:00:10. > :00:15.Hello, I'm Christian Fraser, this is Outside Source.
:00:16. > :00:17.They control both houses of Congress and the White House,
:00:18. > :00:19.yet still Republicans can't find agreement on how
:00:20. > :00:26.I am very disappointed, because again, even
:00:27. > :00:29.as a civilian, the seven years, I've been hearing about health care.
:00:30. > :00:32.And I've been hearing about repeal and replace.
:00:33. > :00:37.Six decades of violence and sexual abuse at a choir school in Germany.
:00:38. > :00:40.The choir master accused of looking the other way,
:00:41. > :00:46.was the elder brother of Pope Benedict.
:00:47. > :00:48.The critically endangered Madagascan lemur is under threat,
:00:49. > :01:00.This is the biggest rush in Madagascar for more than 20 years,
:01:01. > :01:02.tens of thousands of people have moved here to clear the land and dig
:01:03. > :01:04.for gems. We'll play you that full report
:01:05. > :01:07.from Angus Crawford. And in OS Sport, we'll get
:01:08. > :01:09.the latest on Spanish football This time it goes right to the top
:01:10. > :01:14.of their association. The latest attempt by Republicans
:01:15. > :01:40.in the US Congress to fulfil a long-standing promise to scrap
:01:41. > :01:42.the healthcare system set up by Barack Obama
:01:43. > :01:44.is on course to collapse. What happens next isn't clear
:01:45. > :01:47.because the Republicans can't agree on how to replace Obamacare,
:01:48. > :01:49.and they've only got a small majority in the Senate.
:01:50. > :01:51.It's a complicated story. For seven years, Republicans have
:01:52. > :02:01.been going to repeal Obamacare, a central pledge of Donald Trump's
:02:02. > :02:03.election campaign was But getting rid of that landmark
:02:04. > :02:13.reform and coming up with a replacement
:02:14. > :02:15.is proving politically impossible. Two Republican senators announced
:02:16. > :02:17.they weren't prepared to vote, even for the bill to be debated,
:02:18. > :02:21.they didn't think it went far enough But other moderate Republicans
:02:22. > :02:24.have been opposed because millions of Americans could lose
:02:25. > :02:25.their health coverage. Even though Republicans
:02:26. > :02:31.have a majority in the Senate. The second time since
:02:32. > :02:39.he became president, the Republican-controlled Congress
:02:40. > :02:41.has failed to deliver on his slogan, He's tweeted that Republicans
:02:42. > :02:47.should simply repeal Obamacare. And then begin work
:02:48. > :02:52.on a new health care plan. But that could strip 18 million
:02:53. > :02:56.Americans of their health coverage. A potentially politically
:02:57. > :03:00.disastrous path. This woman here is a
:03:01. > :03:12.north Korean defector. She escaped North Korea three years
:03:13. > :03:18.ago, and then became a TV But recently she disappeared,
:03:19. > :03:22.and it is feared she may have been On Sunday, a woman looking
:03:23. > :03:34.very much like her, appeared in this In the video, she says
:03:35. > :03:45.she was lured away and forced Sitting here next to another
:03:46. > :03:46.defector that returned to North Korea.
:03:47. > :03:50.Here's Karen Allen with more from Seoul.
:03:51. > :03:56.Former art student come TV personality was better
:03:57. > :03:59.known by her alias here in South Korea as Lim Chi Hun.
:04:00. > :04:01.She defected in 2014, and became something
:04:02. > :04:04.of a personality here, engaging in panel discussions,
:04:05. > :04:07.but also a reality show, which pitted men and women
:04:08. > :04:12.from North and South Korea together in a light-hearted way,
:04:13. > :04:20.Nevertheless, she's now appeared in what looks
:04:21. > :04:25.In it, she seemed to be interviewed, in which she says she was leered
:04:26. > :04:27.by the fantasy of being able to make money in South Korea,
:04:28. > :04:32.and that she was forced when she was here to slander her leader.
:04:33. > :04:35.It's been taken seriously by the intelligence services
:04:36. > :04:38.here in South Korea, because of concerns that she may
:04:39. > :04:46.Just to give you some perspective, since 1998, some 30,000
:04:47. > :04:49.North Koreans have defected here to South Korea.
