:00:09. > :00:10.Hello, I'm Ros Atkins, this is Outside Source.
:00:11. > :00:12.In Venezuela there's been an explosive accusation
:00:13. > :00:25.The town of numbers on Sunday the 30th of July but the constituent
:00:26. > :00:33.assembly in Venezuela were tampered with.
:00:34. > :00:35.American scientists believe they've found a way to eradicate inherited
:00:36. > :00:39.heart disease by removing the faulty DNA that leads to disease.
:00:40. > :00:44.Save the Children say that up to a million children are at risk
:00:45. > :00:47.We'll hear from our Global Heath Correspondent.
:00:48. > :00:50.And if you want to get in touch on any of the stories we're doing
:00:51. > :01:10.For the first time scientists have repaired a faulty
:01:11. > :01:16.They did using a process known as 'gene editing'.
:01:17. > :01:21.There are many hurdles to jump - but this raises the hope
:01:22. > :01:25.of preventing thousands of inherited genetic disorders.
:01:26. > :01:33.The goal could not be more ambitious.
:01:34. > :01:37.These scientists have taken an impressive first
:01:38. > :01:43.Editing DNA in human embryos. So how is it done?
:01:44. > :01:46.Inside the nucleus of each of our cells is our genome,
:01:47. > :01:56.It is the instruction manual for life.
:01:57. > :01:58.The scientists were targeting a faulty gene that causes
:01:59. > :02:02.They fertilised a healthy egg with sperm from a man
:02:03. > :02:09.They then injected the gene editing system.
:02:10. > :02:12.This scans the DNA like a spell-check or a Sat Nav.
:02:13. > :02:16.It then cuts both strands of the DNA and removes the faulty gene.
:02:17. > :02:22.A healthy copy of the gene from the egg was then
:02:23. > :02:28.Now here are some of the embryos from a study in the journal
:02:29. > :02:36.They were allowed to develop for five days.
:02:37. > :02:41.We are very excited about all the work...
:02:42. > :02:45.The research has been welcomed by a team in London who have a license
:02:46. > :02:52.They said the technology could eventually help many families.
:02:53. > :02:55.There are some nasty genetic diseases such
:02:56. > :03:01.as Huntington's or as in this case, a disease that affects the heart
:03:02. > :03:05.Which can basically blight families for many generations.
:03:06. > :03:09.So a method of being able to avoid having this affect your children
:03:10. > :03:12.and passing on the defective gene could be really very
:03:13. > :03:17.Nicole Mowbray has the same heart condition which was
:03:18. > :03:23.She now has a defibrillator implanted in her chest
:03:24. > :03:30.She has a 50% risk of passing on the condition but is unsure
:03:31. > :03:34.whether she would ever consider gene editing.
:03:35. > :03:37.I would not want to pass on something that caused my child
:03:38. > :03:42.to have a limited life or a painful life or a life of risk.
:03:43. > :03:46.That does obviously come to the front of my mind when I think
:03:47. > :03:53.I would not want to create the perfect,
:03:54. > :03:59.And I feel like my condition makes me, me.
:04:00. > :04:04.Previous attempts at editing human embryos in China lead
:04:05. > :04:09.So there's a lot of work needed before this can be considered safe.
:04:10. > :04:15.And it raises ethical issues about how far science should go
:04:16. > :04:29.More on the BBC News website as well. This Tweet probably generated
:04:30. > :04:36.more interest than most today, here it is.
:04:37. > :04:38.This tweet from current club Barcelona confirmed that
:04:39. > :04:42.The only side who could possibly afford him is Paris St-Germain -
:04:43. > :04:54.The fee required is 222 million Euros.
:04:55. > :05:05.Over twice the record paid for a player so far. Manchester United
:05:06. > :05:06.bought Paul Pogba for 105 million euros.
:05:07. > :05:13.That's more than double than has ever been paid for a player.
