:00:10. > :00:11.Hello, I'm Ros Atkins, this is Outside Source.
:00:12. > :00:16.Part of Donald Trump's travel ban will come into force.
:00:17. > :00:19.The Supreme Court has ruled that a 90-day ban on people travelling
:00:20. > :00:23.from six muslim majority countries can apply in some circumstances.
:00:24. > :00:25.Iraqi forces are closing in on so called Islamic State
:00:26. > :00:28.in the heart of Mosul - one commander has said the battle
:00:29. > :00:45.The fight here is that extremely close quarters. This is the most
:00:46. > :00:48.forward position the Iraqi troops have. They tell us the nearest IS
:00:49. > :00:52.emplacement is just 50 metres away. Two and a half weeks
:00:53. > :00:54.after the UK general election, Theresa May finally has a deal that
:00:55. > :00:57.will allow her to get Her Conservative Party will be
:00:58. > :01:01.supported by Northern Ireland's The Nobel peace laureate,
:01:02. > :01:05.Liu Xiaobo, has been released from prison
:01:06. > :01:07.by the Chinese authorities. But that's only after
:01:08. > :01:20.he was diagnosed with We will also update you on what
:01:21. > :01:23.North Korea has been saying in response to a South Korean
:01:24. > :01:36.invitation to co-host the 2018 Winter Olympics.
:01:37. > :01:45.We have covered the story many times in the last three years.
:01:46. > :01:50.Back in 2014 the Islamic State group seized the whole city.
:01:51. > :01:56.In October Iraqi forces mounted an offensive to retake it.
:01:57. > :02:02.These are the maps we have been collecting along the way. You can
:02:03. > :02:07.see how the territory marked in red controlled by IS has got smaller and
:02:08. > :02:12.smaller and smaller as the months have gone by. Now we have this map,
:02:13. > :02:17.provided by the Iraqi military I should say, this area is still
:02:18. > :02:18.controlled by IS, we estimate it to be 2.5 square kilometres in the
:02:19. > :02:20.centre of Mosul. The BBC's team of Orla Guerin,
:02:21. > :02:23.Nico Hameon, Bader Catty and Rich Stacey, have exclusive
:02:24. > :02:34.access to the battle area. GUNFIRE
:02:35. > :02:42.Heading to the front line in Mosul. You have to run. And beware of
:02:43. > :02:51.snipers, troops from Iraq's emergency response division are
:02:52. > :03:02.advancing every day. The target here, the hospital complex. We move
:03:03. > :03:07.deeper into the battle, getting a chance to see how the fight is being
:03:08. > :03:13.taken to the so-called Islamic State. Urban warfare at its most
:03:14. > :03:21.intimate. Near enough to throw a hand grenade. Then this.
:03:22. > :03:30.Well, the fight here is that extremely close quarters. This is
:03:31. > :03:35.the most forward position the Iraqi troops have. They tell us the
:03:36. > :03:39.nearest IS position is just 15 metres away and when they are firing
:03:40. > :03:40.here at the distance is so small that sometimes they can see the
:03:41. > :03:56.faces of the IS militants. The troops here, mostly young,
:03:57. > :04:03.determined to end a reign of terror. Daesh came and killed civilians,
:04:04. > :04:10.says Harley. They destroyed life in the city. Our duty is to bring Mosul
:04:11. > :04:14.back to life -- Ali. Here is the hospital building where commanders
:04:15. > :04:23.say about 200 foreign militants are holed up, including some Britons.
:04:24. > :04:28."That's what our intelligence tells us," says the kernel. "We also heard
:04:29. > :04:35.them speaking on the radio, we can tell their nationality from that."
:04:36. > :04:41.Iraqi drones monitor their movements if they dare to move at all. Here
:04:42. > :04:45.militants run from building to building in the vast medical complex
:04:46. > :04:50.looking for a cover. Commanders tell us there are French, Russians and
:04:51. > :04:52.Chechens here as well as the British. They say there are three
:04:53. > :05:01.senior IS leaders along with them trapped below ground. Now that the
:05:02. > :05:06.caliphate is turning to ash their positions, being pounded from above,
:05:07. > :05:12.with a series of air strikes. We counted three in an hour. It's the
:05:13. > :05:19.final push against an enemy that once controlled the third of Iraq.
