29/06/2017 Outside Source

Hello, I am Ros Atkins, this is Outside Source.

Next week, the world's most powerful leaders come together at the G20.

Angela Merkel has added some spice to the build-up with these comments.

Since the United States' decision to leave the Paris climate deal

we are more determined than ever to make it a success.

The Paris climate deal is irreversible and

She has also said people who see solutions in

isolationism and protectionism are terribly wrong.

I think Donald Trump will have a good idea

The third highest member of the Catholic Church is leaving the

Vatican and going back to Australia to face sex abuse charges.

Donald Trump's travel ban starts later, but with some changes.

Meanwhile, Donald Trump has made personal and derogatory comments

And we will report on why some African countries intend to ban

Some blunt talking from Angela Merkel today,

And all in the context of next week's G20 summit when the world's

most powerful leaders will come together.

First there was this on climate change.

TRANSLATION: The European Union stands fully behind its Paris

commitment and it will implement the agreement rapidly and decisively.

Furthermore, since the United States' decision to leave the Paris

climate deal, we are more determined than ever to make it a success. We

cannot and will not wait to act until the science has convinced

every last doubter. In one word, the Paris climate deal is irreversible

Remember, President Trump has pulled the US out of the Paris agreement.

Next there was this from Angela Merkel.

TRANSLATION: Those who believe that the problems of this world can be

solved by isolationism or protectionism are terribly wrong.

Remember Doanld Trump is enthusiastic about

It's worth bearing this in mind though.

As David Vuyanovich of AFP puts it - "There must be an election

Yes, the German election is in September, and, yes,

Mrs Merkel is trying to hit two birds with one stone.

Jenny Hill in Berlin can take up the story.

If you listened to Angela Merkel addressing MPs in the German

parliament this morning you got the sense of the German Chancellor was

preparing to do battle. She was doing a couple of things. First of

all, she was playing to a home crowd, she has an election later

this year and she knows that were many Germans are concerned about

Donald Trump's administration, that boosts her own domestic ratings. But

she is also very keen to use this opportunity, particularly in the

light of Brexit to bring the European project together. Today she

invited a number of European leaders from the G 22 Berlin. She was

outlining her plans for G20. She said she would be talking about how

to tackle climate change, terrorism, health care, economic growth

worldwide, tackling the causes of migration and so on. In reality she

was trying to rally the troops. She is very keen to put on the United

front when she sits around the table at the G20 summit and faces Donald

Trump across the table next weekend. And we will be live with you from

Hamburg on the G20. He was a prominent

opposition leader in Russia. Today five men were found guilty

of murdering him in 2015. For nine months they have stood

accused of murdering one of President Putin's biggest critics.

This week they protested their innocence again, claiming they had

only confessed under torture. The jury did not believe them. After 12

hours considering the evidence they found all five men guilty. Boris

Nemtsov was shot in the back right beside the Kremlin. The jury heard

how his killers had trailed him for months before striking. He was once

a political high-flyer here, the Deputy Prime Minister. He had been

pushed into the margins under Vladimir Putin but was still a thorn

in the Kremlin's site. The day he died he was on the radio calling

President Putin ally for denying Russian troops were fighting in

Ukraine. He had planned march that wheat for peace. It became a of

morning instead. A stunned crowd demanded justice. Boris Nemtsov's

family are sure he was killed because of his political activity

but for nine months the hearings here in this military courts were

focused only on the five men accused of carrying out a contract killing.

The key question of who hired them and why remain unanswered even now.

So today the family's representative in court said this case does not go

far enough. These suspects are just the perpetrators, but where are the

organisers and the sponsors? So all the secret services of Mr Putin

could not find them. Boris Nemtsov's family have vowed to go on pushing

for answers to a murder that shocked Russia and silenced one of its

loudest voices of dissent. First of all, Anthony, what will the

White House looking -- be looking to do when Donald Trump comes to

Germany next week? The White House will have no problems trying to use

Angela Merkel as a foil in order to advance Donald Trump's agenda, which

is pushing for a protectionist pro-America, pro-American jobs

agenda. They see any sort of tension with Angela Merkel as a benefit

because he will be perceived to be standing up for American jobs.

