15/08/2017 Outside Source

Hello, this is Outside Source. Hundreds of people have died in

flooding and landslides in Sierra Leone. We are trying to sort the

corpses out, more corpses have them brought in from different parts of

the city. This is a disaster which even by the reckoning of the head of

this mortuary is unprecedented. Here, a future without Borders. The

Government pushes for a friction is trade deal to help businesses switch

into a poster Brexit future. And you can get in touch with our hash tag.

Welcome to the programme. The UK government has published proposals

for how trade might work between the UK and the rest of the European

Union after Brexit. Fair to say there have been mixed reviews. This

from the head of politics .co .uk, talking about a fantasyland of

desperation and muddled thinking. On the other hand, Scottish Chambers, a

business that that in Scotland, talks about a welcome first step.

Let's see you the Brexit secretary, David Davis, and why he thinks these

proposals should be accepted. It is in their interests. BMW do not want

to have a Customs border that is going to slow down their sales or

add costs. Siemens are not going to want to do that. The port of

Rotterdam will want to have an official operator -- have an

efficient operation. You can find the full paper online if you want to

go through the details. Some of the key points. At the moment, the UK is

in a customs union with other EU members. They are subject to the

same tax wherever they enter the EU, but then they can move fairly freely

between member states. The paper says that for the UK wants is a

temporary customs union Gerrie Nel transition period after we leave the

European Union in March 20 19. During this period, it would also

expect to negotiate its own international trade deals, something

it cannot do as a customs union member. The paper sets out two

proposals for after the transition period. The first is a new

partnership with the EU which would involve no border checks at all. I

have asked Chris Morris, how reality check correspondent if that would be

possible. It is an interesting question because there is no model

for this anywhere else in the world. The only way you have no custom

checks at all is to be part of a customs union, exacting what the

knighted kingdom is planning to leave. There is no precedent for it.

The British argument is that British companies do better when there is no

barrier to trade with Europe, but so the European companies. It is in all

other interests. The trouble is that other countries are saying, you

cannot have the benefits of being in the union like no carrots at all,

but not some of the disposable at ease with the -- no tariffs at all.

It is the UK government tried to have its cake and eat it once again?

There is grim determination on the other side of the channel that that

will not be allowed. Let's look at proposal two. They would be minimal

customs checks between the UN the UK for the least possible disruption at

ports and airports. Let's reality check that option. A lot of the

technology is there. You could have things like numberplate recognition,

things like automatic electronic certification of authorised traders.

The trouble is, putting in the infrastructure to get all of this

done will take years as it will not have do just be put in place at

British ports but in the European Union as well, like France, Belgium

and Ireland. If you want to prepare for that in two or three years, you

will be want to be starting that work now. There is not that much

incentive for other countries to change their procedures at the

airport is just to make things easier for the United Kingdom.

Again, there is goodwill on both sides to have a good relationship in

the future but the details are problematic. The EU response to the

Government's paper has been swift and fairly straightforward. Here is

the European Parliament's chief to go to later, he says it is a

fantasy. He is Chris again on how realistic the British government's

proposals are if they don't have EU support. A lot of what PE you want

will be hard to achieve. They called it a fantasy. There are others who

say, what you are trying to do is take the bits you want and ignore

the bits you don't. We will not accept that that will happen. On the

other hand, there is also pressure from Leave campaigners in the United

Kingdom that the UK is going too far, that is being defeatist. That

is the Government's problem, there is pressure to go for a more extreme

version of Brexit from Leave campaigners, but a difficult

relationship and negotiation to be had with the rest of the EU, saying,

you have got to understand there is no such thing as completely

frictionless trade if you are planning to leave the single market

and the customs union. There has to be compromise in there somewhere but

the idea that the UK can essentially say to its companies, everything

will be as good as it was before minus the add bits, I don't think

that will work. -- minus the bad bits. We have been

talking a lot about Donald Trump this hour, another captain of

industry has abandoned him. They become the fourth executive to step

down after the events in Charlottesville. Are we seeing

corporate America taking a stand? Let's talk to Samir Hussein, who is

in New York. What is going on? It is becoming a pattern.