:05:20. > :05:23.Orla Guerin, BBC News, Mosul. Often when the Islamic State group
:05:24. > :05:24.is under pressure it launches counterattacks. That's also been
:05:25. > :05:27.seen in Mosul in recent days. For more on this I spoke
:05:28. > :05:33.with Rasha Qandeel from BBC Arabic. She has been taking me through the
:05:34. > :05:35.latest counteroffensive is that we have seen.
:05:36. > :05:41.This tactic has been used before, the counterattacks by the what is
:05:42. > :05:46.called Islamic State, it has been used before, the highest scale in
:05:47. > :05:50.2016. The tactic is as follows. When they feel really surrounded and
:05:51. > :05:53.targeted and they don't know where to go they go underground, use
:05:54. > :05:58.tunnels and appear somewhere else. This has been used before. The only
:05:59. > :06:01.problem about this with Islamic State is they have lots of foreign
:06:02. > :06:05.fighters amongst them and these people cannot mingle with civilians
:06:06. > :06:10.because they will look different. So most of those are trying to escape
:06:11. > :06:14.through those tunnels to go to Syria, and probably this is the
:06:15. > :06:18.point where they will have to do this. If they do that, the number
:06:19. > :06:21.remaining of the fighters will be very limited and then they can be
:06:22. > :06:24.targeted more easily. Are there are civilians in the area
:06:25. > :06:30.still controlled by IS? A lot of them and this number,
:06:31. > :06:35.whether it's the 800 metres or one kilometre to 1.5 kilometres, have
:06:36. > :06:39.tens of thousands of Syrians according to the UN in Iraq, and
:06:40. > :06:43.this will mean that if the same weapons have been used by the
:06:44. > :06:51.coalition, which is basically heavy weapons, air force coverage, this is
:06:52. > :06:54.non-selective weapons so basically they will target everyone, destroy
:06:55. > :06:58.the whole area and this will have a huge risk on the civilians there in
:06:59. > :07:01.the region. What is the Iraqi government saying
:07:02. > :07:04.about its tactics, bearing in mind all of these people that are in the
:07:05. > :07:08.middle of it? What they said before in East Mosul
:07:09. > :07:13.that was much easier to fight than in West Mosul, they say they will
:07:14. > :07:16.differentiate between civilians and fighters and open safe passages for
:07:17. > :07:23.civilians but if you look at it it's very difficult to do that, given
:07:24. > :07:26.that everywhere else is basically like it's under siege. Even if
:07:27. > :07:29.civilians managed to try and get out of the passages there is no
:07:30. > :07:33.guarantee there will not be fighters amongst them, there is no guarantee
:07:34. > :07:36.they will not be used by any side of the fighting. What the Iraqi
:07:37. > :07:40.government is saying is wishful thinking but on the ground it is
:07:41. > :07:45.difficult to achieve. Some of the civilians caught up in
:07:46. > :07:48.the fighting in Iraq. We know that the fighting in Iraq and
:07:49. > :07:52.neighbouring Syria has led to millions of people fleeing into
:07:53. > :07:55.neighbouring countries like Lebanon. We are going to look at the
:07:56. > :07:59.experience of one family which has had to do that and look at the issue
:08:00. > :08:03.of medical care. The UN says covering all of the costs of medical
:08:04. > :08:05.care that refugees need is proving incredibly hard.
:08:06. > :08:07.The BBC's Lina Sinjab spoke with one family
:08:08. > :08:14.of Syrian refugees, whose son is being treated for cancer.
:08:15. > :08:17.It is playtime for Ammash Ammash, but his playground
:08:18. > :08:21.At four years old, he has been receiving chemotherapy for most
:08:22. > :08:35.The doctor tries to cheer him up, while doing a regular checkup.
:08:36. > :08:47.Ammash and his family come from Minbij, in war-torn Aleppo.
:08:48. > :08:49.His father works as a handyman and hardly makes enough
:08:50. > :09:02.He tells me that the UN doesn't cover cancer treatment and he has
:09:03. > :09:05.been seeking NGOs' help for the last two weeks.
:09:06. > :09:08.Making only $500 a month, he says that having to pay $330 each
:09:09. > :09:17.week for his son's chemo just isn't possible.
