31/07/2017 Outside Source

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

Blink and you'll miss it at the White House.

The New York Times is reporting that the president has fired Anthony

Scaramucci, his new director of indications who was only hard ten

days ago. The Islamic State group has launched an -- on the Iraqi

embassy on Kabul. We will look at the -- and where it leaves America's

position in Afghanistan. This is Venezuela, the fallout from the

weekend's election which was to elect a constituent to the assembly.

Here is the president. With the hurricane example you have set

today, more than 8 million votes by the sovereign people of Venezuela.

We will also talk about Apple getting caught up in an argument

around censorship in China. It is polled various VPNs, facilities that

help people get around censorship in China. We will explain that as well.

Things are moving at speed in Washington, DC.

In the past hour the White House confirmed Anthony Scaramucci

will leave role as White House communications director

to give chief of staff John Kelly a "Clean Slate".

Bear in mind he hasn't officially started the job. That was slated to

happen in August. This was the first we've heard of this story in the New

York Times. All this means we are paying very close attention to this

feed coming in from Washington, and this is where Sarah Huckerby

Sanders, the White House spokesperson will be. Here she is.

Let's listen to what she has to say. Good afternoon, everyone. I would

like to bring out a national security adviser and Treasury

Secretary to discuss their response to Nicolas Maduro's regimes actions

in Venezuela. As always, your favourite time of day, I will come

back and take your questions. I thought it might be best to read the

President's statement. The Trump administration has called on

Venezuela to respect... We will keep an eye on that but the person we

really want to hear from is Sarah Sanders, not speaking yet so as soon

as she does we will turn to that. Let's bring in Barbara Platt Usher,

live from Washington. I guess if we have learnt anything from the

statement from the White House, it is that when Mr Apple was hired, Mr

Trump didn't intend to get rid of his previous chief of staff. Either

that or he didn't tend to get rid of him in the way it happened because

Mr Trump has not said anything about the way Mr Scaramucci handled that.

Mr Scaramucci was quite upfront and abrasive about that relationship and

ultimately gave an interview to the New Yorker where he spoke about the

former chief of staff, Reince Priebus, with very vulgar language

full of profanities and that became the big story, ultimately leading to

Reince Priebus's departure. We knew Mr Trump might have wanted him to

depart anyway but perhaps not in that way. What we understand from

some American media is that the new chief of staff, John Kelly, who is

hoping to impose more discipline on the White House, so that may be one

of the main factors in terms of white mistress Scaramucci is leaving

now. Let's try to push the colourful characters to one side, what are the

practical consequences of having this much chopping and changing

within the President's working environment? The big answer to that,

it means things cannot get done. You have the White House working with

Congress to pass legislation and execute policy in agencies but the

team in the White House, the staff and the National Security Council,

are the ones who helped to push it forward and coordinate it and that

needs some clear direction from the White House, it means everybody

should be speaking from the same page and have a tour here in message

and it needs a strong chief of staff. If the West Wing is riven by

factional fighting and different ideologies and people who can speak

their minds freely and wander into the oval office and tell the

president what they think without going through a chain of command, it

becomes difficult to do that and we saw last week the most chaotic

example when that kind of infighting which had been widely reported not

just between Anthony Scaramucci and Reince Priebus but between other

factions, nursed out into the open. The story was broken by the New York

Times. I want to pull off a tweet from a couple of hours ago, there

are two types of nonfamily members entrance word, permanent and

instruments. Sometimes instruments think they are permanent. There was

no questioning Mr Scaramucci's commitment to Mr Trump yet it has

come to nothing. It's interesting, we understand he was brought in

because Mr Trump liked his style, he comes from the same rough-and-tumble

New York culture that Mr Trump comes from, he called himself a front

stabber rather than a backstabber and we were told Mr Trump believed

he would do a better job than his then spokesman of defending him and

promoting him and trying to get him good press and he liked that attack

dog starts that Mr Scaramucci had, but it seems like Mr Scaramucci went

too far. Mr Trump didn't say anything about his tie rate but

sources were reported saying he wasn't happy to be associated with

the vulgarity, but there is also speculation among reporters that he

had an Icarus syndrome, flew too close to the son and his wings

melted, he became the story rather than the President. You never want

to do that. Barbara, keep us posted. We will turn back to Washington when

the press briefing turns to Sarah Sanders.