:05:14. > :05:19.Fans visiting the shop here in Paris are getting excited because that
:05:20. > :05:22.deal for Neymar is inching slowly forward. We've seen over the past
:05:23. > :05:27.two days the plague open Shanghai where it was a commercial duties and
:05:28. > :05:32.flying back to Barcelona. -- the player going from Shanghai. He has
:05:33. > :05:36.been excused from training and Barcelona says Pelly is the money
:05:37. > :05:39.and you can apply. We will have to see how it will pay out of the
:05:40. > :05:45.coming hours and maybe days but there is now an increasing certainty
:05:46. > :05:48.that Neymar will be a Paris Saint-Germain player for this coming
:05:49. > :05:52.season. The implications about Aikido Barcelona, Coors, who will be
:05:53. > :05:59.without one of their leading players per Paris Saint-Germain who
:06:00. > :06:02.desperately want to bridge the camp gap but beingstomach and the Uefa
:06:03. > :06:08.giving financial fair play clubs have a requirement to live within
:06:09. > :06:12.their means. The money involved in this potential transfer is such that
:06:13. > :06:16.many clubs, many individuals involved at the highest levels of
:06:17. > :06:19.football are looking at it and wondering whether Paris
:06:20. > :06:21.Saint-Germain will be up to live within those obligations. Now
:06:22. > :06:28.they've in Paris just want to know one thing, "When will Neymar sign? "
:06:29. > :06:31.Unfortunately we and the back question quite yet but maybe we will
:06:32. > :06:33.in the next few days. There have been three
:06:34. > :06:34.arrests in Kenya - all connected to the murder of man
:06:35. > :06:37.in charge of Kenya's On Monday he was found
:06:38. > :06:47.on the outskirts the Nairobi. Along with a woman
:06:48. > :06:49.who was also dead. There was evidence
:06:50. > :06:51.of torture we're told. With less than a week to go
:06:52. > :06:55.to Kenya's elections and the two main candidates neck and neck,
:06:56. > :06:57.the killing has unsettled President Uhuru Kenyatta
:06:58. > :07:17.responded that... Earlier I spoke to BBC
:07:18. > :07:27.Africa's Nancy Kacungira and asked her if there was any
:07:28. > :07:37.evidence the killing was political There is no evidence yet we're
:07:38. > :07:39.getting a few more details as time goes on, today the detail emerged
:07:40. > :07:44.that it appeared he been strangled to death. Back came from the
:07:45. > :07:49.autopsy. Even as the family itself said, we just need to wait and see
:07:50. > :07:56.what comes out the investigation. No evident but it has become political?
:07:57. > :07:59.Nair definitely come timing of it, the fact that it was someone at the
:08:00. > :08:04.heart of the electoral process it is bound be political. Has this one
:08:05. > :08:09.man's death has an impact on whether Kenya is ready to hold the
:08:10. > :08:14.selection? The electoral body came out today is to say that no password
:08:15. > :08:19.disappeared, our system has not been compromised in any way the election
:08:20. > :08:25.will continue as planned so they say that confidence needs to be restored
:08:26. > :08:27.nothing is going to go wrong. They are very clear that this will not
:08:28. > :08:34.affect the way the process is going to carry out. It is boiling down to
:08:35. > :08:38.two camps as is the case in lots of elections, for the swing voters who
:08:39. > :08:43.have not made their mind of what other key issues for them? As you
:08:44. > :08:47.said this is pretty much a rerun of what we have 20,013 with two main
:08:48. > :08:50.candidates. But, there are a few differences that might change
:08:51. > :08:56.things. Like you said said the unsettled boaters, there are a lot
:08:57. > :09:01.of economic issues. -- the undecided voters. People are worried about
:09:02. > :09:06.inflation. Just this month of Altman have subsided the price of maize
:09:07. > :09:12.flour which makes a very popular dish. The price of sugar, milk have
:09:13. > :09:16.sufficient. It housed in places they've seen in the last five years
:09:17. > :09:21.coming just before the election. That is a clear issue by many
:09:22. > :09:24.people. Corruption which the president has found difficult to
:09:25. > :09:27.control as a major issue and of course the opposition has been
:09:28. > :09:31.hinting on that quite a lot in their campaign so that they will shut that
:09:32. > :09:35.down but it is an issue that both sides are thinking very much about.
