02/08/2017 Outside Source

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

In Venezuela there's been an explosive accusation

The town of numbers on Sunday the 30th of July but the constituent

assembly in Venezuela were tampered with.

American scientists believe they've found a way to eradicate inherited

heart disease by removing the faulty DNA that leads to disease.

Save the Children say that up to a million children are at risk

We'll hear from our Global Heath Correspondent.

And if you want to get in touch on any of the stories we're doing

For the first time scientists have repaired a faulty

They did using a process known as 'gene editing'.

There are many hurdles to jump - but this raises the hope

of preventing thousands of inherited genetic disorders.

The goal could not be more ambitious.

These scientists have taken an impressive first

Editing DNA in human embryos. So how is it done?

Inside the nucleus of each of our cells is our genome,

It is the instruction manual for life.

The scientists were targeting a faulty gene that causes

They fertilised a healthy egg with sperm from a man

They then injected the gene editing system.

This scans the DNA like a spell-check or a Sat Nav.

It then cuts both strands of the DNA and removes the faulty gene.

A healthy copy of the gene from the egg was then

Now here are some of the embryos from a study in the journal

They were allowed to develop for five days.

We are very excited about all the work...

The research has been welcomed by a team in London who have a license

They said the technology could eventually help many families.

There are some nasty genetic diseases such

as Huntington's or as in this case, a disease that affects the heart

Which can basically blight families for many generations.

So a method of being able to avoid having this affect your children

and passing on the defective gene could be really very

Nicole Mowbray has the same heart condition which was

She now has a defibrillator implanted in her chest

She has a 50% risk of passing on the condition but is unsure

whether she would ever consider gene editing.

I would not want to pass on something that caused my child

to have a limited life or a painful life or a life of risk.

That does obviously come to the front of my mind when I think

I would not want to create the perfect,

And I feel like my condition makes me, me.

Previous attempts at editing human embryos in China lead

So there's a lot of work needed before this can be considered safe.

And it raises ethical issues about how far science should go

More on the BBC News website as well. This Tweet probably generated

more interest than most today, here it is.

This tweet from current club Barcelona confirmed that

The only side who could possibly afford him is Paris St-Germain -

The fee required is 222 million Euros.

Over twice the record paid for a player so far. Manchester United

bought Paul Pogba for 105 million euros.

That's more than double than has ever been paid for a player.

Fans visiting the shop here in Paris are getting excited because that

deal for Neymar is inching slowly forward. We've seen over the past

two days the plague open Shanghai where it was a commercial duties and

flying back to Barcelona. -- the player going from Shanghai. He has

been excused from training and Barcelona says Pelly is the money

and you can apply. We will have to see how it will pay out of the

coming hours and maybe days but there is now an increasing certainty

that Neymar will be a Paris Saint-Germain player for this coming

season. The implications about Aikido Barcelona, Coors, who will be

without one of their leading players per Paris Saint-Germain who

desperately want to bridge the camp gap but beingstomach and the Uefa

giving financial fair play clubs have a requirement to live within

their means. The money involved in this potential transfer is such that

many clubs, many individuals involved at the highest levels of

football are looking at it and wondering whether Paris

Saint-Germain will be up to live within those obligations. Now

they've in Paris just want to know one thing, "When will Neymar sign? "

Unfortunately we and the back question quite yet but maybe we will

in the next few days. There have been three

arrests in Kenya - all connected to the murder of man

in charge of Kenya's On Monday he was found

on the outskirts the Nairobi. Along with a woman

who was also dead. There was evidence

of torture we're told. With less than a week to go

to Kenya's elections and the two main candidates neck and neck,

the killing has unsettled President Uhuru Kenyatta

responded that... Earlier I spoke to BBC

Africa's Nancy Kacungira and asked her if there was any

evidence the killing was political There is no evidence yet we're

getting a few more details as time goes on, today the detail emerged

that it appeared he been strangled to death. Back came from the

autopsy. Even as the family itself said, we just need to wait and see

what comes out the investigation. No evident but it has become political?

Nair definitely come timing of it, the fact that it was someone at the

heart of the electoral process it is bound be political. Has this one

man's death has an impact on whether Kenya is ready to hold the

selection? The electoral body came out today is to say that no password

disappeared, our system has not been compromised in any way the election

will continue as planned so they say that confidence needs to be restored

nothing is going to go wrong. They are very clear that this will not

affect the way the process is going to carry out. It is boiling down to

two camps as is the case in lots of elections, for the swing voters who

have not made their mind of what other key issues for them? As you

said this is pretty much a rerun of what we have 20,013 with two main

candidates. But, there are a few differences that might change

things. Like you said said the unsettled boaters, there are a lot

of economic issues. -- the undecided voters. People are worried about

inflation. Just this month of Altman have subsided the price of maize

flour which makes a very popular dish. The price of sugar, milk have

sufficient. It housed in places they've seen in the last five years

coming just before the election. That is a clear issue by many

people. Corruption which the president has found difficult to

control as a major issue and of course the opposition has been

hinting on that quite a lot in their campaign so that they will shut that

down but it is an issue that both sides are thinking very much about.