It was inevitable there would be fall-out from Venezuela's election.

At stake was the make up of the constituent assembly.

This body isn't a permanent body, it doesn't always exist within

Venezuela but it does exist if changes to the Constitution are

needed. Officials in Venezuela voter -- will tell you the turnout was

over 42%, the opposition says 90% abstaining. We know voters were

choosing members of a joint assembly, this assembly will look

into the government's adding to the current constitution. Opposition

groups fear this could mean Nicolas Maduro trying to extend his time as

president and this is what we are seeing in Caracas, significant

violence, ten people died and the presence of the authorities on the

street was very visible. Nicolas Maduro was delighted, there he is

celebrating with his supporters and we will look in a minute at his

position but this is interesting, in the last few minutes we have heard

the US Treasury Department would designate Nicolas Maduro for

sanctions for undermining democracy. That is a congressional source

talking to Reuters, saying the Treasury may look to target the

president himself with sanctions. Let's talk to will ground, live in

Caracas. If that report proves to be true, it's another piece of evidence

of how Venezuela or its president is becoming a united front huge swathes

of the international community. -- a united. The US said it would take

swift and strong action in the wake of the vote and this would appear to

be targeted action against top members of the administration, in

this case Nicolas Maduro himself. They have already taken sanctions

against 13 members of feathers ministration and the US Treasury

Secretary described him as a dictator, saying yesterday's

illegitimate elections confirm he is a dictator who disregards the will

of the people, so they are not brokering any kind of dissent on

this, they are clear this is a step towards dictator ship and they will

be taking actions against him personally in terms of freezing his

assets or any assets he has in the US. We should point out that America

has a long history of interfering in democracies in Latin America and has

not quite such a long history of opposing not just Nicolas Maduro but

his predecessor, Hugo Chavez. Mr Chavez and US, and President Obama

and George Bush Junior, were at loggerheads through his time in

office, Washington has a long and bloody and shameful history in Latin

America, the involvement of the CAA in and doing democratic elections

from 1954 in court mother right through until Cuba, who has felt the

brunt of Washington policies towards it over the decades. On this, I feel

like the vast majority of Venezuelans are internally moving

against the government now because they are tired of his policies they

don't think they are working, they are experiencing long queues,

rampant inflation, rising crime, he is no Hugo Chavis but that

traditional supporters of travellers are also rejecting him. If I were

with you in Caracas, would I be aware of the unrest or visit quite

localised? You probably would. You have to be just around by motor bike

a lot because barricades are set up on street corners, a lot of people

are not going out so there is an eerie calm quite often. I lived in

Caracas for several years and it is a choking, chaotic, traffic ridden

city but not at the moment, you can barely see any cars and the country

feels like it's in a strange limbo as everyone waits to see what the

next step is. Well, thank you. We have also be live in Washington, but

next we will stay here in London. The British Prime Minister's

spokesperson has insisted that the free movement of people

will end in March 2019 when the UK It follows days of public

disagreement between cabinet ministers over what immigration

rules will be after Brexit. Some viewers might think, I thought

we knew where the government stood on this. This is a familiar refrain

from the Prime Minister, reaffirming the position that free movement will

come to an end in March 2019, but this is a central issue and has been

central in the referendum and in recent weeks we have had Cabinet

ministers putting competing views about what they would like to see in

the immediate aftermath of Brexit, there is now a consensus there will

be some interim arrangement, some are calling it a transitional deal

and what exactly happens in this implementation period is what has

been up for discussion, various ministers taking to the airwaves to

present their ideas, Philip Hammond suggesting nothing will really

change on the day we leave and new migration rules might take some time

to come into force but Theresa May's spokesperson says free movement is

coming to an end, according to the government in March 2019. In

different circumstances if ministers behave like this they might get

their marching orders but these are not normal circumstances. No, there

has been signs of Cabinet in discipline, Theresa May have to

chastise ministers for leaking details of meetings to the press and

has had to reassert authority after days of squabbles from competing

camps in the Cabinet, from readers and Remainer is debating in public

about what they would like to see in terms of the deal, whether it would

defy the result of the referendum, so Theresa May trying to stamp

authority and cite this is what is happening but whether ministers will

pay attention, there are many weeks to go while Parliament is on

holiday. Thank you, Leila. In the few minutes we will turn to

Afghanistan because there is been a suicide attack outside the Iraqi

embassy in Kabul. The Islamic State group is aiming responsibility. We

will look at the consequences but also the broader issues it raises of

how to take on IS. The government wants to recruit

another 21,000 mental health workers. The Royal College of

Nursing has questioned whether enough new staff can be trained in

time that Jeremy Hunt says he is confident. There are people who were

trained in mental health and psychiatrists who are not currently

in the NHS and we have a programme to attract them back and we want to

say to them, we probably have the biggest expansion in mental health

provision at Europe, we are proud of what you're doing but we still have

too many people in this country, where a jungle life is blighted

because we're not getting them the mental health care they need quickly

enough. The New York Times is reporting

that the president has fired Anthony Scaramucci, his new director of

indications who was only hired ten On that subject, we can guess what

questions the White House spokesperson might get asked. Let's

listen. He does not have a role at this time in the Trump

Administration, we put out a statement earlier announcing that

and I don't have much else to say. Did General Kelly ask him to leave

or did the president asked him to leave? Did he volunteer? I will not

get into the process. What matters most to us is not who was employed

in the White House but he was employed in the rest of the country,

we are focused on the President's agenda of growing the economy and

creating jobs. Was it a chain of command issue because Scaramucci

said he had a direct line of communication to the President?

