:00:16. > :00:22.It is Russ Atkins. Like this man will be the new president of South
:00:23. > :00:26.Korea. I will be a president that serves all the people, even those
:00:27. > :00:33.who did not support me. He wants better relations with North Korea.
:00:34. > :00:37.We will look at what else missed them Mean's victory will mean for
:00:38. > :00:41.his country. America is considering deploying thousands more troops to
:00:42. > :00:46.Afghanistan, a shift in policy. Live to Washington. French politics
:00:47. > :00:51.continues to get shaken up, the former Prime Minister says he is
:00:52. > :00:57.jumping ship to join Immanuel Macron's party. This Socialist
:00:58. > :01:01.parties there, it is behind us, not the history and values, but it had
:01:02. > :01:05.to move on. We will look at why Minnesota is experiencing one of its
:01:06. > :01:06.worst outbreaks of measles. And right up to date with the Champions
:01:07. > :01:31.League. This is South Korea's next
:01:32. > :01:35.president. He was favoured to win, improves Doolan promising to prove
:01:36. > :01:46.the economy and relationship with North Korea. We still don't have the
:01:47. > :02:01.official results. Over 41%, double his rival. From tomorrow I will be a
:02:02. > :02:06.president for everyone. I will be a president who serves all the people,
:02:07. > :02:09.even those who did not support me. You may think North Korea has
:02:10. > :02:17.dominated this election, but not really. Economy and corruption the
:02:18. > :02:22.Totti issues. Let me play the analysis of US public radio. There
:02:23. > :02:28.is a sense of simmering injustice amongst voters. Wealth inequality, a
:02:29. > :02:34.sense of corruption, ties between big business, the family owned
:02:35. > :02:38.conglomerates, like Samsung. Ties between big business and government
:02:39. > :02:41.have got way too cosy. Moon Jae-In will be elected on a promise to
:02:42. > :02:48.break up those close ties. Fight corruption. Return a sense of
:02:49. > :02:59.justice to the labour market, if you will. A tweet from a producer on the
:03:00. > :03:02.US network NBC. Kurds being the important word. The new president
:03:03. > :03:06.favours greater dialogue with the North. That rests on North Korea's
:03:07. > :03:10.willingness to talk, we don't know whether that will happen. Here is
:03:11. > :03:17.Jean Lee, used to be the correspondent for a peek in
:03:18. > :03:24.Pyongyang. -- four Associated Press. It has been made clear which
:03:25. > :03:29.candidate North Korea, and which movement they are supporting. A
:03:30. > :03:35.couple of days ago, flyers rained down in my neighbourhood, from North
:03:36. > :03:43.Korea, saying the Conservatives had to go. Very clear they want the
:03:44. > :03:50.Liberals. Let's be clear, the South Koreans must have America and China
:03:51. > :03:55.on board. Right now Mr Moon does not appear to have that. This man used
:03:56. > :04:02.to work on Korean issues that the CIA under President Obama and
:04:03. > :04:06.President Bush. There is concern, that there may be a potential
:04:07. > :04:12.divergences stop in policy coming out of Washington towards South
:04:13. > :04:15.Korea. Obviously Moon Jae-In has a different approach to North Korea,
:04:16. > :04:25.preferring engagement and dialogue. The Trump administration wants to
:04:26. > :04:31.put maximum pressure on Pyongyang and Beijing. There is a potential
:04:32. > :04:37.for real divergences between Washington and South Korea. When we
:04:38. > :04:45.have that result confirmed he will get that from us on BBC News. Let us
:04:46. > :04:50.turn to an important decision in the US. In 2014 US combat operations
:04:51. > :04:55.against the Taliban in Afghanistan officially ended. Let's show you
:04:56. > :05:06.this, Donald Trump and 2013 saying...
:05:07. > :05:14.I am telling you to bear both those things in mind. I want to tell you
:05:15. > :05:19.we have reports the US is considering a new deployment of at
:05:20. > :05:22.least 3000 troops. In addition to the over 8000 troops already in
:05:23. > :05:31.Afghanistan. They are part of a bigger Nato force, at 13,000. The
:05:32. > :05:38.BBC also understands Nato is asking the UK to send more troops. If you
:05:39. > :05:45.have been watching Outside Source from you know fighting in
:05:46. > :05:52.Afghanistan has intensified. Last month 413 people in a compound in
:05:53. > :05:58.the North. The Taliban militants, in the North, the Taliban wants to take
:05:59. > :06:01.cities there. Hundreds of thousands of families of to leave their homes.
