16/05/2017 Outside Source

I'm Ros Atkins with Outside Source. These are the main stories... The US

national security adviser has again defended Donald Trump's handling of

classified information. What the president discussed with the Foreign

Minister was wholly appropriate that conversation, and is consistent with

the routine sharing of information between the president and any

leaders with whom he is engaged. That was a few hours after President

Trump had tweeted that he was quite right to share that information with

Russia. There is growing suspicion that North is behind last week's

global cyber attack. We will play you a report of a small Pacific

island that should be paradise, but instead has become a dumping ground

for 17 tonnes of litter and plastic. And an Outside Source sport, we have

a new Dan Roan report on the battle to host the 2024 Olympics.

Now, as I was just mentioning, there is growing suspicion that North

Korea was behind last week's global cyber attack. A number of people

have been looking at some of the code. This was shared by a Google

researcher, clearly I can't explain it, but he is telling us it is a

sample of the code used by the hackers in the attack. Lots of

people who know more about these things than me spotted similarities

to a previous cyber attack, namely the attack on Sony Pictures. It came

just ahead of the release of the film The Interview, based around the

assassination of Kim Jong-un, a comedy. That attack was carried out

why the Lazarus Group, a criminal organisation with no links to North

Korea. So we climb and gives an assessment. The manhunt is on to try

and find the who was responsible. One of the clues is analysing the

code that has been found in this ransomware. It seems to be similar

to an earlier form of malware that was used by the Lazarus Group a few

years ago. You may not have heard of them, but they are best known, their

notoriety if you like is that they were supposed to be behind the Sony

pictures hack, which was massive in 2014. They have links to North

Korea. North Korea of course has denied all of this. There are other

clues that might suggest other things. Another expert is saying the

way that the ransomware demand was written, the one that was written in

Chinese felt like the Miz in terms of the tone of the language. Perhaps

it was somebody either in China or from China. There are all sorts of

theories bouncing about. Another thing that everybody wants to do is

follow the money. All of this money has gone into these three Bitcoin

wallets and it has not been touched. The eyes of the world on these

wallets. Who is going to take that money out? The way that Bitcoin is

set up, there is no easy way to know who has access to those wallets. It

is a much more anomalous forms and saying, I want a ransom, here are my

bank account the towels -- anonymous form. This hasn't worked out quite

right. Normally a ransomware gang would have a different Bitcoin

account, is one that, kind of like a bank account for each demand. The

idea is that everybody puts in their few hundred dollars, ?200, they

empty the account, it disappears and the money is gone. This hasn't

happened in this case. What is fascinating for those who are

searching for this people, what does this mean? Is this gang not one of

the professionals? Have they not done this before's has it got out of

hand's it looks like it is possible there were meant to be more wallets

but they were not set up in time. Does that make it easier or harder

to find them? If they are not very professional, might they split up

again? But nobody knows who they are. They are totally out there in

the wild. While this manhunt is going on, lots of different

countries and corporations are working out how to improve their

defences. Right, the big lesson that has come out of all of this is that

you ignore security patches that Rob Burrow. All of the IT people are

having a field day and saying, we have been warning the three years --

ignored security patches at your peril. Everybody is learning to be

more prepared. This is not sophisticated malware, it took

advantage of an exploit that had been made public, that is how these

things work. The fact that it is on such an impressive than to scale has

been a huge wake-up call for the world. -- an unprecedented scale.