There has been speculation that General Kelly may have tried to

tighten up, so was it something about the chain of command or didn't

have anything to do with the interview he gave last week? The

president felt that Anthony's comments were inappropriate for a

person in that position and he didn't want to burden General Kelly

with that line of succession, as I think we have made clear over the

course of the last few days, General Kelly has the full authority to

operate within the White House and all staff report to him. When you

say you didn't want to burden him with that line of succession, could

you clarify one point about this chain of command, apparently Jarrod

Kushner and Donald Trump said they look forward to following General

Kelly's lead, will that conduit of people with access to the president

been narrowed down or will everything flow through General

Kelly? The president has given full authority to General Kelly. This

statement about the White House says Mr Scaramucci felt it was best to

give John Kelly a clean state to build his own team but you just said

the president felt his comments were inappropriate. I don't see those as

being mutually exclusive. Anthony once General Kelly to be able to

operate with a clean slate grabbed the president felt his comments were

inappropriate. With the new hierarchy with General Kelly, tell

us what it looks like with this administration. General Kelly will

bring a new structure to the White House and discipline and strength

and we're all excited to work him and I will not draw a chart appear

but we will keep you guys posted. Stephen Bannon, everyone reports to

him rather than going to the press, does everyone go to General Kelly

first? General Kelly has the full authority to carry out business. I

have a real quick one regarding Sean Spicer, will he be in the

administration in anyway now that Anthony Scaramucci will not be part

of the administration? I'm not aware of any changes. Ten days ago Anthony

Scaramucci was introduced as the new communications director and is now

out of a job. The president announced there is no chaos at the

White House. How would you describe what has happened over the past ten

days? You agree with your boss the president there is no chaos but how

would you explain that not to be the case? If you want to see chaos, come

to my house with three preschoolers. Just to be clear, that is not an

open invitation to my house but if you guys want to shed your

baby-sitting time, I will be happy to work that out. Does the president

regret hiring Anthony Scaramucci? I will not get into anything on that

front. You said that Scaramucci felt so you are saying this was his

decision. Was it? The president felt it was inappropriate, Anthony and

General Kelly came to a mutual agreement and we are focusing on the

jobs outside this building. Just to clarify because I want to make sure

I understand the word he's here, he didn't want to burden General Kelly

with that line of succession. The president. So it was the president

deciding... We all serve at the pleasure of the president but this

was a mutually agreed conversation. On Russia sanctions, did you know

whether the president intends to sign the Russia sanctions bill and

why hasn't the president taken the opportunities he has had today to

say something in response to Vladimir Putin's retaliation with

that 755. We put out a statement stating the President's intent to

sign and we will let you know when that is going to take place. In

terms of your second question, the follow-up? Why hasn't he taken the

chance to say something to President Putin, it is striking the silence

from the president with no response, he had a couple of chances to say

something about it and didn't. We are reviewing our options and we

have something to say on that, we will let you know. You said earlier

all staff will report to the new chief of staff, does that include Mr

Kushner and Mr Bannon? That includes everyone at the White House. Will

the administration support the tax overhaul that comes out of the ways

and Means committee. We pitted a joint statement with the big six, we

will continue working with them and announce details. When Sean Spicer

resigned it was for a clean slate, now that Scaramucci has resigned, it

