18/07/2017 Outside Source

Hello, I'm Christian Fraser, this is Outside Source.

Repealing and replacing Obamacare was one of Donald Trump's

key campaign promises - but it's become clear the party just

doesn't have the votes to pass a replacement health care plan.

I am bro disappointed because even as a civilian with seven years I

have been hearing about health care and about repeal and replace and

Obama care is a total disaster. A report claims hundreds

of choir boys were abused at a Roman Catholic Church

in Germany - but the alleged perpetrators are unlikely

to face criminal charges because of the amount

of time that has elapsed. This North Korean defector escaped

Pyongyang three years ago - but now she has vanished,

and some are claiming this is her We have a special report

from a giant satellite array in South Africa -

its makers claim it will be able to see three quarters of the way

across the universe. Donald Trump is in full

damage-control mode. It has become clear in the past 24

hours that despite seven years of Republican promises to repeal

Obamacare, there are deep divisions in the Senate -

they just don't have the votes. Repeal and Replace has

become Wait and See. I am disappointed because for so

many years I have been hearing repeal and replace, I am sitting in

the Oval Office next door, pen in hand is waiting to sign something

and I will be waiting and eventually we'll get something done and it will

be very good but Obama care is a big failure and it has to be changed. We

have to go to a plan that works and are much less expensive plan, a plan

in terms of premiums and something will happen and it will be very

good. It may not be as quick as we hoped but it will happen. Compare

that to this quote from Donald Trump in the weeks just before he took

office. He said, referring to Obama care it will be repealed and

replaced simultaneously on the same day or the same week. But probably

the same day, could even be the same hour. The latest Republicans who

have gone against the plan are my glee from Utah and another from

Kentucky to say it does not do enough to lower premiums for

middle-class families. To remind you, Obama care requires all

Americans to have health insurance, it offers subsidies to make it more

affordable so 20 million people have gained health care coverage since it

was signed into law in 2010 but it is pushed up prices. 25 per cent

increase in average premiums in 2017. Let's get the view from

Washington. You can sense the disappointment in the presidents of

voice. Yeah, she is very frustrated, as all Republicans are right now,

this is an issue they campaigned on that was near and dear to their

heart has seven years, they used it and rode it to electoral victory

time and time again in mid-term elections, it helped them take

control of Congress and helped Donald Trump win the presidency so

with all the levers of power in their hands ready to finally repeal

and replace Obama care and it came up they could not agree on what to

do so they have no one to blame but themselves despite what Donald Trump

says about the Democrats and the reality is they do not have a many

options left. Some criticism has been about the president not engaged

enough in the process in Congress because I want to show these tweets.

But this is in tune with the video we showed you... This is the point,

he seems to say let's get rid of it and see what happens now we're

saying we probably cannot do that is that because the insurance industry

weighed in? Well, yeah, the insurance industry was definitely

opposed to these changes, none would Barack Obama past health care reform

in 2009, Barack Obama was on the stump meeting with key providers,

hospitals and insurance companies health care providers, everyone

trying to get them on board, get them to sign of the legislation

because it is hard, you have to have a big tent to get this. They're

talking about a straight up repeal vote which is out of the window,

there are enough senators opposed that it may never reach the floor of

the house, Donald Trump new position is to wash his hands of this, walk

away and hope the whole system collapses and the Democrats come

back begging for help. The problem is this is on Donald Trump is sold

responsibility and him saying he will let the system collapse and

shrug, not many Americans will be crazy about the idea of him

abandoning that and their insurance problems just get a political goal.

