it? It is now La

:08:58.:09:03.

Republique en Marche. It has just been announced. I don't know if it

:09:04.:09:07.

is a new sign to Mark with the change of name the fact that we are

:09:08.:09:12.

in a new period. We have finished the presidential election and we

:09:13.:09:15.

want to give a new stance for his movement for the President, for the

:09:16.:09:19.

legislative election. He hopes to be the pivot at the top? Of course, he

:09:20.:09:24.

still has a leading role in the party, even if he is not formally

:09:25.:09:28.

leading the party, he remains the leader of the movement. The change

:09:29.:09:33.

in the direction of the party doesn't mean all present a change in

:09:34.:09:38.

the political direction. OK, thank you very much indeed for your

:09:39.:09:43.

thoughts. Rather peculiar that he stood down from a movement he

:09:44.:09:47.

launched only a year ago. Sitting as a fulcrum at the top as the

:09:48.:09:51.

president, but in no way can you guarantee that he can control

:09:52.:09:54.

Parliament. The next six weeks are going to be very crucial.

:09:55.:10:00.

He is certainly his own man but it has got him the presidency.

:10:01.:10:07.

Emmanuel Macron has described Brexit as a "crime" that will plunge

:10:08.:10:09.

After a meeting with Theresa May in February he said "Brexit

:10:10.:10:15.

cannot lead to a kind of optimisation of

:10:16.:10:18.

Britain's relationship with the rest of Europe.

:10:19.:10:20.

I am very determined that there will be no undue advantages."

:10:21.:10:28.

How might that translate into practical policy?

:10:29.:10:30.

Andy Silvester is Deputy Director of Policy at

:10:31.:10:32.

He joins us live from Westminster. When I read", do you get worried

:10:33.:10:45.

Reece you expect nothing less from a French candidate during a French

:10:46.:10:48.

general election campaign. It is now a time for cool heads to prevail,

:10:49.:10:52.

there is no question that across Europe, there would have been size

:10:53.:11:08.

of Rob -- sighs of relief. This is a good thing for Brexit. We can get on

:11:09.:11:12.

with negotiations want our own general election is underway.

:11:13.:11:16.

Everything is relative, but if you have the president of France saying

:11:17.:11:20.

make sure there are no undue advantages, it plays into the

:11:21.:11:25.

narrative that the European Union cannot afford for Brexit to look

:11:26.:11:27.

like an attractive option for any other members. That is certainly

:11:28.:11:32.

true. I don't think anyone in Whitehall for the current government

:11:33.:11:35.

or in the parties competing to be the government after 8th of June are

:11:36.:11:40.

expecting any favours from the French presidential palace, or from

:11:41.:11:43.

Emmanuel Macron himself when he gets to Brussels. But a strong Franco

:11:44.:11:47.

German alliance in the middle of the European Union isn't necessarily a

:11:48.:11:51.

bad thing, two countries that trade regularly with the United Kingdom.

:11:52.:11:56.

As we move towards the actual constructive elements of the

:11:57.:11:59.

negotiation, one would expect that tone to change. If it doesn't, you

:12:00.:12:04.

will of course see Theresa May or Jeremy Corbyn, or Tim Farron or

:12:05.:12:07.

whoever is in Downing Street matching the rhetoric word for word.

:12:08.:12:12.

We need to get away with that. If we need a good deal, we need to get

:12:13.:12:16.

around the table, rather than fight on front pages. Behind you, I can

:12:17.:12:20.

see skyscrapers of Canary Wharf, will people there be concerned that

:12:21.:12:24.

the new president has made it clear that he sees Brexit as a business

:12:25.:12:29.

opportunity for Paris? At that is certainly the case. The front page

:12:30.:12:33.

of the Evening Standard this evening was very much on that note. We have

:12:34.:12:36.

do think about the City's advantages more generally. A competitive

:12:37.:12:41.

France, a liberal France is not a bad thing for Britain. Competitive

:12:42.:12:45.

and liberal Europe is not a bad thing for Britain. We have huge

:12:46.:12:50.

amount of cross-border trade. If Emmanuel Macron can deliver the

:12:51.:12:52.

liberalisation he would like to come and he's as he would like to after

:12:53.:12:57.

the elections that he still has to get a majority, it will be good for

:12:58.:13:03.