is also for a clean slate. Is the slate completely clean or should we

expect any more shake-ups? Is the staff settled? They are. Is there

any chance you will leave the job of communications director alone,

having had two people leave rather abruptly? We will let you know when

we have any personnel announcements. When the president made his speech

to police on Friday, within minutes statements came from police chiefs

across the country criticising his remarks that seem to endorse the use

of force by police in search arrests. Was the president joking

when he said this or did he checked his remarks with the International

Association of police chiefs or the Attorney General? I believe he was

making a joke. The statement says Anthony Scaramucci is no longer with

the Administration, was he fired by the president or asked to resign? I

will not get into any more. You said this was back and forth

conversation, can you take us through what the president is

looking for in the communications job, why he might make clean slate?

I believe he wants to work with General Kelly in the communications

team intact right now and determine the best course forward. On reports

that Attorney General Sessions is being considered for homeland

security chief accurate? How soon will dot search be complete? There

are no conversations about any cabinet members moving and the

president has confidence in all members of his cabinet. One question

on the Scaramucci issue, you said the president found his remarks

inappropriate. Can you specify what he found inappropriate? He found it

inappropriate for a person in that position. I believe the comments he

made, he found them inappropriate. Is it up the trail of the rest of

the staff? You talk about the messaging for the president and the

communications department is crucial so am trying to find out what went

wrong between this morning and this afternoon. I don't think it's

complex to understand the president found the remarks inappropriate. I

cannot explain it further. We had some speculation about the

possibility of a first strike. Is that option on the table? The

president will not broadcast any decisions but all options are on the

table. The president signed an executive order on infrastructure,

does that mean the president has no intention and will not be a tide

working with Congress on the infrastructure build? Is there any

discussion about moving forward with any legislation for infrastructure,

especially digital? The president has been outspoken on the need for a

massive overhaul to the country's infrastructure and that is still a

priority in any capacity he has the ability to carry that out. We have

seen the chief of staff, deputy chief of staff, communications

directors and national security adviser all leave in six months. Can

you tell us why there has been all this turbulence? I know you don't

like to get into the process but what is going on? We are focusing on

the President's agenda. We will let you know when there are staff

changes but what matters to us are not the jobs in this building but

the ones outside, that is why the president has been focused on

growing jobs. We have created over 1 million new jobs since he took

office, the lowest unemployment in 16 years. We are focused on

recruiting a strong economy and growing jobs outside this building,

not the ones with them. A follow-up on health care. Nick Mulvey in White

House does want any votes in the Senate until they are in the Senate

and you are also pushing for the nominees, is the White House's

position to accept voting on non-healthcare things in the next

few months? We're pushing forward with the repeal and replace of

Obamacare, we will continue that. The President's tax reform

admissions were being discussed and can you elaborate on his hope to

travel in August to begin to talk about tax cuts and tax reform and

his interest in getting some Democratic senators to support his

legislation. You have any details about where he might go and his

message? Not at this time but we will keep you guys posted on his

travel schedule in August and he hopes to have a large amount of

support for tax reform, it is vital to our economy and something the

administration is focused on and will continue working with the house

and Senate and members of the Administration.