:09:36. > :09:39.Unemployment, half the people who will vote under the age of 35 and
:09:40. > :09:42.employment with very high in that age group and that is definitely
:09:43. > :09:49.something they will be thinking very strongly about the head the polls.
:09:50. > :09:52.Stay with us on Outside Source - still to come - Rajini Vaidyanathan
:09:53. > :09:55.is going to join us from Washington to talk through some of the latest
:09:56. > :10:02.news you may have missed from the White House.
:10:03. > :10:10.Including Donald Trump us claim that he took a cool from the Scouts
:10:11. > :10:11.praising his speech, but the Scouts say no call was made.
:10:12. > :10:14.Four men from the West Midlands have been found guilty of plotting
:10:15. > :10:16.a terrorist attack similar to that carried out on the
:10:17. > :10:21.A gang calling themselves "The three Musketeers",
:10:22. > :10:23.along with one other man, were planning to attack police
:10:24. > :10:29.For security reasons some of the trial had
:10:30. > :10:33.to be held in secret, as Phil Mackie reports.
:10:34. > :10:36.A major alert near the centre of Birmingham last August,
:10:37. > :10:38.homes and businesses were evacuated, the bomb disposal unit
:10:39. > :10:44.It was the culmination of an elaborate operation
:10:45. > :10:46.resulting in several arrests, including these men who called
:10:47. > :10:51.Undercover officers found a cache of weapons in the back
:10:52. > :10:55.There was a partially constructed pipe bomb,
:10:56. > :10:59.an imitation firearm, and a meat cleaver with the word
:11:00. > :11:03."kafir" or unbeliever", scratched into the blade.
:11:04. > :11:05.They found them there behind that red door,
:11:06. > :11:08.which was a small delivery business called Hero Couriers,
:11:09. > :11:13.The boss was an undercover police officer, and it had been set up
:11:14. > :11:16.by MI5 as part of an elaborate deception to catch the terror cell
:11:17. > :11:20.they thought was plotting to attack either the police or military.
:11:21. > :11:25.And they recruited two of its members to be delivery drivers.
:11:26. > :11:28.Naweed Ali and Khobaib Hussain had previously been jailed
:11:29. > :11:31.for travelling to a terror training camp in Pakistan.
:11:32. > :11:34.In prison, they met Mohibur Rahman, who was serving time
:11:35. > :11:38.They left prison with the same extremist ideology.
:11:39. > :11:42.Then a friend of Rahman's, Tahir Aziz, was also recruited.
:11:43. > :11:45.But when they held meetings in Birmingham and Stoke,
:11:46. > :11:51.They believed that violence was the answer and they were prepared
:11:52. > :11:56.to use violence somewhere in the United Kingdom in
:11:57. > :12:01.Four very dangerous individuals, who had they not been stopped,
:12:02. > :12:06.would have caused loss of life somewhere.
:12:07. > :12:08.The Ministry of Justice says it has provided support
:12:09. > :12:13.and training to its staff to challenge extremist views.
:12:14. > :12:15.But this case highlights the potential dangers from those
:12:16. > :12:21.with an extreme ideology when they are let out of prison.
:12:22. > :12:23.The fact that people are being released, and you know
:12:24. > :12:25.they are terrorists, they have been convicted,
:12:26. > :12:27.of terrorist offences, they are released back into society
:12:28. > :12:30.and there is no reason to think they have been de-radicalised.
:12:31. > :12:33.We need to ask ourselves a question, are you happy with that?