Indeed. It is pretty significant when you see big American businesses

standing up and saying, we do not want to be part of the President's

Council. They are saying they are trying to distance themselves from

the American president. In the last few hours, we have seen an internal

e-mail released to the employees of Walmart on Monday. In that, it the

CEO went further than many others did and named president Trump

specifically in this memo. I will highlight a bit of it. As he watched

the event and the response from president Trump over the weekend, we

feel that he missed a critical opportunity to help bring our

country together. It is a real sign that there are limits to what

corporate America will take and in this move by these corporations,

this is clearly the line for some of them. In the news conference, we

were both listening to that there, with Donald Trump, his answer was

essentially jobs, jobs, jobs. He says he's bringing back millions of

jobs. Fact check that for us. He certainly wants to be bringing back

millions of jobs. If you look at the latest jobs numbers, the employment

snapshot looks pretty good. But there is a question about whether

that has to do anything the president has done or whether that

was actually a result of the past decisions made by President Obama.

Going forward, if we see more increases to jobs, we could probably

start crediting some of that with president Trump. In terms of the

millions of jobs he was to create, we have not seen those as yet.

Another story that is probably on Donald Trump's mind, North Korea.

According to its state media, this is Kim Jong-un reviewing the plans

to fire missiles in the waters around Guam. They now say they are

holding off on that plan. He said he was ready for the impending fire

around Guam. He also said... He would wait and watch a film or the

foolish and stupid conduct of the Yankees before making a decision.

Here is the response of Guam's governor. We are just getting news

today that the plan has been descended. He has still made

bellicose statements about the me do it, but he has withheld from

doing... Basically his statement is, we will withhold, we will not make

any missile tests towards this area. A lot of it has to do with some of

the strong statements not only made by our president but also by the

collective statements made by Secretary Tillotson. So a sense of

cautious relief. What about South Korea? There was a rally calling for

a peaceful solution to the crisis. Our reporter spoke to some of them.

This truck has the words, no war, no Trump. America is South Korea's most

important protector. Some of the people here think that the current

president is causing more problems than he is helping to solve. He is

making many South Koreans angry. His action and policy is not good for

many Americans. TRANSLATION: August 15 is a day when

we were freed from Japan. We are supposed to maintain peace as a

country, but president Trump has said he is way too risque war, so

people gather here today to call for peace on the Korean peninsular. Kim

Jong-un's softening stance comes after China brought in heavier

sanctions, ceasing imports from North Korea. At the same time, the

US president has ordered a trade probe into China's alleged theft of

intellectual property from America. Donald Trump himself has in the past

connected the cue issues, suggesting that if China wants a good deal from

the United States on trade, it needs to do more to help on those

diplomatic foreign policy issues. But signing this memorandum,

possibly setting in train this investigation that could lead to

unilateral sanctions, the president said it was all about trade. This is

him delivering on campaign promises to stand up for US jobs and in

particular to hold China to account. Stay with us, still to come in

sport. After her drugs ban, a return to grand slam tennis for Maria

Sharapova. The Russian gets a wild card to the US open.

Commuters are to face the biggest increase in rail fares for four

years as inflation hits 3.6%. The increases will hit season tickets,

so-called any time tickets and some off-peak fares from next January.

Quick coffee, a little treat for the cat, and catch the train. Rebecca's

commute from Taunton to Bristol costs ?3500 a year. It is due to go

up by ?130 next year, as most commuters face a 3.6% price rise.

Does this erosion of your real wealth that is happening to an awful

lot of people, wage will find that your salary may have gone up but

everything else is going up so much faster and so much more that, year

on year, we are worse off. It is not the train companies who said half of

our rail fares, it is the Government. They have been putting

the fares up for years as they want to change who pays for the railways.

It is all part of a band to shift the financial burden away from

taxpayers, most of whom don't commute on trains, and onto

passengers. There is used to account for about half the cost of running

our trains. That has risen to 65%. Across Britain, people are facing

tough choices. If it goes on, I would be able to afford to go to

work, I have to get the car because it is cheaper. I work in the public

sector, might pay rises maximum 1%, it is making us worse off when they

rise like that. I would not mind if they were better quality carriages,

but they are pretty tatty these days. Campaigners have criticised

the use of RBI indexes, which are usually higher. The costs are going

up in line with that inflation. Ministers argue that the money is

needed to pay for a ?40 billion upgrade to the network. A lot of it

is still Victorian and struggling to cope with record numbers of

passengers. Critics claim fares have outstripped wages for years and say

it is time for a price freeze. The Government could still change its

mind in the autumn budget. You are watching outside source. Our

lead story. At least for Hunderby Blaenau dead following a landslide

and flooding in Sierra Leone. The mother killed could rise much

higher, and thousands of people have been left homeless.