For that was Barbara Huckabee saunters and off she went as if we

have planted which will of course we didn't. Barbara, what to make of

that, she did not tell as anything? She told us a couple of things, she

said that the president felt it was because of Anthony Scaramucci's

comments last week presumably she was referring to his interview last

week in which he used a lot profanity when talking about members

of staff. She said he felt they were inappropriate, I did recall Mr Trump

saying anything directly about the interview before so that is clear he

felt that was inappropriate. According to her. She'll is said the

president did not want to bat in general tally with the line of

succession by that she clarified she meant that Mr Scarr amici have the

arrangement way he could report directly to the president and Mr

Kelly is coming in to tighten adult so that they would put the president

threw him and to survey the Mr Trump felt, according to the spokeswoman,

but she did not want the Buddha Mr Kelly with. Those were the two

reason she gave. Also, interestingly, she said it was a

decision that was made mutually among the three people, the

president, Mr Kelly and Anthony Scaramucci and also she was asked

about the reporting, she said that everyone at the White House would

report to Mr Kelly rather than direct to the president and she was

asked several that mean everybody does it mean his mean his daughter,

his son-in-law and she said everybody. She said that Mr Kerry

would bring new structure and discipline to the White House of the

message is very much that we are going to try and eliminate this

chaotic lines of communication from the White House. The chief of staff

will be required to do the job that achieve of staff have to do which is

to be the main man falling communication to the president. That

was her message today. -- bundling communication. Thank you come back

to a city find out anything else. The problems these press conferences

is that at any point the president could pick of his own and start

tweeting and everything the press conference Doll -- everything be

turned upside down. Charlie Wolf a Republican

broadcaster and commentator What did you make of that? The White

House was by hierarchy and hasn't had needs to run like a military

operation. General Kelly was put into Titan of the ship and he's

taking control and he probably he would make that as a demand that if

he was going to take over the ship at the Titan adult like a Marine

unit. A 4-star general Marine knows how to do that. Anthony Scaramucci

was out, it was not the image, I thought it was interesting in the

beginning the first press appearance he made was very good I thought then

the phone call, it makes it look like the New York fingers great

putter gets the point where it looks like you have someone from's the

King of Queens. Yes but Mr Trump new what Anthony Scaramucci was like, Mr

Trump has been critical of people firing this pokes people it is not

weighted as a? I think the president was looking for someone who

understood him, originally, that was his people outside of his daughter

and his son-in-law, these were all elite Washington establishment

people, person three macro Anthony Scaramucci was from the

neighbourhood, from Queens, made good not a communications person,

half the trains, lawyer, financier very smart. The opening press

conference in very good but again... Feels like a long time ago. I think

he is realising, he is understanding how it works. Also the thing with

General Kelly you have to remember is that he's the main source, the

main conduit to the Congress as well as making sure to plan the

President's schedule, the president has not had an easy time because of

his pod club. Hold on, the chief of staff who was just left was the

person the perfect man. Even he couldn't do it? General Kelly is

above all that, he is an independent, and Marine General who

has served in combat and had had a son who was Alli gave his life in

combat as well. There is nothing you can hold an General Kelly, he has

gravitas and: So when he goes to Congress and says, listen we don't

have the stuff that we need because you have not been improving them, I

need these people, it will get done. It will be run with marine

efficiency it will be run like a house runs even better. The trouble

is when he was a military commander he was in charge of everybody, and

when he said jumps people jumped, but now he has a boss who by all

accounts cannot be controlled by anyone, he is his own man. I think

there will have to be a mixture of the two, Donald Trump is going to be

