19/07/2017 Outside Source

Hello, I'm Ros Atkins, this is Outside Source.

Two weeks on from the G20 it's been revealed that Donald Trump

and Vladimir Putin spent more time together than we realised.

The White House says it was normal - not everyone agrees.

It makes the president frankly and disturbingly not credible in the

White House response. Saudi Arabia and its allies have

dropped their demands of Qatar. And issued six broad

principles instead. That's a climb-down

in most people's eyes. With Venezuela's economy near

collapse and unrest on the rise - many are people crossing into Brazil

which is now struggling Families are sleeping on the floor

of the gymnasium. With more arrivals every week, some families are having

to sleet outside. We'll play you a report

by Rebecca Morelle on what's being done to save the northern

white rhino. And in OS Sport - all the latest

on the Tour de France. Now, an intriguing

development in the Gulf. Those four states which cut

ties with Qatar have Go back six weeks - Saudi Arabia,

the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain They included - stop funding

to the Muslim Brotherhood and close Al Jazeera,

which is funded by Qatar. Qatar refused those

two, and the other 11. Now the group has come back with six

new broad principles. These include a commitment

to fighting terrorism and a demand to cease interfering with other

countries' internal affairs. On these principles they said

there would be "no compromise". But then they said

much the same before. I spoke to the BBC's Arab Affairs

Analyst, Sebastian Usher, to find out where this

leaves the crisis. In a sense, we are almost back to

square one, where they started before this list of very specific

demands was presented. There was a deadline of ten days for that. The

Qataris rejected it out of hand, saying it was an attack on their

sovereignty. These six core principles that the four countries

now say they are united around is not going to be something that the

Qataris can accept in that form at the moment. It has put the whole

burden of being the alleged sponsor of terrorism in the region is capped

half. Cats are wooden not accept that as it was, but it would not

accept that coming from those other countries. Isn't one of the problem

is that the last couple of months has damage relations so much that

finding a way out of it now becomes very difficult. What these senior

diplomats have said who gave this press conference in which they

announce these principles was that there was no return to the status

quo, which essentially means that Qatar cannot continue as it has

been. Those principles include that Qatar must stop inciting speech

which can create hate, and that is directed still at Al Jazeera, at the

other media outlets that Qatar has. That is saying to them, we want to

control the way that you run... Al Jazeera was for a long time the main

thing that people knew about Qatar. That's something they can't accept.

We will be talking to Sebastian more about that in the coming days.

Let's start with the Tour de France and this man,

He's extended his lead to 27 seconds at the end of Stage 17.

Marc Tudor-Edwards is at the BBC Sport Centre for us.

A good day, but still tight. Very much. There's been plenty of drama

as we approach the business end of the tour. Leading sprinter Marcel

Kittel, who already has five stage victories, crashed out on

Wednesday's stage 17, while Primoz Roglic touch claimed the stage wind.

The Slovenian competing in his first Tour De France showed he's still at

home in the mountains. The defending champion Chris Froome was third and

extended his overall lead in the yellow jersey to 27 seconds.

However, Marcel Kittel had to withdraw after a crash around 20

kilometres after the start. Looking at the general classification,

confirmation that Chris Froome is chasing a fourth Tour De France

title in five years. He leads that now, ahead of Rigoberto Uran and

Romang bar day. His closest challenger before that Wednesday

stage was Fabio Aroo. Michael Matthews is now in the green jersey

as the points classification leader. He now has an impressive 160 point

cushion. State 18 on Thursday is 179.5 kilometres. It will be the

last mountain stage of the Tour De France. An altitude of over 1300

metres, the highest town in the European Union. Some big lungs

needed. Thanks for that. In the Netherlands, England

are playing Scotland tonight Last time I checked, it was 6-0. It

has been a particularly good night for this woman, Jody Taylor. A tweet

here from the lionesses, saying that there has been the first hat-trick

of the tournament. And earlier, Spain had

a strong win over Portugal Vicky Losada scored one of the goals

and Amanda Sampedro the other. And you might have seen this

sad story on Sunday - Ajax midfielder Abdelhak Nouri

collapsed during a training match. It's now emerged he suffered

permanent brain damage. One of his friends,

the Manchester United player Timothy Fosu Mensah, has been

talking to the BBC's Simon Stone. I played with him since the age of

eight. I know him in and out, so it's very strange that this happens

to someone who is so close to you. It's not easy for me, but I'm here,

and I have to focus, and every time I have contact with his brother or

my team that I played with at Ajax... How is his brother and his

family? Do you mean mentally? Definitely hurt, broken, but these

are strong people. They believe in God, and so do why, so everything,

just leave it in the hands of God. We wish him well. Apologies that the

pictures before that were slightly in the wrong order.