Britain. As I said at the start, nothing has particularly changed as

:13:04.:13:06.

a result of Emmanuel Macron's election, but there are still

:13:07.:13:10.

grounds for optimism. Thank you for your time, Andy. In a few minutes we

:13:11.:13:21.

will go to Abuja, where 82 of the Chibok girls who were released at

:13:22.:13:25.

the weekend have been taken to meet the Nigerian president. But we

:13:26.:13:28.

understand many of them have still not met their closest relatives.

:13:29.:13:35.

And here in the UK a 35-year-old man has been charged in connection

:13:36.:13:40.

with a dog attack on a toddler in Liverpool yesterday.

:13:41.:13:44.

The two-year-old girl was playing in the garden of a house

:13:45.:13:52.

here in the Dingle area of Liverpool when she was attacked

:13:53.:13:55.

She was with two of her young cousins, aged four and six,

:13:56.:14:01.

when the attack took place, and the dogs managed to somehow

:14:02.:14:04.

get into that garden from a neighbouring property.

:14:05.:14:06.

She was staying with her aunt, who did her best to try

:14:07.:14:08.

and save the little girl, she fought off the dog

:14:09.:14:11.

from the two other girls, but the little girl suffered

:14:12.:14:13.

what police describe as "extensive injuries".

:14:14.:14:15.

Today, police have been carrying out a number of enquiries,

:14:16.:14:20.

11 dogs from a neighbouring property were seized,

:14:21.:14:24.

Andrew McGowan, who is 35, has been charged with allowing four

:14:25.:14:28.

dogs, in particular, to be dangerously out of control.

:14:29.:14:33.

He will appear before Liverpool Magistrates' Court tomorrow.

:14:34.:14:46.

This is Outside Source live from the BBC newsroom.

:14:47.:14:48.

France's President-elect Emmanuel Macron has promised

:14:49.:14:52.

to unite the country following his decisive win.

:14:53.:14:53.

His first task is to form a new government which will begin

:14:54.:14:56.

In Aghanistan, there's fierce fighting between government forces

:14:57.:15:09.

BBC Hindi's got the story of an Indian Air Force promotional

:15:10.:15:17.

It's trying to get more women recruits, and the whole video

:15:18.:15:24.

And Montreal has declared a state of emergency because of flooding.

:15:25.:15:29.

Across the the whole of Quebec province, nearly 2,000

:15:30.:15:33.

On Saturday, 82 Chibok schoolgirls were released.

:15:34.:15:40.

They'd been held by the Islamist militant group

:15:41.:15:42.

In return, five Boko Haram commanders were handed

:15:43.:15:53.

This photo released by the Red Cross was the first proof they were free.

:15:54.:16:06.

They had several journeys ahead of them.

:16:07.:16:07.

The girls were flown from Banki near the border with Cameroon

:16:08.:16:10.

to Maiduguri and then Abuja, where they met President Buhari.

:16:11.:16:18.

You can see him with a big smile on his face with all of the girls in

:16:19.:16:22.

front of him. The Bring Back Our Girls

:16:23.:16:24.

campaign tweeted, "Bittersweet feelings

:16:25.:16:27.

at the Unity Fountain in Abuja. We are happy and hope

:16:28.:16:30.

for the return of 113 left." Here's more from Stephanie Hegarty

:16:31.:16:36.

in Abuja for Outside Source. There is a list that has been

:16:37.:16:48.

released by the presidency, but it's not confirmed

:16:49.:16:51.

as to who exactly the girls are. A team has come from

:16:52.:16:57.

Chibok, the head of the parent association

:16:58.:16:59.

is with the girls now, with the government now,

:17:00.:17:01.

going through that list and Figuring out the identities

:17:02.:17:03.

of all of those people. We have spoken to a few sets

:17:04.:17:09.

of parents today, and only one actually the head of the 12

:17:10.:17:14.