:12:34. > :12:35.It is expected the four men will be jailed tomorrow,
:12:36. > :12:51.This is Outside Source live from the BBC newsroom.
:12:52. > :12:56.The company that provided the technology for Venezuela's
:12:57. > :12:58.voting system says the turnout in Sunday's controversial
:12:59. > :13:06.election was inflated by at least 1 million votes.
:13:07. > :13:16.We talk about Civil War and the humanitarian crisis and we must do
:13:17. > :13:16.again. Save the Children estimated that
:13:17. > :13:18.over a million children It's because of
:13:19. > :13:24.the cholera epidemic. The civil war there
:13:25. > :13:27.now is two years old. It's caused food and water shortages
:13:28. > :13:30.- and the cholera epidemic Around 2000 people have died
:13:31. > :13:39.in the last four months. A third of them are
:13:40. > :13:42.under 15 years old. This is Save the Children
:13:43. > :13:59.talking earlier. We are struggling to get some
:14:00. > :14:07.medicine, especially for pregnant women and the block of the airport
:14:08. > :14:11.and seaport has caused a lot of stress on the health worker. In
:14:12. > :14:20.addition to the health system collapse. More than ten months the
:14:21. > :14:25.public workers have not got salaries. We have severe and huge
:14:26. > :14:32.shortage in medical supply and medical equipment and I'm worried
:14:33. > :14:36.now that cases will be increased in colleges to waste management. The
:14:37. > :14:41.system is not there and we now have the rainy season and all this waste
:14:42. > :14:47.be contaminated. This will create a lot of cases and also we have the
:14:48. > :14:48.period where children return to school and this will aggravate the
:14:49. > :14:49.situation. The UN has already described
:14:50. > :14:56.the situation as a bus "racing Here's our Global Health
:14:57. > :15:10.Correspondent Tulip Mazumdar The cholera outbreak is really
:15:11. > :15:15.bursting into this terrible situation it now is just in three
:15:16. > :15:18.months. As you said more than 430,000 suspected cases almost 2000
:15:19. > :15:23.deaths at this point. The reason it has got to the state is because the
:15:24. > :15:27.infrastructure in the country has more or less completely
:15:28. > :15:30.disintegrated. About half of the country's health systems, health
:15:31. > :15:34.facilities have been damaged or destroyed. Some people don't have
:15:35. > :15:39.access to medical care and you have the health and sanitation system,
:15:40. > :15:43.the water and sanitation condition I should say not working. Rubbish not
:15:44. > :15:46.been collected and all of this creates the perfect environment for
:15:47. > :15:53.collar to thrive. Cholera is bred through infected water. Our children
:15:54. > :15:57.disproportionately affected? Or they did reputation of the population? A
:15:58. > :16:05.third of deaths in this outbreak of been children under 15, what's save
:16:06. > :16:06.the Jordan have said today is that 1 million children are severely
:16:07. > :16:13.malnourished and living in some of the worst areas. They have a
:16:14. > :16:17.weakened immune system whatever food and water they are able to take in
:16:18. > :16:23.his going through them because of the diary you get with cholera and
:16:24. > :16:27.it makes them, it gives them less chance of being able to fight this
:16:28. > :16:32.up and recover. Cholera, people shouldn't die of it, it is easily
:16:33. > :16:36.treated. It is hydration sort that people have and they can recover
:16:37. > :16:41.within a few hours. Without the right treatment they can die in a
:16:42. > :16:45.few hours. That is why the situation is so terrible because this stuff is
:16:46. > :16:50.not getting into the places they need to be. We have seen blockades
:16:51. > :16:53.up ports, our planes coming in had been limited. What the charities and
:16:54. > :16:56.the UN are saying if they need stop the fighting immediately and allow
:16:57. > :17:02.the edge in medical and food supplies in to stop starving people
:17:03. > :17:07.there and to stop this disease spreading further. The reality is
:17:08. > :17:12.that this war is not about to resolve in the near future so are
:17:13. > :17:16.their short-term security measures that could be taken and if they are
:17:17. > :17:20.they being considered? At the moment on the ground diarrhoea treatment
:17:21. > :17:24.centres have been set up they have rehydration corners, dozens across
:17:25. > :17:29.the country where people can go and get these headaches salts. There has
:17:30. > :17:32.also been an enormous door-to-door campaign where thousands of
:17:33. > :17:37.volunteers bearing in mind that medical staff and other civil
:17:38. > :17:40.servants are responsible for clearing rubbish in things like that
:17:41. > :17:43.have not been paid VAT you have volunteers going door-to-door giving
:17:44. > :17:46.water purification tablets telling people to bother what if they can in
:17:47. > :17:50.giving them as much information as they can to ensure they can keep
:17:51. > :17:53.themselves and their families safe but there are limited things to be
:17:54. > :18:00.done until they have clean water supplies this thing will continue.