:06:02. > :06:11.The security pressure is very much real. The Americans and their
:06:12. > :06:15.response is intriguing. Let's speak to Gary O'Donoghue. Why have the
:06:16. > :06:19.Americans change their mind? They're getting a stark message from
:06:20. > :06:24.commanders on the ground. General Nicholson saying earlier this year
:06:25. > :06:29.effectively there is a stalemate in Afghanistan between the Afghan
:06:30. > :06:37.forces and the Taliban. That he needed several thousand more troops
:06:38. > :06:41.to train, advise and assist the 350,000 strong Afghan army, to push
:06:42. > :06:45.the Taliban back. It has about one third of the country, controlling
:06:46. > :06:52.directly, or has significant influence. Battles over the northern
:06:53. > :06:56.city, taken back and forward. Reports of controlling a highway in
:06:57. > :07:02.the north-east of the country, a very significant rate. The Americans
:07:03. > :07:05.believe if few extra thousand will make a difference. Also asking Nato
:07:06. > :07:11.to send a few extra thousand as well. Of course, may not be soon
:07:12. > :07:14.enough for the fighting season, in full flow at the moment. We are
:07:15. > :07:20.expecting some sort of deal towards the end of the month, when Nato
:07:21. > :07:23.meeting in Brussels on the 25th. I want to ask you a better story
:07:24. > :07:27.relating to Washington and Syria. Copy files by Gary and his
:07:28. > :07:32.colleagues in the BBC's Washington newsroom. The White House has
:07:33. > :07:38.approved supplying weapons to Kurdish militants fighting Islamic
:07:39. > :07:46.state in Syria. Which militia are we talking about? What will they be
:07:47. > :07:51.given? We're talking about the YPG, the Syrian Kurds. The US believes
:07:52. > :07:58.they are the most coordinated, effective, disciplined part of the
:07:59. > :08:03.Syrian Democratic forces. Made up of Kurds and Syrian Arabic forces. The
:08:04. > :08:06.White House has been toying with giving them more firepower in the
:08:07. > :08:19.fight against so-called Islamic State. Now that the battle for
:08:20. > :08:27.Rakkah is getting closer, they want to give in the arms they need. Small
:08:28. > :08:34.arms ammunition, vehicles, bulldozers, to bulldoze out of the
:08:35. > :08:40.way those IEDs IS use. The trouble is the Turkish do not like it, they
:08:41. > :08:46.think the YPG is the same as the PKK, there internal separatist
:08:47. > :08:49.movement occurs. The Turkish see them as terrorists. Whatever the
:08:50. > :08:53.rights and wrongs of that particular decision, it is striking, the
:08:54. > :08:58.difference between Donald Trump's rhetoric America first, and he has
:08:59. > :09:04.got deeply involved in Syria and possibly Afghanistan as well?
:09:05. > :09:09.Absolutely. Talk of expansion troops in Afghanistan, helping Syria, air
:09:10. > :09:15.strikes we ever had, not to mention talk of putting North Korea in its
:09:16. > :09:19.place potentially militarily. Foreign adventurers and we did not
:09:20. > :09:25.expect from Donald Trump, given his rhetoric during the campaign. One
:09:26. > :09:29.thing you could say in his favour, he has vacillated on this he did
:09:30. > :09:35.seem to make a bit of a distinction, during the run-up to the campaign
:09:36. > :09:39.between Syria and the Khalistan in terms of troops. He said he would
:09:40. > :09:43.not pull troops out immediately. Did not talk about a thing number is the
:09:44. > :09:48.way he has now. Thank you very much indeed. Let's go to an astonishing
:09:49. > :09:57.story in South Africa. More remains of a humanlike species have been
:09:58. > :10:02.found. I want to show you this. A skull amongst those remains. It
:10:03. > :10:06.reveals a smaller brain size, compared to human beings. All
:10:07. > :10:12.discovered in South Africa, Karen Allen is there. Already scientists
:10:13. > :10:26.made history discovering a new species of early human. Now the age
:10:27. > :10:31.has been revealed, thanks to a skeleton, they have called Neo. A
:10:32. > :10:36.perfectly preserved mail, dating the species at 230,000 years old, much
:10:37. > :10:42.younger than originally thought. We know it is 200, 300,000 years ago.