One man who can wash his hands and walk away is Mitch McConnell, the

Senate leader, let's have a quick look at what he had to say. This is

him in the Senate earlier. I regret the effort to repeal and immediately

replace the failures of Obama care will not be successful. That doesn't

mean we should give up. We will now try a different way to bring the

American people believe from Obama care, we owe them at least that

much. In the coming days the Senate will take up and vote on a repeal of

Obama care combined with a stable, two-year transition period. What

about the Democrats, what do they make of it? Their lead in the Senate

gave this message to Republicans. They can follow the president and a

path that will lead to higher premiums, less care and millions of

Americans losing coverage, they can join President Trump in trying to

sabotage the system and hurt millions of innocent Americans to

try and make a political point that has failed all ready. Or, they can

start today working with Democrats, we can work together to lower

premiums, we can work together to stabilise the markets, we can work

together to improve the quality of health care. The point is listening

to him there, he says we can work with you if you're prepared to meet

us halfway but the problem for Republicans has been they have been

home to their own districts during the 4th of July holidays, they got

it in the neck a little bit and some of them do not feel they can pass

something which will take Medicare away from the poorest. Right, that

is the case. Part of the brilliance of what the Democrats did in 2009

was to tie these reforms to expanded coverage of Medicare giving more

people insurance, more than 20 million people getting new

insurance, that is hard to take away, it is why Republicans fought

tooth and nail to keep the Medicaid expansion from happening in their

own states and if you look at the state that expanded Medicaid they

squawk stashed swallowed the hook of Obama care and it has become painful

for them to claw any back because then they are physically harming

their own constituents and taking their insurance away and that is the

kind of thing people vote on when they are sitting looking at the

members of Congress, did they did they not act in their best

interests. When she gives support, harder to take it away. The

Democrats say... This is from Donald Trump in the last hour or so saying

maybe we can go around the Democrats. That confused me because

I thought we were always talking about the Republicans in danger

losing tee-macro votes, I thought it was a simple majority. The Senate

rules are complicated and there things they can do that only require

50 votes and basically what they were trying to do was affect the

stuff on Obama care which takes a simple majority, there are other

things that require a super majority, 60 votes such as allowing

insurance plans to be sold across borders or ramping up health care

savings accounts we can put away money tax-free, those ideas the

Conservatives really like and would want a fashion that into some sort

of comprehensive insurance reform package, they do not have the votes

to do it so they were focusing on what they could do but that has led

to these calls about how it is a watered-down version of Obama care,

Donald Trump wants to change the rules but once you change one thing,

Democrats take power they could have universal health care with a simple

majority vote, normally Republicans would vote for that. We are

up-to-date. Thank you very much. Six months in the president still needs

the big win. We are going to turn to Germany-

where an investigation has revealed that at least 547 boys were abused

over 60 years while they were members of a world-famous

Catholic choir school. The church is accused of maintaining

a culture of silence that stretched 49 members of the church

have been identified AND during most of that

time the choir was run by this man

Georg Ratzinger , he He's the elder brother

of Pope Benedict - The lawyer in charge of the report

maintains Georg Ratzinger must be "blamed for looking the other way

and failing to intervene". TRANSLATION:

These are not 547 cases where an individual was affected once, rather

an ongoing practice over decades, 547 children were tormented, abused,

mistreated and socially harmed. They are severely traumatised to this

very day, this upsets me, I thought I had got over it after 17 years of

battling but this greatly upsets me today.

Earlier I spoke to Martin Gak who's the Religious correspondent

at Belrin broadcaster Deutsche Welle.

You can hear the frustration and this is a hard day for the victims

in the view no one will ever be prosecuted or brought to book. Yeah,

that is correct. The question remains still want to be decided by

German justice so the severity of the crimes were essentially

determine whether any of these things will be prosecuted, some of

the crimes were committed 20 years ago so quite recent and many

perpetrators are still alive but we are talking large number of people.

Over 40 people implicated in this, but obviously the focus will fall on

George Ratzinger, a senior figure within the school, what we think he

knew? He admitted to knowing there was physical abuse, he was not

entirely forthcoming how much he knew, he admitted to having slaps

students but this admission was quite unclear and then both he and

another cardinal who was sacked from the congregation both of these

people had extremely close relations to the previous Pope said the fact

is that if there is no evidence to directly implicate the previous

Pope, most certainly there is something, it is a ball that bounced

as close to the very top of the former Vatican. I was based on Roman

Pope Benedict was there, he struggled with many of the

allegations coming in from around the world when he came to child

abuse and paedophile priests, but this is much closer to home, do we

know whether he knew about the abuse at the school? We don't. We do not

have any direct evidence that he knew but what we do know is the

relation between Ratzinger and the choir director and the Pope was

extremely close and they have been confidence and exchanging both

correspondence and been in close contact many years. Pope Benedict

actually as he was himself at the top of the congregation, essentially

directing theology for the entire church, he threatened priests that

would turn evidence to lotion -- with excommunication. It is a group

that it is problematic in terms of church politics and at least it has

not helped this shadow of a cover-up. What about the victims

come over 500, does this in any way bring closure, is there any redress

at all the Catholic Church might provide? Right, the Church has said

they will offer redress up to 20,000 euross and this is something that of

course is to some degree for public consumption, it is not clear given

the stories that are on the table, there is a broader question which is

the one about sexual and children abused across churches around the

world. In a way, this pushes onto this church and the Pope the

question of what kind of political will he has to clarify not only this

case but other cases going around. Good to get your perspective, thank

you for being with us. Stay with us on Outside

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searching black holes Flash flooding has hit the

south-west of the UK - in Cornwall. The coastguard has airlifted

two people to safety in the village of Coverack,

which has been particularly Four people still remain

in the property and are awaiting rescue , our correspondent Jon Kay

gave us this update from just It all started at lunchtime, early

afternoon the beginnings of the storm, some rainfall, some hail, big

heavy hailstones and then it didn't stop several hours. Thunderstorms,

lightning cascading water and then the dramatic images BBC News viewers

have sent in to us today. One local doctor said he has lived here for

more than 50 years and never seen anything like has today but it is 50

times stronger, the water and that is a coastguard helicopter circling

looking out to who they might be able to help.

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Donald Trump promised to repeal and replace Obamacare -

but despite the Republicans controlling both houses of Congress,

they haven't got the numbers to pass their health care bill.

In South Africa, the world's most powerful telescope

is up and running - or at least one part of it is.

