:00:15. > :00:19.Hello, I'm Ros Atkins, this is Outside Source.
:00:20. > :00:30.Just over an hour ago, this happened. OJ Simpson has been
:00:31. > :00:32.granted early release by a Parole Board. He has served nine years for
:00:33. > :00:35.armed robbery. US and European officials say
:00:36. > :00:52.they've shut down the largest This is the largest dark market web
:00:53. > :00:57.page takedown in world history. Jeff Sessions has been scolded by Donald
:00:58. > :00:58.Trump over his decision to stand down from any Russian
:00:59. > :01:04.investigations. There's a general
:01:05. > :01:12.strike in Venezuela. It's the latest effort
:01:13. > :01:41.to oust the government. OJ Simpson has served nine years of
:01:42. > :01:47.33 year sentence for armed robbery. He will be released from prison. Mr
:01:48. > :01:52.Simpson, before I cast my vote, I want to let you know that we believe
:01:53. > :01:58.we are a fair board, we believe we are a consistent board. I will let
:01:59. > :02:08.you know that consistency also goes to parole, and we do not look kindly
:02:09. > :02:13.on parole violations, and if I cast my vote to grant, and it concludes
:02:14. > :02:18.the hearing, our expectation would be that you not violate even the
:02:19. > :02:25.simplest condition for parole. Having said that, I am prepared to
:02:26. > :02:33.cast a vote, I am repaired to ask the condition is -- commissioners to
:02:34. > :02:37.set conditions. The BBC's James Cook is covering this from Los Angeles.
:02:38. > :02:42.For people coming to this story afresh, remind us why he is in
:02:43. > :02:50.prison in the first place? OJ Simpson was imprisoned because of a
:02:51. > :02:53.botched attempt to raid a hotel room in Los Angeles with some armed men,
:02:54. > :02:57.way back nine years ago now, more than nine years ago, in which he
:02:58. > :03:02.tried to get this memorabilia back. One of the men pointed a gun at one
:03:03. > :03:07.of the men in the room and he was subsequently jailed for armed
:03:08. > :03:11.robbery, 433 years. He served nine years of that sentence, and as we
:03:12. > :03:17.heard there at this the Parole Board decided he is eligible to be
:03:18. > :03:23.released on parole. What are the terms of the parole, we told? He
:03:24. > :03:28.will have to behave! That was made very clear to him. The terms of the
:03:29. > :03:33.parole are that he must not reoffend. They also judged that he
:03:34. > :03:39.was at a low risk of reoffending, and they said he had no prior
:03:40. > :03:44.criminal convictions. That raised some eyebrows. Back in the 1990s,
:03:45. > :03:47.there could hardly be anyone in the United States or anywhere around the
:03:48. > :03:52.world who did not know that OJ Simpson did not have a conviction.
:03:53. > :03:57.His chase across Los Angeles when his ex wife and her friend were
:03:58. > :04:02.found dead was covered live on television. His subsequent trial was
:04:03. > :04:06.dubbed the trial of the century, and his acquittal was sensational as
:04:07. > :04:14.well. He was later found to be responsible for the death in a civil
:04:15. > :04:17.suit. People remained divided about OJ Simpson, but one recent poll
:04:18. > :04:23.suggested that only 7% of Americans were sure that he was not a killer.
:04:24. > :04:33.And for a certain generation, he was as big as a star gets. Is he still a
:04:34. > :04:36.household name in the US? He is in the sense that people have memory of
:04:37. > :04:41.his performances in American football. He was generally regarded
:04:42. > :04:45.as a sensational player, both as a college player and when he entered
:04:46. > :04:53.the professional arena. Then he went on to be an actor starring in films
:04:54. > :04:57.such as the towering Inferno, the Naked Gun, and in advertising and
:04:58. > :05:03.commentating on sports. He was a huge name but he has been out of the
:05:04. > :05:06.limelight, he has been in the Lovelock correctional Centre in
:05:07. > :05:11.Nevada for the past nine years. Thank you.
:05:12. > :05:14.Two of the biggest marketplaces on the dark web have been shut down.
:05:15. > :05:17.The dark web is the part of the internet that's only
:05:18. > :05:20.That makes it far easier to remain anonymous or untraceable -
:05:21. > :05:23.and means just about everything gets bought and sold - drugs, weapons,
:05:24. > :05:38.The two websites in question are AlphaBay and Hansa.