:10:43. > :10:48.That sounds like long time ago, but that is really reason. Likely they
:10:49. > :10:53.overlap in South Equatorial Africa with modern humans. It was inside
:10:54. > :10:57.these caves where scientists made the remarkable discovery. Dark, and
:10:58. > :11:02.dangerous work as they picked their way through a labyrinth of rock
:11:03. > :11:06.There they found hundreds of There they found hundreds of
:11:07. > :11:13.fragments of bones, hands and teeth. Suggesting our primitive ancestors
:11:14. > :11:18.may have buried their in bed. They are thought to have walked on two
:11:19. > :11:22.Lakes, a tiny brain the size of an orange. A picture from the National
:11:23. > :11:26.Geographic magazine shows it could be a link between ape-like creatures
:11:27. > :11:32.and early humans. Now the discovery of a near complete skeleton provides
:11:33. > :11:37.a road map for scientists to better understand earlier forms of human
:11:38. > :11:40.life. We get to look at what mail looks like, we're confident this is
:11:41. > :11:47.a male from the compare to the other specimens. We are taking the bits
:11:48. > :11:56.and pieces, an anomaly a fragment of fossils. You get a lot of the bones,
:11:57. > :12:01.along the body. He is a new plan for interpreting that. Without doubt,
:12:02. > :12:05.very between these African soils are further clues as to few modern
:12:06. > :12:10.humans share the planet with. Today's fine opens the possibility
:12:11. > :12:13.that technologies, tools and the traditions we as humans credit
:12:14. > :12:15.ourselves with may have been the invention of others who were here
:12:16. > :12:28.first. We have heard from South Africa,
:12:29. > :12:30.Afghanistan, Washington and South Korea. In a few minutes, turning to
:12:31. > :12:36.Minnesota. I have been speaking to one journalist about why certain
:12:37. > :12:37.parts of this one US state is experiencing the worst outbreak of
:12:38. > :12:50.measles in more than 25 years. An 11-year-old girl on a school trip
:12:51. > :12:59.has died after falling from an adventure ride at a theme park in
:13:00. > :13:04.Staffordshire. The Splash Canyon ride was close. It is not known
:13:05. > :13:08.whether the park will open tomorrow. The girl died after being airlifted
:13:09. > :13:11.to Birmingham's children hospital. The manager of the theme park
:13:12. > :13:16.expressed his condolences. So it is with great sadness we have
:13:17. > :13:19.to report a young girl has passed away at Birmingham
:13:20. > :13:21.children's hospital after falling onto one
:13:22. > :13:22.of Staff reported an
:13:23. > :13:25.11-year-old girl fell Park staff were immediately
:13:26. > :13:39.on the scene, tending to the patient, West Midlands
:13:40. > :13:41.air ambulance arrived We are truly shocked
:13:42. > :13:44.and devastated, I'm sorry, our thoughts are with
:13:45. > :13:45.her friends and family at
:13:46. > :14:00.this difficult time. We live in the BBC newsroom. Our
:14:01. > :14:05.lead story comes from South Korea, the liberal human rights lawyer Moon
:14:06. > :14:10.Jae-In is claiming victory in the election. He has asked for
:14:11. > :14:13.cooperation with North Korea, and the deployment of US missal defence
:14:14. > :14:18.system. Some of the main stories from BBC World Service. China is not
:14:19. > :14:22.president is vowing to protect the climate agreement. That deal is to
:14:23. > :14:27.slow climate change, curb fossil fuel emissions. The promise was made
:14:28. > :14:41.in a phone call with the French President-elect, Immanuel Macron.