Thailand has just held its biggest ever human trafficking trial.

There were over 100 defendants - and more than 60 people

were found guilty - including this man,

Charges also included kidnap and murder.

The people that were trafficked were Bangladeshi nationals

and Rohinja Muslims - they are a persecuted

minority in Myanmar, mostly from Rakhine state.

These were some of the trafficking routes used -

This trial was sparked by the discovery of mass graves

of refugees in jungle camps near the Thai-Malaysian border,

Here's our Asia Pacific Editor, Celia Hatton.

It was a gruesome discovery. In a remote part of the jungle, not far

from Thailand's border with Malaysia, dozens of shallow graves.

In this jungle camp traffickers help migrants as hostages, demanding

money from desperate relatives to secure their release. Rape and

torture were common. Those who couldn't pay were killed. A

crackdown on these camps led to thousands, mainly Rohinja Muslims,

fleeing Myanmar to be put into boats and left adrift. Floating Coffin is,

they were called, as the BBC reported at the time. We have heard

about this boat for the last five or six days. They have been cast

adrift. They've told people on the phone they have no food and water,

and they are in terrible shape. They are begging for help. They are now

in tire-macro waters, but they have had no help from long time. No

country wanted to take in these refugees. Images like these

broadcast worldwide forced the authorities to do more to shut down

lucrative trafficking routes. More than 100 people, including

high-ranking officials, were indicted TRANSLATION: I think the

court's ruling will be tough so that no one else will dare commit this

crime. This is a way to tell the world that

human trafficking is forbidden in Thailand. The trial has been

criticised. The lead investigator said his case was shut down early

before more arrests could be made. Witnesses say they have been

threatened and intimidated by the authorities. Activists say the

region's trafficking networks are very much alive. Their only hope

that harsh sentences handed down by the court might serve as a warning

to those involved. Stay with us on Outside

Source - still to come. There are just three white

rhinos left in the world - we'll play you a report

from our science correspondent about what's being done

to save them. A big clean-up operation has been

taking place in Cornwall, after the flash floods that swept

through the village of Coverack Our correspondent Jon Kay has

spent the day there, Look at the mess, all

this mud everywhere. Back home, but it's not

the home they know and love. Chris and Penny's place

has been trashed. The water was higher

than their heads. And here they are last night,

as the water raged below, the couple airlifted to safety

by the coastguard. I just wanted to get

and out and get away. They told me it was heartbreaking

to look down from the helicopter It was just like the Titanic

sinking, you know? That made me upset,

and he was crying and upset. He worked so hard and made it

so nice, and then we get Torrential rain, then

tonnes of water thundering down from the hills,

carrying everything in its wake. Mary has found her elderly

mother's walking frame among It's happened, we can't put it back,

we've just got to get on and carry It will get back to normal,

we're Cornish - that's what we do. The mud and rocks can be cleared

quickly, but major structural The main road into Coverack looks

like it's been ripped At this time of year,

there'd normally be thousands of holiday-makers

driving down this road every day, to get to the harbour,

but it's going to be a while before Caroline Davies was

rescued from this car. Today she realised how close she'd

been to where the road collapsed. It really is, to think one day

you're just driving along They're used to bad weather here,

but they hope they won't have to deal with anything too extreme

for a while. This is Outside Source,

live from the BBC newsroom. It's been revealed Donald Trump

and Vladimir Putin had a second, undisclosed meeting at the G20

earlier this month. The White House has called

it "perfectly normal". The head of the French

armed forces has quit. It because of a very

public disagreement with President Macron

over budget cuts. General de Villiers says he no

longer feels "able to guarantee the robust defence force I believe

is necessary to guarantee President Macron says "It is not

dignified to hold certain Maybe, but this isn't

the first resignation - These four were all senior ministers

- but resigned last month This is Nicholas Vinocur

from Politico. What we are getting now is

essentially commentary which could be damaging, and could affect his

popularity. It is having an effect on his popularity, which was very

high, to some degree, but on the whole, the president will weather

through this. It is general de Villiers who has left, and the

president is still in place. I would suggest that this episode is going

to pass. From France to Poland. Last night we showed you pictures

from protests in Poland - the Parliament there recently

approved a bill to giving to giving MPs new powers over

the selection of judges. These laws increase the systemic

threat to the rule of law. Each law, if adopted, would seriously erode

the independence of the Polish judiciary. Collectively, they would

abolish any remaining judicial independence, and put the judiciary

under full political control of the government.