Let's begin Outside Source sport by talking about the two countries

vying to hold the 2024 Summer Olympics. We have Los Angeles versus

Paris. Paris's bid has just received a major boost. The new president,

Emmanuel Macron, said he supports the bid and he will travel to the

IOC headquarters in Switzerland in July when these two cities will make

their final cases. The BBC Sport editor Dan Roan has been looking at

this story. Here is his latest report. He is just three days into

the job, but France's new president has wasted little time in backing

Paris's bid to host the 2024 Olympic Games. Welcoming members of the

International Olympic Committee to be Italy's a palace on the final day

of their inspection committee. Paris has committed to spending billions

of the event, the city mayor told me why. It will transform Paris, with

the village and after the games, a village for the athletes will be

housing for people, and we need housing for people in the north of

Paris. So we are very, very committed. Sport's showpiece event

always divides magical moments. But the sight of Rio 2016's abandoned

Olympic Park has once again raised questions over legacy and the vast

cost of playing host means the games have an image problem. I will be

right here in the city of Angels, watching the Olympics. Despite all

of this, Los Angeles also wants to host the games. Its bid is privately

financed, with the venues already built. Mike Harris, it has received

Wawrinka rays from the IOC. -- like Paris. Things that you point to a

budget issues and engaging youth, those things literally go away. It

becomes the Liverpool as part of our bid. There are challenges facing the

Olympic movement, we can combo waters for seven years, that is

exactly what they need. -- calm the waters. The IOC has become

accustomed to being courted by heads of state. But this evaluation

commission will only decide between two rival cities after a host of

others pulled out of the race due to a lack of public or political

support. It could force the IOC into one charted territory. Whichever

city losers look set to be offered the 2020 eight games as a

consolation prize, as the IOC considers an unprecedented two games

deal in September to avoid the risk of having no bidders. It is

something that we all have to look at and have to figure out why that,

you know, how events are not maybe as attractive as they were 20 or 30

years ago. We should always be challenging ourselves as to how we

can make these events is more appropriate for local communities.

We do need to communicate some of those values, and I'm not sure that,

you know, I'm not sure any of us have really done that. This two

horse race seems too close to call. Paris and Alejandro is that the

Olympics before and insist their focus is solely on the 2024 games --

and LA. But at a critical time for the future of the event, the IOC

knows that the race is on to provide a solution. Last night on sport we

were talking about how Roger Federer will not be given to the French

Open. To that list you can add Borre Sharapova. She has not been offered

the wild card. There was a lot of interest in this because it was the

first Major she could have competed in since her debut band. The

organisers were never giving her too much hope. -- doping ban. The head

of the French tennis Federation put it this way, this is not a rock

opera, meaning that Sharapova would not be getting any favours because

she is a big name. So it has proved. Let's bring in Mick McCormac. What

is the process that goes into deciding whether Maria Sharapova

gets a wild card or not? There is a long, long meeting between all of

the tennis officials. But ultimately what they had to decide he was, was

her form warranted to get her in here, or were they going to bypass

the fact that she had come back from a doping test? It was a principled

decision that the tennis Federation took in France, because they said

that while the fans were disappointed and character of might

be disappointed, he had to take a

strong, principled decision against doping in sport -- Sharapova might

be disappointed. She was ranked outside the top 200 after the 15

month ban. The long and short of it is that she didn't have the form and

it would have given the wrong message for the French tennis

Federation to allow her to walk in there without having done the

legwork. That is the long and short of it, really. What about Wimbledon?

Interestingly, the last hour or so just from now, Sharapova has

withdrawn from the Italian open in the second round of her game against

Baroni. She was up in the third set but she has retired. She had her

left thigh heavily strapped. Really interesting to follow that, we will

be across it. If she hasn't made the semifinals in Rome she would have

qualified automatically for the main draw of Wimbledon. So now it is up

to her to qualified through the tournament in south London. She has

made it harder for herself. Interesting to note as well but

maybe Wimbledon would have watched what the French tennis Federation

would have done with their decision. Because they too can still offer her

a wild card away from all of this qualifying, but the president might

have just been set in Paris. Their re-entry in, thank you, Nick. Next

on Outside Source we have two bits of incredible footage -- very

intriguing. This is from the wind Surf slalom world tour. This event

is taking place in Japan at a place called Suki Harmer Beach. This

particular discipline involves these guys going very, very fast around a

series of set for yous. It is not dissimilar to races you would have

seen. You imagined they would be invited back.

