05/09/2017 Outside Source

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The trumpet meditation has done as it said it would. It's announced

plans to stop a scheme that allowed young immigrants not to be to go to.

The open-ended circumvention of immigration laws was an

unconstitutional exercise of authority by the executive branch.

Russia warns the world that a military stand off

with North Korea threatens a global catastrophe.

We will explain Vladimir Putin's position.

Hurricane Irma strengthens to a category five storm as it heads

We are alive in the BBC newsroom, so we have questions on any stories we

are covering. #BBCOS is the hashtag. The day started with this

tweet @realDonaldTrump... Congress, get ready

to do your job - DACA! That's a reference to Mr Trump's

desire to scrap the Deferred Action Doing so could impact almost

a million young immigrants. This system was brought in under

President Obama in 2012 and it allows people brought to the US

illegally as children the temporary right to live,

study and work legally in America. The plan is to wind the programme

down over six months and to draw up Here's Attorney General Jeff

Sessions making the announcement. I'm here today to announce that

the programme known as Daca that was effectuated under the Obama

administration is being rescinded. To have a lawful system of

immigration that serves the national interest, we cannot admit everyone

who would like to come here. That would be an open borders

policy and the American Therefore, the nation must set

and enforce a limit on how many immigrants we admit each

year and that means This does not mean

they are bad people or that our nation disrespects

or demeans them in any way. It means we are properly

enforcing laws as Barack Obama has posted it, and on

Facebook on this issue. He says... To give you the precise figure on

this story, 790,000 have permanent. Most of them come from four

countries, Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador and Mexico. Was live in

California, Texas, Florida and New York. This is the Senator of New

York... Similar sentiment from one of California balls senators. Let's

go to Anthony Zurcher, covering this in Washington. Although they may

want to stop it, can these people stop it? Congress can certainly stop

it, they can pass legislation that effectively codifies the Daca

protections. They've been trying to do so for about 15 years. The

courses they have come was 2010, when Democrats controlled Congress,

Daca protections passed through the House of Representatives and were

stymied in the Senate, they couldn't get the 60 votes necessary to break

every Republican filibuster. This is something that American political

establishment has seen as a problem for quite some time. These -- things

were moving towards reform but then Donald Trump came in, running

against immigration, condemning what he calls Barack Obama's unilateral

action. He has the voters and done so. Congress is controlled by

Republicans. This is about whether the Republican Party will line up

behind Donald Trump. That's a good question. Since Barack Obama

instituted Daca and what a lot of these people out of a 2 million

immigrants out of the shadows and they have jobs and have gone to

school, served in the US military, rescinding it is going to be a

challenge and the reality is that there are more Republican supporters

for the Daca protections than there were six years ago, when they tried

to pass it before. There is still a lot of support for... We might not

be able to get 60 votes in Senate. There are valid reasons why the

Republicans object to this. They see it as Donald Trump and Jeff

Sessions, as giving an amnesty to people who came into this country

illegally, even if they did so as children. Tell me if I've understood

this correctly. You bought a phrase from health care stories. Is this a

valid repealing and replacing. -- is this about repealing and replacing.

Do they have to come up with a new system? They could pass a straight

up Daca all that would say that people who have come under the age

of 16, who have served in the nation for ten years, gone to college,

served in the military, they could have normalised immigration staters,

effectively given green card. That would be within the law. --

immigration status. We heard today about combat of immigration reform,

where there is potentially Daca in order to make Democrats happy but

also the wall. Perhaps a merit based system would be an idea. It's going

to be hard to find consensus. As we've seen, it's hard to find

consensus within Republican ranks let alone within Democrats and

Republicans together. We can hear from Florida on the practical

consequences later on in the show. President Putin has blasted the idea

of using tougher sanctions TRANSLATION: The use of sanctions

of any kind in this case is already As I told my colleagues

yesterday, they will eat grass but they will not give up

this programme if they do That's the US ambassador -

this is the US president. The rethink my Sanchez will work on

North Korea? Not necessarily but it cuts off the revenue that allows

them to build ballistic missile. That's the US ambassador -

this is the US president. I am allowing Japan

and South Korea to buy a substantially increased amount

of highly sophisticated military This came in the around this time

yesterday. That may be what President Putin was referring to

when he criticised military hysteria.

The North Koreans certainly aren't toning anything down.

This ambassador to the UN in Geneva said this earlier.