Unemployment, half the people who will vote under the age of 35 and

employment with very high in that age group and that is definitely

something they will be thinking very strongly about the head the polls.

Stay with us on Outside Source - still to come - Rajini Vaidyanathan

is going to join us from Washington to talk through some of the latest

news you may have missed from the White House.

Including Donald Trump us claim that he took a cool from the Scouts

praising his speech, but the Scouts say no call was made.

Four men from the West Midlands have been found guilty of plotting

a terrorist attack similar to that carried out on the

A gang calling themselves "The three Musketeers",

along with one other man, were planning to attack police

For security reasons some of the trial had

to be held in secret, as Phil Mackie reports.

A major alert near the centre of Birmingham last August,

homes and businesses were evacuated, the bomb disposal unit

It was the culmination of an elaborate operation

resulting in several arrests, including these men who called

Undercover officers found a cache of weapons in the back

There was a partially constructed pipe bomb,

an imitation firearm, and a meat cleaver with the word

"kafir" or unbeliever", scratched into the blade.

They found them there behind that red door,

which was a small delivery business called Hero Couriers,

The boss was an undercover police officer, and it had been set up

by MI5 as part of an elaborate deception to catch the terror cell

they thought was plotting to attack either the police or military.

And they recruited two of its members to be delivery drivers.

Naweed Ali and Khobaib Hussain had previously been jailed

for travelling to a terror training camp in Pakistan.

In prison, they met Mohibur Rahman, who was serving time

They left prison with the same extremist ideology.

Then a friend of Rahman's, Tahir Aziz, was also recruited.

But when they held meetings in Birmingham and Stoke,

They believed that violence was the answer and they were prepared

to use violence somewhere in the United Kingdom in

Four very dangerous individuals, who had they not been stopped,

would have caused loss of life somewhere.

The Ministry of Justice says it has provided support

and training to its staff to challenge extremist views.

But this case highlights the potential dangers from those

with an extreme ideology when they are let out of prison.

The fact that people are being released, and you know

they are terrorists, they have been convicted,

of terrorist offences, they are released back into society

and there is no reason to think they have been de-radicalised.

We need to ask ourselves a question, are you happy with that?

It is expected the four men will be jailed tomorrow,

This is Outside Source live from the BBC newsroom.

The company that provided the technology for Venezuela's

voting system says the turnout in Sunday's controversial

election was inflated by at least 1 million votes.

We talk about Civil War and the humanitarian crisis and we must do

again. Save the Children estimated that

over a million children It's because of

the cholera epidemic. The civil war there

now is two years old. It's caused food and water shortages

- and the cholera epidemic Around 2000 people have died

in the last four months. A third of them are

under 15 years old. This is Save the Children

talking earlier. We are struggling to get some

medicine, especially for pregnant women and the block of the airport

and seaport has caused a lot of stress on the health worker. In

addition to the health system collapse. More than ten months the

public workers have not got salaries. We have severe and huge

shortage in medical supply and medical equipment and I'm worried

now that cases will be increased in colleges to waste management. The

system is not there and we now have the rainy season and all this waste

be contaminated. This will create a lot of cases and also we have the

period where children return to school and this will aggravate the

situation. The UN has already described

the situation as a bus "racing Here's our Global Health

Correspondent Tulip Mazumdar The cholera outbreak is really

bursting into this terrible situation it now is just in three

months. As you said more than 430,000 suspected cases almost 2000

deaths at this point. The reason it has got to the state is because the

infrastructure in the country has more or less completely

disintegrated. About half of the country's health systems, health

facilities have been damaged or destroyed. Some people don't have

access to medical care and you have the health and sanitation system,

the water and sanitation condition I should say not working. Rubbish not

been collected and all of this creates the perfect environment for

collar to thrive. Cholera is bred through infected water. Our children

disproportionately affected? Or they did reputation of the population? A

third of deaths in this outbreak of been children under 15, what's save

the Jordan have said today is that 1 million children are severely

malnourished and living in some of the worst areas. They have a

weakened immune system whatever food and water they are able to take in

his going through them because of the diary you get with cholera and

it makes them, it gives them less chance of being able to fight this

up and recover. Cholera, people shouldn't die of it, it is easily

treated. It is hydration sort that people have and they can recover

within a few hours. Without the right treatment they can die in a

few hours. That is why the situation is so terrible because this stuff is

not getting into the places they need to be. We have seen blockades

up ports, our planes coming in had been limited. What the charities and

the UN are saying if they need stop the fighting immediately and allow

the edge in medical and food supplies in to stop starving people

there and to stop this disease spreading further. The reality is

that this war is not about to resolve in the near future so are

their short-term security measures that could be taken and if they are

they being considered? At the moment on the ground diarrhoea treatment

centres have been set up they have rehydration corners, dozens across

the country where people can go and get these headaches salts. There has

also been an enormous door-to-door campaign where thousands of

volunteers bearing in mind that medical staff and other civil

servants are responsible for clearing rubbish in things like that

have not been paid VAT you have volunteers going door-to-door giving

water purification tablets telling people to bother what if they can in

giving them as much information as they can to ensure they can keep

themselves and their families safe but there are limited things to be

done until they have clean water supplies this thing will continue.