:05:39. > :05:40.This is what you now find if you manage to
:05:41. > :05:48.This is because of co-ordinated action by law enforcement agencies
:05:49. > :05:56.This is the US Attorney Jeff Sessions earlier.
:05:57. > :06:06.Today, the Department of Justice announces the takedown of the dark
:06:07. > :06:12.web market Alphabay. This is the largest dark market web takedown in
:06:13. > :06:17.world history. Alphabay staff member claimed that this group serviced
:06:18. > :06:24.more than 40,000 illegal lenders, people who sell illegal products,
:06:25. > :06:28.for more than 200,000 customers -- vendors. By far most of this
:06:29. > :06:34.activity was in illegal drugs, pouring fuel on the fire of the
:06:35. > :06:40.National drug epidemic. You may be wondering have there been lots of
:06:41. > :06:44.arrests as well. The BBC's Gary O'Donoghue was in the press briefing
:06:45. > :06:50.and I spoke to him earlier. That have been a few arrests. The guy who
:06:51. > :06:56.ran Alphabay which was shut down on the 5th of July, he was a Canadian
:06:57. > :07:01.living in Thailand, and he was arrested, but it seems that he
:07:02. > :07:07.committed suicide a week later while in custody in Thailand. There is a
:07:08. > :07:13.bit of a mystery there. The other people in terms of Hansa, some
:07:14. > :07:18.arrests were made in the Netherlands and Germany as well in relation to
:07:19. > :07:21.the European side of it. There is some discussion about Alphabay and
:07:22. > :07:27.some people who work for that in the US getting arrested. I think they
:07:28. > :07:33.are particularly focusing on finding the service, and they have done
:07:34. > :07:38.that, and closing them down and closing down this trade, because of
:07:39. > :07:43.course, Jeff Sessions was very explicit about this, he said
:07:44. > :07:50.Americans have died as a result of buying opioids like heroin and
:07:51. > :07:56.artificial opioids on this Alphabay website. He named some names. It is
:07:57. > :07:59.a big deal for them, particularly because of the coordination they
:08:00. > :08:06.have managed to pull off with other jurisdictions. I think they are
:08:07. > :08:10.trying to send a message that this dark web, and these ways into it,
:08:11. > :08:17.they mentioned a browser as one of the ways you get into that area of
:08:18. > :08:21.anonymous IPs and things like that, they think they are catching up, if
:08:22. > :08:25.you like, with the criminals and they are getting as good at it as
:08:26. > :08:31.the people who are trying to evade and conduct illegal activity. That
:08:32. > :08:35.is one story concerning Jeff Sessions. This is another one.
:08:36. > :08:37.The US Attorney General Jeff Sessions has been just
:08:38. > :08:41.about as loyal to Donald Trump as anyone in the last 18 months -
:08:42. > :08:44.And, as usual, Russia is at the centre of the story.
:08:45. > :08:47.The President says Mr Sessions has been "very unfair" to him.
:08:48. > :08:50.He's talking specifically about this moment.
:08:51. > :08:59.I have now decided to recuse myself from any existing or future
:09:00. > :09:01.investigations of any matter relating in anyway to the campaigns
:09:02. > :09:04.for president of the United States. Mr Sessions recused himself
:09:05. > :09:05.from a Russia investigation after failing to declare a meeting
:09:06. > :09:08.with the Russian ambassador. Here's Mr Trump talking
:09:09. > :09:17.to the New York Times. He said, "Sessions should have
:09:18. > :09:22.never recused himself, and if he was going to recuse
:09:23. > :09:25.himself, he should have told me before he took
:09:26. > :09:37.the job and I would have This is not really a normal day, the
:09:38. > :09:45.president made very disparaging remarks about you, the Attorney
:09:46. > :09:50.General of the United States. Given what he said, what is your reaction
:09:51. > :09:54.to those remarks and how seriously are you considering resigning? I
:09:55. > :09:57.have the honour of serving as Attorney General. It is something
:09:58. > :10:01.that goes beyond any thought I would ever have had for myself. We love
:10:02. > :10:08.this job, we love this department and I plan to continue to do so, as
:10:09. > :10:12.long as that is appropriate. Let's turn to Anthony Snobeck in
:10:13. > :10:17.Washington. I am getting a bit confused by this. How can Jeff
:10:18. > :10:25.Sessions have told Donald Trump he would recuse himself when he did not
:10:26. > :10:28.know that would happen? That is a very good question. The Russian
:10:29. > :10:32.investigation at the time Jeff Sessions was appointed to be
:10:33. > :10:37.Attorney General was just getting started. We did not find out the
:10:38. > :10:41.Trump campaign was under the spotlight until James Komi testified
:10:42. > :10:46.to Congress about a month and a half later. For him to say, and he said
:10:47. > :10:50.during his hearings, that if an investigation was pointed towards
:10:51. > :10:54.the campaign he would recuse himself if he was somehow implicated in it.