The recent self-defence images by my country, DPRK,

are gift packages addressed to none other than the US.

The US will receive more gift packages from my country as long

as it relies on reckless provocations and futile attempts

Let's talk to Barbara, live from Washington. The Americans want these

tougher sanctions. How will they get those through given the reservations

of the Chinese and Russians? It looks as if they will have a battle

doing that, especially after President Putin's remarks today they

wanted to spend the next week discussing a resolution with the UN.

Aside from Mr Putin's comments, the Russian ambassador has said it is

unrealistic to get it done so quickly. You see a different view of

how things should proceed. The Americans would agree that sanctions

haven't worked but they say this is because they'd been incremental and

have targeted the military infrastructure. Now they should

target the economy and could become intense so we need to have time to

work. They need to be applied more intensely and there is the bloody

pressure on that. They want to move forward on that. -- there is a bit

more pressure. The ultimate call is to get North Korea to the table to

discuss. China is worried about the North Koreans but they will only go

so far with sanctions. I think these divisions have always been there but

they are becoming more pronounced as the stakes get higher and as

military rhetoric escalates and as North Koreans show increasing

sophistication with weapons and continue to save a woman for

denuclearise. -- continue to say they will never denuclearise. I

spoke to somebody that was with Vikki Childs with the State

Department in the 90s. -- was with the State Department. Is there a

sense that there is little they can do now? I think it's always been

that the options are not authentic. It has now come to a degree where we

are focusing minds. This is because the North Koreans are correctly

setting the US with credible threats. They now have missiles that

could reach the US, they have nuclear warheads that, it seems, are

assumed going to be able to be applied to those missiles, so that

when the focus is much stronger. The question is if it's coming to a

crisis point, it will either call... Its containment still an option?

Will it go to military action? That is no more appealing than when he

spoke to this man in the 1990s. If it goes to negotiations, will there

be a pod for its agreed that the general assumption of those

negotiations will not be demilitarisation? Will there be

acceptance of a freeze in the programme? That is the point where a

decision will need to be made. What a moment that would be where we got

a forgot that point. -- if we got to that point.

That's the US side - for more on the Russian reaction,

The Russian position hasn't changed for a while. They have always

favoured a diplomatic solution. Mr Putin wants to underline that

sanctions don't work and it echoes sanctions introduced against Russia.

He mentioned that these sanctions didn't work as well. Today he said

that probably North Koreans would eat grass but they won't give up

their nuclear programme. He wants to underline that the diplomatic

solution is preferable and that the influence that Russia might have

with the North Korean leader. Is also enjoying disagreeing with the

Americans again. Absolutely. There was the recent row over the weekend.

consulate in San Francisco and two other premises.

There was a huge row, Russians are very angry, they

say that it's a violation of diplomatic rules and, of course, Mr

Putin uses this attempt to play on those contradictions and wants to

show that he is important in the international arena

and there are certain questions which he can

influence and he tries to tie up those questions.

For instance, North Korea, with others. Such as Syria and Ukraine.

Although be attempts to close the gap? It depends. Russia will try to

close hold its ground and will try to tie those topics, which are

important to the US at the moment, with the topics that Russia wants to

solve. Two stories dominate our attention in the recent days. That's

one, this is the other, the plight of the Rohingya Muslims.

in the last 24 was, the UN has said that 35,000 people across the border

from me and more into Bangladesh. That takes the total for the last 11

days well over 100,000. That places a huge strain on Bangladesh. He is

the latest report from one of the refugee camps.

These are the latest batch of refugees that have come in. Lots of

woman and Georgia as you can see. They are exhausted. Whatever food

they had to eat along the way has run out. Some are dehydrated. The

biggest thing is they have made it to relative safety. On that side is

Myanmay's Rakhine State. -- Myanmar. These people are fleeing for their

lives. They will now head to any kind of temporary soldier they can

find. By the side of a hill, inside a building. It's starting to rain.

-- temporary shelter. What will happen to them next? They have to be

fed and will eventually need to find some place to live, some place to

build the lives again. More background on Rohingya on the BBC

News website. In a few seconds, we will update you on hurricane Irma.

It's in the Atlantic but heading towards the Caribbean and Florida.

Publisher and social services have accepted the findings of... She was

murdered by her mother Catherine, now serving a 19 year jail sentence.

