21/08/2017 Outside Source

I'm Ros Atkins with Outside Source, the main suspect in the Barcelona

attack is dead. The man thought to have driven a fan into pedestrians

last Thursday was found and shot dead in a village west of Barcelona.

This is what parts of the USA have seen, the first total eclipse of the

sun the first time in almost 40 years. It is the longest war for

America, what comes next for the US and Afghanistan, President Trump

will tell us in a few hours' time. The worst floods in decades in South

Asia, we will hear from our correspondence, Manchester City and

Everton are playing in the Premier League, Everton are leading by one

goal, Rooney has scored and Kyle Walker has been sent off.

Let's turn to America and Afghanistan. This is a tweet from

Saturday, Donald Trump saying, I've had an important day at camp David

with our military leaders and we have made decisions including on

Afghanistan. In not so long we will hear what those decisions are in a

live address from the president. At the moment there are over 8000

American troops in Afghanistan. A lot but way down on the 100,000

during President Obama's first term. This is America's longest of the

conflict. It dates back to 2001 and the 9/11 attacks, almost 2500 US

troops have died since the operations began, and in financial

terms, it is estimated to have crossed over $1 trillion. The impact

on Afghans has also been important egg enormous. This is number of

civilian deaths since 2001, 30 1000. Gary O'Donoghue of the BBC in

Washington reported on the options President Trump faces. The options

are, from total withdrawal of American forces, some it of them in

Afghanistan, bring them all home, adding another 4000 or so to

traditional at the Afghan army, that's taken some heavy losses in

the fight against the Taliban. Possibly using private contractors

to do some of that so that some of the American troops can come home.

So a variety of options on the table, I think the most likely one

is an additional introduction of troops, which of course Donald Trump

said should happen before he became a candidate, before he became

president. That he would not be the only president to change mind on

this, President Obama did the same kind of reversal and this is

America's all, Ros, 16 years and counting. Whether you are watching

in the UK or elsewhere you will see that address from President Trump on

the BBC. To south Asia, where flooding is causing humanitarian

crisis. It is estimated that over 750 people have already died and

India, Bangladesh and Nepal are all affected, many areas cut off. One

district in Nepal, which we have marked here, it is cut off, one BBC

team has got here, and this is the report. We are in one of the worst

hit areas. I've met the locals and they tell me that their villages are

inundated so I'm going to see for myself. To get to the village we

need to cross areas like this and we are told there are snakes all over.

On the way we meet a woman eager to show us her home. What she is saying

is, after this fled the whole house has come down and she has nowhere to

live. Her property, her livestock, whatever she's had, it's all been

swept away and cheese had to leave with her children, without food for

more than five days now. In the Village people are desperate to talk

about their ordeal. One woman says she feels her housemate collapse at

any moment. She says, I've seen three houses come down, this is mine

yet needs to go back because my husband is ill and he needs be

treated. She is saying that her husband was trying to rescue the

Buffalo, which was trapped in the floodwaters, and when he tried to

pull the Buffalo at, it got injured and brokers like, can't move and was

trapped. This lady says she's worried for her child. She is

talking about this little baby. She says she's got nothing, everything

has been swept away, she can't even feed the baby, life for her is very

difficult. No materials, no food for the baby as of yet, I think. The

rain starts to get heavier and our guide warns us that we should head

back. For the village, the rising water will be misery and whatever

they have been able to salvage is again at risk. BBC News, Nepal. That

report was from Nepal. Next, northern Bangladesh. One BBC

reporter is there. Just to remind you of the extent of the flooding,

almost 2 million hectares are thought to have been affected.

This is the Brahmaputra river, one of the world's largest.

These people here have taken up the only sliver of land that's

Aid workers are trying their best to get relief to flood victims,

but there's a mad scramble, such is the need for something

This is one of the worst floods Bangladesh has

Right now, the communities affected are very much in need of food,

emergency shelter, safe drinking water and clothing.