Donald Trump has criticised European policy on climate change and

European trade policy in the past. You will hear more of that and even

browbeating about how European countries need to share more of the

burden of their own defence and he will do that on the biggest stage.

One story I want to ask you about is that and this is another. Donald

Trump has been abusing people online. On the receiving end today

would two journalists who co-host the show in the morning.

On the receiving end today were Joe Scarborough

They co-host the show "Morning Joe" on MSNBC.

And they're frequently critical of the Trump administration,

though that puts them in a large group.

Not clear why the President attacked them today, but he did.

"I heard poorly rated @Morning-Joe speaks badly of me.

Then how come low IQ, crazy Meeka, along with Psycho Joe, came."

Then after five long minutes where we were all wondering

where he's going with this, the next tweet arrived.

"How come they came to Mar-a-Lago three nights in a row

around New Year's Eve, and insisted on joining me?

She was bleeding badly from a face-lift.

Lest we forget, this is the President of

Republican Congresswoman Lynn Jenkins tweeted: This is not OK.

We should be working to empower women.

This isn't normal and it's beneath the dignity of your office.

Mr President, your tweet was beneath the office.

It represents what is wrong with American politics.

But it's not clear to me why anyone would be surprised by this.

The Republicans know that the man they support is repeatedly abusive -

he was before he became President, he has been since he took office.

The White House, however is defending the President's comments.

Here's his deputy Press secretary earlier.

Frankly if this had happened in the previous administration the type of

attacks launched on this programme, the things they say, mentally ill,

constant personal attacks, calling members liar is to their faces, the

rest of the media would have said, no wait, hold on, that nobody does

that. The president is not going to step back, he has showed that.

During Barack Obama's time in office he was repeatedly questioned where

he was born and one of the people doing the questioning was Donald

Trump. Let's bring in Anthony live from Washington again. This is a

tough one to explain because it is so far away from anything we have

seen from anyone in the White House before. Exactly. Donald Trump is a

president unlike any we have seen before and he is behaving like the

Donald Trump we have seen over the years. It should not come as any

surprise that he fight fire with fire in the way the White House has

defended this. Sarah Huckabee Sanders when asked said American

voters knew what they were getting when they voted for Donald Trump.