Parents Association himself has a daughter

:17:15.:17:17.

on the list. Sad news, but there will be

:17:18.:17:18.

lots of good news for many We don't yet know what has

:17:19.:17:21.

happened to this particular group of girls, and

:17:22.:17:25.

we heard in the past that the Chibok girls were

:17:26.:17:30.

treated differently to others that were kidnapped, thousands of girls

:17:31.:17:36.

have been kidnapped over The Chibok girls have been

:17:37.:17:38.

treated differently, we don't know if they have come back

:17:39.:17:43.

with children or were first There were reports that the Chibok

:17:44.:17:46.

girls have been treated exceptionally, that they have been

:17:47.:17:52.

looked after by Boko Haram, because Many of the other girls

:17:53.:17:55.

aren't treated well. Many of the other girls died

:17:56.:17:59.

in Boko Haram captivity or have come And also, many of them also have

:18:00.:18:02.

come back with babies. They come back to intense

:18:03.:18:06.

stigma from society. It is perceived the Chibok girls

:18:07.:18:08.

will be well received when they get back to their families, but they

:18:09.:18:11.

will be held by the government for For all the others, they deal

:18:12.:18:14.

with the stigma of being Boko Haram wives, from being radicalised, and

:18:15.:18:21.

people see them as Boko Emanuel Macron was in part elected

:18:22.:18:23.

for his plans to reform the French economy -

:18:24.:18:38.

and deal with high Here are the thoughts

:18:39.:18:40.

of one analyst. For many, many years, possibly even

:18:41.:18:51.

decades, French government, French presidents, have promised their

:18:52.:18:56.

European partners reforms against deficit slippage. We believe we have

:18:57.:18:59.

reached a point where European partners are not interested in

:19:00.:19:05.

hearing such a bargain. So possibly, we have reached a point where France

:19:06.:19:10.

will deliver reforms to stay ahead of the curve in international

:19:11.:19:16.

competition. Where is the fiscal stimulus that is probably needed for

:19:17.:19:21.

the euro zone to grow out of the global financial crisis and the

:19:22.:19:24.

economic recession have been struggling with for a decade, it is

:19:25.:19:28.

going to come from a different country, namely Germany.

:19:29.:19:32.

Next to America's president and his bid to kick start growth.

:19:33.:19:36.

Part of Donald Trump's plan is to cut red-tape and regulation.

:19:37.:19:41.

For instance in the pharmaceutical industry, he want sot make it easier

:19:42.:19:44.

for drug companies to get new medicines to market.

:19:45.:19:46.

Samira Hussain has this report on how practical that is.

:19:47.:19:57.

With the execs of big from suitable donor site, President Ron says

:19:58.:20:06.

lowering the cost' and drugs has to be done, how? Cutting regulations.

:20:07.:20:12.

We will streamline the process so that when you have a drug, you can

:20:13.:20:16.

get it approved, instead of waiting for many years. In the meeting at

:20:17.:20:22.

the White House, there was an intellectual pharmaceutical company.

:20:23.:20:27.

We adhere with regulations that were developed 40 years ago. We have to

:20:28.:20:31.

keep safety first, but opportunities to be able to modernise the system

:20:32.:20:36.

to be able to get medicines to the marketplace faster to help patients.

:20:37.:20:45.

Faster approval by the federal drug Association should increase

:20:46.:20:50.

competition and bring down prices. But the cost of that idea could be

:20:51.:20:57.

even greater, R Gen X is a small drug company that is testing new

:20:58.:21:00.

cancer treatments. These are the companies that take most of the risk

:21:01.:21:06.

when getting a drug to market. It is a process that can cost billions of

:21:07.:21:11.

dollars, take 10-15 years, and no guarantee of success. But perhaps

:21:12.:21:18.

surprisingly, R Gen X is an convinced that faster approvals are

:21:19.:21:23.

a good idea. What is important is to develop effective therapies that are

:21:24.:21:28.

also safe, which I didn't believe we should lower the bar. What we have

:21:29.:21:31.

to do is work creatively with our partners in the regulatory industry

:21:32.:21:37.

with other stakeholders, including patients and caregivers to make this

:21:38.:21:41.

process more efficient. And we should do that without sacrificing

:21:42.:21:46.

quality. If drugmakers are sceptical users certainly are. The people but

:21:47.:21:54.

by the most restrictions drugs lobby. Drugs in the United States

:21:55.:22:02.

are of proved faster than many other developed countries. The reality is

:22:03.:22:05.

drugs reach Americans faster than groups in other parts of the world.