:10:55. > :10:59.Jeff Sessions gave the groundwork for when he might recuse himself, he
:11:00. > :11:06.might have seen this could have been on the horizon, for Trump to say if
:11:07. > :11:10.he had known ahead of time for this to happen when there are multiple
:11:11. > :11:17.sets to get to this point, it kind of defies logic. And as ever with Mr
:11:18. > :11:21.Trump's stories, this is in part confusing and certainly unusual.
:11:22. > :11:27.What does it add up to in practical terms? I think it adds up to the
:11:28. > :11:30.fact that once again, he is questioning people within his own
:11:31. > :11:35.administration. He is under cutting some of his own staff. I was reading
:11:36. > :11:40.an article earlier about how people in the White House right now or in
:11:41. > :11:46.shock. If Donald Trump can go after Jeff Sessions, who as you mention
:11:47. > :11:50.was loyal from the start, was probably the first national figure
:11:51. > :11:54.to endorse Donald Trump when he was running for president, when nobody
:11:55. > :11:57.else thought he was going to win, if Donald Trump could start
:11:58. > :12:02.undercutting him, then who is beyond Donald Trump's questioning? Who does
:12:03. > :12:05.he think is safe from being second-guessed? I think there are a
:12:06. > :12:09.lot of people in the White House who are feeling a little uneasy with
:12:10. > :12:12.this development. Anthony, thank you.
:12:13. > :12:22.We have started Outside Source. In a few minutes we will turn to
:12:23. > :12:29.Venezuela. There are protests on the streets and clashes with the police
:12:30. > :12:33.to try and get president Madeira out of power, some thing he says he has
:12:34. > :12:45.no intention of doing. There has been a rise in crime in
:12:46. > :13:01.England and Wales. Here is Daniel Sandford.
:13:02. > :13:10.There has been an increase. What are other is doing about it? -- what are
:13:11. > :13:18.officers doing about it? The first thing is we tackle
:13:19. > :13:21.those who we know are The second thing is around our crime
:13:22. > :13:26.prevention piece so we would encourage people to do the basics
:13:27. > :13:28.around crime prevention. Crime figures are not
:13:29. > :13:30.easy to interpret. A separate survey of people's
:13:31. > :13:32.personal experiences still suggests crime overall is falling
:13:33. > :13:33.but the government's own statisticians think that may be
:13:34. > :13:56.out of date and at least some crimes Our lead story is OJ Simpson has
:13:57. > :14:01.been granted early release after serving nine years of 33 sentence
:14:02. > :14:05.for armed robbery. North Korea is facing severe food
:14:06. > :14:11.shortages after being hit by its worst drought since 2001. That is
:14:12. > :14:17.according to the UN. The most vulnerable, and the elderly, will be
:14:18. > :14:21.worst hit says a report from BBC World Service radio.
:14:22. > :14:30.Teenagers from Burundi taking part in a competition in the US are
:14:31. > :14:36.missing. A team of girls from Afghanistan were originally not
:14:37. > :14:41.allowed to attend the Robotics campaign because of Donald Trump's
:14:42. > :14:45.travel ban. That was resolved. You will remember
:14:46. > :14:52.two years ago Cecil the lion was killed by an American trophy hunter
:14:53. > :14:59.in Zimbabwe. It appears his son has also been killed during a hunt.