:09:18. > :09:21.Ammash's treatment so far has been provided by a small
:09:22. > :09:29.Relying on donations from individuals, they are often
:09:30. > :09:31.faced with tough financial decisions, like having
:09:32. > :09:38.Dr Layal Issa is one of the volunteers who established Karma.
:09:39. > :09:42.Actually, we are their only hope for having the chance to live,
:09:43. > :09:50.to survive their battle with this cancer.
:09:51. > :09:53.You have lost children you have treated?
:09:54. > :10:00.Yes, the last one was a little girl, Farah, she was two years old.
:10:01. > :10:04.She had neuroblastoma, we covered her treatment,
:10:05. > :10:06.but she relapsed and, at some point, we ran out
:10:07. > :10:11.of funds for her so we had to stop her treatment,
:10:12. > :10:16.so she had to get back to Syria to get treatment
:10:17. > :10:20.there but unfortunately, she passed away.
:10:21. > :10:23.Going back to Syria would be the last resort for Ammash,
:10:24. > :10:29.There are almost no cancer medication left in the country.
:10:30. > :10:33.Ammash, although born in Syria, has no memory of his own country
:10:34. > :10:36.and has never seen the war that has torn it apart.
:10:37. > :10:42.If money can be found, if he survives cancer,
:10:43. > :10:45.he will still face the uncertain future of every Syrian -
:10:46. > :10:53.waiting for the day they can return home.
:10:54. > :11:00.Lina Sinjab, BBC News, Beirut. Background information on the
:11:01. > :11:05.conflicts in Syria and Iraq available whenever you want to
:11:06. > :11:10.access it on the BBC News website. Earlier in the programme we spoke to
:11:11. > :11:14.Anthony in our Washington newsroom and we will go back to him shortly
:11:15. > :11:19.because we have breaking news. The Congressional Budget Office is
:11:20. > :11:24.estimating that 22 million Americans will be uninsured in 2026 under the
:11:25. > :11:29.health care bill that is being proposed by the Republicans,
:11:30. > :11:31.considered by the Senate as a replacement for ObamaCare. Let's
:11:32. > :11:35.bringing Anthony who is digesting all of this in Washington.
:11:36. > :11:42.This is similar to be estimates we saw with the last version of the
:11:43. > :11:46.health care rebels, isn't it? Exactly, the bill in the House of
:11:47. > :11:49.Representatives you mentioned, the estimate on that bill said there
:11:50. > :11:56.would be 23 million additional uninsured as of 2026, difference of
:11:57. > :12:00.only 1 million Americans, and if you remember Donald Trump in a meeting
:12:01. > :12:06.with Republicans reportedly called that house Bill too mean, and here
:12:07. > :12:12.we have a Senate bill that will result in an equal number, or a
:12:13. > :12:15.close to equal number of uninsured. It does have greater financial
:12:16. > :12:23.savings than the house Bill. The estimate says 202 billion more than
:12:24. > :12:29.the house bill estimated in net savings, the total savings over the
:12:30. > :12:32.next nine years in the Senate bill would be $321 billion, primarily
:12:33. > :12:36.from significant cuts in Medicaid, the health insurance programme for
:12:37. > :12:44.the poor. There is a 26% reduction according to the CBO in medicated
:12:45. > :12:47.spending, a fairly significant decrease when you consider the fact
:12:48. > :12:50.that the American population is growing and health care costs are
:12:51. > :12:54.rising. Does this change the arithmetic in
:12:55. > :12:59.the Senate as we go towards a vote? It's going to make it very difficult
:13:00. > :13:05.for some of the senators who have a large number of residents of their
:13:06. > :13:12.estates on the Medicaid rolls to support this bill, people like Susan
:13:13. > :13:15.Collins of Maine, Alaska, Nevada, those are all considered if the
:13:16. > :13:21.votes, and I don't think this will help them at all. The CBO estimates
:13:22. > :13:24.said they would be 50 million additional Americans in 2018 who
:13:25. > :13:29.don't have health insurance but lots of those Americans will not be
:13:30. > :13:33.forced to buy Americans stomach insurance. Obama force all Americans
:13:34. > :13:38.to have health care, have health insurance. The Senate is already
:13:39. > :13:42.changing their bill to create an incentive for Americans to buy
:13:43. > :13:45.health insurance, if they cannot get back onto the health insurance
:13:46. > :13:50.market for six months if they let it lapse. These changes might affect
:13:51. > :13:52.these numbers somewhat. It is a moving target, you'll hear from
:13:53. > :13:55.Republicans that they are not done and they will take into
:13:56. > :13:59.consideration the plan and hopefully get the moderate Senators back on
:14:00. > :14:02.board. Anthony, on the face of it, making
:14:03. > :14:07.the case for millions of Americans losing health care is not an easy
:14:08. > :14:10.case to make that the Republicans will believe this is the best thing
:14:11. > :14:16.for Americans and America so what is the argument? The argument
:14:17. > :14:18.Republicans are making is that there is a famous of waste in the Medicaid
:14:19. > :14:23.programme for the poor and they would rather take the money and give
:14:24. > :14:27.it to states and do with it as they see fit and not have it be a federal
:14:28. > :14:29.government programme that is setup, the guidelines by the federal
:14:30. > :14:34.government, where it could not be suited for individual populations.