It was... Health professionals say they didn't look into the

circumstances enough, they didn't have that professional curiosity

level they should have done. There is also a line saying that the

professional system look at this and have enough focus on the period of

the truck. For me, that's there to defend children and ensure that

children get the help they need. That's absolutely Britain. At the

end of the day, this is a very fundable trials in a difficult

situation with parents exhibiting high risk habits. It should be

something which everyone should be on high alert for. -- this is a very

fundable Mac child. We are like in the BBC newsroom. The

trumpet initiation has announced that a scheme to protect young

undocumented... The Trump administration announces

that a scheme to protected young undocumented immigrants

in the United States Russia warns the world that

a military stand off with North Korea threatens

a global catastrophe. We will explain Vladimir

Putin's position. Hurricane Irma strengthens

to a category five storm as it heads Saving Government troops have been

assisted by Russian air strikes. The Danish inventor and accused of

killing a Swedish Traverse last month has told a court that she died

when she got hit on behalf of by a heavy hatch cover.

Peter Madsen says he accidentally lost his footing, while holding

Many of you are reading this story on the news app. Nasa are helping to

create the world's deepest colophon in an effort to tackle the decline

of coral reefs. -- coral farm. Another hurricane is heading

across the Caribbean towards the US. Its name is Irma -

and it's potentially catastrophic. The BBC's James Cook is covering

this. It's been called potentially catastrophic. The strongest ever

recorded in the Atlantic basin outside of the Caribbean Sea and

gulf of Mexico. You can understand by people are worried, looking at

the pictures. -- why people. The screen is giving up the ghost

slightly. Some of the pictures are frightening and we know already that

in Florida people are stocking up on supplies, making preparations for

the arrival. I've been speaking to BBC weather, just behind the outside

source screen, getting the help of them.

This is the latest satellite picture we have of Irma. Before it -- we've

heard that the wind inside the storm are 135 miles per, gusting over 200

miles an. There was one of the strongest Atlantic hurricanes

recorded. -- Rob Taylor with. It is middling Westerleigh. It looks as

though it is going to make landfall in Antigua, early wickets to. After

that, a westward journey, potentially towards the Dominican

Republic and Haiti. It will continue westward, always remaining

overwater, continuing to fuel itself. When the systems which find

they often we can because they lose their source of hot air from the

sea. This is calling on the northern coastal line of these islands, it

will remain category five. Torrential flooding rain and

significant storm surge. Florida is on your map. Can we be certain it

will reach this far? Models are agreeing it will reach towards the

Florida Keys. Some uncertainty as to where it will go, the Gulf of Mexico

or eastwards. It doesn't venture. In the Atlantic, there is another

tropical storm, Jose, expected to become a hurricane again in the next

24 overs. It might not follow the same path as Minack, cut curving

east. -- as Irma, curving east. We've fixed the screen, let's talk

about Kenyan politics. Yesterday we heard that the presidential election

will be run in October. Today, this man, regulating gun scratch, said

that he wouldn't take part without guarantees. He claimed the initial

election result had been tampered with. The supreme court agreed, and

not the result the original winner had been incompetent, Uhuru

Kenyatta, he must now fight another election. He is the latest report.

The National Alliance or Nasa has submitted a list of demands to be

met before they participate in elections. They include the removal

of top election official, including the CEO and an audit of the

technology. Greater openness when it comes to organising the next

election. He also ran for president, he is heading for court to contest

the decision to only have two people on the ballot paper. All the other

people are not be on the ballot. It's unconstitutional. It seems that

they have learned from this problem. Although they have been told they

must have the next election in line with the law. A full report promised

in 21 days. Following the report, it was said that possible changes would

be made as we prepare for the elections. It is not clear whether

these changes will be affected before or after the elections. The

Electoral Commission maybe ready to hold a new election but the question

remains whether the process will be credible, free and fair this time.

Back to the US, President Trump's tax reform plans along with debt

ceiling are among items on the agenda as Congress returns. --

sealing. Can you describe exactly what debt sealing is and why it on

the agenda. Congress has to approved any increase to the debt ceiling. It

allows the Government to continue function. It's running on a deficit

and they have to say, yes, you can borrow more money in order to keep

funding of debt. That closely relates to the second piece of

business that is certainly going to be on the legislative agenda for

Congress, approving the Government budget. There allow the Government

to continue functioning. These two end up being somewhat related,

although they are at two separate bills. They are coming to a head in

about 25 days. It's after Congress to try to make list to get an

agreement. This should pass with no problems when it comes to

Government. They will probably use the stopgap measure to fund the

Government for the next six months. The debt ceiling issue is more

complicated. There is a contingency in Government that doesn't believe

there the Government should take on what it. With regards to tax cuts.