:15:00. > :15:04.There is a general strike in Venezuela designed to push president
:15:05. > :15:19.Maduro from power. Roads have been barricaded and there
:15:20. > :15:24.are protesters out on the street. You can see protesters and armed
:15:25. > :15:30.police on the streets. This is nothing new, there have been
:15:31. > :15:35.protests since April. Since April these protests have been going on,
:15:36. > :15:42.dozens of people have been killed. They are all designed to get rid of
:15:43. > :15:49.President Maduro. He says he is not going anywhere. A couple of other
:15:50. > :15:52.things to show you. The national news agency has been putting out
:15:53. > :15:59.images showing people going about their work. This sign says the
:16:00. > :16:02.National Assembly is unstoppable. These are public sector workers
:16:03. > :16:09.apparently showing their support for the government but it is very
:16:10. > :16:16.difficult to judge how natural that photo was. And the situation is
:16:17. > :16:20.febrile. The head of the Association of United States said in a report
:16:21. > :16:24.yesterday, the fear we have, and which we are afraid to say out loud,
:16:25. > :16:29.is that this situation could turn us into a bloodbath.
:16:30. > :16:36.We are broadcasting from the BBC newsroom. We can speak to our
:16:37. > :16:43.Americas editor. Here she is assessing the scale of the protests.
:16:44. > :16:49.People in Caracas woke up to shops closed and barricades in the main
:16:50. > :16:54.highways. There is no traffic. This may be replicated in other cities as
:16:55. > :16:59.well. It seems to be quite a big strike. The last time they tried
:17:00. > :17:03.this was in 2002 and it lasted over months and months, when they were
:17:04. > :17:11.trying to get rid of President Maduro predecessor Hugo Chavez. Why
:17:12. > :17:17.does the president say he has no need to listen to these protesters?
:17:18. > :17:24.He feels that they are criminal, that they are engaged in an economic
:17:25. > :17:31.war against him, and are backed by what he says are foreign forces. He
:17:32. > :17:38.usually means the US in this case. For him, he feels he is arguing that
:17:39. > :17:43.they are stopping him from creating a peaceful situation and tackling
:17:44. > :17:51.the economic difficulties in the country is having. The president
:17:52. > :17:57.would argue that despite the fact he is elected he has got to go because?
:17:58. > :18:03.He is taking away their rights. They have been striking since March when
:18:04. > :18:08.the Supreme Court is simply decided to take over the role of the
:18:09. > :18:14.National Congress. We have seen months and months and months of near
:18:15. > :18:19.daily protests, mostly from young people who have no jobs. The schools
:18:20. > :18:24.are closed and the economy is in tatters. So this is not a one-day
:18:25. > :18:28.strike, it could roll on further? They tend to take it day by day.
:18:29. > :18:32.They tend to gauge what the situation is on the day before they
:18:33. > :18:44.make those decisions. Let's look at this two each from
:18:45. > :18:50.Elon Musk, the man behind Tesla. He said, just received verbal
:18:51. > :18:58.government approval to build an underground and why Phil Baltimore,
:18:59. > :19:04.DC hyperlink. I will need some help to understand that. Here is Samir
:19:05. > :19:11.Hussein in New York. These tweets from anybody else would not be taken
:19:12. > :19:17.very seriously, but Elon Musk has and for making the impossible
:19:18. > :19:23.somewhat closer to reality and the case in point is space X and Tesla.
:19:24. > :19:28.He says he has some verbal approval from someone in the government that
:19:29. > :19:35.he can build a hyperlink. We have already seen some tests for the
:19:36. > :19:38.hyperlink. It is a superfast train he says between New York and the
:19:39. > :19:42.Washington corridor he will be able to build the hyperlink which will
:19:43. > :19:47.allow us to get from one place to another in 29 minutes. Anyone in
:19:48. > :19:51.this corridor will at this news because trying to get between the
:19:52. > :19:56.two places is very difficult, especially now we have so many train
:19:57. > :20:01.derailment and so many slowdowns. That said, it is unclear who he got
:20:02. > :20:05.this tacit approval from. Really, if you wanted to get something like
:20:06. > :20:09.this off the ground, you would have to go to each individual state.
:20:10. > :20:13.There would be environmental rules to go through and it would be mired
:20:14. > :20:19.in so much red tape that it is hard to believe one governmental
:20:20. > :20:24.organisation picked up the phone and said go for it. This is the man who
:20:25. > :20:29.is building the world's biggest battery in Australia at the moment.
