03/08/2017 Outside Source

Hello, I'm Karin Giannone, this is Outside Source.

In the days after he took office back in January,

Donald Trump spoke to a number of world leaders.

Now, transcripts of some of the conversations have been

Venezuela's chief prosecutor opens an investigation into claims

of fraud during the weekend's election of a new assembly.

The head of the Libyan National Army warns Italian ships that approach

Libyan waters without permission that they'll be repelled.

And in the past few minutes, Paris St Germain have confirmed the

signing of Brazilian striker Neymar on a five year contract.

The Washington Post has released transcripts of conversations

between Donald Trump and other world leaders from days

The first is between the President and Mexico's

Trade, the war on drugs, and of course, the wall -

Mr Trump spent his campaign promising that Mexico

would pay for a wall on the America's southern border.

Let's go over to our Washington correspondent. How did all this

emerge? It was transcript of conversation which happened in the

first month of his presidency, leaked to the Washington post who

published the entire transcript and their analysis of it. That was

earlier today. We had heard details of this conversation, shortly after

they took place, Donald Trump talking about bad people in Mexico

dealing drugs with the president, and the fact that his conversation

with the Australian Prime Minister Turnbull was less than friendly. The

Trump administration denied some of this at the time, but now we have

the physical transcript of what they said. And the details pretty much

bear out those early reports. You mention Australia, let's turn to

that. The conversation with the Australian Prime Minister Malcolm

Turnbull, soon after it took place, it was leaked to the media that it

was heated. It was over a promise by Obama for the US to take in more

than a thousand asylum seekers held by Australia in detention centres.

The transcript says that Mr Trump says that will make us look bad. I

am calling for a ban were I'm not letting anyone in, and we take 2000

people, this is going to kill me. After a long back and forth, the

call and ended apparently with this. I remember at the time those reports

that Donald Trump up the phone down and that was strenuously denied?

Donald Trump himself tweeted that it was fake news and reports he has an

unfunny conversation, he described as civil in his. Now we see the

transcript, we see the truth. They sign off with pleasantries but you

can tell the tone of it was not particularly friendly. Turnbull

tried to explain his resettlement programme, and Donald Trump didn't

seem to have a firm grasp on it. It wasn't 2000 people being resettled,

it was 1250. As Turnbull told Trump, the US have the ability to not take

any, just reviewing them and deciding who to take. It seems like

Trump did not get a good briefing going in, that could be because the

reports we had that the state Department was not involved in many

of these phone conversations that Trump had with foreign leaders in

his early days of the administration. Anthony, there is a

wider point which David Frum of the Atlantic makes about this...

Here's The Atlantic's David Frum: "Anybody who has access to this

transcript also has access to many other secrets.

Trusted people are breaking career-long habits to thwart Trump."

The implication there that there could be more where this came from?

There could be. This is not the first leak of sensitive national

security information that has got out of the Trump administration. And

even people on the Democratic side, from the Obama administration, have

looked at this and would have thrown a bit if this happened in the Obama

administration actual transcripts of private dialogue between foreign

leaders. So yeah, it is evidence of the fact that there are people who

have access to sensitive information trying to undermine the Trump

presidency. The White House and Trump in particular point of this as

another example why leaks need to break down. But then because we have

it in our hands, we can get it and it does give an interesting insight

into how Donald Trump operates behind the scenes. Thank you,

Anthony in Washington. Venezuela's chief prosecutor has

opened an investigation into claims of fraud during the weekend's

election of a new assembly to The announcement came just hours

after the company that carried out the vote,

claimed the government had President Nicolas

Maduro denies this. Let's hear from Katie Watson in

Caracas. Just remind us why the Attorney General wants to do this,

what are the claims? The claims are that the vote on Sunday, the numbers

were inflated, the government said more than 8 million Venezuelans

voted for the constituent assembly. But the voting company says actually

that was inflated by around 1 million. That is being generous,

that some people, some independent polls, saying the number was far

lower than that. But President Maduro is defiant, saying 10 million

Venezuelans want to vote but 2 million were held back by fires,

barricades and bombs. So he is justifying it saying these numbers

are correct. That is the fallout, the government is being accused of

fraudulent voting and the government says it's not true. So they want to

carry out a full investigation, how much power will she has and how will

she be able to do what she wants? Luisa Ortega is one of Maduro's

biggest critics, she is not a popular figure. The support she will

have for this, well, we have already heard from the head of the electoral

authorities saying that the comments on the voting London based company

were baseless and irresponsible. And the government seems to be ignoring

this. The government too much won't listen to Luisa Ortega on this one.