:22:06.:22:10.

We are also concerned about speeding up processes because the reality is

:22:11.:22:14.

the processes are in place to make sure prescription drugs are safe.

:22:15.:22:19.

The President's views on the pharmaceutical industry, like his

:22:20.:22:24.

views on others, is that there are simple business solutions to its

:22:25.:22:26.

problems. However, the testimony from the industry itself

:22:27.:22:31.

demonstrates that Donald Trump's solutions don't always have much to

:22:32.:22:33.

do with the underlying problem. We have looked at American politics

:22:34.:22:50.

and French politics. Next to Korean politics.

:22:51.:22:53.

South Koreans will elect a new president on Tuesday.

:22:54.:22:55.

There's a vacancy because Park Guen-hye was impeached -

:22:56.:22:57.

something that hasn't happened to a south korean president before.

:22:58.:23:00.

There are two main candidates in this election.

:23:01.:23:02.

This is the man the opinion polls tip as the overwhelming favourite

:23:03.:23:10.

to be the next president of South Korea.

:23:11.:23:22.

Moon Jay-in, the left of centre Democratic party,

:23:23.:23:24.

a big change the right-wing president.

:23:25.:23:28.

Who is the president, he says, who will speak his mind to the

:23:29.:23:32.

United States, to China, to Japan, to North Korea?

:23:33.:23:41.

"Who is the president who weren't defer to the US or China?"

:23:42.:23:44.

If he wins power, that will be a big change in policy, a move to

:23:45.:23:48.

the left, and closeness to Pyongyang, that's what happened the

:23:49.:23:51.

But being close to Pyongyang might make

:23:52.:24:02.

There are five main candidates, whoever

:24:03.:24:06.

gets the most votes on election day wins.

:24:07.:24:10.

The US has installed an anti-missile system in South Korea

:24:11.:24:14.

Left of centre, he says there is no welcome in Korea for it.

:24:15.:24:23.

Potentially, there is a bit of a train wreck here, where you have got

:24:24.:24:29.

the drug administration saying pressure, pressure, pressure on

:24:30.:24:32.

North Korea, and suddenly, you have a new South Korean president that

:24:33.:24:36.

says, actually, that is not going to solve the problem. We need to talk

:24:37.:24:38.

to those guys and improve the relationship. In a room in the

:24:39.:24:44.

National Assembly, defectors from North Korea urged voters not to

:24:45.:24:53.

choose Mr Moon. They feel a centre-left government will allow

:24:54.:24:57.

more contact with North Korea, making it easier for North Korean

:24:58.:24:59.

assassins to come south to target them.

:25:00.:25:05.

He isn't president yet and he may slip up at the last, but if he wins,

:25:06.:25:12.

a softer policy on North Korea is on the way. The hardline didn't change

:25:13.:25:19.

Kim Jong-un. Would be nice be any different?

:25:20.:25:26.

Steve will guide us through election day and through the results when

:25:27.:25:32.

they come in. I want to quickly mention, we have sport in ten

:25:33.:25:35.

minutes time, one thing we will talk about is the Premier League, Chelsea

:25:36.:25:39.

are facing Middlesbrough. I have had a look at what is happening at

:25:40.:25:44.

Stamford Bridge, it is fed as a Middlesbrough's time in the Premier

:25:45.:25:46.

League is limited in the extreme, unless there is a minor miracle,

:25:47.:25:50.

Middlesbrough are going down. Full details on the game in ten minutes.

:25:51.:25:52.

See you in a few minutes. Goodbye. Good evening. The weather in the UK

:25:53.:26:12.

may have been quiet recently but if we look further afield, and turn our

:26:13.:26:16.

attention to the whole globe, there is actually quite a lot going on.

:26:17.:26:22.

Not least across eastern Canada, this world of cloud, an area of

:26:23.:26:23.

Download Subtitles

SRT

ASS