:14:42. > :14:50.Doctors say it will take months for the Russian activist's 11 eye
:14:51. > :14:56.surgery for his site to recover. A man who asked for a year's supplier
:14:57. > :15:03.chicken nuggets has become the most re-tweeted in Twitter. I'm not sure
:15:04. > :15:07.that tells us. Next on Outside Source, I want to talk about
:15:08. > :15:11.measles. In particular measles in Minnesota. This state is in one of
:15:12. > :15:17.the worst outbreaks of measles for over 25 years. If we draw in on the
:15:18. > :15:23.map, I have highlighted three areas, three counties. Where there are
:15:24. > :15:30.large Somali immigrant communities. We are told, 50 children have been
:15:31. > :15:35.infected. The majority of them have not been vaccinated. This is a grass
:15:36. > :15:41.released by the Minnesota health department. People of non-Somali
:15:42. > :15:49.descent, the rate of vaccination is 89%, within the Somali community,
:15:50. > :15:54.42%. It is blaming misinformation. A person whose name keeps coming up in
:15:55. > :15:58.this story is Andrew Wakefield, British, the founder of an
:15:59. > :16:02.anti-vaccine movement. Back in 1998 he was struck off the UK medical
:16:03. > :16:08.register after a study length vaccines the autism. It was found to
:16:09. > :16:13.be false. Over the last few years he has been invited to talk to Somali
:16:14. > :16:20.parents across Minnesota. Outside Source got in touch with a freelance
:16:21. > :16:27.reporter covering this story for the Washington Post. She told us more.
:16:28. > :16:32.The fear of autism is rampant in the Somali community. It is fairly new,
:16:33. > :16:36.the Minnesota Department of Health has done some research, the rates of
:16:37. > :16:41.vaccination in the Somali community were quite high as 2004, 92% of
:16:42. > :16:48.people in the community were vaccinated. Around 2008, things
:16:49. > :16:53.change, fear of the MMR vaccine began to spread. Rates have
:16:54. > :16:58.plummeted. Down to 42%. That seems to be the major driver. What
:16:59. > :17:03.understanding do we have of awareness of autism, within the
:17:04. > :17:11.community? It is an interesting history. I talked with a registered
:17:12. > :17:15.nurse, and Somali immigrant from the consulting with the Minnesota
:17:16. > :17:17.Department of Health, to try to educate the community can work with
:17:18. > :17:22.them, give information. What she told me, there is not a word in the
:17:23. > :17:28.Somali language translating to autism. Windows diagnosis started to
:17:29. > :17:37.appear, people were really confused about what it was, how to talk about
:17:38. > :17:42.it. As a result, there has been plenty of fear and confusion in the
:17:43. > :17:46.years since. The community leaders you have spoken to you during your
:17:47. > :17:53.reporting from the duvet acknowledge there is a particular issue for
:17:54. > :17:58.their community? Yes, I think, what I was told, there is a really strong
:17:59. > :18:07.tradition of oral communication in the Somali community. When this idea
:18:08. > :18:14.took off around 2008, it spread so quickly, people are afraid, and
:18:15. > :18:18.angry, I talked to several mothers in the Somali community, he told me
:18:19. > :18:21.they feel like their questions have not been answered. They have
:18:22. > :18:27.concerns about something fairly new to them. Appointments with doctors
:18:28. > :18:32.are quick. They feel like they get information after they get the
:18:33. > :18:37.shots. The community work as I talked with said in this case it is
:18:38. > :18:43.going to be a matter of spending more time with people, answering the
:18:44. > :18:47.questions they do have. Let's talk about information provided. Our
:18:48. > :18:51.authorities prepared to change how they share information on this
:18:52. > :18:56.subject? I think so, they had put a lot of work into it. The data has
:18:57. > :19:01.been coming in for a while. The rates of vaccination started to
:19:02. > :19:08.drop, from five, 7% each year, since 2008. A lot of work going on into
:19:09. > :19:15.figuring out how to overcome some of these ideas. What it is looking
:19:16. > :19:20.like, as in parallel situations elsewhere, not a quick and easy
:19:21. > :19:28.solution. A really long road. They have enlisted, help from people,
:19:29. > :19:37.they say the aim is to get more community leaders, to spread
:19:38. > :19:42.information. It is a long road, a long process, so giving people good
:19:43. > :19:49.information. Outside Source business. China's the guests online
:19:50. > :20:07.payment platform is looking to expand into the US. This new deal
:20:08. > :20:15.between Alipay, put it in the same sphere as Apple Pay. The Chinese
:20:16. > :20:20.billionaire who owns it has given the indication he wants to expand
:20:21. > :20:25.globally, eyeing the US, the world's biggest consumer market. In China,
:20:26. > :20:35.Alipay dominates the Chinese mobile payments. If the Faure into the US
:20:36. > :20:44.is successful, the hope is they can then expanded to other countries
:20:45. > :20:49.where they don't have a presence. -- if the move into the US is
:20:50. > :20:54.acceptable. They will be able to use it to hail cabs, but hotels. The
:20:55. > :20:59.retail sector in the US needs all the help we can get. Under severe
:21:00. > :21:07.pressure. I want to play you report on the issue. New York City, known
:21:08. > :21:14.for Broadway shows, great restaurants, and shopping. Oh, the
:21:15. > :21:20.shopping. There is a seismic shift happening in American retail. Even
:21:21. > :21:24.evident right here in the Big Apple. The red on the map shows the vacant
:21:25. > :21:30.storefronts in New York City. When they close they take jobs with them.