his own man, and in lean leans you get to know your situation and you

adapt to your surroundings, and the General Kelly was that to his

surroundings and he will make it work ensure he will told the

president and given council when needed, maybe some will be taken and

somewhere to be taken put his job is to make sure that the rest of the

ship works tightly around him and he will clog like a good sailor -- he

will plug the leaks like a big sale -- he'll plug the leaks like a good

sailor. How we have reports that Qatar has

filed a complaint with the well-trained organisation. Here's a

tweet... Remember those three countries severed ties with Qatar

back in June, we've talked about a lot, they accuse Qatar is the

terrorism something that cannot Alli denies. -- something that Qatar

denies. They have stopped flights to Doha, and on top of the land border

with Saudi Arabia has been closed which was used to import 40% of

Qatar's food, you can imagine the consequences that. Live from New

York, good to see is the mirror, guess the question here is what

influence, what pressure could the WTO apply even if it concluded that

Qatar had a point? The world trade organisation is really responsible

for adjudicating any sort of trade disputes and what Qatar has said in

their complaint is that these countries are using coercive

attempts at economic isolation. By complaining to the WTO Qatar is

enforcing all three countries to the table to try and resolve the dispute

and if they don't then they could face litigation with the WTO, so

they could face quite a bit of pressure from them. Most countries

would want to avoid that. Now, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab emirate

money of the country have all said that if Qatar does this they will

cite national security as the reasoning. That is an exemption that

is allowed under the WTO but it is seldom used. Was the time brain on

this what is the procedure? Now they have opened up a 60 day period in

which all of these countries have to sit down and come to some sort of

discussion and at about 60 day period have expired then it becomes

part of the deep WTO and what they decide. -- part of the WTO are what

they decide to adjudicate. I'm sure we will told that my.

On Friday, North Korea test-fired another intercontinental

These pictures supposedly show it - and what's worried the country's

neighbours is that these pictures were shot in Hokkaido, Japan.

North Korea claims that the entire US is now within its striking range.

We can't be sure if that is true but inevitably it is a concern for

Donald Trump. He was asked what he is in the do about it. We will

handle North Korea we will be able to. It will be handled. We handle

everything, thank you very much. Not a whole lot of detail there but we

do know that the Americans will not call UN Security Council meeting.

Nikki Haley, the US ambassador to the UN said...

To state the obvious this is all a blow for those hoping for a

de-escalation attention on the Korean peninsula. As you may know

there is a demilitarised zone between North and the South and the

BBC's Karen Allen has been there. This is some of the report she has

sent. Beyond the barbed wire lines North

Korea and this incredible wall trait in the bids contains messages to

people on the other side many rum loved ones. This one is written in

England and says "Grandpa and grandma I have made it, unification

one day." That is a hope for the future but many people's eyes are on

what is happening now and I hope a de-escalation following the missile

test that happened on Friday. Donald Trump is expected to hold talks,

telephone talks with the president of South Korea he was on vacation at

the moment but he is going to want to talk about shoring up missile

defences here in South Korea. President Trump has also spoken to

the Japanese Prime Minister but they have had no discussions specifically

on any military action. Well more from Karen in South Korea in a

moment I also want to tell you that the weekend in Alaska America tested

this... It's anti-missile system, it destroys missiles in the last stage

of their flight. I mention that because already as Karen was

mentioning the Americans have installed that system in South

Korea. Also at the weekend the Americans rejects over peninsulas,

China is opposed that happening President Trump doesn't seem overly

concerned on Sunday he took the Twitter to say...

Thart language from the president, Mark and distant from the line which

he used when the Chinese leader visited him a couple of months ago.