That has a kernel of truth to it, this was the way he behaved on the

campaign trail, picking fights with his opponents, being critical in

personal terms with Hillary Clinton. To see him behaving in this way as

president is in keeping with his character and there is no way he

will change. A corresponding from the New York Times saying, how does

this help get the legislation the Senate? There will be people rubbing

their head saying, this did not further our cause. This is a key

moment for that Republican health care plan in the Senate. They had to

push back a vote earlier in the week. The measure is fairly

unpopular among the American public and now is the time Republicans in

Congress and Donald Trump need to boost support for this plan among

the general American public, but that is not what people are talking

about right now. They are talking about Donald Trump's tweets. Most

people see this as a big distraction and counter-productive to their

efforts. Every time this happens it highlights the compromises some

Republicans are having to make between a man they are not convinced

by and the fact they have an awful lot of power for their party at the

moment. And that is why Republicans by and large stood by Donald Trump

during the campaign even when he picked fights with people that they

considered not appropriate. They understood having a Republican in

the White House is the most important thing. More Republican

voters supported Donald Trump in this election than voted for Mitt

a judgment on the part of a judgment on the part

conservative voters that they do not conservative voters that they do not

but they need a Republican in there but they need a Republican in there

to sign the bill is an support their agenda and that is worth it for them

and they are living with the consequences of that decision for

better or worse. Some people will be watching as in the US and others

elsewhere in the world. How big a story has this become from two

tweets? He is picking a fight with someone who is fairly popular in

Washington, DC, a mover and shaker in the media circles. Outside of

Washington, DC I am not so sure. One of my colleagues said some of them

didn't even know who the people were. This may not play as big as we

think it is within the Washington bubble. Thank you very much as

always. Anthony live from Washington, DC. We started in

Germany and we shifted to Washington and in a few minutes we will turn to

Hong Kong. Xi Jinping has made his first visit

to Hong Kong as President 20 years since the territory was handed back

to China by Britain. Kensington and Chelsea Council has

denied Cabinet meeting due to discuss its response to the Grenfell

Tower because journalists managed to gain entry. Earlier the leader of

the council told BBC London's political editor that he did not

want to be drawn on whether he would stay on as council leader. The

proper response to people's lives that have been so devastated by this

tragedy is in place. Will you be the leader in six months' time? That is

the council and the Conservatives now. Would you be the

the council and the Conservatives into the election

understand you want to go down that road. I think it would demean

lives that have been lost by getting lives that have been lost by getting

too much into the political future too much into the political future

of me or anybody else. We are alive in the BBC newsroom.

Angela Merkel is saying the Paris agreement on climate change is

non-negotiable. That was a very thinly veiled attack on Donald Trump

who is pulling the US out of that accord and all of this is part of

the build-up up to next week's G20 summit in Hamburg. On BBC World

Service, forces opposing the Islamic State group have made significant

advances in both Syria and Iraq. BBC correspondents in Mosul and Iraq say

forces are close to retaking the famous Al Newry mask. The price of

fuel in Egypt has almost doubled overnight. The government has cut

subsidies in order to meet the terms of alone from the International

Monetary Fund. Russia's defence minister has described the UK's new

aircraft carrier just a convenient, large, my time target. He was

responding to criticism by the UK Government of Russia's aircraft

carrier. In a few hours some of Donald Trump's travel ban will take

effect. It will affect six Muslim majority countries and it is

happening now because on Monday, as we reported, the US Supreme Court

reinstated the ban, but it did so with a caveat. People will only be

able to come in if they could prove a credible claim of a real

relationship. Today we got more details on what that means. This is

a quote from a cable sent out by the US State Department. They do not

include grandparents, grandchildren, uncles, aunts, nieces, nephews,

cousins, fiancees and other extended family members. None of those

relationships will qualify you. Jane O'Brien has been telling me what

kind of effect this will have on immigration from those six

countries. The applications for visas are already down since Donald

Trump came into power, but this does not affect people who already have a

Visa and that is the fundamental difference between this ban and the

first band that caused so much chaos at airports because people were

getting on planes, thinking they getting on planes, thinking they

were allowed to will be a big headache for

embassies, agencies and those who process visas because the burden to

major that people can travel from the six countries will be on them.

Others involved are saying they are ready this time around in perhaps

the way they were not the first time around. They have been given 72

hours to get their ducks lined up. But again the first ban was

implemented overnight, nobody was given any warning. The State

Department, customs and immigration, had no idea what was happening. This

time the administration is releasing guidelines, you have just read some

of those out, and they have allowed a few days for people to implement

them and for proper guidance to be given at this end. Can you

understand where the Supreme Court's ruling in October into this given

that the 90 days will already be up? Good point and well made. It could

easily be irrelevant because the Supreme Court is going to hear

whether or not Donald Trump had the power to do this, or whether they

have given him the power to do it by saying he does have the executive

authority. The big question critics wanted the court to look that was

whether or not this constituted a ban on Muslims, whether it was

unconstitutional because it discriminated against a specific

religion. We do not know if the Supreme Court will even hear those

arguments. They did not take them into account when they did the

partial lifting of the band. It could all be irrelevant come October

because this temporary ban will be over. George Pell is the third

highest ranking member of the Catholic Church and has been charged

by Australian police with historic sex offences. He denies these

allegations but will lead the Vatican to defend himself. Here is

This morning in St Peter's Square, the Cardinals of the Catholic church

turned out for a celebration led by Pope Francis.