A French man won the mens rea is. The next leg is in Spain. That

itself is impressive. Stick a windsurf on some snow, also in

Japan, this is what you get. I've never seen anything like this before

today. This guy is from the US, he is a professional windsurfer who

also snowboards. He has put two and two together. This is now crush here

in Japan, the mind really boggles as you watch this. -- this is a

mountain in Japan. Hitting the speed is going down the mountain, just

incredible. Very impressive, isn't it? I have a new report from David

Shukman, the BBC's science editor. He has been in Jordan because the

king of Jordan has just opened a new science laboratory, and it is an

impressive collaboration, certainly by the Middle East standards. In a

rare show of unity we have Jordanian, Iranian, Israeli and

Palestinian scientists all working together on this one project which

is a particle accelerator which can then act as a powerful microscope.

I'll let David explained. I'm in Jordan at a new research

centre called Sesame and around me is a machine called a Synchrotron

that acts as an incredibly There are some 60 of

these around the world, everything from pharmaceuticals

to plants to ancient remains. This is the first to be built

here in the Middle East. What's the big deal,

you might think. Well, listen to some of the

countries involved in this project. There's Jordan, of course,

Egypt, Turkey, Cyprus, Iran and, amazingly,

Israel as well. One of the people who has been

steering this project to fruition is the British physicist Chris

Llewellyn-Smith. How amazed are you, given the sort

of countries involved, given how hostile they can be

to each other, that here you are today, the thing

is starting to work? The scientists involved in Sesame

overlook the politics. They work together as scientists,

producing a facility If it's a time of particular tension

in the region, of course, they can feel a bit uncomfortable

but nothing serious has happened. Did you ever wake up in the morning,

hear the news of some new conflict in the Middle East,

a new source of tension and think, surely, the various partners

will have to walk away now? Not really, because I understood,

meeting them, that they want this to happen, at least at the level

of the scientists. The real problem has

been finding the money. The countries in this region have

science budgets that you can hardly see with a microscope,

most of them. There have been many times

in the history of this project where a rational person would have

said, let's give up, but it seemed important to keep

going and here we are today. We're launching the project,

albeit with minimal supporting infrastructure, but it's

going to work, it's Do you have to pinch

yourselves, now and again, I suppose so, but that would sound

a little bit arrogant. Chris Llewellyn-Smith there,

thanks very much indeed. So the real test comes now

when teams of Iranian, Israeli, Palestinian,

Turkish scientists, all come here to use the facility and it's

meant to run for many years. Well, that the story to inspire us.

In a few minutes we will turn to a story that has made many hearts

heavy, a celebrated Mexican journalist was shot dead in the

street yesterday. He had been reporting on drug cartels. We will

have a report on that from Mexico City.

Greater Manchester Police say the death of the Moors murderer,

Ian Brady, won't stop them looking for the remains of Keith Bennett,

who was the only one of his five child victims never found.

Brady, and his partner Myra Hindley , abducted

the 12-year-old in 1964, and refused to say

His name will always be notorious, his face the image of evil,

his crimes amongst the worst of the 20th Century -

He took children and tortured them, and brought their bodies high up

On the desolate Moors, the police spent years

Brady's accomplice was his girlfriend, Myra Hindley,

Brady's death closes a chapter of criminal history.

The youngest, Lesley Ann Downey, was just ten years old.

At their trial, the pair were met with public jeers.

Sentenced to life, Brady was at first taken to prison.

But in 1985, he was transferred

to Ashworth, a high-security hospital.

In one, he claimed to feel remorse, but he never showed any sympathy

to the family of 12-year-old Keith Bennett, whose

It consumed the life of his mother, Winnie Johnson, who spoke

I want it coming to an end, and I want Keith found.

When I found out that I'd got cancer, and I said,

"I want to know where Keith is before anything happens to me."

Winnie often went to the Moors, and never gave up hope

The police say that virtually every week someone gets in touch

purporting to be able to lead them to Keith, but they're not actively

They say though that they'll never close the case,

and Ian Brady's death doesn't change that.