We know what Mr Trump wants to do but where does Congress fit into

this? No doubt that tax reform is to happen in this country but come into

some sort of consensus in Congress is the big difficulty. The last time

there was a real overhaul of the US tax code was in 1986, since then

there has been no real coming together in terms of what needs to

be done. That is going to be really difficult, despite the fact that we

have seen that the Republicans own both horses. There are some real

stark differences in terms of what lawmakers want. -- holeable pulses.

We have just had a tweet from The Hill. Debt ceiling may cause GOP to

struggle to pass tax reform. We will keep you up-to-date on all of that.

I'll be back with another half hour in a moment.

Thank you very much for joining me. Welcome to the latest update on a

number weather stories we are tracking. Let's go to the heart of

the Atlantic to bring you up-to-date with the progress of Irma. Whilst in

the mid-Atlantic, no great problem but it's going westward and is ever

closer to all of these countries in the eastern end of the Caribbean.

This is a powerful storm indeed. They don't get much stronger than

that. The central pressure has plummeted 200 magic name millibars.

Wednesday, it will be close to Puerto Rico, by Thursday it will be

further west and will be very close to both Haiti and the Dominican

Republic. Thereafter, as a parrot., we suspect Chris Froome live close

to Cuba and the banners. -- we suspect it will mirror. I assure you

not an expanding storm is just that the uncertainty is greater. What is

certain is that this is a powerful storm and will deliver

extraordinarily amount of rain. The storm surge could amount to three

meters. That storm structured life back in the heart of Africa. It's

these thunderstorms that have caused not only hurricanes in the Atlantic

but extraordinary consequences in the rainy season in Africa. MS

mudslides and over 1000 casualties recorded. -- Amendment applies. The

disruption to normal life has been extensive. On Britain's debt, a

quiet a quiet affair on the Atlas matters. These west African states

would we might see the potential for some heavy downpours. All that we

could drag some of that when further south, then you're off the southern

states in Africa are experiencing crushing doubt. Egypt, temperature

in Cairo pushing towards 35 degrees. Across the Mediterranean into

Europe, things are on the warm and pleasant sight across many of the

southern states. For the north, as we have seen in the British Isles,

fronts are moving in from the Atlantic, splitting a combination of

wet and windy fear. Further east, low-pressure giving unsubtle weather

in Russia. We'll just have to wait a human rights for the forecast. --

wakey few minutes for the forecast. Hello, this is Outside Source. The

lead story, the Trump administration told it was good to scrap the scheme

to protect young undocumented immigrant in the US from

deportation. An open-ended circumvention of immigration law

that was an unconstitutional exercise of authority by the

executive branch. Vladimir Putin is warning the world that a military

stand-off with North Korea threatened a global catastrophe. The

Australian High Court is hearing a legal challenge to a proposed postal

vote on the legalisation of same-sex marriage. A report coming up. As

Russia continues to battle the Islamic State group in Syria, we

will have the extraordinary story of the mountainous province of Dagestan

which has become a key recruiting ground for I!. And in the sport we

will have the latest on the World Cup qualifiers. -- recruiting ground

for Isis. And we have the story of two kite surfers who are trying to

set a world record by travelling 1500 kilometres nonstop.

President Trump cut straight to it on Twitter this morning, telling

Congress to get ready to do its job. He wrote Daca, a reference to the

deferred action for childhood arrivals which he wants to scrap. It

could affect hundreds of thousands of immigrants. It was a system which

President Obama introduced which allowed people who were brought to

the US illegally as children do have a temporary right to live, study and

work legally in the US. President Trump wants it gone and his Attorney

General explained why. I am here to announce that the programme known as

Daca is being rescinded. Do have a lawful system of immigration that

serves the national interest we cannot admit everyone who would like

to come here. It is just that simple. That would be an open

borders policy and the American people have rightly rejected that.

Therefore the nation must set and enforce a limit on how many

immigrants we admit each year and that means all cannot be accepted.