16 giant radio dishes which will be integrated into a much wider network

of receivers are already giving scientists a view of the universe,

This is one of the first images showing a galaxy

The first dishes that went online are all part of the meerkat radio

telescope, this is where it is down here in the depths of South Africa

and Andrew Harding has been to see it. In the emptiest corner of South

Africa, some of the most sensitive technology on the planet. The

meerkat array radio telescopes. Near completion now and body probing the

far reaches of the universe. These receivers are so delicate any

electronic interference could destroy them, the dishes could pick

up a mobile phone signal on Jupiter. What you have here basically are

incredibly sophisticated buckets, designed to catch radio waves that

travel the simile billions of years across the universe that they

contained within them secrets about what was going on not long after the

Big Bang and the more buckets you have, the more widely spread they

are the clearer the picture. At the HQ in Cape Town, the biggest

challenge right now is to work out how to cope with the impending

tsunami of intergalactic data. Who knows who we might find, another

planet with lice? There were colleagues in other parts of the

world who would say focus on your poverty problems, what are you doing

with this but we said this is a part of the answer. You cannot neglect

science. Among the first in the queue to use the radio telescopes

are astronomers searching for alien life, convinced this network could

be their best chance yet. Think of Los Angeles you think of

red-carpet some parties but the number of homeless has risen by 22%

in the past year. A staggering increase being blamed on high rents

and a lack of affordable homes. Hollywood is particularly badly hit.

The land of make-believe, Hollywood Boulevard home to the Oscars and the

tourism Mecca. It is also an epicentre for the homeless where the

haves and have-nots converge. You get off the freeway and see tents

along the edge, it is really disheartening, my kids are afraid to

come down on the off chance someone will come up to us. Many of the

Hollywood homeless came here in search of fame and fortune. But they

end up on the streets because the cost of living just existing in Los

Angeles is sky-high. Affordable housing even for those in work is

scarce. This is an increasingly common scene, a makeshift encampment

right next to a recreation centre and we are in the heart of

Hollywood. It is a far cry from the image of Tinseltown. Across LA

County, 58,000 people are homeless, 13,000 more than last year. It is a

problem that extends far beyond Hollywood and its aspiring stars.

Kitty and her daughter thought they could build a better life here. But

it has not worked out. We originally came from north-east Nevada but from

there we went to Idaho, lost our jobs and went down to Arizona with

family but could find a job there and became homeless and then came

out here to start over. We are going to try and engage. There is help on

offer, outreach workers from the city funded LA homeless services

authority tour the streets every day. They hand out water and

blankets and provide information about medical facilities. In March

residents of LA County voted for a tax increase to fund rent subsidies

and services for the homeless, $3.5 billion over ten years. At the same

time we have the population rising dramatically, the voters recognise

and give us resources to attack it. That is where the optimism comes

from. Optimism to a point but Lala land looks different from the

inside. You would not expect people on every corner, clothes everywhere,

trash, yeah, people come here to make their dreams come true, they do

not do that so much any more. The underbelly of the city in dire need

of a reality check. In the US the bank

reporting season rolls on. Today it's the turn of

Goldmann Sachs and Bank of America. Michelle Fleury is

in New York for us. What the results tell us? Goldman

Sachs was considered the unbeatable firm often the guys that work there

were referred to as the smartest in the room but based on its latest

results, it was more than disappointing, for 2% decline in its

fixed income trading business, its bond business, this is something

that for a long time has been its point of pride but now of course it

has disappointed all across-the-board it has suffered,

commodities trading was also down, the company had to apologise to

investors saying they were doing more to see what they could to get

back on track and all eyes will now be on Morgan Stanley because it is

the arch rival in that business and reports results on Wednesday. We can

look backwards of course, JP Morgan and Wells Fargo were out last week,

what does this tell us about the US economy? Well, it is interesting

when you look back to the election of Donald Trump between the election

and the inauguration bank stocks were amongst the biggest

beneficiaries, their share prices rose a huge amount, that has

continued ever since, the administration came to power because

of the Assumption of the deregulation people expected. Now

people are looking at these results and learning more and they are

discovering that there is a couple of things going on, one in the case

of Wells Fargo and Bank of America that customers are opening more bank

accounts and people are starting to see that, in the case of Bank of

America rises in interest rates in America are not necessarily as yet

been passed onto consumers which is helping the bottom line of big firms

that of America. OK, thank you. The UK's advertising watchdog says

it will crack down on adverts that Ella Smilie wrote the report for the

Advertising Standards Authority - here's what she told

the BBC earlier. What the report tells us is that

there are certain kinds of gender stereotypes which when repeatedly

detected over time have the potential to affect people's

assumptions of expectations about how they should behave or look

according to their gender. So what you're looking at is though specific

types of gender stereotypes that we have identified in the report, we

will look to draft new standards to prevent those stereotypes were

appearing in ads in the future. This is part of a developing picture why

we have seen advertisers doing the research themselves and deciding to

challenge gender stereotypes in the ads and what our report does is

enables us to drill down into the stereotypes that might be harmful so

we can ensure the regulatory framework is appropriate and within

that creativity can flourish. Stay with us on outside source, we will

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