It's now a race against time to get to those affected

Much more information about the flooding in South Asia and the BBC

News app. Notice board, in the Premier League it's Manchester City

against Everton. Quite a game ruing -- now, to sport. Manchester City

won the first game of the season against Brighton but they are not

having it all their way. Gavin, it's got interesting. It has, Ros, they

are not having it their way at all. Manchester City trailing 1-0. Both

sides won the first game, they hope to keep up with the leaders,

Manchester United and Huddersfield town. About something that happened

before the game, both sides decided to mark the recent terrorist attack

victims in Spain and in Manchester in May. They are wearing the worker

bee, the symbol of Manchester, it is essentially a kind of uniting force

for the city and they are raising money to put funds towards memorials

and various other projects to do with commemorating the terror

attacks. In terms of the game, we have Wayne Rooney who rejoined

Everton from Manchester United this summer, he opened the scoring for

Everton giving them the lead in the city and sixth minute. Manchester

City have had one man sent off, Kyle Walker -- the lead in the 36th

minute. Ten minutes to go, Everton still leading 1-0, City are having

the best of the possession, the best of the breaks but can't find a

winner. It looks as if Everton will have to wins out of two. I noticed

that really was getting a single figure salute from one of the

Manchester City fans as he celebrated his goal! Seems there is

no love lost between him and the other side of my justice since he

left Manchester United. Let's talk about skateboarding, it's now an

Olympic sport, the next Olympics will be in 2020 in Tokyo, we've got

a while for the excitement to build, this week the Park skateboarding

Championships so we wanted to look at this as a sport. We see our

professional league, or street league, as a discipline of

skateboarding. Those will always be the primary driving factor for sport

organisation globally. However, once every four years, skateboarding will

be elevated onto the world stage, through the Olympics and we want to

make sure that when that happens we want to work together to make sure

it is the best possible representation. So like the NBA

every other best professional basketball players compete for the

NBA Championship. But every four years they get to compete for their

country. And I think that is has skateboarding will be when it enters

the Olympics. Looking forward to it. In a moment we will find out what

Elon Musk has to say about killer robots, and they want a ban. We'll

find out what they are talking about. Norfolk police in the firing

line after weekend of disruption at the seaside resort of Cromer.

Restaurants and pubs needed to close early with some residents talking

about a town in lockdown. Officers described it as low-level disorder.

Kim Reilly. Cromer looking at its very best

in the sunshine today, after a weekend at marred

successful carnival week. Lee Sale, who runs an ice cream shop

here, told me of the intimidating presence of a large group

of Irish travellers. To intimidate someone,

that's like terror. Especially when you have got

old people and families They might not be fighting

or anything like that, but when you have got the intimidation

and you're frightening families, that is not a

good thing. At Breakers cafe, they shut

their doors on Sunday morning, fearing for the safety

of the young staff. Another cafe owner told them he had

been confronted on his He refused to let them enter,

they were abusive, they And he is a big fellow

like me, so he just wanted to let me know

that we are in town. He said, I faced them

down and they have gone, but I have to tell you I am

shaking like a leaf. And it angers us in

the town that this can At the Masala Twist

restaurant, the owner's wife was pinned behind a door by six

women shouting abuse as the staff attempted to remove

a group they claimed had It's very painful,

very shocking, scared. It's a lovely town, calm, quiet,

lovely people here, but after last night's experience, you know,

it has got me thinking. I don't want to compare them

with animals, because animals are a lot better

behaved than they are. For staff at the Happy Feet shoe

shop, it has been an To be having to watch out that much,

no, I hope it never Local businesses counting

the cost of closing on one of the busiest weekends of the year

are determined to be positive. We've faced other

challenges and recovered from them, so I see no reason why

Cromer won't bounce back, for want of a better phrase,

from what has happened, continue doing what we do really

well, which is welcoming guests to I am Ros Atkins with Outside Source.