:04:50. > :04:54.But over the past five years, just 25 returned.
:04:55. > :04:57.Major fires are burning out of control across several
:04:58. > :05:01.Dry conditions and hot weather are making it difficult
:05:02. > :05:07.A state of emergency has been declared in several
:05:08. > :05:09.regions of Portugal, while Montenegro has appealed
:05:10. > :05:13.for international help. Simon Cullen reports.
:05:14. > :05:15.Thousands of firefighters battling dozens of major fires
:05:16. > :05:22.With hot, dry weather across large parts of Europe,
:05:23. > :05:28.it didn't take much for the flames to take hold.
:05:29. > :05:32.In Croatia, authorities believe they've now got the upper hand
:05:33. > :05:34.on a blaze which had been threatening the coastal
:05:35. > :05:44.We defended these houses as much as we could.
:05:45. > :05:47.If it wasn't for firefighting planes and fireman, it would've been
:05:48. > :05:50.As the fire drew nearer, many residents and tourists
:05:51. > :05:59.The ominous glow a warning of the impending danger.
:06:00. > :06:12.Authorities believe the fire started in a pine forest.
:06:13. > :06:14.It has now burnt out four and a half thousand
:06:15. > :06:16.hectares of land, leaving a trail of destruction.
:06:17. > :06:18.In neighbouring Montenegro, the government has appealed
:06:19. > :06:20.for international help to bring several fires under control.
:06:21. > :06:23.Evacuations began on Monday as water bombers tried to protect homes
:06:24. > :06:25.and businesses in the usually busy tourist villages.
:06:26. > :06:27.A state of emergency has been declared in several
:06:28. > :06:29.regions of Portugal, as battle weary firefighters
:06:30. > :06:34.struggle against forest fires burning in the country's North.
:06:35. > :06:37.These latest fires come just a month after the country was ravaged
:06:38. > :06:43.by a major blaze that left 64 people dead.
:06:44. > :06:46.In France, hundreds of firefighters were deployed to control a fire that
:06:47. > :06:55.TRANSLATION: We had three firefighters slightly injured.
:06:56. > :06:58.So at one point, we had a very difficult moment.
:06:59. > :07:03.It was a very difficult fire because there were many residents.
:07:04. > :07:12.The fire tore through about 100 hectares of land, threatening homes.
:07:13. > :07:15.While in Italy, a forest fire south of Rome sent large plumes
:07:16. > :07:18.of smoke into the air, forcing several roads to be closed.
:07:19. > :07:20.The blaze was believed to be deliberately lit.
:07:21. > :07:22.It was just one of a thousand wildfires that authorities
:07:23. > :07:27.were called to respond to. Simon Cullen, BBC News.
:07:28. > :07:33.Fires all across Europe. Now for the sport.
:07:34. > :07:36.This man here is one of the most senior figures in Spanish football.
:07:37. > :07:38.But he has just been arrested on charges
:07:39. > :07:41.Angel Maria Villar has served on the council of football's
:07:42. > :07:45.world governing body Fifa for the past 29 years.
:07:46. > :07:47.While overseeing, in Spain, one of the most successful periods
:07:48. > :07:50.in the national side's history; a World Cup, and two
:07:51. > :08:04.Mr Villar's son Gorka, who was formerly a director general
:08:05. > :08:13.of the South American confederation was also arrested.
:08:14. > :08:16.One more thing to mention, when Fifa was conducting its own
:08:17. > :08:19.investigation into the bidding process for the 2018
:08:20. > :08:21.and 2022 World Cups, the person investigating wanted
:08:22. > :08:32.He said Mr Villar told him, "Well, you really have balls" and then
:08:33. > :08:35.to drop the investigation "for your own good".