:14:35. > :14:38.The reason why there is such a steep decrease in Medicaid funding over
:14:39. > :14:41.the next ten years in the Republican plan is because they want to hand
:14:42. > :14:45.off this obligation to the states to manage, they say that is a much
:14:46. > :14:49.better way to go about it and they want to decrease taxes which they
:14:50. > :14:51.say will help the economy and get Americans back to work. They have a
:14:52. > :14:55.different perspective from the Democrats and certainly a different
:14:56. > :14:58.perspective from the Democrats who instituted ObamaCare who were
:14:59. > :15:03.looking at driving up the total number of Americans who had health
:15:04. > :15:07.insurance. I don't think we will get you back in the next hour but you
:15:08. > :15:10.never know. Thank you for joining us. Just to reiterate what Anthony
:15:11. > :15:14.was talking about, the breaking news that the Congressional Budget Office
:15:15. > :15:18.has estimated that 22 million Americans would be uninsured for
:15:19. > :15:24.health care by 2026 under the Senate health bill being considered. It
:15:25. > :15:27.would replace ObamaCare where it to be voted through. It hasn't been
:15:28. > :15:31.voted through yet, as Anthony explained, and the numbers are tight
:15:32. > :15:34.but this estimate from the Congressional Budget Office says 22
:15:35. > :15:39.million Americans by 2026 without insurance because of these reforms
:15:40. > :15:42.being brought in. In a few minutes on Outside Source we will talk to
:15:43. > :15:48.you about a story from China, Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo, has
:15:49. > :15:49.been released from a Chinese prison, but only after he was diagnosed with
:15:50. > :16:03.terminal cancer. The former MP who called for an
:16:04. > :16:05.inquiry after a fire in his constituency in 1999 has said
:16:06. > :16:09.authorities in England didn't take his recommendations into
:16:10. > :16:12.consideration. Brian Donohoe represented an area in Ayrshire
:16:13. > :16:16.where a man was killed in a high-rise fire.
:16:17. > :16:22.The fire in this 14 story high-rise in Irving in 1999 left one man dead
:16:23. > :16:29.and five others injured. The blaze started on the fourth floor of the
:16:30. > :16:34.cladding caught fire. The local MP called for a Parliamentary inquiry.