:18:01. > :18:05.You know I only say to you aren't again touch Intel is why we should
:18:06. > :18:10.be picking up on an ask any questions by means do that. I came
:18:11. > :18:12.after an Monday... On Monday night, a guy called Dave
:18:13. > :18:15.watching in the UK tweeted me. @Flagy Far too much
:18:16. > :18:17.on Scaramucci, just It's boring not as important
:18:18. > :18:23.as you are implying. a global news programme,
:18:24. > :18:40.and we're six months or so into a US presidency
:18:41. > :18:43.like nothing that's gone before. Not because the characters
:18:44. > :18:46.are colourful, and it develops But because the Trump
:18:47. > :18:49.Presidency matters. North Korea is testing
:18:50. > :18:51.the American position by carrying out bigger and more
:18:52. > :18:56.audacious missile tests. That in turn has led Mr Trump
:18:57. > :18:59.to express anger with China - it's putting pressure
:19:00. > :19:07.on that relationship. Angela Merkel was close
:19:08. > :19:09.to Barack Obama. it was highlighted at the T20 in
:19:10. > :19:20.hamburg. I was there for that. On climate change,
:19:21. > :19:22.the two openly disagree. More broadly, she's said Germany can
:19:23. > :19:25.no longer rely on America. That in turn will affect German
:19:26. > :19:27.and European foreign policy. Then there's the investigation
:19:28. > :19:33.into whether Russia interfered with the US election
:19:34. > :19:35.and if the Trump On the latter, firm
:19:36. > :19:43.evidence has not emerged. But the questions matter -
:19:44. > :19:48.in their own right, but also because they are impacting on how
:19:49. > :19:52.the White House works. For all the reasons and many more
:19:53. > :19:57.we turn to Washington most days. And there are more
:19:58. > :20:08.stories for you now. Fox News told is that Christopher
:20:09. > :20:15.Ray has been confirmed by the Senate as the FBI director, replacing James
:20:16. > :20:20.Comey. This is one of the few things that doesn't seem to have proved too
:20:21. > :20:23.controversial. No, of course the fact that the vacancy existed in the
:20:24. > :20:26.first post was controversial because James Comey as we remember was
:20:27. > :20:31.unceremoniously fired the present Trump. As you say just now we have
:20:32. > :20:41.had a statement from the Justice Department confirming that
:20:42. > :20:46.Christopher Pyongyang was sworn in. He's described are -- Christopher
:20:47. > :20:52.Wray. Join the Senate confirmation hearings he was asked about whether
:20:53. > :21:01.he would pledge of loyalty to the president and he said "Sure as heck,
:21:02. > :21:05.no. " His boat was almost unanimous so he will be respected across party
:21:06. > :21:13.lines. A very important role as you know because the director as the FBI
:21:14. > :21:17.will work closely on the Russian investigation. We know Donald Trump
:21:18. > :21:19.has been a frequent visitor to his own properties during his
:21:20. > :21:22.presidency, especially ones with the golf course at pasts.