You know I only say to you aren't again touch Intel is why we should

be picking up on an ask any questions by means do that. I came

after an Monday... On Monday night, a guy called Dave

watching in the UK tweeted me. @Flagy Far too much

on Scaramucci, just It's boring not as important

as you are implying. a global news programme,

and we're six months or so into a US presidency

like nothing that's gone before. Not because the characters

are colourful, and it develops But because the Trump

Presidency matters. North Korea is testing

the American position by carrying out bigger and more

audacious missile tests. That in turn has led Mr Trump

to express anger with China - it's putting pressure

on that relationship. Angela Merkel was close

to Barack Obama. it was highlighted at the T20 in

hamburg. I was there for that. On climate change,

the two openly disagree. More broadly, she's said Germany can

no longer rely on America. That in turn will affect German

and European foreign policy. Then there's the investigation

into whether Russia interfered with the US election

and if the Trump On the latter, firm

evidence has not emerged. But the questions matter -

in their own right, but also because they are impacting on how

the White House works. For all the reasons and many more

we turn to Washington most days. And there are more

stories for you now. Fox News told is that Christopher

Ray has been confirmed by the Senate as the FBI director, replacing James

Comey. This is one of the few things that doesn't seem to have proved too

controversial. No, of course the fact that the vacancy existed in the

first post was controversial because James Comey as we remember was

unceremoniously fired the present Trump. As you say just now we have

had a statement from the Justice Department confirming that

Christopher Pyongyang was sworn in. He's described are -- Christopher

Wray. Join the Senate confirmation hearings he was asked about whether

he would pledge of loyalty to the president and he said "Sure as heck,

no. " His boat was almost unanimous so he will be respected across party

lines. A very important role as you know because the director as the FBI

will work closely on the Russian investigation. We know Donald Trump

has been a frequent visitor to his own properties during his

presidency, especially ones with the golf course at pasts.

He says the reason he gets away so much is that the "White

Which is probably not a that that has gone down well in all quarters

will start no, I should say that I have been to the White House many

pounds. I've been lucky to get several of the state rooms that and

it is definitely not a dump. It is worth saying that the administration

have issued a since that article in this months issue of Sports

Illustrated magazine and they say that that quote is not true. But,

still if you look at the president where we spent a lot of his time, he

spent a lot of the time and his golf clubs in Florida and he's actually

meeting later this week to somewhere in New Jersey where he has spent a

lot of time as well because he would be spending some of this summer

break them as well. So, if you just look at way likes to spend his time

he does clearly like places that he has decorated himself and places

where he can play golf because he clearly loves it. There is a

resident of this, the pressure ports says something and the White House

is that doesn't happen. Remember the furore over

Donald Trump's speech to a huge In an interview with

the Wall Street Journal, the President said he'd taken a call

afterwards from the Scout movement saying it was -

"the greatest speech that was ever Multiple journalists have

sourced stories saying TIME Magazine checked

with the Boy Scouts who said "they are unaware of any call

from national leadership placed We're in a familiar situation aren't

we? A lot of people say one thing about on same. That's right and in

the interview with the Wall Street Journal he was asked about his

comments and the reception he got at the scalp and you and I have read

many interviews and had our viewers of people who were present at that

Boy Scouts are meant he said they didn't like the fact he was so

overly political, they didn't appreciate the present's tone and

yet in the interview with the Wall Street Journal he said he was told

by the Boy Scouts head that it was the greatest beach had ever heard.

Bastareaud greatest beach. There are several reports to say that assembly

untrue -- the greatest speech ever. Trump also said that the Mexican

president had phoned him to say he was pleased that the ring have the

first six months had gone. But the Mexican president said that was not

the case he did not have the phone call congratulating him on his

efforts in the first six months. An example of the Trump version of

events and the other, reality version of events. The White House

was questioned about this in Bury meeting. Sarah Huckabee Sanders

conceded there was not a phone call between the two but said there was a

phone call at some point. -- conversation some point. We are

seeing a pattern where the president says something and fax themselves

don't correlate. Good heavy an outside source, this is a man we

need to keep talking about the president of America. Thank you very

much watching we will be back tomorrow. Goodbye.

Hello, by this time next week whether should look a little bit

more like we would expect in August with the wettest conditions in the

north and drier weather further south. That will be a big flipping