This does not mean they are bad people ought that our nation this

respect or demeaned them in any way also it means we are properly

enforcing our laws as Congress has passed them. Let's look at the

practicalities. We have been live to New York and Washington but now to

Miami. Luiz, does this mean thousands of people in Florida will

need to leave? The details are not completely clear right now. There

are about 800,000 so-called dreamers, a lot in California and

Texas and also in Florida. The government says there will be a

six-month period the people currently in the system and they

could find a more permanent solution and legislation which is what the

Trump administration says is needed if this programme is to continue.

They say they will not accept any more Daca applications into the

system but this creates a very large degree of uncertainty for the

800,000 people, mostly Mexican Americans. There are 600,000 people

of Mexican origin who are part of this programme and they are not sure

what will happen in six months if Congress does not act to create a

more stable legislative framework. Explain to viewers who have not

heard about the scheme, getting a Daca permit can be a transformative

moment for these young people? Definitely. There are many stories

that have been covered in the media here about how these people in many

cases overcame very substantial odds to arrive to university, perhaps the

first in their family to do that. Some of them served in the Armed

Forces, but they were not part of the legal system in the US and Daca

created an expectation of a regular means of staying in the country. It

also incorporated them into legality, into the formal labour

market in the US soap all kinds of benefits. The other thing that a lot

of them say is important for them they have lived in many cases many

years, spending their entire lives here, and they faced the prospect of

deportation to a country they barely know having left when they were two

or three years old in some cases. For many practical purposes they

have grown up as Americans and they do not see themselves as anything

other than that and that is what it has created so much uncertainty and

distress in particular in the Hispanic community but in many

others as well. Thank you very much. BBC News is not just producing

stories in English, we are working in well over 25 languages. Switching

from Miami to Australia and a postal vote on same-sex marriage is planned

there but it could be stopped. Campaigners have taken the issue to

the High Court with the argument that the cost of the vote, $100

million, was not allocated through the correct processes. They want the

matter to be dealt with by Parliament and not in a national

vote. Here is our Sydney correspondent.

It's a battle which Australia's politicians have

Now it is up to the courts to decide if a vote on same-sex

Opinion polls suggest most Australians support marriage

equality but at the moment only gay couples with a British passport

Some fear the eight-week-long national postal vote will stoke

We have already seen an intense amount of hatred and vitriol come

out through that campaigns as well as ludicrous

accusations like, you know, children of gay parents have

all these problems in school, and that's very problematic for us.

The two-day court hearing has drawn intense scrutiny,

becoming a test of the government's authority is and its determination

Given the undoubted powers under the Constitution and given

the relevant legislation, the government is confident

we have the constitutional and legal authority to conduct the Australian

marital postal survey in the form as proposed.

Those challenging the vote say the $100 million survey

We hope finally our federal parliament will stop delaying,

stop dragging this out and finally deliver on the settled

will of the Australian people to allow all Australians to be able

to marry the person they love in the country that they love.

With ballot papers due to be sent out in a week,

the court's decision is expected to be swift.

But it is unlikely to bring an end to one of the most divisive

Now the sport and we begin with the World Cup qualifiers and a number of

teams are certain to go to Russia for the tournament next year but

they are all being overshadowed by these guys, the Syrian team. They

are not quite there but still very much in it thanks to quite a match.

We can go to be BBC sport Centre. Stories don't get much better than

this? This is a terrific story, Syria keep the dream alive and they

are playing Australia over tee legs with the winners playing someone

from North and Central America and that could still be the United

States -- over tee legs. The biggest story in the last hour is Saudi

Arabia going through to the World Cup. They are the first Arabic

nation at the showpiece event since 2006 and they will join Iran, Japan,

South Korea, Brazil, Mexico, Belgium and hosts Russia in the 32 team

tournament. A second-half winner helped them beat Japan 1-0. It takes

them to their fifth World Cup and sends Australia to the play-offs.