:08:36. > :08:50.Let's get thoughts on that from Mark Edwards. We will get there
:08:51. > :08:55.eventually! Mr Villar, tried to stop the investigation before, what are
:08:56. > :09:00.Fifa saying? Perhaps no surprises, Christian, Fifa during the day said
:09:01. > :09:04.they take a note of media reports that the matter seemed to be linked
:09:05. > :09:08.to internal affairs at the Spanish football Association. For the time
:09:09. > :09:13.being, they want us to refer to them. About an hour and a half ago,
:09:14. > :09:17.a statement was issued on the half of the investigatory chamber of the
:09:18. > :09:33.independent ethics committee, so can be attributed to Fifa saying:
:09:34. > :09:40.In many respects, it is worth saying that Spanish media has been
:09:41. > :09:45.reporting that the force of vocation of documents and skimming profits
:09:46. > :09:50.from international football matches, but let's refresh ourselves on how
:09:51. > :09:54.powerful a figure he is. He is a former Spain international
:09:55. > :09:59.footballer, has been president of the Spanish FA since 1988, and was
:10:00. > :10:04.re-elected unopposed in May. He has been on the Fifa Council for almost
:10:05. > :10:10.three decades, he is the vice president of Fifa, acting president
:10:11. > :10:13.of Uefa, Europe's governing body. He lost out on the presidency in an
:10:14. > :10:21.election last year. In many respects, showing the higher
:10:22. > :10:30.echelons of Spanish football and world football. Richard Conway
:10:31. > :10:33.tweeted earlier, I have pulled this out:
:10:34. > :10:40.that is really the point. Very incisive in some respects. Public
:10:41. > :10:48.perception is nothing really changes. In some respects, almost
:10:49. > :10:51.desensitisation. This year volume of scandals and corruption,
:10:52. > :10:55.embezzlement, and perhaps VO Paik wavy World Cup bids have gone. It is
:10:56. > :11:06.a sad indictment of world football and its image. I am guessing people
:11:07. > :11:11.will still continue to watch football in any case. It registered
:11:12. > :11:12.on our news agenda. Thank you for the moment.
:11:13. > :11:17.Johanna Konta has told BBC Sport that she can significantly
:11:18. > :11:19.improve her game despite reaching the Wimbledon semi-final and fourth
:11:20. > :11:27.She made headlines after she became the first British woman in 39 years
:11:28. > :11:35.Here she is explaining how these two weeks felt like.
:11:36. > :11:41.I think, interestingly, these Tamplin ships and this time around,
:11:42. > :11:46.where I managed to get far in a Grand Slam, like I did at Wimbledon,
:11:47. > :11:51.I felt I did a reasonable job with my team and also myself on almost
:11:52. > :11:56.die jesting it as it went along with each match. I really appreciated
:11:57. > :12:03.each day, and each experience I got. I was fortunate to get such great
:12:04. > :12:08.matches, and the few battles during this year's Wimbledon. I think I've
:12:09. > :12:14.almost, once it finished, I had almost digester did.
:12:15. > :12:22.Stay with us on BBC World News, we'll have more later.
:12:23. > :12:27.We have the wrong pictures, we will tell you about lemurs anyway. A
:12:28. > :12:55.mining Russian Madagascar is threatening them. -- rush in
:12:56. > :13:06.Madagascar multiple fire crews are in Coverack, water has swept
:13:07. > :13:13.through. The main river burst its banks. We are not able to touch base
:13:14. > :13:21.with the centre of the village because the main road into Coverack
:13:22. > :13:24.has been blocked, just by one of the largest rivers bursting its banks,
:13:25. > :13:30.coming straight across the road and washing the sides of the road away,
:13:31. > :13:36.and carrying with it large boulder is the size of a man's head. So very
:13:37. > :13:41.dangerous, and a couple of feet of water are going straight across the
:13:42. > :13:46.road. The amount of water that has come from the land, carrying huge
:13:47. > :13:54.amounts of soil with it, is making the sea waters for the first half a
:13:55. > :13:58.mile out where I am looking Brown. Further than that, it is a wonderful
:13:59. > :14:05.bright blue that we expect here in Cornwall. This all follows very
:14:06. > :14:10.heavy rainfall during the afternoon, is that right? Enormously heavy
:14:11. > :14:13.rainfall. It was a tropical type downpour. Having worked in the
:14:14. > :14:19.tropics, I know what it is like there. With huge hailstones in it
:14:20. > :14:25.about an inch across. We were worried about the glass in the
:14:26. > :14:30.house. One of the panes of glass in my greenhouse has been broken just
:14:31. > :14:33.by the size of the hailstones. Give us an idea of the size of the
:14:34. > :14:43.village, how many people would be affected by this? There are about
:14:44. > :14:49.250 houses in total in the village. I can't say exactly who is affected
:14:50. > :14:54.by it, cause the village has been effectively cut in half. You cannot
:14:55. > :14:57.cross the river is, either where they normally go underneath the
:14:58. > :15:04.road, they are now flowing across the top of the road. The rivers
:15:05. > :15:06.further inland, of course, are flooded as well. They have broken
:15:07. > :15:20.their banks right throughout. This is Outside Source live
:15:21. > :15:23.from the BBC newsroom. Donald Trump promised to repeal
:15:24. > :15:26.and replace Obamacare - but despite the Republicans
:15:27. > :15:28.controlling both houses of Congress, they haven't got the numbers
:15:29. > :15:37.to pass their healthcare bill. Let's give you what is being
:15:38. > :15:42.reported, BBC Arabic says a sniper captured by Iraqi troops in Mosul
:15:43. > :15:46.could be a 16-year-old German girl that went missing last year. Reports
:15:47. > :15:49.in Germany say the girl was radicalised online and travelled to
:15:50. > :15:52.Syria to find turkey using her mother's tidy.