:16:35. > :16:37.I had surgeries that woeful afterwards by people who wanted to
:16:38. > :16:43.get out of these flats as soon as was possible. It was understood
:16:44. > :16:46.there were a number of properties of a similar nature in other parts of
:16:47. > :16:49.Scotland, I will not name them, but they were changed as well, the
:16:50. > :16:55.cladding taken away that was causing the problem. After the fire in 1999
:16:56. > :16:58.the inquiry was held by the environment committee at Westminster
:16:59. > :17:03.and reported in the year 2000. The building Scotland Act received Royal
:17:04. > :17:08.assent in 2003 and regulations published in 2004 and came into
:17:09. > :17:13.force the next year. In 1999 when there was a very tragic fire in
:17:14. > :17:18.Ferri it led to a revisiting of regulations that meant that all
:17:19. > :17:21.cladding in high-rise dwellings had to be noncombustible. It became
:17:22. > :17:26.mandatory that every building must be designed and constructed in such
:17:27. > :17:30.a way that the spread of fire on the external walls of the building is
:17:31. > :17:35.inhibited. The Scottish Government has said no local authority or
:17:36. > :17:38.housing association high-rise flats in Scotland used the cladding
:17:39. > :17:41.installed on Grenfell Tower. Brian Donohoe believes that English
:17:42. > :17:48.authorities failed the people who lived there. It really does stick in
:17:49. > :17:52.my cruel, having done the inquiry, there was one in 1995 that was
:17:53. > :17:58.exactly the same situation and there has been others since, and yet
:17:59. > :18:01.government, I think, were remiss in their responsibilities and duties to
:18:02. > :18:10.the people that were there in these properties. We're not going to have
:18:11. > :18:13.a situation where there is any blame put on my shoulders, I have a clear
:18:14. > :18:18.conscience but there must be people going to bed at night without that,
:18:19. > :18:22.I have to say that. There will be further investigations into the
:18:23. > :18:24.safety of all aspects of Scottish high-rises and a Holyrood committee
:18:25. > :18:26.will take evidence in September after the Parliamentary recess.
:18:27. > :18:37.Katrina Renton, BBC News. This is Outside Source live
:18:38. > :18:39.from the BBC newsroom. Donald Trump is hailing the US
:18:40. > :18:50.Supreme Court's decision to implement parts of his travel ban
:18:51. > :18:56.as a victory for national security. New Zealand have won
:18:57. > :19:02.this America's Cup. They beat the reigning
:19:03. > :19:15.champions Oracle Team USA - I am not Mystic Meg but I thought I
:19:16. > :19:19.worked this one out, team Oracle looked far too strong. Going back
:19:20. > :19:23.for years they were not too strong, at the time the same teams went up
:19:24. > :19:28.against each other and it was 8- wanted Emirates team New Zealand and
:19:29. > :19:33.they lost 9-8, in 2013, Jimmy spit Hill who was the captain of team
:19:34. > :19:36.Oracle USA, he became the youngest ever skipper of an America's Cup
:19:37. > :19:42.team. Vizier Pieter Bulling, 26 years of age, he has won an Olympic
:19:43. > :19:48.gold medal as well. There he is on the left. -- Pieter Bulling. The
:19:49. > :19:51.most interesting thing to come out of this, instead of using grinders
:19:52. > :19:58.as initially stomach normally in sailing, they have cyclers,
:19:59. > :20:02.something brand-new that came into the sport with Emirates team New
:20:03. > :20:06.Zealand. It is remarkable when you look at what happened. The man who
:20:07. > :20:11.came in, Simon Van Pelt Hoven who won an Olympic medal in 2012 in
:20:12. > :20:14.London, all of a sudden becomes a track cyclist medallist and all of a
:20:15. > :20:18.sudden he has won the America's Cup. This is the oldest event in sporting
:20:19. > :20:24.history going back to 1857 and the trophy is ever so slightly bigger
:20:25. > :20:27.than the NHL Stanley cup, so what a trophy to lift. Interesting to hear
:20:28. > :20:29.you mention the fact cyclists are getting involved because there was
:20:30. > :20:32.discussion before this about whether the system would work. You would
:20:33. > :20:37.suspect that that will cross over to being the norm. YouGov act in 1983
:20:38. > :20:43.when Australia won it with the winged keel, something quite
:20:44. > :20:48.remarkable. That was taken on board by teams further on. It is
:20:49. > :20:51.transitional when you look at what is happening in sailing and you
:20:52. > :20:54.would expect people will look at this in the future because clearly
:20:55. > :20:57.it has worked. They have won it ever so easily. Thank you for joining us.