What these men do, how they behave, directly affects

This morning, one of their number was missing.

Cardinal George Pell appeared in a Vatican pressroom

to respond to the allegations made in Australia.

The whole idea of sexual abuse is abhorrent to me.

For more than 40 years, George Pell worked as a priest

and then an archbishop in his own country.

During the 1970s, he worked in his hometown of Ballarat.

The police have been investigating this era.

Cardinal Pell is facing multiple charges in respect

And there are multiple complainants relating to those charges.

This isn't the first time the Cardinal has had to answer

In February of last year, George Pell testified via video link

to an Australian Royal Commission on child abuse.

Australian victims flew in to watch his testimony.

Other abuse survivors say the Pope himself must now take wider steps.

He is very good at sound bites and saying the right

But for me, and I know for many other survivors and victims,

it's not about sound bites and public relations,

And on action, the Church is still dismally slow and way

behind the curve in terms of what they should be doing to deal

with the crisis that exists within that institution.

Pope Francis has called George Pell dedicated and honest.

Now a court in Australia must decide if that is so.

Next, let's turn to the business and for the first time in seven years

all of America's biggest banks have been given a clean bill of health.

They were tested to see if they could withstand a financial crisis.

Michelle is live in New York. What kind of test did they have to go

through? It is a 2-part test. We found the results from the first

part last week and that was a simulated model in which the Federal

reserve and America's Central bank looked at the big 24 institutions

with US operations to see if there was a sudden, dramatic downturn,

were those banks in a strong in opposition to survive? They all

passed that test with flying colours. The test results we found

out late last night had to do with their capital plans, what they

intended to do with the money they had, whether or not they were

allowed to pay out dividends or buy back shares, something that is

hugely important to investors. For the first time we saw all of the

banks pass that test. I am saying for the first time since this was

introduced back in 2011 in the wake of the financial crisis. Citigroup

failed in 2012 and 2014. It passed this time. Shortly after the

announcement it said it was doubling its dividend. It is good in terms of

them feeling secure for the future, is it good for the health of their

business right now? It is a sign we have come a long way from the

financial crisis when we are looking at the health of the financial

sector. It is important to remember in all of this. The question is

going forward what is the strategy for these banks? How does that

change? Or is it the case they have got better at understanding this new

system. Then there is Donald Trump. Will he change this? He says he

wants to look at fewer rules for banks and critics of these tests

have long argued the banks have been burden too much with oversight and

it has helped lending and stop the economy from growing as fast. What

happens if they fail? Are there any consequences? Wells Fargo got in a

bit of trouble over the last year with its sales practices and there

had been a lot of attention paid. People were waiting to see whether

or not they would pass. They did pass. Another bank, Capital One, its

plans for how it wants to spend its capital, they almost failed. What

that means is they have to go away, reshuffle what they planned to do

with their capital, re-present it back to the Federal reserve,

America's Central bank, and see if they can fully get it approved.

Otherwise they are not allowed to proceed with their current plans. In

the past Citigroup paying this huge dividend out was unable to do that.

It could not do it by the Central bank. We will talk next week. It has

been a disappointing day for Rupert Murdoch. His company 21st-century

Fox was to take over the broadcaster sky. Today the government said it

was minded to refer the whole matter to the government watchdog. This is

our media editor. They will be pleased and relieved they have been

deemed fit and proper by the broadcasting regulator Ofcom to own

a broadcasting licence. But there are lingering worries about

excessive power and control being in the hands of one family. But Rupert

Murdoch is not as powerful as he used to be in Britain. His newspaper

circulation is in decline. They did not get the result they wanted in

the election and the rise of powerhouses like Amazon and Facebook

means they face competition. Rupert Murdoch is hugely controversial and

divisive and it is being returned to the competition regulator and for

the time being Rupert Murdoch's Fox is in the long grass. In a few

minutes we will hear from Richard Conway who is in Dusseldorf for the

start of the Tour de France. I will give you his report in about ten

minutes' time.