These are the stories making the news around the BBC. Archaeologists

in Egypt have discovered three tombs dating back thousands of years. They

contained stone carvings and fragments, that is BBC Arabic. Grace

Mugabe has failed to appear in a court after being accused of

assaulting a woman in Johannesburg. Police initially said they did not

die where she was, but it is believed she went back to her home

country. Most of our most watched videos comes from North Carolina,

where protesters have pulled down a proslavery monument. This comes

after plans to pull down a similar statue in Virginia caused violent

riots over the weekend. Time for the sport now. We will go

straight to the BBC Sport Centre with news about Maria Sharapova. She

is set to play in her first grand slam since her drugs ban.

Her first wild card since her 15 month drug ban. She pulled out of

qualifying for Wimbledon after and injury. She is no stranger to

Flushing Meadows. She became the world another one for the first time

act in August 2005, and that gets under way in two weeks' time.

We have a number of teams fighting it out for places in the Champions

League group stage. One of interest to many people

around the world is Liverpool, who will be playing Hockenheim next

Wednesday. They had all the running in the first few minutes of the

game. They could not convert that, a poor penalty. Liverpool scored in

the 35th minute. Their opponents had their chances, could not put the

ball in the net. Liverpool then scored a second,

before the Germans got one back. Exciting times. The website is the

way to go for all those results. Thank you. Are we entering a new era

of Arctic voyages? An exhibition to the North Pole by a yacht has just

set off from Alaska. They are travelling 5500 kilometres, trying

to get around to the geographic North Pole. It is being led by a

British explorer. For the first time in human history,

possibly for 100,000 years, it is now possible to sail ships into this

area. What this means is the wildlife living in the area are now

vulnerable. That was then speaking before they said. We can show you

where the boats are now, because they are showing live update. That

is where they have got to. Some pictures for you. They are

travelling on two boats, ten crew and a dog, and they are sailing. The

melting of the sea ice is making this possible. In the last 85 years,

the figure is more than one third of the area of sea ice has gone. Once

inaccessible waters are opening up. This is not the first time that

explorer has tried to get to the North Pole. He made a trip on foot,

but he sped a lot of time in the water and the ice. I have to tell

you from talking to them, so far, the weather has been fairly cruel. I

caught up with the skipper and asked him how the crew were feeling.

Pretty much the whole crew are laying in bed. The sea conditions

are quite rough at the moment. A couple of them feel quite ill at the

moment. So it is worse than you expected? Yes, the initial weather

forecast showed that we were not going to have much wind in the first

24 hours. There was quite a large storm earlier in the week, over the

weekend. I think we still have some rigid jewel waves from that storm.

It is quite rough. We are currently using a combination of sale and

engine to make progress stopped but it's quite bumpy at the moment. Of

course, you're the first crew to try to do this, do take yachts up to the

North Pole. How are you protecting the votes? First of all, by being

very careful. The ice is very dangerous. It can drift away with

the win. If there is too much in front of the boat or beside the

boat, there is a risk of getting crushed. So we are keeping a close

eye on the satellite images to see where the ices. We are keeping a

close eye on the weather. We are not going to take unnecessary risks. The

main objective of the Arctic mission is to do scientific research in the

open water and at the ice age. Getting to this North is secondary

to that. You might also be whale watching, seeing the larger forms of

marine life as you go north? Absolutely. There is the potential

that we see polar bears as we get closer to the sea ice, because they

hunt from the ice age. We will potentially see seals, humpback

whales, no walls, possibly beluga. There will be a large riots of sea

mammals in the Arctic. Weigh less is known about the small living things

that are down in the water. It sounds as though it could be really

exciting. If you can get through the sea sickness and hold it together

given the physical risks, this could be tremendous. Absolutely. The

Arctic Ocean has had its own natural shield in place which is slowly

disappearing. That makes the Arctic more on rubble but does give us a

chance to look at what is going on in the waters under the ice. My crew

want to ask you one final question, which is how the dog is. Is it

surviving the sea sickness? The dog has seen better moments, but I don't

think she is seasick at the moment. We will be checking in with the crew

and the dog as they go through their voyage. Just time to remind you of

the breaking news this hour. In the past hour, Donald Trump has been

defending his response to the deadly protests at the weekend in

Charlottesville in Virginia. At the noisy press conference, he said he

did not make all of the facts when he made his comments. He blamed many

sites. He also said that race relations had improved since he took

office and would improve given the millions of jobs he intends to bring

to the United States will. He talked about his strategist who has come

under fire today. Calling Steve Bannon a good Pawson, he says what

will happen to him. We will continue to follow that. Thank you for being

with us. Hello there. Could an Atlantic

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