The lead story, the main suspect in the Barcelona attack has been shot

dead by Spanish police. He is thought to be the driver of the fans

that mowed down crowds in Las Ramblas last week. The next month or

so, Outside Source will be paying plenty of attention to the German

election. We will go there in a few weeks to join the campaign. We'll be

back for election day towards the end of September. It has been a big

day of rallies today in the election campaign. Angela Merkel, the

favourite to win, has been in the far north, and a place called Saint

Peter ordering. Arguably her main rival has-beens speaking in Bremen

and the right wing of eternity is has been presenting its

anti-immigration policy to voters. It's certainly challenging a certain

Mr Trump. This is the Reuters correspondent covering the country

saying the hard right party once Germany First asylum policy, and of

course President Trump uses the phrase America First. The Financial

Times says big issues are being ignored in Germany's sleep campaign,

it accuses Angela Merkel and Martin Schulz of avoiding the question

entirely. Earlier I spoke to our correspondent Damian McGuinness on

the positions of all three. Starting with the Chancellor. What is

interesting about the election Ros is that Angela Merkel is trying not

to talk about too much at all because her aim is not to rock the

boat. She is streaking ahead in the polls. The party of centre-right

Christian Democrats are approaching 40% which is pretty incredible since

she's going for a fourth term in office. What she wants to do is

avoid any controversial issues that might inspire people not to boat for

her. In this campaign she is attempting to neutralise any

potential issue that her left wing rivals might use against her. But

she has been accused of doing over the past election campaign and will

undoubtedly carry on doing in the next couple of weeks is avoid

anything controversial because she really doesn't want to rock the

boat. Let's talk about her main opponent, Martin Schulz, confident

operator in the European Parliament and in this campaign. What is the

root of that confidence? It is interesting because when he first

burst onto the scene in Germany earlier this year, there was a lot

of hype around him, a lot of expectation that he would do very

well. But that has dissipated. The last few months, it is hard to see

what that confidence is based on. He still says he stands a chance of

becoming the next Chancellor. Anything is possible I suppose that

if you look at the polls, his party, the centre left party, only pulling

in the early 20s. So most people are predicting that Angela Merkel will

stay as Chancellor. The big question is who she will be governing with.

It is unlikely according to the latest poll data that Martin Schulz

will become the next Chancellor that it could be that his party ends up

in government. And one problem that the centre left SPD have had in the

last years is that they have governed with Angela Merkel so it

will be hard for Martin Schulz to criticise the past four years and

say that this isn't working and that isn't working because they have been

partly responsible for what has been happening. They will have to be

relatively reticent in their criticisms of Angela Merkel and they

are struggling to find the platform that differentiates them from her

party. That's because she is occupying the centre ground, she's

pinched traditional left-wing issues and in the past few months Martin

Schulz has really started to struggle, flagging in the polls,

looking around for issues to focus on. So far with little success. Of

course we have another month to go and a lot can happen in the

elections. A Danish man charged over the death of a Swedish journalist

says she died in an accident on his submarine and he buried her at sea.

Peter Madsen has denied any involvement in the disappearance of

Kim Wall. He denied this for weeks and now he's changed his story. This

was Kim Wall and Peter Madsen on his submarine, the Nautilus, on August

ten. She had been researching a feature she was going to write about

him and a 40 tonne submarine that he designed and built himself. Since

then there's been an extensive search of the sea to find her. She

was reported missing by her boyfriend. Peter Madsen was spotted

on the Nautilus is the next day. His submarine sank that he was rescued.