:20:58. > :20:59.I will speak to you during the week. John McEnroe has claimed
:21:00. > :21:03.Serena Williams would be ranked 700 in the world if she played
:21:04. > :21:12.on the men's circuit. McEnroe had said Serena
:21:13. > :21:15.was the best women's player ever but when asked why he felt the need
:21:16. > :21:23.to say best "female player ever" - If she played the men's circuit she
:21:24. > :21:27.would be like 700 in the world. That doesn't mean I think I don't think
:21:28. > :21:32.Serena Williams is an incredible player, I do, but the reality of
:21:33. > :21:36.what happened on a given day as Serena Williams competes, I believe,
:21:37. > :21:41.because she is so incredibly strong mentally. If she had to just play
:21:42. > :21:44.the men's circuit that would be an entirely different story. Maybe at
:21:45. > :21:51.some point a women's tennis player can be better than anybody. I just
:21:52. > :21:56.haven't seen it in any other sport and I haven't seen it in tennis. I'm
:21:57. > :21:58.not sure what point he is trying to make but there you go, I will let
:21:59. > :22:00.you make your own mind up. North Korea has refused
:22:01. > :22:02.an offer from South Korea, Here's the head of the
:22:03. > :22:13.North's Olympic Committee. TRANSLATION: People keep asking
:22:14. > :22:20.about co-hosting the PyeongChang Winter Olympics as we have the ski
:22:21. > :22:23.resort, however, as an expert of the Olympic Games I think it is a little
:22:24. > :22:28.bit too late. That's easier said than done. The practical problems
:22:29. > :22:30.are not that simple. Let's talk about the Nobel Peace Laureate Liu
:22:31. > :22:32.Xiaobo. In 2009 he was sentenced to 11 years
:22:33. > :22:35.in prison for organising a petition calling for an end to one-party
:22:36. > :22:41.rule in China. Today he was released
:22:42. > :22:43.from a prison hospital - only after being diagnosed
:22:44. > :22:54.with terminal liver cancer. The release from jail of China's
:22:55. > :22:58.winner of the Nobel Peace Prize is absolutely huge news for this
:22:59. > :23:02.country, not that most people here will hear about it, though, because
:23:03. > :23:07.discussion about this world-famous activist is blocked in the state-run
:23:08. > :23:11.media. Liu Xiaobo has been allowed to leave prison following a
:23:12. > :23:16.diagnosis of late stage terminal liver cancer. In fact, he's been in
:23:17. > :23:21.a hospital in the north-east of the country for five weeks now. Liu
:23:22. > :23:24.Xiaobo has been a constant thorn in the side of the Chinese Communist
:23:25. > :23:29.party since his involvement in the student movement in 1989 in and
:23:30. > :23:36.around Tiananmen Square. But when he and others got together and put
:23:37. > :23:39.together a manifesto called Charter 08, with a specific plan to overhaul
:23:40. > :23:43.the government this was too much for the authorities here and they put
:23:44. > :23:49.him behind bars for attempting to subvert state power.
:23:50. > :23:55.TRANSLATION: As an honest intellectual with self-respect it
:23:56. > :23:58.was inevitable that I would write something which is
:23:59. > :24:01.antiestablishment. Following the Tiananmen Square crackdown Liu
:24:02. > :24:06.Xiaobo was offered asylum inside the Australian embassy, but when he got
:24:07. > :24:10.to the front gate he didn't go in. Deciding instead to stay in his
:24:11. > :24:17.country and try and change it from within. For this he's paid a
:24:18. > :24:22.terrible price. That's just about it for this edition of Outside Source.
:24:23. > :24:25.We've been covering the new deal between the Conservative Party and
:24:26. > :24:29.Democratic Unionist Party in the UK. This is an arrangement which means
:24:30. > :24:32.the DUP will support Theresa May and her government on key pieces of
:24:33. > :24:37.legislation like the budget and on multiple bills relating to Brexit.
:24:38. > :24:41.We have also had some breaking news in the last few minutes, a
:24:42. > :24:45.significant announcement in the US from the Congressional Budget Office
:24:46. > :24:49.saying if the proposed Republican health-care reform comes in, we
:24:50. > :24:53.could be looking at 22 million Americans becoming uninsured by
:24:54. > :24:58.2026. That will intensify the debate around the health care reform before
:24:59. > :25:00.some of the key hills. Thank you for watching and I will see you tomorrow
:25:01. > :25:13.at the same time. Bye bye. Hello. This time last week we were
:25:14. > :25:17.talking about record-breaking temperatures possibly across the UK,
:25:18. > :25:18.and in fact