Here is Karen again in China's position. People are wondering how

much influence the Shana really have certainly people here have links to

China, many of them have family to China. It is true that it's

responsible for about 90% of all trade with North Korea, China the

instance, provide cheap fuel which powers the tanks and power stations

in place of Korea. It is condemned the test and has very little

appetite any kind of military confrontation after all that could

result in millions of North Korean refugees flooding across in Chinese

borders. As the Donald Trump's tweet, that China could solve this

problem while the Chinese newspapers as saying he is simply wrong. It is

not that simple. Officials century say they have

struck a deal will hold the Olympic games in 2000 22. Reports say the

International Olympic Committee will confirm the arrangement in the

coming hours. Let's talk live on the BBC sports Centre. Reports make it

sound like it's a done deal. Absolutely outspoken to the LA City

Council about this and they believe that the eyes need to be dotted and

the tease me to be crossed. If you look at this Boston pulled out

earlier on and you had Rome, Hamburg and Budapest what this does for the

AAC in the IPC is it gives them the opportunity to plan ahead and know

what is happening to those 2024 and 2028 games, it has not been LA since

1984, fantastic games then, the USA have not posted it sits at an 21996

and also means that France, the powerless, it is a get out of jail

card for them as it means they get those 2024 games and this is 100

years since Paris lost hope in the Olympics. The verb is great news and

the LA it will be an outstanding games as well. Financially good

incentive for both countries. Good for the ICC because it is having

more and more trouble finding cities willing to take this on. I mention

about Boston, Rome, Budapest there is that pulled out. He gives them

the opportunity to plan ahead for years to come so we are then looking

at 2032, your member that Paris missed out on 2004 the London is a

disappointment that there the them also financially they believe this

will be the best one for them and also the LA. Wire thank you very

much indeed. In a few minutes an outside source we will be looking at

next week 's election in Kenya an important electoral official have

been found murdered today. One of cricket's greats was bowled

another googlie today - this time from aTest

Match Special commentary colleague. Here's what happened

when Geoff Boycott was told one of his most famous innings

was about to be scrubbed It is not what I was thinking. It is

a statistical, I'm not good at these "Further to the recent request from

South African government the ICC has now considered the question of

downgrading the status of all statistics including bones and

wickets from the series played between England and the rest of the

world between 1970. The ICC agrees that series played against the

spirit of the Denny Gold agreement and in the interest of keeping

cricket free from political interference all matches will be

removed... " ridiculous. A load of tripe. Jeffrey, you got a hundred in

that series didn't you? In the last match of the April. Balbir problem

if that is taken up. Not really it wasn't a Test match so is taken out.

Plot, your 100 hundredths will know 900. That is ridiculous. You are

right, he is an idiot for putting that out. There might be others who

got 100 100th. Yours was at Headingley, it was special, you not

all this command to plates. What date was at York 100 hundred? 11

double quest 1977. That is coming up win not doing anything special Ari?

We are we having do with a people and raising money for the Yorkshire

air ambulance. We will have to cancel it. We are not cancelling it.

You invited me to that but under false pretensions. The way you are

carrying an now you are not getting an invite. I'm taking the inside

back. It is a mess. It is a mess and it is also a complete wind-up.

LAUGHTER Sky is that right? You Muppet! It is never. Is that a

wind-up? You Muppet! I will get you that!

This is Outside Source live from the BBC newsroom.

The brand new White House director of communications

Antony Scaramucci is leaving, just ten days after

He man in charge of Kenya's computerised voting system

has been found dead - and the President

One Kenyan newspaper is reporting that the body

Speculation around what's happened here plays

into what is already a tense campaign.