:15:53. > :15:56.ABC Peugeot report the United States is to impose further sanctions
:15:57. > :16:03.against Iran over its ballistic missile programme.
:16:04. > :16:07.One of the most viewed stories online is the firing of the man who
:16:08. > :16:16.was four-year the voice of Kermit the frog. Muppet studio said Stephen
:16:17. > :16:18.Whitmore was released for poor business conduct.
:16:19. > :16:23.Judges in Turkey have remanded in custody six
:16:24. > :16:25.human rights activists, including the local director
:16:26. > :16:27.of Amnesty International, who is charged with "assisting
:16:28. > :16:37.Amnesty, in response, released this poster, drawing attention to the
:16:38. > :16:41.fact that in 1988, activists campaigned for the release of the
:16:42. > :16:47.now President Erdogan, who was in prison at the time.
:16:48. > :16:50.Here's the view of one researcher at Amnesty International Turkey.
:16:51. > :16:59.It is decriminalising all the work we have done. It is a threat against
:17:00. > :17:05.all of us as a human rights movement in Turkey. It is a very, very dark
:17:06. > :17:11.day. A dark day for the Turkish justice system. It has again proved
:17:12. > :17:16.that the law is not being followed. This is a political case. It doesn't
:17:17. > :17:26.have any standing in law. And I think it is a warning to all of us
:17:27. > :17:31.that we have no safety, no security. This is the background to the case.
:17:32. > :17:38.Ten human rights defenders have been detained in Turkey on fifth July
:17:39. > :17:50.during a raid in Istanbul. They say they were making a routine meeting,
:17:51. > :17:55.whereas Turkey's president said they were a coup. Last summer, in Turkey,
:17:56. > :18:01.there was a coup attempt, which is a serious allegation. Yesterday, six
:18:02. > :18:07.of them would be remanded in custody, and four of them were
:18:08. > :18:10.released under judicial control. The prosecutors have 12 days to look
:18:11. > :18:14.into the case, what did they produce in terms of evidence? We don't know
:18:15. > :18:21.much because it is a closed file, but what we can understand from what
:18:22. > :18:25.lawyers say, there is not much evidence, and Amnesty International
:18:26. > :18:33.says there is no evidence, actually. The accusations are based on an
:18:34. > :18:36.anonymous testimony, and also based on human rights defenders
:18:37. > :18:41.Communications, excess. People they have been in touch with before. As a
:18:42. > :18:44.human rights activist, you would imagine they were in contact with
:18:45. > :18:50.groups and people that have been through the courts. Exactly. One of
:18:51. > :18:59.the lawyers earlier told me that, for example, one of the human rights
:19:00. > :19:04.to fenders had received an e-mail and she was accused of being in
:19:05. > :19:09.touch with these people because she received an e-mail or a phone call,
:19:10. > :19:15.for example. Lots of concerns at the moment in Europe about the way
:19:16. > :19:18.Turkey, in the eyes of Europeans, is going backwards with regard to
:19:19. > :19:26.freedom of speech and abuse of human rights, and this will play to that
:19:27. > :19:34.sort of idea. Yeah, and Turkey has been, actually, harshly criticised
:19:35. > :19:42.with regards to its human rights records, after the coup attempt last
:19:43. > :19:51.summer. 50 people have been arrested. Long before that,
:19:52. > :19:57.especially after anti-government protests in 2013, Turkish government
:19:58. > :20:05.has been criticised by human defenders regarding freedom of
:20:06. > :20:08.assembly, freedom of speech, woman writes and minority rights. And last
:20:09. > :20:14.year, for example, Amnesty International published a report
:20:15. > :20:21.saying that Turkish government, during its operation against Kurdish
:20:22. > :20:30.armed group had used excessive force, and punished collectively
:20:31. > :20:33.civilians, and into the four hour curfews, and forced half a million
:20:34. > :20:36.people to migrate inside the country.