Australia needed a big win over Thailand in order to confirm their

place. Tomi Juric put them ahead but with eight minutes to go Thailand

equalised. Poor defence but a pretty good goal. Mathew Leckie of Hertha

Berlin got the winner for the Socceroos but Saudi Arabia's

superior goal difference meant Australia were pushed into third

place and they will face Syria in the play-offs. If we had got one a

bit earlier, and open them up a bit, but... Like I said, it is

heartbreaking for the players. I thought they did not get their

rewards tonight for a brilliant performance. That was Ange

Postecoglou, the Australian coach. Syria drew 2-2 to finish third in

the group. They broke through the Iranian defence for the first in the

13th minute with a close range header. And Iran then went ahead 2-1

but Syria pushed for an equaliser and it came three minutes into

stoppage time. This secured the fairy tale comeback and a play-off

for them. You and everyone else in Australia were rooting for your team

and everybody else for the other's?! I don't know! I am being impartial

for the BBC! But the 31 qualifiers taking place across the globe on

Tuesday, there is a full list on the website. A lot is happening across

Europe as you can appreciate. We don't have time to go through them

all but if your country is playing you can get it on the BBC sport

website and the app. One more quick line, online ticket sales for the

Winter Olympics next year open in South Korea on Tuesday and

organisers admit far fewer places have been sold up the growing

concerns over North Korea's nuclear plans. The games take place in the

country arguably with a limited Winter sports tradition, far from

the core markets of Europe and North America so local attendance is

crucial to ensure those grandstands are full. Thank you. Good to speak

to you as always. One more thing, check these guys out, two kite

servers are attempting a world record, trying to travel further

than any team has done in one go. They are attempting to travel 1500

kilometres nonstop, which would break their own record. It is

expected to take five days and in that time there will not be any land

in sight but they will have support. The motivation to overcome

such a long distance a goal that sometimes can look

impossible but then with good preparation, a good team

and training you can reach it. The biggest danger

during this challenge will be hitting a container

during the night or even during the Nowadays, big ships,

when there is a storm they can easily lose those containers

and if we get one, either me or the support boat,

it will cause severe damage to us. Nervous, for sure,

but in a very good way. It's nice to actually have a team

partner at this time, were you know someone is in the exact

same mindset and you just want to If you just trust your strengths,

you kind of, how do we say in yoga, breathe over

the pain and continue to go. Take note of that, everything will

be fine! This was a story from last year, a lot of Wales in northern

Europe were beaching -- a lot of whales. Scientists think it is to do

with how they navigate and the Northern lights are also involved.

Four serving members of the Army have been arrested under anti-terror

laws on suspicion of being a member of a band neo-Nazi group. A fifth

person, a civilian, has also been arrested on the same charge. The BBC

understands one of the soldiers was detained in Cyprus, the army

confirmed the arrests and said it supported the operation. Four the

men are being held at a West Midlands Police station. Police say

there were a 22-year-old from Birmingham, a 32-year-old from

Powers, a 24-year-old from Ipswich and a 24-year-old from Northampton.