They are convinced that this vote was fair and they will inaugurate

the delegates on Friday afternoon, as planned. The opposition boycotted

the selection, it went ahead anyway. What does the opposition plan to do

now? They have been trying to hold a rally at the same time as the

inauguration, it was meant to happen today but the inauguration got put

back so that the rally back as well. On Friday, around midday, they will

hold the rally from several points in parts of Caracas. This is what we

have seen over the last few months, we have seen protests that have

often turned violent and the government standing firm saying they

are not going to be changing their tack. So we are as far removed from

dialogue as a consensus as possible, two sides, the opposition and the

government, do not see eye to eye and neither side looks like they are

prepared to talk about it. Katie, thanks very much. Katie Watson in

Caracas. In the last few minutes, we have

heard the world record transfer of Neymar from Barcelona to Paris St

Germain has gone ahead. Let's go to the BBC sports Centre, is the deal

done? It is. Our sources say the 25-year-old Brazilian national

Neymar has signed a five-year deal, in excess of $260 million, just let

that sink in! That is a quarter of $1 billion. A press conference is

due at 11:30am GMT on Friday, around 15 million dollars -- 50 million

dollars more, which was Paul Pogba who moved from Juventus to Man

United a year ago. He will earn more than $53 million a year, this is

where it gets bizarre. The Spanish hierarchy at La Liga is represented

and BSD were acting unlawfully. They urge them to abide by the rule. So

what happened? Later on Thursday, Neymar's BSD paid the full amount at

Barcelona's offices on Thursday. If you've got it, flawed it. He has to

be pretty good to justify the money. What do Paris St Germain had to out

of him? They want to win the Champions

League. They have come close, in the quarterfinals, and with Neymar one

of the big players with the three up front in Barcelona with Suarez in

there and of course Lionel Messi, he will take away from that and become

a great player in his own right. Paris Saint Germain hope he will

spearhead their campaign in Europe and win the Champions League. How

much hurt pride is there on Barcelona's part? I think there was

a huge amount of lost pride. The fans have come out with signs of

traitor. Because you look at what he has done and he has put up messages

on Instagram, this is a huge deal. It is a huge move the Neymar. He

came from Los Santos in 2013, he has problems with taxes and maybe he

sees this as a clean break moving to PSG. Barcelona supporters won't

forget this in a hurry. They have a new coach this year, Valverde, so

difficult times and at the state of the season, where'd you get a player

like Neymar? The La Liga season starts shortly. We will speak lately

about other sport, thank you. So what will Neymars

transfer mean for football? For more on this the BBC has been

speaking with a number of experts. Firstly - here's football

agent Sky Andrew. Neymar is one of the best players in

the world. Under normal circumstances, a super team would

not sold to a super-team, but he had a buyout clause. Of ?200 million,

that's incredible. It's good for Qatar, because they are making a

statement and people will start talking about Qatar and dump macro

in a sort of positive manner and the focus is on them. -- Qatar and PSG.

They are getting an astronomical amount of money for a player, as

many would see it. No other team is capable of doing this, not even big

teams in the UK can spend over ?400 million on a player. Everyone will

ask some of the questions about financial fair play. But Qatar are

involved with PSG. They have been involved in Barcelona, say they will

make this work. Football agent sky Andrew talking

before the deal was finalised. Kieran Maguire explaining the case

Paris Saint Germain may put forward PSG top justify

spending so much money have deals with commercial companies

for Neymar. And also funding his contract. Look at him at the product

-- as a product, Neymar has 170 million followers on Instagram,

Twitter and Facebook. That is more than Manchester United Real Madrid.

He is an individual brand were a hell of a lot of money. And PSG will

want as much of a share of image rights as possible, to offset the

cost of his employment. So the deal is done.

Stay with us on Outside Source - still to come.

We're in Alaska - 400 kilometres inside the Artic Circle where people

are worried about moves to allow more oil drilling.

The Bank of England has downgraded its growth forecasts

for this year and next - and warned the UK economy

will remain "sluggish" because of uncertainty surrounding

Britain's future relationship with the European Union.

The Bank's Governor, Mark Carney, said the uncertainty

had influenced markets, business investment and consumer

spending following the vote in June last year.

Financial markets, particularly sterling, marked down in the UK's

relative prospects quickly and struggling. How cells look through

Brexit related uncertainties initially. -- households look

through Brexit. But the consequences of the fall of sterling has squeezed

real incomes, and they have cut back on spending, slowing the economy.

Businesses have been somewhere in between. Since the referendum, they

have invested much less aggressively than usual in response to an

otherwise very favourable environment.

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Transcripts of conversations President Trump had with world

leaders after he took office have been published by

The US-based lawyer for the widow of late Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo's

has filed a formal complaint to the United Nations

over what he described as her "enforced disappearance".

Poet Liu Xia has been "held incommunicado in an unknown location

by Chinese government authorities" since July 15th, the day

of her husband's funeral, the lawyer said in a statement.

Dozens of firefighters have battled a blaze

at Tokyo's Tsu-kiji fish market, the world's largest and one

of the capital's most popular tourist sites.

The fire was in the outer part of the market -

which is packed with informal restaurants.

The inner part of the market - where most seafood wholesalers

are located and tuna auctions are carried out at dawn -

Any Italian ships approaching Libyan waters without

That order came from this man - Khalifa Haftar -

head of the Libyan National Army, who controls most of eastern Libya.