He initially claimed he had dropped Kim Wall off on an island in Cubin

Hagen, he now says there was an accident, she died and he buried at

sea. -- Cubin Hagen. Yet he denies any wrongdoing. TRANSLATION: My

client has still not convinced anything and still pleads not guilty

to the charges against him. Listener believe that he sank his own

submarine and he has been charged with negligent manslaughter. Peter

Madsen made headlines in 2008 when he built the almost 80 metre long

vessel using online crowdfunding. His biographer has been speaking

about him. He has this other more artistic kind of approach to the

world, the world's rockets and has done his whole life and his plan is

to shoot himself up into the sky. Police say they cannot give any

further information yet as the investigation continues to find out

what happened to Kim. Katrina Renton, BBC News. Now to a story

that started over the weekend. A letter, signed by over 100 robotics

experts, calling for a ban on the element of so-called killer robots

which almost certainly do not look like this. What they are referring

to are autonomous weapons that can choose and target targets without

any human intervention. There's been a lot of talk and this seems to be

getting results, more than 90 countries discussed the use of the

UN. This is the letter I am referring to, sent to the United

Nations, it cannot load because there must be a problem with the

connection. It is developing these weapons is a Pandora's box. Some big

names have put their signature to this, this is the co-founder of

Google's artificial intelligence programme, you will know about Elon

Musk, he treated, if you are not concerned about the safety of this

you should be because it is vastly more risky than North Korea. I have

been talking about who might develop this kind of technologies. Everyone

is developing them, as in the weapons industry is already

incredibly lucrative. You can see the advantages of having a machine

in battle that contains no risk to military personnel. We are seeing

more and more autonomous drones, so there has to be a human pressing the

button and deciding when it fires. Autonomous tanks, and it's only a

matter of time before the technology is good enough for human control not

to be necessary, even if it is morally required. And who might make

the counterargument against this letter? I think the industry would

make the counter argument. The idea is that it will protect a lot of

people, save a lot of money, anything that AI can do will be more

efficient than human life, they can make split-level decisions more

quickly than we can, but the strength and weakness is that they

are not influenced by emotion, or fear, or moral or ethical dilemmas,

all the things that make us human and might make us hesitate in

battle, which could cause loss of life. So there is that argument that

autonomous weapons are the way forward. We have already seen a

drone last week developed, it is tiny, the size of a small quad

copter drone, it can fire a gun, it has technology to compensate recoil.

We are seeing that on the market already. It can only be fired

remotely, there is no reason why it can be trained to make its own

decisions to pick its targets and fire when it is ready with no one

being involved, pressing that button. And the signatories of this

letter. Are they suggesting we have something similar to what we have

with chemical weapons at the moment, with an international agreement

saying we want to develop this. That is what they want to add, they want

to add autonomous weapons to that list saying this is technology we

don't want to pursue. People don't realise how quickly the pace of AI

is working. We can see examples of it not been very good, it is in its

infancy but in the last ten years it's really taken off, the people

who have signed this letter saying we are not looking at decades, we

are looking at a matter of years, with our lifetimes when this will

well be out of the bag and Watford falls into the wrong hands. What if

it gets hacked by a terrorist organisation, someone who could make

that machine do what it wanted and we might not have the off switch.

Just a quick update on relations between the US and Russia, the US

end embassy in Moscow says it will temporarily stop zooming visas

Prussians want to visit the US. It says this is due to the Russian

decision last month to make significant cuts with diplomatic

staff. As you might expect Russia has condemned the move. Sarah

Rainsford. We've already heard from the Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.

He says as far as Russia believes this is a move fomenting discontent,

even revolution. He has suggested that in Russia, trying to get

Russians to be unhappy with their government for this move, he has

suggested that Russia might respond. He says the move has only just comes

Russia will consider it but he did say that whatever Russia chooses to

do it will not strike back against American citizens. Russia trying to

hold the moral high ground, saying what America has done is affecting

Russian people and they are not to blame for the relationships between

their two governments. This was to some extent an expected move. The US

said it was their right to respond to sanctions or to move by Russia.

They wanted to respond to that by September one. This is a decision by

Russia to cut the number of US diplomats and staff hugely. Reducing

by 755 the number of people working for the US diplomatic mission in

Russia. They give. Before we wrap up a quick reminder of the total

eclipse of the sun seen in some parts of America, it started in

Oregon and has been heading across the States. This is one still from

Oregon. These pictures came in highlighting what is called the

diamond ring effect. You can see as well as I can why it might be called

that. Quite astonishing pictures taken by people. No wonder they are

cheering. Thank you very much watching. See you tomorrow at the

same time, thank. Bye