:21:23. > :21:31.He says the reason he gets away so much is that the "White
:21:32. > :21:43.Which is probably not a that that has gone down well in all quarters
:21:44. > :21:49.will start no, I should say that I have been to the White House many
:21:50. > :21:52.pounds. I've been lucky to get several of the state rooms that and
:21:53. > :21:59.it is definitely not a dump. It is worth saying that the administration
:22:00. > :22:01.have issued a since that article in this months issue of Sports
:22:02. > :22:06.Illustrated magazine and they say that that quote is not true. But,
:22:07. > :22:10.still if you look at the president where we spent a lot of his time, he
:22:11. > :22:15.spent a lot of the time and his golf clubs in Florida and he's actually
:22:16. > :22:20.meeting later this week to somewhere in New Jersey where he has spent a
:22:21. > :22:23.lot of time as well because he would be spending some of this summer
:22:24. > :22:28.break them as well. So, if you just look at way likes to spend his time
:22:29. > :22:30.he does clearly like places that he has decorated himself and places
:22:31. > :22:36.where he can play golf because he clearly loves it. There is a
:22:37. > :22:37.resident of this, the pressure ports says something and the White House
:22:38. > :22:38.is that doesn't happen. Remember the furore over
:22:39. > :22:40.Donald Trump's speech to a huge In an interview with
:22:41. > :22:53.the Wall Street Journal, the President said he'd taken a call
:22:54. > :22:55.afterwards from the Scout movement saying it was -
:22:56. > :22:58."the greatest speech that was ever Multiple journalists have
:22:59. > :23:00.sourced stories saying TIME Magazine checked
:23:01. > :23:07.with the Boy Scouts who said "they are unaware of any call
:23:08. > :23:24.from national leadership placed We're in a familiar situation aren't
:23:25. > :23:27.we? A lot of people say one thing about on same. That's right and in
:23:28. > :23:33.the interview with the Wall Street Journal he was asked about his
:23:34. > :23:37.comments and the reception he got at the scalp and you and I have read
:23:38. > :23:40.many interviews and had our viewers of people who were present at that
:23:41. > :23:44.Boy Scouts are meant he said they didn't like the fact he was so
:23:45. > :23:46.overly political, they didn't appreciate the present's tone and
:23:47. > :23:49.yet in the interview with the Wall Street Journal he said he was told
:23:50. > :23:56.by the Boy Scouts head that it was the greatest beach had ever heard.
:23:57. > :24:03.Bastareaud greatest beach. There are several reports to say that assembly
:24:04. > :24:09.untrue -- the greatest speech ever. Trump also said that the Mexican
:24:10. > :24:15.president had phoned him to say he was pleased that the ring have the
:24:16. > :24:19.first six months had gone. But the Mexican president said that was not
:24:20. > :24:23.the case he did not have the phone call congratulating him on his
:24:24. > :24:27.efforts in the first six months. An example of the Trump version of
:24:28. > :24:31.events and the other, reality version of events. The White House
:24:32. > :24:37.was questioned about this in Bury meeting. Sarah Huckabee Sanders
:24:38. > :24:44.conceded there was not a phone call between the two but said there was a
:24:45. > :24:47.phone call at some point. -- conversation some point. We are
:24:48. > :24:51.seeing a pattern where the president says something and fax themselves
:24:52. > :24:56.don't correlate. Good heavy an outside source, this is a man we
:24:57. > :24:59.need to keep talking about the president of America. Thank you very
:25:00. > :25:09.much watching we will be back tomorrow. Goodbye.
:25:10. > :25:14.Hello, by this time next week whether should look a little bit
:25:15. > :25:19.more like we would expect in August with the wettest conditions in the
:25:20. > :25:20.north and drier weather further south. That will be a big flipping