At the same press conference, Mr Timmermans also said this.

"Given the latest developments, we are getting very close

Article seven is sometimes described as the EU's nuclear option -

it can lead to the suspension of a member country's voting rights.

The leader of Poland's governing party, Jaroslaw Kaczynski,

has accused the European Commission of waging a political

attack against his party's proposed judicial reforms.

I spoke to a Polish journalist a little bit earlier. She outlined the

government's justification for the new laws. According to the

government, a reform of the judiciary has been long overdue,

because currently it is a clique of judges who serve only the elite, and

the state media, currently controlled by the government, so

technically working as a means of propaganda, they have been putting

out this image of corrupt judges for months now. I think it is the plan

of the government to change it in order to, in my opinion, for the

government to manipulate the election outcome in the coming year,

as local elections are coming. The EU are talking about article seven.

Will that be a concern to the government? I think it will be, but

the chances of articles seven to work are not very high, as Mr

I don't think right now it is a concern, if Viktor Orban sticks to

his word. We talk about the problems

in Venezuela a lot - extended anti-government protests,

violent crime, food shortages, thousands are fleeing -

and Brazil is the destination Entire families are walking over

the border to get there there. Katy Watson has been

to a Brazilian border state - specifically, to a town called

Boa Vista - she sent this report. It's a simple meal, but one that

people here are grateful for. The lunch queue at the shelter in Boa

Vista is getting longer every day. The shelter has been open for just

over six months. They are opening medical help, vaccinations, food and

shelter. Families are sleeping on the floor of the gymnasium, but with

more arriving every week, families are having to sleep outside. Oscar

says his family came here to find work. He shows me around his new

home, a piece of tarpaulin under which he and his family eat and

sleep. He, like hundreds of his community, say they are having to

flee Venezuelans just to be able to eat. But hunger is not the only

thing forcing Venezuelans out. TRANSLATION: They arrived here very

scared, traumatised, and they tell us stories of persecution and

torture. Some arrive mentally damaged, crying a lot. This mother

of two has a degree in education. She is having to resort to ask for

work at the traffic lights. Washing windscreens is one way to make ends

meet. TRANSLATION: I was thinking of my

kids future, for their food, to pay for medicine if they are ill. In

Venezuela, they don't give you anything. The number of Venezuelan

sex workers in Boa Vista is also on the rise. This mother of three says

she can now support her family, who lives with her here. Three hours up

the road is the border with Venezuelan, a busy crossing point

this day. William has brought this mountain of cash to buy 14 sacks of

sugar for his ice cream shop. It is a 12 hour car journey each way, but

leaving it even longer would mean carrying even more cash like this,

and robberies on the road are common TRANSLATION:.

In order to live, you have to go to another country. Sleeping on the

streets of Brazil is more about survival than living, but these

Venezuelans say it is still better than back home. Many others continue

the long journey to find a better quality of life, while many stay

put. Let's learn about a radical plan to

help the the northern white rhino. There are only three left -

and Longleat Safari Park is using the rhino's closest

relatives to try As you can see,

Rebecca Morelle is there. Meet Ebun - a seven-year-old

southern white rhino who could A little agitated at first,

but soon she is sound asleep. She is ready to take

part in an experimental Scientists are harvesting her eggs

to be fertilised in a lab. The team here are keeping an

incredibly close eye on this rhino. It is essential she stays

under heavy sedation. Over the last week or so she's been

given hormone treatment, but what's been done today

requires millimetre precision. Egg collection is really only

a technique that has been This is conservation science

at its most extreme. Here's the animal Ebun could save,

her closest living relative, Once widespread across central

Africa, today there are just Back at Longleat in

a makeshift laboratory, They will take this southern white

rhino egg and mix it with sperm from one of the last northern white

rhinos, creating a hybrid. Scientists say it is better

than losing the species altogether. The last three can die at any time,

they are not as old but anything can happen to them and then

all their genetics would be lost. If we have at least 50% of this

species preserved in a hybrid embryo, we would preserve at least

half of this for future generations. With her job done,

Ebun is soon back on her feet. The safari park is proud

of the role she will play. With the northern white rhino

being so jeopardised in numbers, practising these techniques

with southern whites is a huge advance in science

and conservation, I suppose. It's a real honour

to be able to help. The eggs are now being rushed back

to a laboratory in Italy. There is a 20-hour window to prepare

them for fertilisation. They could be implanted back

into Ebun, but with her northern cousins so close to extinction,

it's a race against time. We talk about the problems

in Venezuela a lot - Hello. No doubt about it, the

weather has taken a turn for the unsettled. Quite a dramatic turn.