:20:30. > :20:35.Let's talk about easyJet. Sales have gone up by 16% over the last three
:20:36. > :20:45.months and the profit forecast is up for the year. Here is one analyst on
:20:46. > :20:49.the news. This year we have had much better punctuality and a few other
:20:50. > :20:54.things coming to fruition. People are still wanting to spend on
:20:55. > :20:59.holidays and travel and prioritising that. You have seen despite capacity
:21:00. > :21:03.being added across the industry, easyJet has been able to sell more
:21:04. > :21:11.seats to more people. The world's largest comic book
:21:12. > :21:17.convention is being held in San Diego. 130,000 people show up. Here
:21:18. > :21:24.is one comic artist talking about how Hollywood is starting to
:21:25. > :21:31.influence his industry. It is more comic book themed than ever. The
:21:32. > :21:38.movies are starting to prove that. These movies are reaching a new
:21:39. > :21:43.audience. With every new Marvel movie and every DC one, and even
:21:44. > :21:50.comics like the Walking Dead, really helps the business. We had the first
:21:51. > :22:01.issue of the Avengers in the shop and it sold ?4000. We will shift
:22:02. > :22:05.from San Diego to South Africa. Allegations of high-level corruption
:22:06. > :22:10.are being fuelled by a leak of confidential e-mails. Mixed up in
:22:11. > :22:18.the scandal is a British PR company which is accused of fuelling racial
:22:19. > :22:25.tensions. Andrew Harding has this report. These are murky times in
:22:26. > :22:30.South Africa. Leaked e-mails are fuelling
:22:31. > :22:42.accusations of a giant political scandal. A grievous crime has been
:22:43. > :22:48.committed against the people of South Africa. By President Zuma?
:22:49. > :23:00.President Zuma comes across to me as an aid -- aider and a better. The
:23:01. > :23:07.group tos hired a British public relations firm Bell Pottinger to try
:23:08. > :23:14.and improve their public image. The company distracted from the issue by
:23:15. > :23:21.highlighting racial disruption. What they did is appalling. They sewed
:23:22. > :23:28.back into our nation is strong racial narrative, with the history
:23:29. > :23:33.of our country, I think it is indefensible. A social media
:23:34. > :23:38.campaign against the power of white businesses went ugly. Was part of a
:23:39. > :23:46.black Ops propaganda campaign to get the media off this corrupt network's
:23:47. > :23:51.back. Africa is ours, it is not yours. Soon, the vitriol was
:23:52. > :23:55.spilling onto the streets. A radical group with alleged ties to the group
:23:56. > :24:01.tos began threatening white journalists who had investigated
:24:02. > :24:06.high-level corruption. You are worried about the book tos because
:24:07. > :24:12.you believe they are organising black people to take the wealth back
:24:13. > :24:20.-- you are worried about the Guptas. But a backlash followed against the
:24:21. > :24:24.Guptas, President Zuma and Bell Pottinger's highly controversial
:24:25. > :24:30.role. Eventually, the company dropped the Guptas as clients,
:24:31. > :24:37.apologised for an offensive and inappropriate campaign, sacked the
:24:38. > :24:43.partner in charge and launched an internal investigation. Many here
:24:44. > :24:48.believe Bell Pottinger must do much more. If they want to truly retain
:24:49. > :24:53.some credibility of the saga, it must be on the basis of total
:24:54. > :24:59.transparency. That makes my blood boil. It makes me so angry that
:25:00. > :25:08.essentially they came here to destroy what we have painstakingly
:25:09. > :25:13.painfully built. That anger is now fuelling a larger fight back against
:25:14. > :25:19.corruption within the governing a MC and what many fear is this country's
:25:20. > :25:24.dangerous decline. -- the governing ANC. That is a
:25:25. > :25:29.complex story, if you would like more information on it, you can find
:25:30. > :25:33.it via the BBC website. If you have a smartphone but you don't have the
:25:34. > :25:40.BBC News at One you can put that right by going to the App Store and
:25:41. > :25:42.searching for BBC News and you can download it quickly.
:25:43. > :25:45.In the next half of Outside Source we will hear from Katya Adler with
:25:46. > :25:52.her verdict on the second round Brexit talks and we will have a
:25:53. > :25:57.report on the first day of the Open, the golf, that is. Plus many more
:25:58. > :26:09.stories from around the world. I will speak to you in a minute.
:26:10. > :26:15.Hello. There will be a detailed look at the weather here in the United
:26:16. > :26:18.Kingdom just before the top of the hour. First, it is time for some
:26:19. > :26:20.world weather