Tom Symons has more. The BBC's been told three

of the men are members of the Royal Anglian Regiment,

which recruits in Norfolk, Suffolk, Four were arrested in

the UK, one in Cyprus. That group is National Action,

which described itself last year in the language of Hitler's fascism,

as a national socialist The focus was as much on spreading

neo-Nazi ideas online. But experts say the far right

is not well supported. I think extreme right groups

in Britain and others like Britain First are very good

these days at creating a sense of greater scale using social media

than is actually the case. Probably with National Action,

we're looking at people in the tens to perhaps the low hundreds

at very best. But when the Labour MP Jo Cox

was murdered by a loner influenced by similar far right propaganda,

the Government acted, proscribing Despite their name,

National Action seeks to divide They are entirely contrary

to the interests of our nation. Proscribing this neo-Nazi group

will prevent its membership growing, prevent them spreading propaganda

which allows a culture of hatred Legally, the group should not now

exist but police in Birmingham are questioning five suspected

members under counterterrorism laws, while searches

of properties are carried out. This is Outside Source, our lead

story is from Washington where the Trump and demonstration has

announced plans to scrap a scheme which protect young, undocumented

immigrant in the US from deportation. Next on the programme,

we want to talk about Dagestan. This is a Russian republic in the

volatile North Caucasus region. If you ask Vladimir Putin how many

Russian citizens fight for Islamic State in Syria, the last time he

talked about it he estimated it to be 4000. Many of those come from

Dagestan. The BBC's Steve Rosenberg has been there and this was his

report. They used to believe

that this was where the gods In Dagestan today,

the battle cry is jihad. For people have been leaving these

mountains for a holy war. Artur says his wife

was drawn to radical Islam. One day, without telling him,

she took their two daughters and left for Syria to join so-called

Islamic State. Desperate to rescue his children,

Artur smuggled himself into a Isis To escape from the caliphate,

they headed for the Turkish border. TRANSLATION: I picked

up my little girl and told my My youngest started crying

and I tripped, I fell three times. The Turkish border guards

were just 50 metres away We dived into an irrigation

ditch and hid there with Then we escaped through some

long grass and I saw My youngest daughter asked me later,

"how come everyone else has But I know the girls

are still in touch with their It is not only from this house,

this village, that people Dagestan has become a key recruiting

ground for Islamic State. The authorities here say

1200 Dagestanis have That means that relative

to its population, this part of Russia has produced ten times

more jihadists than Belgium, which is Europe's top source

of fighters for the caliphate. What has been drawing

Dagestanis to Syria? Marat says he was brainwashed

by radical preachers online also He had abandoned his pregnant wife

in Dagestan for jihad in Syria. TRANSLATION: I felt my sole

duty was to wage holy It was not a holy war

at all, it was just Some claim the authorities have made

the situation worse. In this town I am shown the mosque

of a fundamentalist branch of Islam. He admits that up to six members

of the congregation have left for Syria but closing the mosque,

he says, is no solution. When the young people

are here with us, he says, But shut the mosque

and the young people leave. Who knows where they go

and what they are doing? Islam is part of the fabric

of life in these mountains. But the kind of Islam

the authorities want people here to embrace is an Islam that

preaches tolerance and So that Dagestanis will not feel

the need to go and fight a holy war. If you are a regular viewer you know

we have an hour of international news and we have had reports from

Dagestan, Portugal, Bangladesh, the US and the UK and next we turn to

Brazil because police have been searching the country's Olympic

Association headquarters and also it chief and his home, Carlos Nuzman,

who headed the successful bid for Rio to host the 2016 Olympics. The

police are saying they have strong evidence of vote buying. Earlier I

spoke to Camilla Costa in Sao Paulo for the latest.

What happens at this point is that the police had been

investigating this massive corruption scheme in

Now, in collaboration with the French authorities and American

authorities, they have reached a new layer that might involve

the bidding of Rio to be the Olympic Games host

What they have found out, what they say is that one of Rio's

top executives had been in a sort of cash for

top executives had been in a sort of cash for votes scheme involving

And this executive had paid African members of the International Olympic

committee for their votes in the bidding for Rio.

Presumably those being investigated deny doing

Yes, obviously they do deny and actually the president

of the Brazilian Olympic Committee has been taken in for questioning

and his lawyer denies any kind of allegations and says that Rio's

election happened without any kind of corruption scheme and the

executive in question, Arthur Suarez, actually has not been

They did look for him today but he is

considered to be running away from them and

they say is probably in the

Let's go back to early 2016. 29 pilot whales washed up on different

beaches in northern Europe. In the UK and France and the Netherlands

and also in Germany and scientists were puzzled. They did autopsies but

they found they were well fed, young and disease free but they have come

up with a theory. They believe this could have been connected to solar

storms and how they disrupted the way the animals navigated. Mat

McBriar explains more. -- Matt McGrath.

Crowds gathered at Hunstanton, on the coast of Norfolk,

in February 2016, to see this ocean giant washed up on a

All around the North Sea, more than two dozen other sperm

whales were found stranded in the first two

Scientists were extremely puzzled - the creatures were young,

Now it's thought the Northern Lights may have played

The Aurora are the visible evidence of large solar storms, which distort

This can cause species that rely on that field

for navigation, like sperm whales, to lose their way.

After big solar storms in December 2015, scientists say the confused

creatures swam into the shallow North Sea and beached themselves,

Researchers at London Zoo autopsied a number of the whales

We know that sperm whales are stranded around the North Sea

for many, many years historically and it's certainly a possible factor

in this instance that we have these whales that got into the North Sea

for an unknown reason and then once they are in there,

they cannot find their way out and they become so disorientated,

So that's what happened in last year's events.

Why did they end up there in the first place?

To be honest, I think we will never know.

There is too much uncertainty around the events in this

instance in terms of where they were,

where they came from, and so on.

And so I think we will really never know what really

Proving the impact of geomagnetic storms on the strandings of sperm

whales may well be impossible, however researchers here

at London Zoo and a team at Nasa are actively investigating

the impact of solar activities on the strandings

The results in that study are due in the next month or so.

That might shed some definitive light on the role

Tomorrow I am travelling to Germany and on Thursday I will be live with

you from Cologne as we bring you the latest on the German election

campaign. I will see you then and we will be back with Outside Source

tomorrow. Good night. Hello. The weather headlines for the

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