He was responding to Italy's decision to send boats to Libyan

waters to stop migrants crossing the Mediterranean.

It has had a mixed reception from Libya's two governments.

The one based in Tobruk in the east which supports Field Marshall Hafta-

opposes the decision- whereas the other based in Tripoli

in the West and backed by the un-says it will cooperate.

coming from all over Africa - to make that dangerous

journey from Libya's coast, across the mediterranean,

More than 94,000 migrants have made the crossing since January.

Italy is also putting forward other measures to stem

the flow of migrants- Richard Galpin has more.

At the start of the migrant crisis, the Italian Navy used to play

But now its mission is to enter Libyan territorial waters to help

the Libyan coast guard spot migrant boats as they set sail,

The abrupt change of mission was given the go-ahead

Most politicians clearly wanting an end to the crisis.

The goal of the Italian government is to stem the flow,

bring it close to zero and basically tweak the Turkey deal and adapted

to the situation in Libya but get the same result,

which is to bring a flow which is in the hundreds

Almost 100,000 migrants have reached Italy so far this year.

Other EU countries were supposed to have taken many of them.

So large numbers are applying for asylum here, putting

the government under pressure with elections looming next year.

Now the Italian Navy's sophisticated radar will enable the Libyan coast

guard to stop many migrant boats before they leave Libyan

That is sparking alarm amongst human rights organisations.

There is automatic detention of irregular migrants in centres

where people are systematically abused, and it is completely

unclear how the Italian government think that these people would be

protected after disembarking Libya with the key

assistance of the Italian government.

Italy is also imposing restrictions on boats used by charities

It is feared fewer ships will now be in the key areas,

and already this year more than 2000 migrants have drowned.

A cash-flow analysis seen by South African MPs suggests

South African Airways is running out of money.

It's asking for another big bail-out from the country's government.

Take a look at this from Nancy Kacungira

South African Airways has run out of money, but no one can really say

they didn't see this coming. Even though South Africa itself is a big

air travel market, the airline has made a loss every year for the last

seven years. That is due to high costs and many depths. The airline

says things could improve by October but only if they get help now. They

need a $60 million bailout, and the planes looked good in the adverts

but they are expensive to keep in the sky. South African Airways's

long haul fleet is mostly made up of gas guzzling aeroplanes, which are

quite fuel inefficient, a disadvantage considering that their

fuel costs in Africa are much higher than average. The airline says they

have a plan to turn things around, but analysts have been crunching the

numbers, and say that to take an injection of up to $1 billion over

the next three years. Workers at the Nissian plant

in the US state of Mississppi are taking part in a landmark vote ,

which has already been described as 'one of the nastiest anti-union

fights' in US history. Michelle Fleury reports

from Canton, Mississippi. Nissan has launched this major and

Thai union campaign threatening and intimidating workers.

We don't know what they are offering. We have a plan that we

have do struggle and fight us to have the right to vote. The fight to

form a union at the Nissan factory in canton, Mississippi. We are

battling against not for the right to vote or not vote, but the right

to manipulate or lie to each other. For 14 years, workers at the Miss

Nissan plant have been engaged with a battle to form a union.

Mississippi has been hostile to unions, but this time workers had

they have a chance. I want to have health and safety, equal

opportunities... I got heard on the line and I've been dealing with that

the whole time. It's been a real process. I think the union would

really stand up for us. But not everyone wants the union. It's the

best thing to happen to the state of Mississippi, so we are campaigning

hard to keep the union out. We don't need outsiders to tell us what we

want doing. To get its message across, Nissan posted anti-union

messages in the factory, now landing them in trouble with the Labour

relations board. The company denied allegations of this, saying they had

a right to know their perspective. For those that know the South's

troubled past, it's not just about workers right but civil rights. When

blacks would vote, someone would come with a hood bearing a cross.

Now they come by, saying we are going to close the union and the

plan. The union is hoping to turn past failure into success. Victory

here might like the spark for the US labour movement across the South.

Hyperloop One - it's the futuristic transport system that shoots pods

or capsules at very high speeds through tunnels.

Take a look at the latest test in the Nevada desert.

this is the beginning and the dawn of a new era of transportation. The

first new major form of transportation in 100 years, it will

basically change the way we live, where we work and make the world a

much smaller place in turning cities into natural spot.

Back to the breaking news and the last half hour, Neymar has completed

his world record transfer to Paris St Germain. He has signed a five

year contract with the French club. The 25-year-old Brazilian early

broke his contract with Barcelona by paying a 264 million dollar buyout

clause. There was a hiccup earlier which delayed things somewhat, the

club Barcelona previously said they would report our St Germain to Uefa,

football's governing body in Europe, for a breach of rules but that seems

to have been resolved. The deal has been done. The image has been

removed from the stadium in Barcelona already. More sport coming

up on the programme, stay with