It's close - with President Uhuru Kenyatta up against long-time

Here's Nancy Kacungira with what we know about

It is quite important to know who he was Chris Msando was an IT manager

at Kenya's electoral body. He'd only been in office for about two months

but he was right at the centre coming up with the electronic system

that Kenya will use in the elections on August the 8th. He had been

missing since Friday, two day he was bound, his body was found along with

the body of a female, unidentified female, they were found just outside

the outskirts of Nairobi there was a press conference later and his boss,

the chair of the electoral body said there was no doubt that he had been

tortured port so that he had had one of his arms cut off. What is very

chilling about this is that there was no attempt to pretend this was

an accident or hide the fact that this was a cold-blooded murder. Is

electronic voting are politically potent issue? It is, it goes back to

2007 when we have a devastating result of the post-election violence

one thing that came out of that was a commission which found that in

order to stop things like ballot stuffing and double registration of

voters and some of the fraudulent activities that went on it was

important to have more technology put into the mix to stop some of

those things. This white Kenya has been pushing electronic voting since

then. This was a disaster when they last tried to use it? Unfortunately

power cuts made it difficult. Even simple things like mobile phone that

was posed to transmit results were not charged. It did not go quite

well and ended up in the Supreme Court where it was eventually

established who won the election. Sometimes when I told the Kenyans

about their election they say why do is the international media always

want more back to 2007 would there will be problems coming you should

be more positive? I guess events like this play into the narrative

that this is a tense affair. There was one saying we can go to witches

it is not the one who counts but the one count the votes. I think that is

something a lot of Kenyans are thinking about, can we trust the

bodies and the botanic offices there has been a lot of things going on

whether it is amending the law to make sure you can have a manual

voting system as a back-up there are a lot of things that have gone on

the Kenyans are not so sure. There was definitely left to their winning

to look forward and Stratford peeps but there was also bit of webby this

people think about what is the best way to get there. Peace must be had

but just as as well. A row involving Apple -

and about internet censorship. This is about virtual

private networks, or VPNs - and Apple's decision to remove them

from its App store in China. VPNs allow you to access online

material by directing your internet It means users can then access

censored or blocked websites - without giving away their real

location. If you can't get to a website of

your government is stopping you. You can access website because you are

not giving weight your real location.

Apple's removed 60 VPNs from its app store -

that will make it much hard for Chinese users to get

around China's tough restrictions on internet usage.

VPNs are the way of life for a lot of internet uses in China. Anyone

who wants to access the big sites that barred inside China, Facebook,

Twitter, Google or a host of a new site about inside China will need a

VPN in order to do that. Business people use them a lot in order to

research products overseas or to market products overseas leaving

just used things like Gmail, things are really common when doing

business are lots of other places. The Chinese government is really

cracking down on VPNs this year in particular because the political

environment in China is quite tense at the moment, it the end of this

year there was going to be a very important political conference in

China with the next generation of Chinese leaders are expected to be

unveiled. At the moment the Chinese government really is imposing even

stricter centres and controls than it normally would. That is probably

why Apple has finally given in to pressure to remove VPN apps from its

App Store inside China. China is a really important market for Apple,

it represents about 20% of all the companies's sales. It is also very

important manufacturing base for Apple it gets a third company, Fox,,

to manufacture many of its iPhones, iPods and other devices in militant

China said the country is really important in maintaining good

relations. -- in mainland China. We can see they value this relationship

was over time Apple has been given to a lot of Chinese government laws

and regulations on all sorts of things. For example start of the

year Apple removed the New York Times at Comet Apple Store inside

China, the New York Times is banned in China because of its reporting

and now the New times app is longer available on the Apple App Store. It

is also decided to allow or give in to the Chinese government's request

to install data servers in the Chinese mainland. It is tried to

reassure its government customers that it will keep data but many

people think this will mean that Apple will hand over some of that

data to the Chinese government when requested. Now we have Apple's

announcement or its acknowledgement that VPN apps are also not on sale

in the App Store so it just goes to underline this ongoing demand by the

Chinese government for Apple to give in to certain laws and regulations

and Apple says it simply is following the rules and regulations

of the country in which it operates. Just the amount due in case you've

been away from the television or your phone, Anthony Scaramucci the

man who was going to reset the messaging coming out of the White

House has been relieved of his duties ten days after he was offered

them, he hadn't even formally taken up the job. I will see tomorrow,

goodbye. Hello, this summer has delivered a

huge variety of whether at times heart and others

very wet. In the past couple of weeks you would be forgiven for

feeling short-changed.