Yesterday, knowing his death was imminent, Brady called his

I don't think there was anything he really knew or had any

information that would assist in the location of

Did Brady say anything which would give the families

Today, a coroner said that Brady's ashes must not be

taken his Saddleworth secret to the grave -

I'm Ros Atkins an Outside Source, live in the BBC newsroom. Our lead

story is that Donald Trump has been defending his decision to share

intelligence with the Russian Foreign Minister. His national

security adviser says that no sources were compromised. Next on

Outside Source, I want to turn to a very important story in Nigeria. The

issue of kidnapping. The country is suffering its worst economic crisis

in decades, and that is having a knock-on effect in this particular

type of crime. In Lagos alone, more than 50 kidnappings were reported

last year, but analysts think the true figure was far higher because

kidnappings go unreported as families pay ransom is rather than

involving the police. The BBC has spoken to for people who have been

kidnapped recently. These are their stories.

There was a bullet, shooting, shooting. They killed one of my

security guys. They even shot one of my wives

They took us to a creek, we were beaten with machetes. We thought it

was the end. It was like a forest. There was water, mosquitoes were our

friends there. And the snakes. Next on Outside Source, I want to

talk about Javier Valdez. He was an award-winning journalist who was

known far beyond Mexico. He reported on organised crime there, and he

paid for his work with his life. Yesterday he was gunned down, his

body was found on the bill of the street in the city where his

newspaper was based -- in the middle of the street. These pictures were

of the scene of the shooting, afterwards you can see the body

lying in the street. Unfortunately this was not a surprise. He had

received many death threats greyhound grenade was thrown into

his office several years ago. -- a hand grenade. He is the sixth

journalist to be killed in Mexico this year. I talked to the BBC

reporter in Mexico City about the man who had died. Have EA was a

veteran journalist here when it comes to reporting on organised

crime -- have VA. He was based in the state of Sinaloa, many people

have heard of it because it was the El Chapo state where the Sinaloa

cartel was based, a very violent state. He knew what he was doing in

refusing to back down covering organised crime, it was putting him

in grave danger. I want to read something that he said in an

acceptance speech for an international press freedom award.

He said, my work is dangerous to be alive, to do journalism is to walk

an invisible line drawn by the bad guys in drug trafficking and the

government. He knew that he was very respected in the journalistic

community here and internationally, but was making himself a lot of

enemies. I know there is talk of investigations both into his murder

and other murders, but in reality, isn't the government impotent to

these crimes? Absolutely. I mean, for all of the tweaks that the

president may put out, there is very full hope here. That is because this

isn't a new situation. -- very good for hope. Boilers against

journalists has been going on for years. By some estimates --

violence. Over 100 journalists have been killed since the year 2000, and

the vast majority of cases have not seen any justice. The impunity that

is seen over and over again in these attacks sends a message that you can

do whatever you want to journalists without any repercussions. So

people, journalists here are reaching breaking point where they

are trying to figure out what to do. Because they don't trust the

government to deal with this. They often think the government is

implicit in these crimes, and there is often evidence to prove that. Two

publications today actually refused to publish, as a sign of protest.

There is a vigilant call tonight. A lot of uncertainty about what is

done, the expectation really is that these kind of attacks will continue.

This is South America, that is Henderson Island, an uninhabited

island in the South Pacific, it has been nicknamed plastic island after

38 million items washed up on it. Victoria Gill has more.

3,000 miles from the mainland, a remote paradise that's

Its beaches are now more densely polluted with plastic

Henderson Island is home only to South Pacific seabirds

and marine wildlife, and, with no human inhabitants,

But an international team of researchers

who visited and studied the island calculated that 17 tonnes

of our litter, washed or dumped into rivers and oceans,

Dr Alex Bond saw the devastation up close.

We looked across the beaches in a variety of different plots

and counted the pieces of plastic on the surface and down

to about ten centimetres, and from that we were able

to extrapolate the area of the beaches, that's how we came

up with our estimate of about 38 million

It's really shocking, because, as you step along the beach,

the plastic is absolutely everywhere, no place is without it.

That report ends this edition of Outside Source. Thanks for watching.

I'll see you tomorrow.