:20:37. > :20:51.Since late last year, more than 40,000 miners have invaded
:20:52. > :20:54.a remote area of rainforest in east of the country.
:20:55. > :20:57.But the illegal mining is destroying the home
:20:58. > :20:58.of the Madagascan lemur, which is already
:20:59. > :21:03.In the forests of Madagascar there's a new sound,
:21:04. > :21:07.the sound of men working, poor men who want to get rich.
:21:08. > :21:13.This is the biggest rush in Madagascar for more than 20 years.
:21:14. > :21:16.Tens of thousands of people have moved here to clear
:21:17. > :21:26.Once virgin rainforest, felled and burned now, look,
:21:27. > :21:30.mine shafts and spoil heaps stretch across the valley.
:21:31. > :21:35.Meet Bruno and his sapphires, he's travelled 1,000 miles,
:21:36. > :21:43.Each morning, the work takes him down into the dark.
:21:44. > :22:10.The job is cramped, back breaking and dangerous.
:22:11. > :22:13.In this, one of the poorest countries on earth, that's the dream
:22:14. > :22:19.that keeps them coming, men desperate to
:22:20. > :22:23.See the damage it causes, threatening the habitat of one
:22:24. > :22:26.of the world's rarest animals, the Indri lemur.
:22:27. > :22:36.They're on that side of the valley and they're singing
:22:37. > :22:39.across to the Indri this side. They're known as babakoto here.
:22:40. > :22:41.They're critically endangered and they only live in a very
:22:42. > :22:49.They can't survive in captivity, so when they're gone from here,
:22:50. > :22:57.They spend their lives in the trees eating leaves and fruit and breeding
:22:58. > :23:07.There may be as few as 2,000 left in the wild.
:23:08. > :23:09.Jonah Ratsimbazafy is a world authority on the Indri,
:23:10. > :23:11.he's horrified by the effects of the mining.
:23:12. > :23:18.When people buy sapphires, they kill Indri.
:23:19. > :23:26.So today I'm telling you, stop buying precious stones
:23:27. > :23:35.But how can buyers know, the gems go from mine to capital city,
:23:36. > :23:37.are cut and polished in back street workshops before being
:23:38. > :23:51.Illegal legal mined sapphires are then anonymous
:23:52. > :23:59.Great riches lie beneath this soil, unique wildlife in the trees above,
:24:00. > :24:03.but how does Madagascar extract one without destroying the other.
:24:04. > :24:11.Angus Crawford, BBC News, Madagascar.
:24:12. > :24:19.Just before we go, I want to show you some pictures, these are coming
:24:20. > :24:23.from Poland, thousands of protest is taking to the streets over the last
:24:24. > :24:28.few days over controversial court reforms. These pictures came in
:24:29. > :24:33.early from the capital, Warsaw. The protesters are outside the Supreme
:24:34. > :24:40.Court, which is just opposite where Donald Trump spoke a few weeks ago.
:24:41. > :24:46.A bill was passed last week that gives the parliament more power in
:24:47. > :24:49.the pointing judges. The public and opposition say it violates the
:24:50. > :24:53.constitutional separation of powers. The protests there in Poland. Thank
:24:54. > :24:58.you for being us this evening on Outside Source. Back same time
:24:59. > :25:01.tomorrow, join us for that. Goodbye.