:21:31. > :21:35.New York City clothing stores have been shedding jobs for the last
:21:36. > :21:44.three years. Overall, the US economy has lost more than 90,000 retail
:21:45. > :21:51.jobs since October, 2016. There was too much square footage filter. Too
:21:52. > :21:55.much space, too much. Then we have the onset, 20 years ago of the
:21:56. > :22:00.Internet. A story repeating right across the US. This is what is left
:22:01. > :22:05.of the Hudson Valley more in upstate New York. The empty stores show the
:22:06. > :22:10.demise of the American shopping centre. Lunchtime, I'm in the food
:22:11. > :22:17.court. Normally it would be really busy. As you can see, rather quiet.
:22:18. > :22:23.This is what happens when the big department stores leave that they
:22:24. > :22:27.take the customers with them. In the last two years, both Macy's and
:22:28. > :22:33.JCPenney have closed their doors at the Hudson Valley malt. The future
:22:34. > :22:39.of Sears is looking rocky. Independent kiosks become collateral
:22:40. > :22:48.damage. The maul is getting slower. Almost every month. A lot of schools
:22:49. > :22:53.have left. We still have hope. In the absence of customers, hope maybe
:22:54. > :23:03.all he has. Although it is a hope shared by the new owners of the
:23:04. > :23:10.shopping all who believe they can turn it around. We already well
:23:11. > :23:17.ahead of the pace of closures ahead of the recession 2007, 2000 eight.
:23:18. > :23:21.This is truly a new phenomenon. In my opinion, it is going to continue
:23:22. > :23:27.to expand right through this year, into 2018. You think we will see
:23:28. > :23:34.more closing this year and next year? Yes. About one in every ten
:23:35. > :23:39.Americans working retail. This is an industry vital to the American
:23:40. > :23:48.economy. With more store closures leaving, it means more job losses.
:23:49. > :23:52.One question I had as I watched that, to what degree is this
:23:53. > :23:55.pressure on places like shopping moles is part of the way shopping
:23:56. > :24:03.habits are shifting from shops to websites? I mean, that is also a big
:24:04. > :24:12.part of the story. As you heard, you have these big giant shopping moles
:24:13. > :24:14.from all over the United States, it is the big, giant department stores
:24:15. > :24:18.able to set up in the shopping moles. Now people are going to those
:24:19. > :24:23.stores less, online has so much pressure. Heung-Min Son could
:24:24. > :24:28.overtake Macy's has the biggest clothing retailer. We are seeing
:24:29. > :24:31.people aren't going to the shopping moles, they are shutting down the
:24:32. > :24:38.non-performing stores, they happened to be part of JCPenney, Sears,
:24:39. > :24:43.Macy's. It is all interlinked, all coming down. Something we will see a
:24:44. > :24:51.lot more rough in the coming year or two. Donald Trump will be following
:24:52. > :24:56.those pressures very cleanly. What is the Trump administration's plan
:24:57. > :25:00.to boost the sector? Very important thing to talk about. We have heard
:25:01. > :25:07.nothing about the retail sector. Not on many people's radar as of yet. We
:25:08. > :25:14.heard a lot from the campaigning presidential candidate that solely
:25:15. > :25:18.about bringing back old jobs. We are talking about more jobs in the
:25:19. > :25:29.retail sector than industry. -- jobs in coal. One tweet I highlighted
:25:30. > :25:30.from JP Morgan. They are estimating that a quarter of all US shopping
:25:31. > :25:43.mall space for the -- space will be repurposed. We will
:25:44. > :25:50.turn to all the latest sports news. We have a statement from Fifa, on
:25:51. > :25:54.the rout concerning Sulley Muntari, the Ghanaian football. Caught up in
:25:55. > :25:56.a racism row in Italy. We will also have an update on the Champions
:25:57. > :26:00.League semifinal.